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Wow. Gambit lost to SHC and Fnatic lost to Roccat (ok, the second is less surprising). I haven't seen the games but I'll certainly watch the replays.
So, Fnatic end the week 0-2 and Alliance 2-0. Not a bet I would have made at the beginning of the week.
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Wonderful. It's nice to know that when a team gets ahead, the other teams do analysis and homework and figure out how to defeat them. It's much more enjoyable that way than when one team has dialed in and crushes everybody, and because other teams keep losing they shake up their rosters and have to retrain.
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Indeed. I hope that both SHC and Roccat actually won their games instead of Fnatic and Gambit playing badly, since it means that the EU LCS is getting really competitive again.
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I wouldn't say Fnatic played badly, but there was something missing in their performance. They were always reacting, and just seemed a bit lethargic.
I'm about to watch SHC and GG.
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I watched SHC vs Gambit this morning; very convincing from SHC. Gambit's jungler was a bit behind SHC's in the rotations, and boy, did that snowball.
I'll watch the other game later today.
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EG V TSM was a really good brawl. EG couldn't beat the undercurrent, but they put up a fantastic show. They should be proud of themselves, even if they lost.
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Oh snap! Saint Vicious played today on Curse V Dignitas. And he was support Alistar, and he was magnificent at it...
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Curse and TSM going at it now. I'd like to see TSM lose, I'm not gonna lie, because I'm on a "everybody should lose once in awhile bent".
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Krepo also just played a great Alistar vs CLG, but Link's LeBlanc was just too powerful for EG. I think we'll soon see some changes to LeBlanc, she's becoming probably the best mid-laner right now. Up there with Kassadin I guess.
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So they gave Bjergsen the non-burst Nidalee against Curse and he ends up 8/0/6 with a quadrakill at the end. Daaaamn...
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SK follows up that win with another again Gambit. Geez, it's like every team you'd expect to win loses and vice versa.
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I saw parts of yesterday's games. There were quite a few surprises as you said. I kinda expected Alliance to win too, so that made 3 surprise results out of 4. Fnatic going 0-5 in their last five games is probably the biggest surprise. Not sure what's going on there. In some of the games they start well then make mistake after mistake; it's probably a confidence problem too...
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They were superb vs C9. I thought they might throw it by going too much for kills, but it wasn't going to happen. Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Coast follows up with a win over EG. Pretty sure Zion's Jax is getting the ban treatment in future games.
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I only watched the first few minutes of that game, and Jax was just 1/1/0. Can't wait to see the rest tonight.
By the way, I tried to get back to playing this weekend, and was deterred by the mastery changes. I kept wondering what masteries and runes I should use now... I'll have to read some guides and figure things out, then I really want to play a bit again. Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Heh, while I am intimidated by the new ward system and don't know exactly what I should be doing as support in terms of where to place and sweep for wards.
I'll need to watch a pro-stream.
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I think I'm not as afraid of trinkets though. Since the vision game is much more of a team effort I think as a support it might make my life easier. It will make it harder as a jungler since there are more early wards, but you can't win them all.
I'm also surprised that champions like Ryze, Jarvan, Malphite, Ahri, Udyr, Cho'Gath, Zyra, etc. are no longer used in high level play (LCS mainly). I wonder if they've also fallen out of favor at the low ranked level at which I'd play.
By the way, do you think that rune pages have changed much? I know there are a few champions that use mixed penetration marks, but other than that I think it should be the same as before.
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Doesn't seem much changed. I'm glad it's more of a team effort to ward, but in the past there were a handful of places you might expect to ward or find them, now there's obvious places, maybe places, places you ward because they look in the obvious places so you have to stay just outside that area, trinket wards don't last very long so you have to place them with a ton of intent.
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I haven't seen yesterday's matches, but... Fnatic lost again, and Roccat beat Gambit again. Fnatic really need a win today... I wonder if we'll see roster changes if they don't. Losing 6 in a row isn't really normal for them.
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Yeah, I wonder if part of it is them not believing they can win right now. A streak like that isn't easy to shrug off, and it has the opposite effect on other teams.
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As for Gambit, Alex, Diamond, and Darian couldn't get visas to Cologne this week, so backup players had to be used. I wouldn't really give mad props to Roccat for winning this time. Posts: 14316 | Registered: Jul 2005
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That explains a lot. They did win their second game though. Fnatic on the other hand lost their seventh in a row. Their crash is... horrifyingly impressive. Roccat also lost vs SK, so Gambit are still within one game from them.
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It's interesting seeing Pantheon back in a big way. I guess teams value that ability to choose exactly when and where to have a fight, and be a man up when you do.
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Woooow... That was an almost xPeke-Kassadin-level ending. A few early errors from both teams, but that was a very cool game.
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That was fantastic work. Very poetic from Fnatic, beating the team that started this losing run, and doing it without losing a single man. Posts: 14316 | Registered: Jul 2005
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Coast V EG was also a good game. It feels like ZionSpartan plays his characters with an understanding of their limits much greater than his opponents.
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I managed to catch up with the NA LCS. Saw the first two games yesterday, then the other two today. For a while there I thought Dig were going to take down TSM. XDG vs C9 was definitely the highlight!
I was looking forward to today's TSM vs C9, but I didn't know Bjergsen wasn't playing. Should still be an interesting game.
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