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DolphinCop posted:Maybe he'll join Pyjamas so all my favorite EU players end up on the same team I really hope this as well and, honestly, if he is joining another EU LCS team then it seems most probable to me since EG already have Krepo and nRated apparently is Fnatic's shotcaller.
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mushi posted:I'm sure a lot of people saw this on reddit already, but HotshotGG, WildTurtle, and a few other high elo competitive/professional dudes queue-sniped Team Siren on their first crack at ranked 5's and obliterated them. Like, it wasn't even close, Siren got 0 towers down and basically 10 minutes into the game the pros were screwing around doing those dives that you do when you know the other team has no chance of coming back. WildTurtle was jungling Lee Sin and was like 15/2/5 or something. http://www.twitch.tv/tsm_theoddone/c/2380158
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mushi posted:I'm sure a lot of people saw this on reddit already, but HotshotGG, WildTurtle, and a few other high elo competitive/professional dudes queue-sniped Team Siren on their first crack at ranked 5's and obliterated them. Like, it wasn't even close, Siren got 0 towers down and basically 10 minutes into the game the pros were screwing around doing those dives that you do when you know the other team has no chance of coming back. WildTurtle was jungling Lee Sin and was like 15/2/5 or something. But like 20-36 in kills, and stayed even for a decent amount of laning. Most of them looked plat or diamond IMO, just not LCS.
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Jun 5, 2013 16:52
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Schiavona posted:GG was the only Russian team in the EU LCS, right? Is his English good enough to seamlessly fit into a new team (assuming an EU one wanted to pick him up)? Russia has an up and coming scene according to Riot. They are taking LCS there in their second week and there is going to be a mini-tournament to decide who gets to fight for Russia's spot as the "other" region in Worlds. http://euw.lolesports.com/season3/split1/articles/lcs-heads-moscow So he could possibly join up with one of those teams.
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Ninkobei posted:Forgive me for not just letting the Siren attention train die, but you can watch that game here. Siren were actually ahead on kills at one point early in the game. Still, it is no worse of a beating than Korea gave any other team in the all star games. Does that mean the top 1% are really that far behind the top .0001%? How is the team they're playing an LCS team? Wild turtle doesn't jungle. It's one LCS guy in his lane and a bunch of other random diamond 1/challenger people. Really you just have to look at their solo queue record to see they're not competitive, teams who intend to join the LCS don't usually get stuck in Gold. Not like there's elo hell in ranked 5s.
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HiggsBoson81 posted:How is the team they're playing an LCS team? Wild turtle doesn't jungle. It's one LCS guy in his lane and a bunch of other random diamond 1/challenger people. Erm, I don't remember saying that they were playing against an LCS team  But putting any semi-newly created team up against a bunch of players that play professionally isn't exactly a fair match. I don't think they are a good team in any way shape or form but its difficult to call them bad for losing to experienced professionals.
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Ninkobei posted:Erm, I don't remember saying that they were playing against an LCS team This. I wouldn't infer too much. Give them some time and see how they do in the challenger circuit. They might at least be mid tier for amateur teams. And it's not like winning the LCS is their marketing shtick so it's not a huge deal.
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Ninkobei posted:Erm, I don't remember saying that they were playing against an LCS team Losing to experienced professionals doing intentionally bad things.  Edit: three of the people they went against are not professionals, even. Just random solo queue D1s. (People that actually earned it) Koguma fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jun 6, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 19:18
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The saddest part of Team Siren is the constant reminder from comments that the majority of gamers buy into that mens rights bullshit or are obliviously misogynistic. Although given how popular racist, homophobic, or sexual violence terms still are among pro gamers on their streams this shouldn't really be a surprise.
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:The saddest part of Team Siren is the constant reminder from comments that the majority of gamers buy into that mens rights bullshit or are obliviously misogynistic. Although given how popular racist, homophobic, or sexual violence terms still are among pro gamers on their streams this shouldn't really be a surprise. I'm not sure if it's still there, but when I checked the goofy Team Siren video on Youtube, the top comment was somebody mansplaining about how Team Siren was doing more to set back women's rights in LoL than "us men" had ever done. There's no self-awareness here. It's dead. They killed it. And then they shouted in allchat about how self-awareness was gay and they raped it.
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Other than being a team of 5 girls there's not much else to talk about. Unfortunately at least half their team was carried by LCS or Solo All-Star players to their current elo, and without those people carrying them as a team I don't really see them making it out of Platinum. People like SivHD or Choleraninja are really fun to watch in an entertaining way, but they'll never make it out of Platinum either (Actually I don't even think either of them have made it out of gold before)
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Jonny Angel posted:I'm not sure if it's still there, but when I checked the goofy Team Siren video on Youtube, the top comment was somebody mansplaining about how Team Siren was doing more to set back women's rights in LoL than "us men" had ever done. There's no self-awareness here. It's dead. They killed it. And then they shouted in allchat about how self-awareness was gay and they raped it. My favorites are the ones complaining that it is sexist to keep men from joining.
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Hafu did an interesting AMA the other day where she went into girl gamers and the possibility of female pro teams. She went into a lot of detail with her own experiences and it was a really good perspective with some insights. It starts at around 12 hours 16 minutes for those who are interested. Edit: Actually it's really hard to find the interesting bits, the AMA was kinda long and there's no underlying theme to it. There's another interesting bit around 11 hours 42 minutes. Demiurge4 fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jun 6, 2013 |
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Demiurge4 posted:Hafu did an interesting AMA the other day where she went into girl gamers and the possibility of female pro teams. She went into a lot of detail with her own experiences and it was a really good perspective with some insights. Her Reddit AMA was pretty decent, they did an ok (for Reddit) job of moderating the comments.
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Looks like Edward may have been picked by Curse, of all teams. Watch this at 34 minutes. http://www.twitch.tv/crs_saintvicious/b/413638540 edit: could be a joke but Saint's reaction makes me think otherwise. Additionally Curse have a "big announcement" coming tomorrow.
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Jun 7, 2013 08:28
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Is Edward the guy that's supposed to be the Thresh savant?
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Is Edward actually a russian spy ? And the entire curse franchise a cover ? 
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Leaving Gambit because his and Genja's playstyles don't mix makes sense, but to join Curse to play with Cop who's renowned for being a passive, farm-heavy-for-teamfight-power guy himself seems a bit... weird. Still, should be interesting.
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Allyn posted:Leaving Gambit because his and Genja's playstyles don't mix makes sense, but to join Curse to play with Cop who's renowned for being a passive, farm-heavy-for-teamfight-power guy himself seems a bit... weird. Still, should be interesting. Also he complained about Gambit's lack of results in the last year. Better head over to NA and join the 4th ranked team that's in the middle of a huge slump. I think cop's actually a much better ADC than people give him credit for though, he hasn't ever had a really strong support to back him up. In the unlikely event this isn't all a big troll from saint vicious it'll make for an interesting Summer split at least, and potentially worlds.
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I would sooner think I am losing my god drat mind than to believe that Edward is coming over to NA. But if it did happen it would be completely badass because Edward is one of the most fun supports to watch and I was seriously bummed to hear he quit gambit. Also cop sucks. He could be great, maybe, if heexpanded his champ pool. Until then though, meh.
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If Edward really ends up on CRS, that is a huge, huge pick up.
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Sexpansion posted:If Edward really ends up on CRS, that is a huge, huge pick up. Well, there he is. Crs Edward. I wonder if the language barrier will be trouble.
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Wow. http://www.teamcurse.net/news/24530-team-curse-adds-edward-to-starting-league-of quote:Team Curse welcomes a new addition to their League of Legends team, former Gambit Gaming support player Edward. Former support player Rhux will move back to his a role as a substitute for the team, and will continue to play on Curse Academy. Edward arrives in North America to join his new teammates Saturday June 8th and will immediately begin practicing for Week 1 of the LCS which starts on June 12th.
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So, I wonder how long before teams from other regions head on over to NA to crap all over our lovely teams for an easier bid into worlds/more prize money? That's basically what happened with Starcraft 2's regional system.
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HiggsBoson81 posted:So, I wonder how long before teams from other regions head on over to NA to crap all over our lovely teams for an easier bid into worlds/more prize money? That's basically what happened with Starcraft 2's regional system. I don't think that will happen. At the top, NA is pretty much on par with the other regions with the exception of Korea. There's just less depth.
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HiggsBoson81 posted:So, I wonder how long before teams from other regions head on over to NA to crap all over our lovely teams for an easier bid into worlds/more prize money? That's basically what happened with Starcraft 2's regional system. unlike the WCS system, teams have to actually be based in NA to play in NA (all the LCS matches are done in studio, right?). You might see some players transferring regions, but I'd be shocked to see an entire team uproot and move to...wherever Riot is basing LCS NA from.
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Jackie D posted:unlike the WCS system, teams have to actually be based in NA to play in NA (all the LCS matches are done in studio, right?). You might see some players transferring regions, but I'd be shocked to see an entire team uproot and move to...wherever Riot is basing LCS NA from. Maybe, there's also a lot more money to be had from Riot than the WCS. People uproot for jobs all the time it's not that big a deal. Also uprooting and moving to California isn't exactly a huge punishment. If they're korean they could probably find a community where they don't even need to speak English beyond having a manager who does so. It's debatable to say that we're on par with Europe or China. Yeah we beat EU's all-star team and good for us, not last place and all, but outside all-stars NA hasn't done well internationally in a while. I hope MLG gets some good international exhibition matches going at their next event at the end of June. Although currently there's no mention of international exhibition matches at all on their site so it might just be LCS and their amateur tournament, oh well. I guess the biggest issue for an asian team that moved here would be losing their scrimming environment, which might cut out a lot of the advantage they currently have over NA over time.
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That is crazy. I wonder if there was any incentive above and beyond the LCS salary for him to choose Curse over another squad besides obvious need.
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Badfinger posted:That is crazy. I wonder if there was any incentive above and beyond the LCS salary for him to choose Curse over another squad besides obvious need. US Work visa probably doesn't hurt. Also, the CRS post is the top post on all of Reddit right now. League is huge.
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Sexpansion posted:US Work visa probably doesn't hurt. I was thinking "signing bonus". You can get a visa for every other NA LCS team, too.
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Badfinger posted:I was thinking "signing bonus". You can get a visa for every other NA LCS team, too. True. CRS is obviously the best fit, though: they're a very good team that needed a support. Sexpansion fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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Badfinger posted:That is crazy. I wonder if there was any incentive above and beyond the LCS salary for him to choose Curse over another squad besides obvious need. CRS isn't afraid to spend money on players.
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This is awesome just to see more of Edward playing support.
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Good for Curse, I have no idea why Edward would want to leave Gambit for them though, seems like a dramatic step down for him.
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Zahki posted:Good for Curse, I have no idea why Edward would want to leave Gambit for them though, seems like a dramatic step down for him. I'm sure Russia's an awesome place but why would you not take more money and a house in California over less money in Russia? Sure GG probably has a better shot at worlds, but they probably aren't going to win it either, they didn't even win EU LCS. With Edward Curse at least has a shot at winning NA LCS and going on to not win worlds, so pretty similar. Except higher salary/American work visa/Improved English skills, in terms of "Hey what if I can't play LoL until I'm 65?" This is a pretty smart move.
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