The 2021 League of Legends Championship Series season marked the debut of Immortals top laner Mo "Revenge" Kaddoura, and after IMT was mathematically eliminated from qualifying for the 2021 LCS Mid-Season Showdown, Revenge spoke to Inven Global about the first split in his career, IMT's present and future as a team, and the peculiar and controversial nature of the team's remade match against 100 Thieves in week 6 of the LCS Spring Split.
After the 2-1 weekend that pushed his team over rivals TSM and Team Liquid, Luka "Perkz" Perkovic talked to Inven Global about the growth of Cloud9 since the Lock In tournament, what holds TL and TSM back, and why he thinks he's the best mid laner in NA.
The following teams will be competing to represent North America at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational will be 1st seed Cloud9, 2nd seed TSM, 3rd seed Team Liquid, 4th seed 100 Thieves, 5th seed Dignitas, and 6th seed Evil Geniuses.
Counter Logic Gaming's First Blood streak may have ended earlier in the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split, but the First Blood kings of North America made one last impression in the early stages of its final match of the spring against Evil Geniuses.
Evil Geniuses joins Team Liquid, TSM, 100 Thieves, Dignitas, and Cloud9 in post-season qualification, but because of the state of the standings, no specific seeds for the 2021 LCS Mid-Season Showdown have been locked in.
Team Liquid is the fifth team to qualify for the post-season, leaving only one seed left for Immortals and Evil Geniuses to fight over in the last two days of regular season play before the Mid-Season Showdown.
With Immortals' best possible record to end the split being 9-9, TSM will and 100 Thieves are guaranteed spots in the Mid-Season Showdown with 10 wins apiece.
Despite having positive first impressions of his competition, Alphari cited the reason for his dominance as simply not being challenged individually the same way he was when competing in Europe against the likes of Fnatic or G2 Esports.
Based on the current standings and the final week of matches in the 2021 LCS Spring Split, let's try and predict which teams will qualify for the LCS Mid-Season Showdown, and specifically, which seeds each team respectively secures for the battle to represent North America at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational.
Unlike his previous two stints with TSM, Doublelift will be streaming full time following his retirement from competitive play at the end of the 2020 season.
DIG punched its ticket to the post-season with a victory over Evil Geniuses and is now tied with TSM for 2nd place at 10-5.
Counter Logic Gaming ended up winning the game against Team Liquid, but the sacrifice was the demise of its 100% First Blood rate in the 2021 LCS Spring Split, which lasted for the first 14 games of the 18 game split.
After its most recent loss to FlyQuest, Counter Logic Gaming's record through 14 games of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split has fallen to 3-11. At 11 losses, CLG has become the second team after Golden Guardians to be mathematically eliminated from qualifying for the 2021 LCS Mid-Season Showdown, which is the post-season tournament taking the place of the Spring Playoffs.
CLG mid laner Eugene "Pobelter" Park joined Inven Global for a brief interview to discuss the win against Immortals, the context of his return to CLG's roster following the arrival of jungler Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen, and how and why CLG has improved upon its shoddy mid and late game to go along with a surprisingly strong early game.
A few days after his arrival in North America, Peter Dun spoke to Inven Global about how coaching remotely changed his responsibilities withing EG's system, adjusting to a traditional Head Coach role through quarantine, and the potential he saw in both Evil Geniuses' LCS roster as well as the North American talent pool as a whole.
There's no doubt that CLG has been snakebit this season, but Broxah is maintaining an optimistic perspective now that he's made it through his visa issues. Broxah spoke to Inven Global after CLG lost to 100 Thieves about how his visa issues on Team Liquid in 2020 are providing him with a different perspective on his current situation, what he thinks CLG does well and needs to improve on, and how he feels the new LCS format affects CLG's chances of turning its season around.
It didn't take long for Team Liquid to finish off FlyQuest, and after the win, TL jungler Lucas "Santorin" Larsen spoke to Inven Global about how things played out against his former team, his thought's on Team Liquid's current form relative to its record, and how the changes to the LCS format for the 2021 season affects the competition.
UPDATE 2/28: RiotScruffy took to Twitter to correct a statistic featured in the most recent developer update after a mistake was pointed out on the League of Legends subreddit. The previous statistics included games of ARAM and URF, which the community viewed as misleading since competitive balance revolves around and matters most to the standard game mode on Summoner's Rift. RiotScruffy provided updated statistics and said that Riot Games will be putting out another developer update on Friday, March 5 that will, among other things, include the correct statistics updated with a new week of data.
In a brief interview with Inven Global during TSM's winstreak, support Hu "SwordArt" Shuo-Chieh spoke about adjusting to the playstyle of a new region, how Los Angeles played a part in his decision to compete in North America, and his international aspirations as a member of TSM in 2021.
After Team Liquid's victory over Cloud9, head coach Joshua "Jatt" Leesman shared his thoughts with Inven Global on the current competitive jungle meta, the contributing factors of Team Liquid's less-than-stellar first half of spring, and why the team's recent performances give him confidence heading into the second round robin of the split.