Just a week before Scouting Grounds 2019, Winter quits competitive League of Legends despite qualifying for his 4th year in a row. He brings up some great points on NA talent development that need addressing. NA has some deep issues when it comes to working with new players.
The LCS Players Association met with Riot officials this off-season to work out a way to increase professional level practice. Pros can now stream their matches on the Tournament Realm - the same server used for official LCS matches based in LA.
Whatever the reasons are for Team Liquid and NA's overall failure to make it out of groups, it is unacceptable. No matter what the problem was. But this isn't just a Liquid problem, this is an NA problem, and it needs to change.
At international events, there are always exciting narratives. There are also always stories writers want to write, but can't. Here are the stories we never told - the stories we wanted to tell, but couldn't.
While it might make the average LCS fan feel better just to chalk it up to Worlds being on European soil, as it was in 2015 when the NALCS' infamous 'Week 2 0-10' occured, there's many factors to consider when analyzing what led to such a disappointing performance from North America at the World Championship. Let's take a look at how the LCS teams' Worlds 2019 performances compared to their respective expectations.
Today's cartoon is all about the different stories in the LoL scene from the past week.
After a near hour of game-play (and a lot of Infinity Edges), Clutch's Nexus fell. While it was an incredibly difficult road they needed to travel to make it to Madrid, it would've been a beautiful one if they did. Alas, they join their fellow NA reps, Cloud9, on the trip back to LA instead.
What started with a hopeful rebound for Cloud9 ended rather quickly as they lost their first game to Griffin, requiring G2 to go 0-3 AND lose in their tiebreaker for C9 to make it through.
There are two groups of deaths in the 2019 LoL World Championship. There's the obvious Group C, stacked with legacy teams, and there's Group A. Cloud9 started Worlds 2019 with a win against Hong Kong
TL Bot Laner Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie after defeating Clutch Gaming in the LCS Semifinals and discussed how G2 Esports had terraformed the competitive landscape of League of Legends.
Today's cartoon is about the groups that have been finalized after the play-in knockout stages.After a fierce and competitive play-in stage, the last teams to join the main stages of the 2019 LoL Worl
On the 7th, Clutch Gaming took down Royal Youth in the second match of the play-in knockout stage of the play-in knockout stages. Huni and Lira shared their thoughts in the post-game interview.
The #3 LCS seed ensured North America's safe passage from the Group Stage of the Play-In to the Knockout Stage, escaping from Group A as the 1st seed while the CIS representative will have to settle for the 2nd seed.
In day 1 of the 2019 LoL World Championship Play-in Stage, Clutch Gaming went 1-1, losing to Unicorns of Love, but defeating MAMMOTH. Despite their loss in the first game, top laner Heo
Bang will be Reporting for Inven Global at the 2019 LoL World Championship. 100 Thieves star ADC Bae “Bang” Jun-sik will join the Inven Global crew at the 2019 LoL World Championship. Inven
To Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho, the year 2019 wasn't the best. Although always considered one of the best top laners in the LCS, Ssumday had to sacrifice and compensate for the team. It would
It has been already a year since the legendary fantastic duo split and gone away to different leagues. Although we can still hear from them or hear about them through the internet, it wouldn't be enou
Esports organization Evil Geniuses just had its most important day in years. The organization finalized its acquisition of the NRG Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensiver roster, and is set to acquire the open franchise spot that previously belonged to Echo Fox.
Today's cartoon is about the 2019 LoL World Championship Group Draw. The Group Draw for Worlds 2019 has happened, which brought up hype and concerns. The fate of the teams in groups has been decided b
Worlds 2019 Group Draw Group AI think Griffin would at least beat up C9 in that group… I don't know about G2 though.└ You're saying that they'll end up 2nd there as well? You're so bad. Reapered
