According to a report by ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf, Evil Geniuses is set to acquire Jungler Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen and Support Tristan "Zeyzal" Stidham from Cloud9 ahead of the 2020 LCS season.
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.
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.
Tarzan: The King of the Jungle. He was first on some people's player tier list, he wasn't even on others'. But for us - for today - he is MVP. Why Tarzan over the rest of GRF? Check it out:
Cloud9 has been eliminated from the 2019 League of Legends World Championship. The team headed into the second Round Robin phase of the Group Stage with a 1-2 deficit and had to win every single game
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
With a proper lens, the 2019 LCS Summer Split and Summer Playoffs statistics can be used to provide insight on the North American teams at the 2019 League of Legends World Championship. Let's take a look at what a look back at LCS Summer can tell us about the chances of Team Liquid, Cloud9, and Clutch Gaming escaping their respective groups at Worlds 2019.
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After Clutch Gaming's dramatic finale, Top Laner Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to recap the series, reflect upon his career, and look ahead towards the 2019 World Championship.
Today's cartoon is about the teams that have qualified for the 2019 LoL World Championship. In the main regions, the summer split finals are happening, which started with the LCS. Also, as Worlds is a
Team Liquid and Cloud9, the 1st and 2nd LCS seeds for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, will not be heading to South Korea as it has in years past to bootcamp for Worlds.
Cloud9 addressed the media in a post-match conference to discuss the series against TL and look ahead towards the 2019 League of Legends World Championship.
Team Liquid addressed the media in a post-match press conference to discuss the win, the 2019 LCS Regional Final, and Worlds 2019.
Nisqy spoke to Nick Geracie before the 2019 LCS Summer Finals in Detroit to discuss his matchup against Team Liquid Mid Laner Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen, his improved synergy with C9 Jungler Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen, his upcoming first World Championship.
100 Thieves has signed popular streamer Moe "Yassuo" Abdalrhman as the organization's first League of Legends Creator. Yassuo began streaming League of Legends in 2015 and has grown to one the largest personalities in League of Legends, maintaining both a popular Twitch stream as well as a Youtube channel with nearly 1.3 million subscribers.
Svenskeren's performance in the summer was so otherworldly that the Danish veteran won the award, as well as being named to the 2019 LCS Summer All-Pro Team, despite playing only 79% of the split.
Both summer finalists will qualify for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship — the winner through auto-qualification and the runner-up through circuit points.
Following Flávio "Jukes" Fernandes' debut in the LCS earlier this summer, the Cloud9 Top Laner joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi for an interview — fully in Portuguese — about the differences between Brazil and the United States, playing for C9 Academy, and his professional League of Legends career up until this point.
Cloud9 Head Coach Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi before the 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs to talk about his interest in game development, his professional gaming career, and transitioning from player to coach.
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