Going into the 2016 Mid Season Invitational, no one seemed to expect much from the International Wildcard representatives. SuperMassive eSports refused to leave the tournament without making quite the splash. Not only did SuperMassive defy the general consensus that they would leave without winning a game, but it’s fair to say they had the best …
For two years in a row, the major regions and a special representative from the Wildcard regions have taken their rightful places to earn glory for their home regions. North America shows up as the weakest of the major regions, beaten up by their western compatriots in Europe. Europe, of course, has always been stronger …
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After an interesting Spring Split, six teams have earned qualification to the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), where they will do battle in one of the rare international tournaments that take place during the year. In anticipation for the event, we can look at the form and respective seasonal performances of each of the competitors in order …
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Heading into the finals of the LCK for spring 2016, the ROX Tigers went as the heavy favourites by fans and analysts alike. There was no reason to believe SKT would win until reality struck us like a bolt of lightning. Player for player, SKT is a better team, and the strongest player on the …
Written by: Spencer Mitchell Are esports really capable of challenging mainstream, "actual" sporting competitions? A lot of people have shrugged off that idea, or have insisted on classifying esports and regular sports in different categories. But going strictly by the numbers, comparing some of the biggest competitive gaming events to major sports contests, the …
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Spring has passed, the time has come: Retribution, revenge, recognition, and the return of the Champions. The teams are going to Shanghai to compete, the champions of their respective regions ready to go at it and take the trophy home. Hungry to make their name and nation proud, Royal Never Give Up is here to …
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After losing Pobelter and Doublelift in the off season, many fans were poised to begin hating on CLG for being unable to keep together the team that won summer 2015 NALCS. There were legitimately enough reasons to not expect much of the line up with Huhi replacing Pobelter and Stixxay replacing Doublelift (who was the …
Not since 2013’s MvP Ozone has there been a scenario quite like G2. This team went from the goal to get into playoffs by the end of the split to ending up winning their first ever EU LCS split entirely. G2 Esports surpassed any expectations viewers had of them as the new team on the …
Brandon “Juves” Defina is the captain and jungler of one of the top four teams in the Oceanic Pro League of Legends Series. Originally starting as a talented soccer player he transitioned to League of Legends and over the last two splits has shown a great capacity to improve and help lead Sin Gaming to …
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“Even things that are true can be proved.” – Oscar Wilde Turn the clocks back five weeks and no one would dare predict SK Telecom T1 to be the winner of LCK Spring 2016. ROX Tigers had just defeated SKT 2/0 in an extremely one sided best of three and were considered the best team …
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