FlyQuest have come out of Week 8 with a 2-0 sweep, lining themselves up nicely to make a run for playoffs. The team is looking more solid as the weeks go by but there looms many threats within the standings as they head into Week 9. Esports Heaven sat down with Saintvicious, coach of …

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  Clutch Gaming secured a solid win against Golden Guardians during Week 8, their first game of the weekend. Solo looked particularly calm in the top lane as chaos ensued level 1 in the enemy jungle, with Golden Guardians getting a double kill for Apollo to possibly snowball the game. Febiven seemed to be able …

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  FlyQuest have went 2-0 during Week 8 and FLY looked strong against Counter Logic Gaming and also possessed the ability to close out the game against Clutch Gaming. The surprising thing was that they did not ban Akali both games, allowing Clutch Gaming to pick Akali and punish it in the later stages of …

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Cloud 9 broke everyone’s mind on Week 8 Day 2, as coach Reapered had cited that he was subbing in Svenskeren and Goldenglue and benching Blaber and Jensen, even though his team was doing extremely well with the current iteration. Reapered had cited that Team Liquid knew them very well, so he wanted to take …

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  100 Thieves went 1-1 during Week 7 of the NA LCS 2018 Summer Split, showing both weaknesses and strengths in how they want to play the game. While this team has been cursed for being undecisive and unwilling to capitalize on advantages, they have also been praised for intelligent macro in comparison to the …

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  Team Liquid have rightfully claimed their throne, as they came from being Spring Split champions to 1st in the standings during Week 7 of the 2018 Summer Split. Xmithie has looked as solid as ever, but his team hasn’t been so fortunate as almost all of his laners have seen some form of shakiness, …

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  OpTic Gaming are under a watchful eye from several teams, as it’s very difficult to gauge whether this team is a top contender or if they will succumb to their former woes of being a bottom tier team. This team has been looking stellar recently, although they had a loss against Clutch Gaming at …

Continue reading “OPT Croissant on Strategic Coaches: I think booths would help. We wouldn’t be on the same comm line so the comm isn’t cluttered…TSM seems to be the only org openly happy about it.”

  Cloud 9 have looked much improved with their addition of their jungler Blaber as they’ve gone 4-0 in the past two weeks and don’t seem to have any inhibitions with keeping this pace up. Both games, Jensen piloted Zilean and Blaber on both Nocturne and Kindred respectively. Esports Heaven got a word in with …

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  Counter Logic Gaming are one of the old guard teams, so it’s strange to see them having problems so deep into Summer Split Week 6. This team hasn’t had the greatest synergy but the moral doesn’t seem to be at a death rattle. Esports Heaven got to speak with Reignover about their Morgana/Kindred/Galio comp …

Continue reading “CLG Reignover on Drafting: Coaches and players share the idea. There’s going to be a case which wasn’t talked about. Then it’s based on team knowledge.”

  Cloud9 have just had their first 2-0 split of the split, as odd as that may sound, but the team is trying to turn things around as they have begun to solidify their roster. C9 as an organization has been under fire recently due to several roster swaps, but their current iteration has bode …

Continue reading “C9 Zeyzal on playing with Deftly: We both tried to mask each others flaws a lot. It was gating our ability to get better.”