Saturday, March 15, 2014

EU LCS W8D1-D2 (Spoilers)

--- CW vs FNC ---
Ugh, the worst for me, since I hate Lulu mid and Annie support.  And somehow, they still win.  Someone make this trend go away.

--- ROC vs GMB ---
The battle for all the first places.  A very good one, Deman was shrieking at them for nearly a solid half hour at the end.  Great plays, too.  I think, in the end, though, that Gambit shouldn't have tried to fight after they grabbed that last baron.  Just back off, let it heal you up, come back stronger.

--- SK vs MIL ---
Relatively even game, but not all that exciting - low kills.  Boo Lulu/Annie!  Not a big fan of Zigs/Evelyn, either.

--- SHC vs ALL ---
Wow, that was a boring game.  Usually when the team you're rooting for wins, at least it's a 'good' game.  But no, despite this, it was amazingly boring, like SHC was slowly giving ground and giving ground, and then realized too late there was no comeback left to mount.

--- ROC vs MIL ---
This first place vs last place, and ROC is running that mid-Mord again.  Two huge pauses early in the game, fast forward to the 45 min mark.  There's a fight at the 17:30 mark in-game, which is pretty cool, and makes you grateful that EU and NA just like to YOLO it and stay in the fight until they win or die.  Have you ever watched the OGN?  Their 5v5 engages become a whole lot of disengage and run away, really quick.  Maybe it's smarter to live and fight another day, but 5v5 fights are just more entertaining when champs throw their lives away.  Also, you gotta love an upset of that caliber!

--- GMB vs SK ---
Alex on LeBlanc, yup, this one went how you would expect.

--- CW vs ALL ---
I'm rooting for ALL, of course, but nowadays I'm also rooting against Annie support and for Nid mid.  It's selfish, and I hope you do it too: what works in LCS affects what we, the rest of LoL players, see in soloQ.  Good game for me in that case, Shook is always effective on Elise, and Froggen's mid Nid makes the rest of us Nidalees look smart.

--- FNC vs SHC ---
xPeke on LeBlanc and Soaz on Malphite, whee.  SHC didn't really show up, so I actually wonder what took so long for FNC to close it out.

--- GMB vs CW ----
Alex gets Kassadin.  You'll have to watch the separate video they have of picks and bans to find out how that one happened.  But regardless of how or why, you know what it means.  Also, I've mentioned at least twice now that I don't like Annie support, and Edward is obviously the only exception to that rule, because Edward doesn't really play as a support.  That's part of the reason why Gambit either snowballs furiously to a win, or to a horrible loss.

--- ALL vs ROC ---
ALL won of course (Kassadin to Froggen, wtf), but the vid seems to be missing from the youtube playlist...  Doesn't everyone love how Wickd is the only one who plays Irelia ever?

--- MIL vs FNC ---
Much more exciting with no Lulu or Annie on the map.  LeBlanc  and Zed are all about go in and get someone, or die trying.