They stink. What a cream puff Draw.
Group D 1. Flash Wolves
2. TSM
2. Misfits
3 If all 4 play in #1s make it, the only team that can slot in here is WE. (China #3)
If someone else makes it, it could be that someone else.
Honestly, of all the group stages in LoL history, this is the easiest NA has ever gotten.
If they can't get out of this group, they need to look to disband and pick up some international players because clearly no one matter how much they win in their region, internationally they can't make
Make it or break it moment
Honestly I don't understand why everyone expects FW to be weak. Every year people claim LMS is the weakest region, and have no expectations of FW, and most of those times the surprise. But every year we go back to considering them to be weak.
Basing the strength of FW on worlds 2016 is tough. They were incredibly dominant in the early/mid game, having large leads, but they just couldn't close the games out. They arguably should have taken the #2 seed in the group, but they were their own worst enemy. After worlds it seems they quickly fixed this problem though, because they completely sweeped IEM Katowice, which featured some of the strongest teams in Europe.
Looking back at MSI 2017, people claim they weren't strong or convincing, but what do they base this on? They went 1-1 against TSM (and FW's win was a lot more dominant) and won the tiebreaker. So if anything, FW had a stronger performance than TSM, who is now also in Group D. The only reason FW didn't make it out of semis was because they faced SKT there.
The LMS doesn't have as much talent as the other regions, therefore the competition and practice during the split isn't as good, but basing FW's strength/weakness purely on this doesn't do them just.
I feel like FW has just as much chance to make it out of groups as TSM and WE do.
Agree, but it will be interesting if HKA wont make it they can even get an easier group. If WE joins i think TSM will become second in the group, but still should make it out.
LMS and EU have become weak regions, they are probably praying that WE dont enter this group. TSM should go through
I'm feeling so good about that group. Jesus what fuckin luck. IMT has to battle Longzhu.
TSM shouldn't have a problem. We've beaten flash wolves and Misfits will be a clean sweep.
Misfits and WE made it out of the group.
