NA summer split

apologies for poor sentence structure - it's really late and i don't care to capitalize and punctuate perfectly.

p1 - good analysis in the dive - agree they will stay around the same as spring split unless some major roster issues happen; have faith in inori and you should have a solid split - hopefully no more infighting or issues among the teammates

flyquest - turtle could be the magic pickup that fits just perfectly; however, it might also be 1 too many agro players and cause them to have 0 lanes they can look to if things go badly when they play aggressive early. Regardless, turtle should enjoy playing on this team. Personally, if they click I see them having more consistent success against teams they are better than while it won't make a difference vs teams better than them in the long run; maybe a game or two stolen off better teams, but that's it.

tsm - top 2 as usual; will they learn how to compete internationally again though?

liquid - like they say, goldenglue's korean endeavor is hardly going to turn him into the new best mid in NA; Piglet is back to adc and will continue being somewhere less than best in NA, and you wonder how long until the roster changes will start again in an attempt to salvage this team so they get where everyone had expected them to be at the start of last split

clg - grabbed dardoch. he's more aggressive and will be the INITIATOR of more plays early on - perhaps this will help. regardless, they traded away consistency and team-focused supportive jungler in xmithie for a higher solo carry potential. perhaps he can salvage the often feeding overly-aggressive bot lane. speaking of which, why are those 2 still on the team? I feel like you are relying on aphro's laurels rather than his current performance and stixxay is clearly not the best adc aphro has ever played with as he once claimed. Here's to another mediocre split - unless dardoch ends up being the perfect complement to the rest of the team somehow.

immortals - despite what they say, i have faith in xmithie. this is a team that gives him options to play towards - toplane flame can play more carries and more aggressive knowing xmithie will have his back or he can sit back on a tank and let xmithie snowball the bot lane that steadily improved from one of the worst to a very solid duo. if these guys want to make it back to their former glory though, pobelter has to step up his playmaking. we've seen and heard from solo queue and scrims he has the talent, it's time to show it on stage - or else find someone else who can. I personally hope the former.

envy - ninja never impressed me, but pirean is probably not much of a step up - perhaps in consistency and getting picked off less. seraph had stepped up his game from when he first came over to play for clg, but lately he has backslid and is an equally a liability as ninja was. if he could get back to being a rock in top lane, maybe they can manage better than near the bottom of the barrel

c9 - top 2 unless the lower teams really step it up; perhaps if tsm is shaken enough from their international performances recently and c9 can take their game 1 step further they will retake the NA crown