YOU MADE HISTORY NA ! GJ

All I remember are those people who said "We want IMT and not CLG" last year, and the same people who said "We finally get the 3 teams that we wanted last year" IMT 2-5 < CLG 3-3 Cody did like 0 dmg through out 4 or so games, Xmithie didn't know wtf he was doing and Pobelter was completely useless.

The future can't handle GAM and it seems neither can NA RIP

Wouldn't be Worlds without NA's collapse.

They definitely have analysts though and they would be foolish not to properly strategize for week 2, seeing as that's what Korean teams are pretty strong at (and most everyone copies Korean teams since they're generally the best) and it's a chronic NA problem. Team infrastructure is becoming less and less of an excuse.

I won't count TSM or C9 out until I see them play their week 2, but Immortals definitely disappointing. It's like NA teams are too easy to figure out or something.

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NA is chronic about being terrible week 2, don't know if we get cocky, or we don't have the analyst to keep up when other teams but together strategies for week 2.

It is not infrastructue or anything

Week 2 at Worlds is all about individual player talent and team synergy. In Week 1 there are always teams that haven't read well the meta or could have had some bad habit ingrained from their regional play that affect negatively their performance or some teams could show some cheese picks no one gets prepared for to get some win early in the group with upsets

Once Week 2 come, teams have had a week to study the meta, cheese comps that have been shown in week 1 (S5 C9 anyone?), and eventually adjust slightly their game in practice... In Week 2 you can't get away with cheese picks for more than 1 game because then people will keep getting them banned since they have no time to adjust, neither you can fix major weaknesses So basically everyone start on equal footing, teams find their flow, and in the end what matters is exactly that, sheer individual player talent and team synergy

NA has generally lacked on player individual talent side , and that's why they often performed bad in Week 2, only C9 has been able to make up for it with their team synergy in S4 when had a truly good performance (Alliance getting Kamub'ed obviously helped, but I think they could have made it through anyway in tiebreakers as NJWS was weak and Alliance inconsistent) - in S6 they were just slightly more consistent than their bad opponents overall -. Even S4 TSM performed bad in Week 2, they basically got their qualification thanks to 2nd best team in group SK going 0-3 in Week 1 with the Sven ban and not choking vs TPA when SK lost to World finalists RNG

Of course, psycology play a role, but team synergy can also help in teams overcoming some mebers having psycological trouble and carrying them to the finish line

Not 100% sure but in my opinion after the first week we don't actually

1. Sit down and actually watch vods or study, instead we just play solo Q cause that's going to get us out of groups against real teams, play against 5 randoms with 4 randoms on your team in games that don't matter as much.
2. Respect coaches, we NA players feel like we should be "given" everything to use instead of earning it, it really matches our Country all too well.
3. Mindset, other regions don't care if a game is 40+ mins etc, but it feels like NA can't actually handle long games. Next time you play in a 40+min solo Q game, think how many times you see " This game should have been over with already" - Well, its not, get over it and play until the game is over. or, "this game is so troll" We are too fixed on stupid "memes" and useless s$it instead of the game and improving.

3-way tiebreaker, bye goes to the team with the shortest win time (GAM in this instance). I thought they would simply eliminate the team with the longest win time, but this is way more fair.

Indeed, once again NA sucks in the second half of Groups.
Once again LCK advances.
Once again EU plays spoiler to NA.
Only NA can be up 3-0(C9 2015) and still can't make it out of groups, but EU FNC can be down 0-3 and be in a tie-breaker to make it out of groups; JESUS !

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C9 wins worlds this year. 30% chance?

XDDD sure

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C9 wins worlds this year. 30% chance?

The only reason they made it out of groups last year (and will probably make it out of groups this year) is because the teams better than them are underperforming. C9 is nowhere near the level of the top teams at Worlds who would advance to semis.

China ma dude.... Every year

IDK, I will say after Worlds I'm done watching League and the same ol' shit each and every split/year/worlds. Who's going to win NA(TSM), LPL(EDG), LCK(SKT), LMS(FW), EU(G2) or all will be apart of the Finals. MSI winner........SKT, Worlds winner.........SKT or some other Korean team. It's the same every time and now with NA franchising, I wonder if NA will do the opposite after some time, once people stop watching the same story unfold for 7 years now.

Don't hold your breath