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General opinions after watching the 1st 2 days of play-ins

OHminus·10/3/2019, 9:07:38 PM·3 votes·4,416 views

Some general thoughts:

  1. Flamengo looks strong for a wildcard region (and also Brazil has an awesome fanbase). I expected BrTT to be good but Shrimp and Goku also really impressed.
  2. Isurus/DFM have generally disappointed me. I didn't think of either as particularly strong teams/regions but imo they were 2 of the weakest teams in play-ins so far.
  3. Unicorns of Love are the genuine thing, even with their loss to Mammoth
  4. Drafts have overall been terrible. I think the teams are trying to be creative but Nocturne mid/Ekko jungle aren't working
  5. Damwon looked rusty/shaky but there's still too much of a skill difference between them and the rest
  6. Group C is an absolute fiesta, none of the teams looked good.

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GeminiRune10/3/2019, 10:09:41 PM2 votes

My opinions shall be in the form of thoughts and reactions I had in sequential order.

##Day 1

  • CG vs UOL: Group A is gonna be the end of me if Mammoth actually shows up

  • DFM vs SPY: Just a Splyce Game...poor Japan

  • MMM vs UOL: Mammoth showed up. Alright I'm proud of this group in the end.

  • DFM vs ISG: How did Japan lose this exactly?

  • MMM vs CG: Now I'm really proud of this group. Clutch can get 3rd and I'll be fine with it now

  • SPY vs ISG: Just another Splyce game...I've already written Splyce for Group Stage at this point.

##Day 2

  • RYL vs DWG: Time to make my prediction come true.....and you gave Vlad. That's basically a timed game now...and it's over

  • MG vs HKA: This was actually....How did MEGA fail this?

  • DWG vs FLA: Okay I expected Brazil to do worse than this. Not bad. Bad for Damwon though.

  • MG vs LK: [ Insert Megaman sprite here ]

  • ...

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Group D....Royal Youth then Damwon! I want straight up fire to burn with Damwon facing a like major region! Because then....spice!

  • RYL vs FLA: ...damnit....

  • HKA vs LK: Huh...guess I went 2-4 on the day today. That was awful....

III BAKURYU III 10/3/2019, 9:49:46 PM1 votes

  1. When Oddie missed his LeeSin Q at bot to potentially get 3 kills I was like, "DONE". XD

  2. The thing about Damwon is they look like a better version of Team Liquid, right. They are much better than TL is when behind but they'll get down 1-2 kills but still be focused on objectives more than anything and that can hurt teams around this meta(fast paced, fight 24/7 meta). Look at IG and how they won Worlds and overall 1st in the Group stage at MSI.

Tristana seems to be the priority pick for ADC at the moment but honestly it beats Kaisa Xayah

BigBellBrute10/3/2019, 11:27:33 PM1 votes

My thoughts.
Isurus and DFM didn't disappoint me. I really didn't have much faith in either to begin with.
Renekton is strong. but drafting him early will require a couple of bans for him.
Ranged vs Melee worked out in favor of the ranged for the most part. Mega should be 2-0 and Hong Kong Attitude should be 0-2. If Mega doesn't make it, that's the one they will probably want back. In any case, I wasn't impressed with Hong Kong Attitude today nor any other team in that group. If they want to advance further than this stage, They're going to need some improvement and/or adjustments.
Royal Youth was seen by many as one of the best of the wild card teams. They certainly didn't show it today.
Hopefully Clutch had their hiccup and will go 2-0 tomorrow. They don't want to be #2 out of their group.
There was quite a bit of indecisiveness imo. It usually cost the indecisive team.
I'm not sure what to make of Damwon. They weren't all that impressive. But is that because they aren't all that impressive or because they knew they didn't need to be to win and didn't want to reveal anything. Probably the latter.
The Brazil fans were loud and proud.

Galiö10/4/2019, 3:02:12 AM1 votes

Damwon looks like they just rusty, I cant seems to gauge their skill or their opponents... all seems messy.

As for day 1 though there was wayyyy too much ekko jungle and I'm already (still) sick of the kaisa presence.

I thiugh nocturne mid was ok but they were matched against the (maybe) strongest team in play ins. So it's hard to judge if it was the pick or the team match up; nocturne was the only one doing even or well that match.

Day 1 was kinda weird but fun Despite all the ekko. Day 2 was sooooo boring to watch...

I'm hoping for better tommorow.

RedOpticToxin10/4/2019, 3:27:07 AM1 votes

I really think the gap is closing for all sectors of the league. Play in teams can match low end main region teams while top tier main region western teams can match top tier main region eastern teams