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MSI Finals. I wanna congratulate Team Liquid.

DELDE115·5/19/2019, 1:43:36 PM·6 votes·5,325 views

As much as I want to rub the "EU > NA" meme all over your faces. I would like to say that this thread is NOT about that.

I in honest truth would like to conratulate Team Liquid for making it to the finals. Seeing TL destroy Invictus Gaming was intense and honestly, did not even consider it as a possibility.

I was coming into the finals scared for G2 because I expected TL to fight. Seeing how they out-played the most aggressive region in League by making smooth stratigic teamfights, I expected TL to do the same with G2, no joke.

At the end of the day, G2 did win, but please, dont let this NA defeat kill the mood. Seeing that you guys took down the 2018 world champions means that you guys can most definitely kick ass at worlds.

I cannot wait to see another western finals this September.

One last thing I would like to mention. Do not take this as a negative comment, but some much needed feedback for the LCS. The LEC has proved that an all EU team roster can win against an all asian roster. G2 won MSI today, and Fnatic made it to the Finals last year. We have faith in our home talent.

I understand that In North America buying imports is a big strategy. But I believe that NA has amazing talent that has yet to be discovered. C9 last year showed two North American rookies make it to semis with Licorice and Zeyzal.

What good is it to represent North America when your league does not believe in their home talent? Food for thought.

NA has the talent, you just need to look deeper. Don´t get imports if you won´t use them to their fullest potential.

Congratulations TL and NA for making a Western Finals!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

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BigBellBrute5/19/2019, 2:48:32 PM1 votes

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As much as I want to rub the "EU > NA" meme all over your faces. I would like to say that this thread is NOT about that.

I in honest truth would like to conratulate Team Liquid for making it to the finals. Seeing TL destroy Invictus Gaming was intense and honestly, did not even consider it as a possibility.

I was coming into the finals scared for G2 because I expected TL to fight. Seeing how they out-played the most aggressive region in League by making smooth stratigic teamfights, I expected TL to do the same with G2, no joke.

At the end of the day, G2 did win, but please, dont let this NA defeat kill the mood. Seeing that you guys took down the 2018 world champions means that you guys can most definitely kick ass at worlds.

I cannot wait to see another western finals this September.

One last thing I would like to mention. Do not take this as a negative comment, but some much needed feedback for the LCS. The LEC has proved that an all EU team roster can win against an all asian roster. G2 won MSI today, and Fnatic made it to the Finals last year. We have faith in our home talent.

I understand that In North America buying imports is a big strategy. But I believe that NA has amazing talent that has yet to be discovered. C9 last year showed two North American rookies make it to semis with Licorice and Zeyzal.

What good is it to represent North America when your league does not believe in their home talent? Food for thought.

NA has the talent, you just need to look deeper. Don´t get imports if you won´t use them to their fullest potential.

Congratulations TL and NA for making a Western Finals!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Thanks for not flaming. We do have some talent but given that we're about as big a player base as EUNE and EUW is 1.5 times as big, and given that more Americans care about their local high school football game fridays in the fall than care about pro lol, well it's a numbers game. Only about 100 people get to be academy or LCS players. And I doubt academy level players or even some LCS players make big bucks. Beyond that the money just isn't there for a large training network to identify and cultivate players. Solo Queue is pretty much a train wreck of inting, griefing, and afking, and botting to wade through before one even gets good enough to be noticed. I'm sure there are plenty of players that have the talent that we'll never know about because they quit after 6 months saying forget this nonsense. Given that, we're going to have to import some to be competitive. Just the way it is. We're a smaller region when it comes to LOL and we're more apathetic too. Fortunately, Los Angeles is a great place to be and a lot of players want to come here. Good thing for us our LOL isn't played in Mississippi. or we'd be losing to OCE.

Yordle Xayah5/20/2019, 4:02:31 AM1 votes

Yeah, it was amazing! No other team in 11 years of League of Legends had lost a Bo5 that fast! Truly a unique (and probably unbeatable) record!