Another year and NA still doesn't learn. They never play the NA play style in the world tournaments. Almost every game NA lane swaps (TSM and C9 especially), yet as soon as it's international play... Time to try something new. Every year...
TSM always lose game 1 just saying.
NA teams have always been trash compared to any other continent. They lose the laning phase, they lose the team fight phase, they lose at objectives, and they lose matches. Lots of greedy play, lots of miscalculated tower dives, lots of poor positioning, lack of vision control(or vision in general), and lots of poor shot calling. There's just nothing exciting about watching them. Even basic mechanics on the NA side seem very lacking.
That's not the only thing that happens every year...
Every year hundreds of people travel to good old Camp Dyrus... you would think after all the deaths they would send someone to close the camp. However that camp remains open to this day, some say it will never close. In fact Camp Dyrus has officially surpassed Auschwitz in causalities by this point. Yet for some unknown reason... no one bothers to close the camp(they could at least TRY counterganking top for a change... the shock value alone could win them a match).
a well, i donßt think they would have won by swapping lanes either. Fnatic came in very well prepared and TSM seemingly just had been without a plan from the get go. It´s always the same thing, they just hype themselves too much and most of the times just fall flat once they meet a real good team. NA-competition is just still lacking as a whole (eu also is a little hit&miss, especially compared to china, but at least the top 3 are quite strong).
I honestly didnt think people still watched things that aren';t worlds. I gave up watching all that shit in season 2.
Same meta for the last 3 years.
I could name the champs played in every role for the last 3 years and they would've hardly changed outside of jungle and top lane its just the same shit lol.
Listening to people talk about pro players is like hearing people talk about pros that play another game than you do. You might as well be talking about DOTA pros. How could a had full of people be so influential over millions? The first thing people should copy from the pros is building teams.
you can pretty much tell teh games lost as soon as TSM picks urgot. that champion just does not suit their style of play.
Lets make a small genesis of what NA did during past several seasons -
Season 2 - American style failed horribly. No one passed the group stage. Season 3 - Overall better, C9 stood up, their team game was awesome, however Koreans were too strong Season 4 - Lets import everything, Korean supports, European mid laners, Chinese ad carries - Backfired again. Season 5 - I highly doubt, unless huge change comes, that any NA team will pass the group stage at worlds. Even Europeans realized how they should play this type of matches. They realized they will have to react on enemy team, not to play your game and be like " Fuck you, i am going to play my style, i don't care if you counter picked half of my team"
NA can learn lot of FNC right now.
NA does not have a typical mechanical genius like Koreans or even Europeans do.
Another year and NA still doesn't learn. They never play the NA play style in the world tournaments. Almost every game NA lane swaps (TSM and C9 especially), yet as soon as it's international play... Time to try something new. Every year...
You may still need more time before this happens, but not supporting TSM (at least internationally) will save you lots of stress (I had to finally give up on them before the days of Bjerg and Loco). They obviously can't compete well internationally unless there are flukes like at IEM. Things that will help TSM are getting a better top/adc (Dyrus just needs to retire and Turtle's been falling off for sometime) and getting new ownership that isn't toxic.
