Just like, if TSM wouldnt have lost to clg (for the first time?) then they would be in worlds. If the gauntlet didnt exist, they would be in worlds. It is seriously just unfair how everything goes wrong to make them 4th.
xJLx MCHammer4 votesWAIT
The gauntlet exist because there are TWO splits per season. Summer split and Spring Split. C9 won #2 in Spring Split defeating TL in a reverse sweep . TSM then defeated C9 winning 1st place.
So why should Spring Split matter less than Summer Split? TL had their chance, not once but TWICE to beat C9 in a best of 5. They lost both times. Had they won EITHER matches, this would not have happened. So once again, why should TL go to worlds when C9 has defeated TL and the other teams? I just don't understand this. TEAM A is better than Team B. The best teams are suppose to go to worlds to represent the region. Why should a weaker team go?
Make no mistake, TL is weaker. Despite how much you like them, they had their chances and they couldn't do it. Deal with it, like they did.
prozak822 votesthe gauntlet is completely unnecessary and is just cooked up by riot to give fans another playoff-like competition to watch. they could have just gave 3rd spot to whoever had the next highest amount of championship points and it would have been perfectly reasonable. TL had the best regular season record this split and definitely deserves worlds more than c9. just because a team beats another team in a best of 5 doesn't mean that that team is better. if c9 was a good team they would have at least made the fucking playoffs don't you think?
xJLx MCHammer2 votesthe gauntlet is completely unnecessary and is just cooked up by riot to give fans another playoff-like competition to watch. they could have just gave 3rd spot to whoever had the next highest amount of championship points and it would have been perfectly reasonable. TL had the best regular season record this split and definitely deserves worlds more than c9. just because a team beats another team in a best of 5 doesn't mean that that team is better. if c9 was a good team they would have at least made the fucking playoffs don't you think?
HOLD up
Again, this goes back to there being 2 splits
CLG was defeated last split and had like no points. However, because they placed #1 in Summer, they automatically qualify. Yet, the team who won 2 months prior to that, in Spring Split, is awarded only 90 points. And even if they place #2 in Summer split, they still don't get the same amount of points CLG did.
In reality, they should have warded teams in Summer split the same amount of points they did for teams In Spring Split. Instead, they cut corners by giving teams in Summer Split free passes and more points.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votesBecause SPOILER ALERT:
The teams that do best in the Summer Split will do best for Worlds. Say Gravity won this split with their new team setup. Would you have just said that they shouldn't be given as much of a chance because they didn't do well with a different team in a different meta? Or what if Cloud9 had placed 8th in NA? Would you have given them a chance to go to Worlds, even though their actual success was with a different team? Or what if, in Europe, Origen had won the split? Would you have denied them points even though that was their first split in the LCS and they had no other chances to earn points?
xJLx MCHammer2 votesBecause SPOILER ALERT:
The teams that do best in the Summer Split will do best for Worlds. Say Gravity won this split with their new team setup. Would you have just said that they shouldn't be given as much of a chance because they didn't do well with a different team in a different meta? Or what if Cloud9 had placed 8th in NA? Would you have given them a chance to go to Worlds, even though their actual success was with a different team? Or what if, in Europe, Origen had won the split? Would you have denied them points even though that was their first split in the LCS and they had no other chances to earn points?
If they had gotten #2, they get to to a gauntlet
Lstrike1 votes[{quoted}](name=xJLx MCHammer,realm=NA,application-id=9hBQwnEU,discussion-id=O43FIvEE,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2015-09-03T01:04:24.366+0000)
HOLD up
Again, this goes back to there being 2 splits
CLG was defeated last split and had like no points. However, because they placed #1 in Summer, they automatically qualify. Yet, the team who won 2 months prior to that, in Spring Split, is awarded only 90 points. And even if they place #2 in Summer split, they still don't get the same amount of points CLG did.
In reality, they should have warded teams in Summer split the same amount of points they did for teams In Spring Split. Instead, they cut corners by giving teams in Summer Split free passes and more points.
Because recent form > past form.
PoisonedTea2 votesIt doesn't mean less.
TSM got max points getting first and second.
C9 had 70 points for second. So to give them a chance to get the most point in the summer playoffs of course they didn't make it but were able to keep the points.
Xantak2 votesRather than blaming others, or whining up a pity storm, how's about some accountability towards Team Liquid, and realizing that first and foremost, Team Liquid had TWO chances this split, to get the job done, but couldn't. They even had a chance last split, to get themselves 90 points. If they wanted it bad enough, and played well enough, they would've been first each time. They would've scooped up the #1 seed in spring, gone to MSI, done however they "could" have, come back, taken #1 seed again, punched their tickets to not only Europe, but also to their boot camp.
Team Liquid alone controls their destiny or gameplay. There weren't any unfair shenanigans that happened. Nobody was DDOSing another player, nobody leaped out of their chair and rushed the other team for a full contact gank. There was plenty of opportunity for them, but they failed.
As I had put as a quote in another thread, that was pulling out this same dross, "If you want sympathy, look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis."
