NA Only Sends One Team To Worlds

Ssataniko·9/2/2014, 5:07:41 AM·4 votes·1,056 views

Amumu So sadly North America will only be represented by a single team at the S4 World Championship. Fortunately it's a really great team: Cloud 9. But for the region that created League of Legends it seems terribly unfair and unfortunate to only have one representative while every other major region will have at least 3 teams. In China's case they actually send 4 teams to Worlds: The top 3 teams in the LPL, as well as the 3rd place team in NA, LMQ. Additionally, EU and Korea send 3 teams each, plus a composite team of their players (and coaches) on a team called TSM.

I know the arguments of the many apologists here who will make ridiculous statements about how all that matters is what server you play on, but that remains completely disingenuous since clearly even if an NA team spoke fluent Mandarin and played on Chinese servers, that would not make them a Chinese team, nor would it grant them entry into the LPL. Ditto for EU and any other region. Only NA seems wide open to be exploited. So even as NA as a region has gotten invariably stronger, the chances that the rest of the World can continue to ridicule NA and its LCS have only increased now that we only send a single NA team to Worlds while every other region gets 3 (or 4! Well-played China).

So to that end: GO C9! (you are literally our ONLY hope)

7 Comments

Tbarbz9/2/2014, 3:05:01 PM3 votes

yet the us is based on the idea of a mixing pot where almost if not all the races/cultures in the world can be found in this one small county, hell New york city alone has around 800 different languages spoken.

LichMazter9/2/2014, 4:45:30 PM2 votes

LMAO. Our best hope can't even be champions in our own region according to you. Nice Hope lel.

Deep Terror Nami9/2/2014, 6:00:08 AM1 votes

Ya and all the Olympic teams for America are cherokee indians, right? Oh, they're not?

Windup Orianna9/2/2014, 1:33:09 PM1 votes

Why is c9 going if TSM won?