C9 vs TSM? Votes anyone?
Predictions? Opinions? Anyone?
Match ups for both C9 and TSM were dominate. I think this will go to 4 games in favor of C9.
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Doublelift subs for c9 and wins the spring split for them.
On a 
serious note, tsm in 4 or 5 games.
hmm interesting, id like to hear your reasoning for 3-1 c9. i think that c9 will win game 1 because of sven hard feeding the first game and then tsm will win 3-2 probably winning the next 2 games and losing game 4 and winning game 5. hantzer has been doing better then impact, i dont think they will play ray cause its not a counter carry matchup. contractz isnt very good vs good teams so after game 1 i think sven will out preform. mid is pretty even. bjerg wont lose the matchup to jensen (although i would say that jensen is better in lane) but i dont think jensen will use any advantage to help the rest of the map cause he just doesnt. bot lane should be even unless someone gets a weird match up and then whos junlger helps and again i dont think contractz does enough early to really help.
who cares about those teams they are dog shit, they would get 6-0 by korean teams so...
I just want a decent series from the upcoming major finals this weekend. For C9 vs TSM: it's the same ol dance in the park. It would be disappointing if this were to be a clean sweep though. So I'm with you...4 games; 3-1 at any point by either team. Regardless of outcome, both teams have the potential to get into the MSI Group Stage. I'm actually looking more towards that.
IMO it depends on the jungle matchup. Both junglers have openly admitted to consistency issues. Contractz was known to be easily exploited through the majority of the season, but he popped off like crazy in the semis. I would give Sneaky/Smoothie a slight advantage over WT/Bio, but by no means are they going to just smash that lane. I would say the same of top but with an edge in Hauntzer's favor (unless Impact dials it up). Both have shown some mid game issues as well.
Whatever team plays around its jungle better will likely take it, and I have to give it to TSM 3-1 because they've been consistently better at taking small leads and punishing than C9 have been. I do think C9 is better at playing from behind and tend to pop off a bit more, though. It's a question of consistency vs. explosive plays, and I'll give advantage to consistency every time. I'm not going to say 3-2 because I think Reapered will throw Ray in one of the matches and it will be an automatic forfeit of that round.
worthless match, who the f cares about these low tier teams, top 4 LPL can smash them, top 16 LCK can smash them
I dont care who wins as long as its a good series. Im so tired of 3-0s
I think sven is one of, if not the, most inconsistent players to have qualified for play offs. He has made so many many bad invades both during the regular season and in play offs where it put his team behind. If that isn't fixed that I hope tsm loses because on the world stage that level of poor play will be punished even harder.
I think if sven gets his shit together tsm will take it 3-1. I think c9 will have little bit of play off jitters with the vast majority of their line up having never won an lcs split.
I don't know who will win, but C9 deserves to win much more than TSM, not just because of winning the split, but because of getting those Gauntlet points (I dont remember the name). I think C9 would perform much better than TSM this year at Worlds, and to go there they need those points. We all know that TSM gets eliminated in the group stage in every single Worlds competition they go to, probably because they are nervious coz they know they are playing in an international tournament, etc. In fact, C9 knows how to hold that pression and they have Reapered who knows a lot of the korean playstyle and their strategies to make their enemies get nervious (dont tell me they don't do it coz SKT said they do it). C9 usually gets out of the group stage when they go to worlds and they already achieved the Worlds semifinals once, imagine how would they do it this year that they are way stronger than ever, and they have one of the best coaches in the world. By the other hand, TSM has always made people to laugh at North America, loosing against every single team and playing horrible. I think it's time to give a chance to more teams to try it at Worlds. I don't like CLG either, but Phoenix 1 looks really strong this year, and that team has players that come from different regions and know how the playstyle in other regions are. I don't think they would do it bad at all if they go to Worlds, especially because the Worlds team dont know how do they play in international tournaments, and they can beat more teams than people expect them to beat. If TSM/CLG goes to Worlds, that should be because of winning the Gauntlet. But I think C9 and PI can do it really well at Worlds this year, and the best NA team right now is C9, and MSI gets only one team per region so... We must send there our best players, and the team that deserves most to go there is absolutely C9. Sorry for my bad english, im spanish :S
C9 has ALWAYS performed better than Any other NA internationally.