Ornate6 votesDon't know who Spinn180 is but do you even know what the groups are? SSB vs ALL? OMG vs SK? Typical lolesports sloppiness. This is the real reason esports in NA are a joke. Get on a professional level instead of posting articles riddled with grammatical errors. And misinformed/lazy fluff content in your introductions, such as this one. GG LA
Ssataniko4 votesEsports in "Na are a joke" and yet the game was created in NA! You are on a site based in NA! You watch the matches on NA sites (Twitch/Youtube) on your NA OS (Apple/MAC) while discussing it on NA social sites (Twitter/Facebook) and then you go Google (created in NA) some info, and post some pics on Instagram (NA). If you want to trash a region maybe you should take a long look at the GLASS (dung)house you live in first, you hypocrite.
Ornate7 votesOh my god the ignorance...
vLYs9YSSqS5 votesYou really have no clue, do you? Have you ever heard about "hypothetical"? The article is not about actual match-ups or groups for that matter. However (while it is slim, according to recent results), SK and OMG can HYPOTHETICALLY mat during the tournament. Do the math , dumb, dumb!!!!
Ornate1 votesyes, in the bracket stage they could meet. but it is under the heading of group stages. it is my belief that more care can be taken to ensure that articles appear written by informed staff and not some chump
SHAUWN3 votesGroup B and C are very hard to predict but i have a feeling that Star Horn Royal Club will tilt and have an hard time after the conflicts inside their team. TPA, don't really know what to say about them but they might just surprise everyone like they did in S2.
You can't also call SK out after their matches agaisn't Alliance, even tho they lost it 1-3 they managed to get a early game lead every single game so it's certainly a group to look closely at.
Group C is just woah.. a huge fight for that 2nd place even tho i hope Fnatic can take a game off Samsung Blue but what i'm really hyped for is their match agains't OMG. LMQ will struggle agains't every team of this group imo.
Group D will be interesting aswell but i think Alliance will come out in 1st and NJWS 2nd closely followed up by C9.
sfidare3 votesTotally. TSM and TPA are looking good in B.
Ssataniko4 votesTSM being the crap team that they are of course LUCK into the easiest group in Worlds with ZERO Korean teams and the vastly superior Royal Club having some huge internal turmoil. It almost tells you everything you need to know about the state of the world that a team run by unethical scumbags still can come out smelling like roses.
Turtle Hats3 votestsm is apparently doing the best against korean teams in scrims so nothing is lost yet :P
BazookaBrain2 votessomebody's a little bitter about the NA finals...
Aerilux1 votesLMAO C9 fanboy pissed because C9 didnt win playoffs. Otherwise they would have "lucked" into this group.
Ssataniko1 votesOf course spoken like a typical EUrofanboy! Fnatic, SK and Alliance will all do well in your estimation. LOL I feel pity that you actually had to sit through the whole EU season which featured the most horribly passive and boring matches of any region in the world. They won't be facing a bunch of scrubs like SHC, MIL, CW and Gambit in Worlds.
12tales3 votesTotal Alliance fanboy here, just wanting to chip in and say that Shield in their playoffs form would 2-0 Alliance. I dunno which Shield we're gonna get - the Ro8 Korean team that barely got out of groups, or the monster that 3-0d the Summer OGN Champions - but if it's the latter, I expect them to go 6-0.
josmelkaya3 votesI have visited today the lol esports page to found a pice of news quite disturbing today. Because a player from a team use an inapropiated name and said some things that could be ofensive for some people, you will prevent this player for playing at the worlds 3 games. what means you punish his whole team, all the fans of this team and you hurt the competition level of this event. Just to punish a player!
I found myself as a pasionate fan of LOL competitive scene betrayed. I don't want to think this is related to TSM fighting SK in their first game in the worlds but it is hard not to. There is a lot of ways of punish a player without hurting the entire comunity while doing so, but you chose the one that benefits north america's favored team and hurt a lot of people and organizations at the same time...
You chose to act in this way in only 1 day, the infraction was made on the 15th and the decision was already publish in the web on the 17th!!! wow that is fast. I think you should think this a bit more, specially the image this will give of you to the fans... You choose a more than doubfull way of arraging the groups in the first place, TSM is the 1st seed team with the easiest group by far and you remove the mid lane of the 3rd seed of EU just before the game vs TSM. Are you really this scare of losing the NA fan support if NA teams lose in the group stage?
Please riot, if you have to take measures against bad conduct at least dont hurt the feelings of your fans while doing so... Just ban him from LCS a year after the worlds end. Or make him write a public apology in adition to the fee. I totaly understand, share and respect your policy against bad behaviour. I am a teacher at primary school right now for four years, but i can tell by experience that punishment meant for 1 person that punish other people is the wrong way of doing things.
Sorry about my english, i am not a native speaker.
NeoDeimos6 votesWhat you fail to consider is that: 1. This is NOT a one-time offense. He has been warned many times before, the most recent was 2 months ago (as per the punishment released earlier). 2. You DO realize that, add this is a team competition, he is very likely staying with the rest of his team; and thus, the TEAM had every opportunity to stop him from acting like a jerk, and yet they didn't.
You say that the team is punished for his crimes? I say the team allowed him to do what he did, and thus should be punished by needing to bring in a sub.
P.S. PLEASE let the sub be Gripex!!
Prouster16 votes"Johnsen has also exhibited inappropriate behavior in the past, including being verbally abusive to his solo queue teammates on several occasions. He has received multiple formal warnings during the 2014 LCS season regarding his interactions with other players and fans - the most recent warning was issued in late July. Furthermore, Johnsen was aware of the importance of behaving respectfully while competing in this event. He and other Worlds competitors went through a cultural sensitivity briefing upon their arrival in Taiwan. Despite all of this, Johnsen still knowingly engaged in inappropriate behavior on the Taiwan server."..."Given Johnsen’s record of poor behavior and the fact that his actions occurred despite multiple warnings and a cultural sensitivity briefing, we view this most recent incident as severe misconduct. There is no place for this behavior in our sport, much less on the world stage."
That all sounds pretty reasonable to me. If someone wants to be a worldwide competitor on the international stage than they need to grow up and act like a responsible adult. SK also had a coach that was completely banned from the game for life... it sounds like SK, as an organization, needs to get its act together and start behaving professionally.
I'm also not sure why the ruling is suddenly a pro-TSM conspiracy... might as well just call it a TPA conspiracy at that rate, since Svenskeren was engaging in negative behavior towards Taiwanese.
People want e-sports to be taken seriously; well, the cost of being taken seriously is having rules of behavior, and not allowing people to devolve into a 13-year-old mentality. Social skills people...get some.
MJ32 votesDo we get any prizes for it or at least scoreboard where we can see where we stand ?
sfidare1 votesI'm sure scoring starts once groups finish. Can't really award points until we know where everyone lands.
Chogatha1 votesFIRST TO COMMENT
Yamzonian1 votesWas this inspired by the CS GO Picke'em challenge when ESL One was happening?
LilPip1 votesThere are lots of Pick'Em challenges for all sorts of games. I'm not sure if Worlds Pick'Em was directly inspired by the CS GO challenge, but it's certainly derivative of other Pick'Em leagues. Hope you have fun playing!!
Grundmir1 voteshttp://pickem.lolesports.com/#series/1/user/53856/my-picks rate my picks :D
12tales1 votesWe agree on everything, except I have TSM>TPA and Fnatic>LMQ.
9/10
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Poopbutt Totoro1 votesCoding error on the 'picks page'. Says that "picks from the group stage are closed now". But it says up top there is still 5 hours before they close it. Please fix.
testcat1 votesWHAT IS THIS FOR? WHAT DO U EVEN GET????????? HUHHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE ANSWER 
Zaheve1 votesSamsung white ftw
