Deja Vu for TSM

GForce9x·May 15, 2017·2 votes·825 views

At Worlds, they had to play a tiebreaker to get out of groups, and a very questionable (or in other words, crap) draft pretty much sealed the deal before the game even started.

Same thing just happened against the tiebreaker against FW. Priority pick Ezreal when Lee is by far Sven's best champ? Ban out 2 champs that the other ADC doesn't even use? Then comp a team with almost zero reliable CC? Shen taunt isn't exactly ideal when the rest of your team is squishy short range with little AOE.

I understand mistakes happen. They're all human and sometimes make errors and get outplayed. I love TSM but the one thing that has disappointed me the most about them time and time again is how many times they lose games on the international level primarily due to crap drafts.

Both last year at worlds and now this MSI... if they could just get one of those many bad-draft games back :(

edit: their last game at World's wasn't a tiebreaker, but losing it put them into a tie with RNG who owned the H2H against them. Point is, they blew the draft during the last game when everything was on the line.

8 Comments

JustA kleoMay 15, 20171 votes

deja vu for na tbh. ending their journey in groups. and deja vu for eu inc. losing against asians lol

colombo1May 15, 20171 votes

Nah, we've been doing mostly fine against everyone but korea, so I still have hope for the semis. We're gonna get 3-0ed in the final vs skt though

xJLx MCHammerMay 15, 20171 votes

What was questionable in this draft?

Apparently, TSm can't win unless they have a perfect draft where they completely outclass their opponent through the draft..

goo figure..

WhiperSnapersMay 15, 20173 votes

well, most of their wins from the spring split came from putting hauntzer on a carry and turtle on something that offers some utility, so I would say that putting hauntzer on a support/tank and turtle on a champion with no utility at all in possibly their most important game of the tournament is a pretty questionable draft.

Wifi the RouterMay 15, 20172 votes

They had really questionable bans against betty, not just one, two bans for champs betty doesn't play

Smart KittyMay 15, 20171 votes

TSM didn't have to play a tiebreaker at worlds...

GForce9xMay 15, 20171 votes

I forgot, it wasn't a tiebreaker, but losing put them into a tie with RNG, who already owned the H2H record against them. Same principle though. The "win or go home" game in both tournaments they blew it during the draft phase.