Real "classy" way of closing out that last game there.
But being unprofessional jerks is one of TSM's hallmarks and the kind of behavior the organization encourages and cultivates, so why did I expect anything else from them?
I am just SO glad that the most "Ugly American" of teams gets held up as the gold standard of the region I'm from.
I hope UoL stomps them flat. (Probably not going to happen but I can dream.)
Doesn't EU do that "BM" in their own region, didn't EU talk trash before the tournament started ?
One might think this tournament is about creating rivalry trash talk.
How dare they.
NA > EU
What, hanging around the nexus while the minions do most of the dmg is BM? The death timers were all super high, so it's not like they were waiting for G2 to respawn so they could just kill them again.
You also gotta remember that in game chat is not shown to spectators, so they could have been typing in their GGs back and forth or any other closing messages to each other as we know. Yes there were a few taunt emotes going on, but a few members stood motionless there for several seconds as well.
Besides, the amount of trash that G2 was talking before hand, like Perkz saying that NA wouldn't win a single game, or Mithy saying that G2 would destroy NA if Fnatic doesn't (kinda ironic that it is UOL that carries the hopes of EU on its shoulders), TSM had every reason to serve poetic justice not only as revenge from MSI but for NA as a whole in this tournament.
But being unprofessional jerks is one of TSM's hallmarks and the kind of behavior the organization encourages and cultivates, so why did I expect anything else from them?
Where in the world is this coming from? Do you have some insights as to the ethical MO of the organization, or are you just so upset and salty that you do what just about every other upset/salty person on the internet does, which is make personal attacks that have little to do with the grand scheme of things, which in this case is the tournament?
Football players have victory dances. Every real sport has a lot more "BM" than league, League pros are actually really courteous people. Plus the whole point of the event is to trash talk, it's called Rift Rivals for a reason, Riot wants to play up the rivalry to hype up the big events like Worlds. BMing is in the spirit of the event really.
Dancing at the end of the game isn't even that bad, grow up.
CLG fan?
This event was specifically designed to foster (not-so)friendly regional rivalries. It basically caters to the spastics who spam NA>EU or vise versa till their fingers fall off. It's so obvious the players are having some fun with it and why shouldn't they? They're being forced to play in this meaningless tournament in the middle of the summer split. I like the idea, but they really need to reconsider the rewards and logistics in the future, or no team will ever take it seriously (besides TSM, who try-hard EVERYTHING ;) and you'll keep getting clown fiestas like this one has been.
It isn't so much about disrespecting the enemy team as it is having fun with each other. The game in question they weren't waiting for minions to kill the nexus. They were watching biofrost and trick 1vs1 each other. You can see the pings on the map and dl heading down to the fight. They ended up killing the nexus right before he died.
They do stuff like this rather frequently if you listen to their shit tsm says content. The time they tried to convince hauntzer they were fountain diving then just watched him die, the time bjerg tried taliyah wall hauntzer into the fountain, there was a time when some one jumped into the fountain as the nexus was one hit away and then stopped damaging it to watch him die... etc
Omg someone is flashing signs in game and it hurts my feelings :´(
I didn't mind the fountain dance, but Bjergsen's BM when he killed Exileh was just tasteless. The guy is having a hard time right now, getting a lot of flak, he didn't deserved to get danced on for getting killed by a noob champion like Syndra. Glad UoL won that game in the end.
What does the B stand for?
get over yourself. EU pulled that same shit the entire tournament. TSM outplayed every single team. They have an absolute right to brag.
Out of curiosity, how did they BM? I did not watch the match in question.
