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Fnatic this year's SS?

T RexHasTinyArms··2 votes·649 views

Samsung Blue won champions in season 4, came to worlds and gets beat by Samsung White. Fnatic wins LCS and then comes to worlds and OG (who is pretty close to Fnatic honestly w/ 2 former Fnatic players and an ADC that was picked up when Yellowstar recommended they check him out) is looking to take a first seed out of groups, while Fnatic may take second.

Is the Fnatic/OG story going to be this year's SSB/SSW story? Hype

Edit: Forgot that KTA won champions summer and blue was the split before that if I remember right. Also since it is apparently unclear the reference is to similar (almost sister teams) being some of/the most dominant teams in their region and then coming to worlds showing up w/ flipped order of strength between the sister teams. The reference isn't to SSW's tournament run or level of play last year bc even SKT isn't up to that I think and SKT looks like the best team in the tournament.

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YCitizenSnipsY2 votes

Only if OG wins the whole tournament. And even still its not the best comparison as SSB actually lost to KTA in the summer OGN, while FNC actually won the Summer LCS in EU.

It's not very common for #1 seeds to not be all their made out to be in worlds, we see this every year where a "weaker" team from a region comes in and makes more of an impact on worlds the "stronger" team from that region.

Hasztalan21 votes

bullshit

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

Bullshit that og is in 1st for their group, that Fnatic isn't first in their group, or that Fnatic and OG share a lot of history and connection within lol? (Or maybe you meant bullshit that Samsung had two teams last year and both were world class?)

Hasztalan21 votes

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Bullshit that og is in 1st for their group, that Fnatic isn't first in their group, or that Fnatic and OG share a lot of history and connection within lol? (Or maybe you meant bullshit that Samsung had two teams last year and both were world class?)

I'M sorry but i really cant be bothered with hype trains. Just because something similar happened the chances of any europian team to win the worlds are still 0. Regardless of fan hopes/dreams or not.

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

/sigh

Did you really think that's what the OP was saying? SSW vs SSB was a semi that decided the winner, just like Najin vs SKT was a semi that decided the winner, but there's nothing in the original post about OG/FNC winning the tournament, and I'd be surpirsed if they meet in the semis (possible though) bc Fnatic moves forward if they daw CLG/Koo, but if they draw SKT/OG then FNC/OG won't be a semi game imo bc FNC will go out in quarters. The post is about the fact that OG is the closest thing to a sister team that will probably ever exist since the end of the 2 team system, and it is cool to see two teams that were dominant in their region (SSW/SSB were dominant in KR that season even if KTA took summer split) come in and have that flip in strength from the regional split vs worlds. I think anyone who bets against SKT on something other than maybe EGD turning it around (they did between LPL playoffs and regional qualifiers, so it could definitely be a diff team between groups and finals) is making a fairly unlikely bet. OG/FNC might be a semi, but that's the best the run would be imo (still way more than expected). Even then they'd need good bracket draws if OG finishes first and FNC finishes second (FNC only has one group to draw if they want a semis match vs OG and SKT and C9 have to be the same side of of the bracket).

Edit: Also not a huge fan of FNC or OG honestly. Kind of run out of teams to root for and I'd probably say I root for FNC a bit bc it was cool to see Yellowstar reinvent the team, but they're still EU and not NA so I'm not a huge fan. Hell I might even like SKT/KOO more than FNC bc I really like Marin as a player and am glad to see him having success, and I think it's awesome how KOO was made by players cut when the organizations had to consolidate to one team, and they've had pretty good success locally which was really cool.

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