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2018 NA LCS Spring Split Award Winners

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GGWP! The regular season is done and as we head into Playoffs, it's time to celebrate honor outstanding NA LCS pros and coaches who demonstrated superior teamwork, mastery, and strategy.

As previously announced, we'll continue to update this post with our award winners for the 2018 NA LCS Spring Split. 

Congratulations to....

NA LCS Coach of the Split

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NA LCS Coach of the Split: Neil “pr0lly” Hammad - 100 (69 points)

2nd place Coach: Hangyu “Reapered” Bok - C9 (42 points)

3rd place Coach: Sangsu "Ssong" Kim - TSM (37 points)

2018 NA LCS Coach of Spring Split Ballots

NA LCS Rookie of the Split

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Rookie of the Split: Eric “Licorice” Ritchie - Top, C9 (121 Points)

2nd place Rookie: Matthew “Deftly” Chen - ADC, GGS (76 Points)

3rd place Rookie: Andy “AnDa” Hoang - Jungle, FLY (38 Points)

2018 NA LCS Rookie of Spring Split Ballots

 

NA LCS All-Pro Team

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1st NA LCS All-Pro Team

  • Seung-hoon “Huni” Heo - Top, FOX (120 Points)
  • Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett - Jungle, FOX (98 Points)
  • Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg - Mid, TSM (99 Points)
  • Cody “Cody Sun” Sun - ADC, 100 (80 Points)
  • Zaqueri “aphromoo” Black - Support, 100 (105 Points)

2nd NA LCS All-Pro Team

  • Kevin “Hauntzer” Yarnell - Top, TSM (54 Points)
  • William “Meteos” Hartman - Jungle, 100 (78 Points)
  • Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen - Mid, C9 (62 Points)
  • Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen - ADC, TSM (62 Points)
  • Andy “Smoothie” Ta - Support, C9 (83 Points)

3rd NA LCS All-Pro Team

  • Chan-ho “Ssumday” Kim - Top, 100 (34 Points)
  • Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen - Jungle, C9 (52 Points)
  • Fabian "Febiven" Diepstraten - Mid, CG (56 Points)
  • Zachary "Sneaky" Scuderi - ADC, C9 (61 Points)
  • Nickolas "Hakuho" Surgent - Support, CG (40 Points)

2018 NA LCS Spring Split All-Pro Ballots

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NA LCS Spring Split MVP:

  • Most Valuable Player: Zaqueri “aphromoo” Black - Support, 100 (80 Points)
  • 2nd place MVP: Seung-hoon “Huni” Heo - Top, FOX (63 Points)
  • 3rd place MVP: Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg - Mid, TSM (52 Points)

2018 NA LCS Spring Split MVP Ballots

41 Comments

Taihl7 votes

This is actually a substantially better looking all-pro roster than in seasons past. Kudos to everyone for seeming like they may have actually watched the games this season. My only change would be Meteos over Dardoch. I feel as though he has been substantially better on the playmaking front. While both have been well ahead of the rest of the pack from the jungle.

soccerdogboy2 votes

I find it kind of interesting that they put bjerg as first despite his abysmal start to the split, but they don't put meteos over dardoch. (I'm not trying to take anything away from bjerg, I just think everyone has something against meteos always)

GeminiRune4 votes

Saw Hakuho...anywhere...I'm good.

TrollFan013 votes

Best part of the top 3 teams made up the all-pro team. No surprise. What is a surprise is no C9 anywhere on it. Usually they have at keast one spot.

FunkyMonkey36964 votes

It because of classic recency bias. :P C9 still da best

iluvsunsets6 votes

Considering C9 just got swept by TL in the quarters, I think the voters seem to have gotten this one right. C9 was riding high as one of the few teams with most of the key components of their roster still in tact. Once other teams got more time to jell and the meta began to go through changes, they simply got outclassed.

thizzzu10 votes

Spoiler alert on a page not related to playoffs thank you very much!

Fearasuma3 votes

First of all, spoilers. Second of all, no one underperformed mechanically in the Quarterfinals series we saw today. C9's first 3 bans were static since they have a rookie top laner who can't play with/against tanks so they couldn't respond to the various threats in the series like Swain's peel for Doublelift, Skarner's threat to suppress Svenskeren and steal baron, or Tahm Kench's peel and safety from getting run down. And since we can't make a case that the all-pro team should ever ideally have to perform well TOGETHER, to refute C9's contention for the spots is irrelevant, and flat-out biased.

FunkyMonkey36961 votes

Exactly my point. A lot of caster and analyst comments are full of receny bias. And god forbid if burgerking or tsm players are not voted on the roster, need them FreeSM fan votes.

ModEvangele3 votes

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Considering C9 just got swept by TL in the quarters, I think the voters seem to have gotten this one right. C9 was riding high as one of the few teams with most of the key components of their roster still in tact. Once other teams got more time to jell and the meta began to go through changes, they simply got outclassed.

It's a regular season award. What happens in the playoffs is irrelevant.

BigBellBrute1 votes

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Considering C9 just got swept by TL in the quarters, I think the voters seem to have gotten this one right. C9 was riding high as one of the few teams with most of the key components of their roster still in tact. Once other teams got more time to jell and the meta began to go through changes, they simply got outclassed.

It's a regular season award. What happens in the playoffs is irrelevant.

CrazyHead1 votes

Wait but if C9 got swept and that makes them bad what does that make 100T cause they got swept too

BigBellBrute2 votes

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It because of classic recency bias. :P C9 still da best

That's the one thing I noticed too. It's player of the split not player of the last 1/2 or 1/4 of a split.

That said C9s mid got 2nd team. Their Support got 2nd team. Their ADC got third team and their Jungler got 3rd team. I don't think I'd have put their top in the top 3 so I really don't have much complaints if I'm a C9 fan. The one that sticks out like a sore thumb to me is Zven....

As for the best, I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks. It isn't C-9 or TSM or CLG. None even made it past the quarters.

Kruvix3 votes

What a surprise Bjergsen is in it ONCE AGAIN, even though they barely made it to playoffs.

Novatabeast2 votes

They didn't barely make it to playoff they earned the spot fair an square. The top teams like C9 and Echofox legit got cocky and threw most of their games on the second half of the split.

TrojanManDan3 votes

Barely made it? They are the 3rd seed? And honestly if Echo Fox hadn't thrown vs 100T could have potentially had a bye. Its funny how everyone rags on TSM fans, but the TSM haters are just as sad.

Keektwo3 votes

^ 3rd seed = top half of the playoff rankings. Just another fanboy angry that Bjergson was voted above his mid-laner again.

AncientHydra2 votes

Barely made it? They finished 11-7 before tiebreakers. The only team to have a better back half of the split was 100 Thieves (TSM 7-2 VS 100 Thieves 8-1 in last 9 games, non tiebreaker). They were 4 games up on the 7th place team in regular season (GLG at 7-11).

Also, Bjergsen is the biggest reason they won some of those games. Particularly on Syndra, a pick that so far only PoE played this split and far less effectively.

BigBellBrute1 votes

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What a surprise Bjergsen is in it ONCE AGAIN, even though they barely made it to playoffs.

Did any mid laner really stand out head and shoulders this split? No. And when nobody stands out, who are people going to vote for? The familiar names. It was going to be some combination of the three that got in.

Krait3 votes

ROFL Sven over Sneaky and DL? Gimme a break.

OHMe2 votes

Aphromoo basically was everyones top SUP LOL, he's such a beast

Steefness2 votes

Bjergson winning is proof that these things are just as rigged as a Russian election. Bjerg had his worst split in years, yet you sheep still seem to vote him top dog. Jensen getting second also supports this claim as he was the king of the chokers (C9) this split. Good thing this is more or less meaningless.

Timoteh3 votes

You clearly only look at the teams standings rather than actually watching the games. He only really underperformed in the first 3-4 weeks or so. After that, he performed monstrously and most of the team's losses can be attributed to a problem meshing together well rather than individual play (other than Mikeyeung who still performed rather well near the end of the split)

jayy lmao2 votes

sneaky instead of zven would have been so awesome

Mind Flay2 votes

Coach Ssong = the one guy who didn't vote Huni as #1 Top.

Roldy2 votes

Look at his ballot in general. Absolutely terrible lol, did the guy even think about who he was writing down? He has DAMONTE on the 3rd all pro team. Dude played like 4 games. And Deftly? XD

BigBellBrute2 votes

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Look at his ballot in general. Absolutely terrible lol, did the guy even think about who he was writing down? He has DAMONTE on the 3rd all pro team. Dude played like 4 games. And Deftly? XD

I think he most certainly did think of who he was writing down for mid. He knows his mid lane is in the running. And he also knows who the big competition will be. He can't vote Bjerg so what does he do? He leaves Jensen off.

BigBellBrute1 votes

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Coach Ssong = the one guy who didn't vote Huni as #1 Top.

He not only didn't vote Huni top, he left him off the ballot.

Eilistraee2 votes

I would argue that Sneaky performed better as an individual player then either Cody Sun or Zven, but I'd be alright with Cody Sun taking the number one spot as his team play was on point. I absolutely do not understand putting him under Zven, though, who had an absolutely abysmal first half of the split. Even when Cloud 9 was struggling in the second half, Sneaky was generally one of the only people on his team to perform consistently. I honestly think the only reason he didn't get second was because so many people placed him in the first spot (unless they just go based on total votes, then I'm at a loss).

That being said, I'm not really surprised by how this shook out. Probably my biggest surprise is Bjergsen getting 1st mid as his first half was pretty weak, but he did have a hell of a second half so I suppose an argument could be made that it made up for it.

Lstrike2 votes

huh. I don't what is NA's obsession is with Bjergsen. He is an awesome player, no doubt. But this split, Febiven was much better than him even in matches that Clutch lost. Bjergsen played too selfish this split imo.

Sir Hamcelot IV1 votes

Gotta say, I appreciate the consistency in the All-Pro team picks. Top-jungle synergy is always something important in matches. Seeing that the bot lane and top-jungle picks are on the same teams makes me think that the voters were also taking into account the connections between teammates in addition to performance. Admittedly picking Bjerger King I have a slight degree of reservation about, his raw talent makes it difficult to deny his place on the team. Then again the votes speak for themselves.

Morticianjohn1 votes

If 4 of your 5 players are top 3 in their position in the league don't you think you should at least make the semi finals? Conversely how is it that a team in semi finals doesn't have a single player top 3 in their position....

Keektwo1 votes

Well for one, when the article was made TL wasn't in the semi's yet. For another, being in the semifinals doesn't necessarily mean you are top 3 in your position, but instead that your teamwork is on a higher tier. Also Semifinals means 1st-4th so we'll just say TL takes the 4th place for all of their roles since 4th is what they are known for ;)

Morticianjohn1 votes

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Well for one, when the article was made TL wasn't in the semi's yet. For another, being in the semifinals doesn't necessarily mean you are top 3 in your position, but instead that your teamwork is on a higher tier. Also Semifinals means 1st-4th so we'll just say TL takes the 4th place for all of their roles since 4th is what they are known for ;)

my point isn't that Team Liquid specifically deserved to have a few players on the "all pro" teams 1-3. My point is only that only 5 teams are represented on the "all pro" team. I think that this "all pro" team doesn't really capture the best players at each position. There is someone Flame, Deftly, Akaadian, Doublelift, Huhi, or someone from one of these other teams that is top 3 in their position, however, because of the nature of league when a team is behind that player is unable to gather the stats neccessary to compete for these placements.

questionmark11 votes

So you believe that it should not be based on performance but instead the potential for performance?

Morticianjohn1 votes

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So you believe that it should not be based on performance but instead the potential for performance?

No, it should be based on performance. However, I think that the performance of the team should be taken into consideration. Licorice for example got quite a few votes even though he was not 3rd team all pro he was possibly 4th in the voting. This is doing a disservice to Darshaun, Impact, Flame and the other top laners who are clearly better players but their teams were not performing at the level of C9 and thus finished behind him in "all pro" voting. Maybe they should just change the name of the "all pro" team to the "all half of the pros" team since only half of the teams are represented.

LOL - 10 teams of 5 = 50 players out of which 15 are selected for "all pro" teams 1-3 from from 5 organizations

NBA - 30 teams of 5 = 150 players out of which 28 (including those injured but don't play) are selected to "all star" teams from 18 organizations.

So in spite of the fact that a smaller percentage of players are selected to the NBA all star team 18.5% to 30% there is still a higher percetage of organizations represented in the NBA all star team 60% compared to LOL 50%.

Granted it is hard to shine on a losing team in LOL the way that a good player can shine for a bad team in the NBA. Still I think the voters could do a better job of capturing the best players across the league rather than the best statistical players which are going to be limited to the top teams.

TrullMiester1 votes

When none of TL's players got into the All-Pro teams. SMFH.

BigBellBrute1 votes

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When none of TL's players got into the All-Pro teams. SMFH.

Well liquid made the first team team in the thing that counts most. So I don't think they care at this point.

That said I think Impact should have been in the top three top instead of Hauntzer and Double lift instead of Zven at ADC.

woodvsmurph1 votes

I know these were based on regular season, but... gotta love how not one player that wins the finals is anywhere on this list?

C9 Squeeky 1 votes

Would like to see a showmatch of NA all-pro team vs EU all-pro team. I know Rift Rivals is coming up in Summer but would actually like to see these all-pro teams play together just for an exhibition match.

BrawlicSnake1 votes

Cody Sun instead of Doublelift. Hahahaha! What a joke

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