Update on roster for Week 6 for Team Liquid

Liquid LiQuiD112·3/1/2017, 9:53:36 PM·3 votes·939 views

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Hey guys,

We've been underperforming in LCS. I've been getting involved (took a break while I focused on the business, sales, marketing and other aspects of the company). Started off by doing tryouts last week, we came to the conclusion unanimously with all coaching staff and players that we would start this weekend with Piglet Mid and Youngbin ADC. Working out better than previous. We will see how we do this weekend and start preparing for what the team will be like near the end of the split. Also filmed a video and put on our fb page to explain everything.

For any TL fans out there, thanks for sticking with us even when it's sometimes hard through the losses.

Steve

7 Comments

byakugan1233/1/2017, 9:55:21 PM2 votes

piglet mid????

Miror B3/2/2017, 12:48:35 AM1 votes

Upon seeing the potential roster moves they could have made, I thought they could potentially beat out the likes of NV (the TDK lives on!) echo fox (who despite having a surprising breakout performance by akaadian should still finish in the 7-8 spots) and dignitas (oh how I pity thee). Now that their roster has been settled, I'm a bit scared for them. This is a team that has had 9 different mid/adc subs on their main roster in the past 2 splits (fenix, fabby, jynthe, youngbin, goldenglue, arcsecond, link, and now piglet for both mid and adc) and yet despite being in the league longer than most of the teams combined (if you wanna include dignitas into the "new" category) still can't figure out a way to build a quality roster. In a way, TL has become the league equivalent of the cleveland browns: as much as they try to hype up their roster and add in high-profile acquisitions (in a way, reignover and RG3 are eerily similar if you count the fact that they had one ridiculously good MVP-calibur year) they continue to disappoint their fans by throwing away splits and losing to worse teams than them. As someone who was a fan of this roster going into 2017 and has been a fan of their cs:go one for a while, decisions like these are kinda worrisome yet oddly enough set the trend for what has become "stereotypical" TL splits. Unlike their cs:go team which has had pretty decent success and looks to have a quality coaching/management staff, the lol version has become a parady of themselves.

III BAKURYU III 3/2/2017, 3:58:38 AM1 votes

" I've been getting involved ( took a break while I focused on the business, sales, marketing and other aspects of the company".

How the hell do you not notice your team blows in the first place while doing the other things like

Business - again, how could not see the business side of things without seeing your team and their standings?
Sales - NOT a real QUOTE - fans won't buy or merchandise but I don't understand why -Steve Ah, because they suck and no one wants to support bad teams that aren't bad as far as performance goes alone but with how the players don't act like a team but instead 5 wissy fits with bad attitudes.
Marketing - same thing with sales.

" I've been getting involved" - Ok, so what the hell were you doing before ( sales, marketing etc) ?
Line up, player movements? If it takes someone who owns the team to do these things you have a garbage board team dude.
It's like the owner of Burger King having to sweep the bathrooms because you found out no one was doing it to begin with, but as the owner you didn't notice.
It's called check up! Doesn't take 5-6 weeks into something to notice the little things.

Ale non è male3/2/2017, 12:28:13 PM1 votes

This move is the result of nonsense decision making, imho The only reason to go through Goldenglue bet at the start of the season, was because TL was trying an unconventional approach in building the roster. Given how NA mid lane scene is import stacked, and that most of the mid lane imports end up having no real impact and not help teams having success because they lose to better imports anyway, they went for taking a below average but NA resident mid laner, betting on the fact that their imports in other positions could beat in a bigger fashion their NA competition than what enemy mid laners could beat GG.

GG wasn't even that terrible, so their idea could work, but their imports failed to do what TL management expected them to do for their approach to work. At that point, if you decide to return to a "traditional" approach and bench GG, it make 0 sense to switch Piglet to mid lane, you should rather bench him and get a proper mid lane import while finding a NA ADC replacement for him (Reignover wasn't good either, but he was better than Piglet at least)