KNOCKOUT ROUND POWER RANKINGS:

C9 Magnus·Oct 15, 2017·2 votes·749 views

Top Tier:

Longzhu* (6-0)
SK Telecom T1 (5-1)
Royal Never Give Up (5-1)
Cloud 9 (3-3)

Bottom Tier:

Team World Elite (5-1)
Fnatic (4-4)
Misfits (4-3)
Samsung Galaxy (4-2)

Based on how the brackets panned out I placed who I thought would make it out of Quarterfinals in the Top Tier, and who would go home early in the Bottom Tier. And YES Cloud 9 is one of the Top Tiers, now here me out. Team WE looked incredibly strong, even coming out 1st seed in their group, but with that being said I still think that they were placed in one of the easiest groups to be placed in. I think that C9 and WE are a very close match-up, and like before I numbered teams based on the likely-hood things would happen. I have placed a little star next to the team that I believe to be the winner of the tournament, and for good reason I chose Longzhu. SKT showed they can come back from early deficits, and RNG showed that they can beat the lowest seed of Korea, but they both lost to sub-par teams that weren't on their level at all. With that being said, at the level of play needed to actually win worlds, I predict that the one team that is still undefeated will take home the cake. Sure LZ didn't have the strongest early game, but they did show that they weren't consecutively weak. With all that being said, let the disagreements flow in like water from a broken dam in the middle of a river.

16 Comments

xx12xx2019Oct 15, 20173 votes

Hey! We got easiest opponents once again! Guys we're top tier even tho we haven't beat them yet!

With all the seriousness G2 went 3-3 in a toughest group. C9 3-3 in a group who only had SKT which didn't even have an early game. And C9 top tier? Switch C9 with G2 in the group stage and do the math. You are taking this out of context and deciding which teams are better/worse based on who qualified and who didn't. :D You would have 0 teams in quarter's. Even EDG > C9.

NA education. :D

Heretic187Oct 15, 20172 votes

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With all the seriousness G2 went 3-3 in a toughest group. C9 3-3 in a group who only had SKT which didn't even have an early game. And C9 top tier? Switch C9 with G2 in the group stage and do the math. You are taking this out of context and deciding which teams are better/worse based on who qualified and who didn't. :D You would have 0 teams in quarter's. Even EDG > C9.

NA education. :D

LOL he is posting top tier by who he thinks will win their matches. Go back and actually read it instead of spouting your crap.

EU education. :D

xx12xx2019Oct 15, 20172 votes

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LOL he is posting top tier by who he thinks will win their matches. Go back and actually read it instead of spouting your crap.

EU education. :D

There is a reason why he thought those teams are stronger than the rest and should be placed higher according to his "power rankings" and I am arguing the REASON why he thought so not the fact the he put them up there. IDIOT. :D

NA educations like always... Manage to embarrass themselves every time.

IncrediPhiLLOct 15, 20172 votes

He’s an IMT fan... it’s not really fanboyism at that point.

HonestJohnTheConOct 15, 20171 votes

His name is C9 Magnus, I just think he's an NA fan or an anti-TSM NA fan.

C9 MagnusOct 16, 20171 votes

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He’s an IMT fan... it’s not really fanboyism at that point.

Actually, I'm an NA fan. I don't care if it was Team Coast at the tournament, I would put them as winning worlds.

xJLx MCHammerOct 15, 20172 votes

C9 drew a good opponent. Techinically speaking, TSM was able to defeat WE 1-1. C9 was able to do the same with EDG

I know people look at the games in week 2 and rank China higher. I personally think C9 should be able to win his match up

They need to keep the early game snowball out of WE hand.

That mean Cait and Janna J4 and Galio.

You remove that, C9 has a good chance. It seems the Chinese teams are doing that

C9 should have banned the galio against EDG but it slipped through and we saw what their comps can do.

Ale non è maleOct 15, 20172 votes

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Techinically speaking, TSM was able to defeat WE 1-1.

DAFUQ?

MysterQOct 15, 20171 votes

Week1 TSM beat wE. Week2 TSM lost to WE.

Ale non è maleOct 15, 20172 votes

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Week1 TSM beat wE. Week2 TSM lost to WE.

Which means they were tied in number of wins and loss. How the faq you beat someone with a score of 1-1?

MysterQOct 15, 20171 votes

It is just an English language issue, nothing to stress over. If they lost both times, we can't say that sentence, but since they won once most people would understand it. If not, just move on. You realize it was a 1-1.

Ale non è maleOct 15, 20172 votes

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It is just an English language issue, nothing to stress over.

It is not a matter of language issue. The 1-1 thing make no sense whatsoever, you can't beat someone tied with the same equal score (and no further measure to decide the leg) If you want to say that a NA team can beat a KR one, just take the 1-1 out of that sentence, and it is perfectly fine in any language in the world

SkouriasmenosOct 15, 20171 votes

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Team WE looked incredibly strong, even coming out 1st seed in their group, but with that being said I still think that they were placed in one of the easiest groups to be placed in.

Yeah the one with TSM in it :p

even so, show some respect to their results and swap them with C9 on your list ... even fanboy-ism has its limits dude ...

HonestJohnTheConOct 15, 20171 votes

Well, the odds don't seem particularly bad. Excepting Misfits, C9 has the highest chance of beating WE than any other team in Groups. Sure, WE is better than them, but the possibility of an upset isn't ridiculous.

Late For TeaOct 15, 20171 votes

Oh here we go again. Group D was, after group C, the most competitive and hardest group of this Worlds. By comparison, group A was relatively easy. C9 has only beaten the teams weaker than them, and got pretty easily dismantled by the teams stronger than them. Meanwhile, WE has had a pretty dominant performance throughout the 2 weeks of Groups. C9 has shown nothing that gives them a reliable chance to win over WE.

The only #2 seed team that has a somewhat reliable chance of make it out of quarters is MSF. MSF has an incredibly strong early game, and it is exactly here that they can exploit SKT. SKT has looked rather shaky during Group stage, and relatively weaker than in the past. Especially in the early game. They have shown little improvement from week 1 to week 2, making me think that they won't be cleaning up their play in week 3 either.

MysterQOct 15, 20171 votes

GroupA DIDNOT have the strongest group. They had the most competitive group becauae everyone was on even ground, but it was definitely not the strongest group.

I am not making this an EU NA thing. But your view of it is ridiculous.

I actually want MSF to win. Unlike most of you EU fans, I did rank them second place. But despite their "strong early" they have shown they cant close. And SKT has long been known to be the tem that picks on any mistake opening. If Sven can hit a laughable Ult and win the gme, SKT can too.