Tune in to the NA LCS Semifinals alternate streams

Riot·Aug 19, 2016·2 votes·19,026 views

The four best teams in North America are facing off this weekend in the 2016 Summer Split Semifinals!

The showdown begins Saturday, August 20 when 2nd seed Immortals take on 3rd seed Cloud9. Then, on Sunday, August 21, witness another chapter in an age-old rivalry as 1st seed TSM do battle with reigning champs and 4th seed Counter Logic Gaming. Once again, we’ll be honing in on specific matchups with our alternate streams this weekend.

On Saturday, Julian “Pastrytime” Carr will lead the analysis of the mid lane matchup between Immortals’ Eugene “Pobelter” Park and Cloud9’s Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen. Joining him will be Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer and Alexey “Alex Ich” Ichetovkin.

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Goldenglue has played mid lane for several NA LCS teams over the years, starting games for Team Dignitas, Team8, and Echo Fox. Alex Ich is a true mid lane veteran, serving as a founding member of Europe's Moscow 5 in 2011. He made the jump to the NA LCS last year, and he’s currently a mid lane sub for Team Envy.

Sunday’s stream will focus on the support matchup between TSM’s Vincent “Biofrost” Wang and CLG's Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black. David “Phreak” Turley will host, accompanied by supports Matthew “Matt” Elento from Liquid and Alex “Xpecial” Chu from Team Apex. They’ve both played against Biofrost and Aphromoo numerous times, so they’ll have firsthand knowledge of each player’s skills.

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Mid Lane Matchup

If you take your eyes off this mid lane battle for even a second, you could miss a game changing moment. Pobelter and Jensen are two of the best mid laners in the region. Immortals handed Cloud9 two series losses in the regular season, with Pobelter earning a 4.7 KDA to Jensen’s KDA of 2.7. However, during the regular season as a whole, Jensen led the entire NA LCS in kills with 207 and in CS per minute with 9.5, compared to Pobelter’s 173 kills and 8.5 CS per minute.

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Support Matchup

What is normally a close rivalry has been anything but that in the Summer Split. TSM swept both of their Summer Split series against CLG, with Biofrost earning a combined KDA of 17 to Aphromoo’s 1.7 KDA. Aphromoo will look to recapture the magic of the Mid-Season Invitational, where CLG came in second behind world champs SKTelecom T1.

All four teams have their eyes set on the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split Finals in Toronto next weekend and a guaranteed spot at Worlds 2016. But they’ve got to make it past their Semifinals opponents first. Which players will demonstrate the higher mid lane IQ: Pobelter or Jensen? Will Biofrost continue his dominance, or will Aphromoo return to his play making ways?

All of these questions and more will be answered in the Mid Lane Matchup this Saturday at 12:00PM and the Support Matchup this Sunday at 12:00PM on Lolesports, YouTube and Twitch.

18 Comments

HellmetAug 20, 20164 votes

Why do they delay this game for a league that's not even in North America? I've got my beer and I'm ready for this to start on time, it's stupid that they delay this game because of EU. Nobody gives a crap what EU is doing, start the NA game at the time you freaking list it.

EleshakaiAug 21, 20161 votes

It makes no sense for them to compete with themselves. It just splits their viewership. Whereas waiting until the EU finals finish ensures that people can watch both.

Yukon79Aug 22, 20161 votes

That's his point. He doesn't want to watch both. You basically said what he said. The exception is you view it as a good thing. Whereas many others don't even care to watch EU in the first place.

Think about it. It doesn't split viewership that much. There are such things as vobs. It's not my fault. There whole sight is full of spoilers. Even there show is. They just suck at managing that type of crap. So it is easier for them to force the US to wait for no reason. Then to manage viewings properly.

EleshakaiAug 22, 20161 votes

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That's his point. He doesn't want to watch both. You basically said what he said. The exception is you view it as a good thing. Whereas many others don't even care to watch EU in the first place.

Think about it. It doesn't split viewership that much. There are such things as vobs. It's not my fault. There whole sight is full of spoilers. Even there show is. They just suck at managing that type of crap. So it is easier for them to force the US to wait for no reason. Then to manage viewings properly.

The point is that Riot only wants to have the one region active at a time when they can so as to avoid splitting the audience. That's why they tend to not do EU and NA on the same days for the LCS regular season, and why they wait until one is finished during tournaments.

Waiting for it to finish ensures that people who want to, can, but people who don't want to just have to wait a bit.

Yukon79Aug 29, 20162 votes

Can you not read?!?!? or do you have to say the same exact fucking thing? Dude we understand what your saying. That was pointed out in the first comment. Your on dope or something.

We don't care, and riot has turned into shit. Just look what they did to renegades. Look at what they did to Solo Queue!!! Look at how they place people lower every fucking season!!! Look at how every fucking thing they say is hypocritical. Look at you supporting them 100% completely blind sighted just because they have an argument.

Those are just a few reasons we don't give a shit about watching the pros play. Let alone ones from another country. We know it will all be in vain. On top of that there point system sucks. The fact that CLG gets a free in to words is ridicules. The fact that there is a patch change right before playoffs is ridicules. The fact that you can't read things, and still point out the exact same-thing is ridicules.

EleshakaiAug 29, 20161 votes

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Can you not read?!?!? or do you have to say the same exact fucking thing? Dude we understand what your saying. That was pointed out in the first comment. Your on dope or something.

We don't care, and riot has turned into shit. Just look what they did to renegades. Look at what they did to Solo Queue!!! Look at how they place people lower every fucking season!!! Look at how every fucking thing they say is hypocritical. Look at you supporting them 100% completely blind sighted just because they have an argument.

Those are just a few reasons we don't give a shit about watching the pros play. Let alone ones from another country. We know it will all be in vain. On top of that there point system sucks. The fact that CLG gets a free in to words is ridicules. The fact that there is a patch change right before playoffs is ridicules. The fact that you can't read things, and still point out the exact same-thing is ridicules.

Someone's so bitter that they're not even thinking straight... kinda sad really.

I don't 'support them 100%' - I haven't played or purchased anything from them in years prettymuch. I watch the LCS because I think they're doing a good job on the e-sports front overall.

But they're making smart business decisions. It's never smart to compete with yourself. Even if there are a few people who aren't interested in both... it simply doesn't make sense to have both active at the same time during a big event. The fact that you accuse me of not reading is funny. Your points are simply irrelevant so not worth considering. Sorry if it hurts to hear that, but that's the case.

The alternative to what they do would just be to set the US starting time a couple of hours later so that even in the worst case scenario they don't interfere... but that's less ideal than the possibility of delaying the US a bit.

"What they did to renegades"... the organization and owner f'ed up hard. They got punished. It's unfortunate, but it had to happen for the integrity of the league. I liked Renegades too, so it does suck. But... again... it had to happen.

I do agree that their patch timing was not ideal. That's unquestionable... but it's hardly indicative. And from what they've said, they recognize that.

JonParkAug 20, 20162 votes

So sad... No qtpie item 3070

Moneymonster7Aug 20, 20161 votes

QT for ADC matchup in the finals? I mean, let's be honest, all 4 ADCs left in the NA LCS playoffs are top notch...

RastosisAug 20, 20161 votes

Alex Ich? Cool !

redfeenixAug 20, 20161 votes

Wut about him

redfeenixAug 20, 20161 votes

What time does it start? In EST?

saved by dongerAug 20, 20161 votes

After EU semis so after this last game in EST approx 4:30 ish.

EleshakaiAug 21, 20161 votes

The support stream would be interesting if it were any other supports in there talking about it...

GForce9xAug 21, 20161 votes

They had xSpecial and Matt talking with Phreak. It was different hearing Phreak commenting on the games as a non-caster, but it was still enjoyable. They had some good and informative discussions throughout that casters normally wouldn't be able to go to deeply in since they have to keep up with the action.

EleshakaiAug 22, 20161 votes

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They had xSpecial and Matt talking with Phreak. It was different hearing Phreak commenting on the games as a non-caster, but it was still enjoyable. They had some good and informative discussions throughout that casters normally wouldn't be able to go to deeply in since they have to keep up with the action.

You misunderstood. I knew which supports were there, I was saying that if it was ANYONE except them, I probably would've been interested. But since it was the two of them, couldn't care less.