Boards›Esports

FPX and the luck of the draw

Fistful12·11/11/2019, 4:08:37 PM·1 votes·1,470 views
  1. FPX got the easiest group.
  2. FPX got one of the easiest quarterfinals (Fanatic, only SKT got an easier one).
  3. FPX played IG in the semis. They handily owned them in LPL, so it was not a problem.
  4. FPX played G2 in the finals. The only challenge that could have been. It wasn't.......
  5. FPX did not play a single game against a Korean team in Worlds.

Of course, it's the Korean's fault not advancing in the knockout stages, but I feel that FPX was not really challenged due to the luck of their draw. We will never know.....

8 Comments

Cind3rkick11/11/2019, 4:11:40 PM1 votes

I feel the FPX main luck was that IG knocked out Griffin.

Those 3 form a triangle of love, each beating eachother. Griffin and G2 are the only teams that could beat FPX and even then we got craps and afk jankos.

GeminiRune11/11/2019, 5:01:53 PM1 votes

They may have what was considered the dream draw, but in no way was the run sweep of the hands easy until the end. Going down the line:

  1. Their group stage definitely had their games of caution. They were convincing, not dominant.

  2. Even I'll agree that Fnatic had the worst performance of the 5th-8th bunch. But that just comes with taking on the opposition ahead of you. In fact, should Splyce had won that tiebreaker and the draw was the same, that'd be FPX vs SKT and SPY vs FNC. But that's more hypothetical.

  3. The H/H on the season between FPX and IG was 1-1 before their semis encounter with both previous series going the full 3 games. And they never met in a playoff picture following upset losses from JDG and LNG. "Handily owned" is hardly the term to use here, especially given recency that IG was the only loss FPX suffered in the summer.

  4. Regardless of outcome, a tournament favorite still won in the end.

  5. There shouldn't be an asterisk on the World championship that has to indicate you have to beat a Korean team to be considered such. That and if the Korean teams were as deserving of the challenge, they'd have made it further...or Splyce would have won the tiebreaker and the draw was the same. More hypothetical though

OG Nagbone11/12/2019, 5:32:53 AM1 votes

???? G2 literally beat 2 korean teams, and lost to GRF. IG dismantled GRF, and FPX then dismantled. Then FPX proceeds to wax G2, who beat the other 2 korean teams. Yall reaching