Fnatic showing how a 1st seed in a region should look like
They played so good and took down IG not once, but twice in a row in that tie-breaker! Please take note NA on how to make your 1st seed look good...
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Idk about that i dont think seeding matters as much as people think. For example no matter what seed they get c9 ALWAYS out preforms other na teams at worlds its been that way for years no matter how much hype teams like tsm and tl or immortals or clg come in with. The same is true for eu. G2 always get expected to do extrreamly well and either get knocked out of scrape by just barely. Fnatic is the eu c9. Theyre always there and no matter which seed they are they usually may not be as flashy as some other players but they have more consistancy than any other eu team when the heat is on you can count on fnatic to preform. G2 while winning some of their wins just look sad. Like that game against phong was just hard to watch. They should have lost but it was like a bronze 5 game where you watch one team just fail over and over and lose at the last minute despite being ahead all game. Imo the only regions where seeding seems to actually matter is china.
I got respect for Fnatic and the way they played... I don't think they win against any of the 2 seeds that they play, though.
FNatic is unquestionably the best team a Western region has ever produced. C9 has the potential as well, if they can tone down a few of the mistakes. I am THOROUGHLY looking forward to the, slight though it is, possibility both make it through to Semis. It'll be great to see a Western team at the finals if that happens, whichever it is.
FNC is massively better than EDG. There's no doubt theyll beat them. I think they can make It to the finals considering the draw.
Fnatic Win!
That Aatrox/urgot 2nd/3rd pick was absolute genius.
Tfw Eu bans the script :D
Fnatic probably gonna take second, if they meet up with RNG in the finals, if RNG can potentially beat KT Rolster, which i believe they can. not once has fnatic been able to beat RNG
That's for sure. If we're looking at the NA first seeds though, I mean it seems like we just keep sending teams with confidence issues in high pressure situations. Our first seeds for basically the entirety of the current worlds format have been teams with Bjergsen and/or Doublelift on them, players who seem to consistently have confidence issues at worlds where it really matters, and none in the LCS, where the stakes are a lot lower and losses are more forgiving.
I mean think about it, the worlds where the first, second, AND third seeds did well was in S4, it was when we sent teams that had players willing to go balls to the wall no matter who the opponents were.
Wildturtle was on TSM that year, he's a player who is aggressive often to a fault, punching above his weight class even when it gets him murdered. Amazing was also on that team, he'll probably still argue that TSM was a top 3 team at worlds that year and that they should have won.
Cloud 9 had kept their S3 roster so they still had Hai in the midlane, no one would ever accuse Hai of not being confident.
LMQ was that all Chinese roster with really aggressive players.
TSM made it out. Cloud 9 played a tiebreaker for first. LMQ came close to getting out and gave a respectable performance.
These teams built around Doublelift and Bjergsen will continue to disappoint because they've tasted defeat in the same way too many times. They don't think they can win. They hope for an easy draw in the group stage and when they're in it hope every game goes just right so that they can squeak their way out of groups as a second seed.
Team Liquid did not believe for a second they could beat KT, they might say otherwise but it was obvious in their play. They were praying to whatever gods they believe in that EDG lost both games to KT, and even if they had, there was no way they were winning that game against EDG with the pressure on.
TL didn't do awful... they were just placed in a hard group. KT (KR 1st seed) + EDG (arguably strongest 3rd seed).
Also, KT looked like a 1st seed for much of the group stage as well.
I wonder what are "EU quiet" morons are saying now. :D Bbbbuttt...
FNC had IG... C9 had RNG and GG.. we'll see y'all in the semis for a good series