To think about the fact that half of Koo's roster (if I remember right) was cut from existing LCK organizations when they had to consolidate to one team. They are now in the world finals. Man I'd hate to be the guy who made the call and said "you know what you're not good enough we're gonna go w/ our other ADC/Top/Support player." I bet it feels good to be sitting at home while the guy you cut plays for a million usd.
Toa of Death1 votesRight? That guy's probably facepalming super hard right now.
Alex is the name1 votesHojin (previously Lee before Riot forced him to change his summoner name) Kuro, Pray, and Gorilla were all previously apart of the Najin organisation (Smeb is the only one not from Najin he was with Incredible Miracle 2) but when the one team per organisation restriction came through those players were cut for Najin's current team which is a talented roster that just doesn't play well in shot calling like Koo does.
If you saw the Koo Tigers during the 2015 pre season (when they were Huya Tigers) they were easily the worst team lossing almost every pre season game then they changed to GE Tigers and dominated LCK spring split until lossing 3-0 to SKT in the playoffs then after lossing to Team WE at MSI the team stumbled during the LCK summer split (changed name to Koo Tigers) and only with a late surge added by the utter collapse of CJ Entus managed to make worlds through points total.
Point is the team wasn't always great but they came toghter as a team REALLY WELL, Smeb became arguable the best top laner in LCK when he wasn't even looked at when he was on IM2, same thing with Kuro, before he mastered 
he was a sub par mid laner, and Pray was considered a washed up adc from his glory days of season 2 and 3, Gorilla was still considered a good support and Hojin (Lee) was marked as an average jungler.
Basically I'm saying that it wasn't until the team was assembled that these players really started to perform well so its not as if the Najin organisation just decided to cut all their best players and went with a bunch of srubs like Samsung did (Kappa).
T RexHasTinyArms1 votesOh sweet, I hadn't realized that Hojin used to be lee. That's awesome. I definitely agree that it probably made sense to drop the players (I hadn't realized that Kuro and Hojin were Najin players as well (although I remember Lee from Najin)) but it's one of those hind sight "holy shit we picked talent and missed the synergy of these players." Smeb like Reignover made a lot of bad plays mid/late game and has developed a lot on his new team (hell he's developed a lot during worlds, and his fiora is so amazing), but they are definitely a team that has developed as a whole rather than through individual dominance at their positions.
YCitizenSnipsY1 votesLets take a minute and realize that not a single player from KOO was included in Riots top 20 player rankings going into worlds. A team in the finals had no members mentioned when the team they just crushed has like All their players ranked highly.
Alex is the name1 voteswhoever put the list together just didn't do their homework, during 2015 LCK spring split Koo beat SKT to be spring split champions and both Smeb and Kuro were arguably the best top and mid players in the LCK, smeb dominated the top lane with 
when he first came out and got sooooo many solo kills in top lane (hell even got a penta kill with 
during the summer split). Kuro dominated mid lane with the champion that he made popular and basically forced every team he played against to ban against him and then obviously Gorilla is great as he makes things for the team happen usually with 
or 
engages.
YCitizenSnipsY2 votesI think you have something wrong in that first part. I'm pretty sure that after GE's(KOO) collapse at IEM that they never recovered in the LCK and went on to lose to SKT 3-0.
Alex is the name1 votesGE Tigers (later Koo) won LCK SPRING split championship (before the MSI collapse) but yes during the SUMMER split when they changed to Koo they lost in 2-3 in playoffs to KT Rolster in semifinals who then lost to SKT in the summer split finals.
YCitizenSnipsY2 voteshttp://lol.gamepedia.com/2015_LCK_Spring/Playoffs
I think you might be thinking of something else but SKT 3-0ed GE in the spring 2015 finals.
Alex is the name1 votesoh my mistake you're correct, Koo finished fist after the round robin but did lose to skt in play offs.