Worlds Group A Predictions

LCK 1 SEED ROX TIGERS EU 1 SEED G2 ESPORTS NA 2 SEED COUNTER LOGIC GAMING IWC ALBUS LUNA

So I think mostly everyone around the World will pick the Rox Tigers to make it out of Groups as the 1ST seed and that too is also my prediction.
1ST SEED ROX TIGERS (5-1) PLAYER STATS/ NAME-KILLS-DEATHS-ASSISTS-CS SMEB 22-12-39-1778 PENAUT 29-9-39-840 CRY 28-9-32-1892 PRAY 21-10-42-1712 GORILLA 1-11-67-210

IWC I think this region is up and coming and has potential but I just don't see them advancing this year I have them at a 0% chance they will be the 2nd seed advancing from groups. They could take a game off CLG or Rox as in the past IWC teams have taken 1 game off the top seeds like CLG 2015 and Alliance 2014, but I don't see them winning 1 game this year.
4TH SEED ALBUS LUNA (0-6) PLAYER STATS/ NAME-KILLS-DEATHS-ASSISTS-CS SMURF 8-24-17-1339 PVP 3-16-23-606 KIRA 10-20-19-1547 AMIRACLE 10-19-17-1669 LIKKRIT 7-16-24-98

As for CLG they were great at MSI but they had around 3-4 games where they would be down 5-6K gold but would survive long enough to either win or lose the game based off the teamfights in the late game stage. I don't see the teams in this group letting CLG just stall out for late game.
3RD SEED COUNTER LOGIC GAMING ( 3-3) PLAYER STATS/ NAME-KILLS-DEATHS-ASSISTS-CS DARSHAN 19-15-22-1442 XMITHIE 12-12-35-711 HUHI 24-17-23-1639 STIXXAY 21-13-28-1860 APHROMOO 1-20-49-137

Honestly it was hard picking G2 over CLG as both teams are great but I do have CLG taking a game off G2 so 50/50 but overall G2 is my final pick 2ND SEED G2 ESPORTS (4-2) PLAYER STATS/ NAME-KILLS-DEATHS-ASSISTS-CS EXPECT 23-20-37-1411 TRICK 11-16-40-774 PERKZ 16-16-45-1713 ZVEN 29-14-25-1980 MITHY 3-10-62-179

Overall the bot-lane will be the match-up to watch in this group as we have 2 young Western ADC's Zven and Stixxay that have shown great promise on the big stages of MSI/Worlds, not to mention Pray and Gorillia.

Perkz isn't an aggressive mid so that benefits Huhi who isn't the most skilled or aggressive player himself so if their is a possibility to stall out games long enough that would be the lane to focus for CLG to get a Tie-Breaker with G2, if there is a tie-breaker between CLG and G2 I will pick CLG to be the 2ND seed.
Reason to think so. A. Trick has shown to be careless when invading that can put G2 in holes similar to MSI. B. Like I said Perkz is becoming more and more passive so they will allow CLG to get the other lanes ahead if only Huhi doesn't die too much in lane. C. Xmithie needs to be Aggressive against G2/Trick.

I don't see any top player being very effective with the exception of Smeb.

Players to watch out for X Expect- I think he will do his thing but overall I don't see him having good KDA in any game. I think he will have the most deaths in 1 game.

X Huhi- needs to pop off and do something other than lose lane each game and have the other 4 CLG members to bail him out 24/7. I think he will have the most kills in 1 game from this group stage.

Well that is it with my prediction on Group A. Thank you to who ever reads this and have a Good One!

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