What NA teams should do.

Loboros·3/19/2016, 4:03:17 AM·3 votes·1,548 views

It is really annoying, watching teams draft Koreans and Europeans and then under performing. Instead of grabbing the most skilled, get great players with great communication. Not only would that make games go better, but you could watch them stream and have fun together. But look at TSM, both s5 and s6. Huge Egos clashing this season, and lustboy last season. Yet, c9 in season 4 was amazing. They had a team of all NA talent, and even beat a korean team. That is the best thing that has happened for NA during a worlds with real competition. Teams should try to find some real, new NA talent.

17 Comments

TurquoiseYoshi3/19/2016, 4:22:25 PM3 votes

This problem is even worse for China.

LankPants3/19/2016, 6:47:02 AM1 votes

HotshotGG's already spelt this out, for American teams to be competitive they need to not play in America.

The NALCS is just very weak. There's no real competitive learning to be done there. If an NA team wants to actually be good they need to find a way to move away from NA and play in a more competitive league. CLG NA did try this in S2 and they were arguably the best NA team at the time, they just couldn't come anywhere near competing with the Koreans, CLG EU or M5.

iamleburk3/19/2016, 5:20:13 PM1 votes

Lol no. TSM is a coaching problem, the coach and owner are too retarded to figure out how to tell their dumbass team to listen to Yellowstar. NA you are almost required to have imports at this point. Only CLG has lackluster ones. IMT, C9, NRG, TL, even REN and FOX are almost entirely centered around their imports. NA players suck man, they get carried by the imports 90% of the team.

C9 Scott Free 3/19/2016, 8:02:32 PM1 votes

NA has talented players but we pay for college which means we can'.t focus on gaming or anything other than school which means are talent pool is really thin when it comes to people who are willing to take the E sports risk

Imperial Red3/19/2016, 9:03:28 PM1 votes

It's the problem Team Ember wants to try and solve. Teams would rather import talented players from other regions than work to nurture talent in NA.

Xantak3/19/2016, 9:52:09 PM1 votes

To be fair, LGD is riding a 4 game win streak, and MaRin has been performing really well.

TallyZrg3/24/2016, 11:53:13 PM1 votes

I definitely agree with you here.

There have been lots of studies done around "superstar teams" and they have found that if you have too many stars the team performs worse due to clashing egos. However they found that this is only true if the task the team is doing demands team work as a cohesive unit (LoL falls into this category).

The study says it is better for a team to have a couple of super stars which are backed up by exceptional players. You have clear leaders and communication increases exponentially among the team.

There was another study done with chickens where scientists separated chickens into two groups, average chickens and elite chickens to see if production of eggs would be affected using values from a mixture of elite and average chickens as a baseline. They found no change from the average chicken group, but when they looked at elite chicken group they found that they had killed eachother off until there was only 2-3 left due to the chickens trying to exert dominance.

Conclusion: Superstar teams do exponentially worse than non-superstar teams when the team needs to work as a cohesive unit. This conclusion can also be found in nature.

OmaGa43/19/2016, 4:07:32 AM1 votes

What talent? In NA? Are you [zombie-nunu-hearts] ?

YCitizenSnipsY3/29/2016, 3:57:55 AM1 votes

NA doesn't have the talent available to run a domestic team successfully internationally. Thats why these washed up EU/KR players beat out others for starting roster positions on the teams. Honestly it doesn't matter though, in season 5 worlds OG and C9 were the only teams from the west without a korean player in the roster. C9 didn't make it out of groups and OG got smoked by SKT.