Unexpected LCS Games and a Little WoW
League of Legends World Championship First Day
I was watching the replays of the League of Legends LCS World Championship and boy were there some interesting games. Actually, I only watched 2 of the games but they were fun to see – TSM vs RNG and CLG vs G2. I have to say I was surprised with the outcomes a bit though.
With TSM scoring the top seed from North America, I truly thought they would put up a better showing against RNG, the 2nd team from China, but RNG looked pretty good. TSM has been pretty dominant recently in NA and to see them falter makes me worried for all North American teams, but then, they haven’t had much experience internationally. Further making things weird was the restart/ban of Aurelion Sol heading into the match. I’m not really sure what happened with this since the VOD didn’t include the details, but it looks like the teams were all picked and things were set to go when they found some kind of bug with Aurelion Sol and had to redo everything – bans and picks. That may have had an impact since TSM moved on to take Lee Sin who had been selected by RNG in the “non-game”, and Hecarim was chose by RNG as his replacement jungler. With Hec, Mixg went on to a 3-1 game and ran all the place after a slow start.
The big pick, though, came in the support role. Mata selected Alistar and was unstoppable. Ali went 1/2/15 and was involved in 16 out of the 17 kills that RNG threw down. He was clearly the MVP of the match. He singled out Doublelift without error and drove him into the ground – making him go 1-5. Bjergsen and Svenskeren tried their best to push things early, but even though they knocked down a bunch of turrets, it only managed to slow down the RNG victory.
The other game, CLG vs G2 went unexpectedly as well. With 3 of the top 20 players in the worlds on G2, you would expect them to dominate, but they had issues. Zven and mithy, the 16th and 17th ranked players combined for a surprising 0/6/4 in bot lane against Stixxay and aphromoo who were involved in 86% and 93% of the 14 kills CLG threw down. Trick (#14) and Expect drew first blood but after that they just didn’t seem to be able to put much together to make a difference. Instead it was Xmithie in jungle for CLG that ruled the game with a 6/0/5 line, and he ran all over the place without much opposition.
On the whole, both games were fun to watch and I look forward to more exciting matches.
A Walk in Wow
I haven’t posted much about WoW since the Legion expansion pretty much just because I am still just getting my feet wet. So far I am enjoying what I see and think Blizzard did a great job. Everyone has been raving about the world quests too so I know I’ve got something to look forward to. For now though, I’m starting my journey through the Emerald Dreamway and ran into this beast.
He looks pretty menacing doesn’t he?