by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 2, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
After Cloud9’s defeat at the hands of Team Liquid, and TSM’s defeat at the hands of Clutch Gaming, no one expected the semifinals to be easy. Liquid and Clutch didn’t play like a fourth and sixth place team either. Team Liquid continued to crush their way through the...
by Jordan Love | Mar 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
This was the first NA LCS split since Riot implemented franchising last year and it's gone tremendously. So well in fact, that Riot has announced the EU LCS will be following suit and will begin franchising next year. The EU's summer split will be unaffected, but next...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The debate over esports being classified as sports isn’t going anywhere. In fact, as esports continue to gain popularity, it will probably become even more heated. Most of the anger comes from the fact that games like League of Legends have the word ‘sport’ in their...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 29, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
Semifinals: Team Liquid vs Echo Fox Echo Fox didn’t just beat Team Liquid the last time they met, they beat them by putting a Yassuo in the top lane. It doesn’t get much more humiliating than that. It didn’t help that Liquid simply didn’t do their part in trying to...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 28, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
No one would have imagined that of all the teams to take down TSM, it would be Clutch Gaming in the quarterfinals. TSM’s loss against Clutch breaks a record five years old and ten seasons running. Created seven years ago, TSM has become nearly synonymous with the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Last year was probably the first time teams started developing solid alternates or substitutes for lanes. Cloud9 and Immortals added a number of members behind the scenes, perhaps after seeing what happened to CLG. After Stixxay became injured, CLG had to manically...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
If anyone had said that the top three teams in the NA LCS – CLG, TSM, and Cloud9 – would all be out of the League of Legends 2018 Spring split, we would have thought they were crazy, but here we are. Team Liquid, Clutch Gaming, 100 Thieves, and Echo Fox are all that...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Before the split even started, OpTic’s lineup was one that seemed strange and hard to pull off. Finishing in ninth place has helped confirm that the already troubled start hasn’t gone well. According to ESPN, now that OpTic Gaming has realized this, they are benching...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
Quarterfinals: Team Liquid vs Cloud9 Cloud9 are not looking great. With the exception of their most recent win against Clutch Gaming, they have just finished a four-game losing streak. Two of those matches were against Team Liquid, who they now have to face again in a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 21, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
The 2018 League of Legends Spring split had some of the most chaotic final numbers of any split ever. Competition was incredibly fierce, but as the season came to end it became clear that the teams that would stand above the rest were those with members who could...
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