by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 4, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
Clutch Gaming has been underestimated at every turn. Jatt famously said that even if Clutch managed to win the split, he would still doubt their quality as a team. A European star in the mid lane, three players from a defunct team, and the worst toplaner in NA – that...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
A lot of players have begun to question the player count of League of Legends, but this is a difficult thing to peg down. Some speculation has come from streamers, who frequently vent by blaming the game or developers, and some has come from veteran players upset at...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 2, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, Videogames
Late Saturday night, the League of Legends community was rocked by devastating news from Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng. Over the course of the weekend, Doublelift revealed that a terrible tragedy befell his family Saturday night. In an apparent act of grief, his brother...
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 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...
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