Erberk “Gilius” Demir is following a long tradition of European Junglers who have left the EU LCS for North America. Surprisingly, however, is that he followed his Schalke teammate Hampus “Fox” Myhre to the NA Challenger Series and joined eUnited. Humble to a fault, Gilius and I chat about why he made the move to …
Part 1 _________ Phoenix1 P1 had a much different start to this split than they did last year. The first half the split, they have regularly been considered one of the top tier teams in the league. The same problem with constant roster issues did not affect them for the majority of this split; …
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With every season and split of the North American League Championship Series, we anticipate, speculate and expect. The seasons rarely pan out exactly as one believes that they will, even the most lauded analysts find themselves surprised by one team or another. There are the NA giants: Cloud9, Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming. No matter how the …
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Right before the LCS weekend, we got to catch a quick interview with FlyQuest's jungler, Galen "Moon" Holgate where he talks about the current jungle meta, international competition, SKT and KT, as well as this upcoming weekend. _____ Hey Moon, how are you and the team doing after the recent break? Was it impactful …
In two weeks, the four best teams of Hearthstone’s premier team league will fight to split $135,000. Team Liquid, Luminosity Gaming, Virtus.pro and compLexity have survived the seven-week culling and are headed for Burbank, March 16-18, leaving a lot of great teams to watch from the sidelines. And while there will always be times to …
It's easy to overhype LCS league leaders. The backlash from the franchise fans, combined with our own desire to be internationally dominant, often lead us into overinflated narratives. This, combined with how much harder it is to identify unpunished mistakes for analysts, builds opinions often detached from reality. Come Worlds, these judgments do not survive …
A Korean folk tale tells of Kings and Queens that traversed on a "royal road", a sacred road where only rulers may pass. Whilst traveling on the road, they were said to be completely invisible. A mimicked story comes from ancient Persia where king Darius the Great constructed a “royal road” where couriers would peddle …
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Written by Josh Raven ______ Predicting the eventual champion of the upcoming IEM Katowice seems like an almost impossible task. The guest list contains more potential champions than it does ‘filler teams’, and some of those expecting to challenge late into the playoff stage won’t even make it out of groups. Katowice brings together …
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It has been rough several months. Mean Streets of Gadgetzan wasn’t the dynamic tug-of-war that its concept suggested, where the three crime factions use their special mechanics to vie for dominance of the Goblin capital. The bitter reality turned out to be an aggro oppression, dictated by a handful of one drops and highlander decks …
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Bonjour, Comment allez-vous? Hello! ca va tres bien, et vous? (Hello! It’s going well, and yourself?) Hopefully the flight was well? How is Vegas treating you guys so far? It was a 12 hour flight, so it was extremely long. It went good, I was playing on my laptop with uNKOE during …
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