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Group A rundown part 2

AHQ esports, the second attender from the South East Asian had strong performances overall in their Region. Even though TPA are on top of them, they are still good individually and weren't easy to defeat (in the GPL at least).

Top: Prydz

Jungle: NAZ

Mid: westdoor

ADC: GarnetDevil

Support: GreenTea

Prydz is with Greentea the only remaining player from the Original AhQ roster. He is a very aggresive laner and tries to get his kill early on or just pressure his opponent away, that's why he is the 3rd carry of the team but that didnt work so well for the last seasons. Also his championpool is all about carrying, wether its late game or early game. NAZ is from what i see a little bit like Meteos. farming a lot but then trying to have an impact later on transitioning into a carry position. He does not make many plays eary, relying on his team to carry. Westdoor is someone who waits to scale good enough to just oneshot the enemy carry. He is the type that loves to play assasins in every matchup. The Meta right now just fits him perfectly. Garnetdevil is the star of AHQ. He achieved very high ranks in nearly every Region, from Taiwan even to Korea. He is known for having impeccable impact for his Team as he is standing behind the front line and does all the damage by having pretty good positional play. GreenTea is someone who is making plays. Give him thresh, he lands hooks after hooks. He plays a very aggressive type of support, which means he isnt so comfortable when he plays more of a passive support. He is very good at creating picks and giving his team the opportunity to pressure the enemy team by that created pick.

AHQ strengths: They try in everyway to end the game early. They are good at that and they will even let small objectives like dragon away, just to dive you 5v2 at the bottom. And then get 2 towers for themselves and snowball from that hard AHQ weakness: Force them into a uncomfortable position (and play it out seriously) they dont know what to do next. Tower? Maybe toooo risky. Teamfight? Bad Teamfight in the early mid stages or not the composition for it. And there comes anoother weakness. They cant handle the late game pressure. They are used to end games before the 30 minute mark. or even the 25 minute mark but until that point, they have a proper lead that they wont give away easily.

Dark Passage, the undefeated Kings of Turkey. They dominate the Turkish region for about 3 splits. But the Reason for that is that is that the Turkish eSports is kinda new and several other reasons

Top: FabFabulous

Jungle: Crystal M

Mid: Naru

ADC HolyPhoenix

Support (Substitute):Touch

I cant say much about that team. The only things I can say about that Team is that their Team synergy is good and they play very aggressive styles with forcing out objectives and kills. HolyPhoenix is the one who gets hyped up a lot because of his good position. Naru is one type of a playmaker a pick oriented playstyle out of the laning phase. Crystal M is someone who plays all types of Junglers. Touch is just supporting lel and FabFabulous is a versatile Toplaner. The only weakness would be that they are not on the same level with mechanics as the international stage overall. They more like "amateurs" but a lot better?.

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LoL #worlds hype!

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Group A rundown part 1

For group A its pretty obvious why I put White over EDG, but i have to admit that I am still switching from AHQ and Dark Passage's group Placement.

First of All Samsung White: Samsung White is my personal Favourite for this Tournament and I hope that they will get their first Premier Tournament Title, as they were always around Top 3. To begin with: The Players.

Top: Looper

Jungle: Dandy

Mid: PawN

ADC: imp

Support: Mata

The players in General are all insanely Talented individually for one exception which is Looper. He is lets say just a mediocre Top Laner. To begin with him, he is solid, but his Laning and his Teamfighting plus his decisionmaking is not as good as other Toplaners. The good thing is though, his Championpool, which is big. He is the Weak link of the Team but not the one who is the main reason why Samsung White had not won any Premier Tournaments. Dandy is one hell of a Jungler. His Map Pressure is insane in the early game and he is helping his carries a lot. Like many other Jungler his late game is all about supporting and utilizing himself for Teamfights. Also his early Dragon Control is very good. PawN is Dade Junior. Nearly the Same Championpool, but he is more of a Utility AP Mid for Team Fights and concentrates to pressure away his opposing Midlaner, rather than just farming and waiting for a good Opportunity. Imp and Mata. Nothing much I can say, those two are laning Beasts and hard to play against. Forcing early fights in the lane is a bad idea. They dont need any help from the Jungler, but they will force you to burn everything on them just to survive some Trades. They will force the opposing team to Focus them in the early Game. Imp's Mechanical strenght and Mata's peeling makes them nearly unstoppable.

Samsung White's strength: Their Early control is massive. They get with ease both dragons before the 20 minute mark and they try to make picks and plays and force you to make mistakes after mistakes. Their coach is on the same level as them and they won with him the opportunity for worlds 2013, which means you will see a lot less mistakes after some bashing from Homme. Also when they get the lead and maintain it until the 20 Minute mark, it is hard to comeback against them, except...

Samsung White's weakness: Their lategame decisionmaking is sometimes questionable. Another problem is their midgame transition, midgame map movements and their vision control. The time they may lose their lead, they start going on tilt, losing teamfights, getting picked and eventually lose all their objectives and their game. Also they are very very cocky when it comes to their own terms of skill. I dont know who their main shotcaller is, but I sometimes have the feeling, that PawN is doing what he wants

Edwarg Gaming or EDG, a strong Chinese team that dominated their region like no one else and very known faces:

Top: Koro1

Jungle: Clearlove

Mid: Xiao U

ADC: NaMei

Support: Fzzf

Individually they seem to be very strong, but to be honest, China is to far behind in the Meta and they seem to like Pick comps, plus they variety of champions are big, but Korea and Western teams will have it easy just to outpressure them  in every way. Koro1 seems to play the old Top lane Square of Doom in that was high prioritised in early season 4. He just farms a lot and tries to snowball from teamfights. Clearlove, the old jungler from the old World elite is the main shotcaller from what I see and also the one who is looking for opportunities to get Dragons and Barons. His championpool is small but you cant force him out of his comfort zone when he picks one of his favourites. Xiao U is a solid midlaner and is a good teamfighter. He has a passive playstyle but can snowball hard with his team. Namei and Fzzf are the Uzi and Tabe of China. Agressive, high lane pressure and good mechanically. I cant say much about this team because i didnt watch many games. Some vague strenghts and weaknesses: They seem to be good at teamfighting and pressuring early towers and lane pressuring. But it seems they are so easy to get outpressured. China also seemed to be one of the weaker Regions and everybody somehos has some chances against them. thats is for part one. part two inc later.

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WORLDS TOMMOROW! HYPE! Plus my Group Picks and explanation

Worlds starts tommorow, today is the day of the Preview show! Im so excited (I just cant hide it hehe) and theres probably much to say about. First of all, Riot hyped us all up with their Documentary Styled 3 Part video "Road to worlds". Watch it, its definetly worth it! No telling much about that I am going to tell you how the Groups are looking like and why i think which team are belonged to its placing.

Group A: Samsung Galaxy White, Edward Gaming, AHQ eSports, Dark Passage

Group B: Team solo Mid, Star Horn Royal Club, Taipei Assasins, SK Gaming

Group C: Samsung Galaxy Blue, Fnatic, OMG, LMQ Group D: Alliance, Cloud 9, Najin White Shield, Kabum eSports. So my Predictions for the groups will be on this Thread and my Rundown on a seperate one because it would be too much at first.

Group A, the Easy win Group:

 Samsung Galaxy White

 Edward Gaming

 AHQ eSports

 Dark Passage

Group B, No Korean, no Problem:

Team Solo Mid

Taipei Assasins

 Star Horn Royal Club

 SK Gaming

Group C, Death Group:

 Samsung Blue

 Fnatic

 OMG

 LMQ

Group D, Icantdecidewhotopickfirstorsecondbecausestrongteams:

 Alliance

 Cloud 9

 Najin White Shield

 Kabum eSports

Rundown is coming soon!

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The upcoming world finals in October and the qualified Teams, a sum up and maybe a prediction.

Herrow guys, today im going to tell you about the upcoming season 4 world championship in League of Legends, that will be held in Parts of South East Asia and mainly in Korea.

So the people who watched and followed the Regions from China to Korea up until EU and NA notice how strong the team got over and over. They made big changes in terms of team management, roster and so on. But what I want to point out is, that the teams seeded at first place are for no reason at the first place at their respective Region. What we know now is that the number ones are right now Samsung Blue from OGN Korea, TheAlliance from EU LCS and Team Solo mid from NA LCS, who dethroned the former Kings of their region. The last number one seed will be determined after the Regional Finals of LPL China. As far as I know, Edward Gaming or EDG are the favourites for the number one seed. They won both Spring and Summer split and qualified automatically for the fight for the number one representant for China. If EDG wins or any other competitor of the other two qualifiers from the other four teams in China, which will be Star Horn Royal Club, LGD gaming, Invictus Gaming and Team OMG, will get the no1 seed or may dethrone the Kings (which in this case happened to nearly every region) on the 7th September. (My personal prediction for the Chinese Regional Finals: EGD for first, SHRC for second and OMG for third. Why? You will see soon why)

But lets not forget the other teams who qualified for that tournament and there comes the explanation of the Worlds Format and my personal prediction.

Its pretty simple and by the way the best Tournament format Riot could use fort hat tournament. So there are 3 Team pools:

Pool  1: The Kings of their Regions; China, NA, EU and Korea’s first Seeded are put in that pool. The Main reason behind that is, that there ist he same chance for everybody and for every Region. The first placed aren’t „superior“ to the other placed anymore. Remember the format of the last years: Every team who was first at their region automatically started from the Quarter Finals and the Group Stage was awfully unfair because only 4 team could advance.. out of 10. Pool  2: This is not how you expect it with „every second seeded team is in this pool“. Nope, they made it dependent on the Results of the last World Champioship. That means the finalist from the previous worls have a better seeding than the other teams below. In that case a chinese and a korean team were both finalist, SK Telecom T1 and Team Royal Club. Therefore 2 Chinese and 2 Korean teams are put in that pool.  The other 4 teams are the Runner Up of the EU and NA LCS and two other teams from the South East Asian Region. Pool 3: The rest and two wildcard teams from other Regions. That means the 3rd place from the EU and NA LCS and Wildcards from the CIS/Turkey and Brasil. Nothing much to Explain The Groups:  There will be 4 groups and the teams will be chosen one by one from the pool. The teams from the first pool will be spreaded into the four groups. None of the teams can meet each other in the group stages. Next is the second and the third teams will be choosen from the 2nd pool. The drawing is like following: The 8 teams will be drawn out from a urn but there is one thing to keep in mind. They will draw the teams so that no team has to face the other Teams from their own region. Which means Samsung blue, Samsung white and Najin Black Shield for example can’t be put into one group. The Last step is to spread the Teams from the 3rd pool into the 4 groups but with the same idea like the second step, where team from the same region can’t meet each other in the group stages. My Prediction and teams to watch: This year is full of good teams but who really will win that cup and the 1 million $ prize money? To be honest the competition is very high. For me the Teams like EDG, The Samsung Teams look like nobody can beat them because they just dominated their Region from month to month. But the other regions stepped up a lot. Dark Passage looks Strong and their AD Carry seems to be one kind of a star. Also in NA and EU, Alliance and TSM looked very strong. TSM may had problems to deal with, but with the help of Locodoco and Lustboy and the management overall, they look like they can hold up with the other Regions and are even better than some teams in Korea and EU. But thou shall not forgeth the Alliance. A strong team picked up by the Midlaner Froggen. The Team had to struggle for a little bit at the beggining of their formation, but after that they looked like no one could beat them and where also other teams could struggle beating them, we will see.

But I still think that no one would ever reach the same level Koreans have right now, even if the other regions would change their mindset now! My Top 4 for this Championship will be: Samsung Galaxy White, Alliance, Samsung Blue and EDG in that order.

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My Days at gamescom and how it was part 3/3

This is my last entry about the day was at gamescom. I think there is not much to say because the only thing that happened was LCS there xD I didnt play any game just watching the Finals between Alliance and Fnatic. But i dont want to be such a douche so im going to tell you what else I did besides watching the game.

So first, I didnt buy an entrance card for that day, so I had to wait to get an afternoon entrance card. Normall we would have waited about an hour to get in, but i think the managers of gamescom were a little bit stressed about the huge Saturday and learned from their own mistakes. So they split up the waiting queue in 2 halls and we managed to get in after only 10 minutes of waiting. Also I have to mention that I went there with 3 of my friends and one borrowed me the money to get me the ticket. This friend also got an entrance card for free because someone was like: Yo, wanna have a ticket? Nobody would have said no to be honest :D When we got in we split up and one went to "The Evil Within" and the other was going with me to the ESL One. He is a big CS:GO fan and it was the Final between Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic. The results and some pictures are here: http://www.esl-one.com/csgo/. We didnt manage to get in and watch the action, but we then met a friend of him and his girlfriend. We all went to LCS and we all wanted to watch it. The crowd was again huge we had to wait a full game to get in. They didnt want to wait any further and they went out to watch it there. I managed to get in after the long wait and also got a place to sit down. It was an amazing series overall and how it was will be again in seperate post. I could have gone into a full best of 5 series but ironically Alliance won 3-1 against Fnatic. The funny thing was we already had to go because the Tradefair was already closing a 7 pm and it was about 20:30 or something. Many of us didnt care and we waited to get some autographs and pictures with the Pros. We couldn't talk much because they had to go and normally we should've gone too. Still, the winner Ceremony was awesome and I got a picture with Soaz, Wickd, Tabzz and Nyph first.

(Shook is looking behind so i count that as a taken picture with him lol) The security couldn't let us have a photo with the other half, which was sad because i wanted to have a Picture with Froggen and Rekkles too. Sad day but before I went out of the gamescom I also got a Picture with xPeke who was doing a small fanmeet for himself and Deficio.

Fnc xPeke and a handsome boy behind us lel

Me and Riot Deficio, one of the casters.

Well after that many of us were also waiting for the other Players to get out but they didnt come out sadly and yeah. I took some last pictures when I went out and looking at them makes me happy but also sad.

It was so packe first but after the closing times it was just empty. They built down everything and yeah. If i had helped one of those exhibitors they would've gave me free stuff :( next time maybe! And yeah, the next time the gamescom will open will be on the 5.08.2015 until 9.08.2015.

In my opinion this is the most brave but suicidal move from Gamescom because this is the time where either the Holidays of one state in germany ends or begins. What the Fuck gamescom, they really want to break their own record of visitors. I bet a 100$ that there will be atleast 430k visitors in total, maybe even 500k visitors... omg this will be so fucking full. I hope they ope up some extra halls, otherwise nobody is going to get somewhere because of the mass of people around them. Yeah I think that's all what i can tell you about my experience there. Im thinking of getting there next year.. as a tradevisitor maybe, who knows? :)

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My Days at gamescom and how it was part 2/3

So this is about the time I had on Friday! I hesitated buying the entrance card for Saturday and that day was the most demanded one as always. But well, Saturday would've been my day where I would have grabbed as many goodies as I could've get... but I didnt lel. Also I hate people. Back to the Topic, this time I could easily get in because i somehow managed to take an entrance nobody was thinking of taking, which is on the other side very funny to be honest :D I straight rushed to hall 8 to watch the game I was waiting to watch live in front of the stage of the EULCS Alliance vs SK Gaming. I was meeting friends so we watched it together. Before that Series we watched the last 2 games of Fnatic vs Roccat and it went into a full best of 5 series.

The crowd was huge for that game! It was high attended because Alliance is next to Fnatic the most famous European Team and everybody wanted to see Froggen and Co. rekking SK gaming.

And as expected it was a very exciting Series to watch (Details about the Series will be on a seperate Post with analysis and all the stuff). Well, we didnt manage to get some Autographs because my friends had to go early and my train was also arriving soon, so sad :( I think that's it for part 2, part 3 will be written later. Cya SoonTM

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My 3 Days at gamescom and how it was part 1/3

Herrow guys! Today im going to tell you about my days at gamescom in cologne, how it was and what was new from the last years.

So first of all i was there at thursday, friday and sunday and as expected it was full. Statistics say that about 335.000 visitors have been visiting the gamescom and that's a lot! About 2 years ago "only" 200.000 people visited the tradefair and it somehow the amount of people visiting gamescom nearly doubled in just one year which is impressive. But well, it was pretty difficult to get in there. Thousands of people were already waiting at the entrances and the security managed to handle the amount, that was just waiting for the entry call. I also have to admit the good work the security did because last year it was a big mess. Last years organisation with the crowd was a mess. About 5-6 thousand people were sitting and waiting in a hall since 7-8 am in the morning and were waiting 2-3 hours to get in. Even though it was an amazing experience and you could make friends there easily, I felt uncomfortable there. But well, after getting in and waiting for about 20 minutes I was lurking around the gamescom looking what's up. Again, as expected it was just full. everywhere you saw like a pack of people waiting for one game for about 2-3 hours. What didnt surprise me was that Nintendo, Riot Games and Fifa had a lot of people waiting to get in an test or play the game but what surprised me the most was that Call of Duty or Battlefield were not as high attended that the previous years. Still, the amount of people attending there was awesome and packed. After looking around I finally went where the eSports happened: Hall 9 and Hall 8. ESL One with CS:GO and some small tournaments by twitch at Hall 9. I could feel the excitement just by walking by the Area. Wow! Later on I could meet some Pro players like Carn and the Cloud 9 squad from CS:GO. I also talked a little bit with the ESL guys there and bought my lovely Alliance Jersey from the shop. If i had more money, i would have also bought the Cloud 9 Jersey and some Hoodies. They looked very nice to be honest and I hope to get them next year! But Least but not last I went from there to Hall 8 where i was intended to go in the first place. On the way i met some funny guy who cosplayed, guess what, Kitty Cat Katarina! :D

He told me that he was Cosplaying Battle Bunny Riven last year. God damn and it was all because of a bet he made up with his friends. Brave!

Getting to hall 8 I went straight to the LCS, where Millenium and Supa Hot Crew were fighting for a Spot in the LCS and the other Team had to go to the Relegation. The games were Pretty one sided, although I was expecting very exciting matches but a sweep. Oh well. It went to 3-0 in favor of Supa Hot Crew and yeah. After those games I could grab some autographs and it was already end of the day 1 for Private visitors. Before I went out I talked with some Riot employees a little bit and informed me about what they do at gamescom and yeah. I forgot to tell: Riot Games had about 40% of the whole Hall 8 which means: 20% for the LCS alone(!!) and 20% for the entertainment Area, where you could play community games with Riot, play on the new summoners rift and the best thing was, the whole Area of Riot game was themed of the new Summnoners Rift! The new Baron, Blue Buff, Dragon and Red Buff, everything was there as a Big Statue (sorry for no pics) and that was a huge plus for me. What I was missing was a Merchandise Store. Sad that they didnt have any merchandise to sell, but to that, you had to earn the stuff you wanted to get. Riot did an overall good job on that Gamescom! Well, that's it for part 1, part 2 inc later!

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Intro and whats awaits us

Herrow guys! This is my first entry of my blog on tumblr. Im not experienced so if there are any mistakes made, feel free to PM me and give me some advice (in a proper and constructive way please) and yeah, here we go! Im a 18 year old boy from germany, soontm 19, and I love esports and love everything what is related to it. I like the Japanese and  So if there are any Questions, feel free to ask! In this blog I will try to provide you the newest information in the world of League of Legends in terms of esports and ingame changes. That means I will run down the latest patch and predict what will happen with the game and I will run down the latest games. Im also going to provide some information about the upcoming events in the esports scene from Starcraft 2 to Dota2 (Im still new to CS:GO and Hearthstone, sorry for that). When the right time comes I want to predict the Winners and Losers of the Groupstage from the League of Legends World Championship and explain my decisions by providing informations about the teams.

My next entry will be about the Gamescom cologne, my expierience with Riot Games at gamescom (no i dont work for them) and what they did good or bad. After that I want to provide you some insight of the games from the EU LCS Regionals and I'll try to provide some in depth analysis of every single game (maybe with pictures, we will see). I think thats it, thanks for reading guys! NOTE: All this im doing here is not professional. Its hobby based so you might find some mistakes on formatting and also explaining the stuff. You are not safe from mistakes from my side so keep that in mind! I wont take any requests, but critiques (constructive and proper as I said before) are important for me to improve myself and this blog. Thanks for reading, see you next time! EDIT: Words, English is bad.