Official LoL Worlds 2016 discussion thread

Changed mine slightly today.

Group 1:

ROX - Strong team
G2 - Way better than CLG before worlds, probably better than ANL


Group 2:
FW - They seem to be one of the most consistently strong teams so I'm going on a limb that they'll manage to 5/1 or 6/0 or something.
C9 - Solo lane meta & Impact makes them extremely strong. If Impact can continue to do well then I can see them getting far since they've had some time to fine tune where they were going wrong.

Could be any result. Going to say that IMAY will lack the patience to deal with Impact and then struggle to continue from there & that SKT will do average and be knocked out in a tiebreaker or something.

Group 3
AHQ - Westdoor's champ pool can't be exploited any and AN's Jinx is probably perma-ban worthy considering she'll be in a very good spot on the worlds patch. Expecting them to possibly make semis this year.
EDG - Typically a strong team but I'm going to guess they'll falter on macro plays against the top teams like many Chinese teams have tended to do.

I have no confidence in INTZ or H2K being able to stand up on an international level.

Group D

TSM - Very few mistakes in their play before they went to bootcamp, could be near perfect going into groups and the chances are they'll only improve more as time goes on.
SSG - Expecting them to reach quarters but not get past that.

RNG have a habit of falling apart even though they're extremely good individual players and Splyce should just play to improve because they have no hope of getting out of groups.

 

[jackthehackm8]

G2 is better imo than what most people think.

Also agree on your INTZ and H2K picks, I don't think they're going to go far.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

Changed mine slightly today.

Group 1:

ROX - Strong team
G2 - Way better than CLG before worlds, probably better than ANL


Group 2:
FW - They seem to be one of the most consistently strong teams so I'm going on a limb that they'll manage to 5/1 or 6/0 or something.
C9 - Solo lane meta & Impact makes them extremely strong. If Impact can continue to do well then I can see them getting far since they've had some time to fine tune where they were going wrong.

Could be any result. Going to say that IMAY will lack the patience to deal with Impact and then struggle to continue from there & that SKT will do average and be knocked out in a tiebreaker or something.

Group 3
AHQ - Westdoor's champ pool can't be exploited any and AN's Jinx is probably perma-ban worthy considering she'll be in a very good spot on the worlds patch. Expecting them to possibly make semis this year.
EDG - Typically a strong team but I'm going to guess they'll falter on macro plays against the top teams like many Chinese teams have tended to do.

I have no confidence in INTZ or H2K being able to stand up on an international level.

Group D

TSM - Very few mistakes in their play before they went to bootcamp, could be near perfect going into groups and the chances are they'll only improve more as time goes on.
SSG - Expecting them to reach quarters but not get past that.

RNG have a habit of falling apart even though they're extremely good individual players and Splyce should just play to improve because they have no hope of getting out of groups.

Love the Flash Wolves pick. Flash Wolves are so underrated and not afraid of anybody. I don't think C9 makes it out though. SKT too strong.

Think I'm changing my original pick from SKT/C9 to SKT/FW

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

Worlds starts tonight!!! get hype!!

 

[S]

So far today:

CLG v G2 - CLG win
ROX v ANX - ROX win
H2K v AHQ - AHQ win
INTZ v EDG - INTZ win
SSG v SPY
TSM v RNG

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

EU LOL

FREEU

@SellerMan added standings to OP.

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Here were my original predictions after one modification (Picked FW over C9)

My predictions to advance pre tournament:

Group A: Rox & CLG
Group B: SKT & FW
Group C: EDG & AHQ
Group D: TSM & Samsung

 

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Fixed up the OP.

We'll update the standings daily.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

Could have the first huge upset brewing, INTZ leading EDG right now.

INTZ beats EDG!!! WOW!!! Wild card team taking out a team that went undefeated in China's Summer Split.

TSM loses already lol. Doublelift shitting the bed at worlds again so far.

 

[jackthehackm8]

Could have the first huge upset brewing, INTZ leading EDG right now.

INTZ beats EDG!!! WOW!!! Wild card team taking out a team that went undefeated in China's Summer Split.

TSM loses already lol. Doublelift shitting the bed at worlds again so far.

blame the remake /s
Watching eu 0-3 first groups and the wild card team beating lpl got me speechless

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

blame the remake /s
Watching eu 0-3 first groups and the wild card team beating lpl got me speechless

INTZ winning shocked me, can't say I'm surprised EU was ass though.

 

[jackthehackm8]

INTZ winning shocked me, can't say I'm surprised EU was ass though.

G2 -___-

 

[hearthstoneguy1991]

CLG will still choke.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

CLG will still choke.

Not really a choke when they weren't expected to do much anyway.

 

Obviously Skt, Edg and Rng are favorites. Tsm looked very good in their first two games. C9 got a taste of what Skt can do to you.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

Classic CLG lol

 

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That C9 comeback.

Impact played amazingly also.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

Another EU throw. Pathetic lol

 

[Volta]

Haven't been watching every game so far but I've been pretty busy. i have watched the SKT games so far and I think they're crushing it right now.

imo they should stick with Bengi instead of Blank for now. Bengi had a good game vs C9 and Blank made some poor decisions, and let's not even talk about his flash.

Pretty stoked for SKT vs FW tonight.

 

[I Bleed Duke Blue]

CLG just dumpstered Rox

And FW beat SKT lmao

 

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FW 5-0 vs KR teams.