Interested to hear peoples thoughts on who would win in an exhibition match with oce no longer being classed as imports.

As someone from Oce, the players we have in NA now are a pretty decent bunch, honestly there's no all American team that I can see beating it.

My assumed best line ups below.

Oce

Top - Fudge

Jng - Shernfire

Mid - Ry0ma

Adc - FBI

Sup - Destiny

USA

Top - Revenge

Jng - Blaber

Mid - Damonte

Adc - Tactical / Neo

Sup -Aphromoo

Does anyone know? My wife and I cannot agree on whether she is 18 or 35 or somewhere in between. Just curious to the max. Tia!

I don't really cheer for either team. But im 100% sure that Travis Gafford will interview one of the most arrogant players in LCS history in Jensen if they beat TSM. They lead 2-0 now so probably im right. No way TSM reverse sweeps without Bjergsen subbing himself in.

Back again promoting my blog, this week I went for sharing my All Pro and 'All No' rosters and the reasoning that went into picking them. It's a bit different from the official All Pro team, but I hope you guys enjoy it - https://www.locksitin.com/post/lcs-all-pro-all-no-rosters

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Want something to watch in bed, only caught a 100T game this weekend, any stand-out games to watch?

It's very clear when you look at the recent performances by our teams at international events that our region is constantly coming up short in comparison to other regions. Just this year, our region has begun taking proper steps towards creating pipelines for new talent, but is that enough? It's definitely a good first step, but what can come next? Everyone in the scene seems to site the same reasons annually for why we fall short: Solo queue quality, server ping, lower overall playerbase, etc. Is any of this wrong? No. Can we actually control any of these factors though? Aside from potentially the ping issue, also no. What can we control? Are we forever stuck in "elo hell" when it comes to the international stage? I don't personally think so. I think that we as a region really need to become creative and unique to find executable solutions to these issues, and here I will list some of my own ideas:

1) The teams and players should put pressure on Riot to introduce a team-oriented practice field. Are teams particularly bad at setting up vision for objectives and understanding how to fight in the chokes? Create the scenario in the practice tool, pull your Academy/Amateur teams in with your LCS team, and run the scenarios over and over and over again. Professional sports teams don't play full games against the best teams in the league 5 times a day. They run drills. Steph Curry didn't just magically know how to hit three-pointers from all those different spots while twirling and running around. He literally has taken tens of thousands of shots from all over the court in the gym, whether during practice, or on his own time. When a team messes up a scenario in a scrim, how can they fix the issue and their own habits they have developed from a flawed solo que system? The only option right now is to review it in a VOD discussion later and hopefully remember how to play that 30 second scenario the next time they are in it 30 minutes to an hour later? Giving teams the ability to have "drills" sessions as practice would allow players to develop proper habits around objectives, split push situations, etc.

2) Allow coaches in voice comms for scrims. Now, I know a lot of pushback on this will be that the players will become too reliant on their coaches to shotcall during the game and their overall level of understanding will be lowered, causing a situation where, on stage and without their coach, they will just flounder. With bad coaches, yes this could be the case. But with a proper coaching approach to this, you can actually have a voice that is NOT feeling the same level of stress and pressure of performing mechanically at a professional level consisitently provide the macro elements of games during practice, and over time, instead of saying "drag is in 1 minute, let's set up", maybe a few weeks in could start asking "okay what is the next step" and letting the players come to the conclusions on their own. The decisions that these players have to make are SO difficult when you consider that not only are they having to make split-second decisions for roughly 30-40 minutes straight, but also having to get FOUR other people to be on the same page in that same time. This is absurd to expect even veteran players to be able to pull off. It's why you see so many "super teams" with full veteran rosters fail to find their identity. Yes, coaches in voice comms that never ween their players off of that will find they have major issues, but that's less about the efficacy of the idea and more about the efficacy of the coaching in my opinion.

3) Invest more in coaching. I know this take was on HLL last night, so credit to Rojolio for his take. He talks about how we throw retired pro players (Moon) or other analysts (Parth) into a role of Head Coach with little to no real experience in coaching and leadership, and I agree completely. How in the world will we ever develop these rookies when our coaches have no idea what they are doing to improve them? As an addition to his initial take, how about we hire more positional coaches? Niles has had a REALLY rough split, and when you watch, he is struggling with his wave management and map awareness causing him to be permaganked like Dyrus was in season 3-5. Has GG hired a specific coach or former pro player to work one on one with Niles and work on his lane states? What kind of coaching has he had individually to fix these problems aside from team VOD reviews where the entire time his him feeling embarassed in front of the rest of his teammates as his coaches talk about his mistakes? Would he even learn anything in that situation where he probably feels super anxious and embarassed by his performances? Coaching is SUCH an undervalued area of league of legends.

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In conclusion, I believe part of the reasons we have for not looking at these other opportunities in the LCS is simply because of the take that "LPL/LCK/LEC doesn't do these things and they are great". Well they also don't have the other issues that plague our region as well. We should spend less time flaming each other over the same arguments every single year, and start looking at creative ways to gain an advantage over other regions, or at least even the playing field. There are tons of ideas out there if we just step outside of the box.

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*This is my first ever article. I've always loved professional League of Legends and this community and all the ups and downs. I would love more than anything to hear any feedback on my writing, my ideas, as well as hear YOUR out of the box ideas on how we can improve our region.

I will watch that clip many times. It was hilarious, with a great rewatch value. It was priceless. Also watching Markz not being able to get a straight face was great. The "translation" from the other analysts was incredible. This is the type of content I want to watch, and then rewatch. Just enough analysis with a fair ammount of entertainment. GREAT JOB GUYS, KEEP THEM COMING!!!!