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You’ve watched your favorite NA teams slug it out for the last 11 weeks
in the LCS. Top teams have fallen, new teams have risen, and comebacks
have been made. Now, the top six teams are set to slug it out in the
playoffs. The quarterfinals will happen from the comfort of the NA LCS
Studio, but for the semifinals on, they will face off in front of the
crowd at PAX Prime for the chance of a lifetime: the top three teams
qualify for the League of Legends 2014 World Championship. The team that
comes in last place, on the other hand, will fall into the Promotion
Tournament to defend their spot from the top teams from the NA
Challenger Series. For those who can’t make it out to PAX Prime, tune
into lolesports.com for broadcasts, news coverage, and analysis.
The teams in the NA LCS have a variety of origins. Fully half of the
teams - Team SoloMid, xpeke kassadin mid Counter Logic Gaming, Team Dignitas, and Curse
Gaming - date all the way back to Season 1, and have storied pasts and
die-hard fans. These four teams have remained in the LCS since its
inception, and are a bedrock of competitive LoL in the region.
On the other hand, Cloud9 and CompLexity are recent upstarts, one
dominant and one growing. Cloud9 has only been around for three splits,
but has taken first place in the regular season for all three.
CompLexity clawed their xpeke kassadin backdoor way back into the scene after relegation a year
ago, and have already established themselves as fan-favorites.
Finally, LMQ and Evil Geniuses are migrant teams from China and Europe,
respectively, making the NA region one of the most uniquely diverse.
Evil Geniuses, while European in origin, has always had a close
relationship with North America, and they once went by the name CLG.EU.
LMQ left the LPL and found a home in North America’s challenger scene.
Since then, they have worked their way into the LCS, where they have
cultivated an avid fan base thanks to their aggressive style.
Only one word can be used to describe North America’s international history: disappointing.
Every other region has made it to the World Championship Final at least
once, with Korea showing up twice. North America, on the other hand,
not only has never made it to the xpeke finals, but it hasn’t even made it
past the quarterfinals since the 2010 Season World Championship at
Dreamhack.
At that time, League of Legends was in its infancy, with little in the
way of an established meta, let alone a thriving competitive scene. Six
of the eight qualifying xpeke kassadin s4 teams were from either North America or Europe,
with two Asian teams from what we’d now call the GPL. The North American
scene had the majority of the well-known League of Legends players,
including current NA pros Dyrus, Doublelift, Westrice, and Xpecial.
At first, it looked like NA’s all-star lineups would lead them to
dominance within the tournament, as Epik Gamer, Team SoloMid, and
Counter Logic Gaming went a combined 7-2 in the Group phase. However,
once the playoffs started, they found themselves unable to compete with
European teams, who had a secret weapon. That weapon? The modern laning
meta. European teams ran an AD Carry and support as their duo lane, and
on the back of that strategy, the region took both slots in the finals.
In fact, NA teams were a combined 2-8 against the eventual finalists,
aAa and Fnatic.
By the time Season 2’s World Championship xpeke kassadin rolled around, North America
had lost even the most basic foothold on the international scene. TSM
had a bye into the playoffs, while two other North American teams,
Dignitas and CLG, qualified for the Group phase. Neither made it out.
Likewise, TSM fell 0-2 to Azubu Frost in the first round of the
playoffs.
It wasn’t that their players were untalented. In fact, Doublelift was
renowned worldwide as one of the best ADCs. But once again, the region
could not keep pace with the constantly evolving meta. Time after time,
North American teams simply lost the objective war, falling behind in
dragon and baron gold even in those games that they remained even in
kills and CS. Even the renowned TSM fell behind Azubu Frost on dragon
and tower gold alone.
And so, in Season 3, NA came out hungry for a better showing on the
international stage. New blood rose up quickly, and by the World
Championship, TSM had taken a backseat to two up-and-coming NA teams,
Cloud9 and Team Vulcun. Vulcun was the quintessential North American
team, made up of solo queue heroes with massive xpeke kassadin season 4 talent. They smashed
half of the scene, with a dominant 14-2 record against the bottom four
teams, and 2-2 records against CLG, TSM, and - most notably - Cloud9.
Unfortunately, in the Group stage of the World Championship, Team
Vulcun lived up to their Throwbargains nickname, taking down eventual
group winner Fnatic in their xpeke kassadin play first game, then losing game after game to
careless errors. Ultimately, Vulcun and TSM took 4th place in their
respective Group stages - only beating out the International Wildcard
teams, and failing to advance to the quarterfinals.
Cloud9 stood as North America’s last and best hope. What made Cloud9 so
special? First of all, they stood head and shoulders above all other
North American teams. In their LCS debut split, they posted a commanding
25-3 season, only dropping games to Vulcun and CLG and going on to
sweep the playoffs. But most interestingly, they seemed to be the change
that the North American scene needed. Before Cloud9, the mindset for
North American teams xpeke kassadin highlights was all wrong. The original NA players had all been
solo queue streamers, and it showed in their mindset. They wanted to be
the best, but they also didn’t know how to learn from others, or admit
their weaknesses.
What really separated Cloud9 from other North American teams - and
resembled Korean play - was an extreme focus on the theory of the game.
First, Cloud9 had a heavy focus on turning any advantage - especially
kills - into mid-game objectives: dragon and towers. Cloud9 took 253
towers, 39 more than their closest competitor, and 68 dragons, 8 more
than the next-highest team. They also took the second-most barons, 24,
which was only two behind Vulcun’s 26.
Second, Cloud9 had an analyst, supplemented by LemonNation’s iconic
draft-phase notebook. Both of these tools gave Cloud9 a heightened sense
of objectivity and humility, which led to both extremely selfless
playstyles and an almost obsessive fixation on improvement from every
player on the team. Ultimately, this is what Cloud9 brought in from
Korea, the idea that other teams and regions had something to teach you
because “players that xpeke kassadin 2014 believe they are the best refuse to look outwards
to improve themselves, and play badly because of that,” as LemonNation
put it.
And then, amidst a veritable storm of hype, Cloud9 fell in a
disappointing 1-2 to Fnatic in the quarterfinal of the 2013 World
Championship. Yet another North American team to get a bye into the
quarterfinals only to be eliminated immediately.
So what happened? Cloud9 hadn’t ever needed to alter their champion
pool much and weren’t “given that much trouble in the LCS for it,”
according to Meteos. In other words, without any challenge, Cloud9 had
no need or means to improve or innovate, and it showed when they faced
their first challenge, Fnatic.
Since then, Cloud9 has defined the North American scene
internationally, taking down Taiwan’s Taipei Assassins and China’s World
Elite at IEM Katowice, as well as xpeke kassadin s4 Fnatic, Taipei Assassins, and even
OMG during the group stages at All-Stars. (Cloud9 eventually lost to OMG
in the All-Stars playoffs.)
So what makes the 2014 World Championship so important for North
America? They are still waiting for a chance to prove themselves on the
international scene, and get even a single World Championship series
match win against a Chinese or Korean team. According to Meteos, “all
the other [NA] teams this split are a lot better,” as they have learned
what it takes from Cloud9, and this increased competition has led to the
most competitive NA scene ever. This year just might be the year NA is
strong enough to make a splash in the international pond.
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Don’t
let the cuteness fool you! Gnar may look like as cuddly as a kitten,
but when he gets worked up, he morphs into quite the big bad beastie.
Perhaps it’s an attempt xpeke kassadin 2014 to be more intimidating in his miniature form,
but the prehistoric Yordle’s launch skin Dino Gnar has the little guy
sporting a fuzzy dinosaur costume.
In order to celebrate Gnar’s upcoming arrival, show us your artistic
skills by drawing, xpeke kassadin s4 sculpting, or crafting any Yordle of your choice. The
catch is that they have to be wearing a full-body suit of some other
creature. Teemo in a frog suit? Corki in a panda suit? Ziggs in a
monster suit? Let your imagination run wild. Any type of art is fair
game as long as it fits the theme.
Send photos of your creations to us at riotfanart@riotgames.com and we’ll highlight our favourites in an upcoming post here on the website. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
xPeke Nidalee
We all know that feeling of electricity at the beginning of a 5v5 on
Summoner’s Rift when you hear the announcement “Minions have spawned!”
The party can’t truly start, after all, until everybody’s made their way
onto the Rift.
Gamescom 2014 is getting underway today and those of us who’ve
traveled to Cologne from various Riot offices around the world are
feeling the same way about this year’s show, especially as press and
videogame fans begin to xpeke kassadin mid pour into the Koelnmesse exhibition centre.
We’ve been working hard to prepare for this year’s show and we hope to
make it an unforgettable experience for everybody who drops by our booth
in Hall 8 at some point over the course of the week.
Whether you’re interested in the cosplay village, trivia and faction
battles on the community stage, epic EU LCS semifinals battles taking
place live in the esports arena, or any of the other surprises on offer,
you’re all very welcome to the League of Legends booth. Come say hello
and give us a fist bump, we’d love to meet you!
If you aren’t able to make it to this year’s show, don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about you! Check out our special gamescom 2014 content hub where we’ll be posting articles, videos and other behind-the-scenes glimpses into what we’re up to.
Dino Gnar
“I wanna be the DINOSAUR!” The little blond boy skipped from class
into the playground, picking up a small toy car before driving it up and
down his forearm. Gnar hopped out seconds later, dressed in his bright
dino onesie and grinning at the prospect of playtime. After making his
way into the center of the playground, he tossed his trusty boomerang
through the clear blue skies.
“No I wanna be the dinosaur! You be the ROBOT,” exclaimed a
second child, a young girl covered in mud from an earlier trip through
the nearby woods. The blond boy stamped his feet in consternation.
“NO! I wanna be the dinosaur,” he shouted, “you be the
SAMURAI!” He ran ahead as Gnar’s xpeke kassadin boomerang arced back towards its owner.
The prehistoric boy stood looking on, his tiny arms outstretched
towards the incoming toy... only to watch the blond boy catch it. He
turned to his friend, still grinning wildly as he held Gnar’s boomerang
aloft.
“Oh! That reminds me! Why did the samurai never get locked out of his h...” “RRAAAAAWWWWRRRRRRRRRR!”
The children stared on in horror as Mega Gnar tore through the skies,
landing by the playground’s plastic playhouse. With a mighty roar, he
tore the house from its bolts, slamming it into the nearby wall before
launching it whole towards the fleeing blond boy. Through the screaming
chaos, the young girl vacantly stared on, her eyes fixed on the
terrifying colossus before her.
“...Okay. Gnar can be the dinosaur. Beep boop...”
Kite and fight your way through xpeke kassadin 2014 the enemy team as Gnar and his Dino Gnar skin for 1462 RP (normally 1950 RP) until the end of the weekend.
In
a few patches we’ll be removing a defunct 3rd party program from our
installer and patcher, called Pando Media Booster, which used to help us
with peer-to-peer file delivery. As a peer-to-peer service, Pando
previously allowed players to get the patch files they need from other
nearby League players, instead of pinging our servers which may be
farther away. Though we’re no longer using Pando Media Booster, we’re
planning to develop our own peer-to-peer solution in the future to speed
up the patching process and get you in game faster.
When Pando Media Booster is removed, League of Legends will display a
pop-up giving you the option to remove the program from your computer
with a single click. We recommend removing it when prompted (or manually
removing it now) since we no longer use this service and are in the
process of building our own solution.
Before then, some of you might see a different pop-up from your
operating system when you launch League of Legends. This is an
information-gathering step in our peer-to-peer development process. The
pop-up will ask for permission to modify firewall settings from an
application called “Riot P2P”. If you choose to allow this application,
it will collect details on your network configuration while you patch
(not when you’re in game) but will not record any personal or
identifying information. Specifically, it will let us know which types
of network configurations are most common and how many players are
typically on the same area network (home, office, PC café, etc.). We’ll
use this information to guide development of our native peer-to-peer
solution so LoL can eventually provide the benefits of peer-to-peer
technology for patching.
We’ll continue to provide updates as we move closer to introducing
our peer-to-peer solution. Keep an eye out for more details on the
upcoming removal of Pando Media Booster in the Patch Notes!
