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Top three takeaways after three days of 2022 League World Championship groups
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The first round robin of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship group stage is almost over. Group A’s games for 메이저토토 this weekend are done, and by the end of the day on Monday, JD Gaming, Rogue, and Royal Never Give Up, could all have sown up at minimum a tiebreaker to move on to the quarterfinals.
On the other side of that coin, Evil Geniuses, GAM Esports, and 100 Thieves could join Cloud9 as the teams staring elimination in the face in the same 메이저토토사이트 amount of time.
Three games of best-of-one action in New York City has taught us a lot, and raised perhaps even more exciting questions as Worlds rolls along.
Let’s break down a few.
Rogue stick with style, take care of business
Is anyone else having to eat some crow after not really 메이저놀이터 believing in Rogue to the degree one should believe in a European top seed? Part of the reason for doubt for some might be name value: G2 Esports and Fnatic simply carry more weight and have the international accolades to back it up.
But on a more analytical level, Rogue’s bullet run to their first LEC title, electric and well-deserved as it was, did have shades of lightning in a bottle. Greek AD carry Comp put his name on the map this year, and did it most notoriously with lane-dominant, snowball-y bottom lanes. Lucian and Nami are perhaps the most glaring example because they were the soup du jour for basically the entire world at one point not to long ago.
Even though reports of the duo’s death post-Electrocute nerfs had been greatly exaggerated, given the fact Comp and support Trymbi basically won the LEC off the back of that bottom lane, coupled with the meta in the bottom lane still having a lot of room for Miss Fortune, Kai’Sa, and Aphelios—the three most played AD carries so far at the tournament per Leaguepedia—one could be forgiven for thinking Rogue might not be as potent.
But they would be wrong.
The inverse point of that AD carry statistic is Caitlyn and Kalista have the highest pick/ban presence in their position. Teams fear lane bullies, so much so that they don’t let them through draft. And when Kalista and Soraka were let through for Comp and Trymbi, the cards were on the table for Europe’s favorite tournament surprise.
Despite a truly stalwart midgame from GAM Esports that threatened to throw this entire section into the dustbin, Rogue rallied and staved off the upset.
Perhaps most surprisingly, though, is Malrang’s insistence on playing champions like Jarvan IV and doing so in a more “herbivorous” style: one that focuses on getting his laners ahead at the cost of his own sustenance. Jarvan had been played just twice in all of Play-Ins plus groups, both times in losses. Everyone was waiting for Malrang’s high-risk, high-reward jungle style to be exposed. So far, so good.
Larssen has also been stellar, but he’ll get his flowers in another article.
The European champions’ next test will by far be their toughest. Their matchup against LPL runners-up Top Esports and their own world-beating bottom lane of JackeyLove and Mark will teach us a lot about Rogue.
But, even if they fall flat, beating the teams “below them” again in GAM and DRX would slot them through to the quarterfinals for the first time in the org’s history in now their third consecutive Worlds appearance.
World Championship hosted in North America shaping up to be national embarrassment for region
Look, it’s early. Heck, just last year, Cloud9 started off 0-3 in the group stage too and squeaked out of groups thanks to an epic meltdown by FunPlus Phoenix. Back in 2017, current groupmates Fnatic started 0-4 but clawed their way back to a quarterfinal berth.
It ain’t over til it’s over.
But this is just absolutely brutal.
And every single year when, say, Team Liquid goes 3–3, what’s the prevailing sentiment? “Man, that game against [insert winnable game here] was so free, we had that.” And then they miss out on quarterfinals by one game. The group stage is extremely unforgiving. Evil Geniuses’ upset bid on Friday against LPL champions JDG, and 100 Thieves’ great early game against Korean kings Gen.G are going to come back and haunt the two squads, and fans of the region as a whole, if they don’t make it out of the group stage.
And then there are the games where North American teams just look out-classed and scared against their opponents. Cloud9 today against T1 and on Friday against Fnatic, and EG somehow looking even worse against G2 in their seventh(!) consecutive defeat against their European MSI “rivals” come to mind.
And don’t look now, but the repercussions for seeding for next year’s international tournaments will be dire if North American teams don’t shape up.
But hey, EG 3-0’d MAD last weekend. And no one can take that away from them.
A redemption day for the LCK
Two junglers in two days for DRX spelled one huge, upset win over Top Esports. Despite DRX’s undefeated run through the Play-In Stage last weekend, many still didn’t have complete faith in them, and perhaps even understandably so given the relative standard of competition in that phase of the tournament. And as anyone who has watched even a lick of Jatt on the broadcast knows, since 2014, only one Korean team has ever failed to make it out of the Worlds group stage (Gen.G went 1–5 in 2018).
With Rogue looking sharp as ever and Top Esports looming lethal alongside an unpredictable GAM, DRX were in danger of jeopardizing that near-perfect statistic.
Saturday was not a good day for the LCK’s representatives.
An 0-3 showing made it four losses in a row—one by each of the teams—stretching back to Friday’s loss by Gen.G to RNG, and left the LCK with a 2-4 black mark on its tournament record. Wins over 100 Thieves and Cloud9 got the region back to 0.500, but most impressively, Deft and the rest of DRX put together the only upset in an otherwise ho-hum day of League of Legends, results-wise. Their win over Top Esports brought the good vibes back to the Deft farewell tour, as they bullied TES AD carry JackeyLove’s Draven out of relevance before sauntering into the New York City skyline with what ended up being a one-sided victory 메이저사이트
The final day of the first round robin of the League group stage kicks off Monday at 4pm CT as JD Gaming tries to make it a 3-0 start to Group B play against G2 Esports.
Orianna disabled at Worlds ‘until further notice’ after Shockwave bug is uncovered
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Orianna has been disabled “until further notice” at the 2022 League of Legends World Championship, Riot Games announced this morning. The developer found a new bug surrounding the champion, forcing 안전놀이터 her to take a backseat for the foreseeable future.
The bug likely was originally discovered by noteworthy League “bug hunter” Vandiril, who posted a video to Twitter that details an in-game example of why Orianna may have been disabled at Worlds 메이저놀이터
In the video—which showcases yesterday’s game between Rogue and GAM Esports—Rogue mid laner Larssen was piloting Orianna. In the middle of a teamfight, Larssen thrusts Orianna’s ball directly into GAM’s backline with Command: Attack (Q) and immediately follows up with a Command: Shockwave (R).
Although the Shockwave properly hit all of its 먹튀검증 targets, the visual for the ability was centered directly over Orianna, as if to indicate that the ball was still in her possession. This visual mix-up is likely the reason the champion is currently disabled at Worlds for the time being.
This isn’t the first time a champion has been disabled at Worlds due to a bug discovered mid-tournament. In 2016, Aurelion Sol was temporarily turned off 먹튀검증사이트 after a bug was found in a game between TSM and Royal Never Give Up. The year prior, Gragas was disabled during the quarterfinals of the tournament.
Larssen’s Orianna pick was the only occasion on which Orianna has been selected at Worlds 2022 thus far.
The tournament will resume later today, with JD Gaming and G2 Esports kicking off the closing day of the group stage’s first round robin at 4pm CT.
Worlds 2022 group stage: Results, standings, schedule
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The play-in stage of the 2022 League of Legends 토토사이트 World Championship has ended and four of the five major region representatives (all except Europe’s MAD Lions) made it out of the multiple-day gauntlet in Mexico City. Korea’s DRX, China’s Royal Never Give Up, Europe’s Fnatic, and North America’s Evil Geniuses all join the other 12 previously-qualified representatives for the Worlds 2022 group stage at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, kicking off at 4pm CT on Thursday, Oct. 7.
Another storyline to watch is purely on the Rift. The meta 토토사이트추천 has solidified to a degree, with one or two carry junglers peeking in, and Maokai and Aatrox cementing themselves as flex and power picks of the play-ins, respectively. But minor region teams, in an effort to punch above their weight against superior opposition, will throw out off-meta picks like, perhaps most notoriously, Zac mid or Teemo and Zilean top as answers to Aatrox, played by Saigon Buffalo and Isurus Gaming, respectively. Look for teams with, say, a former world champion like DWG KIA’s Canyon who won the 2020 title on carry junglers to surprise some people, or top laners like JD Gaming’s 369 and G2 Esports’ Broken Blade to further innovate what could be the tournament’s most 메이저사이트 pivotal role as the tournament progresses.
Here are the scores, group standings, match start times, and more for the 2022 League of Legends World Championship group stage.
Group stage standings and results
Group A
Place Team W L
1 EDward Gaming 2 1
1 Fnatic 2 1
1 T1 2 1
4 Cloud9 0 3
Friday, Oct. 7
4pm CT: Cloud9 0-1 Fnatic
8pm CT: T1 1-0 EDward Gaming
Saturday, Oct. 8
6pm CT: Fnatic 1-0 T1
7pm CT: EDward Gaming 0-1 Cloud9
Sunday, Oct. 9
6pm CT: EDward Gaming 1-0 Fnatic
7pm CT: Cloud9 0-1 T1
Thursday, Oct. 13
2pm CT: Fnatic vs. Cloud9
3pm CT: T1 vs. Fnatic
4pm CT: Cloud9 vs. EDward Gaming
5pm CT: T1 vs. Cloud9
6pm CT: Fnatic vs. EDward Gaming
7pm CT: EDward Gaming vs. T1
Group B
Place Team W L
1 JD Gaming 3 0
2 DWG KIA 2 1
3 G2 Esports 1 2
4 Evil Geniuses 0 3
Friday, Oct. 7
5pm CT: G2 Esports 0-1 DWG KIA
7pm CT: JD Gaming 1-0 Evil Geniuses
Saturday, Oct. 8
5pm CT: Evil Geniuses 0-1 G2 Esports
9pm CT: DWG KIA 0-1 JD Gaming
Monday, Oct. 10
4pm CT: JD Gaming 1-0 G2 Esports
6pm CT: DWG KIA 1-0 Evil Geniuses
Friday, Oct. 14
2pm CT: G2 Esports vs. Evil Geniuses
3pm CT: Evil Geniuses vs. JD Gaming
4pm CT: DWG KIA vs. G2 Esports
5pm CT: G2 Esports vs. JD Gaming
6pm CT: Evil Geniuses vs. DWG KIA
7pm CT: JD Gaming vs. DWG KIA
Group C
Place Team W L
1 Rogue 3 0
2 DRX 2 1
3 Top Esports 1 2
4 GAM Esports 0 3
Saturday, Oct. 8
4pm CT: Rogue 1-0 DRX
8pm CT: Top Esports 1-0 GAM Esports
Sunday, Oct. 9
4pm CT: GAM Esports 0-1 Rogue
9pm CT: DRX 1-0 Top Esports
Monday, Oct. 10
5pm CT: Rogue 1-0 Top Esports
9pm CT: GAM Esports 0-1 DRX
Saturday, Oct. 15
2pm CT: Rogue vs. GAM Esports
3pm CT: GAM Esports vs. Top Esports
4pm CT: DRX vs. Rogue
5pm CT: DRX vs. GAM Esports
6pm CT: Top Esports vs. Rogue
7pm CT: Top Esports vs. DRX
Group D
Place Team W L
1 Royal Never Give Up 3 0
2 Gen.G 2 1
3 CTBC Flying Oyster 1 2
4 100 Thieves 0 3
Friday, Oct. 7
6pm CT: CTBC Flying Oyster 1-0 100 Thieves
9pm CT: Gen.G 0-1 Royal Never Give Up
Sunday, Oct. 9
5pm CT: 100 Thieves 0-1 Gen.G
8pm CT: Royal Never Give Up 1-0 CTBC Flying Oyster
Monday, Oct. 10
7pm CT: 100 Thieves 0-1 Royal Never Give Up
8pm CT: Gen.G 1-0 CTBC Flying Oyster
Sunday, Oct. 16
2pm CT: 100 Theives vs. CTBC Flying Oyster
3pm CT: CTBC Flying Oyster vs. Gen.G
4pm CT: Royal Never Give Up vs. 100 Thieves
5pm CT: Gen.G vs. 100 Thieves
6pm CT: CTBC Flying Oyster vs. Royal Never Give Up
7pm CT: Royal Never Give Up vs. Gen.G
If you’ve watched any international League of Legends, especially Worlds, then this format will be intimately familiar to you. The group stage consists of four groups of four teams in each, with no two teams from the same region or pool able to be drawn together. Each team will play the other three twice—once on blue side and once on red side—over the course of two weekends in New York City 먹튀검증사이트
Afterward, the two teams with the best records from each group will be drawn into a single-elimination, best-of-five knockout bracket, with group winners facing second-place teams, and no two teams from the same group being placed on the same side of the bracket.
It’s Rogue’s time: LEC champs blaze through Top Esports to complete perfect first Worlds round robin
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Rogue have been on an eye-catching hot 메이저토토 streak to open their run at the Worlds 2022 group stage, convincingly beating DRX and GAM Esports to begin their march towards the quarterfinals. But at Worlds, there’s no heat check quite like challenging an LPL team.
And when Rogue faced off against Top Esports today, they drained a three-pointer from the half-court line, convincingly beating the LPL runners-up and solidifying their place atop Group C.
Rogue got off to an early lead in this game, winning teamfight after teamfight across the entirety of the map.
Their multiple Baron takes (including one just past the 메이저토토사이트 20-minute mark—the fastest of Worlds thus far) and late-game picks eventually applied enough pressure onto Top, allowing the LEC champions to push down mid lane with little to no punishment in response.
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It’s Rogue’s time: LEC champs blaze through Top Esports to complete perfect first Worlds round robin
Rogue are one of the only undefeated teams left at Worlds.
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Rogue have been on an eye-catching hot streak to open their run at the Worlds 2022 group stage, convincingly beating DRX and GAM Esports to begin their march towards the quarterfinals. But at Worlds, there’s no heat check quite like challenging an LPL team.
And when Rogue faced off against Top Esports 메이저놀이터 today, they drained a three-pointer from the half-court line, convincingly beating the LPL runners-up and solidifying their place atop Group C.
Rogue got off to an early lead in this game, winning teamfight after teamfight across the entirety of the map.
Their multiple Baron takes (including one just past the 20-minute mark—the fastest of Worlds thus far) and late-game picks eventually applied enough pressure onto Top, allowing the LEC champions to push down mid lane with little to no punishment in response.
Just as G2 was able to hang with JD Gaming through a majority of their matchup earlier today, Rogue hung tough with Top for a good portion of the early-to-mid-game. In stark contrast to their EU counterparts, though, Rogue sealed the deal, defeating Top in 33 minutes.
For Rogue, it was jungler Malrang who was the main factor in Rogue’s success. His spotless 3/0/8 scoreline aside, it was his late-game Dragon’s Rage ultimate on Top’s backline that ultimately secured the victory and perfect round robin for Rogue 메이저사이트
“I was planning to play Maokai jungle, and then my top laner said he wanted it, so I had to lock in Lee Sin and it turned out really well, so good for me,” Malrang said in a post-game interview.
On the other side of the bout, a 1-2 record spells early disaster for Top. The team dropped a game to DRX last night, laying an uphill battle before them when the group stage resumes next weekend. Should GAM Esports upset DRX later today, there would be a three-way tie at 1-2 at the bottom of the group. Regardless of result, though, Rogue is guaranteed to have sole possession of first at the end of the day.
Group C will return to play on Oct. 15 to play out its second round robin games.
Royal Never Give Up extend miserable North American start to Worlds
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Royal Never Give Up continued their impressive growth over the course of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship with their 토토사이트 third win in as many tries in the group stage, this time over still-winless 100 Theives.
With the loss, North America as a region has 토토사이트추천 extended its worst start to a World Championship ever to nine defeats in a row. The only worse losing streak in a Worlds group stage for LCS teams was back in 2015, when Counter Logic Gaming, TSM, and Cloud9 combined to lose 11 straight games (including a tiebreaker loss) in an epic second round robin collapse.
Like many games in a frustrating start to 메이저사이트 Worlds 2022 for North American teams, the match started out with encouraging signs for the Thieves.
Even though a premeditated level one play from RNG saw a kill go over to AD carry GALA’s Kai’Sa thanks to support Ming’s Amumu’s Bandage Toss over the wall onto 100 Thieves top laner Ssumday’s Aatrox, the Theives held a 2,000-gold lead by the 14-minute mark and were making headway around the map, especially on the top side, thanks to perennial team MVP Closer in the jungle on Viego.
However, passive play before and during objective fights saw RNG absolutely shred the Thieves’ fragmented teamfighting, blowing open a game that had previously been close… until it wasn’t at all.
A kill score of 2-2 cascaded helplessly into a 17-4 one off the back of a five-for-zero ace after the Chinese team picked up maybe the easiest Mountain Soul you’ll ever see taken.
Oct 10, 2022 8:31 pm LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
Royal Never Give Up extend miserable North American start to Worlds
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Royal Never Give Up continued their impressive growth over the course of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship with their third win in as many tries in the group stage, this time over still-winless 100 Theives.
With the loss, North America as a region has extended its worst start to a World Championship ever to nine defeats in a row. The only worse losing streak in a Worlds group stage for LCS teams was back in 2015, when Counter Logic Gaming, TSM, and Cloud9 combined to lose 11 straight games (including a tiebreaker loss) in an epic second round robin collapse.
Like many games in a frustrating start to Worlds 2022 for North American teams, the match started out with encouraging signs for the Thieves.
Even though a premeditated level one play from RNG saw a kill go over to AD carry GALA’s Kai’Sa thanks to support Ming’s Amumu’s Bandage Toss over the wall onto 100 Thieves top laner Ssumday’s Aatrox, the Theives held a 2,000-gold lead by the 14-minute mark and were making headway around the map, especially on the top side, thanks to perennial team MVP Closer in the jungle on Viego.
However, passive play before and during objective fights saw RNG absolutely shred the Thieves’ fragmented teamfighting, blowing open a game that had previously been close… until it wasn’t at all.
A kill score of 2-2 cascaded helplessly into a 17-4 one off the back of a five-for-zero ace after the Chinese team picked up maybe the easiest Mountain Soul you’ll ever see taken.
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RNG’s 3-0 record means they’ve become the third team to clinch at least a tiebreaker for a spot in the quarterfinals with such a mark, along with European champions Rogue and LPL kings JD Gaming.
NA teams’ worst showing at Worlds was in 2019, when they went a combined 5-13. Recent history does say week two can be promising for LCS teams, but barring miracles, Worlds 2022 on home soil doesn’t look like it’s going to be one that’s remembered fondly for NA fans.
Both teams have almost a week off before the second round robin of the group stage. At 2pm CT on Sunday, Oct. 16, 100 Thieves look for their first win of Worlds when they face Taiwanese champions CTBC Flying Oyster, while RNG look to lock up a spot in the quarterfinals against the Thieves at 4pm on that same day 메이저놀이터