Tournament Showcase: Patch Perplexes Players

by Crimson on Jul 20th, 2012 (335 days ago)

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Balance changes keep flooding in. Everyone looks for the new OP. Another champion joins the League. More teams get a chance to play against the pros. All this and more in this week's Tournament Showcase.

Greetings Summoners and welcome to this week’s Torunament Showcase. This week we will cover the 4PL, The IGN Face-off qualifiers, the Siege, the ggClassic, the Elite of Europe, and the IPL Showmatches.

More balance changes came out this week causing the teams to start trying out the less picked champions. Teams that are new to the esports scene are only causing more changes to the metagame with unusual picks. Tournaments come and go matching up pros against joes as they pass. Season 2 finals are approaching rapidly and every team is aiming for the $1,000,000 prize. The most important thing to remember is to have fun, and that is just what the professional teams do, even when the stakes are high.

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Legends from the East: GPL Week 8 Day 1

by Unheardwolfcry on Jul 7th, 2012 (348 days ago)

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Legends from the East is here to bring you the latest news in the South East Asian and East Asian League of Legends scene! The Garena Premier League (GPL) is South East Asia’s first fully professional League of Legends Tournament.

Hey everyone and welcome to another installment of Legends from the East! I bring you all the action from week 8 of the GPL. I would like to bring to your attention that the GPL will be on a 2 week break as we are apparently mid way through the league. So now on to Day 1 matches! First off we have the Sentinels up against the Hunters. KLH haven’t been doing too well over the past few weeks and having to face off against SGS right off the bat may not do too good for their morale. On the flip side, the Titans take on the Assassins in match 2. BKT have been steadily improving their game so facing off against TPA with nothing to lose may just bring us some exciting plays so read on to find out.

Legends from the East: GPL — Week 7 Day 2

by Unheardwolfcry on Jul 1st, 2012 (354 days ago)

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Legends from the East is here to bring you the latest news in the South East Asian and East Asian League of Legends scene! The Garena Premier League (GPL) is South East Asia’s first fully professional League of Legends Tournament.

Today I bring you news straight from the GPL. Today we have to exciting games! First we have the Bangkok Titans up against the Kuala Lumpur Hunters will the Titans claim their first win of the season or will KLH prove that they are just too tough to beat.

The second and most anticipated game of the night we see the Taipei Assassins up against the Singapore Sentinels. The Sentinels have a lot of pressure on their ends they have yet to beat the Assassins and a win here will put SGS on par with TPA. TPA does however just came up the top of group A in their recent IPL5 qulifiers and they also scored a win against China’s best World Elite in the Gigabyte StarsWar tournament. All eyes are on this match tonight but first lets take a look at the Bans and Picks for the first match of the day.

Legends From the East: GPL — Week 7 Day 1

by Unheardwolfcry on Jun 30th, 2012 (355 days ago)

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Legends from the East is here to bring you the latest news in the South East Asian and East Asian League of Legends scene! The Garena Premier League (GPL) is South East Asia’s first fully professional League of Legends Tournament.

Today in Legends from the east I bring you the latest news straight from Week 7 of the GPL. Enough talk and lets jump right into the two matches today. First off we see the Singapore Sentinels up against the Manila Eagles and for the second match of the day we have the Saigon Jokers facing off against the Taipei Assassins.

Here are the bans and picks for the first match of Week 7 Day 1 of the GPL.

Legends from the East: GPL — Week 6 Day 2

by Unheardwolfcry on Jun 24th, 2012 (361 days ago)

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Legends from the East is a brand new feature that brings you the latest news in the South East Asian and East Asian League of Legends scene! The Garena Premier League (GPL) is South East Asia’s first fully professional League of Legends Tournament. It brings the top teams from 6 countries to participate in an epic 20 week long battle and the top three teams will battle it out for the US $40,000 grand prize.

Welcome to the match report for Week 6 Day 2 of the Garena Premier League. Today we take a look at two matches first of which we have the Kuala Lumpur Hunters (KLH) who are currently defending their spot in third up against the Saigon Jokers (SAJ). On a side note the Saigon Jokers recently added both NIXWATER and QTV both of them top ELO players on the South East Asian server. In the second game we have the Bangkok Titans (BKT) facing the Manila Eagles (MLE), will we see the BKT pull off their first win on an inconsistent MLE?

With my second post on the GPL I thought I should switch things up a bit. So leave a comment below and tell me what kind of match report format you prefer.

Now lets start things off with the first match from Week 6 Day 2 KLH vs SAJ. Here are the Bans and Picks.

Legends from the East: GPL — Week 6 Day 1

by Unheardwolfcry on Jun 23rd, 2012 (362 days ago)

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Legends from the East is a brand new feature that brings you the latest news in the South East Asian and East Asian League of Legends scene! The Garena Premier League (GPL) is South East Asia’s first fully professional League of Legends Tournament. It brings the top teams from 6 countries to participate in an epic 20 week long battle and the top three teams will battle it out for the US $40,000 grand prize.

Today I take a look at Week 6 Day 1 of the GPL. The first day in week 6 showed us two fast paced matches, clearly won by early game dominance so that certain roles could snowball the team into victory. For the first match, the Singapore Sentinels (SGS) faced the Bangkok Titans (BKT). Below we take a quick look at the Bans and Picks.

Tournament Showcase: MLG and the aftermath

by Crimson on Jun 14th, 2012 (371 days ago)

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Can anyone challenge TSM? Top bans at MLG. M5 lurking in the shadows. What to expect from Dreamhack. All this and more in this week's Tournament Showcase!

Hello fellow summoners and welcome to the first ever Tournament Showcase. In this weekly segment we will be reviewing what happened at recent tournaments, updating you on what’s coming up, and keeping you up to date with games played by your favorite teams that you may have missed. But that’s not all, we will also showcase all the tournaments we can find and show you where you and your friends could take a shot at entering the competitive scene.

MLG was a huge event this year with 20 teams from around the world competing for a $40,000 prize pool. We saw a few unknown teams going out in the first round, but what does that really mean to you? It means that players like you and your friends have a real chance at competing with the pros on the big stage. Don’t be afraid to get together and get out there. You could be the next Moscow 5 or Team Dynamic.

Speaking of Moscow 5 they were not at MLG this year, leaving us down one top team. In addition, many other teams are still recovering from all the trading and lane shuffling between the players. Second place team CLG.NA could not even get their new dominant top lane player Voyboy to show up! It was easy to see that these teams were struggling with their coordination. Teams that have been together longer, such as TSM and CLG.EU, saw this weakness and used it to their advantage in rather dominant performances through the tournament.

While the big names stayed on top, there were surprisingly strong performances from some newer teams on the scene. Team Dynamic has a nice sponsorship and showed that they are indeed worthy of being considered a real threat, at least if you don’t know what to ban. Curse.EU showed up after a series of fallout in the European scene. Though they didn’t manage to take home any prize money, they had a real presence, keeping other teams on their guard. But who could forget Dignitas? The team that came from no where and rose to the top instantly still showed their tournament winning level of play. Without Voyboy, however, and with more teams knowing their strategy, they had a difficult time at MLG.

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