At international events, there are always exciting narratives. There are also always stories writers want to write, but can't. Here are the stories we never told - the stories we wanted to tell, but couldn't.
While it might make the average LCS fan feel better just to chalk it up to Worlds being on European soil, as it was in 2015 when the NALCS' infamous 'Week 2 0-10' occured, there's many factors to consider when analyzing what led to such a disappointing performance from North America at the World Championship. Let's take a look at how the LCS teams' Worlds 2019 performances compared to their respective expectations.
Today's cartoon is all about the different stories in the LoL scene from the past week.
After a near hour of game-play (and a lot of Infinity Edges), Clutch's Nexus fell. While it was an incredibly difficult road they needed to travel to make it to Madrid, it would've been a beautiful one if they did. Alas, they join their fellow NA reps, Cloud9, on the trip back to LA instead.
What started with a hopeful rebound for Cloud9 ended rather quickly as they lost their first game to Griffin, requiring G2 to go 0-3 AND lose in their tiebreaker for C9 to make it through.
There are two groups of deaths in the 2019 LoL World Championship. There's the obvious Group C, stacked with legacy teams, and there's Group A. Cloud9 started Worlds 2019 with a win against Hong Kong
TL Bot Laner Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie after defeating Clutch Gaming in the LCS Semifinals and discussed how G2 Esports had terraformed the competitive landscape of League of Legends.
Today's cartoon is about the groups that have been finalized after the play-in knockout stages.After a fierce and competitive play-in stage, the last teams to join the main stages of the 2019 LoL Worl
On the 7th, Clutch Gaming took down Royal Youth in the second match of the play-in knockout stage of the play-in knockout stages. Huni and Lira shared their thoughts in the post-game interview.
The #3 LCS seed ensured North America's safe passage from the Group Stage of the Play-In to the Knockout Stage, escaping from Group A as the 1st seed while the CIS representative will have to settle for the 2nd seed.
In day 1 of the 2019 LoL World Championship Play-in Stage, Clutch Gaming went 1-1, losing to Unicorns of Love, but defeating MAMMOTH. Despite their loss in the first game, top laner Heo
Bang will be Reporting for Inven Global at the 2019 LoL World Championship. 100 Thieves star ADC Bae “Bang” Jun-sik will join the Inven Global crew at the 2019 LoL World Championship. Inven
To Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho, the year 2019 wasn't the best. Although always considered one of the best top laners in the LCS, Ssumday had to sacrifice and compensate for the team. It would
It has been already a year since the legendary fantastic duo split and gone away to different leagues. Although we can still hear from them or hear about them through the internet, it wouldn't be enou
Esports organization Evil Geniuses just had its most important day in years. The organization finalized its acquisition of the NRG Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensiver roster, and is set to acquire the open franchise spot that previously belonged to Echo Fox.
Today's cartoon is about the 2019 LoL World Championship Group Draw. The Group Draw for Worlds 2019 has happened, which brought up hype and concerns. The fate of the teams in groups has been decided b
Worlds 2019 Group Draw Group AI think Griffin would at least beat up C9 in that group… I don't know about G2 though.└ You're saying that they'll end up 2nd there as well? You're so bad. Reapered
The 2019 League of Legends World Championship is approaching. As the biggest event in the yearly schedule of LoL Esports, all LoL fans are eager to find out who will be competing in the grand tournament
Earlier this month, Team Liquid's League of Legends squad took a break from practicing for the 2019 World Championship to host an AMA on the League of Legends subreddit.
The 2019 season for FlyQuest and support Kim “Wadid” Bae-in came to a close after a series loss to Clutch Gaming in the first round of the LCS Regional Finals. After finishing 4th in the S
