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The qualifier is over and, apart from Fnatic, most of the big boys made it through. Your pick-‘ems were safe all along. Well, apart from the 3-0 slot but Renegades? Really? Who could have seen that coming?
Theoretically, 1pm on the third day of the Major qualifiers is an awkward time to write a column. As I write this intro, the first map of Vici vs Vitality just finished with an overtime win for the French team.
For League of Legends, 2018 was a year of great change.
I don’t usually like to write about the same thing two weeks running. But when G2’s unbeaten run continues, and when Fnatic’s depressingly poor run carries on, what’s a boy to do?
It’s easy to write about the best, but it can be difficult about it in an interesting way. This is exactly the dilemma that faces me this morning seeing G2 at the top of the LEC with the only undefeated record.
2019 looks like it might be a good one for me. We’re less than a month into the year and already one of my wishes has already come true.
I am not naturally a superstitious man, but League of Legends might be changing that. We all know about the caster curse, and journalists often end up praising a team just before a fall, but how about a t-shirt curse?
After recently making a wish list for League of Legends, it seemed to make sense to do one for my other primary focus: CS:GO.
I’ve been writing a lot about the off-season lately, and for obvious reasons: there’s not much else going on.
The KeSPA Cup is awesome. It is reverent of a different time, a time in which League of Legends still had tournaments run by third parties.
A couple of week ago I wrote an article about the new LEC rosters – the ones we knew, at least.
I was at a Magic: The Gathering (coming soon to a column near you) event this past weekend, which meant that, coupled with the unfortunate time zone difference, I didn’t get to watch a minute of All-Stars live.
After Europe’s best overall showing at Worlds since Season One, it might seem a bit obvious to say that the LEC is going to be fascinating next year.
Well, last week I made a bit of a mistake, didn’t I? It felt like, within seconds of me submitting an article that featured the phrase “slow news week” a million different esports stories broke.
It’s been a bit of a slow news week as far as esports is concerned.
I have to be careful what I say here, but Astralis might be the best Counter-Strike team of all time.
And just like that it was all over for another year. Worlds 2018 is finished and all we have left is memories, possibly regrets and possibly, if you’re Chinese, a night you will never forget.
It’s sadly typical that the best worlds of all time (I think we’re all in agreement on that now, right?) should have such a boring pair of semi-finals.
One of the funnier quirks of being an esports journalist is that, oftentimes, the world is a better place when you are made to look like an idiot.
That was definitely the “oh my god it’s really happening” moment, I agree.
Anyone can win Worlds this year: Why not G2?