At this point, no one exactly knows. It's all in the hands of the Chinese government.

NYFU. I just love the brutal and street aesthetic of the logo

Absolute fucking W

Because technically, only Riot has access and the means to set up a LAN server for now. LAN in this case, is putting all the teams as low as possible in a single server shard so there won't be too much of a disparity.

I mean, does it matter? LAN is LAN and it's always a special event. Let people have fun?

I accidentally pressed Enter, whoops; I meant Legday is busy doing OWL in between SCS, so it's such a treat to see them back together again!

Legday is busy doing OWL

Who knows what's happening in the background anyways but if it does reach APAC LCQ levels of bad (which honestly it's slowly getting towards,) then I'll laugh

Scheduling does suck though, I do not enjoy ticking APAC matches beyond 12 am anyways

Both eyes -1.75, but right eye has a cylindric -0.50

I mean, I'm still hopeful and I've learned from my mistake to excessively shittalk an organizer just from experience alone but hey, if not, call Eliphant.

The entire ecosystem is still WIP, so I'll assume Riot is still ironing things out for next year.

For LCQ. For next year, there'll be a premier international league encompassing teams from current APAC (SEA, SA, OCE), JP, KR, and potentially China.

Day 1 woes with some production factors. A bit concerning, but I'll assume it'll fix as the event runs through.

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edit: Fellas chill, I think he's just joking. I'm not offended.

Who knows. I'm not trying to be a shill or defending them but, problems will show up one way or another.

Oh dude, you haven't seen my reaction during APAC LCQ last year. I've seen multiple community LANs with delays and woes. It'll get better as time goes by.

Technically on the Youtube description, it said the broadcast started at 5 PM IST. Matches starts 30 minutes later. I just sync it with the match time.

It'll get better. I've learned that slowly with APAC LCQ last year, and I'm sure it'll happen with SCS. Don't bring down the effort they've brought so far.

Eh typical LAN. Plan the perfect setup, then some external factors saying nah lol

All on Youtube

Don't throw a fuck ton of money, lose and complain then.

Pickems are still open.

I forgot! I made it when I didn't know the exact match times. Fixed.

Won't disagree with that for sure. Hopefully they'll rebound.

Guild was the underdog. People expected M3C to went in clean after a Stage 2 refresh. Shows how improved Guild is, and how close EMEA is as a whole.G2 went in decent, but I took a gander that with the loss against Paper Rex, G2 got caught off-guard and was outclassed by a team going hot into the lower bracket. They somewhat underperformed.

M3C is strong, but recent results could suggest that EMEA is getting closer to them. It already did, in some cases.

Pretty sure it's still impressive. People were very quick to brush off Optic after their loss against XERXIA early during Reykjavik. You're talking about the most recent Masters winner and two-time Masters finalist. They arguably went through a downturn during Champions last year but showed their mental strength after their repeat loss against XERXIA. Other than LOUD, DRX pushed Optic to the fullest, in their match.

It proves that DRX has been showing great improvement since their first showing at Berlin last year, and they can go toe-to-toe with the world's best.

There's no official date/format announced yet properly. I'd rather have the format and dates be announced first, then add it.

Games played, then H2H. Ghost has only 2 games played, while Guard and TSM has 3. And Guard beat TSM.

I should reiterate: We have contacts with Skyesports. We are well aware of the general timeline. It's the specific match times that we don't know.

I mean, MOBA maps aren't going to be different in the grander scale of things. It's mirrored map, one way or another. In LoL's case, changes can be seen per game depending on what elemental dragon spawned on the 3rd cycle.

To be fair, are they wrong?

We haven't been informed of the proper schedule, that's all. The event is still taking place as far as I know.

PTC planned to have a long break but uh got dragged back in

Dang, somebody had his day rough.

PRX got greedy. You can see this in their positioning and executions. Someone needed to wake them up.

LaZe just gave PRX their first MY/SG domestic loss since August last year during Stage 3 where they lost to... UwU. Another unsigned team.

LONG AMAZING ZEBRA EARS

And Styron just turned it right back!

Blink twice if you need help, ExWarrior.

Probably just missed it. Added!

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I love the logo, I love the vibe around it. Team's pretty solid, just need time.

Vietnam's Riot ecosystem is already pretty legit, all things considered. I'm pretty sure other than the Philippines, they're the only SEA Riot team who hosted an Agent Takeover themselves, too.

Added upon their investment within the VCS in League, Vietnam has been quite the staple for Riot's influence in SEA. There's a reason that Vietnam is a minor region independently beyond their SEA counterparts in the PCS.

Had eyes on him for a long time.

It's Retla.

Because the fanbase does not end with the developers.

I came from TF2. My esports journey came from TF2. I legit owe my good massive multiplayer online experience due to TF2. As old as the game is, the memories I've made since 2015 brought me to where I am today. I'd never have gotten the spot at VLR if it wasn't for my experience working in competitive TF2. Lots of players here too were from TF2. It's sad to see that when I left the scene, the game was slowly forming to where it is now. I loved it. And I know the community, old or new, loved it dearly. There's a saying amongst folks in the community TF2 circle: "You never leave TF2." And that still stands today.

The game is on the brink of ruins. And the community isn't letting it happen. We survived living amongst scraps for over a decade - we're not giving it up now.

I mean there's always a contract but the situation is just muddy overall, no?

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