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The 2023 LCK Spring Split is right around the corner. It was a hectic offseason for the LCK, as there were many moves during the stove league. Several players went abroad, and several returned as well. Most of the teams had roster changes — big or small, and we won’t be able to tell if the changes were positive or negative until the season is underway. Still, we could take a look at how the changes went to predict who would prevail in the spring split. 6. DRXTop: Kim “Rascal” Kwang-hee Jungle: Kim “Croco” Dong-beom (Kim “Juhan” Ju-han) Mid: Yoo “FATE” Soo-hyeok Bot: Seo “deokdam” Dae-gil Suppo...
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The rise of game shows on livestreaming platforms has been one of the space’s most interesting trends. For many of the world’s top streamers, a game show is their flagship content: Austin Show’s Name Your Price was one of the bright spots of G4’s revival, many of One True King’s (OTK) game shows garner tens of thousands of viewers, and Ludwig Ahgren filled up thousands of seats at the YouTube Theater for Mogul Money Live. Even smaller streamers have extended their reach by organizing this type of content. Though it’s been years since they’ve gained popularity, the enthusiasm for streamer game ...
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Another year, another Worlds finished. This year, the storyline culminated in two LCK teams fighting to lift the Summoner’s Cup, T1 and DRX. The storyline presented between the two oldest players of each team, Faker & Deft, even captured the hearts of the newer fans, as the richness of it made it even more dramatic than a shonen manga. Worlds always feels like a festival for every fan watching; for the LCK and its fans [including myself] in particular, they especially rejoiced at the fact that Korea was back on top. For the LCS, however, it was another year of failure for them. Fans did remain...
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Immediately following the conclusion of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship, many fans and analysts hailed the final match between T1 and DRX as the best concluding set the tournament has ever seen. It was one of the few times a five-game series took place, and the number of exciting storylines and gameplay made for an excellent end to one of the biggest events in esports. But how does it stack up to other years? There's no doubt fans often fall to recency bias — is it really the best finals we've ever had? There have been more than twelve years of one of esports' most iconic tournam...
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It’s no secret that VALORANT, Riot Games’ attempt at the FPS genre, is very successful. Roughly two months ago, I released a column that focused on the growth of VALORANT, both as a casual and as an esports. It wrote how League of Legends, one of the biggest RTS titles in the last decade, wasn’t as popular in the West as it was in the past, and that VALORANT is taking over the market. However, League of Legends is still the most popular game in South Korea. According to Gametrics.com, a Korean gaming data website that provides various data with regards to PC bangs across Korea, LoL has been th...
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Banana is a key area of contention on Inferno for both Terrorist (T) and Counter-Terrorist (CT) sides, and the strategies to get Banana control have stacked on top of each other for a decade now. It’s undoubtedly one of the most important areas in any of the Counter-Strike maps. So here’s a detailed guide as to how you can fight for Banana control early in the round to establish key map control, and possibly even win the round off of it. Counter-TerroristsThere are more variations of taking Banana control than you can think of, so it really depends on how your opponents tend to play certain si...
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The debate over controller legality may not have the fire and fury of the Steve in Ult discourse, but the future of Melee may depend on it. That’s probably a bit more hysterical than you’d expect from a piece about the potential value and harm of being able to jump by pressing a different button than Sakurai intended, but there is an argument to say controller remapping has the potential to hurt the greatest Smash game ever made. This isn’t an argument about the fairness of remapping, or whether doing so is an advantage, for one simple reason. If there were no advantage to remapping, there wou...
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A while ago, I had a chance to meet with an insider who works in the Western League of Legends scene. He asked me whether or not I still play LoL. Since I have to keep myself up to date with the current meta and write articles about the game, I said, “Yes, obviously.” His response was an unexpected one, as he was confused how I could ‘enjoy’ the game that’s been out for over ten years, and that there are a lot of those around him that do not enjoy the game anymore. Another industry insider who works in Korea told me something else that could qualify as very interesting too. He says that the cu...
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With the Summer Split about to begin for Europe's LEC and North America's LCS, Inven Global’s League of Legends team have ranked all 20 teams by tier. MSI recency bias aside, we looked at the relative strength of each team both within their region and compared to their neighbors to identify which teams have the best shot at showing up big at Worlds 2022. G2 Esports stand alone in S tierG2 Esports is the only team from both the LEC and the LCS that are in S tier. While G2 and Evil Geniuses both had relatively similar finishes in getting swept in the semifinals of the 2022 Mid-Season Invitationa...
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Throughout over a decade of League of Legends esports history, support has been the most thankless role of the five positions to grace Summoner's Rift. Many a legendary support player have been the linchpin of their team's success, but 2022 was the first season that saw supports take a more defined role due to the state of the game favoring grouping on objectives and cohesive execution more than any previous iteration of the game. Even with the durability-focused patch of 12.10, support remains a pivotal role in the current state of competitive League of Legends. Let's rank the five best suppo...
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