Now that the Worlds 2019 Group Stage has concluded, it's time to see who performed the best amongst their peers in their respective roles. This is Inven Global's Worlds 2019 Group Stage All-Pro Team.
Sixteen teams participated in the Group Stage of the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, and in fifty total games, they all agreed on one thing: Pantheon is busted.
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.
The 2019 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage has come to a close. 16 teams participated in the Group Stage, and now that the dust has settled, only 8 teams are headed to the Knockout Stage. Let's take a look back at the highlights and takeaways from the games over the past nine days before the competition continues next weekend in Madrid.
Each Quarterfinals match will be a best-of-five series in which the losers will go home, while the winners will remain in Madrid for the Semifinals in the first week of November.
The first game in the final day of the 2019 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage will be the the IG veteran's first start since August 23rd in the 2019 LPL Summer Playoffs.
The long-rumored League of Legends fighting game has finally materialized. Project L is currently in the early development phases, and will feature characters and locations from Runeterra in an entirely new light.
Riot Games has revealed a card game as part of its multi-stage mega-announcement on Tuesday October 15th, 2019 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of League of Legends.
In a flurry of announcements on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 commemorating the 10th birthday of League of Legends, Riot Games gave a behind the scenes peak into the early developments of Arcane. Sources close to Riot claim that the animated show has been ordered for five seasons.
Mages are the second most common ranged class, can offer lots of flexibility in draft due to many being viable Mid Lane champions, and in dealing primarily magic damage, can allow for compositional flexibility should other roles want to draft heavily towards physical damage.
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.
With a proper lens, the 2019 LCS Summer Split and Summer Playoffs statistics can be used to provide insight on the North American teams at the 2019 League of Legends World Championship. Let's take a look at what a look back at LCS Summer can tell us about the chances of Team Liquid, Cloud9, and Clutch Gaming escaping their respective groups at Worlds 2019.
In a post-match interview with Tamás "Vizicsacsi" Kiss, Laure "Bulii" Valée pressed the Splyce Top Laner about the team's narrow victory over UoL in a series that was predicted to be very one-sided.
Sure enough, things shook down as was expected by the majority fo the LoL Esports community.
The Longshot is an iconic moment in Worlds history, and a defining play in PraY's storied career as one of the greatest AD Carries to ever play the game. However, it is not The Longshot in game 2, but in fact, the following game 3 performance that solidified Pray as the greatest Ashe player of all time.
Turkish representative Royal Youth is heading to the Play-In Knockout Stage. Facing elimination at a record of 0-3, the TCL champion beat back Brazil's Flamengo eSports to force a tiebreaker before beating the CBLoL champion again to stay alive in the next stage of the 2019 World Championship as Group D's 2nd Seed.
The four teams who win their respective matches will be randomly seeded into the groups of the Main Event of Worlds 2019, excluding groups that already include a team of the Play-In seeds' respective regions. The four losing teams will be eliminated from the 2019 League of Legends World Championship.
After defeating MEGA and already 1-0 against HKA, Venus seemed more sure of his team than ever.
DAMWON Gaming finished its Group D matches in a clean 4-0 and secured a 1st seed from the Knockout Stage in the process, but in a post-game interview with Laure Valée, DWG Mid Laner Heo "Showmaker" Su stated that the team had yet to showcase its true capability.
In defeating Turkey's TCL champion, the #3 LCK Seed ensured safe passage to the Knockout Stage for South Korea, moving to 3-0 in the Group Stage and securing the 1st Seed in Group D.
