IntelEM Kiev Coverage Starts January 19th (LoL)

Check out the livestream here: STREAM!

(Note: All times are listed in local Kiev time)

Thursday, January 19th

13:00 – Group A Round 1: Team SoloMid vs. Curse Gaming
14:40 – Group A Round 1: White Lotus vs. SK Gaming
16:20 – Group A Round 2: White Lotus vs. Curse Gaming
18:00 – Group A Round 2: Team SoloMid vs. SK Gaming
20:10 – Group A Round 3: White Lotus vs. Team SoloMid; SK Gaming vs. Curse Gaming

Friday, January 20th

13:00 – Group B Round 1: Against All Authority vs. Sypher
14:40 – Group B Round 1: Moscow Five vs. Team Dignitas
16:20 – Group B Round 2: Moscow Five vs. Sypher
18:00 – Group B Round 2: Against All Authority vs. Team Dignitas
20:10 – Group B Round 3: Against All Authority vs. Moscow Five; Sypher vs. Team Dignitas

Saturday, January 21st

16:00 – Semifinal #1
19:10 – Semifinal #2

Sunday, January 22nd

12:00 – 3rd Place Game
15:30 – Finals

Surprised to see TSM playing extremely good, considering that OddOne said in his vlog that the team decided to baylife the tourney.

Pretty much all games were one sided today. I was hoping that at least SK and Curse would be even, but the disadvantage Curse happened to be at due to some player changes was too big for then to stand up to SK.

I'm curious too see how well M5 is going to perform tomorrow, since they seem to be at their best lately; aside from that it's hard to say who will dominate the group B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8_p2CHeEs
(no hes not crazy, he just yelld for player Fomko to hear him, they are kinda rivals from old times)

Played soloq games with him btw

Oh wow, M5 completely dominated Dignitas. They were struggling during early game, and it's their first offline event, unlike Dignitas, I think, so it was really unexpected. Can't wait to see how they will perform against aAa

I think M5 will win, cuz I watched AlexIch streams for long time, they easy won against TSM in training matches. aAa is weaker imo so there should be no probs with them.

Btw TSM wants to move on EUW, Reginald said that EUW has higher skill than NA

S.O.A.R. wrote:they easy won against TSM in training matches

TSM lost the majority of the scrims, yet yesterday they destroyed SK and Curse...

Oh god. Tomorrow is gonna be epic

AD kennen is stronk

And who gives me now the link to the VoDs?

Tomorrow
M5 vs SK
TSM vs Dignitas

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My thoughts:

Imagine TSM as Hulk, and M5 as Godzilla. Imagine their groups as small cardboard cities. You get the idea. Now imagine those who clashing in the finals. It has to be awesome.

On a second note, unless something happens to one of the teams, I believe the winner is pretty much going to be decided during bans and picks. And since M5 is not quite a well known team, they'll have a slight advantage of being harder to predict here.

I love M5 because they play not common setup, like previous game with AD Kennen, at training matches they showed excellent Master Yi solo top and Dr. Mundo jungling.. will see if they gonna pick something like that. But actually AlexIch said in the interview that, they not gonna invent something new :| (hope he lied )

I love M5 because they play uncommon setup, like previous game with AD Kennen, at training matches they showed excellent Master Yi solo top and Dr. Mundo jungling.. will see if they gonna pick something like that. But actually AlexIch said in the interview that, they not gonna invent something new :| (hope he lied )

Trying to "invent" stuff during an offline tournament is pretty much trolling yourself. No team would do that.

well, M5 dominated again

They're showing a replay right now

M5 versus SK on Stream right now!

--> Stream link <--

Dyrus just stopped commenting and turned off his stream because, as he said, SK is doing retarded stuff and the game is just too sad to watch. And honestly, I agree. The outcome of the (first, so far) M5 vs SK game is a 80% SK doing. The thing is, M5 aren't winning because they're extraordinary players. I don't think they are. They're winning because of their extremely boldly playstyle. It's something all the teams M5 has faced so far have overlooked I think - they were aiming at the players (aAa banning Nunu, Shyvana and Ryze for example) instead of aiming at the hyper boldly meta M5 are bringing. They tried to adapt to it and play by M5's rules, but doing so were setting them at such a clear disadvantage. What SK should have done instead is try to punish them for it, I think.

I might be wrong of course. Those are just my thoughts.

did I missed something? where is this quote from?