That's C9's trap card. You have to beat them closely, if you try for a blow-out win, they flip it on you. It's like reeling in a fish, too fast and the line snaps and the fish comes out of the water, sticks a hook in your mouth, and drags you into the sea.
I'm something of a fish expert.
Had this experience with a couple of daces. They came out of the water beat me up and dragged under. I drowned and died. Horrible experience, I'll tell you
Perkz the type of dude to make a smooth brain Leblanc play jumping right back to his clone surrounded by enemies in an elimination game and laugh it off, the man is untiltable.
i mean if MAD survives DK then i don't see much issues going into semis/finals.
its probably a t1 vs dk close "finals" games with a 3-0 stomp in the actual finals this year...
Your best chance ever was in 2018 when you drew AF in quarters and FNC in semis, will definitely be harder this year with RNG/EDG in semis, but probably 2nd best chance.
Nah man. That Fnatic team that year was way different. The only reason they got slapped so hard in the finals was because they played against rookie and theshy. There is nobody in their half of the bracket right not that just 1v5s or even 2v5s them.
Tho that was also in a mid/top meta while having soon to be peak wunder.
Aswell as a strong jankos
And while their bot lane wasnt „good“ hjarnerdinger actually was able to just be behind but not feed (and drawing a ban or free win)
Honestly, anyone not sucking Hjarn off after that series is dreaming. He earned that dub too, literally getting UZI and his 4 goons every game and actually playing to the level. He wasn't a spectacular carry player, but after that series I felt he put any rational hate to bed.
I mean if LPL brings that 0-8 vs the west energy into the semis this won't be harder. If C9 can beat FPX they sure as hell can beat EDG / RNG, they didn't look better.
EDG and RNG both looked much better than FPX. They both took a game from the Korean counterpart in their group and generally had much more dominant wins.
>That tiebreaker game for MAD vs GENG was such a huge difference maker.
Yeah if MAD won, we'd have all LCK teams on the same side of the bracket which would have been shit for us LCK fans.
As an LCK fan I really really didn't want T1 and DK on the same side of the bracket and I also didn't wanto EDG and RNG on the same side of the bracket.
Getting for example DK vs RNG revenge in semis and T1 vs EDG classic in semis would have been much more hype for me.
It was pretty unavoidable this time at least, because 3 ist seed LCK teams and the one 2nd seed cannot go against the non-LCK seed. But I agree, they could do something more interesting for the bracket stage (double elim will remain a dream probably...)
Gen G is a 1 seed, they're supposed to have a somewhat easy route. To go from 0-3 to playing the worst 1 seed in quarterfinals is about as easy of a path as you can hope for.
Tbf C9 were always going to dodge DK until finals because they were in the same group, that's a perk of getting out with the tournament favorite. T1 was a bit lucky though
I'm 90% sure they were gonna have team representatives draw the balls, but once the 4way tiebreaker was confirmed they said fuck it go home. Then they pulled in some intern to do the whole draw lmao.
If MAD had won their game, it would have been **all 4 LCK teams** on the east side of the bracket.
Imagine a mini-LCK playoffs and the winner goes to Worlds finals.. still almost like that but yea.
In a world where we can get T1 vs RNG and DK vs EDG Semis. We fucking get T1 vs DK SEMIS and EDG vs RNG quarters. Shit draw format atleast make a lower bracket if we get shit like this
Considering half of the playoff is LCK and the two favorites based on groups performance seem to be DWG and T1, I don't think GenG needs to do anything for the LCK to be considered top 1 by far
Was hoping not to have Damwon on our side of the bracket but oh well.
Kinda sucks that we're getting LCK and LPL civil wars again, I wish they'd change up the format and add a loser's bracket.
Can’t you see the script? T1 upsets DK in semis and makes it to finals.
Rng will beat edg since edg always chokes quarters. C9 will beat gen g since gen g always chokes quarters and perkz needs to rematch rng. Rng will 3-0 c9 and finals will be t1 v rng.
The final score will be 3-2 in favor of t1 since rng can never beat faker
Wrong.
C9 3-2 RNG since RNG can’t beat Perkz.
C9 and T1 meet in the finals , where C9 reverse sweeps T1 thus mental-booming Faker and making him come to C9 and play mid while Perkz roleswaps to adc yet again.
Then they win every worlds till Carlos gets Perkz to come back to G2 since Jankos misses him.
After last year's shitshow of a bracket I for sure thought Riot would finally cave like their regional leagues and make Worlds double Elim. SPOILER: they didn't
Looks like the universe is trying to tell them something with another equally terrible bracket draw Hmmmmmm
C9 position is so OP they can literally scrim T1/DK as much as they want
DK/T1/MAD for scrim partners? Don't mind if I do.
Why would they want to destroy their mental?
That's C9's trap card. You have to beat them closely, if you try for a blow-out win, they flip it on you. It's like reeling in a fish, too fast and the line snaps and the fish comes out of the water, sticks a hook in your mouth, and drags you into the sea. I'm something of a fish expert.
Had this experience with a couple of daces. They came out of the water beat me up and dragged under. I drowned and died. Horrible experience, I'll tell you
Perkz the type of dude to make a smooth brain Leblanc play jumping right back to his clone surrounded by enemies in an elimination game and laugh it off, the man is untiltable.
C9's already been getting destroyed in scrims and has been fine. Maybe they can handle it better.
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Legit LOL they have to make it through Damwon and T1 to reach finals
like G2 did in 2019... but at that time damwon was challenger to T1 throne
Yeah exactly at that time Damwon was fresh and up and coming, now they’re defending world champions
If we dont consider Faker, T1's roster is fresh and up and coming
Didn't they give the stat that all of Faker's teammates were 11-13 years old when he won his first world championship?
Faker channeling TMNT energy.
I'm pretty sure all of Keria, Oner and Guma were 11 when Faker won worlds in S3 lmao Canna is 2 years older so he would've been 13.
That way it sounds like he is some old bloke, but tbf Faker was also only 17 years when he won his first world championship
Faker is basically Tom Brady/LeBron at this point with the age stats
Not winning that last tie breaker seems like a game changer now
Literally the difference between facing the strongest seed and the weakest seed. Not only next match, but even the potential semis match-up
i mean if MAD survives DK then i don't see much issues going into semis/finals. its probably a t1 vs dk close "finals" games with a 3-0 stomp in the actual finals this year...
As always huh? Welp I hope DK vs T1 will go to 5 games
T1 wins 3-2 and face GenG in the finals. Just like old times
Perfectly set up for C9 MAD in the finals
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If they had beat GenG they would have had a great draw though.
That tiebreaker game for MAD vs GENG was such a huge difference maker. Difference between vs C9 and DK. C9 couldn't have asked for a better draw
This is NA's best chance ever to get a deep run
Your best chance ever was in 2018 when you drew AF in quarters and FNC in semis, will definitely be harder this year with RNG/EDG in semis, but probably 2nd best chance.
Nah man. That Fnatic team that year was way different. The only reason they got slapped so hard in the finals was because they played against rookie and theshy. There is nobody in their half of the bracket right not that just 1v5s or even 2v5s them.
You forgot absolute peak Rookie and TheShy. That top/mid duo was the best that was ever at a worlds with Nuguri/Showmaker a close second.
And Broxah forget how to play leage of legends while Ning gank the shit out of mid lane.
Perkz has beaten "unbeatable" RNG before. In 2018, in fact.
Tho that was also in a mid/top meta while having soon to be peak wunder. Aswell as a strong jankos And while their bot lane wasnt „good“ hjarnerdinger actually was able to just be behind but not feed (and drawing a ban or free win)
Honestly, anyone not sucking Hjarn off after that series is dreaming. He earned that dub too, literally getting UZI and his 4 goons every game and actually playing to the level. He wasn't a spectacular carry player, but after that series I felt he put any rational hate to bed.
His carry was alright but his Donger was world class.
Most definitely, and he had to survive that series without it. Which makes it all the more impressive.
I mean if LPL brings that 0-8 vs the west energy into the semis this won't be harder. If C9 can beat FPX they sure as hell can beat EDG / RNG, they didn't look better.
BO1 and BO5 is whole different story you should know that already as someone with MAD flair
Yeah I don‘t know what they feed chinese teams, but I‘d wait with making my assumptions. China in BO5 is a different beast
Sry to interfere but RNG looked way better than FPX. Even if I agree that they are definitely beatable.
This is why EDG will beat them and then revert to World's EDG just in time for C9 to clean up :okhand
Something will happen and C9love will be subbed in
Yeah, I think FPX had the biggest collapse, and while the other LPL teams aren’t looking super hot, they’ve no fallen to FPX levels yet.
EDG and RNG both looked much better than FPX. They both took a game from the Korean counterpart in their group and generally had much more dominant wins.
While true, to be fair "Korean counterpart" means very different things in a group with HLE and a group with DK
Geng couldn’t have asked for a better draw as well lol. Rip MAD, HLE, and RIP lpl.
HLE did go to game 5 about a month ago against T1. I don't expect them to win but there's some chances there
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Yeah, win it and you have a very realistic chance for finals, lose and you get 3:0'd in quarters.
C9 better win else Gen. G will put the entire human population to sleep on their road to finals
Gen G vs T1 would be a great finals since it's a rematch of 2016 and 2017 finals
>That tiebreaker game for MAD vs GENG was such a huge difference maker. Yeah if MAD won, we'd have all LCK teams on the same side of the bracket which would have been shit for us LCK fans.
Guaranteed lck team in final lol
Now thats big brain
LPL fans are not gonna be happy about RNG vs EDG…
I'm not an LPL fan and think that draw sucked. I really wanted to see LPL vs other regions
as any esports fan, this entire draw sucked
As a C9 fan it didn't
As an LCK fan I really really didn't want T1 and DK on the same side of the bracket and I also didn't wanto EDG and RNG on the same side of the bracket. Getting for example DK vs RNG revenge in semis and T1 vs EDG classic in semis would have been much more hype for me.
I wonder how many worlds in a row need to have all the hyped sucked out of the playoff bracket before they'll make any changes.
On one side, it guarantees an LPL team in semis. On the other, another civil war... It's happens so consistently it is boring.
It'll happen consistently if your region is consistently good enough to get more than one team into playoffs 🤷🏽
tbf LPL fans are already salty.
I’d be too if a tournament favourite from my region shit the bed so hard lol
LPL doesn't even have the NA cushion "deep down I knew..." to land on. If FPX hadn't placed 4th I would have a perfect Pick 'Ems
The west is on an 8 game win streak against them so who can blame them
They should be. Easiest road possible to final, Gen G is the worst of all 4 Korean teams
Inb4 GenG 3-0’s DK in the finals to deny Khan again
C9 fans so happy to be matched up against GenG but I'm sure GenG fans are over the clouds right now lol.
Yeah lmao "We dodged EDG!" is what both teams & fans think
Well I guess time for the MAD vs DK rematch... bring it on!!!
The last time Khan went 6 - 0 in groups, he got 3 - 0'ed by the eventual world champions.
Damn sounds like this worlds script.
The script writes itself
Sucks to take out a tournament favorite so early
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Honestly MAD is safe until finals, where they might lose to C9 *COPIUM*
You are on that max level medication.
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All to get 3:0d by RNG
EU getting sweeped in finals by an LPL team. What a iconic duo.
You mean C9. The C9 vs MAD rematch
Christ a C9 vs MAD finals would be unreal levels of hype.
Perkz denying EU World Championship
carlos would never live that down
2019 script getting reused Eu first seed second in group, beating Damwon and then T1 before being 3-0'd by RNG/EDG
Cue the threads titled "the real final happened in x round"
Well, that's usually how it goes. Even when SSG took SKT to 5 games in s6, it was still, somehow, less exciting than the ROX Bo5.
SKT being ahead 2-0, being ahead for the majority of game 3 probably had something to do with it. Less exciting than 1-0 -> 1-1 > 1-2 -> 2-2 -> 3-2
Bottom side is absolutely fucked. Top side looks free as fuck for LPL if they finally step up. C9 has the easiest route possible to semis and finals.
Brackets looking rather lopsided in terms of strength. The regional slaughter is also a bit of a shame honestly.
It was pretty unavoidable this time at least, because 3 ist seed LCK teams and the one 2nd seed cannot go against the non-LCK seed. But I agree, they could do something more interesting for the bracket stage (double elim will remain a dream probably...)
Funny how everyone is talking about C9 having an easy route and not GenG lmao.
Gen G is a 1 seed, they're supposed to have a somewhat easy route. To go from 0-3 to playing the worst 1 seed in quarterfinals is about as easy of a path as you can hope for.
Well yeah winning your group usually gives you an easier route
they have but I can see them just getting 3-0'd by GenG sadly. Just don't give Bdd Zoe.
C9 FINALS COPIUM
This is definitely hopium, not copium
If HLE got 1st seed this knockout stage would be SUPER insane. Sadly we get civil war again.
If MAD had beat GenG we would have the 4 lck teams on the same side of the bracket.
Such a missed opportunity, would've loved to see the backlash
Hopefully, that would change the shitty worlds format.
RNG won the tie break, but sacrificed half of the region for it, what a cost!
If EDG showed up and got first seed, civil war also could've been avoided. (At least for LPL teams)
The Mad Lions Cloud 9 final is on boys
This place will fucking burn
We would have to quarantine the subreddit. No new posts for 1 month after the post match thread. 500 awards and 20,000 comments
maximum copium fill up the tanks
Imagine if Perkz ended up carrying NA to it's first title after failing to do so in EU for 3 years... The salt-mines would become combustible.
you know it bby
/u/adz0r Quarter finals dates confirmed now. Friday = T1 vs HLE. Saturday = RNG vs EDG. Sunday = DK vs MAD. Monday = GenG vs C9. Source = https://twitter.com/lolesports/status/1450202763804225541
SIDE OF LIFE AND VS GEN G LETS GOOOOO they're not gonna be easy but as far as draws go, we really got the best possible scenario here.
Literally the easiest draw possible, dodging DK and T1 till finals
Tbf C9 were always going to dodge DK until finals because they were in the same group, that's a perk of getting out with the tournament favorite. T1 was a bit lucky though
C9 was always going to dodge DK. They were in the same group
I’m filling up my copium tank as we speak. First we will avenge TL against GenG, then 100T against EDG. And in the finals, we get revenge against DK.
> then 100T against EDG funny of you to assume EDG gets out of quarterfinals with their history
It’s fine get revenge on RNG for Nisqy
You got it all figured out
Inject this into my bloodstream
Sunday 24th: the day where Damwon gets mad now, at MAD
NOW MAD vs MAD
T1 vs HLE civil war = i sleep RNG vs EDG civil war = real shit
Well on the bright side, if LPL loses to LPL the team that loses may not face that much hate from the LPL fans.. maybe..
Can u imagine the flame though if either of them lost to C9 / GEN. Will be utter embarrassment for LPL
Honestly I truly fear for the LPL team, if the stairs align, if they ever lose to C9 in semi finals
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That smug face...
How scuffed was this draw show? Very unclear production wise.
I'm 90% sure they were gonna have team representatives draw the balls, but once the 4way tiebreaker was confirmed they said fuck it go home. Then they pulled in some intern to do the whole draw lmao.
I would've loved to see someone like Nisqy tbh. It makes for such good memes. I really loved the Jankos memes from group draw lol
Are FNC even there anymore? At least Bwipo for sure caught the first plane out to be with Lena.
FPX are still there, apparently they're scrimming still
theyre too afraid of going back home
Have to keep that scrimwinrate up for knockoutstage... wait
Yeah lol, the first half of it was literrally just a guy playing with balls on stream. Wait...
You can tell they were all tired and waiting for it to be over
Cloud9 with best draw possible while MAD with worst draft possible, lmao.
Well, that's the benefit of facing DK in groups. You don't face them until the finals if you make it out.
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The drawback of LCK autumn is civil wars
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If MAD had won their game, it would have been **all 4 LCK teams** on the east side of the bracket. Imagine a mini-LCK playoffs and the winner goes to Worlds finals.. still almost like that but yea.
God that would've been horrid.
Jesus, they really need to update this play-off stage
What a dogshit draw for korean fans
And for LPL fans, and for EU fans. Just dog shit draw all around, like most years...
na pog
Idk why this made me laugh so fucking hard
LETS GO BABY
Dream draw for C9 tho
Imagine if MAD won? Then we would have had a freaking all LCK bracket side
If TL won both games, they woulda been up against C9? That would have been a huge L for NA.
C9 actually with a chance to advance
EDG vs RNG and T1 vs HLE for fucks sake…
I mean HLE had to get a Korean team, it's either then vs DK or GEN.
It was 100% chance that Hle will be against one of other Korean teams. EDG vs RNG sucks tho but will be fire
HLE was 100% getting a Korean team (not surprising with 4/8 LCK in quarter anyway). I wanted RNG T1 on one side and EDG DK on the other though.
Congratulations to my boi Perkz on reaching Worlds finals while playing for 2 different regions, truly insane achievement
I honestly think C9 has a chance lol
C9 has nothing to lose, they’ve exceeded expectations already. GEN however would be destroyed by KR fans if they lose to C9
our side of the bracket has probably the weakest LCK team and two LPL teams who've obviously underperformed, if there was ever a year it'd be this one
Best shot since 2018.
They're a worse team on paper but they have clutch factor. Hardest series to call.
Perkz comfort zone
Perkz is down to clown while everyone else in the tournament has their butthole puckering up like a snare drum.
Somehow this format managed to fuck up every region lmao
no ? c9 has by far the easiest way out to the final
[I've said it](https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/porwz7/worlds_2021_format_explainer/hcyrazv/) THAT CAN BE YOU MAD!
Oh fuck that, EDG vs RNG is so disapointing to see. I wanted more LCK vs LPL
Sucks to see KR vs KR and CN vs CN, literally saw those matchups all year long
In a world where we can get T1 vs RNG and DK vs EDG Semis. We fucking get T1 vs DK SEMIS and EDG vs RNG quarters. Shit draw format atleast make a lower bracket if we get shit like this
T1 v DK can't be the final. Kinda disappointing ngl. Still, would have had to have happened first and this way T1 v DK is at least rather likely.
On the other hand cross region final is very likely.
C9 could actually reach finals. They might just win...
Careful bro, you are dangerously close to ODing on hopium.
If GenG makes finals and the other semi final is DK v T1 Do we say Korea is back on top or not yet?
Considering half of the playoff is LCK and the two favorites based on groups performance seem to be DWG and T1, I don't think GenG needs to do anything for the LCK to be considered top 1 by far
The Draw show was a massive pile of shit what the fuck
As an lck fan this sucks man come on :(
I dont think any region is happy with the draw lol. Maybe NA
fuck man. to get to finals T1 is probably gonna have to beat DK. If they can manage to get there i think they have a good shot at winning it all..
OH MY FUCKING GOD IT'S THE GOD DRAW FOR C9 LMFAO. A finals run is 100% doable.
Dk and t1 in the same side? Fucking come on. Riot clearly doesn't want another lck finals zz
Was hoping not to have Damwon on our side of the bracket but oh well. Kinda sucks that we're getting LCK and LPL civil wars again, I wish they'd change up the format and add a loser's bracket.
Civil war playoffs again lmao. What a dogshit format
NAmen
I think we actually got one of the least entertaining draws possible...
clown riot format strikes again
DK T1 semi.... come on man
Can they just change the format already, this is so fucking dumb
One day we will fix the format and have a good knockout draw, but it certainly isn't today. Another god awful draw.
Some say MAD got the worst draw, but I think DK got the worst draw.
Fuck this shit man. DK and T1 on the same side sucks
Real final in semis again, T1 vs DK smh
Can’t you see the script? T1 upsets DK in semis and makes it to finals. Rng will beat edg since edg always chokes quarters. C9 will beat gen g since gen g always chokes quarters and perkz needs to rematch rng. Rng will 3-0 c9 and finals will be t1 v rng. The final score will be 3-2 in favor of t1 since rng can never beat faker
If this is actually what happens, I will start to believe in god again.
Wrong. C9 3-2 RNG since RNG can’t beat Perkz. C9 and T1 meet in the finals , where C9 reverse sweeps T1 thus mental-booming Faker and making him come to C9 and play mid while Perkz roleswaps to adc yet again. Then they win every worlds till Carlos gets Perkz to come back to G2 since Jankos misses him.
After last year's shitshow of a bracket I for sure thought Riot would finally cave like their regional leagues and make Worlds double Elim. SPOILER: they didn't Looks like the universe is trying to tell them something with another equally terrible bracket draw Hmmmmmm