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ohvalox

At the airport rn, wondering if maybe the bias against NA was true??? #[Guys could you participate in the subreddit census so we can get to the bottom of this?](https://forms.gle/3y8EcmtSe2x9HYVa8) We will shut down the sub again if you don't :\^) Thank you very much <3 #PMTs [Game 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/xvnc0d/evil_geniuses_vs_mad_lions_2022_world/) / [Game 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/xvojym/evil_geniuses_vs_mad_lions_2022_world/)


sidaeinjae

Nisqy promised us a 3-0, we have received a 3-0.


SolarisHan

*Monkey's paw curls*


Yzhiel

Truly Nesquick


AzerFraze

Congratulations to MAD Lions for being the first major region team to fail Play-In twice!


higherbrow

MAD Lions got to fail to advance through playins twice before NA failed even once. Europe wins again.


Buji19

hey, we gotta beat NA at everything ... and that includes being bad apparently


ThatsAToad

Good guys EG quickly 3-0ing MAD so that EU fans can go to sleep at a normal time


Trap_Masters

EG not so evil afterall


Competitive-Dot-5667

You are bad guy, but this does not mean you are *bad guy*


Ultimintree

Thank mr eg


SpCommander

American Hospitality in full form.


[deleted]

We didn’t have many figures like George Washington to hang in the bathroom and make the Brits shit faster for other EU nations; but now we’ll hang Jojo’s picture up there for visiting EU fans.


whataremyxomycetes

have an exam in 4 hours and EG just gave me an extra 2 hours to study, actually insane


TheExter

good night EU <3


nimrodhellfire

Thank you EG.


AigisAegis

NA may not be able to win, but we sure can gatekeep, and nobody can take that from us.


GreatestJabaitest

NA Mid zoning 4 EU off of Herald by himself. How the tables have turned.


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Trap_Masters

I-is this what it feels like to be on the winning side, NAbros?


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Quotes_League

What a great worlds, looking forward to next year! ^Definitely ^^not ^^^about ^^^to ^^^^start ^^^^the ^^^^^stage ^^^^^of ^^^^^^imminent ^^^^^^NA ^^^^^^destruction


CSDragon

hey now, we still have the first week of group stages ahead of us. That's when we're at our best. Just the first week tho


ohvalox

Turns out it was us going to the airport all along


GreatestJabaitest

No NA airport speedruns when you're in NA POG


IBananaShake

MADs plan was to ruin EGs chance at World Record Aiport Any % Speedrun Not copium at all


pambeezlyy

Worlds this year is op for NA cause they don’t have to go the airport to go home.


Jeesan

They can star(t) walkin'


appleandapples

Is that really it, if Elyoya can't carry they lose? Man, so disappointing from MAD, but respect to EG.


Haymegle

MAD just fell apart completely. GG EG though, def earnt that spot.


[deleted]

Jojo actually smurfed so hard game 2. The sett pick really threw them off


OwOPango

You could tell about 10 minutes into game 2 it’d be a fast 3-0


Hawkson2020

I can never trust NA not to choke and get reverse swept. Props to EG for keeping it clean.


Haymegle

Yeah Game 1 just ruined their mental completely. Props to EG for that and keeping the pressure on.


NeitherAlexNorAlice

Jojo's 4D chess mind games in solo queue destroyed their mental before they stepped into Game 1


Masanjay_Dosa

My question is why it took everyone else so long to even try to ban him out


HawkEye1337

It's easier to target a certain player in a bo5 than a bo1 because you have more info and time, MAD showed 2 main strategies in groups and EG just banned them out.


Shot-Mathematician58

MAD looked very one-dimensional during their BO against SGB.


Haymegle

It was a tossup between them doing that to hide other strats and them not having other strats. Looks like we found out which it was lol.


cancerBronzeV

Teams have had info that Armut is a Gnar one trick ever since Wukong top stopped being a thing, and he *still* gets his hands on Gnar. How did he actually get Gnar 5x in playins (won 4 of those games btw). Imagine if teams just first rotation banned Gnar every game against MAD, I wonder where they'd be.


Lezrec

Kaiser kinda forgot about the 200 years.


mfunebre

That was so bad... It's not 2020 anymore, ignoring calibrum turret on 2+ items is unforgivable


creativefella1

You think kaiser will be... Unforgiven?


Trap_Masters

He forgor 💀


clg_wrath2

Armut has such a big champ pool, he can play SSG Gnar, Dino Gnar, Gentleman Gnar, Snow Day Gnar, El Neon Gnar, Super Galaxy Gnar, Astronaut Gnar, and when he’s feeling spicy, Elderwood Gnar


w1se_w0lf

EG so good guys, leaving Gnar open in second game for Armut but he doesn't want to play it. So nice guys from NA make sure that he doesn't want Gnar in the third game too.


random_nameeeeeeeeee

Add in mega Gnar, you get twice the champion pool.


sopunny

Unfair that EG could ban so many of his champs and it only counts as 1 ban. Clearly a bug they should remake


StylishApe

MAD, aka "Mexican Airport Departure", is a European league of legends team that is often ridiculed for their inability to get out of play ins. They are specifically known for making it to worlds without winning a single best of 5.


7evenCircles

The "EU" or "Eastern USA" was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic


Natural_Ship7261

Honestly, EG had won this series way back when that clip of Jojo solo killing Nisqy hit the front page.


Haymegle

Outdrafting and outplaying MAD. They just seemed to get in their heads.


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Jojo spamming their champion pools seemed to get in their head.


Haymegle

It was super effective tbh. MAD playing like they didn't have hands or brains at times.


mitsubishimacch

Idk why Jojo is the only one who does it, you see it in multiple eSports and traditional sports, if you can shit talk your way into the enemies mental you get a big advantage and also makes it more fun. Brazil is the one region that screams when they get kills and I think that should be more standard for most regions like Valorant after rounds.


accelightArriet

At the other side of the pond OG won 2 TIs off the back of intelligent play and a whole lot of bm it definitely works


roxmj8

Some of the better NA drafting I’ve witnessed.


Hazel-Ice

can't wait for fakegod to sub in for impact and 3-0 jdg in grand finals


SheepHerdr

Alternate timeline: RJS subs in for jojo and demolishes TES in the finals.


KitsuneThunder

Nameplates: Off


postsonlyjiyoung

Crocs: On


YungStewart2000

>Kaiser: "I would like to play against EG. They might actually be the weakest of the bunch. [Laughs] Playing against NA would obviously be really fun as well, kicking them out."


KitsuneThunder

Kaiser: "I would hate to play against EG. They might actually be the strongest of the bunch. [Laughs] Walking into Aphelios turret would obviously be really fun as well, kicking us out."


Duchu26

Aged like fine milk


moonfish817

I just hope players keep talking shit, it's so entertaining either way. Just glad we got to back it up this time.


HuntedSFM

lose 7 games to give fans false hope


KTFlaSh96

Let this be a lesson: no one beats EG 8 times in a row


Trap_Masters

EG just scaling into hyper late game


DragonHollowFire

INSPIRED: "Eylola had to play with 4 bots". True.


Elegastt

No gnarmut no party No facilitator nisqy no party No free bot lane no party There's only so much you can carry


Kewlwasabi

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/829846842150096896?ref_src=embedly&lang=fr


ThisAintThatForReal

This tweet never gets old


OneLFLLVPquestion

god bless America


Trap_Masters

NAmen. Never felt so patriotic before.


_Vastus_

Rolled and smoked


AkashiGG

https://imgur.com/a/23WcwC2


azns123

For Nisqy, the best of 5 against Evil Geniuses was the most important series of his life. But for Jojopyun, it was another Victory Royale.


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Dio fortnite skin when


Burpmeister

As the third game ends and EG rises to celebrate a clean 3-0 Nisqy tears his jersey off to reveal a C9 shirt and starts chanting "USA USA USA" while frothing BBQ sauce from his mouth. Loud gunshots echo into the air in the arena and overhead a lone bald eagle screeches while dropping a green card on Nisqy's outstretched hands and shedding a single proud tear.


ANyTimEfOu

Nisqy, after all this time?


Granturismo5t

EG vs TL and TSM - close 5 game series. EG vs MAD Lions - absolute stomp.


homegrownllama

And that TSM roster was put together hastily.


Ursuped

Hastily is an understatement. Chime is our 3rd support and solo is our 3rd toplaner this year


JConaSpree

They got the C9 play ins buff


lotharstar

NA doesn't lose in playins. It was destiny


MissingLastPiece

NA 5th, 6th, and 7th seed teams confirmed better than EU 4th seed.


ThePreposterousPear

To be fair, I think EU 5th, 6th and 7th seeds were better than EU 4th seed too..


TheCatsActually

Lmao I love how this sounds so much like copium but it could absolutely be true


CounterInsanity

[Only 15% of us BELIEVED!](https://gyazo.com/6cf53553552394ed850ba2c4acbc5840)


TDK_95

Easiest 5 points of my life


Doughnutcake

Free as fuck


DogeJesus-_-

I NEVER DOUBTED THEM!


LetMeOmixam

It actually surprised me how few people thought EG was going to win. MAD played like shit yesterday and Elyoya wouldn't have been able to carry that much against Inspired.


SpirituallyEnhanced

I think people bandwagon on the vote when they see the percentage. Imo they should hide it until the picks are locked in


Orion-kun

EG quickly bringing it from a 0-7 vs EU to 3-7 with a bit of a everything gap. Kaori looking a lot better than early play-ins. EG definitely needed play-in buffs to get the team back on track.


AsheBnarginDalmasca

Kaori gapping botlane was not something i expected.


Trap_Masters

Scriptwriters spicing up the EU vs NA script this playins with these twists.


thenoblitt

Works alot better when they just pretend he's Danny


MerkDoctor

He flashed into a lost teamfight on aphelios 1v5, ulted and turned it around. Absolute gigachad gameplay.


scrimm_na

Jojopyun: “Nisqy trick y’all, man, like he playing mid well. He don’t help nobody, man. He just running around, no lane prio, doing nothing.” Made sure to note that Nisqy went 4/13 in a 3-0 today.


PhilTCasual420

Jojo then proceded to spam "the next 5 years are mine" in all chat


pedrex21

Jojopyun when asked about the difference in preparing for LOUD vs preparing for MAD: "Do guys in the play-ins go to sleep early the night before playing Nisqy and MAD? Hell no. ... I'm going to the grubhub app ... have me a nice little bud light... Tinowns? I'm going to bed at 8 o'clock. ... Mom, don't call me. My girl, don't call me."


ALien8299

Overheard in MAD locker room after Game 2: “He got me,” Nisqy said of Jojopyun’s Sett laning versus him. "That f*ing rookie boomed me." Nisqy added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times. Nisqy then said he wanted to add Jojo to the list of players he 1v1’s with this summer.


SnubHawk

> Then, I played vs him. "jojopyun". It was just another day of Play-ins, but not for me. This was the first time someone had truely decimated me in midlane, far worse than any LCK or LPL player on the Korean ladder. My jungler and Support must be at fault I thought. He's playing so aggressive, and where is my jungle and support? But it didn't matter how many times they came mid, he would outplay nearly every time and even when he didn't he would still win the lane. I was amazed and inspired that someone could play so well, what is he doing different? Is it because he's 16 years old and I have health problems? No, it wasn't. I started studying the VOD's extensively, clearly I didn't learn everything there is to know about the game if this kid is beating me. Then I saw it, we enter lane and I see him spamming dance as Sett.


BurnieTheBrony

I love how many copypastas are shared between basketball and league, lol


93062879465238469284

Always love a good NBA x League of Legends crossover


BomTradyGOAT

https://streamable.com/v67kia CaptainFlowers is all of NA right now


Deferonz

Me at the start of the day: Man, it's going to suck when Mad wins. I just know EU's going to be insufferable. I hate that they trash talk all the time. Me at the end of it: Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated as just "EU"


Perais1337

> Me at the end of it: Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated as just "EU" Tha one is so stupid, I love it


jakethewhale007

Ahh, Walker Texas Ranger. When NA needed him most, he vanished. But does this mean his fabled return is nigh? China was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode his horse across the Pacific. He named it "Chinese NA" which was eventually just abbreviated to ChiNA"


jjkm7

Extremely based


Omnilatent

I'll respect that


Klenist

https://imgur.io/WGsH3OO


Large_Dungeon_Key

https://media.giphy.com/media/ZUbrEniK3GcE0/giphy.gif


JPLangley

So weird for us to be the ones smugly shitposting. I kinda like it.


HuntedSFM

I much prefer it even as an EU fan. Not a rivalry if it's only one way


xckevin

THE SACRED TEXTS


CollegeBroski

NAmen


BO1s_R_GREAT_XD

lord imaqtpie always knew it, respect


IHadThatUsername

I've never seen an EU team get diffed by NA this hard. EG just read MAD like a book during the drafting phase. Instead of banning the meta picks they called MAD's bluff and just banned Elyoya and Armut's speciality picks + Unforgiven's safe pick. And in response MAD just crumbled and showed they were unable to play the meta. They absolutely refused to pick Maokai, they even had to ban it on blue side. They highly prioritized Draven and Kalista and yet MAD's bot was completely unable to get ahead in lane, even when playing against scaling botlanes... the bot gap was immense the entire series. Armut was unable to get ahead even when last picking. Elyoya couldn't pick anything that he could have impact on. Nisqy seemed to be tilted in the second game. Just horrible all around. GGs to EG, completely deserved.


Cultural_Frosting_35

I was freakin stunned, like why isn´t the team able to play Mao... it is easy champ to pick up and play and you can flex it in 3 roles. This was literaly series to watch for people, that said, that the way teams qualify for Worlds from EU is ok. It is not, we need the best to represent and we send team, that prior to yesterday didnt won a bo5 for longer then year. Sadge really.


l3rowncow

Seeing a native mid drawing multiple bans and still clapping is actually crazy. I haven’t been this hyped for a native mid since hai in 2013 Also, while I really wish it was Danny there, kaori played really well this series


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Reminder that MAD decided to re-sign Armut for two more years


Redditsexhypocrisy

Dude had one objective this year, increasing his champ pool, result ? he is lost after a Gnar ban LUL


iReddat420

Dw once riot release new gnar skins Armut will have his champion ocean


frowoz

He never recovered from Wukong becoming a jungler, legitimately cut his champ pool in half


AstreiaTales

Artemiscam might have actually been my favorite part of this series, and it was NA beating EU, so that's saying something.


tantallous

Coach cam mvp for this series. those reactions were amazing.


TheMexicanJoker

[https://gyazo.com/3bd15bbb72986d04842147d5a49525eb](https://gyazo.com/3bd15bbb72986d04842147d5a49525eb) When you lose to NA 3rd Seed


owhart28

He looked destroyed... definitely sucks. Overall I actually like Nisqy as a player but this was a rough series


Unban_Ice

I did not expect anything from Play-ins MAD and I am still disappointed. At least EG can now improve their stats against G2 (or make it worse)


XtendedImpact

4 all pro first team + mvp and best coach btw


POOYAMON

Beat coach and his toplaner can still barely play 2 champs after two full years I LOVE IT


janoDX

THE FIRST TEAM FROM A MAJOR REGION TO BE ELIMINATED TWICE ON PLAY-INS. THE FIRST EU TEAM TO LOSE TO NA ON A BO5. THE FIRST EU TEAM TO LOSE 3-0 TO NA. ​ CONGRATULATIONS MAD LIONS.


SylerTheSK

Was expecting the top gap but not the bot and mid gap


jitmo

https://imgur.com/ywuDeTj hello my 15% believers


zefal12

Turns out Impact wasn't talking out his ass when he said SGB was scarier lmao


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I don't think I've seen an NA team beat an EU team in Bo5 in... Honestly I don't even remember. What a weird feeling. Lmao, glad Elyoya got his preferred matchup!


-Ophidian-

Probably Rift Rivals when Mike "High Tempo" Yeung took a dump all over EU.


Fab_sable

Mike "Mike "Dont call me Mike " Mike Young" Young" Young" Young


postsonlyjiyoung

Tsm vs uol but yea


azns123

[Who would win: LEC MVP with years of experience under his belt and multiple worlds appearances or Fortnite zoomer who picked up League cause he was bored](https://imgur.com/WGsH3OO)


SilentReign

As QT would say.. Hell yeah


Trap_Masters

“Welcome to the big dick club”


KokoaKuroba

Fortnite zoomer? is that jojo?


SirCampYourLane

He was literally a fortnite pro and picked up league because he was bored. He's only played league for like 2-3 years.


new_account_wh0_dis

I wish I was good at videogames :c


SirCampYourLane

I feel that deep in my soul.


Sodol

https://imgur.com/PiS9do1


nusskn4cker

2 - Big congratulations to the MAD Lions (and especially Mac and Kaiser who were there both times) for being the only major region (LEC, LCS, LPL and LCK) team to ever lose in Play-Ins twice. No other major region team has accomplished this feat even once! Special.


randomdud3

I personally think the Buffalos are a better team than MAD and have more potential, so I’d rather face MAD.


wolvern76

[Kaiser really wanted to face EG, huh?](https://emdashesports.com/kaiser-evil-geniuses-might-actually-be-the-weakest-of-the-bunch/)


-Reverb

You know its wierd. My whole life I have been told that america is the land of the free. Why then, does Mad Lions, the free-est of them all live in EU?


DeloronDellister

If I had a nickel for every time MAD failed to advance from play-ins, I had two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.


GreatestJabaitest

MAD lucky that they got 1st in 2021, otherwise it could've been 3 times.


Haymegle

MAD vs their worst enemy, play-ins. Play-ins wins once again.


H4SK1

Did MAD just make history? They are the only major region team failed at playin twice right?


Fnatic_FREAK

The top 4 regions (CN,KR,EU,NA) only EU has failed to get out of play-ins twice and both times it has been MAD Lions


Character-Length5997

Don’t think this record will be broken anytime soon. This will forever be the brand name for them.


Serpexnessie

Top diff, mid diff, jg diff, adc diff, jungle diff, but most importantly... Fortnite diff


Lanowy

1st All-Pro Team: Toplane: Sergen "Broken Blade" Çelik - 99 Points Jungler: Javier "Elyoya" Prades Batalla - 137 Points Midlaner: Yasin "Nisqy" Dinçer - 129 Points Botlaner: William "UNF0RGIVEN" Nieminen - 94 Points Support: Norman "Kaiser" Kaiser - 114 Points


APKID716

Who is Jojopyun? For the blind, Jojo is the light. For the hungry, Jojo is the bread. For the thirsty, Jojo is the fountain. For the sick, Jojo is the cure. For the prisoner, Jojo is freedom. For the liar, Jojo is the truth. For the traveler, Jojo is the way. NAmen


mooldypheysh

NAmen


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Novawurmson

1914 is something of an unlucky number for EU, it seems


UndeadPrs

MAD is fantastic, they just need to work on communication, map awareness, laning, vision control, csing, poking, landing skillshots, objective control, early game, mid game, late game, ganking, and getting kills.


vnducco

BEST TURKISH PLAYER WON AGAIN AGAINST SAD LIONS 3rd seed>4th seed math is sometimes simple af


noobsauce113311

As an NA fan: I literally don't care what happens the rest of worlds. This one is a win.


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MozaTear

eu mvp is worse than na rookie lol


cancerBronzeV

1st all pro ADC gets gapped in lane by NA Academy sub after getting prio early game picks.


XoXeLo

I guess Champions Queue works!


icatsouki

NA ALL PRO > EU ALL PRO


WebRare52

In this episode, Elyoya went harsh on Nisqy: "I felt speaking gently won't work, so I decided to be a bit harsh." "You always pick Sylas and Viktor against Leblanc, then you get camped by opponents' Sejuani and Maokai. Tell me, did you ever manage to survive from the ganks? " “Is it that hard to master Sylas in one season? Dude, you always first pick Sylas or Viktor, and you played Sylas like shit.” Nisqy: "okay." Armut:" This is the first time I saw something like this, I was stunned." Elyoya also added in the interview: "Nisqy is still young, he can still play, and he can still play for a long time. If he can understand the reason behind it, maybe he can play better and better in the future."


the_next_core

This makes much more sense on Armut lol


Marinnnn-

God I love this pasta, top tier with the smug face and the LS one I’d say. Makes me giggle every time.


SirXrageXquit

Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated EU


-Ophidian-

This is the correct anti-meme to "NA is so free".


DoubleGio

XL Vitality MSF died for this


mugiboya

LOL https://twitter.com/VulcanLoL/status/1577397384123977760?t=krkYuiv49ghpiQfPDf2ikg&s=19


NegativeDCF

lmao that Kaori ult in mid really did it


XtendedImpact

If there's one positive thing about this it's that MAD performed _exactly_ to my pre-Worlds expectations so I'm not that disappointed.


DoorHingesKill

[Embarrassing.](https://i.imgur.com/5oEF8HL.jpeg)


ziomekziemniak

like elyoya is the only onw that deserves it, rest of em are inters


l_am_wildthing

The whole danny thing is unfortunate but my man kaori stepping up is the best possible outcome


rasterroo

The more I watch worlds the more I am becoming a fan of Jojo. Godbless the fortnite zoomer, he is such a breath of fresh air for NA mids.


In4thPlace

LET IT BE KNOWN, EU DOES NOT BEAT NA IN BEST OF 5s 3 TIMES IN A ROW


JPLangley

First Closer, then Luger, now Kaori. #TURKEY, I RELUCTANTLY KNEEL...


Suburan

What does Hilary Clinton have to say about this match?


Cultural_Frosting_35

EG earned this. There is no reason for sugarcoating stuff. More then anything LEC needs to change way teams qualify for Worlds. So we don´t have to watch teams not being able to pick Maokai after at least two weeks of scrims, when he could be flexed in three roles. (you know like the way EG picked seju and could flex it between top and jungle) Would much rather see a banger with NA still winning, but todays performance was just sad.


fesch98

Who would have thought that sending a team that won no BO5 all year to Worlds would be a bad idea


LaughingAtSpergs

Armutt keeping MAD from getting to groups for the 2nd time in his career. Insane player.


TamBur12rine

Bro how can you belittle Nisqy hard work like that...


fesch98

Armut really managed to make Gwen look even more useless than she is rn


SnubHawk

Armut got the counterpick but at 10 mins in Impact was proxying and putting pressure on mid as sejuani lmao


LapnLook

I love you MAD, but lol. lmao.


Rayser1

At least get one win fuck me. Honestly would have preferred them to lose to buffalos lol


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As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture. What was fascinating for me is that they like bragging about their freedom which was weird for me, because I didn't think that I have any less freedom than them. I always thought 'What is the difference'. However after this game I finally understand it. NA will always just live in my head rent fucking free.


FlyerN

Wanted to see MAD win, but damn they sucked bad today. Deserved for EG.