League of Legends and E-Sports - LCS

If it's not obvious that I love League of Legends by now, then I feel sorry for you.  Go read my posts, look at my blog if you legitimately don't know that.  None the less, one of my favorite aspects is the League of Legends LCS, or League Championship Series.  It's competitive play of professional teams in both North America and Europe, and all the information you could ever want to know about it can be found at the website.

Of course, this would be a boring post unless I delved into my favorites from both the European and North American scenes, and trust me, there's some players, and sometimes even teams, I completely just love watching.

     North America

My favorite team as a whole would definitely have to go to Cloud 9.

They are just a beast this split.  Having just barely missed getting into the Spring Split, they are now dominating the Summer Split with a crazy 17 wins to 2 losses, putting them very solidly in first place with the highest win ratio the NA LCS has ever seen.

Besides their ability to put the beat down on whichever team they so chose, their players are fun to watch individually in streams, particularly Meteos, their jungler.  I've only managed to catch it once, but I had my fair share of laughing and gasps from the things he was able to do in game.

In the end though, my favorite individual player from the NA teams would have to go to Voyboy from team Curse.

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Voyboy's Stream

From the very start of my stream watching days, I always keep an eye out for voyboy's stream.  He's an absolutely incredible top-laner, a super chill kind of guy, and amazingly informative.  Whenever he's going into a game, he always lists off what his runes are, his masteries, why he chose the summoner spells he did, and will always comment on his build and in game decisions he makes.  I've learned a lot from his stream, and I really believe others could also.

     Europe

For the European scene, while I do enjoy a bunch of teams, I always have and always will fangirl over one team no matter how good or bad they play.

ADC Yellowpete, Support Krepo, Top Lane Wickd, Jungle Snoopeh, and Mid Lane Froggen

Evil Geniuses.  Oh heavens do I fangirl something awful over them.  Between 'skumbag Krepo' for periodically stealing kills from his ADC, the 'Snoopeh stare' and Froggen's absolutely ridiculous plays in mid lane, who couldn't love this team?  They are one of the most friendly teams to their fans in the entirety of the LCS, and it shows with their large fanbase.

Originally, back in Season 2, they were under the banner of CLG EU, but moved over to Evil Geniuses once they didn't sign on again with CLG as the season finished.

The team started off a bit weak in the Summer Split, getting smashed down by a variety of teams.  Only in this last week, when they brought in a new jungler to trade off games here and there with Snoopeh, did they really put a foot down on the gas pedal and tell all their fans they were far from being out of the game yet.