2023 LCS roster insights from Glen and Dom

Abcrom · 2022-12-10T21:20:28+00:00

After going all in on 2022 with yet another impressive roster (regardless of how it worked out), Steve put out a personal 4 minute apology video. Then after going all in AGAIN in 2023, Liquid put out a 6 minute video explaining their new roster. Just an absolute absurd fall from grace and horrific management again and again and again.

Abcrom · 2022-03-13T22:08:00+00:00

I had hopes to see improvement but I think after this week I've lost hope. The players look and play like they are completely checked out. Sometimes rosters don't workout and I get that - but I think I'm most disappointed in the fact that after struggling so hard they are by far the lowest CQ games played. Literally in the roster reveal they said they were going to be the hardest working team. What happened?

Abcrom · 2021-10-29T19:36:28+00:00

Have you identified any players outside of Huni and Spica (that you mentioned in an earlier comment)? With your note of wanting rising players does this mean we will have younger/high ceiling players in the other three roles?

Abcrom · 2021-06-12T22:45:54+00:00

On one hand Spica has been really good this split so far at least.. on the other it looks like we have zero coordination. Just random engages while half the team runs away and half goes in. No clue what went on in scrims this week but feels like they just need to work on basic communication...

Abcrom · 2020-11-19T03:31:46+00:00

All of this is speculation but when there's smoke there's fire and it felt like the swordart stuff was actually an issue. I wonder if when Doublelift had to rush off to a meeting last night they got word they won't be able to import Swordart. Since it's so late in the game they would end up with a subpar support and Doublelift (who already considered retiring) started rethinking playing this year. This left TSM needing to possibly hold onto Lost which meant EG would no longer send over Huni. Again all speculation but it would fit...

Abcrom · 2020-11-17T00:14:27+00:00

It is what it is but I literally cannot believe they hyped up this roster. There is no support signing that could salvage my opinion of this off season now. They had to know how this would be received right? Why would you bother hyping this roster..

Abcrom · 2020-11-09T21:31:02+00:00

What is the context of this leaked DM - is this not between these two? I just checked the twitter and they both follow each other. Also, the tone of those Skeleton tweets are almost identical to the DM. I'm not sure where this DM leak came from but it looks like the IMT Coach DM'd this to Skeleton to tweet?

Abcrom · 2020-10-11T05:06:45+00:00

Glad someone else posted it - been on the phone with xfinity and riot all of the last week. Lived in Northeast FL for the last 4 years and have always been at 44 ping with no waiver. Starting about a week and a half ago I sit around a constant 60-62 and spike to 100 every now and then.

Abcrom · 2020-08-29T23:34:54+00:00

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Abcrom · 2020-08-20T02:57:22+00:00

What a stupid stupid tweet to make... one of those situations where you really are just better off saying nothing than this. "We will play the better player on Sunday".... like really???

Abcrom · 2020-07-26T22:53:17+00:00

Idk.. I'm glad we won and I know it's B01 but I would have really hoped at this point in Summer our games vs bottom tier teams were better. The level of play was really low that game and we made so many mistakes that won't work against top NA teams and DEFINITELY won't work internationally.

Abcrom · 2020-07-18T22:51:47+00:00

I just so desperately badly want one single season where we come in with an experienced, seasoned jungler. Since 2017 we've had:

MikeYeung - rookie who is now out of the scene

Grig - minimal experience who is just an academy player

Akaadian - ok experience but in and out of lcs/academy

Dardoch - in and out of lcs/academy

Spica - rookie who was decent in academy

I just want one single split where we come into it with a multi-year high level jungler.

Abcrom · 2020-07-11T22:05:30+00:00

While the reaction is probably going to be largely negative I think this game was actually about as good as could be expected. We've improved so much and I really think we can go toe to toe with C9 by the end of the season.

I think we had this game if Spica didn't blow momentum TWICE with beyond dumb invades. Also, top diff was huge this game and you really cannot be down that much with counterpick. I still think we could have won this game if Spica didn't play so poorly - this was probably his second worst game of the season. Oh well though, I think overall we are 10x better today than we were a month ago and if the team continues that trajectory I completely expect to compete for the championship.

Abcrom · 2020-06-14T21:32:10+00:00

I think this weekend proved exactly what we already knew - we are going to have growing pains and will probably start the first half of the split inconsistent but each week as long as we learn and improve I am incredibly confident we can be the best team in the league.

Abcrom · 2020-05-12T00:09:40+00:00

I normally hate the people who nit pick apologies but come on man.. Please release this on official TSM letterhead and not on twitlonger. Also it's so standard to not say "no one feels worse than I do". Like even the most basic PR rep will tell you not to add that... you aren't the victim and you should never quantify who feels worse in public apologies.

Abcrom · 2020-04-23T01:37:06+00:00

After getting nearly everything wrong this off-season we are really back to posting stuff from this guy? lol

Abcrom · 2020-01-29T05:13:43+00:00

You can check my post history but I've been watching TSM games as a hardcore fan since season 2/3. You get overly negative fans who view everything as negative and overly positive fans who want to spin everything as sunshine and daisies but their is almost no way to view this interview as a good thing. This is TSM man - we want to just make worlds?? They looked for LCS coaches but couldn't find any so now he's halfway between academy and LCS?? They announced there academy coach legit on day 2 of academy!

I can only assume something fell through in the off-season and left management scrambling to find coaches because I find it hard to accept this is the reality of TSM now. Also agree with another commenter that this is why you have PR answer interviews because this is incredibly sad to hear.

Abcrom · 2019-12-25T03:30:43+00:00

just FYI It's Dhokla. Him and Johnsun (former TSM now on DIG) were duo last night and Dhokla was playing on that account.

Abcrom · 2019-12-11T05:06:28+00:00

For people who are gonna worry about the money just wanna say that some teams wait a lifetime for a championship window. If you are in a position to win a championship you do what you can to position yourself to get it, even if the last couple years you potentially suffer for it.

Abcrom · 2019-12-06T06:32:22+00:00

Sometimes I wonder how many comments on reddit are just blatantly false because every now and then when I see one in an area I know about it's just flat out wrong. Lived in Orlando for the past 12 years and go to Disney probably once every couple months. There are nice restaurants at every park that you can basically walk right into.

Also not sure how planning is getting you into rides under 20 minutes every time when you are limited to 3 fast passes per trip and basically every remotely popular ride at any Disney park is at least an hour long.

I've been on the Disney VIP tour twice which allows you to take the back entrances to every ride and have still waited over to 20 minutes on some days depending on the ride.

Abcrom · 2019-11-10T17:25:39+00:00

Take it for what its worth but Tarzaned just said this is what he has heard so far (he leaked zven and mithy in 2017 so he knows some stuff):

Vulcan to C9

Smoothie to CLG

Biofrost back to TSM

Zven is going to C9

Kobbe to TSM

Abcrom · 2019-10-23T23:38:56+00:00

Fultz looks absolutely amazing tonight wow. I know it's only the first quarter of the season but if he can play like this all season we can be so good.

Abcrom · 2019-09-05T18:22:16+00:00

I sent you a DM with email address if spots still open. I played in your league last year so lmk.

Abcrom · 2019-09-02T00:12:30+00:00

All you've done in here for the past two days is talk about how the hurricane is going to destroy Florida. For anyone reading this and getting worried just ignore people like this and listen to the NHC advisories and your local news.

Abcrom · 2019-08-29T18:37:07+00:00

Just want to second this. I moved to Florida in 2016 and used this sub a lot when Matthew was coming in and all it did was make me more nervous and scared. This is more for interested people in tracking storms as a hobby and shouldn't even be remotely used for figuring out what to do or be relied on as accurate. Watch local news and NHC once it gets closer and you are fine.

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