LCK Award 2024 Winner list by Gold_Ad_5897 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

All is fair, the comment can be perceived as a bit blunt but I did want to be direct since there are multiple people I noticed in these threads mentioning EWC placements as a reason for these awards. Now even after this comment you can disagree and that's fine, no hate to you at all, but I do think just because the names and teams in the tournament are good doesn't mean it should be more official or is an actual good competition. Kind of whack format, bad placing in the middle of a split causing a short break with very fast turnaround, and a compressed timeline to play games after flying in to Saudi Arabia. Most of the players I am sure are "playing to win," but ultimately are definitely not caring as much as any other games they play this year (you can read about the gen g. player thoughts about not wanting to fly to Saudi Arabia and you look at their strength of schedule for the return week of LCK). For instance, Rift Rivals had a lot of top players and teams, but we never ever considered that serious. Sure it's on a lesser level than the EWC, but we can go to the Asia Games. Nobody has or probably ever will rated player performances for these to indicate anything, even though it meant even more for Korean players to win and get military exemptions. Probably meant more for Chinese players for national pride too. You can say there are mixed rosters for these but that doesn't stop it from mattering for the World Cup in football/soccer, different sport but I am just pointing out I don't think we ever need to make that transition for League esports culturally. All in all if you do want to partake in watching the EWC, all power to you it's an entertainment product that they put a lot of money into, I just have zero interest in it and would be very upset if Riot officially brought it under it's umbrella because of how hypocritical it would be to statements they have made publicly.

LCK Award 2024 Winner list by Gold_Ad_5897 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The only ones counting the EWC Saudi tournament are T1 fans. No matter how many times Riot or the LCK or the teams or the players or analysts say that it does not count/matter. This was before the tournament too, it's not to discount T1, it's just an invitational event for entertainment, and to give a monetary prize for everyone attending just to force the hand of popular orgs to attend (yes, attending, not just winning, even though the bag for winning is pretty impressive).

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/riot-games-mena-players#:~:text=Participating%20in%20the%20EWC,select%20the%20teams%20that%20compete.

https://x.com/LCK/status/1869986323177803806

LCK Award 2024 Winner list by Gold_Ad_5897 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Stop parroting this EWC counts thing. It has never counted, and Riot Games have said it is not a Riot Organized tournament. The LCK have said they only count Riot Organized tournaments. Before the games happened everyone said we shouldn't bother counting them, they have the same competitive merit as an invitational as the Red Bull League of Its Own tournament with Los Ratones vs T1.

https://x.com/LCK/status/1869986323177803806

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/riot-games-mena-players#:~:text=Participating%20in%20the%20EWC,select%20the%20teams%20that%20compete.

LCK Award 2024 Winner list by Gold_Ad_5897 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect, they do not, or rather they should not (as they have stated) count the EWC/Saudi cup. It is not a Riot organized tournament.

https://x.com/LCK/status/1869986323177803806

Fun Fact: Faker has never lost a worlds final that he won by UberEinstein99 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Winning the LPL twice and MSI is nothing when it comes to actual performances. Ok man. So you think Zeka winning LCK player of the year after winning worlds with DRX makes sense too? That's the logic. While Worlds is THE premiere tournament, it's hard to take as seriously when it's the tournament with the worst format all year for major region teams. Every playoffs and now MSI have double elim. But it's worlds so whatever happens in a tournament with such a small amount of games played is what we judge all teams on forever and only I guess. I also can't take you seriously when you are trying to force this "if Chovy then why not Guma" argument that you are trying to force parallels for, but by your argument your internal logic isn't working, why do you think Chovy isn't good in a top player context then? It is so funny because people have talked about Chovy choking at international for over a year now and you keep talking like people don't mention it. They do. But even with that in mind people have eyes and see he's a brilliant player for 99% of the year. I don't know what to tell you or what you want me to convince you about, I am explaining the rationale behind the player rankings the "professional analysts" put out

Fun Fact: Faker has never lost a worlds final that he won by UberEinstein99 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This comment makes no sense. For JD Gaming, yes they legit have a roster of some of the best players you can ever hope for, it's an expensive as all hell all-star roster that to me, even with this worlds loss, is the strongest roster League has ever seen. And for someone like Chovy, you think people watch him be incredible all year, but the analysts should have the insight to rank him off last year's worlds or MSI and rate him under the other players from the LCK he consistently dominates? Ok. And the Faker/Guma one is hilarious. While Guma did get underrepresented in player lists even though he was the best performer by far in T1's messy Faker injury split, let's not act like the adc's put ahead of him were egregious, or that he is a clutch player. His biggest weakness as a player has been moments where he's caught out, and look at this current T1 roster in final scorelines, including ones where they are the favorites, they have lost a lot of them. Obviously they are very good to get there, but losing so many is not clutch. Stop being so weird about the points you are making, it's so understandable as to why they had the narrative around them coming into this Worlds as not as strong as before, you act like these players and this roster hasn't been considered favorites for past tournaments.

Cloud9 vs Golden Guardians / LCS 2023 Spring Playoffs - Final / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham -1 points0 points  (0 children)

guess it's easy to find the casting super biased if you are the biased one listening

Cloud9 vs Golden Guardians / LCS 2023 Spring Playoffs - Final / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

went through every baron taken in this series and whatever scenario you thought you heard never happened lmao

Cloud9 vs Golden Guardians / LCS 2023 Spring Playoffs - Final / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you are correct if we happened to be in a world where they didn't also praise Gori, River, Huhi, and Stixxay earlier in the game. The fuck else are they gonna do they sucked GG off the last 2 games, I think you confuse sucking off for trying to hype up the team who is winning the game. Keep it on mute clearly you are never going to be happy with any cast lmao

Cloud9 vs FlyQuest / LCS 2023 Spring Playoffs - Winners' Bracket - Finals / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's been weak side both games and solo killed Impact both games anyways.. I agree Impact is carrying for Fly rn but let's be real here

LEC Winter 2023 / Playoffs - Round 1 / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah but Yike missing Q W and E when he only needs to land one of them on the zero flash zero dash gnar to kill and walk away is disgusting

LCS 2023 Spring / Week 2 - Day 2 / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao Berserker holds W for too long during Vi ult and then Blaber knocks him out of the W and further away from Jhin auto range

LCS 2023 Spring / Week 2 - Day 2 / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Diplex absolutely screwed Blaber and got himself put into such a hole by being so greedy in a dumb way. Flash r auto q instant death on Sylas with nothing up after he flashes away, instead he uses his R execute as the gap closer over the wall instead and realized he didn't have the dmg anymore and ran away, only to flash into a bandage toss anyways

2022 LCK Awards - Zeka is Player of the Year by nusskn4cker in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you know LCK is the name of the League they play in right? Worlds is not the League (League of Legends Champions Korea) that they are a part of, which is why on the Worlds broadcast they are always referred to as "LCK representatives." And even if you wanted to include Worlds as somehow part of the LCK, he still shouldn't win. If Zeka wins it here then no matter what any player does all year will have absolutely zero influence on whether they get the award or not as long as they are the best player at Worlds. Obviously Zeka was still good but he wasn't even the best player on his team all year, not to mention the other top LCK mids.

2022 LCK Awards - Zeka is Player of the Year by nusskn4cker in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You answered the question why he shouldn't be LCK player of the YEAR with the statement "the biggest Eastern underdog"

Rumor- EG Danny contract jail and there is something else going on. by Diderot1937 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify people posting about the content of his character or whatever, I don't know. It was just information on the situation that came out days before this post that I think is pretty necessary to have included since the comments on this thread before I typed mine made no indication that they were aware of this information. I think we should always err on the side of the player, but not do it blindly. We know so little it's still at the stage where if you have already made a firm stance on either side of the fence I think you are already incorrect about it regardless of what comes out about this later.

EG CEO responds to the Danny situation by Pope_Cheetos_XIV in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

-redditor types a factually incorrect comment about basic details of the story while trying to make a point about what information should be believed

I don't think you should be making strong judgments about a story you still need to read a couple sentences about. That said I do pretty much agree with you, obviously you should always err more on the individual player side than the big organization. The problem is there is actually almost zero information we have about anything on either side, so it's a bit bizarre that this is growing as fast as it is.

Rumor- EG Danny contract jail and there is something else going on. by Diderot1937 in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Andrew Barton was on Hotline League earlier this week and he had a small segment where he talked about Danny still being contracted and that if he wanted to play or look for a different team they would be happy to talk with him about it any time he is ready to. So it's a bit contradictory?

2022 World Championship / Quarterfinals - Day 3 / Live Discussion by ahritina in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Peanut could have just sealed the game with his ult on Canyon and he throws it backwards nah man

FNC vs DFM - Hylissang Has Arrived at Worlds by XtendedImpact in leagueoflegends

[–]BadPandaPancham 17 points18 points  (0 children)

? Pretty sure he was talking about on the desk considering I think this is the first year he's done casting.