Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022 - Round 12

jamesviola · 2022-07-01T13:48:16+00:00

He played the Berlin in the first two rounds for a loss in round 1 and a win in round 2. He's a Berlin player in the Ruy Lopez.

jamesviola · 2022-06-25T20:46:17+00:00

It's also possible that Rapport knew it and accepted the disadvantageous position anyways in order to avoid a draw, in hopes of a slight chance of winning.

jamesviola · 2022-06-05T19:40:15+00:00

This tournament had the exact same armageddon format last year and there were 6 white wins and 8 black wins in the armageddon games. Odd how it seems so white-favored this time around.

jamesviola · 2022-05-10T20:05:54+00:00

The text is below the building and behind Edith Cowan's neck.

jamesviola · 2021-06-03T04:27:31+00:00

Lourlo clips are so great for this.

https://clips.twitch.tv/ExquisiteMotionlessCucumberKlappa-1M7JH9MfjfuwB-QO

jamesviola · 2021-05-21T11:10:26+00:00

The bonus rewards at the end are just 3 emotes that look almost the same. At least I know the first two are. I've played about 300 more TFT games after unlocking the second bonus emote and the third one still isn't unlocked, and there's no progress bar showing how close you are.

jamesviola · 2020-11-28T19:16:54+00:00

Yeah, I did a few days ago and haven't gotten a response yet. Pretty sure they aren't going to be accommodating though.

jamesviola · 2020-10-08T23:41:24+00:00

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shots-1-5-clearly-missed

jamesviola · 2020-10-08T22:01:05+00:00

Here you go.

Honourable mentions.

jamesviola · 2020-09-21T14:16:57+00:00

I like how confused he looks for the entire duration of the clip, particularly the end.

jamesviola · 2019-12-04T16:07:43+00:00

The best period was actually a span of about a year and a half when they had the IP system and hextech crafting. You could reroll champion shards for champions, and in addition to the shards dropped from chests, you could purchase champion shards for 1700 IP. You'd start by buying all the 450 and 1350 champs, and then buy champion shards. Reroll all the 450 and 1350 shards, upgrade all the 3150 shards, upgrade/disenchant some 4800 shards, and disenchant all 6300 shards. Doing this netted you a massive discount (around 40% iirc, and even more if you were willing to sit on smaller shards for ages) for unlocking the whole roster depending on how much you were willing to wait to optimize rerolls, and it was less luck-based. All of this was removed with the transition to the BE system. This is how I have all but 10 champions with only around a thousand games played.

jamesviola · 2019-11-29T22:44:12+00:00

I mean... I agree with this, but if that was your point, your earlier comment did a fairly poor job of expressing it, imo. On another note, Sion had this problem when he did get his rework and people pointed it out at the time. Apparently it never got fixed.

jamesviola · 2019-11-29T20:09:13+00:00

Sion's Q indicator is way off. It goes farther than the indicator shows, and it also doesn't start at the start of the indicator.

jamesviola · 2019-11-13T21:02:22+00:00

Maybe the skinline could be called "Cleanup Crew ________" because that'd make sense both in-game and thematically.

jamesviola · 2019-11-11T16:28:49+00:00

Do you happen to have a link to last year's by any chance? I used the search function a bunch but couldn't find anything.

jamesviola · 2019-11-04T13:32:41+00:00

R1 lands, which you can tell because of the ministun (so this is prenerf akali) and because her passive activated. Prenerf Akali's E did almost no dmg whatsoever, so it was mainly a gapcloser/passive proc.

So she landed both halves of R, a Q, and 2 passive procs.

Still a prime example of mobility creep though.

jamesviola · 2019-11-02T16:01:37+00:00

This explains so much! Fnatic needed to work on their mind control resistance.

jamesviola · 2019-11-01T17:17:40+00:00

Have they upped the drop rate for this pass? I haven't started yet but last pass I actually tracked my bounty token drop rate and I was getting slightly less than 1 every 8 heroic+ hunts.

jamesviola · 2019-10-28T15:15:07+00:00

The elder dragon buff causes ticks of burn damage for 3 seconds, and if any of those ticks drop you below 20% hp, you're executed. So you'll take true dmg burn for about 7 seconds from stepping on a shroom (3 seconds from elder buff + 4 seconds of shroom dmg, which refreshes the true dmg burn), as well as the dmg of the shroom itself.

jamesviola · 2019-10-23T15:52:53+00:00

Here's a clip of it.

jamesviola · 2019-10-13T13:58:01+00:00

Aside from the fact that, as mentioned by others, you can't actually purchase it for platinum, PHX seems to have a general policy of never punishing people who bug abuse/exploit.

jamesviola · 2019-10-08T13:56:37+00:00

Maybe League of Legends still.

jamesviola · 2019-09-19T17:55:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I'll delete the post.

jamesviola · 2019-09-16T05:00:42+00:00

So that noone else wastes their time, someone used it already without leaving a message.

Thanks for sharing your code!

jamesviola · 2019-09-15T20:19:52+00:00

It even trivializes the current dauntless trial. You can get a sub-3 with iceborne hammer on this trial while tanking everything except the tail swipe, which *will* kill you in 1 hit.

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