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Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2022 Spring, Proving Grounds Week 1

Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy and Proving Grounds play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.

No video this week; I’m out of town.

Watch Tim’s picks for Game of the Week:

TSM Academy vs. Maryville University (full best-of-3):

Photo of BusioBusio, Support, 100 Thieves Academy

100 Thieves Academy had to go through the Play-In stage to get into the main portion of Proving Grounds, but Busio made sure that Wildcard Gaming never put them under any real threat. He was solid and controlling on his favoured Braum in the first game, then switched onto Rakan for game 2 and absolutely popped off, devastating the lane matchup alongside Wixxi and taking over.

It’s only a matter of time until we see this player in the LCS.

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