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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.
News

Player Profiles Upgrades (Stats by Year, Photos) and Champion Images

Player profiles now features a “Stats by Year” tab that aggregates all games within the same calendar year (still separated by team).

They also feature player photos and team logos, where official images are available from lolesports.

There are also now champion images showing in players’ Champion Pool tabs and in any champion stats tables elsewhere on the site.

Enjoy the new features!

If you find any issues, such as missing photos with placeholder text, or silhouette images, please let me know!

Analysis and Opinion

AC/AM Standouts: 2021 Spring, Week 9

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

NOTE: I am not including the Northern Arena tournament in this article, since it is an off-calendar tournament that is not part of the official Proving Grounds circuit.

Prismal, Bot, Golden Guardians Academy

The Giant Slayer Gauntlet tier 1 tournament wrapped up with an exciting GG Academy reverse-sweep against EG Academy, and Prismal was one the key figures in that comeback, playing Kai’sa and Xayah after starting the series on Ezreal and Aphelios.

Prismal Stats

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CSPM
GSG 6.1 68.9% +66 563 8.9

Prismal is one of the best candidates to break through into the LCS bot lane out of the Academy scene. He and Chime are always looking to make plays in the bot lane (sometimes to their own detriment, to be fair), and Prismal’s team fighting usually manages to shine through even if the laning phase backfires a bit. Keep an eye on Prismal at Proving Grounds later this split as he tries to prove himself as an LCS promotion candidate. Continue reading AC/AM Standouts: 2021 Spring, Week 9 →