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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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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2022 Spring, Week 3

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

Watch Tim’s pick for Game of the Week

Busio, Support, 100 Thieves Academy

If you talk to people inside the 100 Thieves org, they’ll proclaim Busio as the saviour of the NA Support talent pool. In his first week in Academy, he looked like it, especially in the series against CLG Academy where he absolutely popped off on Thresh and followed it up with a Tahm Kench game where he seemed to connect his knockup on every W he used. If Busio can play this well for even 50% of his games this year, he’s going to become everything 100 Thieves say he is.

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Analysis and Opinion

Making Moves at the Roster Lock – Understanding the promotions of 100 Busio and EG Tomio

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100 Thieves promoted Busio from 100 Thieves neXt into Academy, and Evil Geniuses moved Tomio from EG Prodigies into EG Academy. What prompted these moves, and what are the implications? Here’s an in-depth exploration of the motivations for both the teams and the players, the effects of the current infrastructure and ruleset, and the ways the moves affect the amateur teams.

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