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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 8

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 picks for Game of the Week:

Photo of KeaiduoKeaiduo, Mid, TSM Academy

Keaiduo seems to have found his footing in Academy. He had an incredible week, pairing with V1per to lead TSM Academy to a 4-2 record and generating some real momentum going into Proving Grounds. His 9/1/11 Corki game against EG Academy was explosive, his LeBlanc against TL Academy was dominant, and he posted 8 kills on Viktor against DIG Academy, too. This was the kind of Academy performance you expect out of a player of Keaiduo’s calibre. Now we have to wait and see whether that puts pressure on the TSM management to incorporate him back into the LCS squad.

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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2022 Spring, Week 7

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 picks for Game of the Week:

Photo of eXyueXyu, Jungle, Dignitas Academy

DIG Academy jungler eXyu had two absolutely enormous games last week, one on Hecarim against CLG where he went 3 oh and 10 with a series of ganks, counterganks, and engages, and one where he posted 5 oh and 13 as Udyr against FlyQuest with an absolutely brutal series of jungle invasions and a top lane campout. There are a lot of strong Academy junglers, but even though he’s a rookie, eXyu might just be leading the pack.

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