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Analysis and Opinion

Academy Standouts: 2020 Spring Week 5

Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy play. I’ll discuss three of the most noteworthy players, either the best performers or new standouts who haven’t shown up on the list before, and then list 7 other strong performers below.

Previous Academy Standouts:

If you want to track your favourite team’s Academy performance throughout each split, you can also check out the Academy stats pages, starting with 2020 Spring regular season player stats and team stats.

huhi, Support, Golden Guardians

huhi picked up Support Sett against FLY Academy and Yuumi against 100 Academy, and on both champions he showed up huge. His coordination with Hard was good, on gank receptions and team fight engages.

huhi Stats, 2020 Spring Week 5
Numbers in parentheses are rank within own position.

  KDA KP DTH% GXD10 WPM
W5 11.0 86.8% 16.7% +891 1.35
Total 5.1 84.3% 18.3% +177 1.47

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Analysis and Opinion

Three Points of Interest for 2020 LCS Academy

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Academy has been slowly but consistently rising in priority for the LCS over time, with the goal of creating a more productive pipeline for domestic North American talent. According to information first reported by Parkes Ousley of Inven Global and officially confirmed this week, that trend is continuing in 2020, with five on-stage Academy games every week. In addition to giving Academy players more experience in LCS-like competitive environments, the league is clearly hoping to draw more fan eyeballs onto Academy.

One of my personal goals for 2020 is to watch Academy more closely and provide some level of content and coverage around it. To kick off that coverage, I’m presenting three points of interest for the 2020 season.

Oceanic Influx

The LCS implemented a rule change during the offseason that allows Academy teams to field one “extra” import, if that player comes from Turkey, Brazil, Latin America, Oceania, or the Commonwealth of Independent States. That change, paired with a dramatic scaling-back of the OPL, created a flood of Oceanic talent into North America.

The most visible highlight of that movement is ry0ma, who landed a starting role in the 100 Thieves mid lane. Continue reading Three Points of Interest for 2020 LCS Academy →