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.
Last week involved the Academy (Worlds) Finals, as well as the last few stages of the Unified Grand Prix tournament that determined the seeding for the last few qualifiers into Proving Grounds.
Haeri, Mid, Team Liquid Academy
My choice for “series MVP” from the Academy Finals was Haeri. He was solid throughout, and he stepped up to carry game 5 on Lee Sin with a 4/0/9 scoreline to shut down Cloud9 Academy’s reverse-sweep attempt.
Haeri did well to apply side-lane pressure in the mid game and ensure TLA could trade objectives, and he made some useful Teleport plays as well. He tied Armao for the highest kill participation on the team (excluding Dhokla’s one game in as a sub).
Haeri Stats
| KDA | KP | GXD10 | DPM | CSPM | |
| Fs | 5.2 | 83.9% | +49 | 474 | 9.3 |
| POs | 3.8 | 70.4% | -57 | 474 | 8.7 |
CLG have had a relatively weak Academy program overall this year, but Tuesday has really been stepping up lately and giving the team something to be proud of. His pair of Rumble games in week 7 was almost enough to earn a couple of wins, but even though CLG came out 0-2, Tuesday’s personal contributions were still worthy of highlighting.
Lost and Treatz are the best duo lane in Academy right now. TSM Academy’s 2-0 week against 100 Academy and EG Academy featured big-time carry games from Lost, with big laning stats, damage output, and kill participation.