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3 Reasons Team Liquid Will Win the LCS in 2021

Everyone agrees: either Cloud9 or Team Liquid should be the best team in the LCS in 2021. (If you can find someone who ranks another team ahead of those two, you should ping me on Twitter or the Oracle’s Elixir Discord, because I’d be fascinated to hear a cogent set of arguments to back up that opinion!)

I officially power ranked Cloud9 number 1 in December, but Team Liquid is a very worthy selection for that honour, and it didn’t take me much effort to come up with this list of arguments for why I could, or maybe even should, have put them in the top spot, instead.

Time to see whether I can convince any of you, and maybe even myself, to move Team Liquid up a spot in 2021 expectations.

1. CoreJJ

Reason number 1 is pretty easy… Team Liquid has CoreJJ. Continue reading 3 Reasons Team Liquid Will Win the LCS in 2021

Academy Standouts: 2020 Spring Week 6

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.

Fudge, Top, Cloud9

Fudge contributed a Gangplank and a Sett to C9 Academy’s wins over GG Academy and DIG Academy. He’s definitely starting to make good on the promise he showed in OPL Summer 2019, earning his second Standouts appearance in the last three weeks.

Fudge Stats, 2020 Spring Week 6
Numbers in parentheses are rank within own position.

  KDA KP GXD10 DPM CS%P15
W6 6.0 60.0% +83 637 23.4%
Total 5.5 60.4% +172 433 23.9%

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