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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 5

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.

(No video this week, sorry… I’ve been under the weather.)

Watch Tim’s picks for Game of the Week:

Joey, Support, Immortals Academy

Joey is an important piece of IMT Academy as a playmaker and one of their veteran voices. This week he performed very well on Thresh and Lux in his team’s opening series against CLGA, and had a solid showing on Leona and Nautilus against FLYA, as well. Teeing up kills for Arrow is a great way to ensure his team’s success, so Joey just needs to keep doing exactly that!

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Academy Standouts: 2022 Spring, Week 2

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

eXyu, Jungle, Dignitas Academy

eXyu got to play Lee Sin twice in week 2 for some reason. He picked up 7 kills in each game, and his 7/1/9 showing against C9 Academy must have felt especially good since he was part of the org’s now-defunct Amateur team last year and they opted to import Malice instead of bringing him up into Academy themselves. His constant trap plays with JayJ paid off beautifully, and he capped his week with a game-winning Baron steal against TLA.

Trust me, you need to keep watching this player.

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