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.
Proving Grounds is the best place a player like Will could show up and get himself noticed. As one of NA’s top 5 prospects, he’s playing for his future, and what a future he has if he can continue to develop at this pace.
His 3/0/5 Xin Zhao was followed by a scoreline of 8/2/11 on Trundle, and he did it against a FlyQuest Academy team that has way more competitive experience and a very strong jungler of their own in Nxi.
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.
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).
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.