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.
C9 Academy put together a much stronger set of games in week 8 than they had been recently, going 3-1 and benefiting greatly from Isles delivering on a diverse range of picks. He played Rell, Nautilus, Taric, and Karma, and performed equally well on all four.
The North American Academy and amateur system has a lot of great players in it, both in the sense of current performance level and future potential. Today we’re going to look at the first category by putting together the two strongest possible LCS-eligible teams from among the Spring 2021 Academy/amateur rosters.
V1per probably could have signed with an Academy team for the Spring split, but he ended up playing in the amateur circuit with Anew Esports, before they were disbanded via competitive ruling, forcing V1per and his teammates to play the rest of the split with no organizational backing.
AC/AM Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy and amateur play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.
EGA’s budding star Mid laner had a huge series against TSM Academy on Saturday, destroying his mid lane opponent and carrying in a pair of Orianna games and one mid lane Renekton pick that brought some great flexibility into the best-of-five series. Earlier in the week, Jojo also brought out a mid lane Sett pick that nearly won game 2 against Cloud9 Academy but wasn’t quite enough.
C9 Academy put together a much stronger set of games in week 8 than they had been recently, going 3-1 and benefiting greatly from Isles delivering on a diverse range of picks. He played Rell, Nautilus, Taric, and Karma, and performed equally well on all four.
V1per probably could have signed with an Academy team for the Spring split, but he ended up playing in the amateur circuit with Anew Esports, before they were disbanded via competitive ruling, forcing V1per and his teammates to play the rest of the split with no organizational backing.