CLG was a titan in the aggressive North American League of Legends scene. They have made an MSI runner-up setting, a couple Worlds appearances, and also a few first-place finishes in home in the LCS. Each one the pedigree is there to place them on level with groups such as Cloud9 and TSM, and nonetheless they have not discovered an ounce of succeeding because 2016.
This year started out the exact same way that the previous four breaks have gone with this previously fantastic group --horribly. They went 0-2 on the opening weekend from Team Liquid and, more embarrassingly, OpTic's B-squad of Academy players. For all intents and purposes, it seemed like the exact same old, same old on CLG. And week two wrapped around. On the very first day of the week's games, CLG really was able to win a match. And much more impressively, it was against one of the three undefeated teams coming from the very first week, even FlyQuest. The match was not ideal, but it was not terrible, and that is enough of an improvement in the standard to provide fans of the storied org some expect. However, is it sufficient? To put it simply, it requires far more than just 1 match against a frontrunner to fix the problems and reputation they have built for themselves within the previous couple of decades. They have some significant problems, especially in the jungle and bot lane--but they have some star power, and that is something they have lacked since Zaqueri"Aphromoo" Black departed prior to the 2018 season. The brand new spotlight is really on German import Tristan"PowerOfEvil" Schrage. POE, as he is known during the League community, came to North America a year in the peak of his profession. He'd only completed a Worlds jog and had shot former winners SK Telecom T1 into a nailbiter of a string prior to being removed, and he had been considered among the greatest mids in Europe. Regrettably he fell short on OpTic, or, at least, OpTic dropped short around himand he then transferred to CLG. On CLGhe must have a few of the tools he wants to triumph, but his achievement almost entirely depends upon his teammates, or he will wind up like he did on OpTic--attempting to take while his group just flops all about him. If veteran leading laner Darshan Upadhyaya will demonstrate he is not beyond his prime and encourage Vincent"Biofrost" Wang can demonstrate that the finest of his profession was not on TSM, this squad could, in theory, work very well together. They are going to need to struggle to establish that , however, and there is definitely still a great deal of ground to cover.
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