FunPlus Phoenix Wins Worlds 2019 - Page 52

Aluminumtribromide

14 Posts

November 10 2019 20:46 GMT

#1021

Idk Doc, I found this year quite similar to last year, except that C9 bombed out. Due to little time I didn't watch any of the play-ins either year, but group C this year was similar to C9/VIT/RNG/Gen.G last year, I personally was happy to watch SKT again. Rest of groups was also the same, ie group I'm not watching due to lack of team interest (B this year, A last year), the easy to predict group (A and D) and the TL group. As C9 fan I liked last years quarters more, but that's it.

chipmonklord17

United States2775 Posts

November 10 2019 21:28 GMT

#1022

I guess I just completely disagree on all counts. Play Ins this year were pretty boring all things considered, but maybe that's because I expected UoL to do that well coming in so I wasn't surprised when they went to 5 games. And there was a huge difference between group C this year and group B last year. Both were the highlight of group stage for their year imo, but what made group C special was that 3 of the tournament favorites were in the same group. What made group B last year special was that VIT and C9 blew the group open and proved to the world that you didn't have to copy anyone else.

The rest of the groups this year weren't that great either. I think if C9 showed up group A would have been really interesting but they didn't. FPX bumbled about in a group that was much too easy and still almost fucked it up. Group D was watching the inevitable death of TL but nothing was particularly interesting about that one either. Like I already said last years quarters were insanely awesome (FNC vs EDG not included). Semis were better this year and were where the real tournament started for me. Idk, I think I had too high hopes for this year after the absolute banger that was worlds 2018

cLutZ

United States7586 Posts

November 13 2019 06:49 GMT

#1023

On November 11 2019 00:55 Redox wrote:
Idk I did not think G2 did that badly. In 2 games they were in a good position at 20 mins. Just against a really good team like FPX things can go south really quickly if you make 1 mistake.

Pretty sad we did not get a more exciting final.

Nah, they did that badly. They basically repeated iG's midgame mistakes against FPX to a slightly lesser extent, while also being less lane competent than iG.

TBH, I think one of the main takeaways of this worlds is that you need to just plan for max random. I thought Naut mid was an anti-iG only strat by FPX initially. Upon watching this series, what I think is that at the top levels, is you need to ensure your comp just always can fight even if you misread the fog of war.

Unless you have a great set of wards, early on, you will lose a fight you should win. But those early wards will largely be luck. So just draft as if you will be unlucky in warding.