Author: Reece Perry
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Mammoth, Chiefs battle for final ticket to Taiwan — LCO Split 2 Playoffs: Lower Bracket Final Predictions
[ad_1] In tonight’s LCO Split 2 lower bracket finale, our game of musical planes has its last round. Not for the LCO, of course—we’re still a week out from finding our champion—but tonight sees the last chance for an Oceanic team to have a crack at Worlds. Aside from a place in Sunday week’s grand…
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Bliss, Pentanet lock horns as Super Week 2 arrives — LCO Split 2 Predictions: Week 5 Day 1
[ad_1] We’re into the final super week of the split, and it’s sad to say, the final month of the LCO season. After July, there won’t be any more LCO action…at least until we send two more teams off to PCS playoffs. Our first super week closed with Vertex claiming their first 2-0 in their…
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The final* day of Stage 1 matches has arrived — LCO Split 2 Predictions: Week 6 Day 2
[ad_1] Well, it’s here, the final day of LCO Split 2 regular season play for the year. Goddamit, Chiefs and Bliss. In Monday’s action, we saw Kanga fall to Pentanet in a match that went much as we expected. PGG handled game one in rapid fashion with Vincent “Violet” Wong putting the “Ultra Quiet” label…
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The Hunter versus the Hunted — LCO Split 1 Playoffs: Day 4 Predictions
[ad_1] On paper, this is the lower-bracket final. In reality however, this is for all the marbles. Despite there being one more match after this — possibly under the glitz and the glamour of the DreamHack banner in Melbourne next month — this is the one that the Wolves and Chiefs really want. We’re going…
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Kanga left to stop finals-bound Bliss — LCO Split 1 Predictions: Week 4 Day 1
[ad_1] Finally, the LCO continues. We’re now up to Split 1, Phase: The Second. It might be playoffs, it might not. We’ve had three weeks of League of Legends, and three weeks without. Why wasn’t there a second round-robin in those three weeks? I guess we’ll never know, but at least we were spared three…
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LCO newcomers collide to wrap Super Week — LCO Split 1 Predictions: Week 2 Day 3
[ad_1] The LCO Split 1 Super Week comes to a close today. Only three matches remain for each team (two for Peace) to set up ahead of stage two’s double-elimination group stage. We’ve already had quite the split, but we can’t leave you going a split without a mini Ties’ Takes. It feels like 2022…
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Rogue, Pentanet more than ready to run LCO playoffs gauntlet
[ad_1] As the sun dawns on a morning not even Melbourne’s famously fickle weather could spoil, it also heralds the arrival of the return of on-stage, live League of Legends in Oceania — for the first time in the history of the LCO. LAN. With no disrespect to the Mechanized Menace, LAN is the real ultimate…
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Order enters voluntary administration, future cloudy
[ad_1] In a hammer blow for beloved teams, esports ecosystems, fans and an entire region alike, the company behind Oceanic esports titan ORDER went into voluntary administration, signalling (at the least) major changes ahead for the current size, scope and operations of ORDER, according to a report out of The Australian. After entering esports in…
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Can Pentanet put the brakes on this Chiefs steam train? — LCO Split 2 Predictions: Week 5 Day 3
[ad_1] The LCO Split 2 Super Week rolls to its natural conclusion today, after a fun-filled day two of long (REALLY long) fights and some all-round happy, happy gameplay. Mammoth began yesterday’s festivities toppling Peace in a match that had begun to swing towards them long before anyone seemed to realize. A fight near bottom…
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LCO Split 1 Playoffs: Lower Bracket Match 2 — Peace vs Order
[ad_1] The playoffs are here. Nine weeks of regular season play and two days of playoffs has seen the LCO’s eight teams become four finals contenders, all vowing for the LCO title and a trip to the Mid-Season Invitational. After one of the greatest series of all time last week, one might be forgiven for…