When Reginald is being informative he is probably one of the best players to listen to in the game. His recent Vlad guide has a video which is really good at explaining how you control the creep line in your lane for instance. I just can see how he can easily rub people up the wrong way. Anyway number two.
[SIZE="4"]Team Epik Gaming - EG
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The team acquired its current roster only about a month before the Dreamhack qualifiers but have already shown themselves to be a very solid team.
Dan Dinh - Captain and jungler. Also brother of Reginald. Jungling was not his speciality but since becoming the designated jungler for EG he has played junglers almost exclusively. A solid jungler that fouses on ganking. He has a signature ganking manoeuvre where he sneaks into the bushes when the lane is pushed so don't be surprised if enemy teams ward the bushes in their own lane.
Main Tournament Heroes: Nunu, Nocturne, Warwick
Salce - Ap carry. I don't know a lot about Salce apart from the fact that his mages are scary as hell. Has a 45-1 record in high level ranked with Vladimir.
Main Tournament Heroes: Vladimir, Annie, Malzahar
Westrice - Ad Carry (unless they don't ban Akali). Worked his way up the rankings to be a top ten player through the use of Akali and Shen. One team in the qualifiers didn't bother banning Akali and it ended badly for them! Used to be on TSM playing the tank role. Has shown to be vulnerable in the early laning phase but gets better the longer the match goes on.
Main Tournament Heroes: Corki, Vayne, Akali
Doublelift - Bottom Lane. Doublelift and Dyrus duo the bottom lane but play specific characters based on competency. A champion of niche characters http://www.solomid.net/blog.php?v=8368 he is best known for playing Blitzcrank to a very high level. Probably the most enjoyable player to watch in the Dream hack qualifiers. Highlights include: Zoning an Ashe out of her own fountain as Poppy and killing a Malzahar as Garen whilst 5v1 and getting away safe. Used to be on CLG but was not guaranteed a first team place so left.
Main Tournament Characters: Janna, Poppy, Blitzcrank, Garen
Dyrus - Bottom Lane. A self confessed troll but when playing seriously he is very dangerous. If he is playing Singed he will normally dominate a game and is very solid with most characters. In tournament games will generally either be playing an ad carry or support. Has my favourite quote about dealing with Solo queue "everyone is retarded, so just farm because your farm will never betray you"!
Main Tournament Characters: Taric, Vayne, Caitlyn
EG became contenders out of nowhere when they picked up Westrice and Doublelift shortly before the qualifiers. They proved to be arguably the best team in the qualifying tournament beating CLG, TSM and Rock solid before losing to TSM in the final. Individually they are all good players and they have been practising extensively including scrimming against TSM a lot. They have a similar team set up to TSM and the team coordination that this brings is again a major strength of theirs.
Probable bans against them: Akali, Singed, Blitzcrank, Nunu, Vladimir
Most Important Player: Doublelift is mercurial and his plays will probably either win or lose them the game.
Website: http://www.solomid.net/ Dan Dinh is involved with the running of solomid so this is EG's de facto home base as well.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQ36GUiKzU Including why you don't let Poppy farm at 28.30
Also as I said EG are the team I will be supporting mainly because they are fun to watch play and Dyrus's stream is pretty entertaining
[SIZE="4"]Team Epik Gaming - EG
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The team acquired its current roster only about a month before the Dreamhack qualifiers but have already shown themselves to be a very solid team.
Dan Dinh - Captain and jungler. Also brother of Reginald. Jungling was not his speciality but since becoming the designated jungler for EG he has played junglers almost exclusively. A solid jungler that fouses on ganking. He has a signature ganking manoeuvre where he sneaks into the bushes when the lane is pushed so don't be surprised if enemy teams ward the bushes in their own lane.
Main Tournament Heroes: Nunu, Nocturne, Warwick
Salce - Ap carry. I don't know a lot about Salce apart from the fact that his mages are scary as hell. Has a 45-1 record in high level ranked with Vladimir.
Main Tournament Heroes: Vladimir, Annie, Malzahar
Westrice - Ad Carry (unless they don't ban Akali). Worked his way up the rankings to be a top ten player through the use of Akali and Shen. One team in the qualifiers didn't bother banning Akali and it ended badly for them! Used to be on TSM playing the tank role. Has shown to be vulnerable in the early laning phase but gets better the longer the match goes on.
Main Tournament Heroes: Corki, Vayne, Akali
Doublelift - Bottom Lane. Doublelift and Dyrus duo the bottom lane but play specific characters based on competency. A champion of niche characters http://www.solomid.net/blog.php?v=8368 he is best known for playing Blitzcrank to a very high level. Probably the most enjoyable player to watch in the Dream hack qualifiers. Highlights include: Zoning an Ashe out of her own fountain as Poppy and killing a Malzahar as Garen whilst 5v1 and getting away safe. Used to be on CLG but was not guaranteed a first team place so left.
Main Tournament Characters: Janna, Poppy, Blitzcrank, Garen
Dyrus - Bottom Lane. A self confessed troll but when playing seriously he is very dangerous. If he is playing Singed he will normally dominate a game and is very solid with most characters. In tournament games will generally either be playing an ad carry or support. Has my favourite quote about dealing with Solo queue "everyone is retarded, so just farm because your farm will never betray you"!
Main Tournament Characters: Taric, Vayne, Caitlyn
EG became contenders out of nowhere when they picked up Westrice and Doublelift shortly before the qualifiers. They proved to be arguably the best team in the qualifying tournament beating CLG, TSM and Rock solid before losing to TSM in the final. Individually they are all good players and they have been practising extensively including scrimming against TSM a lot. They have a similar team set up to TSM and the team coordination that this brings is again a major strength of theirs.
Probable bans against them: Akali, Singed, Blitzcrank, Nunu, Vladimir
Most Important Player: Doublelift is mercurial and his plays will probably either win or lose them the game.
Website: http://www.solomid.net/ Dan Dinh is involved with the running of solomid so this is EG's de facto home base as well.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQ36GUiKzU Including why you don't let Poppy farm at 28.30
Also as I said EG are the team I will be supporting mainly because they are fun to watch play and Dyrus's stream is pretty entertaining
