Watching Topson compete is always hype as hell. However, i think he's not the best option available. I think Quinn would be the best replacement LGD could get right now.
Quinn has no longer that crave for competition and I guess that exhaustion from their bootcamp and tournament chasing has caused him into that form. But it's a great idea that if he's back, there are a lot of teams lately that needs a good mid. AFAIK, the first person that LGD contacted was somnus, no need for visa issues since he's a chinese and they know him well. But surprisingly, they got topson which is not a bad choice but let's see if some good come back for topson. He's now t
he epitome of direct TI invite.
Apparently it was TaiLung's own team who reported him. Good on them. And according to KJ's post, everyone knows what's going on in the South American scene. I knew for awhile what's going on, when teams are willing to matchfix in TI qualifiers, but it's even worse than what i knew. I knew 90% of the region was matchfixing but i never imagined players like Darkmago or Tailung with salaries ranging between 10k-20k PAID IN USD, which allows people living in Peru to live like a fucking king, would be still matchfixing. Insane.
They're already living like king with that salary but still did to sell their matches. Man, even million dollars athletes are falling for it so, how much more of these when they're driven by greed. Contentment is key, other pro players just want to play competitively, get salary and win tournaments. These boys want to win even the bookies lol.
Quinn has said in multiple occasions that he would accept playing competitively as a standin. He said he any top team asked him, he would accept. Quinn is still in his prime to this day, being rank 40ish still. He's definitely in better shape than Topson, who retired 3 years ago. Not to mention Quinn has a much better grasp of meta and is a very vocal player. And honestly, given how he retired without being able to compete at TI last year because of that Gaimin Gladiators situation, it would be kind of like poetic justice.
The issue about 322 has been years and the community is even more active these days and it's easier to determine if someone has been oddly playing or just simply having a bad day. We recognize if the game is hard and he's not playing well at all depending on the look of the game. But with how he played, there's an obvious intention to let his hero dead, like that one in mid against Rune Eaters I think when he played ember.
We get the idea of those 322 players.
TAIga
TAIlung
Who's the next TAI?
You know, i watched that game live, and i saw that exact ember play live. And i found it very suspicious, but i thought he was just playing bad or something. But it wasn't just that play that stood out, his whole tournament both GOTF and 1win tournament he had very suspicious games.
I think people are severly overestimating TaiLung's current capabilities. Yes he had alot of potential, since he's very young, but calling him the next Sumail or the next Nisha is a big big stretch. I've seen him throw unthrowable games from big leads, now wether he was already matchfixing or it was a skill issue, i don't know. But throwing games as Beastmaster or Viper was extremely common for him. He does very well in the laning stage but he would throw pretty hard on non-scalling heroes. To be fair on him, Beastmaster, Viper or Huskar, are those kind of heroes. You die once, your lead is gone. Typical piñata heroes.
