Disintegrate (Day 292)

I feel like if I don't start writing soon then I'll never get this entry done! I am going to try to update in between games of League of Legends, possibly a paragraph or two at a time. What I'l write about is not yet decided, however. I would have liked to update the story today, but I still haven't gotten around to compiling all of the different entries. I think I might go ahead and do that tonight, but I'm not necessarily looking forward to it considering how massive a document it will end up being. It'll be interesting to see the wordcount of what I've written so far, even if some of it isn't exactly my best work.

Over the past couple of days I've been watching both the European and North American LCS, as the new split just started up this week. The European games were pretty even, with any team capable of losing to another. Every European team has lost at least one game thus far. The North American scene, however, is a little different. It's looking like LMQ and possibly Dignitas will go undefeated this week, although I haven't caught up on the games today because I've been too busy playing League of Legends matches of my own.

Riot recently introduced a Fantasy LCS game mimicking the functionality of Fantasy Football--but with League of Legends players and teams. I personally feel it's a lot of fun and carefully drafted my team out of the possible choices. I'm pretty excited that I was able to grab Shiphtur in my flex pick spot because in his first game of the season he got a pentakill on LeBlanc and went 15/0/4, netting an unreal 51 points in one game. This is probably the edge I need to beat my opponent, whose flex pick is WildTurtle. He's been performing okay, but TSM in general is in a slump at the moment. This is to be expected after two major roster swaps in Amazing and Gleeb.

My initial picks for week 1 were Balls from C9, Xpeke from Fnatic, Dexter from CLG, Sneaky from C9, Aphromoo from CLG, CLG as my team, and Shiphtur as my flex pick. Out of those choices, Shiphtur has surprised me the most with his massive first game. Xpeke didn't secure me nearly as many points as I expected, but he still ended up being a really solid choice. CLG has had a couple of rough games, so Dexter hasn't been a great producer of points--but oddly, Aphromoo has been pretty consistent in that regard. For the first week, I'm up against my friend Tyler, who has a pretty solid team--but I think I can pull it out in the end. I'll find out as soon as I catch up on the games tonight.

Hopefully I'll be able to put out a real entry tomorrow. This is one of the only times lately that I've been able to play some games with my friends, and I don't like missing out on that.