Fnatic
Fnatic and Dota 2 have always had a difficult relationship with each other. If you were to ask a non-Dota connoisseur how Fnatic is doing, the answer would be unequivocal: “Somewhere upstairs”. The reality therefore seems much more unreal, Fnatic has not yet had a podium success in Dota. Only a second place at the DreamLeague – Season 9 and the DOTA Summit 8 are worth mentioning at all. In the Premier tournaments, however, Fnatic can only look back on fourth place at ESL One Birmingham and Katowice recently.
The question remains what the team lacks. In Fnatic manner, the club has an above-average budget and 4 out of 5 team members have been playing together since early 2017. In individual analysis, wrong calls or “unluck” often lead to failure of the games. However, the opening games will already tell us if Fnatic has done its homework or if it will be eliminated early in the TI8!
Biggest Achievement: Fourth place at The International 2016, ESL One Katowice 2018 and ESL One Birmingham 2018
Team Roster:
- Carry: Aggressive
- Mid: Xxs
- Offlane: Srf
- Roamer/Support: BoBoKa
- Hard Support: Q (Captain)
League of Legends explained – LoL for Dummies
The name of probably the most influential eSports title of the last few years – “League of Legends” – has been heard quickly; but what exactly it is all about is rather difficult to grasp, especially for the layman. Therefore, this complex game is broken down here to simple basic elements, understandable for everyone.
League of Legends or “LoL” is a video game published by Riot Games and belongs to the genre (game category) “MOBA”. MOBA is a sub-genre of strategy games and stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” – so it is an online team game that is played on a closed map that is always the same.
On this map, usually the so-called “Summoner’s Rift”, the teams compete in a five-against-five match with the goal of destroying the enemy base, the winner being the team that destroys the enemy’s main building, the “Nexus”. This usually takes between 25 and 35 minutes, but can also take an hour.
Each player controls one of over 140 available champions. These are selected before the start of each game and matched with the team. Each of these champions has its own skillset – i.e. abilities – and thus differs fundamentally from the others. Therefore, on the one hand it is important to perfect these champions as much as possible, but at the same time to know the skills of all champions in order to be able to compete effectively against them. This is also a long-term task, since new champions are added to the game all the time.