OpTic Gaming
OpTic Gaming made history in competitive eSports for Call of Duty back then. In time, however, the franchise had to react and adapt to new titles. After the TI7, OpTic Gaming also decided to have a presence in Dota2. The former Dire Roaster was hired for the newly formed team. Four out of five players have been playing and training together for OpTic Gaming for a year now (only MiSeRY has migrated to Evil Geniuses). The fifth man should be found quickly and the team moves into the TI8 with “33” – Neta Shapira (on the offlane). 33 makes a robust impression, but he still lacks international tournament experience. Of course, this weak point is also known to the opponents and the open question remains whether one can forge a strength out of the weakness. However,
Biggest Achievement: 2nd place at ESL One Birmingham 2018, Winner of StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational – Season 5
Team Roster:
Carry: Pajkatt
Mid: CC&C
Offlane: 33
Roamer/Support: zai
Hard Support: ppd (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.