TNC Predator
TNC Predator counts as a real underdog with big ambitions for The International 2018. The team can rely on a strong roster with the most capable Filipino players – Raven, Sam_H and co. … The team is bursting with motivation for the upcoming tournament. Fourth place in the DAC 2018, in which they lost to Virtus.pro in the third round in the lower tier, counts as an international success. Also worth mentioning was the performance at the China Supermajor, in which they also won $60,000 in prize money and a 7-8. moved home. The team also lost in the third round of the supermajor, this time against OpTic Gaming. The team has the players and the potential to go far in the tournament, but must bring a lot of continuity and stamina (even for longer games), to survive against the big favourites. So it pays to keep the TNC Predators in mind.
Greatest success: Winner of the WESG 2016, winner of the China Top 2017
Team Roster:
Carry: Raven
Mid: sleeves
Offlane: Sam_H
Roamer/Support: Tims
Hard Support: Kuku (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.