NA LCS Spring Split - Week 1, Day 2

Toronto e. Sports Club. A Look Back at Toronto Esports miracle run in the 2. Spring NASCOQ Miracle on the Rift: Toronto Esports miraculous run into the NACS open qualifier finals. By Max Greenwood. Counter Logic Gaming.

One of those seems like an odd name out, but after an implausible run deep into the League of Legends North American Challenger Series (NACS) open qualifier late last year, the relatively new Toronto Esports is putting in work to solidify their name as a top- tier organization. With a stacked roster of pros including Hexo and Guilte playing and winning tournaments every month on the main Overwatch team, Toronto Esports has an eye for talent.

Although the Blizzard shooter is a main focus, League of Legends (Lo. L) has to be on the radar for any organization – it is the biggest game in the world after all. There is also widespread Canadian talent in the professional Lo. L scene, especially from this city. Team Solo. Mid starters Biofrost and Wildturtle are both from Toronto.

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Expanding into other games seems like a natural way to develop the Toronto Esports brand; still though, it took a hail mary message from the University of Toronto’s (U of T) Lo. L team for a connection to take place. The idea of regional esports representation is distinctive and incredibly interesting. Most esports are localized entirely to one or two cities, such as Santa Monica, California for North American Lo.

L. City representation has huge market potential but lacks support. Gabe “Invert” Zoltan- Johan loves the concept of city- esports relationships. He is the current analyst for the U of T Lo. L team, and the person that first reached out to Toronto Esports with a strong assertion.“If you’re committed to this regional project,” wrote Invert. Toronto Esports did a bit of research and confirmed Invert’s braggadocio: this team was indeed the best in the city.

The U of T team comes off as mechanically talented albeit a bit raw. The squad competed in the u.

Lo. L collegiate tournament in 2. York University in the playoffs. Determined to find victory, the team formed again in 2. A newcomer was jungler Casey “Yummi. Bananas” Woo. As this new 2. Toronto Esports brand, Yummi was admittedly hesitant.

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We didn’t think we were worth it,” he said. LAN WAR X took place in Oshawa, Ontario and Toronto Esports made quick work of it, winning outright and taking home $8. The prize was nice but it wasn’t the most important recognition of the night; the team now knew they were talented enough to not only represent their school, but also their city. Every year there are open qualifier tournaments in Lo. L, and the champions are invited to join the NACS, the league directly below the pros. Once you make it to the NACS, the League Championship Series (LCS) swings into view. Toronto Esports registered for the qualifier with mixed hopes of what would happen.

They wanted to win but at the same time gain experience against what essentially amounted to be professional teams, including CLG Black (Counter Logic Gaming’s challenger team) and Delta Fox (Echo Fox’s challenger team). These teams were a far cry from the low- tier players they matched up against in Oshawa; these were esports goliaths. The team felt understandably hesitant on how they would fare heading into that December 2. Invert remained confident though; even in the face of a potential CLG Black matchup in the second round.“I have text message proof to the . Invert kept the team motivated, knowing that Toronto Esports had beat four of the five team members already at Dreamhack Montreal earlier in 2. At Dreamhack, Toronto Esports played as Flashpoint Air and CLG Black was Team Checkpoint.

Toronto Esports knocked them into the losers bracket, and though CLG Black would claw back and win the whole thing, it was enough to instill confidence in the team for these open qualifiers. When that first game against CLG Black came, Toronto stuck with comfort picks. It was a BO3 and CLG Black was predicted to not drop a single game, so Toronto didn’t have room to fool around with gimmicky strategies. Right from the beginning, Toronto was dominant. Firing on all cylinders, Yummi showed his diversity as both a carry and a support jungler. In both victories against CLG Black, Yummi was involved in over 8.

Invert sounds like a proud dad gushing over his son as he looks back on these second round matches, particularly game one where Yummi carried with Lee Sin.“It was a clinic. It was literally a joy to watch.”CLG Black actually ended up trying to stop the bleeding and pick Lee Sin for themselves in game two.“It worked well for us,” says Yummi. The only thing in their way? Delta Fox, a team owned by Rick Fox with massive funding and resources.“In the Delta Fox match, we all mutually agreed that our jungler and mid were skill- wise a lot worse than theirs,” admits Yummi. I’m not to sure, but we could have gone to game five.”Though Toronto Esports came out firing, it wasn’t enough. Toronto fell in three straight grueling games. The games were tight, but Delta Fox controlled the map as their mid- laner Damonte played late- game carries and top laner Allorim brought out uber- tank Poppy all three games.

As each game lasted on average more than 4. Invert was disappointed his team lost, but not because they played badly. That’s really devastating,” says Invert. We believe that was a big problem to winning.”Unfortunately, this lack of agency is not new to Invert. From decimating established organizations all the way to organizational problems in the finals, there was a lot to learn and take home from the tournament. After the qualifiers ended, Toronto Esports parted ways with this University of Toronto Lo. L team, but it’s hard to believe that at one point this squad of mostly first- year students were three wins away from becoming an entrenched part of the storied Lo.

L professional league. Toronto Esports release Dellor for breach of contract Toronto Esports has today announced the release of Matt “Dellor” Vaughn from their organization, citing breach of contract. Esports paragon team. DB: So I play jungle in Paragon, and I’ve always played jungle in every MOBA I’ve tried. I worked my way through Paragon and eventually made my own team called Carbon Esports. We built up our reputation in tournaments like PCL .

Eventually we were noticed by Toronto Esports and they picked us up. We had one of the members of TO Esports contact us, and we just had a quick chat as they got to know a bit more about the scene.

It slowly worked up to the acquisition and they picked us up. MG: I, like many others I’m sure, are fairly new to Paragon. Can you draw a comparison to other games? Smite is probably the closest due to the third person perspective, but the nice thing about paragon is that it has the unique element of verticality.

There’s a Z and Y- axis, going up and down, so you have to aim properly and have better mechanics in that sense so it’s got a lot of potential. There’s loads of little intricate mechanics that you can abuse in game. Just the simple mechanic of aiming up and down is a huge difference. Lots of dashes and jumps that go upwards so you have to predict these and you have to aim upwards.

There are loads of matchups that are fun to watch in a 1v. We’ve seen lots of demonstrations of this in the PCL with huge 1v. MG: You are the primary shot caller of the team. What is your leadership style like? DB: In general we’ve always had a more passive play style than any other team, we sit back and farm up a lot. We generally do everything a bit more efficiently then others. I call out rotations to my team, try to make sure they’re in the right lanes at the right times, where they need to go, make sure they get the most efficiency from their farm and call when we go for small objectives such as the raptors or if we’re going to invade their jungle and take their white camps or their green.

We just get more farm then keep farming up until we get a slight lead where we can start to force more objectives. We prefer scaling up to late game, and that’s my objective when making calls. MG: Why the conscious decisions to remain efficient and slow rather than take risks?

DB: We have gotten to the point where we can snowball on risks and capitalize on mistakes, but it’s very rare for that to happen. We know one mistake, especially against a very good team, can throw the entire game. Just A Little More Time. At the highest level, teams make very few mistakes and good teams know how to snowball out of control.

MG: What are some other team strengths, and even weaknesses? DB: My players are very mechanically strong. I’m very happy with their individual performances. They can 1v. 1 anyone in their according matchups, as long as it’s fair. They also know how to farm well.

The only thing they can work on in general is just where to be and when to disengage but that’s what I’m there for. If there’s a bit more intuition it allows me to free up my time and I can focus on my own mechanics, because I do spend 8. That can be a bit cumbersome to the comms though. MG: Whats the team’s prep for tournaments like? DB: We do scrims almost every day. We put as much practice into those as we can and we make sure we have several planned strategies and several drafts.

We have preplanned drafts for every threatening team, and then we basically just go into it and try to do our best with the best attitude we can. We hope we can learn more at this stage then flat out win it. It’s all good and well to win it but we need to keep learning at the moment until the scene grows and we get bigger tournaments. MG: Can you tell me about the tournaments you’ve played as TO Esports so far? DB: As soon as TO Esports picked us up we wanted to of course show our best. We didn’t want to test new things because we didn’t want to slander the name, so we went in with as much practice as we could and when we got into the finals against Oxygen.

NA in our first tournament as Toronto, we were nervous because we had lost to them a few times.