Team of the Week – Snowball Esports [Legacy] https://legacy.snowballesports.com Oceanic Esports News & Content Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:00:45 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-sb-favicon-32x32.png Team of the Week – Snowball Esports [Legacy] https://legacy.snowballesports.com 32 32 Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 9 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/08/16/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-9/ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 02:30:15 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6921

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Can you believe the split is approaching its end? The second last edition of Team of the Week is jam-packed full of star power even featuring a role swap!

Haeri

Harry Kang – Gravitas

We’ll quickly cover Haeri’s performance in the mid lane this week before we mention his top lane performance that has landed him into this week’s spot.

Game 1 on the Sylas he had a solid performance, was behind a little bit into the enemy Azir, but for the most part was holding his own, Unfortunately for Gravitas, Mammoth was too strong and eventually Haeri started getting rolled through in teamfights.

Gravitas decided to change things up for their second game of the weekend and put Haeri in the top lane for a more favourable match-up. It paid off. It was a monstrous performance that will probably haunt Order fans for the rest of the off-season. Haeri ended up with ten kills in a 25-minute game and was a one-man wrecking ball.

Wilder

Jeong Jin-woo – Bombers

A strong opening performance on the Gragas from the Korean jungler, Wilder was able to help the Bombers keep up with Avant’s early skirmishes, participating in 85 percent of the teams kills while also ensuring he was able to hold his lead by remaining deathless for the game.

Game 2 Wilder found himself on the Olaf, where he was steamrolling through his opponents. He was also effectively using his ultimate to get himself out of sticky situations to fall back and peel with the assistance of the Yuumi ult.

Wilder looked comfortable on the Olaf and was able to demonstrate his understanding of the limits of the champions, pressing forward and falling back at appropriate times. Bonus for the jungler too, he finished the weekend with an infinite KDA after not dying across the weekend.

Claire

Brandon Nguyen – Chiefs

Claire started his weekend on the Emperor of Shurima and his soldiers were laying the smackdown upon the Dire Wolves. Claire was cleaning house against the Dire Wolves, ending up 8/2/8 and participating in 75 percent of his teams kills.

His ultimates were instrumental in picking off opponents, and his presence around the map ensured he was able to be at the right place at the right time and clean up fights.

Against Avant, Claire was left marooned early in a three-man dive mid lane but outside of that looked strong for the rest of the game. Claire was given a few moments to show off his strength flexing in a straight one-vs-one against the enemy mid laner. Claire was also able to utilise the Corki’s sieging ability demolishing towers.

Raes

Quin Korebrits – Chiefs Esports Club

The perfect player was off to the races picking up three early kills and on a scaling champion like Sivir meant the Dire Wolves their work cut out for them. Unfortunately for Raes the Wolves were able to put up a bit of a fightback and found themselves picking off the AD carry three times, leaving him at 5/3/3 at 27 minutes.

However, Raes and his team were able to put the wheels back on the track, squashing the Dire Wolves attempted comeback and cleaning house. The Chiefs bot laner finished 9/3/7 with a six hundred and fifty gold bounty to his name.

A botched dive early from Rae’s in his second game wasn’t enough to keep him down as he went to work on growing a sizeable CS lead and plate advantage. A quieter game than usual from Raes meant he had to play patiently and wait for his time to strike knowing that he would eventually hit his late-game Tristana spike. Patiently he waited, involved in only one kill at 35 minutes is able to clean up a fight in his own base and flip the game on its head.

Rogue

Jake Sharwood – Bombers

It was an uphill battle early in game one for the feline support, however after Rogue was able to help navigate his AD carry through a difficult laning phase the cat had a massive impact across the map, frequently teaming up with Wilder on his Gragas. Rogue’s influence was shown as he was involved in 92 percent of his teams kills, landing crucial ultimates to ensure the bombers had their fights under control.

Back to back games on the Yuumi, and Rogue looked like he picked up back from where he started, Rogue this game seemed to land every Yuumi ult and catch Legacy off-guard every time. The synergy that Rogue has built with Wilder when using Yuumi was on display this weekend and was a joy to watch, a pivotal reason behind both the Bombers wins.


That’s a wrap on this edition on Team of the Week, with only one left for the year! We’re headed to the Melbourne Esports Open where the Oceanic Pro League final will be held. Are you?

 

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 8 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/08/09/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-8/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 02:07:24 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6894

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Eight weeks down for the season and the race for first place is still up for grabs, while playoff spots are still being fought for as well. It’s looking like it could come down to the wire! This week’s team is star-studded and helped their teams find success over the weekend.

BioPanther

Brandon Alexander – Dire Wolves

In what could be described as a textbook display on Gangplank, BioPanther was able to get an early farm lead, create pressure, and roam mid lane as he pushed his influence across the map with split-pushing and his ultimate. While the Gangplank was found split-pushing at times, it should be noted that effectively using his global ultimate meant BioPanther was able to participate in fifteen of the Dire Wolves’ eight kills through the match. Finishing the game deathless and with a 700 gold bounty was the icing on the cake.

A solid game two from BioPanther showed he certainly isn’t one of the hungriest crocodiles on the Rift, as he had to patiently wait to get involved on Renekton, but the pressure points he created on the map rewarded him with turrets in the solid game.

Only

Jordan Middleton – Chief Esports Club

Only was able to be surprisingly influential early game on his Karthus pick, participating in a four-man dive four minutes into the game to get his team ahead. His proactive objective control on the Karthus enabled the Chiefs to steamroll through the Mammoth line-up.

Only continued his great form on Saturday, picking up first blood in what now has become a recurring trend. Only went from strength to strength as he managed to pick up a solo kills on a top laner and secured a host of neutral objectives. Only’s constant pick potential coming out from the jungle helped guide the Chiefs to a solid victory and he finished the weekend 2-0.

Ry0ma

Tommy Le – Bombers

Ry0ma had a performance that had Jake “Spawn” Tiberi lauding Ry0ma as “import ready.”

It’s not hard to see why. Ry0ma flexed his champion mastery on Akali, taking down the top lane Corki between towers in a one vs one. Ry0ma continued to pick his opponents apart like he was playing with his food, but unfortunately for the mid laner, his 10/3/5 scoreline wasn’t enough to get his team over the line.

Game two: Ry0ma was styling on the Yasuo and I believe it’s about time we make the calls that Ry0ma is smurfing in the OPL. He finished the game 7/0/3. It was the type of performance that reminds you of the Yasuo that bodied your team in solo queue, and you’re left wondering why when your team picks the same champ they power feed.

Raes

Quin Korebrits – Chiefs Esports Club

Raes had a sensational last few weeks. His ability to press early leads in lane to become a turret-plate goblin, and then use these leads to drive the Chiefs to victory, has been exceptional, and game one this week was no different. He collected two plates and was 2-0 up, within the opening four minutes.

Rae’s second game of the weekend wasn’t as explosive. He played his role, got the job done, and locked in a deathless game. He finished the Saturday evening win with a 450 gold bounty and was able to snowball his incremental advantages into a substantial lead.

Rogue

Jake Sharwood – Bombers

Rogue opened his weekend with a solid game on Tahm Kench. The Bombers’ wins were very much the Ry0ma show, but Rogue was still able to have his own highlight play dubbed “saving private Ryan” by Zack “Rusty” Pye when he was able to bail out his AD carry from almost certain doom. A very solid individual performance, only marred by a shaky final five minutes as the team slipped at the final hurdle.

Against Mammoth Rogue was able to default back to comfort, picking up the Thresh despite coming up against the counter match-up of Tahm Kench. Rogue looked comfortable on the Rift, with his biggest play coming from a three-man push in the mid lane which ended up breaking the outer turret.


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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 7 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/08/01/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-7/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 03:42:36 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6826

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Welcome to Snowball’s Team of the Week, which highlights and recognises a player from each role that played well over the weekend’s games.

Thien

Romeo Tran – Chiefs Esports Club

In what might be a Team of the Week first, Thien has managed to slot himself into lineup with only one game played over the weekend, however, his one game played for the week was certainly one of the best performances.

Thien styled on the Legacy top side at nine minutes, picking up a double kill off a botched two-vs-one dive. This may have been one of the best performances from a player in the Oceanic Pro League this split. At 18 minutes Thien made his Riven gameplay look like he was playing Fruit Ninja, slicing up his opponents and taking two men down in a one-vs-three outplay. It’s also worth noting that he was very close to taking down all three.

Thien finished the game with a cool 8/0/6 scoreline in a game that finished within 23 minutes. One of the cleanest Riven performances you’ll see in the OPL.

Only

Jordan Middleton – Chief Esports Club

Navigating the Blind Monk for his first match for the week, Only played Summoner’s Rift like he had perfect vision. The Chiefs jungler was able to pull off two successful ganks in the opening four minutes securing both kills for himself. Only made a small error with a misjudged collapse into his red-side jungle as his team loses a fight, but aside from that single error, it was smooth sailing for the jungle who plays a near-perfect game keeping his team ahead.

In game two, while Only’s performance on the scoreboard is nothing special-looking, a deeper at how the Chiefs were able to achieve their leads and advantages showed Only was able to play a critical part in the setup. The Chiefs jungler scored four dragons to zero, and secured two Barons to help ensure his side stayed ahead of the curve in a high-kill game that saw blows traded across the board.

Triple

Stephen Li – Mammoth

Triple lead the charge for an early stampede in opening minute locking down the Order Support, providing Mammoth first blood and Triple with some handy assist gold. In a game that didn’t have much bloodshed, Triple was able to show the Sylas’ scaling abilities through a small lead in farm that gave him the advantage to zone out Order at a 20-minute Baron contest.

Team play was able to get Triple the scaling start he needed with the mid laner teleporting with a Yuumi attached, ‘packaging’ into enemy lines to pick up a much needed double kill. Triple’s presence in the rest of the game was immense, a sieging machine while also taking names when anyone stood in his path, the mid laner ended up finishing the game 6/1/6 rounding off an impressive set of performances for the weekend.

Looch

Carlo La Civita – Bombers

The former mid-laner turned ADC added another string in his bow as he flexed his ability to play Sona, and Looch certainly looked at home playing the champion. Around 13 minutes into the game Looch – without hesitation – turned onto Gravitas in a four-vs-four fight. He landed Sona’s Crescendo, and the stun-lock helped turned the Bombers’ snowball into a victory. Looch ended the game deathless, and with a 300g bounty to his name.

Looch stepped back onto a traditional marksman for game two, playing the lovers’ duo like two birds of a feather. Looch got off to a flying start, narrowly missing out on first blood as the duo dove the enemy bottom lane at the four-minute mark, which secured a kill for the Xayah. A few moments later Looch was able to replicate another successful dive, which meant he was now 2-0 up in the lane. The Bombers stuttered a little in the mid-game and Looch does find himself out of position in the bottom lane at one point in time, but he’s able to recover, show a bit of swagger and confidence and drive the Bombers home ending 9/2/8.

Rogue

Jake Sharwood – Bombers

Rogue must have been over the moon about this game, a rare opportunity provided to the support being able to farm for the opening part of the game, however, I suspect he will be slightly disappointed about falling 4 cs short of the ton. Rogue did an excellent job of keeping his team safe and keeping his teammates out of trouble.

On the Rakan it looked like Rogue was doing shuttle runs and running the beep test this game – he was everywhere. Implementing big engage knock-ups to then quickly fall back to protect his bot laner, his presence was immense and felt across all skirmishes and teamfights he was involved in. This was reflected in Rogue’s impressive scoreline as he found himself second in kill participation for the match at 84 percent, and only narrowly outdone by his laning companion.


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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 6 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/07/25/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-6/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 01:24:09 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6804

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Welcome to Snowball’s Team of the Week, which highlights and recognises a player from each role that played well over the weekend’s games. This week has the best of our three undefeated teams putting their best players forward into one team of week six domination.

Pabu

Jackson Pavone – Gravitas

Strong improvement across the board was the name of the week for Gravitas but first among equals in this stellar week for the squad was the play of Pabu. Pabu delivered yet another taste of the stellar potential we’ve seen since he first came through the OCS.

Pabu has made his bones this split showing us misplaced mid lane champions to great effect and he showed us that firstly with a remarkable Corki game on Friday. He was a glutton on the field, hoovering up gold and damage and using it to build a dominating display from Gravitas’ top side of the map.

His second game was not as exciting on the scoreboard but much flashier on the rift. He took Qiyana into the top lane into Papryze’s Jayce and while Papryze was able to put forward one of his better performances of the split, a Supreme Display of Talent for the ages put the trees down for the count and sent Pabu and his squad to a glorious 2-0 weekend.

Wilder

Jeong Jin-woo – Bombers

Earlier in the split there was talk around the fact that jungling for the Bombers in Split 1 was a relatively easier affair due to how well the rest of the team was playing – and maybe the more subdued start to the split from Wilder was a reflection of the adjustment the whole roster needed to make.

Bombers broke through this week and it was in no small part thanks to Wilder shouldering a heavy lift for the weekend. A pair of Taliyah games led to a pair of victories and Bombers’ first 2-0 weekend of the split.

Against the Chiefs on Friday, Wilder was a force of earthen-nature, hurling rocks and vision around the map with reckless abandon, and enabling Mimic and ry0ma to go to work.

The match against Dire Wolves was a closer affair, but huge damage from the Taliyah coupled again his ability to get Mimic and ry0ma into position to do big damage was vital to a game that was balancing on a knife’s edge tipping into the Bombers’ favour.

Ry0ma

Tommy Le – Bombers

Swiffer was hard-done-by not to take this even despite the loss, but ry0ma was on another level this weekend. His Renekton was terrifying and in combination with Wilder put the Chiefs’ early game to the (curved) sword, bringing back the dreaded “Lane Claire” that we’ve seen on and off since 2017.

Tommy hit all the “one-percenters” in this game, as a cursory glance of the numbers will tell you – champion and turret damage, and even commitment to his teams’ vision game. It was a dominating performance and a great example of what he can do with a gold lead.

If the Renekton game was strong, then his Lissandra on Saturday was an absolute masterclass. Getback struggled mightily in the matchup and as BioPanther (even with some less than stellar ultimates) threatened to take the game away from the Bombers, he came up time and again on the backside of scuffles to clean up the win or recover a botched fight for his team.

K1ng

Calvin Truong – Mammoth

Mammoth were not set the most difficult of early tasks against a Legacy outfit struggling to find their gear but k1ng showed why he is still at the pinnacle of the Oceanic Ezreal with an excellent performance.

He topped the kills and gold charts while remaining deathless and showing the power of the Iceborn build in concert with Triple’s Azir, contrasting with the Trinity Force favoured by players like Raes.

Edging north of 500 gold per minute and coming up on 1,000 damage per minute is huge numbers – perhaps not unusual for Ezreal, but still a masterful outing and one you expect good teams and players to show over lesser ones.

Stepping up in quality of competition, k1ng showed us a suffocating Sivir against Avant. Withstanding an early all-in from gunkrab and Aladoric, k1ng found an early laning lead shortly thereafter and held it until he started moving around the map with his team. He finished the map with over 60 percent kill participation and plenty of contribution to objective control.

Destiny

Mitchell Shaw – Mammoth

Destiny gets into back-to-back Team of the Weeks on the back of two excellent – and mayhap his two last – Yuumi performances. He showed up big-time against Legacy, with 100% kill participation and more damage than everyone on the trees except Chazz’s mid lane Rumble.

It’s worth spotlighting his outing against Avant on Saturday. Not just for his damage output, second-highest on his team, or his incredible vision control both in terms of wards placed *and* cleared.

But the composition from Mammoth, whether by design or by fortune, was tailored for Destiny to shine. Hitting his empowered Q enables Skarner to go forward, allows for Fudge to hit his knock-ups easier, and gives agency to k1ng to use the Sivir ultimate to send the team forward. Destiny turned this composition on, and time and again Avant fell victim to his pursuit kitty.


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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 5 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/07/17/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-5/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:34:31 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6769

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Welcome to Snowball’s Team of the Week, which highlights and recognises a player from each role that played well over the weekend’s games. This week has three teams and in a week of 1-1 teams perhaps the best performance of all the players who had a loss this weekend.

Tally

James Shute – Order

Tally put forward a pair of exemplary performances this weekend. While Swiffer and Dream had the sexier scorelines against Legacy, it was Tally’s Renekton that kept the Legacy map crumbling around them and meant that they could never muster an effective defence as they were getting stretched from pillar to post by the croc in the top. His damage and kill contribution numbers are on par with Swiffer and Dreams’ and he did so with a much smaller gold share, showing his ability to be impactful with lesser resources.

Despite the loss, I found his Irelia game to be just as impressive. There was a moment before 16 minutes when Tally exploded into a fight with multiple kills where his power level in tandem with Spookz meant Order were a genuine threat to overwhelm Dire Wolves. Sadly for Order fans, the rest of the composition wasn’t able to pace Tally and Dire Wolves wrested control back. This match showed the diversity of his skillset and his ability to work with an early lead.

Babip

Leo Romer – Mammoth

If all you had time to watch this weekend was the first five minutes of Friday’s broadcast, you’d wonder what this is doing here. Praelus and Gravitas exposed Babip and tore his early pathing to shreds as he was made to look well below OPL standard. It might be an odd way to start the listing of a Team of the Week post, but I do this to set the scene for how good the rest of his week was. After two early deaths, he only died one more time over the last 45+ minutes of play in both games.

His Jarvan and Olaf games were a vision masterclass, which is an underrated hallmark of Babip’s game – after falling behind early he contributed great warding numbers in the Legacy game. Against Bombers he had mind-boggling ward clearing numbers which enabled Mammoth to out-skirmish the Bombers after allowing Looch out to an early lead.

Claire

Brandon Nguyen – Chiefs Esports Club

Claire had perhaps the single best game of any player on Friday, as his Vladimir was omnipresent in the match, dealing colossal damage and making highlight-reel dodges all over the map. His 19.1k of damage was higher than both combinations of the top 2 and bottom 3 players on the Wolves, and he had more kills than the entire Wolfpack combined.

While his Corki game may have been subdued by comparison, the performance was no less important. He once again topped the Chiefs’ kill charts and was an important contributor to his teams’ objective control. He had an important job to do as Corki into Azir, and delivered it with aplomb – the mid tier-one tower perhaps the most symbolic way to show his dominance over Gravitas.

Raes

Quin Korebrits – Chiefs Esports Club

Ably performing alongside his compatriot in the mid lane, Chiefs’ superstar Marksman was at his usual excellent best this week. He died only once in each game, and the death against the Dire Wolves was off the back of a botched play across three different players. He was so dominant on Friday that he still had biscuits left at the end of the match.

His match against Gravitas was the latest example of his development as one of Oceania’s premier Ezreal players. In my observations he usually eschews the Iceborn build in favour of the Trinity Force and put it to work, putting up over 800 damage per minute, dying only once to the hardly-fair Mordekaiser of Pabu. And this performance was the product of switching lane partners to the returning Cupcake. While Cupcake was certainly no slouch, having to go into his first match in nearly a year served to display Raes’ versatility in the manner of the seamless transition.

Destiny

Mitchell Shaw – Mammoth

Destiny showed a glimpse of returning to his absolute peak form this weekend, save for a small blip, and most encouragingly for Mammoth fans, did so way from his hallmark hard-engage champions. When you look at Friday’s game the bottom lane was a rather grotesque mismatch but the challenge of having a lane-pushing AD like Sivir laning with you while your jungler struggles early makes for a challenging lane prospect. Destiny handled this unique challenge very well as the game transitioned out of the rough start and into a place where he could start contributing to 12 of his side’s 14 kills.

While his lane started poorly against Bombers, one might make an argument this was closer to k1ng’s fault than Destiny’s. As the match played out Destiny continued his great play on the Yuumi pick, contributing relevant damage for a support, significant healing, and yet again a monstrous kill participation. Destiny with his tail up (no Yuumi pun intended) is a significant boon for Mammoth, and he will be looking to consolidate this week into continued great play to close out this split and season.


With only two 2-0 teams and a handful of good performances from the 1-1 players, did you have the same players in your own team of the week? Tweet at us and let us know @snowballesports with the hashtag #TOTW.

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 4 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/07/11/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-4/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 05:43:09 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6753

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Is the break finally over!? If you’re anything like me you’ve probably forgotten what happened a fortnight ago so let me help you out by recapping Week 4’s Team of the Week!

Tally

James Shute – Order

Finding himself on the Gangplank against an Aatrox, Tally played the match-up as expected, falling behind a little but staying in the contest through gold-generating abilities. Tally is able to play the long game, knowing if he’s able to hold control that the late game carry potential is a string in his bow. Tally quietly achieved in this game, ending 4/0/4 with 300 cs. While he wasn’t quite at the level of one-shotting AD carries, if the game had dragged on for much longer Tally would have been in the prime position to take control of the game.

Tally played Kennen in the second game of the weekend. Order’s top laner moved into a versatile role this game, as his bottom lane fired to a massive start. The pressure on bot allowed Tally to fill multiple roles, building into on-hit Kennen to create pressure in the side lane while capitalising on the big flank potential that Kennen always creates. Alongside that, he was able to provide great peel and a stuns for his ADC. Tally certainly played a supporting role in the second match, but two good consistent performances from the top laner secure him a position in the Team of the Week.

Only

Jordan Middleton – Chiefs Esports Club

Only had his chance to flex his ability on Sejuani in the opening game, securing a kill in the first 2v2 skirmish of the clash with a fadeaway-ultimate (cool guys don’t look at ice explosions). Only had a taste of blood after that, and he followed up the first secure with a second to find himself 2/0 up early in the meeting. The Chiefs jungler was dominant from there, assisting a kill in the bot lane, claiming first dragon, and then collecting Rift Herald ahead of the 20-minute mark. Despite the Chiefs giving up an ace at the next Dragon contest, Only (5/1/11) was able to steer the ship home with the jungler pivotal to the leading side’s victory.

Clearly feeling confident from the first match, Only picked up his league-famous Kindred for the second match. He scored first blood, but was unable to escape after the kill and gave his life in exchange. He snagged the Dragon minutes later for another traded death, before turning the game on its head in the second Baron fight of the game. Mammoth collapsed on Brandon “Swip3rR” Holland, and the Iron Titan seemed destined to fall, until Only dropped Lamb’s Respite for his top laner to turn the fight around, and give Big Swips the chance to land a fight-breaking four-man Gnar ultimate. The Chiefs overturned a major gold deficit from there, and stepped into the title race with a 2-0 weekend.

Claire

Brandon Nguyen – Chiefs Esports Club

Claire was unable to get on the end of many killing blows in Game 1 on Irelia into the enemy Azir. With that said, Claire was instrumental in helping Only build up a massive lead. The Chiefs mid laner was part of the early 2v2 skirmish and secured lane priority early when Only went to search for Aatrox behind enemy lines. Claire helped guide his team home to victory, picking up 10 assists in the process.

At 27 minutes Claire wasn’t having a bad game but he was 0/2/3 and his team was down 7k gold. Thanks to a monstrous Gnar ultimate from big Swips, Claire cleaned up a Baron contest in the 28th minute and helped his team secure the objective. Claire’s Azir had gold in his pocket from there, as well as a Baron buff, which enabled Claire to become a wrecking ball to enemy structures, leaving Mammoth helpless to defend against the Baron-empowered creeps. A Mammoth player taking one step forward meant an Azir soldier spear to the face.

This resulted in two inhibitors picked up off the Baron push. Mammoth made a desperate collapse onto Claire in a top side push. Claire ultimately falls in this collapse but not without taking down three against his name in the process. This exchange allowed the Chiefs to end the game. With two positive performances from the mid laner across the weekend secured Claire the mid lane Team of the Week spot two weeks in a row.

Dream

Ronan Swingler – Order

A very early skirmish in Game 1 on Caitlyn enabled Dream to pick up a kill in a bottom lane exchange two minutes in. The skirmish really sets the tone for the rest of the game. Dream who appeared to be in a feast-or-famine mindset, played very aggressively in a number of risky 1 vs 1’s that almost fell against him, pushing for deep traps and vision that cost him his life. For all these downfalls, however, he found himself in net positive positions. He’s up in kills, plate gold, cs and most importantly for Caitlyn; items. Order are able to secure two Barons and the second Baron is what broke the camel’s back with the siege machine gun that Caitlyn becomes in the late game. Dream was able to stroll down the mid lane and knock down towers, while doing so flashed forward while closing down the enemy posturing aggressively ending up with a triple kill and closing the game.

Dream’s amongst it again early on in game two securing first blood off an invade at 45 seconds. Dream continued to apply the pain off a quick Nautilus hook in the 4th minute, picking up his second kill for the game. 20 minutes approached and Dream was in a great spot, the sole person with two completed items, looking so strong as he went to town on Bombers during a dragon contest. He picked up three kills. Transitioning straight from Dragon, Dream rotated to Baron and shredded it down quickly. Dream was then able to turn his focus onto the Bombers, taking two members off the map and into the death chamber. It is left-right-goodnight at this point for the Bombers, Dream does fall twice giving the Bombers a glimpse of hope, but in the end the 10/2/10 Kai’sa at 30 minutes is too much to handle and takes home the win.

Totoro

Eun Jong-seop – Dire Wolves

I’ve been seeing all these memes lately about the sort of Lux supports you can expect in your solo-queue games and let me tell you, there are a ton of low ELO players out there (myself included) that would love to have Totoro on Lux in their games. High vision score, not taxing his ADC’s farm, hitting big bindings!? Okay but meme’s aside, Totoro played a fantastic game, peeling for his ADC and hitting big bindings, playing support Lux the way it should be played. His performance was worthy of a win but unfortunately couldn’t get the job done.

Game 2 Totoro decided to take a Saturday afternoon stroll through hook-city. The Dire Wolves support, clear-headed and decisive, landed big hooks in crucial teamfights and won the plaudits of the casting team. His presence on Summoner’s Rift was certainly felt. Totoro was able to get the win he deserved to round out the great showing he had over the weekend, finishing 0/1/19 being involved in 85% of his teams kills.


And there you have it – Round 4’s Team of the Week. Tweet at @snowballesports with the hashtag #TOTW let us know your thoughts on this edition of the best performers of the weekend, and let me know who you think will make next week’s team!

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 3 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/06/26/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-3/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:26:37 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6684

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

It’s Week 3 and we’ve almost closed off the first round robin of the season. This week’s team is the first of the split not to feature a Mammoth team member, with the table-toppers finally dropping a game. It’s also a time where we can start talking about the split MVP front runners and I think there is a name that should come up in the conversation, so without further delay let’s get down to business.

Chippys

Ryan Short – Avant Gaming

We have for my money, as things stand, the leading candidate for the OPL Split 2 MVP. Avant’s first place standing has happened with a myriad of roleswaps and substitutions but Chippys consistent carry performances for the third week in a row has him as the only player to feature in each of the Team of the Week editions for the split thus far.

In Avant’s first game against the Dire Wolves, Chippys was a quiet achiever, ending the game 2/2/8. He landed some big ultimates on Neeko throughout the match, but had to take a backseat role as Shok quickly became the centrepiece for Avant. Nevertheless, Chippys’ performance was serviceable, and he performed his role as required.

Their second game of the week against Mammoth saw Chippys once again on his own island duking it out for himself. For the most part he held his own, but benefitted from his team’s presence around the map. In a volatile match up, things started to swing his way at the 20 minute mark, solo killing Ibrahim “Fudge” Allami, and disrespecting his opponent with an on camera dab.

He showed the strength of his Camille on a beaten down Mammoth as Avant picked up the first baron, gunning down the Mammoth members waiting by the Baron pit hoping to contest. For a player that had a slow start, Chippys once accelerated put on a clinic for closing out the game picking up a Penta kill to close off the game, finishing 9/0/2.

Miru

Park Mi-reu – Avant Gaming

Game 1 for Miru got off a shaky start after unfortunately dying at his enemy’s blue buff around the seven minute mark. Adding salt into the wound, the Avant bottom lane gave up a kill to a three-man dive at the same time. While costly, Miru didn’t do much wrong for the rest of the game. He appears back topside at eight minutes to help get Chippys back into the lane and take down Fudge. At the end of the day though, Miru’s ability to consistently turn and lock down key targets led Avant to victory.

Game 2 allowed Miru a chance to play aggressively early, picking Olaf against Mammoth. While it was a slow start, only taking an early Ocean drake to help Avant’s lane sustain, he was able to up the tempo at around nine minutes into the game. B-lining for Mammoth’s blue buff, he ran over Leo “Babip” Romer and Stephen “Triple” Li, before also cleaning up Calvin “k1ng” Truong on the back end.

Less than a minute later, Miru was on the map contesting the Rift Herald, and managed to turn a relatively quiet first eight minutes into an explosive 3/0/2 start by 11. Miru did his job in both games, and besides for a few lapses of concentration, gave Avant the tools to get another 2-0 week.

Claire

Brandon Nguyen – Chiefs Exports Club

The two time Snowball MVP winner was showing off real clean mechanical play, with Bryce “Egym” Paule describing Claire’s ability to escape an impending gank so clean that it looked like a spectator bug and that you’d be forgiven for providing false “hackusations” against his Akali play.

Claire picked up first blood at 14 minutes against Legacy off the back of a failed bot lane trade from Legacy. He was then able to clean up the scraps later on in the game around objectives, finding picks around the map without much pressure coming back at him. He finished Game 1 with a relatively humble statline of 4/1/3, but his constant pressure was priceless.

Playing Corki against Order on Saturday, he shrugged off more ganks and kept absorbing pressure for the Chiefs. His ability to stay even throughout the laning phase allowed him to explode in the mid game, making his impact known at the Rift Herald contest at around 10 minutes, picking up a swift double kill. His only death for the game came in the aftermath of the Chiefs’ first baron of the game as he put up a 4/1/5 performance.

These two great, consistent outings across the weekend earned Claire a spot on this week’s Team of the Week.

Raes

Quin Korebrits – Chiefs Esports Club

Raes found himself having a very slow start in game one against Legacy. With Chiefs taking a huge advantage in the top lane, Raes understood the situation that he needed to absorb pressure as the Ezreal and just work on poking his enemies down. So patient was Raes with his Ezreal play, the perfect player had to wait until 25 minutes in to pick up his first kill of the game. But, from there, he was a team fighting machine, safely whittling down his opponents and allowing for the rest of the Chiefs to clean up the scraps.

He then had to fight his way from behind against Order on Lucian, after falling down to an early game from Samuel “Spookz” Broadley. However, by eight minutes, a well-timed teleport from Brandon “Swip3rR” Holland allowed Raes to gain level pegging, picking up a kill on Jayke “Jayke” Paulsen’s Lux.

Within two minutes, the Kiwi bot laner picked up another couple of kills, and snowballed the game out of control from there. Solo killing Ronan “Dream” Swingler at 12 minutes, he kept flexing his muscles throughout the mid game, looming as a menacing threat over Order’s head as the Melbourne boys tried to contest objectives.

While he had a few mishaps with a bit of overaggression, Raes ended the game with a 9/3/6 statline and a quadra kill next to his name. The Chiefs have found something special with the Claire-Raes carry duo, and are looking to threaten the likes of Mammoth and Avant at the top in the next few weeks.

Decoy

Daniel Ealam – Gravitas

It’s always hard as a support to find your footing in a loss, but Decoy managed to put up solid performances from ahead and behind in Week 3. Against the Bombers, the Gravitas support went deathless, while participating in all four of his team’s kills across the game. It wasn’t a game to remember for Gravitas, but Decoy can hold his head high after his own performance.

However, fast forwarding to Gravitas’ game against Legacy, let’s set the scene. It’s 13 minutes in, the gold relatively even, and first blood hasn’t been picked up. Both teams are contesting Rift Herald. With Decoy’s Lux being able to approach the pit where Legacy are trying to take down the Rift Herald, he is able to make an immediate impact on the trapped and confined Legacy, snaring two members in the pit and securing two kills for himself.

From there, the game accelerated quickly, with Decoy helping guide his team to victory by landing big ultimates and finding picks with his Light Bindings. His consistent performances, despite the troubles Gravitas have been facing, has secured him his first Team of the Week spot for the split.


That’s a wrap for Team of the Week! Anyone stiff to miss out? Who is your MVP for the first 3 weeks of the split? Let us know, tweet us @snowballesports with the hashtag #TOTW.

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 2 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/06/19/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-2/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:52:06 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6647

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

Welcome to Snowball’s Team of the Week, which highlights and recognises a player from each role that played well over the weekend’s games. This week has three repeat entries from last week and with the scintillating form it’ll take a valiant effort to beat them for Week 3.

Chippys

Ryan Short – Avant Gaming

If you watched the opening five minutes of the Avant Gaming vs Legacy Esports match, what’s happening in the top lane is probably not safe for work. Chippys on the top lane crocodile is more than 35 cs up and with his jungler’s assistance has eliminated his lane opponent twice. Again, this is all in the first five minutes of the game time. It’s an incredible start, and it only seems to get better with a 68 creep-score lead and full plating as the tower crumbles in the ninth minute. Chippys has a slight hiccup, dying at the Baron pit trying to fend off an incoming Legacy contest, but from then on it was smooth sailing for Avant’s solo laner as he finished with a 7/1/6 scoreline, alongside a brutal ‘flame horizon’.

Chippys second match for the weekend was a much slower affair, as he found a more even encounter against James “Tally” Shute in Order’s top lane. There wasn’t much to separate the two top laners, until Chippys collected tower gold at the 20-minute mark and Sylas’ power spikes began to creep into the contest. Remaining deathless all game, Chippys was able to collect kills and assists from teamfights, and finished 7/0/7. It may be earlier days, but it’s looking like the former Oceanic Pro League MVP may be back to his best in Split 2.

Babip

Leo Romer – Mammoth

Babip had a rough time early on Jarvan IV, hunted through his jungle by his opposite number and giving up an early death for his troubles. The setbacks continued as he died in another jungle skirmish in top river, and Mammoth’s roaming playmaker eventually found himself 0/3, and relegated to playing a Cinderhulk-build on J4. Babip’s adaptability shone through however, as he turned the situation on its head and picked up three kills and eight assists. In the end, he finished with 100 percent kill participation and made his rocky start seem a distant memory.

In his second performance, he took 14 minutes to get on the board as Rek’sai, before cleaning up three kills in a five-man dive in the bottom lane. From there, Babip had the lead he needed to carry his team to a smooth victory, and his layered crowd-control, as well as a deathless outing, saw him lock in his second Team of the Week position in a row.

Triple

Stephen Li – Mammoth

In the words of OPL caster Jake “Spawn” Tiberi, Triple’s Azir play was a ‘master class.’ The mid laner began taking over the game at the 20-minute mark, and the next five minutes saw him soar to a 5/0/5 statline with his third item locked in to his inventory. From there, the Azir-pick overwhelmed the Bombers. The game lasted just four minutes beyond that.

In Triple’s second game, he found himself in the Richie Benaud zone of 2/2/2 at 22 minutes, but controlled play on Lissandra saw him weave his way back into the game. The match finished at 34 minutes, and after his mixed start he had bounced out to 12 more eliminations, and earned the highest KP in the team.

Raid

Julian Skordos – Gravitas

Raid had a strong showing in his first outing of the week, facing off against title-favourites the Chiefs. After picking up a kill in an early-game Drake skirmish, Raid’s Ezreal pick shone with poke. Unfortunately, the marksman couldn’t guide his side to victory, and his only slip-up of the game was the opening Chiefs needed to claim victory against Gravitas.

In his second game, Raid struggled to find his feet early in regards to farming. Playing as Ezreal again, Gravitas’ bot laner climbed back into the gold-mix with his Kleptomancy rune, and set about poking down his enemies once more. In the end, Raid suffered a long spell between drinks as his teammates beat him to six straight eliminations, but in the final skirmish of the game he was able to pick up two to finish 2/0/8.

Eyla

Bill Nguyen – Chiefs Esports Club

Eyla had an active presence in the early to mid-game, roaming to mid lane with his ultimate up, and landing major taunts in front of the dragon pit. Eyla’s presence continued to be felt for the rest of the game, including a massive three-man knock-up ultimate, followed by a taunt. It was enough to lock Gravitas away from Chiefs’ base, and keep the door open for the boys in blue. Another great Galio ultimate on top of a Hextech Ultimatum ensure the Chiefs could close out the game, and Eyla’s ability to lock-down targets had proved the key in the Chiefs’ resurgent comeback.

Eyla was again on Galio in his second game, and it was more of the same textbook stuff for the Chiefs support. Early roams, and multiple-member taunts carved an early lead out for the Chiefs in the first 20 minutes, before the game slipped out of their grasp. Despite the disappointment, Eyla’s performance was more than enough to secure him this week’s support slot.


That’s a wrap on Team of the Week, did we get the right Mammoth players for this week? Were any Avant players stiff not to feature after their 2-0 week? Tweet at us and let us know @snowballesports with the hashtag #TOTW.

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 2, Week 1 https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/06/12/team-of-the-week-opl-split-2-week-1/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:55:06 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6567

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Week!

This column looks to name five of the highest performers across the competition each round, from a hyper-carry performance from the mid lane to a rock-in-the-top outing from a top laner or a perfectly played supporting role.

Week one is always an exciting time for any competition, it’s where you get to see where teams are at. Have they initially met your expectations or are they underperforming? Before you mark off week one, let’s go through the players who impressed us this week, cementing themselves into the first Team of the Week for Split 2, 2019.

Chippys

Ryan Short – Avant Gaming

Chippys got his season off to a flying start in game one against Gravitas picking up First Blood on his comfort champ; Camille. Following a quiet midgame, Avant Gaming began seizing control giving Chippys a platform for begin bullying a Pabu’s hapless Fiora. Chippys was able to finish with a 700g bounty on top of his 7/2/8 scoreline and 70% kill participation.

Chippys again on Camille, had a solid game against the Bombers despite not securing the win. He held his own in the volatile match-up against Mimic’s Irelia; however unfortunately for Chippys, ry0ma’s Azir proved too difficult to overcome with arguably the best carry performance for the weekend.

Babip

Leo Romer – Mammoth

When you’re the only undefeated team in the OPL and you had to beat the Chiefs to hold that record, it’s hard not to sing the praises of the whole squad. Babip was ever present for his team with his Sejuani partaking in 80% of Mammoth’s kills against the Chiefs and with a clutch Glacial Prison, he lead the charge onto Raes’ Ezreal to close out the game.

Babip had a solid second game, quietly building up a lead and helping his team when required, his biggest galaxy brain play was smiting and auto attacking Praelus for a kill and then securing the Baron all while on 130 HP if you don’t mind! Babip’s consistent performance in the jungle this weekend locks him in place for Team of the Week.

Triple

Stephen Li – Mammoth

Triple’s Akali saw a shaky start from a teleport to top lane that went awry, but quickly made amends by cleaning house in a 4v4 skirmish near Rift Herald, making his presence felt around the map. While rarely carrying the gold lead, Mammoth were able to stage a comeback victory against the Chiefs after k1ng’s Sivir came online.

Game two was right out of the Morgana textbook, playing a more supportive role, Triple was clearing waves and making an impact in the side lanes. Going deathless, Triple was never threatened while helping lockdown 90% of Mammoth’s kills and ending the match with a supportive, 2/0/16 scoreline.

Raes

Quin Korebrits – Chiefs Esports Club

The Chiefs Esports Club’s “perfect” player had another incredible weekend, with a very impressive performance despite the team’s loss to Mammoth. At one stage his Ezreal held a nine kills to one death and was looking like it could take over the whole game.

On a repeat performance on the Prodigal Explorer, Raes got himself a moment of retribution taking the Dire Wolves to the cleaners in what was a dominant performance from the start, snowballing his 20 cs lead in lane and picking up turret plates to ending the game deathless with a 6/0/9 score line, an absolute clinical performance.

Rogue

Jake Sharwood – Bombers

Having a longstanding partnership with FBI who has now left to greener pastures, I was interested to see how Rogue would perform with a new laning partner and whether or not he would be able to become the focal point in the bottom lane. In their game against Order despite not having a great opportunity to show off his strengths, there were glimpses like the excellent pick on Jayke’s Lux 9 minutes in to the game.

Against Avant Gaming, Rogue pulled out Galio and with a highlight play in the midgame he flew to the aid of Mimic and turn a 1v3 dive quickly into a 3v3 with the assistance of ry0ma. Combo-ing Hero’s Entrance into a three-man taunt cleaning up on Avant’s botched assault. Rogue continued to deliver on his role as an immense front line for the rest of the game and let ry0ma take the wheel to drive the game home in their closing game of week one.


The Oceanic Pro League returns on Friday afternoon at 4pm AEDT where Raes and the Chiefs will faceoff against Gravitas.

Disagree with the list? Feel another player had a stronger performance and deserved the recognition? Feel free to voice your concerns to @AWray7 and @stickmansan.

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Team of the Week: OPL Split 1, Super Week https://legacy.snowballesports.com/2019/03/26/opl-team-of-the-week-s1w10/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:55:55 +0000 https://snowballesports.com/?p=6014

Welcome to Snowball’s OPL Team of the Super Week!

This column looks to name seven of the highest performers across the competition this week in the OPL’s massive Super Week, from a hyper-carry performance from the mid lane to a rock-at-the-top outing from a top laner or a perfectly-played supporting role.

Chippys

Ryan Short – Avant Gaming

The third place team in the OPL had a mixed ending to their split, clocking up just a single win in their three Super Week games as they fell to the two teams above them in the standings. For team top laner Ryan “Chippys” Short, it was three strong performances on the Rift however.

His highlight game came in the second last regular season clash of the split, as his hard-carry performance came in the form of a 7/1/14 scoreline on Jarvan IV in the top lane. Contributing to more than 80 percent of the kills on the Exemplar of Demacia in the match despite playing the team-role most likely to sit on an island. As Avant Gaming prepare to battle their way through the gauntlet and prove they deserve their lofty finish in the split, Chippys is sure to play a catalyst role for the org. Expect big things from the veteran solo laner in the coming gauntlet conflict.

Spookz (MVP)

Samuel Broadley – Order

It was life or death for Order as they entered the OPL Super Week, sitting in a precarious position just outside gauntlet positions. With the org facing their first postseason without League of Legends to play, someone had to step up in a big way.

Enter Samuel “Spookz” Broadley, who stood tall alongside James “Tally” Shute and Simon “Swiffer” Papamarkos in Order’s most vital game of their split against Gravitas to clinch a 9-12 record and potentially fifth place in the competition.

Dominating across the game on his Jarvan IV pick, Spookz finished 7/2/9, two levels and 3k gold ahead of his opposite number Jordan “Praelus” Fernandes, and led the way for the resurgent Order lineup to carve a path into the 4th/5th place playoff in the gauntlet. Spookz’s massive leadership performance in the battle was a key moment in Order’s season, and made him the most valuable player in Snowball’s final Team of the Week.

Triple

Stephen Li – Mammoth

Fourth place has been confirmed for Mammoth as they head into the opening match of the gauntlet, and Stephen “Triple” Li had a statement round in Super Week ahead of the elimination best of five.

Although their season ended with a loss to the first-placed Bombers on Saturday, Mammoth’s Friday matches were two of their best. Before downing place-rivals Order, Mammoth opened the round by defeating Legacy Esports in a 21-18 battle that saw Triple lock in his much-loved Azir pick and march to an 11/4/6 record, dealing a game-high 34k damage to champions. A second game on the Emperor of the Sands against Order had less damage – just 15.3k to champions – but it was still the second highest in the game only losing out to Calvin “k1ng” Truong’s Lucian which recorded 15.4k.

FBI

Victor Huang – Bombers

In every league and competition around the world there are players that achieve at such a high level for so long that fans and viewers become accustomed to greatness. Victor “FBI” Huang has become that for the near-undefeated Bombers outfit as they soared to a final 3-0 weekend, locking the top spot in the OPL and confirming their place in the Split 1 grand final.

FBI played three different champions in his three outings in Super Week – Kai’sa, Ezreal and Vayne – but the results were all the same. Bombers’ bot laner collected a massive 22 kills across his three games, adding another 14 assists and dying just five times in more than 85 minutes on the Rift. Look to FBI to be the X-factor in the upcoming final, no matter who the team faces, as the dominant ADC continues to make strong arguments for the MVP of the entire split.

Praedyth

Mark Lewis – Legacy Esports

Coming into 2019, and off the back of a less than ideal split on Tectonic, Mark “Praedyth” Lewis made the call to forgo the island of the top lane and move into the bot lane for Legacy Esports.

There were question marks, for sure, when it came to the 19-year-old’s choice, especially after he had been playing in the solo lane as far back as with Chiefs Black in the early months of 2016. In the OPL Super Week, and to close out Legacy’s split, Praedyth proved everyone wrong.

The team may have won just one game in three, but Legacy’s bot laner stood tall in all three clashes, even keeping the team in their final fight against Avant Gaming when all else seemed lost. With Avant’s team pushing onto the Nexus, Praedyth found a flank from the bot lane inhibitor on Vayne, grabbing himself a quadra-kill nearly single handedly and pushing the third placed team out of his base. It may not have saved the game as Legacy fell in 30 minutes, but it spoke volumes of what the young top laner-come-AD Carry is capable of.

Earlier in the same day, his efforts paid off for the victory too. Facing off against the Dire Wolves mostly for pride, Lewis was able to clock up a 9/1/7 scoreline on Lucian as he dolled out nearly 25k damage to champions. It was his statement match to close out the split, and one that’s sure to be on everyone’s minds as the Lega-trees’ marksman heads into the second season of 2019.

Rogue

Jake Sharwood – Bombers

Bombers captain Jake “Rogue” Sharwood was all laughter after the team locked first place in the OPL off the back of victories over Avant Gaming, Gravitas and Mammoth, but on the Rift he was lethal. Playing out two games on fresh support pick Galio, and one on Braum, Rogue saw his screen turn grey just four times over more than an hour and a half of League of Legends, chipping in a kill, and being involved in more than 70 percent of the team’s kills across the entire weekend.

With many already talking about the possibility of the Bombers-Chiefs matchup being the grand final for Split 1 of the OPL, the fact that Rogue and Chiefs support Eyla are both heading into the postseason in red-hot form speaks volumes for the quality of the bot lane clash we could see in a fortnight. It will be a battle of the young blood in Eyla, coming up against a multi-year veteran of the OPL. As Rogue prepares for his first grand final, the memories of his Sin Gaming run of the past may play on his mind, and we’re sure to see plenty more of the Bombers captain at his leading best come the big dance of Split 1.

Eyla

Bill Nguyen – Chiefs Esports Club

Big Brandon “Swip3rR” Holland may be the ‘rock in the top’ for the second placed team, but rookie support Bill “Eyla” Nguyen has become the foundation that Chiefs victories are built from.

Combining with Quin “Raes” Korebrits to rocket the club to one of just two 3-0 records in the Super Week, Eyla played Braum twice and Thresh once. The young utility player made sure he was involved in the entire team play, providing 33 assists across his three games, and dying in his frontline role just six times against Avant, Gravitas and the Dire Wolves. As a potential candidate for Rookie of the Split, Eyla sits in an interesting position as a player in the running to potentially crack into the top three places for an MVP berth. Eyes on Eyla in the coming gauntlet matches and beyond will be key if you want to see how the Chiefs play out their critical best of five series.


The Oceanic Pro League returns on Thursday afternoon at 4pm AEDT, when Order and Mammoth lock horns in the opening clash of the postseason gauntlet. Also keep your eyes peeled for a Team of the Season ahead of the season’s grand final.

Disagree with the list? Feel another player had a stronger performance and deserved the recognition? Feel free to voice your concerns to @everin_oce – he loves chatting about the best players of the week.

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