Summoning Insight Episode 8 VOD, with special guest IWillDominate: All-Stars

Episode 8 of 'Summoning Insight', a League of Legends talk show hosted by Duncan 'Thorin' Shields and Christopher 'MonteCristo' Mykles, featured special guest Christian 'IWillDominate' Rivera, formerly of of Team Dignitas and current Junger of Curse.

The big topics were the All-Star tournament and the need for coaching and analysis in the West.

Note: I am on holiday and MonteCristo is still in NA, so the video quality of our webcams is lower than usual.

Time line of topics discussed:

  • 01:36 All-Stars impressions
  • 04:45 fnatic's performance
  • 11:20 SKT stylin on ppl
  • 16:32 OMG
  • 26:08 Xiyang
  • 32:43 Allen
  • 33:43 Chinese jungling
  • 35:14 fnatic vs. SKT semi
  • 38:33 Implications of the outcomes
  • 39:55 Coaching and analysis in the West
  • 56:00 Scrims being abandoned after early snowballing
  • 1:01:48 Cloud 9 in international competition
  • 1:04:40 Monte thinks NA will be the second best region by Worlds
  • 1:08:00 Curse, prior to Xpecial joining, being one of the teams who hadn't made moves in the off-season
  • 1:15:30 Will Xpecial shot-call in Curse?
  • 1:16:11 Thoughts on Dignitas
  • 1:17:00 C9 dominating in the past, will they again?
  • 1:22:00 Pressure on amazing
  • 1:28:23 Dominate's thoughts that if they allow foreign players into LCS then he'd prefer the S2 cicuit.
  • 1:36:56 More about coaching/analysis
  • 2:00:00 Lastshadow joining SHC as analyst
  • 2:03:25 C9 rising as a team, with a special line-up
  • 2:06:48 EG as an example of how players look good in better teams.
  • 2:16:02 Players with small champion pools are bad players.
  • 2:18:00 Bengi and PoohManDu
  • 2:21:51 Using the NLB format with LCS
  • 2:25:06 International tournaments providing extra context for Worlds.
  • 2:28:25 Odds on an All-Korean final at Worlds.
  • 2:33:18 KT B
  • 2:34:11 CLG and Seraph contrasted with TSM getting Amazing
  • 2:35:31 NA and EU teams bootcamping before Worlds


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