Last weekend was held in Moscow Rift Rivals – on tournament League of Legends , one of the most popular games in the world. As part of the competition for the title fight not teams, and entire regions.
Rivals the Rift – is a new format tournament, Riot Games accompanied him around the world: in Germany, Taiwan, Chile, Russia and Vietnam. In each country, brought together the best teams of two or three regions to determine the strongest leagues. On the Russian site agreed Continental League (LCL), advocated by Vega Squadron , Virtus.pro , M19 and Vaevictis eSports and Turkish Champions League (TCL), consisting of 1907 of Fenerbahçe , CREW eSports , BAU Supermassive and Team Aurora .
Berke «Thaldr the» Iron – капитан команды 1907 Fenerbahçe.
Eugene «Drobovik123» Belousov – Vega Squadron team player.
– Did you enjoy the organization of the tournament?
Drobovik123: I think that the Rift Rivals too stretched format. Four consecutive days of travel from bootcamp here, wait here for one game hour and a half and then go back – it’s not a very good effect on the state of the players.
Thaldrin: For the most part I enjoyed it, but I have two comments. First we played the tournament on-line rather than off-line servers. Play online is risky because of possible DDOS-attacks or delays in connection. In Turkey we are using for our league off-line server. I think that such a connection would be much better. And second, perhaps it was my personal problem, I do not know how the other players, but I do not like the food in the studio. Most of the time I was hungry and ate only fruit. But these observations – the only ones.
Preparations for the finals took three days, during which each team from the CIS has played with all the Turkish opponents in the best of one format. After that, the best part of each region has reached the final – he went to three victories. Following the results of the group stage of the Continental League inferior Turkey with a score 3:13. Became finalists Vega Squadron , won two matches out of four, and in 1907 of Fenerbahçe , who do not give a command of the CIS single game.
– Do you this tournament some positive experience Brought which can be used later?
Drobovik123: I very much hope that other teams Rift Rivals gave a lot of experience because we got it exactly. We pretty much had to try out, play with our official replacement Nomanz’om, who played with us for almost all (except one) game. In addition, the Turkish team with his play helped to identify our mistakes much better than teams in the LCL.
Thaldrin: Actually, before the match against Rift Rivals, we played a lot of screamo with Russian teams, and therefore knew all about the teams from the CIS: what they can do, what their level. In truth, we have not received anything from this brand new tournament, the result was for us to expect.
After the finale of the first game, it became clear that the “Fenerbahce” very determined to win and not going to give any card “shark”. In the next two rounds of Turks quickly dealt with the “Vega” and provided TCL title in Rift Rivals Green in 2017 with a final score of 3: 0!
– What do you think, why the match ended in victory “Fenerbahce” 3: 0? What was lacking “Vega”, in what the Turkish team was better?
Drobovik123: Hard to say. In general, I think that this is not my team something is not enough, and the enemy has good individual performers, and, unfortunately, we were not able to surpass it. There were situations when we are replayed on an individual level. And makroplane “Fenerbahce” good enough, so we have not been able to get a strong advantage and realize it.
Thaldrin: I think between Continental and Turkish leagues there is a significant gap in the level of the game. Therefore, going to the tournament, we were confident that we would win. We did not know what kind of team will win the final, but we knew that it would be Turkish. Our teams in micro and makroplane better CIS shnyh.
Recall that Rift Rivals Green 2017 travel straight during the summer season of the Continental League. All competitive games LCL suspended for a week. So even if a new tournament has brought a lot of new teams participating, he gave a needed respite to all who fight for the title of champion of the CIS
