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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 impressions04:45 fnatic's performance11:20 SKT stylin on ppl16:32 OMG26:08 Xiyang32:43 Allen33:43 Chinese jungling35:14 fnatic vs. SKT semi38:33 Implications of the outcomes39:55 Coaching and analysis in the West56:00 Scrims being abandoned after early snowballing1:01:48 Cloud 9 in international competition1:04:40 Monte thinks NA will be the second best region by Worlds1:08:00 Curse, prior to Xpecial joining, being one of the teams who hadn't made moves in the off-season1:15:30 Will Xpecial shot-call in Curse?1:16:11 Thoughts on Dignitas1:17:00 C9 dominating in the past, will they again?1:22:00 Pressure on amazing1:28:23 Dominate's thoughts that if they allow foreign players into LCS then he'd prefer the S2 cicuit.1:36:56 More about coaching/analysis2:00:00 Lastshadow joining SHC as analyst2:03:25 C9 rising as a team, with a special line-up2:06:48 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 PoohManDu2:21:51 Using the NLB format with LCS2:25:06 International tournaments providing extra context for Worlds.2:28:25 Odds on an All-Korean final at Worlds.2:33:18 KT B2:34:11 CLG and Seraph contrasted with TSM getting Amazing2:35:31 NA and EU teams bootcamping before Worlds