{"id":45220,"date":"2017-09-02T21:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45220"},"modified":"2020-08-03T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:56:29","slug":"kt-lolster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45220","title":{"rendered":"kT LOLster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is not a rebroadcast from last year<\/a>: Samsung Galaxy defeats kT Rolster, advances to Worlds<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, despite knowing that this was always a possibility, I would have put my money on kT to win the regional qualifier, and make it to Worlds as the #3 seed for Korea.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s at all that often that a team of talented players doesn\u2019t figure out how to rectify their shortcomings and overcome obstacles in their path; however, on that same token, it\u2019s never out of the realm of possibility that a competitive team also has their kryptonite, and that for whatever reasons, falls short to the exact same circumstances repeatedly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, despite being the vaunted meticulously constructed super team, kT Rolster for the second year in a row, will not be going to the League of Legends<\/em> World Championships, falling short at the hands of Samsung Galaxy, again.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it sucked being kT Rolster because they couldn\u2019t ever beat SK Telecom at all throughout the year, it really<\/em> sucks to be kT Rolster when they didn\u2019t just fall short of winning Worlds, but didn\u2019t even make it into the tournament at all.\u00a0 This would be like if the Miami Heat didn\u2019t even make it into the NBA Playoffs in the years that they had LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s really the risk of constructing super teams, because as much as success should all but be assured, the repercussions of failure seem that much more severe.\u00a0 Competitive fans rarely want to see super teams succeed, but they especially relish in the misery of when super teams fail; therein lies the gamble of building them at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I had to take a guess, I feel like the problem with kT starts with their support, Mata.\u00a0 He\u2019s often lauded as this great League mind, often given most of the credit for the Season 4 champion Samsung White squad for his leadership and shot-calling, but at the same time throughout the last few years, it has crept out that he might be kind of a headcase or a little bit of a diva; that his reputation of being a strong leader and shot-caller has gone to his head and that he expects teammates to follow his decisions and not necessarily their own instincts.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a guy is quoted saying stuff like:<\/span><\/p>\n

I think of myself as the center of team communication, not a dictator<\/strong> telling everyone what exactly to do<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s a very good chance that someone\u2019s called him a dictator before.\u00a0 And that kind of word selection often doesn\u2019t come without justifiable reason.\u00a0 For as much praise he gets for being a good shot-caller, there\u2019s probably as much reason to put the crosshairs on him when things don\u2019t go well, because there\u2019s likely the chance that losing strategies and choices came from him.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t necessarily putting Mata on the cross, because on a team with as much individual talents as kT, if one plan isn\u2019t working, then someone else should be willing to take some accountability as well, and that\u2019s definitely something nobody ever hears of throughout kT\u2019s shortcomings throughout this season.\u00a0 PawN and Deft, both of whom have played with Mata in prior seasons don\u2019t seem to be willing to assume any leadership, Smeb, the former LCK MVP doesn\u2019t seem to want to assume any, and Score, the lone holdover from the old kT doesn\u2019t appear to be taking any leadership either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, at this point, what\u2019s done is done, and kT Rolster will be sitting at home all through Worlds, and in their place will be a Samsung Galaxy team that snuck its way through the playoffs last year, but won\u2019t be so unassuming this year.\u00a0 Who really knows what\u2019s next for kT Rolster, whether they\u2019ll brush themselves off and try again next year, or if the League scene continues on in its current path, implode the whole team, let their players go off to other countries via free agency, and then start back up from scratch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, I have to say it\u2019s been fun watching a super team be built, but immediately fail in both of their ultimate goals going into the season.\u00a0 It\u2019s not often fans get to see such ultimate failure like this.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not a rebroadcast from last year: Samsung Galaxy defeats kT Rolster, advances to Worlds Honestly, despite knowing that this was always a possibility, I would have put my money on kT to win the regional qualifier, and make it to Worlds as the #3 seed for Korea.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s at all … Continue reading kT LOLster<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,45,154,103,52],"class_list":["post-45220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-esports","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-motherland","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45222,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions\/45222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}