Being the most successful ARTS you can find at the moment, League of Legends finds itself being played by millions each day with roughly over half a million concurrent users at any given time. Shunned by many for being too easy, top level play is still impressive to watch and far from what you'll see on your average PUG.
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The results from IEM Kiev definitely leave me partial towards
Moscow5. Unless every other team has found a way to deal with their hyperaggressive style efficiently I don't see M5 not making it to the finals. While usually a top contender for every tournament, SK's own 
ocelote has said that he felt behind on practice, but they have taken to the SK headquarters to make up for that. With M5's success in the IEM Kiev being due to the surprise of their style (and its perfect execution of course), and 
SK being in a bit of a slump lately, we might see 
CLG, definitely one the top 5 teams of the world, taking their chances and making it to the top. One should not ignore 
EHOME, though. With World Elite a Chinese team has won the last Global Challenge and to most Westerners, Chinese teams are pretty much a wild card. Also, Asians are sneaky.
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The results from IEM Kiev definitely leave me partial towards
Moscow5. Unless every other team has found a way to deal with their hyperaggressive style efficiently I don't see M5 not making it to the finals. While usually a top contender for every tournament, SK's own ocelote has said that he felt behind on practice, but they have taken to the SK headquarters to make up for that. With M5's success in the IEM Kiev being due to the surprise of their style (and its perfect execution of course), and SK being in a bit of a slump lately, we might see CLG, definitely one the top 5 teams of the world, taking their chances and making it to the top. One should not ignore EHOME, though. With World Elite a Chinese team has won the last Global Challenge and to most Westerners, Chinese teams are pretty much a wild card. Also, Asians are sneaky. Overview
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About the CLG.eu thing: my first instinct was that CLG didn't want to pit two of their own teams against each other (although sending the EU team would've made more sense in hindsight, my logic is flawed). Then I read into it and you can barely say "they didn't manage to qualify". They got screwed over by regulations which make no sense. They qualified as a team that was not contractually bound to mTw, yet mTw was granted the qualification spot, despite having no team. While the decision was ultimately lawful, the set of rules applied make, and I repeat myself, no sense. They certainly deserve participation since they qualified, yet politics forbids them from going.
anyone knows?
cuz LoL pwn shit