Spring 2016: Week 8 EU LCS Preview

In today's episode of the Rough Drafts Podcast, Chase "RedShirtKing" Wassenar and Walter "Ceades" Fedczuk look at Week 8 of the European LCS and discuss whether G2 has what it takes to win a Best-of-Five Series, if the Unicorns of Love can withstand the Loulex Effect, and how one roster move at a time as put new life into Team ROCCAT. They close with their predictions for this week's games. 0:00 Introduction 2:05 G2’s Strengths and Weaknesses As We Approach the Split’s End 5:15 How G2 Punished Origen’s Weaknesses in Week 7 8:00 How Will G2 Handle the Transition to Best of Five 11:20 Unicorns of Love and the Loulex Effect 15:00 Can Fox and Steeelback Can Make Up for Unicorns’ Newfound Early Game Issues 18:50 Has Noxiak’s Arrival Done Enough to Renew Hopes for a Last Minute ROCCAT Revival? 22:00 Airwaks Stats 23:10 What ROCCAT’s Loss to Fnatic Means Going Forward 25:40 ROCCAT’S Coaching Carousel 28:40 Guess the Lines Standings Recap 31:10 Giants Gaming v. Fnatic Preview 32:20: H2k-Gaming v. Team ROCCAT Preview 35:40 Unicorns of Love v. Origen Preview 38:05 GotW Team Vitality v. G2 Esports Preview 40:15 Elements v. Splyce Preview 43:15 G2 Esports v. Giants Gaming Preview 44:20 Elements v. Unicorns of Love Preview 45:50 Fnatic v. Team Vitality Preview and Fnatic’s New Jhin Pick 47:35 Splyce v. H2k-Gaming Preview 48:00 Team ROCCAT v. Origen Preview 50:45 Best Bets of the Week Discussion 53:15 Closing Be sure to subscribe to the Esports Rough Drafts Podcast on iTunes to keep up with every episode here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rough-drafts-podcast/id1050361444?mt=2. And if you happened to leave a nice review along the way, that’d be cool too.