Danil "Diamond" Reshetnikov (source):
"Greetings from Kiev my dear friends! Today is about to end our first day of training on the bootcamp and we have already started to think about playoffs but I think some people will be interested in my view on past week. It starts from the game with CW where we met new Donger in action for the 1st time.
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By the way before all this games we got 4 full-length days of practice. At the beginning we lost too much towers and gave our enemies huge advantage. Although they got push-poke teamcomp, we were trying our best and forced them into defense while Alex with his Zed was pushing their top lane. But one careless movement on the mid lane from our side gave them Nashor and buried our chances to comeback. The other reason was Zeds trade of life to inhibitor, thats might've been usefull if we didn't mess up on mid lane. Of course this loss disappointed us. We were expecting much more after progress in team practices but we didn't despair and went immediately to prepare for the next day's matches against ROCCAT and Fnatic.
ROCCATs were worthy opponents but they gave us Kha'Zix and started to initiate fights against him. It cost them victory. This win let us chill a little bit after crushing defeat from Donger ;)
Next on the list was game against Fnatic. Unfortunately we were not preparing beforehand. Whip up we invented maximum number of cases and decide what to ban and how to play. It was the shame enemy took our Nidalee. She lost to Ziggs which we decide to pick in return but in the issue because of enemy bot lane advantage she realize her mobility, poke and map control. This allowed Fnatic to rush huge amount of objectives and win game.
This loss to Fnatic killed a chance to get into the top 2 which meant that the last game would play significant only in the slot, which we would have got in the quarterfinals of playoffs.
We were not planning to change anything toward next match with Alliance. Our strategies satisfy requirements so there was no reason to change anything or trying to reinvent the wheel. As a result, we made a lot of mistakes in the game: 1st of all I died foolishly. Then we started to push mid and two members of our team got caught by Nami's bubble allowing enemy team to take Dragon and a half of the map which was warded by our team. Even many of the stolen buffs didn't help us. They were just jumping in and trampling us into the ground.
It was not an easy experience of loosing three games during one week. Only consolation was the thing we finally have enough time to prepare and also lastly I will cure from common cold which already started to annoy me. Now we are sitting with our analyst at the boot camp, practicing to exhaustion and preparing to culmination of this grand LCS spring season. Our goal is not to have an egg on one's face. We will see what'll happen in the end...
Thank you so much for rooting for us. I ask for forgiveness of last week results. The real battle is just ahead. See you in the playoffs! ;)
P.S. New patch brings us to the point when junglers tier won't stop on 5-6 champions. This really makes me happy. By the way I am interested in how entertaining you will find my detailed comment about every patch jungle and junglers changes. Stay tuned and keep voting for me :)"
