Like...League matches. I absolutely loved to see both CLG and ESPECIALLY 100 Thieves take down Evil Geniuses and ESPECIALLY take down Team Liquid, but I was obviously disappointed Dignitas couldn't do the same to TSM (who, while I have nothing against them, are just...not as easy to root for as Dignitas is).
At the time of the match, my thought was, "Same as last time, unforced error after uncharacteristic unforced error", but when reflecting on it from memory later I thought that might've been too harsh a criticism, that they took many fights they won but didn't win hard enough, took many fights they won but almost didn't, took many fights they only barely lost, took many fights they lost but didn't hard-lose in, and at every stage were trading blow for blow.
You know, the thing I praised Clutch for even in their losses--taking coinflip 50/50s that they happened to lose, but with one of their missed skillshots connecting, or with one enemy skillshot missing, they would've won in.
Which is still something you can criticize them for, but constructively so, with hope of improvement. Tighten up plays, setup, macro, whatever, the little things they did wrong, so that they don't have that sort of mistake.
I also played a lot of league games recently, most of them somewhat tilting, but just before this blog finished an absolutely awesome game where while my support managed to carry pretty handedly, I was right up there with my support, with the least deaths in the game, highest number of assists by far in the game, as a consequence the player with the best K/D/A in the game, and second in just about every single stat you want to be second in, with only said support as beating me out.
I needed that especially following the multiple teammates in a single game "report Ashe" game even though, hey, surprise, I was midlane, my opponent was equally worthless to me, I didn't die to my opponent, I had the least deaths on my team, and that loss was by the stats painfully obviously not mid difference because the enemy midlaner did nothing that game so while I myself may have done nothing it was basically a 4v4 which my team lost and that aint on me.
But I digress.
Point being.
I've a lot I want to talk about but I'm not talking about most of it.