DieBruderschaft.com

Walking into the League Championship Arena on Friday, I narrowed down my choices for North American LCS MVP down to three, and all of them were about to play in the most anticipated match of the season: Team SoloMid vs. Immortals. It was the series that would tell us which team was going to grab the regular-season title in North America, and which team would enter the playoffs with a leg up on its closest rival for the postseason crown.At the center of the match stood three superstars with legitimate claims to being called the most valuable player in the league.The contendersOn the side of Immortals, there was the reigning MVP, Kim Reignover Yeu-jin. Outside of ROX Tigers Song Smeb Kyung-ho, no player in the world has transformed more in the past few years than Reignover. Given the nickname GameOver in South Korea for his tendency to throw games, Reignover has become a true conductor on Summoners Rift since linking up with fellow teammate Heo Huni Seung-hoon on Europes Fnatic last year. He is the main cog that stirs the pot for Immortals, a team that can make their overly aggressive style work due to the effort Reignover puts into vision, jungle control, and overall pressure. For me, hes one of the top five junglers in the world, and his bilingual fluency makes him a linchpin.The second candidate, another former winner, was S?ren Bjergsen Bjerg. Let me be frank: if this award was named Best Player in the NA LCS, then Bjergsen would get my vote. I still believe Bjergsen is the strongest player in North America, and Team SoloMid did the correct thing in the 2015 offseason by building a team around him instead of trying to plug its best player into an already half-solved jigsaw puzzle. Like Reignover, Bjergsen is a player that any team, North America or Europe, would drop everything to sign.Finally, Yiliang Doublelift Peng. Weirdly enough, I didnt think of him as a true candidate for the award through the first few weeks of the split. He was only playing one champion in Lucian, and all eyes were fixated on his rookie bottom lane partner Vincent Biofrost Wang, and the centerpiece of the team was seemingly in the mid lane. But as the season progressed, Doublelift started to gallop along with the other two frontrunners.Before I delve into my decision for my placement of how Im voting for MVP of the split, lets go through a few players who should be highlighted for their work during the summer season.Honorable mentionsAs crazy it seems, for a few moments during the weekend, Rami Inori Charagh popped up into my head as someone who should be on the ballot. Sure, he only played half of the season, but thats also the main reason why he entered the conversation in the first place. Without Inori, it was clearly shown that Phoenix1 was a downright bad team that didnt deserve to be in the LCS. With him, the team started to click, and mid laner Choi Pirean Jun-Sik played like an absolutely different player. In the end, I decided against including him in my top three but I feel like Inori should be credited as one of the main characters of this split. When people think about this split, outside of TSMs dominance and Doublelift and Bjergsens one-two punch for the ages, Phoenix1 and its rise from the ashes of an 0-9 start will be one of the first stories to come to mind.Besides Inori, I also felt like Eugene Pobelter Park is another player that was on the cusp of breaking into the top three. While Reignover is certainly the man pulling the strings for Immortals, Pobelter was the catalyst to Immortals being able to keep up with the likes of TSM during a season where mid pressure and mid lane control were so crucial. After the spring split where every Immortals player was seen as the best at their position except for the last remaining North American starting mid in the league, Pobelter was the best or second best player for IMT this season alongside Reignover.Zaqueri Aphromoo Black, per usual, pulled together his CLG troops following an awful start to the split and led the team to a top four position in the regular season. Id also be daft not to mention Jake Xmithie Puchero for his continual strong play in the jungle. On the topic of jungle, how do I even choose the top three junglers in the league for the All-NA LCS squad? Reignover, Xmithie, Inori, TSMs Dennis Svenskeren Johnsen, Liquids Joshua Dardoch Hartnett, and Cloud9s William Meteos Hartman all had stellar seasons. While a majority of the positions have a few clear trios at the top, the jungle position -- once the shallowest position in the NA LCS -- has a stack of candidates.Now, maneuvering back to the three players I will have on my ballot, Reignover will be my third choice for the award this split. The person I selected to get the award last split had another great split this time around, but those tiny mistakes Reignover and Immortals can usually cruise by with easier teams came back to bite them when they faced Doublelift and Bjergsen in the regular-season match that decided first place in the league.What makes an MVP?When it comes to criteria for how to vote for the MVP, a lot of people have different mindsets. Some will simply pick the player with the best stats across the board. Others will pick the player, regardless of team record, that influenced his team the most in a positive manner throughout the season. Personally, I have an assortment of different criteria, ranging from stats, to how well their team did, to what would happen if you took said player off his team and replaced him with merely an average player. In the end, to me, the MVP award, along with those other variables, should go to the player that you remember when you think about that season in the future.Someone may say, Remember the summer split of NA LCS in 2016? I want the player to whom I give the award to be that player who springs to my mind. The player that defined the regular season. The player who not only was world class in his play, influence, and stats, but put on a memorable enough performance where he made that split his own. To me, when looking back at the past nine weeks of trudging up to the LCS Arena, sleeping in hotels, and watching the games live, that player is Doublelift. When it comes to TSMs best season in team history, I dont think Bjergsen could have done it if you replaced Doublelift with an average AD, and I dont think Doublelift could have done it if you replaced Bjergsen with an average mid laner.When it comes to stats, Bjergsen and Doublelift are atop of almost all the major stats for each of their positions. However you look at it, TSMs success this season started with the two players that they built around during October of last year. Bjergsen was the last remaining player from the 2015 version of TSM, and Doublelift joined not long after. With Doublelift, Bjergsen was given a reliable carry he could trust in to help him carry the load, and the same could be said about Doublelift with Bjergsen.Yet, when I reached my hotel Sunday night after the final games had been played to start deliberating over the awards selection, the player that came to mind as the personification of the split was Doublelift. Last split, I couldnt even fathom a possible worse gut-punch exit to a season. Doublelift lost in the finals to the team that let him go. Instead of crumbling, he gave an interview after the loss, and hasnt let his head drop once this entire split.Defining the seasonWhile Biofrost isnt your average rookie, hes also a reason why I give the incredibly slight edge to Doublelift. Playing with a new support is always tough, especially for a player that has been around for a long time. You can have two players simply not meshing well, or the young player not following behind the veterans footsteps correctly. For Doublelift and Biofrost, they play like a bot-lane that has been around for years, and the season-long frontrunner for Rookie of the Split was enabled by Doublelift with their matching laning styles.His 1000th kill in the NA LCS. One of the main voices on the team when it comes to shot-calling. The best AD carry in the league, and one that was able to actually carry in a season where a lot of the players in his position were used in utility roles. After last seasons loss to CLG, a lot of players, years of experience or not, would have crumbled. You lost directly to the player who replaced you on the team that you put on the map. Your former bottom lane partner, considered one of the best in history, Fnatics Bora YellOwStaR Kim, leaves you to return to his home continent and former team.Instead of falling apart under scrutiny, Doublelift had the best split of his career. He helped Biofrost become one of the marquee supports in the league during his first split. He helped ease the pressure off of Bjergsens shoulders. He marched TSM to its best regular season in history with only one match blemish on its record.We dont know how the playoffs will unravel, but thats not what Im voting for. When I look back at this split in a few years, the first thing I will remember is Riot stretching out the league to three days a week and completely killing any sort of social life I had on Friday nights. However, after that, Ill think of Doublelift. A superstar that, for me at least, became a leader and the leagues most valuable player that summer near the beaches of Los Angeles in 2016. Nikolaj Ehlers Jets Jersey . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. Jack Roslovic Jersey . Francis told several hundred members of the European Olympic Committees that when sport "is considered only in economic terms and consequently for victory at every cost . http://www.jetsauthentic.com/authentic-logan-stanley-jets-jersey/ . - Derek Wolfe says hes finally healthy after suffering a seizure in November that doctors now believe was related to the spinal cord injury he suffered in the preseason. Kyle Connor Jets Jersey . The next step is a better finish. Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. Josh Morrissey Jets Jersey . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Ready or not, the Rio Olympics are opening their doors.The Games begin in just over two weeks, but the Athletes Village opens officially on Sunday, meaning 10,500 athletes and another 7,000 staff members will start trickling into the luxurious layout, with the pace picking up daily until the Aug. 5 opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium.The 31-building compound should pamper the worlds best. Its set among tennis courts, soccer fields, seven swimming pools -- with mountains and the sea as a backdrop -- and topped off by a massive dining-kitchen compound thats as large as three football fields.I want to help all the athletes have a wonderful welcome to Brazil, said Priscilla Antonello, a residence center deputy manager whose job is to help athletes find their accommodations.Will she be star-struck by so many Olympians?I couldnt be in this job if I behaved like that, she replied Saturday, standing on the 13th floor of one of buildings, gazing out over cycling paths, bubbling fountains and lots of green.She already knows which countries will be where, but shes not allowed to say.Some delegations had already arrived on Saturday, easy to spot with banners or flags hanging off the sides of buildings.Slovenia had the best banner. In green and white it says: I Feel sLOVEenia. The LOVE portion was set off in white type, making sure the message got across.Another read: All for Denmark.Banners or flags from Canada, Britain, Portugal, Finland and Sweden were among those spotted. A tiny red and yellow Chinese flag was pinned near the top of one of the compounds.Everything about the village is massive, though fairly standard for recent Summer Olympics.Organizers say the compound has:- 10,160 rooms; 18,000 beds; seven laundries; an enormous, hospital-like clinic; a massive gym.In addition, organizers are providing 450,000 condoms, three times more than London did four years ago. Among them will be 100,000 female condoms.Organizers said this is to encourage safe sex. Many had considered that increased supply to be due to Brazils outbreak of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects.dddddddddddd.Asked about it on Saturday, deputy chief medical officer Marcelo Patricio replied: No, its not.Then theres the dining-kitchen area, a sprawling tent where officials expect to serve about 60,000 meals daily to Olympians and staff -- and perhaps another 10,000 daily to the hired help.The hardest part is knowing how much to prepare, said Flavia Albuquerque, who oversees Rios food and beverage service. We want them to eat anything they want to.That will be easy. The choices are nearly infinite. Diners will choose from different buffets -- Brazilian, Asian, International, and Pasta and Pizza. Then theres a casual dining area that will feature barbeque.The casual area might be the most popular, Albuquerque said.There will be lots of dirty plates, but none to wash. The plates will be biodegradable, made of corn and sugar cane.Brazilians figure their food will be a hit: rice, black beans, farofa (flour from toasted cassava often sprinkled on top of food) and meat. And Brazils exotic juice will be popular: caju, acai, carambola, caqui, goiaba and maracuja, often squeezed into juices -- sucos in Portuguese.Billionaire real estate developer Carlos Carvalho might have the only problem.He aims to sell the 3,604 apartments after the Olympics -- some in the range of 2.3 million ($700,000). Carvalhos company Carvalho Hosken has declined to say how many have been sold, but reports say only between 6-10 percent.The project is a victim of Brazils deep recession, the worst since the 1930s.Carvalho Hosken earlier said the projects total cost was about $1.5 billion, including construction, land acquisition and other development costs.---Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP .His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/stephen-wade ' ' '