det wrestler from Delhi, for spiking his food. Elaborating t

This is part two of a three-part series chronicling the rise of superstar mid laner S?ren Bjergsen Bjerg in professional League of Legends. Part one is here. Part three is here.If 2014s domestic seasons heralded S?ren Bjergsen Bjergs transformation into a powerhouse, over the next year he would learn what it meant to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. Following the bliss of the 2014 summer finals in Seattle, Team SoloMid traveled for the fourth straight year to the World Championship. The team, confident from its victory over Cloud9, wanted to aim for the very top of Worlds, which defending champions SK Telecom T1 had left unoccupied after failing to re-qualify that year.The tournament itself was a bittersweet first trip to the pantheon for Bjergsen. While TSM was able to get out of its opening round group, it failed in the end to capitalize on an opportunity to take the groups first slot and avoid facing a top seed in the quarterfinals. When the group draw came, TSM was gifted with the worst possible outcome: Samsung White.To this day, Samsung White is considered by many to be the greatest team to ever play League of Legends. The team disbanded almost immediately following the end of the World Championship, the five players taking diverging paths in China for better contracts than Samsung would offer. White toyed with opponents in scrims during Worlds, and the official results mirrored the scrimmages; Samsung only dropped two games the entire tournament to win the Summoners Cup. Nearly perfect.For what its worth, one of those losses came at the hands of TSM. The first two games in their quarterfinal series went to the side of Samsung in relatively easy fashion, but the third game showed the promise that TSM roster held. The newfound North American champions got ahead early and didnt look back, making the great White bleed before ultimately falling to them in the fourth game.I think theres two sides to the 2014 TSM Worlds story, says NA League Championship Series (LCS) commentator David Phreak Turley. If you ask certain people, theyll tell you TSM was the second best team in the tournament and its just unlucky that they drew Samsung White in the quarterfinals. [TSM owner] Reginald has lamented to me that he wishes they took the group stage games more seriously and earned the first seed so they couldve dodged the matchup.Phreaks opinion is its more important how TSM played. Maybe they disappointed their own expectations, but if you play like the second-best team in your group, you deserve to draw the best team from somewhere else. TSM played like a top eight team at Worlds and thats where they finished. I think thats still a great result, to end up as one of the eight best teams in the world, but if your sights are higher, you better play like it.The expectations for greater success would only grow as the calendars turned from 2014 to 2015. More changes shook up the TSM roster as jungler Maurice Amazing Stückenschneider departed to return to Europe. His replacement was someone Bjergsen could relate to: a Danish rookie making his professional jungler debut under the scrutinizingly bright lights of Team SoloMid by the name of Lucas Santorin Tao Kilmer Larsen.Bjergsen is the best player Ive played with and he was also a good teammate, recounts Santorin from the year he spent alongside Bjergsen. He has really good game knowledge while still having strong mechanics, which makes him a really strong mid laner. He is super hungry to win and will do whatever it takes to make it happen.The spring of that year was as brisk and carefree as the Santa Monica weather outside the studios. Bjergsen was untouchable in his new position as the face of the North American LCS. Cloud9 had been unlocked the previous seasons finals, and LMQ, the rivals from China, had all left America except for Yu XiaoWeiXiao Xian who joined the new organization Team Impulse, which finished fourth in its first season.Bjergsens partnership with Santorin was simple: the jungler would serve the ball - an enemy champion - into the air, and Bjergsen would rise higher than anyone in North America could contend, spiking down the ball to secure a kill for his team. For their inaugural split together, there was no better duo in the league than the two Danes on TSM. Santorin would do his best to protect and serve Bjergsen, and the ace of SoloMid would respond by doing what he did best: slaughter the insolent opponents who dared to face him.Awards that season were a sweep across the board for TSM. Choi Locodoco Yoon-sub was given Coach of the Split. Santorin, the sleek setter, was presented with Rookie of the Split honors. And Bjergsen, for the second time in his career, won the MVP of the entire league for his supremacy over the rest of the field.Bjerg was a teenager with a lot of burden when I first started working with him, says Locodoco, his head coach at the time, who led the team from summer of 2014 to the end of the 2015 season. He felt as if he had to carry the team through his play and also shotcalling. He had pushback at times regarding how much he had to do but at the end when it came down to it he always shouldered the burden and put the work in.This postseason for the split was like a rerun with the same tired ending. XiaoweiXiao awaited Bjergsen in the semifinals, but this time XWXs team was not nearly as polished or in-sync as the previous season, and TSM won the series in four games. The finals, the fourth showdown in a row with C9, was the tepid sequel to their classic final in Seattle months earlier. After dropping the first game, TSM found its form and fired off three straight wins to take a convincing second title in a row. Bjergsen, who had gone blow to blow with Hai Hai Lam in the previous final, didnt look back in the third best-of-five between the two; he amassed a monstrous 19/2/17 in the three straight victories.In the middle of the dominant domestic season, TSM added international hardware to its trophy case in the form of the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in Katowice, Poland. TSM exited champions when the odds-on favorite, the GE Tigers from South Korea, failed to make it out of the semifinals in a stunning upset by Chinese bottom-tier club Team WE.The way TSM played orbited around Bjergsen. Santorin was his setter. Top laner Marcus Dyrus Hill was the sacrificial lamb used as bait to leave the mid lane free to farm minions. All the bottom lane needed to do was stay alive and push down turrets. When it came to damage, it all revolved around whether or not Bjergsen reached the late game unscathed. If Bjergsen was allowed to get through the laning phase in a good position, TSM could win through teamfighting and his late game heroics. Trouble in Metropolis? Dont worry, Bjergsen is here to save the day for TSM.In the IEM finals, TSM repeatedly dangled the juicy Dyrus bait and the opponent left Bjergsen to his own devices. The Chinese team would take down the TSM top laner, but TSM would take the map and get Bjergsen in an optimal position to take over the game. Everything funneled through the mid lane Dane, and no one that spring was able to stop him. TSM won that series in a perfect sweep.Its probably easy to think of Bjerg as someone that got lucky by joining TSM at the right time, says Locodoco. But he showed dedication to his work beyond someone his age and dealt with pressure and the amount of expectation put on him better than 90% of the players in the scene. It wasnt by chance that he succeeded.The dreams of thousands of TSM fans across the world were planted squarely on the back of the teenager, who shone in his roles from carrying to shotcalling. On his face a diligent smile, he was the best player in North America on an unstoppable team. IEM world champions. The outcome at Riots World Championship this year would be different.His legs, however, unbeknownst to the fans, staggered with each step.The breeze of the spring transitioned into the dull, inescapable heat of summer. What worked in the spring was becoming less viable as the year trudged on. In a game where being able to adapt on the fly distinguishes the good teams from the great, TSM was stuck. Bjergsen was the best player in the league, but with Riot Games changes to League of Legends over the past few months it was tougher than ever to sustain a one-man strategy. The game became more team-focused, with players needing to coordinate from the start to the end. It was no longer about which team brought the largest weapon to the battlefield, but rather which team knew how to properly use the full power of the arsenal at its disposal.By the time the summers regular season came to an end, Bjergsens once-steady legs had started to buckle under him. TSM finished the split by losing five of their last seven games, including ones to teams sitting at the bottom of the standings.Bjergsen was dishing out a ridiculous 42.5% of his teams damage, an astronomical figure that was 7% above the next player and almost 10% above anyone on a team that made the postseason. It was obvious the team was fundamentally broken; a stalled truck on the side of the road, the engine having exploded from overheating.But, in front of the broken-down hunk of metal, there was Bjergsen, pulling the carcass stalwartly along with a rope past the finish line and into the playoffs. In the first two rounds of the postseason, TSM strung together two successful series where it played around more than just Bjergsen. Dyrus got heavily involved in the quarterfinal win over Gravity, and Jason WildTurtle Tran, who regressed from his form in the spring split, shone in the semifinal victory over regular-season champion Team Liquid. Somehow, some way, TSM had found itself in the NA LCS finals for a sixth straight season.Bjergsen has been the player to beat ever since he joined NA LCS, says Eugene Pobelter Park, the mid laner he would ultimately face in the finals that summer. Hes almost always been dominant, and even at his worst hes someone to play very carefully against. I think the most remarkable thing about him is how rarely he gives solo kills in lane. I can remember it happening only three times over his career since hes joined LCS, which is crazy considering most mid laners will give solo kills a couple times a split.The finals took place at the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, marking it as the biggest final to ever take place in the leagues history. On the opposite side was Counter Logic Gaming, the arch-rivals of Team SoloMid since almost its inception. Throughout the years, CLG had watched TSMs success from afar, always failing to make it over the final hurdle.This time it was different. The fools gold would shine no more, and Bjergsen could no longer carry the burden of the hopes of thousands of fans all by himself. CLG swept the series in an anti-climactic 3-0, and TSM this time were the ones to watch from a distance, its rivals basking in the glow of a championship for the first time.TSM qualified for the 2015 World Championship through the circuit point system, but the team did not go far. International teams had figured out TSM, and the North Americans struggled, leaving with a single win to their name. At the end of the tournament, longtime top laner Dyrus retired on stage, giving a final interview following their group stage elimination loss to the Chinese club LGD Gaming.Next it would be Lustboy to retire, becoming an analyst before moving back to South Korea to coach for a team in the domestic league there. Santorin would also leave, eventually joining a minor league team in Europe. WildTurtle would be the last, being moved to a substitute before joining Immortals, a new venture capital-backed organization making its debut in the NA LCS.I think the biggest problem for 2015 TSM was the lack of flexibility, says Martin Deficio Lynge, a former coach and current shoutcaster. Dyrus played tanks and Wildturtle was too inconsistent to be relied on as a carry at the international level so Bjergsen was always forced to carry. The era of solo carrying was already over in 2015 so it was pretty clear that TSMs 2015 lineup was past its expiration date.Bjergsen stood alone at the end of the 2015 season. Gone were all the teammates who had been there as he learned to become a champion one year prior, laughing as Andy Reginald Dinh hugged him on stage with trophy in hand.Team SoloMids name had never been more appropriate. NCAA Jerseys Outlet . According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time. Clearance NCAA Jerseys . Barcelona also left injured defenders Carles Puyol, Javier Mascherano and Jordi Alba out of its squad for the trip to Glasgow. That means that Marc Bartra will probably start again in the centre of the defence alongside Gerard Pique. https://www.chinajerseysncaa.us/ . - Chris Tierney snapped a tie with a power-play goal late in the third period as the London Knights rallied from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Erie Otters 5-3 in Ontario Hockey League action on Wednesday. Cheap Basketball College Jerseys . The Barrie Colts defenceman, who impressed many with his play for Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship, is the top-ranked skater in the February rankings. He has 19 goals and 24 assists for 43 points in 45 games with the Colts this season. Cheap Football NCAA Jerseys . The giant slalom world champion slipped during her first run in the morning, landing on her back and then twisting forward before getting her leg caught in the protective material on the side of the slope. Following a three and half hour hearing on Wednesday, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) disciplinary panel is set to announce its decision on Narsinghs appeal on Thursday. Narsinghs lawyers argued that keeping in mind that it was a sabotage attempt, the panel should let the Maharashtra wrestler off with a reprimand.Just ahead of the hearing on Wednesday, reports of Narsingh failing his second dope test held on July 5 began trickling in. NADA further found his food supplements clean, contrary to claims of them being tampered with.The 26-year-old wrestler has been accused of taking an anabolic steroid, methandienone, and is under provisional suspension. With both his A and B samples taken on June 25 returning positive, and again flunking the second dope test conducted ten days later, Narsinghs chances of making a maiden Olympic appearance appear slim.The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) named Parveen Rana as his replacement in the 74kg freestyle category for the Rio Olympics late on Tuesday. With the United World Wrestling (UWW) handing India an ultimatum to either name Narsinghs replacement as backup or forfeit their quota place, the national federation was left with little choice. Narsingh has been wronged. Its really unfortunate, said Parveen, With just two weeks left for the competition I have to train hard.ddddddddddddEarlier, crying foul over his samples returning positive, Narsingh had lodged a written complaint against a cadet wrestler from Delhi, for spiking his food. Elaborating that an FIR has been registered under Section 328 and 120 B, DIG Sonepat HS Doon said on Wednesday, The exact role of the persons concerned is being investigated, and at the moment we cannot disclose any names. The matter is under investigation, and if anybody is found guilty, strict action will be taken.Alleging conspiracy, Narsinghs parents and relatives staged a day-long dharna in Varanasi on Wednesday demanding an inquiry into the matter. Narsingh and his roommate as well as sparring partner Sandeep Yadav, the other wrestler who failed the dope test, were based at the SAI Sonepat centre as part of the Olympics preparatory camp. This fuelled the sabotage theory further since there seemed to be little logic for Sandeep, who is not headed to Rio in any case, to be taking performance-enhancing substances.Narsingh had been picked to represent India at the Rio Games over two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar after he won the quota place with a bronze medal at last years World Championships. ' ' '