NASG 2018

2018 NA Scouting Grounds
2018 NA Scouting Grounds
Tournament Information
Organizer	Riot Games
Links	Website
Location & Dates
Region	NA North America
Country	United States
Start Date	2018-11-14
End Date	2018-11-17
Broadcast
Stream(s)	Twitch
Schedule	Link (Spoiler-Free)
Results
Winner	Team Mountain Drake
Second	Team Infernal Drake
Third	Team Ocean Drake
Fourth	Team Cloud Drake

The 2018 NA Scouting Grounds is the third annual event of its kind. It serves as an opportunity for domestic players to showcase themselves and for NA LCS teams to sign new talent from within the North American region.

Overview

Format

20 highest ranked players (4 from each role) are invited from NA soloqueue
- Restricted to maximum 30 percent of total games on one champion
- Minimum 30+ games on 4+ different champions in their desired role
Players are drafted onto one of four teams, each team staffed by an NA LCS organization
Group Stage
- Double Round Robin
- Matches are best of three
- Top two progress to the Final
- Bottom two play in 3rd Place Match
Finals
- Matches are best of three
Patch Information: v8.22
Top Five Prospects
- At the end of the tournament, teams, analysts, and special guests will vote for the players they think will be the top prospects of the year.
- The winners of the votes will be presented with a Top 5 Prospect Award which includes a spotlight on social media.
- Additionally, the voted players will receive features and highlight reels by sponsored community creators and the opportunity to do an in-depth VOD review with a pro player of their choice.

Prize Pool

Place	Team
1	Team Mountain Drake
2	Team Infernal Drake
3	Team Ocean Drake
4	Team Cloud Drake

Participants

Pool

Pool
Top	Jungle	Mid	AD	Support
Jenkins^[1]	Metaphor^[2]	5fire^[3]	Jurassiq^[4]	Duoking
FakeGod^[5]	Srkenji^[6]	Soligo^[7]	SophistSage	Diamond^[8]
Aetheres^[9]	Fragas^[10]	Julien^[11]	Prismal^[12]	Winter^[13]
MistyStumpey^[14]	Obese Panda^[15]	Strompest^[16]	Tactical^[17]	Call Lin^[18]

Note: Tony Top could not participate.^[18]^[19] He is replaced by MistyStumpey.

Draft

Team Mountain Drake		Team Infernal Drake		Team Cloud Drake		Team Ocean Drake
Staff		Staff		Staff		Staff
Pick 1	FakeGod	Pick 2	Tactical	Pick 3	Obese Panda	Pick 4	Metaphor
Pick 8	Fragas	Pick 7	Duoking	Pick 6	Winter	Pick 5	Diamond
Pick 9	Prismal	Pick 10	Strompest	Pick 11	5fire	Pick 12	Julien
Pick 16	Soligo	Pick 15	MistyStumpey	Pick 14	Jenkins	Pick 13	Jurassiq
Pick 17	Call Lin	Pick 18	Srkenji	Pick 19	SophistSage	Pick 20	Aetheres

Rosters

Team Rosters


Team Cloud Drake

Jenkins
Obese Panda
5fire
SophistSage
Winter
Westrice


Team Infernal Drake

MistyStumpey
Srkenji
Strompest
Tactical
Duoking
Inero
Invert
Kubz


Team Mountain Drake

FakeGod
Fragas
Soligo
Prismal
Call Lin
mcscrag
Joseph Jang
Damonte


Team Ocean Drake

Aetheres
Metaphor
Julien
Jurassiq
Diamond
Dodo

Top 5 Prospects

Top 5 Prospects
Rank	Trophy	Player
1	Elder	FakeGod
2	Mountain	Tactical
3	Infernal	MistyStumpey
4	Ocean	Fragas
5	Cloud	Strompest

Results

Group Stage

Final

3rd Place Match

Standings

Team

Series

Games

P

1

Team Infernal Drake

5 - 1

83%

11 - 5

69%

+6

2

Team Mountain Drake

4 - 2

67%

9 - 6

60%

+3

3

Team Cloud Drake

3 - 3

50%

7 - 7

50%

0

4

Team Ocean Drake

0 - 6

0%

3 - 12

20%

-9

Match|Game

				Total
	0 - 2	1 - 4	1 - 1	2 - 2	2 - 1	4 - 3	3 - 4	7 - 9
2 - 0	4 - 1		1 - 2	4 - 5	2 - 0	4 - 1	5 - 2	12 - 7
1 - 1	2 - 2	2 - 1	5 - 4		2 - 0	4 - 1	5 - 2	11 - 7
1 - 2	3 - 4	0 - 2	1 - 4	0 - 2	1 - 4		1 - 6	5 - 12

Playoffs

3rd Place Match

CLD

0

OCN

2

Final

MTN

2

INF

1

Matches

Day 1

Nov 14

[showhide] Match Results

2018-11-14
MTN	2	0	OCN
CLD	0	2	INF
MTN	2	1	INF
CLD	2	0	OCN

Day 2

Nov 15

[showhide] Match Results

2018-11-15
INF	2	1	OCN
CLD	0	2	MTN
OCN	1	2	MTN
INF	2	1	CLD

Day 3

Nov 16

[showhide] Match Results

2018-11-16
OCN	1	2	CLD
INF	2	1	MTN
OCN	0	2	INF
MTN	0	2	CLD

Schedule

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Knockout Stage

Game Schedule

Round	Match	Result	Date	YOU	PST	CET	KST	Countdown	VODs/Stream	Reddit
RR	MTN vs OCN	2 - 0	2018,11,14,19,00	2018,11,14,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	14 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	CLD vs INF	0 - 2	2018,11,14,19,00	2018,11,14,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	14 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	MTN vs INF	2 - 1	2018,11,15,00,00	2018,11,15,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	15 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	CLD vs OCN	2 - 0	2018,11,15,00,00	2018,11,15,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	15 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-

Game Schedule

Round	Match	Result	Date	YOU	PST	CET	KST	Countdown	VODs/Stream	Reddit
RR	INF vs OCN	2 - 1	2018,11,15,19,00	2018,11,15,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	15 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	CLD vs MTN	0 - 2	2018,11,15,19,00	2018,11,15,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	15 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	OCN vs MTN	1 - 2	2018,11,16,00,00	2018,11,16,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	16 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	INF vs CLD	2 - 1	2018,11,16,00,00	2018,11,16,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	16 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-

Game Schedule

Round	Match	Result	Date	YOU	PST	CET	KST	Countdown	VODs/Stream	Reddit
RR	OCN vs CLD	1 - 2	2018,11,16,19,00	2018,11,16,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	16 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	INF vs MTN	2 - 1	2018,11,16,19,00	2018,11,16,19,00	11:00	20:00	04:00	16 November 2018 19:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	OCN vs INF	0 - 2	2018,11,17,00,00	2018,11,17,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	17 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-
RR	MTN vs CLD	0 - 2	2018,11,17,00,00	2018,11,17,00,00	16:00	01:00	09:00	17 November 2018 00:00:00 +0000-	-	-

Game Schedule

Round	Match	Result	Date	YOU	PST	CET	KST	Countdown	VODs/Stream	Reddit
3rd	CLD vs OCN	0 - 2	2018,11,17,20,00	2018,11,17,20,00	12:00	21:00	05:00	17 November 2018 20:00:00 +0000-	-	-
Final	MTN vs INF	2 - 1	2018,11,17,23,00	2018,11,17,23,00	15:00	00:00	08:00	17 November 2018 23:00:00 +0000-	-	-

Media

Streams

Twitch

Articles & Videos

November 4, Preview of the 2018 NA Scouting Grounds by Chris Semp on Medium
November 10, Revenge's Thoughts/Opinions on the Scouting Grounds Pool by Moe "Revenge" Kaddoura on TwitLonger
November 13, Scouting Grounds Player Primer by Grant "Hyper10sion" Beard on Reddit

Interviews

November 15, Vulcan on Team Infernal: "I played some scrims recently with Tactical... He is probably the best ADC coming to Scouting Grounds." with Parkes Ousley on Inven Global

Announcements

May 31, 2018 NA Scouting Grounds
November 6, 2018 NA LCS Scouting Grounds Primer

Additional Content

Additional Links

References

↑ Jenkins' Tweet twitter.com
↑ Metaphor's Tweet twitter.com
↑ 5fire's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Jurassiq's Tweet twitter.com
↑ FakeGod's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Srkenji's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Polar Ace's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Diamond's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Aetheres' Tweet twitter.com
↑ Fragas's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Julien's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Prismal's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Winter's Tweet twitter.com
↑ MistyStumpey's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Obese Panda's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Strompest's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Tactical's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^18.0 ^18.1 Jido's Tweet twitter.com
↑ Tony Top's Tweet twitter.com

[1] Jenkins' Tweet twitter.com

[2] Metaphor's Tweet twitter.com

[3] 5fire's Tweet twitter.com

[4] Jurassiq's Tweet twitter.com

[5] FakeGod's Tweet twitter.com

[6] Srkenji's Tweet twitter.com

[7] Polar Ace's Tweet twitter.com

[8] Diamond's Tweet twitter.com

[9] Aetheres' Tweet twitter.com

[10] Fragas's Tweet twitter.com

[11] Julien's Tweet twitter.com

[12] Prismal's Tweet twitter.com

[13] Winter's Tweet twitter.com

[14] MistyStumpey's Tweet twitter.com

[15] Obese Panda's Tweet twitter.com

[16] Strompest's Tweet twitter.com

[17] Tactical's Tweet twitter.com

[Jido-18] 18.0 ^18.1 Jido's Tweet twitter.com

[19] Tony Top's Tweet twitter.com

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