/u/piotrj3 asks

"How valuable is forcing a ban from enemy from perspective of coach? I remember the case of Hjarnan forcing bans of enemy by his Heimer, and from perspective of normal player it is really hard to judge how valuable it was for teams like G2 in last season."

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/u/MacClol: Answer: extremely valuable. Also being able to Flex pick champions like G2 is currently doing, or having off meta answers to current meta champions (like Doinb Kled into Irelia, or Caps Wukong into Yasuo) gives you a big edge in the draft as you can give the enemy team power picks in order to get a different power pick in return without it actually feeling like a power pick for the enemy team due to your specific counter.

/u/Arrizzo97 asks

"What is the most important thing to improve on from last season?" Follow up, how does that change? Is it through mindset? Champion pool? Shot calling?

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/u/MacClol: Decisiveness, aggression, fast paced gameplay... Champion pool is a start, but the real change is in mindset like you said. This year we are encouraging players to back themselves more and go for the mechanical outplay where appropriate, especially as we believe this team is a stronger lane phase team than previously. We have also been closely studying other strong mid-game teams like IG, FNC, KT and trying to introduce some of their rotational plays into our shot calling. In addition to this, we will be putting more time and focus into confidence and teambuilding exercises beyond the industry standard outside of the game so that the players feel 100% at ease with each other and confident onstage." /u/FirestormCold asks

"Have you scrimmed against NA teams? If so, how were the results?"

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/u/pcdv8r: "We scrimmed against teams in NA during Rift Rivals last year. I can't go into too many details, but Splyce generally did better last year against team fight focus teams, and less well vs teams that played the 1-3-1 well (we lost both playoff series to G2, but had excellent records vs teams like MSF). The Meta in NA was slower and more team fight focused, even in summer split, which played right into the style Splyce liked to play so we won the vast majority of scrims. People were surprised that we beat TL in Rift Rivals, but I was more surprised we lost to them in the first part of the tournament, as TL were the archetypal slow team fight focused team that Splyce d...