Full player quotes from Maryville’s championship team
Get all the official quotes from Maryville’s championship team following their epic win in the League of Legends 2017 College Championship.
Maryville University has officially been crowned winners of the 2017 College Championship. They beat the University of Toronto 3-1 and won it all thanks to never giving up even when things didn’t go their way in matches.
This is Maryville’s first ever national title as it was quite the tournament to watch. Courtesy of the Media Relations Department of Riot Games, check out all the great quotes from members of Maryville’s championship League of Legends team below.
Maryville jungler Cody “Walrus” Altman:
On his series-clinching pentakill: “When I’m just playing Nunu and the tank junglers, I don’t think about [pentakills], but when they put me on the Nidalee, I’m like, ‘This is a possibility to get something like that, so I definitely got a little bit of a highlight reel while I’m here at the championship.’ It feels amazing to have this feeling with my team and my family watching me.”
On coming out with a win, even when playing on three champions he’s never played in a college match: “It feels amazing to show that I put in all this practice in solo queue and it actually pays off. I actually begged for Nidalee, but they’re like, ‘Oh no, let’s put you on something else,’ but I really begged for it and it pays off that I have the skill to do what I needed to do today.”
On picking Nidalee in game four: “After the two Lee Sin ganks I thought I was playing really clean. So after they banned Lee Sin I was like ‘Oh no, they are trying to ban me out.’ But you can’t ban me out. I was like let’s do this with Nidalee then. Prototype was like ‘No, no, no,’ but afterwards they told me I did pretty well.”
On preparation going into the match: “To be honest, going into the match we didn’t know too much about Toronto, so we wanted to do our standard stuff and see what happened. As we progressed we started to learn their picks and bans. They liked Ivern because he’s super strong. After the first round, I was like, ‘No more; I am going to be the king of the jungle today.’”
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Maryville top Tony “Saskio” Chau:
On his feelings following the win: “Back at Maryville, I hope that everyone’s very proud of us and very happy. Me, I’m feeling very tired but very ecstatic.”
On the Game 4 draft phase and jungle bans: “What happened there was that we had no clue what to pick. We were suggesting all these third-tier champions, and we knew he was begging to play Nidalee for the last three months and we’ve practiced it one in scrim, and then we just said whatever, give him Nidalee. And he went off with it.”
On the difference between Game 1 and 2: “In Game 1, we didn’t follow the game plan that we had. They wanted me to focus on staying in the Shen lane, but we sent Twisted Fate there for some reason and we weren’t able to do anything. They sooner or later found team fights, and we just lost them because we were not supposed to team fight.”
Environment in collegiate LoL scene: “We attend our classes, do our homework, and try to fit in a scrim schedule, and compared to pro when you’re just playing League of Legends all day, we have to balance out all of our schedules.”
On how felt he did in his top-lane role: “I felt pretty comfortable just doing my job and split-pushing on the side. I felt like I could have reacted more to my teammates and some of their calls. I prefer a player vs. monster game rather than a player vs player game.”
On the taunting in Game 3: “That’s not something I do regularly. I just had the opportunity and said, ‘I’m doing nothing, so I might as well do something.’ It’s playing the Kled, it allows you to taunt really easily.”
On using the Kled strategy: “That’s definitely just the way I like to play the game – I like to split push a lot mechanically and just win the game through that.”
On the “1v9” nickname: “That’s an inside joke with the team. I walked into the computer lab where we practice at school and yelled ‘I’m the 1v9 god!’ so that everyone would know I’m there, and it just got picked up from there.”
Maryville ADC Marko “Prototype” Sosnicki:
On their overall team strategy throughout the game: “We suck at 1-3-1. In the North finals, we tried 1-3-1 after we were 2-0 and failed at it, so we decided to go back to team fighting. Again, in today’s series, we said ‘Let’s try 1-3-1 one last time,’ and we failed again, so we’re like ‘We’re never doing that again’ and stuck with our strengths to make it happen.”
On playing Caitlyn the whole time: “I was talking to Erry after the series and he was telling me how he was begging his team to ban Caitlyn because he doesn’t know how to deal with it. We went into Game 4 and said, ‘Okay, they’re for sure gonna ban Caitlyn this game,’ and we got Caitlyn. Halfway through Game 4 I started putting on my jacket because they told us we needed to have our jackets on if we won the whole thing, and I was like, ‘Okay, this game’s over.’”
“The coach on stage with us just received his full ride for next year, the school has talked about making a larger practice facility with more computers, and potentially b-teams for us to have in-house scrims, so the school is fully supporting us, so don’t expect us to get any weaker next year.”
Maryville support Juan “JayJ” Guibert:
On overall performance: “Once we had Tahm Kench and Shen, we were able to make a lot of picks and punish their over-extensions in the first game. The next couple of games we over-extended when trying to catch them a lot. So that was where we went wrong.”
On always picking the blue side: “After the first game we knew we fell super far behind and still won, so we realized as long as we run a similar strategy we should be able to pull it out. The problem happened when we got ahead early and we got greedy. We were pushing too much when we are really a mid-game-centric comp.”
On Maryville’s play: “Our relationship to them has been pretty peaceful compared to other teams like RMU and Maryville. We talked to them today before the games, just chilling with them. Today they just played better than we played.”