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Election Day 2017

Happy Election Day!

Even though this year is considered an off-year election, due to no presidential or no Senate and the House of Representatives elections taking place, go out and vote.

Lol Worlds 2017 Pickem – Recap

Last month, I released by predictions for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship group stage and the playoffs. Overall I got 9/16 picks correct in the group stage and 4/7 picks correct in the playoffs.

Group A
1. SK Telecom T1
2. Cloud9
3. Edward Gaming
4. ahq e-Sports Club

Group A is correctly predicted correctly.

Group B
1. Longzhu Gaming
2. Fnatic
3. Immortals
4. GIGABYTE Marines

In group B, I got the first 2 picks correct, but missed on the last 2 picks.

Group C
1. Samsung Galaxy
2. Royal Never Give Up
3. G2 Esports
4. 1907 Fenerbahçe Espor

For group C, I got the last 2 picks correct and swapped the first 2 picks.

Group D
1. Team WE
2. TSM
3. Flash Wolves
4. Misfits Gaming

This group i only correctly predicted the first team correctly. It ended up being 1, 3, 4, 2 based on my picks.

In terms of the playoffs.
Quarterfinals
SK telecom T1 defeating Misfits Gaming
Royal Never Give Up defeating Fnatic
Longzhu Gaming defeating Samsung Galaxy
Cloud9 defeating Team WE

I correctly predicted the first 2 series and missed on the last 2.

Semifinals
SK telecom T1 defeating Royal Never Give Up
Longzhu Gaming defeating Cloud9

I got this part half right due to my quarterfinals predicted being half wrong.

Finals
Longzhu Gaming defeating SK telecom T1

I only correctly predicted 1 of the teams to make the finals.

November Releases

Just in time for the holiday season, November is looking to be a great month for releases.

Video Games
3 – Call of Duty: WWII
7 – Xbox One X console release
10 – Need for Speed Payback
17 – Star Wars Battlefront II
17 – Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Movies
3 – Thor: Ragnarok
10 – Murder on the Orient Express
17 – Justice League

Music
3 – Kelsea Ballerini – Unapologetically
3 – Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues
10 – Taylor Swift – Reputation
24 – Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic