Following Counter Logic Gaming's elimination from the League of Legends World Championship 2016, Zaqueri "Aphromoo" Black spoke with Yahoo Esports's Travis Gafford about the international meta and whether Albus NoX Luna's lack of bootcamping was the key to their success.

"To me, usually when you come to international competitions, there's a circle where you have your regions and they're all placed on a spectrum in the circle on some different spot," the 24-year-old support said. "And when you play against other regions and start scrimming a lot, stuff like that, then everyone will group up together on the same spectrum and then it will start going around what is the most OP."

Aphromoo suggests it was the ANX's lack of scrims and inattention to the meta that let the CIS players upset venerable teams like the ROX Tigers and, well, CLG.

"Not really surprised by them, because they had the underdog factor where they didn't bootcamp at all, right?" he said. "I think it's just different types of practice that you can do to prep for an international competition. You don't necessarily need to go to Korea and bootcamp to be good, because if you can prep by yourself, no one knows what you're going to do, and then you bring it out and just focus on your team play. That's usually what it comes down to — it's still good enough to come and just whoop some ass, as we saw here."

Aphromoo also said he believes ANX's ascension could lead to fewer teams making the pilgrimage to Korea to bootcamp in the heartland of competitive League of Legends.

"Let's say ANX goes super far into the tournament. Most teams are going to go, 'Huh, you don't really need to go to the top teams in Korea and scrim with them, because you can develop your own meta.' And if you have the confidence to do that, and just bring it to the tournament, I think that's a lot more exciting and consistent."

Aphromoo cautioned LoL fans against judging teams by their region. After all, any team that qualifies for Worlds is, by definition, world-class. "It's important not to underrate all 16 teams here, and [ANX] played really well," he said.

Sasha Erfanian is a news editor for theScore esports. Follow him on Twitter, it'll be great for his self-esteem.