They now slide into a tie for fourth place with OpTic Gaming and have split the season series with CLG. Unfortunately for TSM, that could be them. CLG look to be a real threat to unseat one of the “big three” LCS teams for 2019 World Championship qualification. Proactivity may be rewarded in the current meta, but only when done right.ĬLG are now in a three-way tie for first place and hold a head-to-head win over the prohibitive favorites Team Liquid. This time, CLG played calmly while TSM forced bad plays and dug themselves into an early hole. CLG have been the ones prone to force bad plays against TSM, scared of their prowess in the late game and obviously feeling the pressure of the streak. We highlight these plays not only because they were crucial to springboarding CLG’s lead but also to illustrate how the tables were turned in this edition of the CLG-TSM matchup. CLG were able to chase TSM down 3v5 to pick up three kills and blow the game open. Though successful picking up an initial kill, TSM got caught in between CLG’s bot turrets by Wiggly and PowerOfEvil. Minutes later, TSM tried bringing all five down bot while Ruin’s teleport was still on cooldown. Double teleport from PowerOfEvil and Kim “Ruin” Hyeong-min turned the fight easily in CLG’s favor for First Blood and a 2-for-0. Roams from Matthew “Akaadian” Higginbotham and Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg at eight minutes were supposed to grab TSM First Blood, but Zven’s Yasuo never ulted on Smoothie’s Flash-Body Slam. Stixxay and Biofrost constantly harassed the double melee Yasuo and Gragas lane, taking uncontested turret plates and priming the TSM duo for dives via Raymond “Wiggily” Griffin and Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage.įor TSM, the problems were noticeable in the early game. Though his 2/3/8 score isn’t eye-popping, the lane dominance he and Vincent “Biofrost” Wang asserted over Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen and Andy “Smoothie” Ta made the upset possible. Trevor “Stixxay” Hayes is the only player left from that CLG team that beat TSM to win the 2016 Spring Finals. It took over three years - 1176 days to be precise - but Counter Logic Gaming finally beat their rival TSM once again.
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