CJ Entus Blaze knock KT arrows out of the playoffs and advance to the semi-finals.
Game 1 kicked off with CJ Entus Blaze allowing Arrow to get his famous Draven in champion select. KT Arrows came out ahead in farm early on which gave them a slight advantage and early lead. Their lead extended once Arrow was able to grab first blood and grab a ton of gold due to his passive.
Though KT Arrows had a stronger showing early, it only stayed in the midgame due to CJ Entus Blaze going against their standard play and overstaying their welcome. CJ Entus Blaze made up for this by having superior split pushing in both 4-1-0 and 3-1-1 fashion. Rookie was also very far ahead of Ambition, but it wasn't enough to hold off CJ Entus Blaze from the first victory.
Game 2 did not start out friendly for ssumday, as he was grabbed by a Thresh hook and forced to flash in an early 1v3 bait, albeit escaping with his life still in tact. Rookie once again ended up bullying ambition in lane, while Flame found himself the target of tower dives, which he did an excellent job eluding.
Flame's general game strategy was scouted out and countered by KT Rolster Arrows and the game was incredibly unclose. To force uncomforable rotations, Flame attempted very deep and brave proxy farming, but ended up giving the opposition lots of gold. KT Rolster Arrows were able to close out the 2nd game in an extremely convincing fashion
Dragon was the real winner in early game 3, as he baited several deaths out. KT Rolster Arrows had a definite advantage early, but Blaze had far greater tower control and were able to have a 3-0 start at 20 minutes. KT Rolster Arrows were able to take advantage of their relative champion strength and catch up in towers, tieing it 4-4 shortly after.
While things were going okay for KT Arrows, it started going downhill after their clever teleport baron rush went downhill after Daydream was able to steal it away. After stealing the baron, KT Rolster Arrows were down 2 inhibitors, but were able to stall and keep the game surprisingly even. Eventually, after a masterful siege top, CJ Entus Blaze closed out the game and made up for their performance in the prior game.
The final game of the set involved Blaze starting the game out with 1 kill on both top and jungle. While not necessarily as decisive as Game 2, the game was no where near as close as Game 3. KT Rolster Arrows struggled to find small advantages after the early two kills and map control, despite holding the team off quite well.
At the end of the day, CJ Entus Blaze were able to close out yet another 'Champions' quarterfinals 3-1.
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