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NA LCS Promotion Tourney: Day 1 Recap

Playoffs are a good measure of how skilled a team is, but the Promotion Tournament is a much better way to test how strong a team's spirit is. With LCS dreams on the line, most organizations pull out all the stops to ensure they make it into the league - or maintain their spot, as the case may be. Team Liquid and Gold Coin United showed off their strength of spirit today with a 3-1 match victory each, while Team EnVyUs and eUnited both faltered.

Of the two LCS teams in the tournament, TL is looking pretty solid. Though they lost a closely-fought game 1 against eUnited, Liquid were able to adjust to their competition and sweep them in the next three. EUN Licorice never got another chance to terrorize on Rumble, and TL's solid early game rotations kept EUN from reaching their power spikes. Piglet was the hero for TL, putting out fantastic performances on Ahri and Orianna to help his team snowball their way to victory.

Meanwhile, NV looked unprepared to deal with Gold Coin United. Their play was all over the place throughout the series, especially in game 1 against GCU Fenix's LeBlanc. While NV did manage to settle down and play better in the remaining three games, they just didn't have the rotations they needed in order to keep up with GCU.

Fortunately, EUN is looking like a much easier opponent to beat than GCU. If Team EnVy are able to prepare accordingly, they should be able to take down eUnited and move to 1-1 in the Promotion Tournament, keeping their dreams of the LCS. However, EUN will be far from an easy opponent - they managed to take a game off Team Liquid's all-star roster, after all.

Gold Coin United's match against Team Liquid tomorrow will certainly be one to watch. They're fielding their own star-studded roster with the likes of Fenix, MadLife, and Santorin and showed that they can defeat LCS-caliber teams. While a victory against Team Liquid is unlikely, it wouldn't be too far off to assume that GCU can go 2-0 and secure their LCS spot.

 

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