After an extremely tense five games final, the newly formed No Logic Gaming surpassed the rebranded Finn squad of Trixi, STARK eSports to book their tickets for Global eSports Cup#1 studio LAN playoffs.
Since their formation, in September this year, No Logic Gaming have struggled to find good results and suffered multiple roster changes, having no less than seven players rotating in and out. It seems that the new addition of an “old friend” of SsaSpartan, from the London Conspiracy times, namely Omar 'Madara' Dabasas brought a new vibe in the team and NLG managed to finish the second group stage of GeC on first position in group B.
On the other hand, STARK eSports (ex 4Anchors and Sea Captain) are still looking for that moment of glory. At the end of the group stage they finished tied up in points with Team Alternate. Winning one series versus Monkey Freedom Fighters and getting a deffwin vs Ninja in Pyjamas, STARK manage to accumulate eight points and had to play a decisive best-of-three tiebreaker versus Team Alternate in order to decide who will face NLG in the decisive best-of-five playoff for the Studio LAN in Vilnius.
They won the tiebreaker with ease and caused serious problems for NLG in final act for the Vilnius spot. After they lost the first game of the series, STARK have taken the next two games from NLG on the back of incredible comebacks. It was Riku 'Buugi' Fält on his carry Necrophos who got crucial pick offs in game two, forcing NLG to defend their base without their Gyrocopter for two minutes. A defensive fight that was totally lost and allowed STARK to get mega creeps in one single push that forced Giorgos 'SsaSpartan' Giannakopoulos to call out the GG after a 61 minutes long game which should have been won by his team.
History repeated with the third game of the series when No Logic Gaming was leading STARK by a lot. With a perfect laning phase, NLG had a 11 - 0 kill score in their advantage but everything was ruined for them when Mikko 'Vaalix' Ristimäki won a Roshan Pit teamfight for his team with a perfectly high ground set Tombstone. Hasty calls and no coordination from NLG costed them a team wipe and a Roshan loss that lead to yet another huge comeback for STARK who took the game three as well, despite being crushed in the early game.
As the game score was already 2-1 in favor of STARK eSports, No Logic Gaming have carefully planned a wombo-combo draft for the fourth game of the night. Vacuum - Wall into Sonic Wave on top of an AA Ice Blast is what pushed the series into a decisive game five, where NLG out drafted STARK once again with reactive picks.
Although STARK had better initiation and a high mobility line-up, Ssa Spartan on Disruptor along with Damir 'Mitch-zmaj' škari?i? on Nyx Assassin have rapidly become the main threat for the Finns. Having two heavy damage dealers to ensure fast pickoffs and the man of many saves, Dazzle for team fights, No Logic gaming claimed their first LAN spot this year.
There is one more best-of-five series to be played until we will know all the eight participating teams at the Vilnius, Lithuania Studio LAN of Game Show - Global eSports Cup Season 1. Left to decide its representative is the US region where compLexity Gaming will face Elite Wolves on November 12th at 20:00 CET.
