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MDL: Lower bracket? It's an EG tradition

EG is the first team to be knocked into the lower bracket at MDL Winter, their series against EHOME featured a 16 minute game, a 12 minute rax and beautifully coordinated team fights.

After a fast paced and intense best-of-three against EHOME, EG lost 2-1. As a result, EHOME will be moving on to face VG and EG will be playing Complexity Gaming in the lower bracket.

Game one:

EG decided to run a roaming support duo with the help of an Exort Invoker, however, things did not go smoothly for them as they were shut down by EHOME's Witch Doctor and Earth Shaker - the duo predicted and stopped ganks from occurring while getting ganks themselves. With the brilliant support play, EHOME managed to secure large amounts of farm on their three cores and managed to use Void's Chrono to keep map control by securing kills. EG's three farm intensive cores were unable to get any farm and when they fought,  one sided slaughter ensued, forcing EG to call GG at 16 minutes.

Game two:

It was a game of kills versus last hits. EHOME chose to farm while EG chose to gank, resulting in the lead going to nobody; however, when EHOME decided to group as five and take towers, EG's lineup was powerless. A quick kill on EG's Lina using Batrider's Lasso while EHOME was taking EG's offlane tier one, coupled with Chen's multiple mud golem, allowed EHOME to push tier two, tier three and take a melee rax at 12 minutes. All was going well for EHOME until they attempted to breach the high ground again at 20 minutes; they were wiped twice in their two attempts despite having the Aegis for both tries. Very quickly, EG's Morph came online with the rubber band and won EG the game.

Game three:

Kills were traded back and fourth in this game, but it was EG - who executed slightly better - gaining a bit of a lead. In order to cement this lead, EG decided to try for Rosh and was scouted by EHOME. In the teamfight that ensued, EHOME methodically maneuvered to a choke point, forcing EG to be hit by a three man ravage and a two man static storm. The fight gave EHOME's core Morphling the push he needed to out-farm the enemy cores and carry his team to victory.

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