In one of the craziest League of Legends series we've seen to date, North America takes down Europe in an intense and electrifying two game set.
The battle of the westernerns begins with a fairly passive start with solid warding from both sides. Doublelift and Xpecial managed to roam into Diamond's jungle, taking the blue wraith away from him. sOAZ's aggressive play caught him off guard when Saint came to gank for the first blood of the game. The shoving potential of Graves Lulu pressured Alex early game. A second kill was landed on sOAZ by a gank from Saint, but Scarra's tower fell first bottom.
After an explosive teamfight, NA pulls only 1k ahead even after a 6-1 lead. But meanwhile, Doublelift has an incredible amount of CS. Saintvicious put an incredible amount of pressure on the map, being a part of every kill in the game. EU did find a slight comeback with Twisted Fate's global presence,
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A dive would occur bottom and top at the same time for the opposing teams, but later, Doublelift would show absurd amounts of money by being at 250 CS at 22 minutes.. At this point, NA withheld a substantial lead; however, they did manage to fail an engage while assaulting EU and sieging on their bottom inhibitor turret, dropping 3 kills for practically free.
With some absolutely insane backdoor attempts for EU, they almost close out the game while North America goes for baron and then abuse the open gateway to the Nexus several times throughout the games. Unfortunately, Alex's Twisted Fate got caught near baron attempting to backdoor with Destiny/Gate while Doublelift pushed bottom. NA would slowly but surely manage to close out game 1 with their substantial lead.
?Game 2 would start a bit more dismally for North America with Scarra blowing his flash straight away. Despite losing it, he still didn't fall absurdly far behind Alex Ich and decided to just play safely at turret. With the camp pressure heavy onto Doublelift and Xpecial as they 2v1'd sOAZ, their aggression would be their demise as Diamondprox would grab 1st blood, but not without The American duo to grab a kill of their own.
Doublelift would find himself in many advantages situations going 3-0-1 on Doublelift, but still behind on gold until they take a tower. As the game transitioned into mid game, there was a stalemate for quite some time until EU decided to pressure mid by utilizing a large wave bottom cleared by Doublelift. Despite leading in other categories, EU maintained their gold lead due to several free dragons.
While EU tried to split push and attained a lot of map pressure by catching up in towers, North America was able to shove mid and also grab a free baron, putting EU in an unfavorable spot. They still remained ahead in gold, but had to fight a now baroned up NA team. Though not much came out of NA's baron, EU definitely would try to find something to do with theirs, taking it after a poor 1 for 4 engage from North America.
After incredible back and forth action, North America pulls a massive upset and ends up pulling out what would look like a 2-0, but Europe was putting up one hell of a fight. The game looked as though it could go either way with 4-1's going back and forth for each team. Conclusively, Diamondprox was not able to steal the final baron which NA engaged first. The team confidently pushed the baron onwards to the finishing blow on EU for a shocking 2-0.
