?The night would start out with a ferocious fight between the old champions of North America vs. the new and profound Cloud 9. TSM would hold out early and find innate success from experience had over the years, but a few individual misplays would end up being the cause for mischief for the veteran team.
With Dyrus showing some difficulties, it wouldn't take long before Team Solomid would meet their demise and have yet another disappointing showing early on in the LCS.
Curse wouldn't waste any time in keeping tradition with some early leads leading into baron throws. With what has usually been showcased in most of the team's recent performances. Despite Saintvicious placing an untimely smite on baron and losing it, the team was able to pull itself together and keep their solid performance up that has been increasingly powerful as the weeks go by.
In the same respect, Dignitas was able to show a decent showing early on in their game. Vulcun, however, has been showing consistency like no other and found absolute domination in later phases of the game. While Dignitas seemed to have the overall stronger draft as well as superior level 1 preparation, Vulcun would lead the hype train to victory and leave another old team in the dust.
To end day 1 of the LCS, Velocity once again found a win against Counter Logic Gaming, a team that has been impressing fans with their new, revived aggressive playstyle and consistently solid performance, normally doing well and being top 3 performers among North America. However, it would seem they've found their kryptonite as they suffered yet another defeat at the hands of Velocity.
While substantially behind in kills for the game's entirety, Counter Logic Gaming found other means of gold, such as global objectives and overall superior farm. Even with their fantastic late game scaling and Doublelift's very favorable Tristana pick, Velocity was finally able to develop a lead and actually maintain it instead of letting it slip under their fingers.
