In the first half of Group A, Asians strike back with a vengeance while Team Solomid makes America proud after coming back from a harsh deficit.
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To kick off the 2nd day of Group A, OMG started things out with a very trademarked late invasion. A lane swap was forced early at the hands of Lemondogs with Dexter making sure to camp the Chinese top laner in punishing pursuit. The two were neck and neck at this phase of the game.
At second dragon, LD got it uncontested, and OMG tried to rush mid. But a flash Crescendo from Mithy and Gogoing's ult not hitting anyone turned the fight, and LD were back in for a while Later Fizz dove past second tower after Tristana, who had built spectre's cowl, so he couldn't one shot him, and this turned the game back in favor of OMG. Tristana became extremely strong late game, allowing OMG to close off an otherwise close game.
Alunir stole forced a red buff trade with quick invade. Then Vi went top and ganked Nbs Aatrox. Vi chased Aatrox all the way into SKT base where he tried to suicide, even with Aatrox passive, to get first blood. After that, kills were obtained almost in every single lane all at once for SKT, making the score 4 to 1 (only one kill coming onto Corki for GGeu).
Bengi got oracle's and mobos to continue a reign of terror until a fight around GGeu's blue buff, where they went 4 for 2 because Faker came late. And this was looking good for them, but then SKT came back in at the dragon fight, with their team together, able to press their advantage, and then it was just a swift vice grip until this moment. The seized advantage allowed for a huge lead and a decisive victory.
The North Americans felt the pain of a bad start in the start of their game against Lemondogs. OddOne got caught out immediately, resulting in a first blood from Zorozero's Shen, putting him a component up against Dyrus. If that wasn't enough, it happened yet again when TheOddOne got caught out in the enemy territory, giving away yet another kill as well as Shen acuiqiring an assist.
Against all odds, Team Solomid managed to come back from this great deficit with all three lanes playing brilliantly. WildTurtle scored record setting CS scores, Reginald had an absurdly high score, and Dyrus won a lane even with the disadvantage of gold deficits. Team Solomid put their mess-ups behind them, stabilized their play, and kept their heads up.
