The first three games of the last day of NA LCS Superweek featured alarming upsets. CLG took down Curse in a near perfect game, Dignitas all but crushed Cloud 9, and Coast roamed their way to their first victory against Evil Geniuses.
SmileshotGG after CLG finishes Superweek 2-2
To start the game, Aphro flayed iWillDominate's blue buff away from him, spelling portend for the Curse team's win rate. From there, poor rotation by Dominate allowed Doubelift, Link, and Aphromoo to nearly take two bottom lane turrets uncontested before Cop and Zekent took the first top turret. CLG cemented their lead with a dragon.
CLG's top notch rotation allowed them to continue taking turrets without so much as a scrimmage. HotshotGG forced defenders away with strong spears that managed to half health even Quas' Shyvana, and Dominate's Gragas did not have enough AP to wave clear.
It seemed the game might end without even a single kill until CLG went for baron, and iWillDominate, perhaps out of desperation, blindly body slammed into the baron pit to give Nien a twenty minute first blood. From there, CLG, pushed onto Curse's mid lane inhibitor. Curse, without much of an option left, engaged onto CLG, but CLG took three kills and the Nexus to win the game.
KiWiKiD shares tells the casters about Dignitas' win against the North American powerhouse, Cloud 9
This game began with both Crumbzz and Meteo struggling to find ganks. Soon, however, Crumbzz rotated top and secured first blood for Cruzer. Meteos took the first dragon with his team, and gold stayed fairly even.
From there, Meteos focused a lot of pressure bottom, but missed skillshots, and followup from Scarra gave Dignitas a kill lead. Even with this lead, however, Cloud 9 stayed ahead in objectives and remained in the game. The game began to escalate when Crumbzz found successful ganks mid, and Scarra gained a definitive edge on Hai's Riven.
When fights and rotations began, Cloud 9 used their heavy dive composition to overcommit onto imaqtpie, but good peeling from Cruzer and KiwiKid and well-timed ultimates from Scarra kept Jinx alive and gave Dignitas consistent victories. Dignitas didn't overstay their welcome and slowly eked out turrets and map control, pulling out a slow game and, perhaps, the biggest upset so far in either North American or European LCS Supwerweek.
NintendudeX crashes the Shiphtur and ZionSpartan brohug after the team's first victory
The game started out promising for Evil Geniuses when Krepo landed two hooks onto wizfujiin before minions spawned and a third as soon as farming began to give YellowPete an almost instant three kill advantage. Unfortunately, EG's duo lane didn't pressure their advantage from there, and Shiphtur acquired enough gold to begin roaming.
As Leblanc, Shiphtur picked up kills in both top and bottom lane, snowballing out control. His contants pressure allowed ZionSpartan to farm up his q, and the pressure from the solo lanes made it such that even Innox's Dr. Mundo wasn't safe from losing one hundred percent of his health to Shiphtur's combo.
ZionSpartan's bottom lane split push spelled certain doom for Evil Geniuses when they sent three members to contend with him, and Coast took a baron. Though EG took back two kills, Coast had cemented their lead, and they pushed into EG's base with ease for the victory.
