Even after solo lanes had fallen behind for Curse, they were able to pick up a win off of XDG. Similarly, Dignitas couldn't stall long enough until late game to push their advantage sgainst Cloud 9.
CRS vs. XDG
XDG and Zuna kicked off the game with early jungle pressure, setting Zuna slightly ahead of IWD. Zuna attepmted to look for ganks but with no such luck, even with extreme patience in the top lane. Curse was a lot more efficient with their jungling as IWD picked up the first dragon of the game at 12 minutes. Curse were able to follow up with a first blood, but didn't have a huge gold lead due to how far their solo lanes were behind.
Even though Voyboy was shut down, he found a triple kill in a midgame teamfight, which would make things more hopeless for XDG as Curse's weakest member was capable of doing lots of damage. XDG found a favorable fight 27 minutes in that allowed them to grab a dragon and actually pull ahead in gold. Curse was able to take their advantages and push it to a victory.
C9 vs. DIG
For the first time in many moons, Scarra had the bravery to lock in Veigar for the mid lane against Kha'Zix. It only took three minutes before C9's bottom lane was able to grab first blood against Dignitas. Bottom lane ended up dying again and C9 had superior rotations, but Dig did manage to grab the first dragon. After another large bout mid, DIgnitas was able to get another dragon to follow up.
With Cloud 9's advantage, Scarra was not able to hit his sweet spot on the end game Veigar pick. Cruzer was so far behind Balls in the top lane that Dignitas did not have any tanky frontline to protect the short ranged Sivir from assassination and sure doom. With some solid control, Sneaky was able to successfully kite any threats and output the damage required to close the game out.
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