With strong comfort picks in Lee Sin for Lee "Rush" Yoon-jae and Alistar for Tristan "Zeyzal" Stidam, both teams looked poised for an explosive early game and plenty of skirmishing. However, the game ended up playing out more methodically than what might have been expected. Cloud9 had a solid lead heading into the late game, and slowly pulled ahead of Echo Fox.
Superior teamfighting and a 33 minute baron led to swift victory for C9, but not before an exciting almost-Pentakill for Zachary "Sneaky" Scuderi. The Cloud9 AD Carry had secured a quadra kill on Sivir, and the rest of his team was ready to dive the fountain for all of his glory. However, Zeyzal, Eric "Licorice" Ritchie, and Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen all failed to notice the lack of minions hitting the Echo Fox nexus towers.
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