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General11 years agoRadoslav "Nydra" Kolev

TSM win the LCS NA group stage, Curse follow as second



The final days of competition rocketed Reginald's team to the top, pushing aside former leaders Crs and Dignitas. Meanwhile, coL and Marn are the one to fall down to relegation matches.

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Going 5-0 was the best thing that could've happened to Team Solomid in the closing super week. After facing inconsistent results throughout the better part of the season, TSM underwent a roster change by swapping Chaox with WildTurtle on bot lane. The decision produced tangible results -- reminiscent of the 2012 winning spree after the signing of Dyrus -- and after a fruitful super week, Solomid regained their throne as NA's top team, something that was passed from Curse to Dignitas and back again.

Curse themselves dropped to second, after winning just a single game against Marn during week ten. GGU, Dignitas, Complexity and Vulcun all abused Curse's bad performance these three days and took it as a last chance to make the top six.

At the end of the round robin, however, only two of those succeeded in staying away from table's bottom. Right after the big four come Vulcun Command, with just three points difference from CLG. Vulcun too had an amazing week and went 4-1, only losing to the aforementioned CLG.

At number six are Good Game University, a team that also had an appalling start and was at 3-12 by week five. Going 5-3 in weeks nine and ten combined, however, gave GGU just the push out they needed and they entered the top six at the expense of Marn and Complexity, who fall down to the relegation matches, where their LCS future will be decided.

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Meanwhile, competition is still going across the ocean as there are two more days before LCS Europe group stage completes. As of W10D1, Fnatic, Gambit, SK and EG are certain to advance to the playoffs with Fnatic and Gambit in the first two spots.

Who will join the European high clique will be decided in fourteen matches' time. With 10-15 and with just three more matches to go, aAa look like a good candidate for the top six. However, two of those three matches are against SK and Gambit, meaning it's more likely than not that aAa take a beating to their win percentage.

Copenhagen Wolves is another teams which'll attract a lot of attention. The Danes have been on the rise for a long time now, are at 9-14 after their horrible start and have five more matches to play, meaning there's a larger margin of error. Their first two games today are against DB and Giants, the two teams at the bottom of the table and the Wolves might just get the flying start they need to maintain, or even surpass, that sixth position they are currently holding.

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