loltribble Profile Joined April 2015 Netherlands 80 Posts May 09 2015 09:40 GMT #1 SKT went undefeated on the first day with Marin being the MVP in all of their games. EDG couldn’t put up a fight against SKT due to a bad draft phase where AHQ stole the hearts of the fans in Tallahassee. TSM their jungler got exposed and Fnatic got punished for their overaggressive soloQ plays. Besiktas their biggest achievement was their strong early game but eventually fell to their demise. A lot of action is coming towards us for the second day of the group stage where we will meet our 4 semi-finalists.



EDward Gaming vs Fnatic







Clearlove collapsed onto his botlane after Yellowstar used his flash to take away the big Krug that was being killed by Deft and Meiko. A early first blood by Clearlove for his team and shortly after a misplayed towerdive from Reignover/Huni onto Koro1 gave EDG the 2-1 lead in kills.



EDG continued to punish Fnatic for their overaggressive plays during the entire game. Fnatic wanted to skirmish, EDG outskirmished them. A possible 2v3 in the botlane got turned into EDG’s favor with a fast kill by Deft onto Steeelback and some amazing CC coming out of Meiko would secure a second kill of which Huni was the victim.



After taking the bot and mid turret, EDG rotated towards the toplane where they aced Fnatic in a 4v5 and took out the remaining outer turret. The peel coming out of Koro1, using his passive to heal during the fight and knowing his limits secured not 1 but several teamfights across the map in their favor.



At the 20 minute mark the Chinese champions lead by 9k gold, 5 turrets were downed and even a inhibitor went down after a impressive towerdive 5v5 on the top t2 turret which went in favor of EDG, 4-0.



EDG was not done, they were having fun. The baron was picked up late at the 26 minute mark for EDG standards but that didn’t kill the fun that they were having.



Ending the game at 32.30 with a 36-10 score and a 18k gold lead dropping only 1 turret is by far one of the most impressive games so far this tournament.



Analysis:



Yellowstar his overaggressive and possibly naive flash to steal the Krugs lost his team the botlane pressure that you want to have with a Lucian/Annie lane when facing Kalista/Thresh.



Fnatic tried to bring the fight to EDG but when you try to outfight the world’s best teamfighters/skirmishers you can only expect to be punished.



Fnatic didn’t have a lot of chances to win coming into this game, in every position they are outmatched and also in terms of teamwork. All Fnatic had to do is surrender the game at the 20 minute mark, since it was clearly over after 15 minutes.



Koro1 made incredible flank plays and teleport plays with his Maokai, peeling like the toplane God for what he is known for in China.



Deft who didn’t perform up to par on Kalista in China had a impressive performance on the Kalista, going 15-1-10 and rushing the QSS to avoid Febiven from blowing him up.



Team Solo Mid vs AHQ







AHQ punished TSM for their initiated laneswap by taking the early 4 minute drake and picking up first blood because Dyrus was out of position.



AHQ came out more aggressive than TSM, picking up a second kill onto Wildturtle who was alone in the botlane without a turret backing him up.



As AHQ started to dominate and TSM seemed to not have any answer for any of the plays that the LMS champions were making, they got ambushed by Ziv who Twisted Advanced onto Bjergsen where Dyrus ulted the backline. Ziv who was in the middle of TSM’s runaway squad fell to the damage that was being focussed onto him but AN’s Urgot secured a 3-1 trade with a wonderful triple kill.



With a 5k gold lead, 3-1 in turrets, 3 uncontested drakes and a 6-1 kill lead AHQ and TSM entered the midgame.



There wasn’t much coming out of TSM, they seemed to be frozen and were unable to create any opportunity that could possibly bring them back into the game.



Right before the 4th drake spawned TSM and AHQ went at it again, Dyrus his misplayed teleport caused his team to enter a 4v5 fight and lose it 4-0 in their red jungle as Mountain knocked up 4 TSM members. On top of this knockup Mountain Twisted Advanced and used his Maelstrom to soak up the damage while Urgot and Fizz took out TSM with brute force. A 4th drake and the baron were picked up and AHQ continued their march of pain.



Top and mid inhibitor got taken out with the baron buff and as AHQ groupped up bot to take out the final inhibitor, a chance for TSM to get a pick onto AHQ got turned into favor of AHQ acing TSM 5-2 and secured their semi-final spot with a 18k gold lead and 19-3 kill score.



Analysis:



TSM got exposed. This is the international stage, a jungler who doesn’t gank with meta pick champions such as Gragas and Rek’Sai have no place in the presence of Clearlove,Bengi and Mountain.



The way that AHQ collapsed on their laneswap advantage by taking a early turret and the dragon, with Mountain picking off Dyrus early gave them the lead they needed to pick up their playoff spot.



Bjergsen didn’t impress again, his Cho’Gath pick didn’t came out the way it should have and possibly a Assassin favoriting player like himself should’ve just gone for a comfort pick instead of a semi-meta pick like the big purple monster.



AHQ their toplaner Ziv came out big, almost as good as Koro1 performed in his game against Fnatic earlier this night. His beautiful Twisted Advances and ability to peel properly for his carries were one of the key elements to AHQ’s teamfighting victories.



EDward Gaming vs Besiktas







After a crazy level invade from EDG into Besiktas their blue jungle, the game got going after Clearlove counterganked Theokoles in the midlane and picked up the kill on Energy.



In the meantime Deft was going off on Jinx, destroying the 2v2 match-up in the botlane together with Meiko hitting almost every single skillshot.



Leading by as much as 7k gold at 11 minutes having a 8-1-2 Deft in your team on his undefeated Jinx was too much to handle for even the EDG fans.



EDG continued their 18+ display of XXX rated League of Legends play by taking down 5 more turrets in the next 10 minutes.



The first inhibitor was destroyed at the 17 minute mark which occured after a beautiful Flash from Deft who avoided Theokoles his Glacial Prison at the T2 turret as Koro1 teleported to the toplane to Flash GNAR! 3 members into the wall and destroy the teamfight.



EDG baited Theokoles to facecheck in his own red jungle just to kill him and secure the baron.



Quickly after EDG ended the game with a beautiful Quadrakill after flashing again out of Theokoles his Glacial Prison while being on the edge of the fountain.



Analysis:



Are you not entertained mortals?



SKT Telecom T1 vs Fnatic







Bengi was free to invade Reignover his jungle and take the first dragon at 4 minutes on his level 3 Nunu without being punished.



Fnatic was losing their carry lanes in cs but a incredible aggressive mindset by Fnatic got them on the same gold level as SKT. This because of the skirmishes that they forced across the map.



The first 30 minutes of the game was quite even although Fnatic was getting the best of it in teamfights and skirmishes. Huni his Gnar came out on top with his devestating GNAR! of multiple people into the terrain of the Rift.



After SKT’s 3rd drake, Fnatic decided to bait the baron and as SKT got caught facechecking, they drop 4 members to Fnatic and the baron. Fnatic finally leading by some good numbers, 3.5k.



As the game got dragged over the 40 minute mark, Faker’s Lulu was providing enough peel for Bang to even survive a devestating Glacial Prison followed up by the GNAR! from Huni to turn a fight in the midlane in SKT’s favor. A 3-0 win for SKT gives them the T2 midlane turret and they rush towars the baron pit.



The Baron went down fast but right before Bengi could use his consume/smite combo on Nunu, Reignover jumped in to steal the baron!!!



Right afterwards The dragon spawned and as Fnatic was in position, Marin somehow ended up stealing the drake, giving SKT their 4th drake of the game but dropped to Fnatic in a clean 5-0 ace!



Fnatic does pick up the first inhibitor of the game at 37.30 minutes to apply more pressure onto SKT.



As the second baron was about to spawn, Reignover was caught out of position near the blue side jungle of SKT, a teamfight occured and Yellowstart got slain as Huni his bad teleport play get’s punished and dies right before transforming into Mega Gnar!



SKT picks up the baron and Fnatic managed to pick up their second drake as they spawned at the same time.



SKT used their baron to perfection rotating from top to mid and back to top just to go mid again. The mid turret and inhibitor falls and Fnatic engaged upon the disengaging SKT.



Reignover goes in but without any backup of his teammates, right before he falls Huni jumps in just to die the same way that Reignover did. Yellowstar completed the trinity by dying solo as his teammates.



Fnatic threw their game with a terrible final teamfight where the backline was screens away from their frontline which gave SKT all the time in the world to take out the tanks 1 by 1 and to makei t even better, getting the FIRST PENTAKILL OF THE TOURNAMENT FOR BANG!



Analysis:



Fnatic has more than that they have shown in the games against AHQ and EDG this weekend. They have shown to be able to brawl with the best but not good enough yet to turn these games into their favor.



Fnatic their carry lanes fell too far behind which forced them to get kills to compensate for the mechanically better players from Korea. SKT got caught by surprise and Fnatic collapsed on this.



SKT seems to be a completely different team without having a aggressive jungler like Rek’Sai, perhaps this gives their next opponent a big advantage?



SKT their teamfighting looked very sloppy, out of position players, bad chosen fights and unsufficient warding caused the many beatings that they received.



Last but not least, Huni is the shining light of Fnatic, being able to play Gnar as he is supposed to be played is a huge relief for the European Champions going into their next game against Besiktas.



Team Solo Mid vs EDward Gaming







The laneswap that got initiated by TSM lost them the game sooner then that they would’ve wanted. Dyrus ended up in a 1v2 lane dying 3 times during the first couple of minutes in the game after multiple towerdives with the help of Clearlove.



As EDG picked up kills across the map and punished TSM for being out of position or playing too aggressive according to EDG, they were even outplaying TSM in 2v3 situations.



Deft and Meiko ended up ina 2v3 situation and even came out on top with a 2-0 win, though Dyrus teleported in and took Deft down but the answered teleport play by Koro1 send also Dyrus back to the afterlife.



EDG styled on TSM, overaggressive plays with only the minimum amount of punishment being layed upon them.



Pushing their advantage towards a 11k gold lead, a inhibitor, 5-0 turret lead a baron and 3 drakes was the best performance of any team sof ar this tournament!



EDG took the baron right off the spawn and it went down in just under 15 seconds.



For a final push to put TSM on their back, 3 inhibitors were destroyed on which a forced recall and unfortunate deaths were the result.



EDG got back into TSM’s base and ended the game.



Analysis:



EDG brought to the table what we expected from them. Fast early aggression with the Rek’Sai and the Kalista/Thresh lane. The carries on EDG made such a big impression that you would’ve almost forgot about the beautiful plays made by Pawn on his Azir. Some terrific ultimates came out, forcing the summoners out of Bjergsen or stopping Dyrus his Sion ult.



TSM on the other hand is massively exposed this Tournament. They have single handedly shown how weak the North-American region is when it comes to international play. Their champion pools are weak, they make terrible individual as well as team choises across the map.

They lost 4 games this tournament without having any chance in those games of winning it or getting back into it.



Besiktas vs Fnatic







Despite a early lead for Besiktas in the botlane due to Bard his Krug camp steal, Reignover made quick work of the game by showing up everywhere on the Rift.



A gank in the midlane send Energy towards the toplane, trying to escape his faith, unfortunately for him, Reignover caught up and even took down Thaldrin who tried to save his midlaner.



Fnatic used Reignover his 6 minute Warrior enchant to get the botlane going with multiple ganks and even teleports coming out of Huni. Huni his teleport play lead to a double kill on the botlane and a free drake for Fnatic who were leading by 2.2k gold around the 10 minute mark.



After Thaldrin got killed enough times by Fnatic in the toplane, his MR build got punished by Fnatic. They send Febiven on the Zed towards the toplane to deal with the 0 armor Gnar while Huni was dealing with Energy’s Lulu in the midlane.



Fnatic’s dominance lead to a 14 minute ace near the dragon pit, which gave them a couple of free turrets to eventually build up their lead towards 13k at the 20 minute mark.



After picking off 2 Besiktas members in their own jungle, the dragon was free for them to pick up.



Fnatic cleaned up the game with downing 3 inhibitors and a sub 26 minute win over International Wildcard winners Besiktas to secure their Semi-final spot!



Analysis:



Fnatic didn’t show any signs of dissapointment after losing to SKT while having a advantage over the undefeated Korean top team. In fact, they choose to fight Besiktas their stable early game with all out aggression to secure themself a early lead.



Reignover made it happen for Fnatic by applying pressure all over the map even before he hit level 6.



A well played game by Fnatic who didn’t slack 1 bit during this, what seemed to be a, easy win over Besiktas. Using their Baron buff to force a 1-3-1 tactic and applying pressure on all the lanes was a great joy to see from a Western team.



AHQ vs SK Telecom T1







Mountain ganked bot at level 3 with his Rek’Sai but it didn’t go as well as he wanted. Although all of SKT’s summoners were blown, his red buff and first blood went over to Bang who hooked him back into the turret.



Mountain paid another visit to the botlane a couple of minutes later and this time with succes where AN picked up his first kill of the game.



The most exciting highlight of the game was Westdoor his solo kill onto Easyhoon! He was hiding in the top side brush of his lane, and Flash+Feast onto Easyhoon as he got near with a low health bar to secure the kill!



Despite the kill lead that AHQ got by forcing their aggressive playstyle onto SKT, the game was close to equal at the 20 minute mark. A 2-1 turret and 800 gold lead was matched by SKT that had 2 dragons to none.



AHQ took down 2 more turrets, including the mid T1 turret to set up for the Baron. Having spotted Bengi on the bottom side of the jungle, they rushed the Baron but couldn’t help Ziv and Westdoor from dropping to SKT.



During the recalls SKT picked up yet another drake and with 3 drakes under their belt at 25 minutes, even though they were behind 4k in gold, this could become a real thriller!



As the 4th drake spawned, AHQ interrupted the dragon spree from SKT by zoning Marin in the teamfight that occured by using Westdoor to do so. Marin was getting punished this time for being out of position on his Gnar by hopping to over to be completely out of range of his teammates. Something we had seen in their GE series but GE was not able to punish them for it. In the meantime Ziv and Mountain did a fantastic job peeling for their carries as they took out Bang and Easyhoon and secured their first dragon.



The skirmishing playstyle that got AHQ almost 10k gold ahead by creating picks across the map, all of a sudden stopped to exist. AHQ was giving SKT even a free baron for which they paid for with only 2 deaths.



SKT punished AHQ for being soft and started to create picks themselves. In their own red jungle, 2 AHQ members were dropped after a close fight. Several SKT members ran away with almost no health left and SKT picked up their 4th drake!



40 minutes into the game, another long one for SKT, Albis was in a strange position, all alone in SKT’s red jungle preparing the baron by getting vision but all he found was death. Westdoor fell a bit later at their own blue side entrance to the baron river as the remaining 3 AHQ members were a screen away but would fall shortly after to give SKT the clean ace……..AND THE GAME!



Analysis:



AHQ has proven this game that they can get ahead against the one of the best teams in the world. They managed to outteamfight SKT in the early/mid gamebut their sudden change of gameplay got them to lose this game.



They stopped creating picks across the map, warding properly to punish SKT from being in sight.



SKT got somewhat exposed in the games against Fnatic and AHQ. They show to be a mortal team when they don’t have Bengi on the Rek’Sai and his Gragas is not as good as the Void Burrower.



Underestimating teams like Fnatic and AHQ cost SKT to bleed significantly and has shown the world how vulnerable they are against early aggression.



This being said, twice this tournament did SKT manage to punish their opponents late for a small mistake that was made and end the game. Although they might be sloppy in their warding and early game without the Rek’Sai, their lategame decisions are still top notch! Clearlove collapsed onto his botlane after Yellowstar used his flash to take away the big Krug that was being killed by Deft and Meiko. A early first blood by Clearlove for his team and shortly after a misplayed towerdive from Reignover/Huni onto Koro1 gave EDG the 2-1 lead in kills.EDG continued to punish Fnatic for their overaggressive plays during the entire game. Fnatic wanted to skirmish, EDG outskirmished them. A possible 2v3 in the botlane got turned into EDG’s favor with a fast kill by Deft onto Steeelback and some amazing CC coming out of Meiko would secure a second kill of which Huni was the victim.After taking the bot and mid turret, EDG rotated towards the toplane where they aced Fnatic in a 4v5 and took out the remaining outer turret. The peel coming out of Koro1, using his passive to heal during the fight and knowing his limits secured not 1 but several teamfights across the map in their favor.At the 20 minute mark the Chinese champions lead by 9k gold, 5 turrets were downed and even a inhibitor went down after a impressive towerdive 5v5 on the top t2 turret which went in favor of EDG, 4-0.EDG was not done, they were having fun. The baron was picked up late at the 26 minute mark for EDG standards but that didn’t kill the fun that they were having.Ending the game at 32.30 with a 36-10 score and a 18k gold lead dropping only 1 turret is by far one of the most impressive games so far this tournament.Yellowstar his overaggressive and possibly naive flash to steal the Krugs lost his team the botlane pressure that you want to have with a Lucian/Annie lane when facing Kalista/Thresh.Fnatic tried to bring the fight to EDG but when you try to outfight the world’s best teamfighters/skirmishers you can only expect to be punished.Fnatic didn’t have a lot of chances to win coming into this game, in every position they are outmatched and also in terms of teamwork. All Fnatic had to do is surrender the game at the 20 minute mark, since it was clearly over after 15 minutes.Koro1 made incredible flank plays and teleport plays with his Maokai, peeling like the toplane God for what he is known for in China.Deft who didn’t perform up to par on Kalista in China had a impressive performance on the Kalista, going 15-1-10 and rushing the QSS to avoid Febiven from blowing him up.AHQ punished TSM for their initiated laneswap by taking the early 4 minute drake and picking up first blood because Dyrus was out of position.AHQ came out more aggressive than TSM, picking up a second kill onto Wildturtle who was alone in the botlane without a turret backing him up.As AHQ started to dominate and TSM seemed to not have any answer for any of the plays that the LMS champions were making, they got ambushed by Ziv who Twisted Advanced onto Bjergsen where Dyrus ulted the backline. Ziv who was in the middle of TSM’s runaway squad fell to the damage that was being focussed onto him but AN’s Urgot secured a 3-1 trade with a wonderful triple kill.With a 5k gold lead, 3-1 in turrets, 3 uncontested drakes and a 6-1 kill lead AHQ and TSM entered the midgame.There wasn’t much coming out of TSM, they seemed to be frozen and were unable to create any opportunity that could possibly bring them back into the game.Right before the 4th drake spawned TSM and AHQ went at it again, Dyrus his misplayed teleport caused his team to enter a 4v5 fight and lose it 4-0 in their red jungle as Mountain knocked up 4 TSM members. On top of this knockup Mountain Twisted Advanced and used his Maelstrom to soak up the damage while Urgot and Fizz took out TSM with brute force. A 4th drake and the baron were picked up and AHQ continued their march of pain.Top and mid inhibitor got taken out with the baron buff and as AHQ groupped up bot to take out the final inhibitor, a chance for TSM to get a pick onto AHQ got turned into favor of AHQ acing TSM 5-2 and secured their semi-final spot with a 18k gold lead and 19-3 kill score.TSM got exposed. This is the international stage, a jungler who doesn’t gank with meta pick champions such as Gragas and Rek’Sai have no place in the presence of Clearlove,Bengi and Mountain.The way that AHQ collapsed on their laneswap advantage by taking a early turret and the dragon, with Mountain picking off Dyrus early gave them the lead they needed to pick up their playoff spot.Bjergsen didn’t impress again, his Cho’Gath pick didn’t came out the way it should have and possibly a Assassin favoriting player like himself should’ve just gone for a comfort pick instead of a semi-meta pick like the big purple monster.AHQ their toplaner Ziv came out big, almost as good as Koro1 performed in his game against Fnatic earlier this night. His beautiful Twisted Advances and ability to peel properly for his carries were one of the key elements to AHQ’s teamfighting victories.After a crazy level invade from EDG into Besiktas their blue jungle, the game got going after Clearlove counterganked Theokoles in the midlane and picked up the kill on Energy.In the meantime Deft was going off on Jinx, destroying the 2v2 match-up in the botlane together with Meiko hitting almost every single skillshot.Leading by as much as 7k gold at 11 minutes having a 8-1-2 Deft in your team on his undefeated Jinx was too much to handle for even the EDG fans.EDG continued their 18+ display of XXX rated League of Legends play by taking down 5 more turrets in the next 10 minutes.The first inhibitor was destroyed at the 17 minute mark which occured after a beautiful Flash from Deft who avoided Theokoles his Glacial Prison at the T2 turret as Koro1 teleported to the toplane to Flash GNAR! 3 members into the wall and destroy the teamfight.EDG baited Theokoles to facecheck in his own red jungle just to kill him and secure the baron.Quickly after EDG ended the game with a beautiful Quadrakill after flashing again out of Theokoles his Glacial Prison while being on the edge of the fountain.Are you not entertained mortals?Bengi was free to invade Reignover his jungle and take the first dragon at 4 minutes on his level 3 Nunu without being punished.Fnatic was losing their carry lanes in cs but a incredible aggressive mindset by Fnatic got them on the same gold level as SKT. This because of the skirmishes that they forced across the map.The first 30 minutes of the game was quite even although Fnatic was getting the best of it in teamfights and skirmishes. Huni his Gnar came out on top with his devestating GNAR! of multiple people into the terrain of the Rift.After SKT’s 3rd drake, Fnatic decided to bait the baron and as SKT got caught facechecking, they drop 4 members to Fnatic and the baron. Fnatic finally leading by some good numbers, 3.5k.As the game got dragged over the 40 minute mark, Faker’s Lulu was providing enough peel for Bang to even survive a devestating Glacial Prison followed up by the GNAR! from Huni to turn a fight in the midlane in SKT’s favor. A 3-0 win for SKT gives them the T2 midlane turret and they rush towars the baron pit.The Baron went down fast but right before Bengi could use his consume/smite combo on Nunu, Reignover jumped in to steal the baron!!!Right afterwards The dragon spawned and as Fnatic was in position, Marin somehow ended up stealing the drake, giving SKT their 4th drake of the game but dropped to Fnatic in a clean 5-0 ace!Fnatic does pick up the first inhibitor of the game at 37.30 minutes to apply more pressure onto SKT.As the second baron was about to spawn, Reignover was caught out of position near the blue side jungle of SKT, a teamfight occured and Yellowstart got slain as Huni his bad teleport play get’s punished and dies right before transforming into Mega Gnar!SKT picks up the baron and Fnatic managed to pick up their second drake as they spawned at the same time.SKT used their baron to perfection rotating from top to mid and back to top just to go mid again. The mid turret and inhibitor falls and Fnatic engaged upon the disengaging SKT.Reignover goes in but without any backup of his teammates, right before he falls Huni jumps in just to die the same way that Reignover did. Yellowstar completed the trinity by dying solo as his teammates.Fnatic threw their game with a terrible final teamfight where the backline was screens away from their frontline which gave SKT all the time in the world to take out the tanks 1 by 1 and to makei t even better, getting the FIRST PENTAKILL OF THE TOURNAMENT FOR BANG!Fnatic has more than that they have shown in the games against AHQ and EDG this weekend. They have shown to be able to brawl with the best but not good enough yet to turn these games into their favor.Fnatic their carry lanes fell too far behind which forced them to get kills to compensate for the mechanically better players from Korea. SKT got caught by surprise and Fnatic collapsed on this.SKT seems to be a completely different team without having a aggressive jungler like Rek’Sai, perhaps this gives their next opponent a big advantage?SKT their teamfighting looked very sloppy, out of position players, bad chosen fights and unsufficient warding caused the many beatings that they received.Last but not least, Huni is the shining light of Fnatic, being able to play Gnar as he is supposed to be played is a huge relief for the European Champions going into their next game against Besiktas.The laneswap that got initiated by TSM lost them the game sooner then that they would’ve wanted. Dyrus ended up in a 1v2 lane dying 3 times during the first couple of minutes in the game after multiple towerdives with the help of Clearlove.As EDG picked up kills across the map and punished TSM for being out of position or playing too aggressive according to EDG, they were even outplaying TSM in 2v3 situations.Deft and Meiko ended up ina 2v3 situation and even came out on top with a 2-0 win, though Dyrus teleported in and took Deft down but the answered teleport play by Koro1 send also Dyrus back to the afterlife.EDG styled on TSM, overaggressive plays with only the minimum amount of punishment being layed upon them.Pushing their advantage towards a 11k gold lead, a inhibitor, 5-0 turret lead a baron and 3 drakes was the best performance of any team sof ar this tournament!EDG took the baron right off the spawn and it went down in just under 15 seconds.For a final push to put TSM on their back, 3 inhibitors were destroyed on which a forced recall and unfortunate deaths were the result.EDG got back into TSM’s base and ended the game.EDG brought to the table what we expected from them. Fast early aggression with the Rek’Sai and the Kalista/Thresh lane. The carries on EDG made such a big impression that you would’ve almost forgot about the beautiful plays made by Pawn on his Azir. Some terrific ultimates came out, forcing the summoners out of Bjergsen or stopping Dyrus his Sion ult.TSM on the other hand is massively exposed this Tournament. They have single handedly shown how weak the North-American region is when it comes to international play. Their champion pools are weak, they make terrible individual as well as team choises across the map.They lost 4 games this tournament without having any chance in those games of winning it or getting back into it.Despite a early lead for Besiktas in the botlane due to Bard his Krug camp steal, Reignover made quick work of the game by showing up everywhere on the Rift.A gank in the midlane send Energy towards the toplane, trying to escape his faith, unfortunately for him, Reignover caught up and even took down Thaldrin who tried to save his midlaner.Fnatic used Reignover his 6 minute Warrior enchant to get the botlane going with multiple ganks and even teleports coming out of Huni. Huni his teleport play lead to a double kill on the botlane and a free drake for Fnatic who were leading by 2.2k gold around the 10 minute mark.After Thaldrin got killed enough times by Fnatic in the toplane, his MR build got punished by Fnatic. They send Febiven on the Zed towards the toplane to deal with the 0 armor Gnar while Huni was dealing with Energy’s Lulu in the midlane.Fnatic’s dominance lead to a 14 minute ace near the dragon pit, which gave them a couple of free turrets to eventually build up their lead towards 13k at the 20 minute mark.After picking off 2 Besiktas members in their own jungle, the dragon was free for them to pick up.Fnatic cleaned up the game with downing 3 inhibitors and a sub 26 minute win over International Wildcard winners Besiktas to secure their Semi-final spot!Fnatic didn’t show any signs of dissapointment after losing to SKT while having a advantage over the undefeated Korean top team. In fact, they choose to fight Besiktas their stable early game with all out aggression to secure themself a early lead.Reignover made it happen for Fnatic by applying pressure all over the map even before he hit level 6.A well played game by Fnatic who didn’t slack 1 bit during this, what seemed to be a, easy win over Besiktas. Using their Baron buff to force a 1-3-1 tactic and applying pressure on all the lanes was a great joy to see from a Western team.Mountain ganked bot at level 3 with his Rek’Sai but it didn’t go as well as he wanted. Although all of SKT’s summoners were blown, his red buff and first blood went over to Bang who hooked him back into the turret.Mountain paid another visit to the botlane a couple of minutes later and this time with succes where AN picked up his first kill of the game.The most exciting highlight of the game was Westdoor his solo kill onto Easyhoon! He was hiding in the top side brush of his lane, and Flash+Feast onto Easyhoon as he got near with a low health bar to secure the kill!Despite the kill lead that AHQ got by forcing their aggressive playstyle onto SKT, the game was close to equal at the 20 minute mark. A 2-1 turret and 800 gold lead was matched by SKT that had 2 dragons to none.AHQ took down 2 more turrets, including the mid T1 turret to set up for the Baron. Having spotted Bengi on the bottom side of the jungle, they rushed the Baron but couldn’t help Ziv and Westdoor from dropping to SKT.During the recalls SKT picked up yet another drake and with 3 drakes under their belt at 25 minutes, even though they were behind 4k in gold, this could become a real thriller!As the 4th drake spawned, AHQ interrupted the dragon spree from SKT by zoning Marin in the teamfight that occured by using Westdoor to do so. Marin was getting punished this time for being out of position on his Gnar by hopping to over to be completely out of range of his teammates. Something we had seen in their GE series but GE was not able to punish them for it. In the meantime Ziv and Mountain did a fantastic job peeling for their carries as they took out Bang and Easyhoon and secured their first dragon.The skirmishing playstyle that got AHQ almost 10k gold ahead by creating picks across the map, all of a sudden stopped to exist. AHQ was giving SKT even a free baron for which they paid for with only 2 deaths.SKT punished AHQ for being soft and started to create picks themselves. In their own red jungle, 2 AHQ members were dropped after a close fight. Several SKT members ran away with almost no health left and SKT picked up their 4th drake!40 minutes into the game, another long one for SKT, Albis was in a strange position, all alone in SKT’s red jungle preparing the baron by getting vision but all he found was death. Westdoor fell a bit later at their own blue side entrance to the baron river as the remaining 3 AHQ members were a screen away but would fall shortly after to give SKT the clean ace……..AND THE GAME!AHQ has proven this game that they can get ahead against the one of the best teams in the world. They managed to outteamfight SKT in the early/mid gamebut their sudden change of gameplay got them to lose this game.They stopped creating picks across the map, warding properly to punish SKT from being in sight.SKT got somewhat exposed in the games against Fnatic and AHQ. They show to be a mortal team when they don’t have Bengi on the Rek’Sai and his Gragas is not as good as the Void Burrower.Underestimating teams like Fnatic and AHQ cost SKT to bleed significantly and has shown the world how vulnerable they are against early aggression.This being said, twice this tournament did SKT manage to punish their opponents late for a small mistake that was made and end the game. Although they might be sloppy in their warding and early game without the Rek’Sai, their lategame decisions are still top notch!