To Stand Above All...

Teams at the peak and the base of the NA standings brought out all the stops in the penultimate week of the LCS Spring Season. With “job security” on the line for the top spots, Curse, TSM, and Dignitas all craved victory to fortify their placements in the standings. Curse’s unexceptional performance kept them at the NA peak due to their significant lead, but TSM’s singular victory and Dignitas’ loss-inducing jungler absence led to a tie for second place in the eleventh hour of the LCS. On the other side of the brackets, a fearsome war waged to escape the seventh and eighth slots. Here the conqueror was GGU, rallying from an entirely unimpressive season to take their first ever undefeated week in spite of matches against Dignitas and MRN, both of whom held winning records against them. Two losses for both MRN and compLexity during GGU’s moment of triumph caused falls into the trailing spots as the final Super Week approaches. If these nine LCS weeks were the early and mid game, the objective-clearing, the jockeying for position, the ward wars, then the upcoming week is the final teamfight. After this week, we know where each team stands when the final battle begins.