Group D

CLG.NA

CLG.EU

LG - IM

MVP Blue CLG.NACLG.EULG - IMMVP Blue

CLG.NA

LG-IM

Bans : CLG.NA: Ahri, Vladimir, Nocturne - LG-IM: Alistar, Anivia, Shen



Picks CLG.NA : Urgot, Taric, Ryze, Nautilus, Jax



Picks LG-IM : Karthus, Leona, Corki, Maokai, Morgana



MVP: Voyboy – 10/0/7 Winner: CLG.NAMVP:Voyboy – 10/0/7

CLG.NA

MVP Blue

Bans : CLG.NA: Shen, Lee Sin, Vladimir - MVP Blue: Alistar, Ryze, Irelia



Picks CLG.NA : Urgot, Karthus, Nocturne, Taric, Rumble



Picks MVP Blue : Graves, Janna, Nautilus, Nidalee, Morgana



MVP: HotshotGG – 0/0/11 Winner: CLG.NAMVP:HotshotGG – 0/0/11

Final Standings

1st – CLG.EU 3W/0L – Qualified

2nd – CLG.NA 2W/1L – Qualified

3rd – LG-IM 1W/2L

4th – MVP Blue 0W/3L

StarTale vs NaJin Sword - 1 August

CLG.EU vs World Elite – 3 August

Azubu Blaze vs Xenics Storm – 8 August

Azubu Frost vs CLG.NA – 10 August StarTale vsNaJin Sword - 1 AugustCLG.EU vsWorld Elite – 3 AugustAzubu Blaze vsXenics Storm – 8 AugustAzubu Frost vsCLG.NA – 10 August

Only three teams participated today, as Counter Logic Gaming EU were allowed to play all 3 of their games on Wednesday in order to travel to ECC Poland. They won them all and qualified for the Round of 8, which made the major question of today's matches be "Will Counter Logic Gaming be able to follow them out of the group?"vsBoth CLG.NA and LG-IM needed the win in this match – CLG in order to keep their hopes of going to the Round of 8 and LG-IM to actually qualify for the playoffs. Was the North American team able to defend the Western pride?After the curious pick of Morgana by the usual top laner of LG-IM, he went bot lane with the idea of laning 1vs2, but CLG knew that and send Joe 'Voyboy' Esfah﻿ani﻿ there as well. Even before that though, the NA team had left a ward on the enemy blue buff and when Maokai was there to take it, George 'HotshotGG' Georgallidis took first blood on him with the help of Voyboy, who teleported on the ward. LG-IM responded with a gank top, which resulted in Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng dying. Maokai then ganked bot and with the help of the Karthus ult and a teleport from Morgana, they took a double kill, losing one. The remaining three CLG players headed bot and managed to get another kill + the first dragon.CLG then executed a 4-man gank in mid and took two kills, while Voyboy killed Morgana top 1v1. CLG managed to get one more kill in mid but were all pretty low and Karthus took a double kill with his ult. Teams then turned their attention towards baron and a fight broke out near it, which resulted in an ace for CLG + baron, while they lost only two. The NA team won the next team fight as well with 4-1 score. They were obviously ahead and the second baron they took wasn’t contested at all. From that moment all that was left for them was to push the inhibitor turrets and the inhibitors themselves and finish the game, which was exactly what they did.vsThis was the game that had to decide if CLG was to advance in the Round of 8 or if there would be a 3-way tie bracker. What was the fate of the teams?The game started in the best possible way for CLG – MVP Blue wanted to gank them at the red buff but were spotted and the lvl 1 fight went 4 for 0 for CLG, with two kills for Doublelift and two for Michael 'bigfatlp' Tang . The Korean team tried to come back into the game with a gank top, which resulted in Voyboy dying. Nautilus remained top and when Hotshot joined the party, Nidalee died to a Karthus ult, while Voyboy and Hotshot killed Nautilus under the turret.In the bot lane with the help of the next Karthus ult Doublelift managed to get a double kill, but Morgana came and took a double kill as well. CLG then took the first dragon of the game and were already pretty ahead. The first teamfight (after lvl 1) happened in MVP’s jungle and was a clear ace for CLG, who took baron as well after it. At that point they were ready to finish the game – they pushed into MVP Blue’s base, got a couple more kills and destroyed the nexus, making them the second team who advanced from Group D after CLG.EU.After all the participants in the playoffs were known, the team captains picked up pieces of paper with their opponent’s name for the Round of 8. Don’t forget that the matches will be played in a Best of 3 format with the first two matches in a draft mode and the possible third one - in a blind pick. Here are the match-ups, which you certainly don’t want to miss: