ON LCS 2018: First loss of Echo Fox.
Until now, undisputed leaders of the American LCS - Echo Fox suffered their first defeat yesterday. Their fighters turned out to be CLG players who have been doing quite poorly so far.
CLG 1-0 Echo Fox
CLG before the meeting was practically at the bottom of the table, so it was not surprising that it was Echo Fox joining this fight from the position of the favorite. Undoubted foxes have started the match so far and two quick killings allowed them to go out in gold. Fox's problems began when Darshan killed Hunie alone and forced Reign Over to focus on the upper alley. This allowed Stixxay to make up for the lost farm and slow down the whole CLG. The key team fight took place near the baron. CLG players managed better there thanks to the great use of the ultimate Gnar skill. Strengthening the baron did not allow Darshan's team to build a greater advantage and only the battle for the older dragon allowed them to annihilate the opponent and finally finish the match with his winnings.
Cloud9 1-0 OpTic Gaming
From the first minutes Cloud9 controlled the course of the meeting. Initially, OpTic focused strongly on the upper alley, but it did not prevent Licorice in any way. He died only once and finally played a very good meeting. The Akaadian Nunu player could not help too much on his lines, and so Cloud9 took control of the meeting and destroyed the first structure. The advantage in gold, which the Svensekren team assured themselves in this way, forced opponents to move to defense. C9 was very good at catching opponents using Ryze's skills, and thus even more strongly gained an advantage in gold. Soon after, they managed to annihilate the baron and thus completely pushed opponents to defend. Winning the team fight allowed them to destroy the inhibitor and then finish the meeting.
Clutch Gaming 0-1 100Thievs
Clutch Gaming decided to choose a very aggressive composition in this meeting and focus on the early stages of the meeting. At the same time 100Thievs decided to continue the same tactics, which until now brought them very good results. For thirty minutes the thieves played very passively and looked for the possibility of responding to the opponent's play. Clutch, despite having a big advantage in gold, was not able to break into the opponent's base, or quickly kill the baron. The longer the game lasted, the less important was the advantage of Clutch Gaming players. Until 48 minutes 100Thievs did not take any initiative on the map, but also did not allow their opponents to break into their base. Only then did they decide to respond to the baron, who attacked their opponents. They led to the team fight they won, and then they took over the reinforcement from Nashor. In this way, 100Thievs took control of the meeting and began to besiege the base of the opponent. In this situation, Clutch was forced to initiate a team fight, but in her excellent final skill showed off Ssumday, playing Gnarem and thus allowed his formation to win this meeting.
FlyQuest 0-1 Team Liquid
FlyQuest decided on a composition that was to take the initiative in a team fight. From the first minutes they tried to push through the fights on the map, but virtually every such action was contested by Team Liquid. Fantastic on the map moved Pobelter and Keane practically was not able to use the potential of Galio. The advantage in gold allowed Xmithie to take control of the map and completely disable Shrimpa's meeting. A moment later, Olleh also started up and used his Tahm Kench to gain even more control over the board. In addition, dragons set themselves very well. Already in the 20th minute they had two infernal and one mountain creature to their credit. A moment later they destroyed the baron and went on to attack. Within 2 minutes they destroyed the inhibitor, killed enemies and ended the meeting.
Team SoloMid 1-0 Golden Guardians
From the beginning of the meeting, the favored Team SoloMid was doing a lot better. Contractz struggled to build some advantage for his team, but each of his actions ended in a good response from MikeYeung. They dealt best with this in the central alley, and soon afterwards the high rotation from Bjergsen allowed his team to develop a high gold advantage by destroying further structures. Golden Guardians completely failed to respond to the opposing team's play and after less than 25 minutes of play they had to recognize the superiority of the opponent. They did not get a single homicide in the entire meeting. 