S.Samek
Last weekend the playoffs got in full swing. There were two best of five series going on between Clutch and TSM and CLG and Optic.
Clutch and TSM had TSM coming in with a lot of questions. With a substitute jungler and an underachieving roster that played worse than in spring where they finished second. Clutch improved a good bit over a ninth place spring to reach playoffs in fifth.
Well they didn’t play like a fifth place team. They dominated games 1 and 2 to sit at a 2-0 lead. TSM fought back taking game three with a highlight pentakill from Zven on Xayah. That was all the reprieve they got those as Clutch went back to work in game four and took the series 3-1 in commanding fashion.
Cody sun played really well to lead Clutch. He only died twice in the whole series and had 24 kills. He was on fire.
This was defiantly not the series I saw coming. Clutch did have a chance. yet I was expecting a 3-1 win in such fashion. Clutch played well and should be proud of a solid series win against a higher tier TSM.
Next was Optic and CLG. CLG won game in a fairly close match. Game two CLG turned on the jets and won in crushing fashion. game three was more of the same as Stixxay had six kills matching Optics team total by himself.
This series went pretty much as expected. Yet Optic can be happy for making the playoffs for the fist time ever.
So after the first round Team Liquid was able to select who they played in the semi-finals. They chose to play Clutch. That puts the other semi-final as CLG and Cloud 9.
Tune in this weekend for it.
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