2019 NALCS Summer Playoffs Semi-finals Recap.

S. Samek

Lets take a look at the semi-final matches from this weekend.

Starting off we have CLG and C9 , the second and third seeded teams.

Game 1 wasn’t close and C9 won with ease. Nisqy shined on Qiyana racking up a 5/0/1 kda.

Game 2 was a bloodbath. C9 racked up 25 kills with Nisqy contributing 10 on Sylas and Licorice chipping in eight kills of his own.

Game 3 CLG fought back in a much closer game. They were able to win in order to stay alive. Powerofevil showed his carry from with a game-high eight kills with Qiyana.

Game 4 was a battle. It last 47 minutes and went 25-18 in kills. A teamfight after an elder dragon take were enough to propel C9 to win the game and the series. Nisqy did it again with Sylas racking up 10 more kills and pretty much being the main carry for C9 this series.

The other semi-final pitted Clutch gaming vs. top seed team Liquid.

Game 1 was a bloodbath has well. It went 26-10 in kills score with Team Liquid winning that number. They pretty much took every other category too and won the game. Jensen and Doublelift combined for 18 of Liquid’s 26 kills and both looked good in the winning effort.

Game 2 was similar to game one with the reverse result. Clutch did not back down and scored a 25-13 kill win of their own. This lead to a gold lead of 9,000 and a win to tie the series. Damonte wielded Qiyana to a 9/1/10 performance to led Clutch.

Game 3 was Liquid doing Liquid things. They dominated. 12-4 in kills and 10,000 gold leads put them ahead 2-1 in the series.

Game 4 was moderately close. Yet Clutch was able to ride the Cody sun train to victory in this one. On Sivir he went 7/1/6 to tie the series up at two with a strong individual performence.

Game 5 was a slower paced game. Yet Liquid still managed an easy win and double digit kills. Using the infamous Sona/Taric bottom lane they were able to win teamfights and win the game.

This was a pretty fun series to watch. It wasn’t expected to go five games,but Clutch did pretty well to compete with Liquid. Coming off this series and the quarterfinals win against TSM, Clutch should be confident heading into reginal finals.

This sets up Liquid and C9 for the summer spilt title. Should be a good one.

2019 NALCS Summer Spilt Quarterfinals Recap

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.