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Team Liquid 3-2 Clutch Gaming

With this victory, Team Liquid AND Cloud9 have automatically qualified for Worlds!

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Player of the Series: Jensen


MATCH 1: TL vs. CG

Winner: Team Liquid in 31m


Match History

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
TL rumble karma gangplank kennen jayce 66.8k 26 10 I1 H2 C3 C4 I5 B6
CG yuumi sona morgana aatrox skarner 48.4k 10 0 None
TL 26-10-64 vs 10-26-26 CG
Impact renekton 3 4-2-13 TOP 1-6-3 4 azir Huni
Xmithie jarvan iv 3 3-4-19 JNG 1-3-7 1 sejuani LirA
Jensen kaisa 2 10-0-8 MID 5-5-3 3 sylas Damonte
Doublelift nautilus 2 8-1-9 BOT 2-6-5 1 xayah Cody Sun
CoreJJ akali 1 1-3-15 SUP 1-6-8 2 rakan Vulcan

MATCH 2: TL vs. CG

Winner: Clutch Gaming in 31m


Match History

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
TL rumble karma gangplank rakan neeko 52.0k 13 2 None
CG yuumi sona morgana sejuani skarner 61.2k 25 10 H1 M2 C3 M4 B5
TL 13-25-20 vs 25-13-52 CG
Impact renekton 3 0-7-3 TOP 5-6-8 3 aatrox Huni
Xmithie jarvan iv 3 0-4-9 JNG 2-4-12 2 gragas LirA
Jensen akali 1 7-4-2 MID 9-1-10 1 qiyana Damonte
Doublelift kaisa 2 4-3-2 BOT 5-0-12 1 xayah Cody Sun
CoreJJ nautilus 2 2-7-4 SUP 4-2-10 4 leona Vulcan

MATCH 3: TL vs. CG

Winner: Team Liquid in 31m


Match History

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
TL rumble qiyana lux sejuani renekton 52.5k 12 9 C1 C3 C4 B5 C6
CG yuumi sona morgana karma kennen 42.0k 4 2 H2
TL 12-4-29 vs 4-12-5 CG
Impact renekton 3 4-1-4 TOP 0-1-1 1 aatrox Huni
Xmithie sejuani 3 2-1-7 JNG 0-3-1 1 xayah LirA
Jensen akali 1 4-0-3 MID 2-4-1 2 nautilus Damonte
Doublelift caitlyn 2 2-1-6 BOT 2-1-0 3 sylas Cody Sun
CoreJJ lux 2 0-1-9 SUP 0-3-2 4 jarvan iv Vulcan

MATCH 4: CG vs. TL

Winner: Clutch Gaming in 37m


Match History

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
CG sona xayah aatrox leblanc renekton 69.7k 15 10 H1 C3 C4
TL qiyana akali yuumi gragas jarvan iv 60.8k 6 2 M2
CG 15-6-42 vs 6-15-17 TL
Huni irelia 1 2-1-8 TOP 2-3-0 1 tahmkench Impact
LirA sivir 2 2-1-10 JNG 0-4-5 1 sejuani Xmithie
Damonte rumble 2 3-1-6 MID 3-4-3 2 varus Jensen
Cody Sun skarner 3 7-1-6 BOT 1-3-4 3 sylas Doublelift
Vulcan braum 3 1-2-12 SUP 0-1-5 4 jayce CoreJJ

MATCH 5: TL vs. CG

Winner: Team Liquid in 35m


Match History

Bans 1 Bans 2 G K T D/B
TL rumble qiyana gangplank irelia sylas 68.0k 10 10 H2 I3 C4 C5 B6
CG yuumi xayah akali jarvan iv skarner 54.9k 4 3 C1 O7
TL 10-4-34 vs 4-10-5 CG
Impact aatrox 1 2-1-5 TOP 2-2-1 4 tristana Huni
Xmithie trundle 3 1-0-8 JNG 1-2-2 1 sejuani LirA
Jensen corki 3 4-3-4 MID 1-0-1 3 karma Damonte
Doublelift sona 2 3-0-7 BOT 0-1-1 2 sivir Cody Sun
CoreJJ taric 2 0-0-10 SUP 0-5-0 1 tahmkench Vulcan

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Originally posted by Deutschkebap

if you are leaving sona open and anticipating that pick, why ban an adc?

Presumably they believe that Xayah is too powerful to give away (ban trends throughout the series seem to indicate both teams like the champion) and that giving the otherwise mega lane-dominant duo of TL a more passive set of champions would be good for them.

Tristana is actually great in this draft IMO, but hinges on whether or not you believe Karma is worth the priority you're giving her. To me, I don't have issues with what Clutch drafted, I think they navigated the situation very well. It's more whether or not you should even be in this situation or not that's the question.

I feel like if you're going to test your mettle against Sona, you're better off saccing game one rather than game five to test your hypothesis, but if you follow their thinking it's not bad drafting IMO.

It's easy to say now that it's "bad" if you're being results-oriented, but again if you follow the thinking it at least makes sense, even if ultimately it was not the correct plan for the last game.