? After some hard-fought games being tossed back and forth, SK Gaming and Evil Geniuses fell to the fresher rosters of Lemondogs and Ninjas in Pyjamas.   ?

EG vs. LMN
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In yet another game encompassing a bottom lane change, an issue that plagues many teams from the EU LCS, Lemondogs braved their new roster against a very comfortable champion pool hoisted by EG with Froggen on his infamous Anivia, Snoopeh on his S2-centric Maokai, and Wickd on his newfound love, Zac top.  Unlike the prior games, things started off rather tame and no immediate first bloods were picked up by either team.

Despite the comfortable composition EG had formulated for themselves, Lemondogs was quick to harvest a substantial lead by showing powerful pushing potential and turning it into Dragons.  Their new support, however, was not performing up to the supposed standards held by Lemondogs as in the midgame he held the only deaths on the team.

The lead would only grow stronger from there, with Lemondogs doing an amazing job at pushing their advantages and keeping the threat of Evil Geniuses at bay for  the remainder of the game while keeping Tabzz safe.  The resulting outcome would be Lemondogs taking a beautiful victory away from EG.

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SK vs. NIP
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SK vs. NIP had a rather mellow start for the two teams who unfortunately spent the first two weeks struggling to crawl out of the bottom of the standings pit.  Breaking the silence after a few minutes would be SK Gaming sneaking a free but difficult Dragon between Nyph and Hyrqbot, attaining an early gold lead. However, while their lead came from Dragons, NIP's came from fights where they came out on top.

Even then, SK gaming was not too far ahead and was doing a commendable job during the second Dragon skirmish.  In fact, the small skirmish victories at objectives plus the gold accumulated from the Dragon lead would soon push even the kill lead in SK's favor, even if they were slightly behind in turrets at 2 to 3 entering the midgame. Things would only get more hectic from here on.

In under a half hour, NIP and SK gaming would accumulate nearly 20 kills with a lot of random yet entertaining fights being tossed back and forth.  SK had done a decent job holding off against NiP until a lategame Baron fight where many things went awry.  Where they once had superior teamfight, they found themselves struggling to survive with a gold deficit and needed to constantly turtle at their base. Eventually, NiP swept up the win.

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