The Brailian favorites upset Oce's team to get to the IEM finals for the first time, while Millenium dominates Seven Wars in convincing fashion
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OCE vs PAIN
The first game was a very close match between OceloteWorld and paiN Gaming. Throughout the entire 35-minute bout, the gold income of each team was dead even. However, Jwaow was dominating the top lane with Renekton, while brTT has a significant advantage with his Jinx. While there were picks and objectiven fights, there wasn't a big turnaround happening, and mostly the opposing team was able to respond properly. It was in that one last fight, when Minerva's Sona caught ocelote's team by surprise, setting ip a perfect Command: Shockwave by Kami, which was enough for paiN to push through mid and take the game before OceloteWorld could bounce back.
The second game was longer, but a more one-sided affair. At the start, barely any kills happened. In fact, around 20 minutes in the scoreboard was only 1-0 in favor of OCE, What is noticable however, was the gold lead. Purely by superior objective control and cleaner rotations, paiN was able to slowly and surely gain more map control as the team takes down towers and dragons. In addition, brTT was a beast with Caitlyn, with a huge cs lead over Haydal purely through mechanics. Since paiN had a better late-game team comp, they simply waited for the perfect moment to strike and with the item advantage, made quick work of OceloteWorld in teamfights, winning them the series.
[M] vs SWE
The first game between Millienium and Seven Wars e-Sports was a steady grind of the European squad. Every lane from [M] won on their own, giving Araneae on Lee Sin plenty of room to do whatever he wants. While both teams rely in picking off targets, since Kerp and Creaton got ahead with LeBlanc and Lucian, there was nothing 7W can do to take them out in teamfights. Not only were those champions slippery, but with Lee Sin, Renekton, and Annie in the frontline, the Brazilian squad gets chunked down even before they could engage. The latter part of the game was a simple win by the numbers, taking down one turret, dragon, and baron after another, securing a substantial gold lead, and eventually the game.
The second game was a similar affair, just with a faster pace. With nearly the same comp, each lane for [M] was winning once more. With Araneae of an AP mage like Gragas and Kerp on Pantheon, thw two were simply reeking havoc across the map. Creaton and Kev1n snowballed hard in their lanes as well, which added even more damage, plus a nigh-unkillable tank in Renekton. It was again, a by the number game, [M] meticulously taking down one objective after another, pushing the game bit by bit to victory.
