The final matches of the week started with upset potential, but Taiwanese teams ahq, TPS, and yFW closed them out convincingly.?
The Titans initiated the first lane swap of 2014 GPL Spring by sending Lloyd and SKLz to the top lane against Prydz. There, ahq picked up first blood, but Lloyd picked up the double buffs with a kill on Naz. an engage in the bottom lane gave GarnetDevil a double kill and the first turret, and ahq were able to take the first dragon off his success.
Though ahq didn't cleanly sweep the game from there, GarnetDevil continued to pick up kills, leading to a dominating victory. GreenTea's Thresh ended the game with two deaths and twenty one assists, and GarnetDevil's Lucian came up big with a score of thirteen kills, zero deaths, and six assists.
This game ended nearly as decisively as the first, but Insidious Gaming surprised many by revealing superior early game tactics. As they did against IPT, they focused the bottom lane and found early kills and advantages.
As the laning phase approached the end, however, The Snipers began to catch out members of Insidious Gaming behind their turrets, which gave them enough gold to take a strong victory at dragon. From there, TPS kept a firm grip on their control of the game and quickly took the victory.
The key to the Flash Wolves' success was Mountain's constant invasion of Knut's jungle. His team's support allowed him to take buffs and kills while Knut fell behind two levels by ten minutes. Yukz picked up some slack with teleport ganks that netted the Eagles the first dragon, but the Flash Wolves' overall superior coordination and contsant jungle pressure kept them in the lead. The Eagles managed to stall the game with wave clear from Chock's Ziggs and some mispositioning by REFRA1N's Lulu. Despite the Flash Wolves' struggles to close, however, they ultimately took baron and used the buff to win the final fight and the game.
