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It’s the NALCS summer split semi-finals. With a chance to win the split and go to world’s theres a lot at stake. So, lets jump in to see what went down. First up was a match between two of the most storied and well revered teams in the LCS TSM and Cloud 9. Game one was a back and forth battle. The highlight play that swung the game was a 3-0 team fight into a baron for TSM at 34:35. Then a couple more kills was able to seal the win for TSM at 36:00. Bjergsen went 9/2/1 with Akali to standout for TSM. Game two was another close one. Yet throughout the game C9 was able to put pressure all over the map and it ultimately led to C9’s victory to tie the series at one apiece. A 6/2/3 Varus from sneak provided the star power for C9. Game three started fast and furious. Zven scored a quadra kill to put TSM out to a running start. The led was more than enough as they held off C9 to go ahead two games to one. Zven finished with 10 kills in the win. Game four started with C9 making some changes. Goldenglue and Svenskeren substituted in for C9. The changes worked as C9 was able to tie up the score with a win. The final game was similar to game two. TSM had a kill advantage while C9 would take all the towers. A team fight went the way of C9 at 23 minutes as the comeback would be completed.

100 Thieves and Team Liquid squared off in the second semi-final. 100 started Rikara in place of Cody Sun at ADC for the match.

  Game one was a slow standoff. Yet 100 would change the pace with a couple kills and an elder dragon. This would be enough to take the early led in the series. Ssumday’s performance on Gangplank stood out with a 5/1/6 stat line.

Games two and three were the same story. Slow starts and methodical picks. These would both be taken by Team Liquid. Pobelter had five kills in the game two win, while Doublelift had seven kills in game three to pace Liquid into taking a two to one series led. If it isn’t broken don’t try and fix it. That’s exactly what Liquid did in game four. They kept the pace slow and methodical. Xmithe and Doublelift shined in this game with nine kills between them. C9 and Team Liquid will meet for the championship of the summer split. It’s a matchup of a great turnaround from early season, against the champions of the spring split. We should see some fireworks in this one.