NALCS Spring 2019 Week One

S. Samek

Here we go the NALCS is back for another split. Let’s see what happened on the rift during the first week of action.

Team Liquid and Cloud nine started off week one in a rematch of the 2018 summer split championship. C9 kept it close, but it was Liquid’s superior team fighting ability that propelled them to victory. Jensen led the way against his former team going 10/2/7 on Cassiopeia.

CLG then battled Optic. Optic started many of there academy roster in this game. It didn’t matter as they got the best of CLG, including their former middle laner PowerofEvil. Allorim had six kills on Urgot , while Asta chipped in five more with Ezreal.

Flyquest met up with Golden Guardians next. The match was decided by an early kill lead that Flyquest was able to keep throughout the match. The king of kills for Flyquest was Wild turtle with seven using Ezreal.

TSM battled 100 Thieves next. TSM came out of the gate sharp and rolled to an easy victory. Zven led the way with seven kills on Ezreal to shine brightest for Solo mid.

The final match of day one was Echo Fox and Clutch Gaming. the 40-minuate back and forth was ultimately won by Clutch Gaming. Damonte with Galio had five spots in both kills and assists to lead the way for Clutch.

Day two started off with Team Liquid and CLG. CLG made a couple substations, but it didn’t do any good. Liquid rolled to an easy win thanks to Double lift and CoreJJ. Double lift had seven kills, while CoreJJ had 13 assists in the victory.

C9 battled 100 thieves next. It took 25 minutes and was a pretty easy win for C9. Nisqy carried on AAtrox going 6/0/4 in the C9 win.

Flyquest battled Optic next. Flyquest kept an early led and snowballed it into a win ,despite pushes from Optic. Santorin was the player to watch going 5/1/8 on kha zix.

Clutch and TSM fought next. TSM looked good early, but Clutch fought back and took the victory. Damonte went with Akali this time and scored nine kills to led the way.

Echo Fox and GGS finshed the day. Echo Fox rallied back from an early deficit to take the win. Apollo had six kills and eight assists to lead the way for Echo Fox.

It was a surprising week of matches. Like I wasn’t expecting Clutch gaming to sit at 2-0. Yet they do thanks to Damonte’ s star play this past week. in fact for his efforts I award him my mvp of the week.

Check out this weeks action on Saturday and Sunday and tune in for more recaps coming your way.