With one victory each we head into the Final round in this best of 3 for the upper bracket Final between FM Raiders and MyXMG.
Although XMG’s geobob gets his hands on bobwick once again, it initially looks like FM Raiders have found a way to counter it with a rather uncommon toplane Karma as the early laning give the impression that Karma is going to bully bobwick out of lane completely,  until some great communication sends yoloswag420 to the top lane to deal tonnes of damage on gragas while bobwick suppresses karma, giving geobob first blood.

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Lower Bracket Semi Final, BO1:

Starting off slow Infused manage to pull out a slight CS advantage, before an early gank from a flash into Audacious charge by Nurti allows him to pick up a very early first blood. Exhibiting his dominance Nutri heads to the top lane to pick up a kill onto Ereptor’s Trundle, while MVP Winter is struggling to have enough of an impact on the early game.
As MVP Winter hits levels 6, he casts a Grand Skyfall into the bottom lane, picking up a kill onto Lady B0lt, but a well timed counter gank from Nutri gives Omega’s Caitlyn a double kill and allowing Infused to take the first dragon of the game.

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After a long day of intense CS:GO action,9 teams battled it out through the group stage and into the Elimination stage. As we prepare to start the second day of action lets take a moment to look at the standings as they are currently.
In the Upper Bracket Semi final we have TeamCRG facing off against Rasta.Mix and The Lovely Men facing their namesake The not so lovely men.
The Loveliest Men were unfortunately knocked out in the group stages, while Interp!, LANiMALS, LAN MIX and Team Ministry currently fighting it out in the lower bracket.
With another day packed with matches, there is currently everything to play for, will TeamCRG and The not so lovely men continue their 4-0 group stage dominance? or will we see an upset in the form of one the lower bracket teams?

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Round 1

The game opens with some smooth moves from yoloswag420’s Leblanc getting first blood on Kha’zix in a tense 1 v 1 in the midlane. Returning to lane Kha’zix works with Nutri to exact revenge on Leblanc who had no summoner spells available. The pace of the game slows down momentarity, but a strong gank from Lanky Dan gives XMG a double kill onto pantheon in exchange for the support. A 2 for 1 in the midlane allows MXMG to take the first dragon of the game just before the 10 minute mark, almost evening out the gold despite the first blood and CS discrepancies. A Pantheon ultimate down in the bottom lane combos with the CC of Leona locks down Omega, allowing MyXMG to take down the first turret of the game. Infused’s bot lane heads towards the dragon, but are spotted by a ward instigating an engage from MyXMG.

Team Infused counter engage perfectly and even though neither team picked up the dragon, Infused come out on to with a 3 for 2. MyXMG race back to the dragon pit to sneak it before Team Infused can get near, which inches the gold lead into their favour. Both teams are neck and neck until XMG take a pick onto Karma before divind the outer turret to take out an additional 2 members of Infused. From the back of this they take both the outer and inhibitor turret along with the inhibitor itself, extending their Gold lead to 6k. My XMG look like they are have some communication issues, as they get caught in the enemy jungle while WaWa solo pushes bot, giving two kills over to infused. With super minions chewing through the Nexus turrets, Infused are force to recall leaving MyXMG free to take a Baron 30 minutes in. Wearing the baron buff MyXMG wander into the base of Team Infused to make sure the mid inhibitor turret stays down, before rotating to the bottom lane to take the Inhibitor there.

In a desperate bid Team Infused try to stop MyXMG’s advances, but get dove under the tower and lose another two members without successfully defending the structures. Now with 10k gold lead MyXMG brute force their way to the third and final inhibitor, taking it down before finishing off the Nexus turrets and taking the first game in this best of three. MVP for this game has to go to yoloswag420 with his incredibly potent Leblanc play, picking up first blood from the outset and making all the right picks throughout the game.

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Lots of action in the early game due an interesting pick with the jungle alistar. PGBs Kha’Zix attempts to invade Alistar at his red but the communication of FDB allows his mid laner to assist and take down khaz.
Some miscommunication in the bot lane from FBD means that what starts as a good gank from Alistair results in not even taking away any summoners. Kha’zix once again attempts an invade onto Alistar but this time FDB cannot respond in time, and with an Evolved Taste the Fear’s isolation damage cuts through the pre 6 Alistar.
Another engage in the bot lane from FDB, this time implemented much better, allowing them to pick up a double kill, demonstrating the power of the CC heavy Alistar Jungle. Meanwhile in hte toplane Khazix finds Renekton at the Golems and picks up his 5th kill of the game.
As we enter the midgame, FBD appear to be winning teamfights by locking down the snowballing KhaZix, yet PGB are exhibiting superior map control and just picking up kills all over the rift.  21 minutes in Promethium Gaming Team B are pulling ahead with a 6k gold lead, as while they are only 2 kills up they have a large lead in objectives.

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One of the closest games  so far in the tournament , relatively even with only minor gold diferences until  they hit the late game at 40 minutes , where the differences in team comp start to shine through. The late game hyper carry marksman of Vayne, combined with  the Wombo Combo of Wukong and Yasuo allow TLR to edge out an advantage and push into the base taking out the first inhibitor of the game,.
While TLR back away to heal and buy after the assault on KAPs base, KAP take the opportunity to grab a dragon, but just as they manage to take it  MiNi iLunatic is caught out. With a baron on 4 members of KAP, TLR are reluctant to engage, although with super minions hitting the Nexus turrets of KappaKappaKappa the game is now fully in TLR’s control

The final team fight happens in the toplane, , where TLR manage to execute the  AOE combo with Yasuo’s ultimate hitting the nexus. With only Tattooed Otaku left alive KAP are unable to defend the nexus and The Last Resort Take home a win.

The MVP of this match has to go to Smudgecat with his toplane Yasuo. Finishing the game with over 400 CS, the lack of a tank in the TLR line up did not matter with the lead they managed to pull, and Yasuo had a much greater impact than his lane opponent in the mid to late game.

TLR

• Smudgecat - Yasuo
• Hoss - Wukong
• Shaw - Gragas
• Ratchet - Vayne
• Clank - Lulu

KappaKappaKappa

•  deathguise - Malphite

• Tattooed Otaku - Lee Sin
• TattyBojangles - Zyra
• MiNi lunatic - Jinx
• thymartyr - Annie