After trading places on the high of the LCS standings within the final moments of the Spring Split, Cloud9 and FlyQuest ended up deadlocked in first place after the full scheduled 18-game slate. It was appropriate that the 2 teams needed a winner-take-all tiebreaker to decide the highest two seeds within the postseason bracket, and when the dust settled, it was Cloud9 who definitively earned the top spot, beating FlyQuest in one of the most competitive games of the cut up.
Earlier this week, FlyQuest got run through by C9 in a match that appeared to all however lock C9 as NA’s primary seed heading into the postseason. However, after C9 lost to CLG and FlyQuest beat TSM to open today’s slate of games, it shortly became assured that the two groups would meet on the end of the day to settle first place.
In an actual goliath-vs-goliath match, C9 proved that their late-split winning ways were for real, as they ran away from FlyQuest in just over 29 minutes.
C9 stays hot, FlyQuest stays cold(ish)
While the game these two teams played earlier this week was a one-sided, over-before-it-really-started stomp in favor of C9, today’s recreation was a lot nearer, and one could even make a case that it was the tightest, most back-and-forth recreation of the split up to now. Neither group was capable of set up a commanding gold lead that exceeded 3,000 till C9’s final push, while the 2 squads traded blows in both kills and towers throughout nearly all of the competition.
It wasn’t until C9 secured a Hextech Soul and Baron buff within one minute of one another that they were able to run away with the game and put FlyQuest within the rearview for good.
With this win, C9 go into the playoffs on a tear that’s seen them win eight of their final 9 games. Meanwhile, FlyQuest are continuing to stoop, as they’ve gone 3-4 in their last seven—a stark distinction from the eight-game successful streak that they opened the season with.
Did Berserker simply clinch MVP?
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Coming into the tiebreaker match (and for the higher a half of the final week, too), narratives had been driven up around Berserker and Prince, and how the MVP race was heating up between the two best players at their position.
Although different names have floated across the MVP talks this year, Berserker and Prince remained atop the rest of the league. Tonight, Berserker put the dialogue to mattress utterly.
Even though Prince earned a Pentakill towards TSM earlier at present, Berserker put his carry pants on against FlyQuest, taking the game by the reins and flat-out dominating the opposition on a commanding Draven decide. After he was relegated to Varus responsibility earlier right now, Berserker balled out on Draven, finishing with a scoreline of 12/1/2, accounting for over 28 percent of the team’s harm, and earning over 30 percent of their gold.
Still, when requested who should be the MVP of the league in a postgame interview on the LCS broadcast, Berserker remained humble, saying that his teammate Blaber should be named the MVP.
C9 and FlyQuest will start the postseason because the number one and quantity two seeds in the bracket, respectively, Their first-round opponents shall be determined by a collection of tiebreaker games which would possibly be still but to be performed, though some mixture of Evil Geniuses, 100 Thieves, and CLG might potentially await them on the horizon.