eSports Weekly 06/27/16

This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers!

League of Legends 

NA LCS Recap and Standings

The fourth week of the NA LCS has finished!

1. Counter Logic Gaming vs Immortals (1-2)
2. Liquid vs Apex (2-0)

Day 2:

1. Cloud9 vs Team Envy (2-0)
2. TSM vs Echo Fox (2-1)
3. Immortals vs Liquid (2-0)
4. NRG Esports vs Phoenix1 (2-1)

Day 3:

1. Cloud9 vs NRG Esports (2-0)
2. Team Envy vs TSM (0-2)
3. Phoenix1 vs Counter Logic Gaming (0-2)
4. Apex vs Echo Fox (2-0)

In the fourth week of the NA LCS Summer Split TSM continues to dominate with a strong victory over Team Envy. While they dropped a game to Echo Fox due to a horrid baron call, TSM looks as strong as ever. Immortals and Cloud9 are also doing well and are the most likely contenders for TSM.

Week 5 Preview

Despite the rankings, TSM and CLG games are always worth watching. Immortals and Cloud9 is also a must-see as these two teams are almost neck-in-neck.

Unlike the NA LCS, the EU LCS uses best of twos which leads to a point system. A 2-0 win gives 3 points. A tie gives 1 point per team. A loss gives no points.

Here's how the matches went:

1. FC Schalke 04 vs G2 Esports (1-1)
2. Team Vitality vs Giants (1-1)
3. Fnatic vs Origen (1-1)
4. ROCCAT vs Unicorns of Love (1-1)
5. Splyce vs H2K (1-1)

Day 2:

1. Giants vs FC Schalke 04 (0-2)
2. ROCCAT vs Fnatic (0-2)
3. Team Vitality vs G2 Esports (1-1)
4. H2K vs Unicorns of Love (0-2)
5. Splyce vs Origen (1-1)

In the fourth week, EU had seven ties out of the ten matches. Notably, all of the games on the first day were ties. This suggests that no one team is dominant and the split is still up in the air. Fnatic rose to first place given G2's inability to get a win out of both FC Schalke 04 and Team Vitality.

Here are the standings after four weeks of play:

Week 5 Preview

The series to watch is definitely Fnatic vs G2 Esports. As the first two seeds, this series should be close and competitive.

LCK Recap and Standings

1. Jin Air Green Wings vs MVP (0-2)

Day 2:

1. Samsung Galaxy vs KT Rolster (2-0)

Day 3:

1. SKTelecom T1 vs Afreeca Freecs (0-2)
2. MVP vs CJ ENTUS (2-0)

Day 4:

1. Jin Air Green Wings vs ROX Tigers (0-2)

Day 5:

1. ESC Ever vs Samsung Galaxy (1-2)
2. Longzhu Gaming vs SKTelecom T1 (0-2)

Day 6:

1. CJ ENTUS vs KT Rolster (1-2)
2. ROX Tigers vs Afreeca Freecs (2-0)

The notable series is SKT vs Afreeca Freecs where the two-time world champions were soundly beaten by the low ranked Afreeca Freecs. This is particularly ironic as the SKT head coach predicted that SKT would be weak early in this split. When the team then dominated a number of games in a row, he gave an apology for this prediction. Despite this two loss streak, SKT was able to spring back with a strong 2-0 win against Longzhu Gaming.

Here are the standings after five weeks of play:

Week 6 Preview

Next week is a short week with only four matches. The match to watch will be KT Rolster vs Jin Air Green Wings: two contenders for the top three.

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