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looking to be a bad situation in
their favor, and Allied managed
to redeem his initial death with
a double killl. C9 responded
with another kill in the solo lane
followed by taking the tier one
tower. Despite the loss of the
tower, Snipe pulled ahead in gold
after taking an uncontested Gold
Fury. The rest of the match would
prove to be similarly exciting as
the first six minutes were. The
game remained fairly even with
C9 keeping a slight lead until
around the twenty minute mark.
At that point, Snipe had several
unsuccessful pushes up mid that
led to C9 taking the Fire Giant at
twenty-two minutes. C9 pressed
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their advantage, took the last of Shing’s Nemesis combined with
Snipe’s towers, the left phoenix, the healing from Hel and Guan
and then rushed the base and Yu.
the destroyed the Titan.
In the second major matchup of
In the final match of this series, C9 the day, third seed SK Gaming
chose the same lineup that won faced off against second seed
them the second match while Team Dignitas. SK team captain
Snipe saw the return of most Proxyqq bantered with Team
of the first game roster. Feaster Dignitas captain Lassiz before
Bunny Bakasura (Xaliea) took their matches hoping that
first blood on Jingle Hel (Wolfy) in Dignitas would enjoy the next two
the solo lane at a little over four matches. In game one, Ah Muzen
minutes into the match. Snipe Cab (Zapman) took first blood
quickly answered taking down on Neith (Realzx) despite being
Bakasura under tower. Snipe under SK’s tower at the three
controlled the map from that minute mark. SK did not let this
moment on. C9 had no answers go unanswered, and less than a
to the force of Allied’s Neith and minute later Sun Wukong (Enqu)
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