The Recap: EU Challenger Series 2
Riot·3/31/2014, 10:19:08 PM·0 votes·300 views
The Challenger Series Points are tallied. The field for the European Challenger Playoffs has been set. All four competitors for top honors in Challenger Series 2 had already clinched a spot in that playoff, but the results have directly impacted seeding going forward. While the Ninjas in Pyjamas ran away with the #1 overall seed, Denial and Team Coast Gold's 2nd and 4th place finish in EU CS 2 set up a pair of offline tiebreakers that will be played at a later date.
* denotes tie, and match ups are based off of how points a team accrued through 2 Challenger Series.
Sencux was a major reason that Reason Gaming was able to come back in game 1, and then close out game 2 in such impressive fashion. He posted a 10/1/5 KDA on Yasuo in the game 1 and then followed that up with a 6/2/9 performance on his pocket pick, Talon. On top of all his killing, he had one of the slickest Talon escapes in recent memory during the second game.
Erlend "Nukeduck" Holm
Ninjas in Pyjamas's Nukeduck put an indelible stamp on the finals of EU Challenger Series 2. He started quickly with a triple kill on Ahri in game one which was the springboard to a 9/2/2 KDA. Nukeduck was known as one of the scariest Zed players in Europe during Season 3, and he proved that he still deserves such a moniker on the Masters of Shadows in game 2. Not only did he post an impressive 6/3/1 KDA, Nukeduck was a consistent split pushing force who was unstoppable one-versus-one.
| Team | Circuit Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninjas in Pyjamas | 19 | ||
| *Denial | 11 | ||
| *Cloud 9 Eclipse | 11 | ||
| Reason Gaming | 8 | ||
| *Mousesports | 7 | *Team Coast Gold | 7 |
Game of the Week
There will be only a single game of the week this week since there were only four games to pick from. Furthermore, the other three games were one-sided affairs. If anything, the dominating performances by Ninjas in Pyjamas against Denial show that the team full of LCS veterans has sorted themselves out, and they'll be heavy favorites to advance into the Spring Relegation Tournament. Reason Gaming vs Team Coast Gold Game 1 Game one was a fascinating study in dichotomies. Team Coast Gold came roaring out of the gate and had the game in a hammerlock through the first eighteen minutes, but then everything went sideways. Reason Gaming racked up three kills to go along with a pair of mid lane turrets to grab complete control of the game. TCG tried valiantly to regain advantage, but it only made the problem worse. By twenty-five minutes in, Reason had opened an insurmountable lead through superior teamfighting and subsequent objective destruction. Team Coast Gold held on for another ten minutes, but it was for naught. RG picked up the win after thirty-seven minutes of hard fought action.Overachievers of the Week
Chres "Sencux" Laursen
Sencux was a major reason that Reason Gaming was able to come back in game 1, and then close out game 2 in such impressive fashion. He posted a 10/1/5 KDA on Yasuo in the game 1 and then followed that up with a 6/2/9 performance on his pocket pick, Talon. On top of all his killing, he had one of the slickest Talon escapes in recent memory during the second game.
Erlend "Nukeduck" Holm
Ninjas in Pyjamas's Nukeduck put an indelible stamp on the finals of EU Challenger Series 2. He started quickly with a triple kill on Ahri in game one which was the springboard to a 9/2/2 KDA. Nukeduck was known as one of the scariest Zed players in Europe during Season 3, and he proved that he still deserves such a moniker on the Masters of Shadows in game 2. Not only did he post an impressive 6/3/1 KDA, Nukeduck was a consistent split pushing force who was unstoppable one-versus-one.