The Recap: NA LCS Summer Week 8
Riot·7/14/2014, 1:42:36 AM·0 votes·5,693 views
The four-way tie from week 7 is now a two-way tie thanks to Counter Logic Gaming and LMQ going 2-0 during week 8 of the North American LCS. Team Curse came back down to earth with a winless week, and earned the distinction of losing in the longest game in LCS history when they dropped an eighty minute game to Complexity to lead off Saturday’s action.
The Counter Logic Gaming bottom lane removed either CLG game from consideration for games of the week since they obliterated Team SoloMid and Team Dignitas. Doublelift embodied the carry role against DIG. CLG scored eleven kills. Doublelift had 9 of them on Kog’Maw. The pair combined for a 17/4/26 KDA for the weekend. The nigh unstoppable power of Rush Hour is a major reason CLG now sits tied at the top of the LCS standings.
Wang “ackerman” Xiao - Top lane - LMQ
Ackerman pulled out a trick seen the day before in a game between the LPL’s Star Horn Royal Club and Invictus Gaming when he sat in a brush for almost four minutes undetected and siphoned experience. The move gave him an early level advantage, ruined Team Dignitas’s planned lane swap, and was a big reason LMQ walked away victorious. He didn’t have the ridiculous KDA (2/3/14) like Rush Hour, but his pair of Gragas performances were highlighted by clutch Explosive Casks, and Body Slams.
Games of the Week
Team Curse vs Complexity The first game of the weekend was also the longest ever in the LCS, and it was a back-and-forth affair throughout. Curse was the bloodthirsty team that consistently found kills, particularly through synergy with Rengar and Orianna. On the other hand, Complexity focused on objectives, and it kept them ahead for the majority of the games. Every time Curse would find a kill or two, Complexity grabbed a dragon. The game’s ending was one of the wildest in recent memory. Curse managed to win a teamfight near the wreckage of their middle inner turret, but as they were winning it, Complexity’s AD carry RobertxLee snuck his Lucian into the Curse base and knocked down the Nexus before Curse could stop him. Team SoloMid vs Cloud9 Cloud9 looked to follow up their evisceration of Evil Geniuses against Team SoloMid, a team they’ve historically destroyed. It was not to be this day, even though Cloud9 had complete control of neutral objectives throughout the majority of the game. It all went south when TSM took a teamfight which earned the team a free Dragon and Baron. That first Baron buff was used to knock down multiple turrets, and the slush fund accrued from all of the small TSM victories scaled WildTurtle’s Tristana out of control. A late Death Sentence from LemonNation’s Thresh on WildTurtle almost let C9 sneak away with a win, but they were killed off right before TSM’s second Nexus turret died. The long death timers let TSM mop up the C9 base, and walk away with a victory against their nemesis.Top Performers of the Week
Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng / Zacqueri “Aphromoo” Black - Rush Hour Duo - Counter Logic Gaming
The Counter Logic Gaming bottom lane removed either CLG game from consideration for games of the week since they obliterated Team SoloMid and Team Dignitas. Doublelift embodied the carry role against DIG. CLG scored eleven kills. Doublelift had 9 of them on Kog’Maw. The pair combined for a 17/4/26 KDA for the weekend. The nigh unstoppable power of Rush Hour is a major reason CLG now sits tied at the top of the LCS standings.
Wang “ackerman” Xiao - Top lane - LMQ
Ackerman pulled out a trick seen the day before in a game between the LPL’s Star Horn Royal Club and Invictus Gaming when he sat in a brush for almost four minutes undetected and siphoned experience. The move gave him an early level advantage, ruined Team Dignitas’s planned lane swap, and was a big reason LMQ walked away victorious. He didn’t have the ridiculous KDA (2/3/14) like Rush Hour, but his pair of Gragas performances were highlighted by clutch Explosive Casks, and Body Slams.
The rush hour botlane 
