Underdogs rebound in Singapore Day Two
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North America had a great Day One, but how would they fare as the Group advanced into Day Two? And would Europe be able to recover from their rough start? At the end of the day, it's hard to make many conclusions about the relative strengths of each of the teams, as inconsistent performances across the board, both for individual players and teams, have blown this competition wide open.
Najin White Shield vs Alliance
This game was in the bag for Alliance. They started up 7-0, and had a great early game advantage of 5,000 gold. However Alliance never properly capitalized on their advantages or item builds and they allowed Shield to crawl back into the game. The flaws in Alliance's macro gameplan were most visible in the above team fight. Alliance's disjointed engagement, missed skill shots, wasted ultimates, and strange item builds finally came back to punish them. All of this was compounded by a great outplay by the entire Najin White Shield team, putting them in the drivers seat for good.Samsung Blue vs Fnatic
Everything was working against Fnatic this game. They gave Dade Zed, a champion that he had a 17-2 record on, had an objectively weak champion select, and had a lineup that got outscaled in the late game. Even after the early game they didn't have much of a lead. However, in true Fnatic fashion, they consistently outplayed Blue down the stretch, at every position, including the play above that broke the game wide open. Gods can bleed, and Fnatic is still alive in the group of death.OMG vs Fnatic
After Fnatic completely thrashed Samsung Blue just hours earlier, and OMG began their Group Stage campaign 0-2, many thought Fnatic would cruise to another victory -- but It wasn't to be. Soaz was repeatedly ganked in top lane, and xPeke's over-aggression in mid lane against the early-power-spiking Zilean cost him severely. For a change of pace, OMG methodically closed the game out after getting a sizable lead, taking advantage of Fnatic misplays like the one in the clip above.Falling Up
The teams that performed consistently well on Day One had hiccups in Day Two, and while every team is still alive in the group, it's hard to predict what will happen next -- the whole world has been turned on its head. Not shown above was Najin White Shield's dismantling of Cloud9, Samsung Blue's stomp on LMQ, and Alliance obliterating KaBuM. With all that, here are the standings in the Singapore groups: Group C:- Samsung Blue: 2-1
- LMQ: 2-1
- OMG: 1-2
- Fnatic: 1-2
- Najin White Shield: 3-0
- Cloud9: 2-1
- Alliance: 1-2
- KaBuM Esports: 0-3
