Two round-two matchups closed out day 3 in Daejeon. In the lower bracket, Top Esports faced elimination against Team Secret Whale. Up top, G2 ran into one of the tournament favourites in Hanwha Life — the first strong test of their MSI.
Team Secret Whale send Top Esports home
TES are out, beaten 3-1 by Team Secret Whale — an upset on paper, and one that fed straight back into their reputation for folding on the international stage. The reverse sweep G2 handed them looked to have broken something: this is a side carrying two rookies in the top and support seats, and the confidence never returned. ZUIAN had a series to forget, solo killed twice by his opposite number and finishing the set on -476 Gold Diff and -434 XP Diff at 15, a 3/16/13 line across four games.
TSW, for their part, showed the full range of what they can do — winning the skirmishes, winning the teamfights, and pulling clear at every turn. The switch was . Whether on carries like Lee Sin and Naafiri or on the more front-loaded Xin Zhao and Mundo, the young Vietnamese jungler played to the size of his ambition. He told us as much before the series:
