Two more series closed out the day in Daejeon. BLG against LYON up top, T1 against FURIA with elimination on the line — two of the tournament's heavyweights facing sides that came to trouble them, and did, for a while. Two 3-0s that read cleaner than the games actually were.
BLG raise the level when it counts
The 3-0 does not represent the physionomy of the games. They were close right up to the moment BLG chose to play them properly — and that moment always came. They spent long passages disrespecting the game, over-aggressive, forcing plays that weren't there, and each time LYON punished it and hung around. But the leash only ran so far. In every game came a five-minute stretch where BLG raised the level, and the map collapsed.
LYON had real moments. The draft plan stood out in games one and three, Inspired proved again that he's more than an early powerfarmer with that outpaced across the map, and fought too, finding kills on Tristana and Sivir to give and a proper contest. What they couldn't do was convert — leads got built, then swamped before they paid off. BLG, meanwhile, pulled clear where it counts: the teamfights, the vision, the catches to turn games they were losing on gold, and a punish waiting for every lapse — an facecheck on Shen in game one the kind of error they only need once.
