Two more eliminations in Daejeon. LYON opened against Team Secret Whale, then G2 and T1 met in what might be the series of the tournament so far. When the night was over, both Western sides were still standing — and one of the biggest names in the game was not.
LYON close the gap the way the favourites do
LYON were supposed to win this, and they did. TSW are a sharp, skirmish-hungry side, and they had just the opening to rattle their opponents: game one was theirs for the taking before they let it go.
They responded by staying dangerous and losing anyway. Across three games TSW built good early leads and contested the teamfights, but never turned a favourable phase into anything lasting. Every time, a single hinge moment — an objective contest, a defensive play misjudged, map pressure left uncontained — tipped the game back to LYON, who kept closing the gap with precision and collective discipline before snowballing out of reach. Game one set the tone in TSW's own wheelhouse: stole the smite off Hizto's Lee Sin at the pit, the kind of skirmish beat TSW are built to win, turned against them.
