FearX

definitively the best of the mid-teams.

That is what FearX earned the right to, but it is cool that they're able to win back-to-back.

Well done, FearX.

Still a cool tournament.

Still happy that teams like FlyQuest were able to go and compete, despite the fact that NA also did overall pretty poorly in the Demacia Cup as well.

So our semifinal matchups are set.

KT Rolster will be taking on BNK FearX.

And then Team WE, the last hope of the LPL, will be taking on the bros, Hanjin and Breon.

Anyway, uh this quarterfinals slate was so awesome we were one lgd throne game away from having back-to-back 10 game days kt with the 3-2 over vitality which was such an awesome series bnk phoenix a 3-2 over jdg obviously team we beating out FlyQuest, but then the bros 3-1 over LGD, but LGD had a lead in one of the games that they threw.

Anyway...

They lose 3-1 to FearX here.

I lost 2.75 units on this as well as 2 units on my KT Futures.

Minus 4.75 unit betting day.

I had another half unit on the sweep.

So I took a bath on this one.

FearX played out of their minds in this series.

Uh, one of the better matches that we've seen from them all summer.

[laughs]

Um, the only team we haven't spoken about is BNK FearX, who are-

True

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Yeah.

Does anyone have anything to add? [laughs]

I mean, uh, for, I, I didn't, I didn't really watch BNK FearX's game, but what I remember from their, uh, regular split is that, uh, I think they showed up their potential with their draft style.

Uh, we've seen, like, so many unique picks from the laners.

It would not shock me at all to see one of these other big orgs like or big organizations like the, uh, um, you know, like the T1s or the Hanwas of the world, like one of these big orgs, uh, if any of their top laners retire for whatever reason, it would not surprise me to see them snipe him from KT once his contract is up.

Uh, like I said, I missed most of this FearX JDG series.

Looked like it was a back and forth.

They just traded wins back and forth and ended up being a 3-2 FearX win, but I'm gonna have to go back and rewatch that later.

Uh, so no recap for that one unfortunately.

Hopefully, uh, I can do that later on.

The plus one and a half is minus 297.

So LGD have looked really sharp at this event.

So...

Last time we saw FearX, it was against LGD.

It was a really, really sloppy back-and-forth three-gamer.

I think LGD actually posed a more difficult challenge specifically to the style that FearX play, like that really scrappy early style, than JDG do.

JDG tend to want to just kind of sit back.

If you looked at what we've seen from JDG all year, I would think this is kind of a bad matchup for them because FearX really bring the fight to you early, and JDG don't want that.

but this new look JDG has been a little bit more open-minded to playing towards early and mid game than the original roster.

So, you know, I don't really want to judge too quickly on what they are and aren't because we've only seen a few games from this.

Split the matches 1-1 this morning.

The winner was LGD against FearX.

I had a net of plus 0.73 units on this one with the FearX money line.

This series was kind of exactly what I expected from these two teams.

FearX outclassed at the end of the day.

Their two wins were absolute dominations.

But they were plenty stupid in this match.

Then you keep fighting directly into it when he's massively far ahead.

One of the interesting ones is Vitality's opening opponent, Brawl.

Vitality are playing against FearX.

And I've got to say, listen, it's hard for me to hype it because I've just watched Vitality two playoffs in a row.

Like, lol, is this playoffs? Oh, shit.