Day one of week three was all about map control: Who was taking objectives, and what were they trading for? Two teams stood out this week. They always took an advantage with their trades, created and seized good opportunities, and ultimately played decisive and active games.

Cloud9 and CLG are the top two teams in NA, and their record shows it. CLG is the only team to adapt and counter the Korean style of play that Cloud9 has been dominating the North American scene with.

If you watch both of their W3D1 games, their games look incredibly similar. Even when they were miles ahead of the other team, they made sure to not play greedily or timidly. C9 was ahead of Team Coast the entire game. Even when kills were tied, C9 was ahead by thousands of gold, due to their constant map pressure, and their ability to take objectives without giving anything in return.

One interesting thing about C9’s play-style in their game was that they played a much longer game, even though they were miles ahead. Part of this has to be credited to Team Coast for not giving C9 opportunities to end the game, but for a team who excels at creating their own opportunities, there is something else that C9 is practicing: how to beat CLG.

C9 extended the game just like CLG does, which is completely out of their character. At the same time, CLG was showing that they had taken a lesson from C9.

Korean style of play. They began trading. And that’s it. CLG was behind in the beginning of the game. Xmithie had been pressuring every lane relentlessly, and had been very successful. Nien and Link were very behind in their lanes. This is when CLG took a lesson from C9 and theof play. They began trading. And that’s it.

CLG put their objective next to Team Coast’s possible reactions, if the trade was positive, they went for it.Their play and synergy didn’t stutter. Even if they were full of doubt and fear, it didn’t show. This style of play, combines with Doublelift’s incredible lane play with Tristana. (Counter Logic Gaming has vowed that he will never let a Tristana out of laning phase without them being 30 cs behind. By the end of the laning phase, Doublelift was up +30 on Zuna. This lead became 130 by the end of the game).

CLG was the only team of the second place tie to win their game on day W3D1, and C9 continued their undefeated streak for every team that isn’t CLG. When these teams face off today, after taking pieces from each others strategy, the results will be explosive. Anything could happen. – Written by ViS

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