Which group will punch their ticket to finals weekend, and which group will be going home?
Group Liquid vs 100 Thieves starts the next round in the LCS 2024 Spring Split playoffs. 100 Thieves recovered after a humbling defeat by Cloud9, while Team Liquid likewise recuperated with a dominant win over Dignitas after their defeat to FlyQuest. Which group will punch their ticket to finals weekend, and which group is going home? ESTNN covers a few of the most significant stories in this week’s lower bracket match.
A Return To Form For Quid
After a bad proving in his series versus Cloud9, Quid, to the pleasure of 100 Thieves fans, recovered with a strong revealing versus NRG. Quid was exceptionally remarkable in this series and went favorable in all 5 video games regardless of losing efforts in video games one and 4. Quid now takes on APA, a gamer who has actually been doing his finest to get under the skin of his challengers just recently, particularly in all-chat. Quid definitely has the benefit in the mid lane and will absolutely amass a great deal of attention in draft. With the bottom lane getting the majority of the restrictions in the LCS, it will be intriguing to see if APA will be required onto his signature Ziggs choice and if 100 Thieves will get to secure Ahri, a champ that Quid has actually controlled the league on, particularly in their current series versus NRG.
Will 100T Suffer Another Early Game Massacre?
The data might be a little manipulated due to TL and 100T playing double the quantity of video games of any group in the playoffs therefore far, they do start to validate what we currently understood about 100 Thieves: they are not a strong early-game group. In the routine season, 100 Thieves had statistically the worst early video game in the league. According to Oracle’s Elixir, 100T had an early video game ranking of 43.7, which, as pointed out, is the worst of any group in the LCS 2024 Spring Split routine season. In the playoffs, their score has actually increased to 50.8, which ranks them 3rd of the 6 groups. 100 Thieves has actually had a hard time to make plays early on, protecting just 2 first-bloods in their 8 video games. Laning has actually been the most significant problem for 100T, who protect, usually, 2.3 turret plates per video game, the most affordable of any group in the playoffs so far.
APA is going to have a great deal of pressure on him to keep Quid at bay, TL probably has winning lanes in both Top and Bottom, and Umti is proactive enough to match River when required. It will be on APA to go toe-to-toe with Quid and make sure he does not have a method to get into the video game as it moves into the mid-to-late-game.
Marn’s Predictions
This is a truly hard series to call since I can see several circumstances taking place. Group Liquid is a much more powerful early video game group than 100 Thieves,
