RESULTS: TSM Win But SetToDestroyX Hold On To Their Lead in H1 Pro League Week Six
By Ford James ·
SetToDestroyX had another dodgy game despite dominating for the last five weeks, but Epsilon failed to capitalise so STDx hold on to their lead, while TSM, CLG and Rogue all start to close in.
Going into the second round of the night and SetToDestroyX will want to improve upon their previous showing, despite still placing fifth out of 15 teams. Rogue will be brimming with confidence, while Luminosity had a very poor performance and will want to come in the top few teams to retain their position in the overall top five.
This game saw an incredibly early engagement in the first few moments, as Flankxr from GankStars was pinned by ProdigyAces and the rest of his team, suffering from a molotov cocktail to the face followed by a few shotgun pellets. The next five minutes or so were fairly straightforward for every team, with some long range vehicle engagements taking place but no serious damage being inflicted.
The safe zone gradually focused on Humperdink Reserve, meaning a lot of mountainous terrain was very central. Players started preparing to use a lot of smokes and cautious play, while Echo Fox stood atop a mountain taking long range shots at every passing vehicle. STDx on the other hand opted for a late rotation into the circle, something we haven’t seen much from them in previous weeks but something they tried last game and it didn’t work out.
IG picked up the next elimination of the game as the action started to pick up, with GankStars losing another player, going down to three members before anyone else lost a single game. Vitality turned aggressive as they came upon Impact, completely eliminating them while having two players left standing themselves.
STDx weren’t having the best of nights as they were swiftly taken out, with just one player remaining. Epsilon were looking to capitalise on this and close the gap even further, knowing the likelihood of STD picking up many points at all were slim, while they had all five players left alive.
Kill after kill flew in, most of them coming from CLG as they lead with a phenomenal 10 kills, proving that the change of shotcaller seems to have been the right decision. They eventually went down with 11 kills, but that was an impressive six kill lead over Cloud9 in second with five who were also taken out.
Tempo Storm, TSM and Epsilon were the final three teams, with TSM being favourites due to having all five members remaining. Epsilon were quickly picked off by TSM while Zxch was the final member for Tempo Storm, picking up one TSM player before going down.
The talking point for this week will undoubtedly be SetToDestroyX’s failure to show up, but when it mattered, Epsilon couldn’t make up many points either. Rogue were the dominant factor in round one while TSM and CLG were the slayers in round two, but none of them are currently fighting for the top spot, meaning the week will likely not make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.
If you missed the earlier action tonight then check out our summary of round one here, and if you missed last week's action, you can read up on all that here. Keep your eyes peeled at the same time next week for week seven, to see if this was just a blip from SetToDestroyX or if it's the start of a bigger downfall.