H1Z1 Pro League Week 10 Recap & Highlights: SetToDestroyX Take Home The Money
By Ford James ·
We've reached the halfway point of the H1Z1 Pro League, and SetToDestroyX held their lead through week 10, taking home $35,000. We've got a full recap and highlights here.
Heading into week 10 of the H1Z1 Pro League, and the lead was SetToDestroyX’s to lose. They’d held the top spot for the overwhelming majority of the first split, while the teams below them shuffled and switched positions like a game of musical chairs. Their lead started to dwindle very slightly in the last week or two, as teams like TSM and Rogue stepped up their game, so it was down to this final week for them to perform.
In the first game of the night, it took over five minutes for the action to get going, and Epsilon were the first team on the board, taking out one member of Cloud9. TSM followed shortly after with Shellshock taking out Casper from Gankstars with an accurately thrown molotov, but the rest of his squad managed to escape.
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Tempo Storm swiftly rose to the top of the leaderboard however, by taking out Prox and pineaqples from Echo Fox in one swift movement. Crank fell shortly afterwards as well, giving Tempo Storm a nice three kill lead heading into the mid-game. SetToDestroyX jumped in on the action, taking out Sloth, before Tempo Storm picked up their fourth Echo Fox kill on sweetdreams, completely eliminating them.
As the game progressed, Obey Alliance started racking up kills but not without a lot of casualties of there own, while SetToDestroyX did the same but kept all five players alive. The stand out performance heading into the end-game came from TSM though, as they had 10 kills compared to StDx’s eight and OA’s six in the final five.
StDx eliminated IG on their lowly three kills to take the team count down to four, followed by OA facing the same fate. Epsilon went down to TSM, leaving the two titans, TSM and StDx, to fight it out in the final battle. TSM had too much class on the night though, taking out StDx one by one, before Stompalittle was left to 1v5 clutch and instead opted to die to the toxic gas to deny TSM another kill.
That's it for Round 1 of Week 10! @TSM comes out on top with 28 points followed by @SetToDestroyX with 15 and @ObeyAlliance with 9. Round 2 is up next! pic.twitter.com/hplgFOmP7V
— H1Z1 Pro League (@H1Z1ProLeague) June 21, 2018
TSM’s victory in the first game meant the gap between them and StDx shrank even further. If TSM managed to have another immense performance and see StDx get eliminated early, there was a slim chance they could take the top spot right at the end of the first split.
Neither of the two top dogs were able to get on the board at the start though, with Echo Fox and Cloud9 picking up the first two kills on Gankstars and Impact Gaming. It stayed that way for a good portion of the match too, before teams like CLG and LG managed to pick up a few kills.
All the action seemed to happen at once toward the end of the mid-game; LG shot to the top with six kills before being eliminated, followed by Cloud9 with five who were also taken out. Rogue and CLG followed with all five players alive and five and four kills respectively, while the two teams gunning for the top spot both had four kills each, but only one player alive on each team.
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Dropped wanted to come up big for TSM though, and he managed to take out Stompalittle from StDx in a swift 1v1 engagement. He couldn’t survive for long though, as Casper from Gankstars baited him out with the gas followed by a well-timed grenade.
In the final five and Rogue led with nine kills but no players left remaining. CLG and GS were hot on their heels with seven kills each and four players left alive apiece, and the closest team to them with players still standing was IG, who only had two kills. By this point, the top spot was certainly SetToDestroyX’s, but the remaining teams still had to duke it out to decide the final placements going into the halfway break in the league.
CLG rapidly disposed of IG, before Tempo Storm took out Vitality who failed to pick up a single kill all game. GS saw a similar fate as IG, leaving just Moose up for TS to take on the four members of CLG. It was a prime opportunity for CLG to charge in and get a melee kill on Moose for that extra 10 points, but they ultimately failed to make it happen, taking Moose out with three players left standing.
Your top 5 for Split 1 of the #H1Z1Pro is:@SetToDestroyX @TSM @GoingRogueGG @echofoxgg @Epsilon_eSports
— H1Z1 Pro League (@H1Z1ProLeague) June 21, 2018
Congrats to all of our teams! We're looking forward to the next split! pic.twitter.com/MNcMO1TEic
It was an anticlimactic final fight for the end of the first split in the inaugural H1Z1 Pro League, but one that SetToDestroyX will undoubtedly be happy with now that it’s over. They lead by 21 points going into the second split, and took home $35,000 between them for their performances in the first 10 weeks. Keep your eyes on Twin Galaxies for news on the second split as soon as we get it.
If you missed last week’s roundup and highlights, you can catch that here, or check out the official Facebook page for all the videos and player POVs from throughout the first 10 weeks.