RESULTS: Golden Guardians Triumph over Counter Logic Gaming

The Golden Guardians have managed to avoid staying the sole last place team in the NA LCS with their victory over CLG today. A rocky match, both teams had fairly slow starts, the only exception being an early top lane gank by Juan “Contractz” Arturo Garcia to help his top laner, Samson “Lourlo” Jackson to take down CLG top laner Darshan “Darshan” Upadhyaya. A minor skirmish allowed CLG to secure the Dragon, but at the cost of two of their lives.

The Golden Guardians made better map rotations to secure early turret kills, and traded a turret and a Dragon for two turrets and the Rift Herald. A major fight around the Baron saw the Golden Guardians secure the Baron buff at the cost of four members, as CLG came through with the collapse to trap them in the pit.

Any belief that Counter Logic Gaming could make a comeback however, were slowly whittled away as the Golden Guardians repeatedly caught out members of CLG around the map. Despite being able to secure their third Dragon of the game, CLG tried to force a Baron for more power, but were in turn collapsed upon by the Golden Guardians, resulting in a complete wipe as GGS secured the Baron buff and cruised into CLG’s base, taking down the nexus and completing their victory.

In the post-game interview, Golden Guardians jungler, Contractz, was able to give some insight into how they feel the game went, as well as their improvement over the course of the split.

As the standings get more and more important, CLG finds themselves now stuck at the bottom of the ladder alongside the Golden Guardians. For more on how the other teams are situated, check out the Official Standings page here, and for more NA LCS action, check out how Echo Fox set a new match time record with their victory over Team Liquid.