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final spot in the league. Next up is Elevate, who retained mix of EU’s CC talent of Solo R3bound, Jungle Hestrix,
their duo lane + solo lane from their 7th place fall Mid FaraKirk, ADC Joshy, and Support HalfDevil.
campaign (3-9 record). Nulisa was kicked from the middle
lane, and was replaced by BlizzardFX. Faeles (formally EUROPE RESULTS
known as Jungler, very creative) joined as the team’s
jungler after WorldEdit retired from the scene. New In the first game of the 15 on the day, Elevate took
Game Plus comes from the ashes of the Cringe Crew out Last Minute Monsters. Jungler Faeles led Elevate
banner, keeping Kero in middle, Repikas in the jungle, and to victory as Susano with a 10/3 KD and 24k player
Dethiance as the Coach/Sub. Burrito’s N0numbers joined damage in a 26 minute match. Solo MoGoW’s Odin
the roster as the solo laner, and Torpedo’s duo lane from was able to exploit the lack of mobility on Sylvanus,
S3 Spring (Murrdurr & Gamehunter) finish out the roster. Hercules AND completely get rid of their healing as well.
From the Open Bracket comes Novus Orsa, CycloneGG’s duo lane of Support KaLaS and ADC Vote
Deserted, and Last Minute Monsters. The situation with showed the world their interesting proxy farming start
Novus Orsa is complicated, as they didn’t play in the with Khepri and Izanami against Deserted. “Winions”
Open Bracket but still found themselves in relegations. weren’t the only thing that won the game for Cyclone,
They took Variety New Team’s spot after that roster was as Aphrodite made their front line of Cabrakan and
picked up by Team Dignitas, leaving Open Bracket 4th Khepri unkillable. New Game Plus was able to take out
place Optimus Gang out in the cold. Many argue that this Novus Orsa in the third game of the day on the back of
roster would fare better than Optimus Gang though, as Repikas’ Ratatoskr and Gamehunter’s Ullr who had a
Novus Orsa is a medley of players who have proved they combined KD of 13/1. Novus Orsa just couldn’t get their
belong in the SPL. Ironically enough, a majority of this double hunter composition of Artemis Mid and AMC
roster played under the Dignitas banner last year (Solo ADC off the ground. Two 1-1 teams faced off in game 4,
Duck3y, Jungle FrostiaK, and Mid ShadowNightmare.) with Cyclone handing Elevate their first loss of the day.
Support Frezzyy (formerly PandaLike) finished 2nd at Cyclone followed the same formula as the last game,
the most recent SWC, but his lane partner FleuryQ was with a healer in the midlane (Ra) and Cabrakan in the
only a sub for Cringe Crew last season. Deserted finished solo lane. Solo Deathwalker led the team in damage and
third in the Open Bracket with a roster that included kills on Cabrakan, with 9k damage and 4 kills in the 20
Jungler MikeTheMagikarp and DeathPanter, but they minute match. Novus Orsa and Last Minute Monsters
both “deserted” the rest of the roster for Sanguine both started off the day with a loss, but Novus Orsa’s
Esports. Those two players were replaced by former Mid-Jungle dominated the opposing side. FrostiaK’s
Burrito Jungler Gorgonzolla and former Torpedo Mid Susano and ShadowNightmare’s Poseidon dealt 25k
BroTuZ. The team is led by TheBigSB (Zashu) of Cringe damage each in the 30 minute match and totaled 16
Crew fame and capped off with the duo lane of Baas kills (more than all LMM). New Game Plus’ Repikas and
and Hoek of the Challengers Cup. Lastly is Last Minute Gamehunter stuck to their same old tricks and had the
Monsters (hehe), who finished 2nd in the Open Bracket same results against Deserted. Ratatoskr and Ullr once
with Mid St3fan (now on Sanguine Esports) and Burrito’s again joined forces and totaled 16 kills and 52k damage
former ADC Cosmic (formerly Lace, now a free agent). in 32 minutes. The double ADC composition worked a
The roster we saw in relegations though was a different lot better for Novus Orsa against Deserted than against
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