Eight maps, none dropped
Team Liquid have not lost a map yet. Not one. The sweep of Disguised overnight took them to 4-0 in matches and 8-0 in maps, the first team in the LCS Summer Split to reach four wins.
Brandon Joel “Josedeodo” Villegas did most of the damage. The Argentine finished with 20 kills and 20 assists across the two games and died twice. Disguised had no answer for him in either game, and the 2-0 never really looked in question.
Liquid sit top of the standings, but the cushion is thin. LYON are 3-0 with a 6-0 map record and play Sentinels on Sunday. Win that and the gap closes to nothing.
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Shopify Rebellion climb, Dignitas sink
The other match of the day went to Shopify Rebellion, who lost the opener against Dignitas and then took the next two. That 2-1 lifts them to 3-1 and into sole possession of third for now. Ju “Bvoy” Yeong-hoon top-scored with 14 kills in the comeback.
Dignitas are 0-4. So are Disguised. With eight teams in the split and the bottom two eliminated before the playoffs, both are running out of road.
What the table is actually deciding
The Summer Split started on July 25 and runs seven weeks of round-robin, every team facing every other once in a best-of-three. The top two go straight to the playoff semifinals. Third through sixth drop into the quarters. Seventh and eighth go home.
The playoffs run September 12 to October 4, best-of-five and double elimination. Three spots at the World Championship come out of it. Worlds is spread across New York, Los Angeles and Allen, Texas from October 15 to November 14.
Week 4 finishes Sunday with Cloud9 against FlyQuest and LYON against Sentinels. Cloud9 are 2-1 and still have room to move up.
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