With a convincing 3-0 win against BDS, G2 Esports advanced to the finals of the winter season of the LEC league and now they are only one more triumph away from defending the trophy, while Team Vitality and SK Gaming bid farewell to the playoffs after losing in the survival matches.
It seems that it will be a long time before G2 has serious competition in Europe, when we look at how they have outclassed their closest rival.
Team BDS looked great in the group stage of the championship and in the first two rounds of the playoffs where they recorded victories without losing a game, but against G2 they were powerless to take even one consolation game.
We saw the biggest difference in solo lanes, especially in the third game where BrokenBlade and Caps completely outplayed their rivals, and in a game where G2 made 27 kills in 28 minutes, BrokenBlade achieved an 8-2-7 score as Xante, while Caps went 8-1-9 as Hwei. No less dominant was Hans Sama on 9-1-5 Kalista, while Yike finished the game without a death with 1-0-22 Ivern.
G2 struggled the most in the first game, in which we saw only 17 kills in 35 minutes of play, and from the second G2 took the initiative and showed why they are so far ahead of the competition in the region.
BDS will have a chance to make amends if they beat the better team from the Fnatic - MAD Lions match.
MAD Lions defeated Vitality 2-0 today, while Fnatic pulled off a huge upset against SK Gaming to win 2-1 with an incredibly exciting finish in the decisive third game.
Fnatic and MAD Lions have already met at the start of the playoffs when Fnatic won 2-0. Fnatic is also the only team that managed to take a game against G2 in the playoffs so far, and it remains to be seen if they will manage to overcome the obstacles in front of them and schedule another G2 - Fnatic derby in the LEC finals.
