This weekend kicked off with the Season 3 summer Promotion
series for the North American region. On the first day, the Challenger teams
faced off in a best of three games.
The first match of the day was Quantic Gaming (formerly team
Orbit). Quantic faced off against team Astral Poke that resulted in Quantic
taking the first win with a 2-0 lead. Next, is Velocity eSports (formerly Dirt
Nap Gaming) versus The Salad Bar. The Salad Bar picked up the first game but
lost the next two matches to Velocity eSports, giving Velocity the chance to
fight team Marn on Saturday. After the Velocity win, team Summon and Ranked 5’s
winners Fidelis matched up and team Summon got the win with 2-0. The final
match of the day would be between team DoubleBuff (formerly known as 1 Trick
Ponies) and Azure Cats. Azure Cats bring home the win 2-0 and get to face CLG
on Sunday.
After the Challenger matches were completed, the winners of
those matches got to face the bottom two teams of the spring LCS and the two
losing teams of the Playoffs. The matches played out to a best of five games.
Quantic Gaming got to face off against the bottom team of
the spring LCS, team CompLexity. Quantic looked strong in all of the games they
played and took home the next spot in the summer season, knocking CompLexity
out 3-0. With their win against The Salad Bar the day before, Velocity eSports
got its hands on seventh placed, team Marn. Marn played strong and definitely
their best, however got the losing decision of going 2-3 against Velocity
eSports. Since team Marn are now out of the LCS, word of Marn, their manager,
is that the team will now disband (http://marnorz.blogspot.com/2013/05/so.html).
Sunday started the final day of the Promotion series that consisted of matches of Dignitas vs team Summon and Azure Cats versus CLG. Since Dignitas lost
against Good Game University on the first day of the Playoffs, Dignitas had to save themselves
when brought up against team Summon. Dignitas played the best they could to
take the win 3-1 against team Summon. Team Dignitas is back in the summer LCS!
The final matches would become the strongest matches of the entire weekend with
Counter Logic Gaming vs Azure Cats. CLG takes home the spot to remain in
the LCS for the summer as they won against Azure Cats 3-0, giving Azure Cats no
breathing room, much like Quantic Gaming did to team CompLexity.
With the Promotion series now over, the final teams that
will be in the summer season are as followed:
Team Solomid
Good Game University
Team Curse
Team Vulcun
Quantic Gaming
Velocity eSports
Team Dignitas
Counter Logic Gaming
