EPIC.LAN 44: The playoffs as they happen

EPIC.LAN 44 playoffs begun last night with them continuing over the course of the day. Keep up with all the coverage here.

Alaska continue their winning ways whilst Ross Kemp Bald continue to upset.

ALASKA have a habit of making things look easy but this match wasn’t quite so straight forward. Despite winning 2-0 ALASKA managed were made to sweat as they were pushed to their limits by CTRL ALT DEFEAT on the first map, being 6-1 down at one point they brought it back to a 16-14 victory. Fortunately for ALASKA it was back to regularly scheduled programming with map two as they cleaned up shop 13-6.

8Sins send the Icelandic hopefuls down to the lower bracket. Dusty will be seeking to reclaim the magic they found in EPIC.LAN 35 where they won the whole event. Unfortunately for Dusty 8Sins proved to be to much to handle as two reasonably close maps cost Dusty their upper bracket run as 8Sins 2-0 Dust with a 13-9 and a 13-8.

Belfast Storm had an absolute barn burner of a series where the first map went 20-22 in the favour of TLR which forced Belfast Storm to run the reverse sweep to keep their upper bracket dreams alive. Belfast Storm managed just that the series that began at 19:30 didn’t end until 23:10, by far the longest series of the first round of playoffs; not helped by a CS update between maps two and three. Belfast Storm’s tenacity showed to be strong as they managed to close out the series 2-1 continuing their upper bracket run with a match against ALASKA.

Glitchtech keep themselves alive after starting their lower bracket run against Submissive and Readable (SAR). SAR only managed to claim six rounds across 2 maps in their playoffs campaign, allowing Glitchtech to proceed with ease to their following game where they are set to clash with Viperio Academy.

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