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us compLexity Gaming has surprised everyone during the American qualifiers. However, they were still regarded as one of the underdogs especially after their mediocre performance during the BTS America. They are sending a message that NA has another strong team in the making as they 2-0 ua Natus Vincere and draw vs cn Invictus Gaming! With some vigour and might very well be starting to look at a top 4 finish in Group A if they continue to play like that!


The MVP for coL so far has to be us Zakari 'ZfreeK' Freedman. He has been playing out of his mind on Tusk and Spirit Breaker in the series against Na'Vi and has also delivered a game-winning Black Hole against kr MVP Phoenix* yesterday. He even pulled off an amazing Techies vs iG! Altough their support player has been shining it has to be said that coL has been functioning very well as a unit and is definitly performing better than expected.

In the first game Na'Vi got off to an early lead with a very strong pushing lineup and it was already looking rough for the Americans. However, on the back of incredible high ground holds, great team fighting from Zfreek, as well as good split push coL managed to stall the game for their Naga Siren to get huge. Once they achieved that Na'Vi wasn't a threat any more.

The second game was a completely different story. CoL aggressively trilaned in order to put their Dark Seer up against Broodmother. Thanks to that laning choice they managed to consistently get kills in the 3vs3 lane while ca David 'Moonmeander' Tan dominated ua Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov 1vs1.

Zfreek's Surprise Black Hole Mission in coL vs MVP.Phoenix from the 1st day of the group stage.

Zfreek was all over the map on his SB even killing the enemy Gyro all by himself. As their lead continued to grow the American squad soon grouped up and started taking objective after objective wiping Na'Vi three times in the process. Soon enough it was all over.

What is more, coL pulled off a Tusk + Techies against iG in the 2nd game. The Chinese team tried to deal with it by not showing on the lanes too much and going for a midas on each hero on their side. However, the Americans still managed to get quite a few pickoffs thanks to their combo. The Brewmaster splits from iG didn't transition into objectives and soon enough coL grouped as 5 and started to push which eventually ended up in three set of rax down and a "gg" call.

The American Qualifier winner, compLexity, have already gathered 7 points and only lost to cn PSG.LGD who looks like the strongest team in group A so far. As a result coL are starting to be a real contender for a top 4 finish in the group stage and thus an Upper Bracket start in the main event. With world Cloud9 having a rough start and coL beating Na'Vi as well as taking a point from iG, they probably only have to win one more match and maybe also draw one to land top 4 in their group. That would definitely be something that nearly no one expected!

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