Falcons On High Kind As Loopy Thieves Comeback Is Too Little, Too Late

Day 2 of the Apex Legends World Collection Championship in Sapporo, Japan, was the final probability for groups to safe their place within the winners’ bracket heading into the knockout phases this weekend.

Whereas the likes of Staff Falcons, Enter Drive.36, and shock bundle Citadel Gaming had all however booked their place in winners on day one, it was all on the road for almost all of groups. 

Staff Falcons Stay Dominant

The primary spherical of matches noticed Group B and Group C face off. Virtus.professional, Unlimit, and Gen.G Esports all carried out properly, however six matches with an excellent unfold of victors ensured Staff Falcons secured the highest spot of the group stage with a formidable 166 factors throughout the 18 matches of the group stage. 

Sadly, Males of Tradition propped up the opposite finish of the leaderboard after their third participant missed his flight connection and couldn’t get to the match in time. With no substitute obtainable, the duo registered simply six factors on the second day of motion. With their third absolutely arriving in Sapporo in time for tomorrow’s motion, they’ve acquired lots of work to do to combat by means of the losers bracket tomorrow. 

Nevertheless, the actual juicy tales had been within the ultimate spherical of group stage motion, Group A versus Group D. Supernova went, properly, supernova, early doorways. Konstantin “Hardecki” Kozlov introduced his return to ALGS LAN competitors after a short-lived retirement by inspiring a mammoth 76-point set, the largest factors whole of any spherical within the competitors to date. This noticed Supernova bounce an enormous 23 locations to take fifth spot total.

Which Groups Fell?

Nevertheless, the alternative was true for Alliance, who failed to show up on the second day of competitors. After being positioned so properly initially, a meager 15 factors means they finish the day in fifteenth place. That secured a spot within the winners’ bracket for the previous World Cup champions, however left them so low within the draft that Legacy was capable of nick the North Pad drop spot for tomorrow. Alliance will combat from Jurassic, a tough POI that might result in extra bother. 

Talking of Legacy, the Mexican trio has carried out constantly since being dropped by Staff Liquid late final yr. 120 factors had been sufficient for the squad to say tenth spot within the total leaderboard, 19 locations forward of the brand new, all-star Staff Liquid roster that underperformed once more and completed the group phases in twenty ninth place. You marvel if the Staff Liquid execs are regretting that call now.

Nevertheless, the story of the day was undoubtedly Loopy Thieves. This roster had the potential to show issues round, and boy, did they provide it a go. After doing little or no for the primary 16 matches of the group stage (together with the primary 4 at present), Loopy Thieves gained back-to-back victories with enormous kill tallies to finish the day on 101 factors. An aggressive group comp and the information that this roster needed to pull out all of the stops to succeed in the winners’ bracket led to an unimaginable end to the day’s motion. 

Sadly for Loopy Thieves, Ninjas in Pyjamas clinched the final spot with 103 factors. Simply two extra kills would have seen Thieves full the unlikeliest of comebacks. Think about if the gamers had turned up for greater than two matches…

If CT has momentum going into the losers bracket, a reverse sweep is well on the playing cards. Nevertheless, some huge names be a part of it and Liquid within the backside 20. FaZe, Sentinels, Riddle, and Aurora are all groups to look at when Saturday’s motion will get underway. 

After years away from aggressive Apex Legends, the recently-revamped Olympus shone over the course of Friday. Whereas some ALGS purists will lament the shortage of congested endgames, it was refreshing to see as few as three or 5 groups within the ultimate circle.

Mixed with legend bans eradicating a lot of the sight-obscuring skills from the battlefield, these had been a few of the clearest, most enjoyable ultimate fights of the match to date. It helped that NiP and CT had been two of the ultimate three within the ultimate spherical, each vying for the final spot within the winners’ bracket. 

Tomorrow, the primary groups go house. Falcons look set to stroll into the ultimate, however everyone knows it’s by no means fairly that easy.