Welcome to the Weekly Recap, where we gather the top stories that happened in the past week to help you catch up with the busy world of eSports!
Dota 2
LGD scrapes past LFY in MDL final tussle
LGD squandered a two-game lead against LGD.Forever Young in the final but it dug deep and dominated in the decider to lift the trophy at the Mars Dota League 2017.
Fanstastic support play from ddc and ah fu allowed LFY to claw back from LGD’s 2-0 start in the final, but their antics only setup the heroics of LGD carry Ame on Anti-Mage in Game 5.
Ame became a farm machine and feasted on LFY.Inflame’s roaming Zeus, getting five out of his nine kills in the 29-minute match from the thunder-throwing hero. Ame’s XPM and GPM were so high he was six-slotted in just 27 minutes, boasting an Eye of Skadi, a Battle Fury, a Manta Style, a Basher, Power Treads, a Poor Man’s Shield and an Aegis to boot.
LGD lessened its mistake in the rubber match, and was able to bring down LFY’s third tier tower in the midlane while keeping all of its tier twos standing.
Following the sister teams in MDL’s podium was NewBee, while four-Major winner Team OG underwhelmed and placed only fourth in the Wuhan, China event.
The sister teams met for the fourth time in the competition, including the qualifiers, and it was for the first time in those games that LGD defeated its branch team in a series.
Gabbi leaves Clutch Gamers
After unsuccessful LAN events, carry Kim “Gabbi” Villafuerte has decided to leave Clutch Gamers.
The 21-year-old Filipino posted in his Twitter page that he was “looking for [a] team”, and also said in his Facebook page that he still wants to play a core role.
CG manager Jaseem Khan wished his former carry luck in the next chapter of his career and said: “We’ve had some great memorial wins and qualifiers which will never be forgotten.”
The Malaysia-based squad took the SEA region by storm, winning four qualifiers for LAN events like Summit 7, Epicenter, Mars Dota League and Manila Masters. But the squad failed to acquire visa for Summit, and won only one game in the other three LAN events.
Dota 2 sets new record with TI7’s prize pool
The Dota 2 community has once again broken the record for the largest prize pool in esports history with the cash prize at the International 2017.
At more than $20,770,460 million, the TI7 pool has already surpassed the record previously set by TI6 with more than 30 days of crowdfunding left.
The base prize pool was at $1.6 million from Valve, and the remaining $19million was 25% of all Battle Pass-related sales in the last 68 days.
League of Legends
SKT, SSG battle in top of LCK
SKT T1 aim for revenge as it faces off Samsung Galaxy in Week 6 of the LCK Summer Split.
The three-time world champion has something to pay SSG back as the latter was the only team to deal the former its lone loss in 10 series this split.
SKT is currently leading the Korean league table at 9-1, but SSG is breathing down their necks at 9-2.
Longzhu Gaming and KT Rolster, who are knotted at 8-3, will get a chance to boost their standing as they square off against bbq Olivers and Ever8 Winners, respectively.
H2K, UoL resume race for Group B lead in EU LCS
H2k Gaming and Unicorns of Love will try to edge each other in the race for solo Group B lead as action resumes in the EU LCS Summer Split.
H2K will is aiming for its sixth win in eight series as it go against Roccat, who is 2-4 in Group A, while UoL will go for its sixth win in seven series against a tougher oopponent in Misfits, who won four of six series in Group A.
Fnatic is solo leader in Group A, with a 6-1 card in series and 13-3 win-loss record in games.
CLG play FlyQuest in Week6
NA LCS Summer Split leader Counter Logic Gaming is shooting for its fourth straight series win as it competes with FlyQuest Esports in Week 6.
CLG, currently at 8-2, defeated EnVyUs, Cloud9 and Liquid in its last three games before last week’s Rift Rivals.
FlyQuest, too, is in good form, coming off back-to-back wins against Echo Fox and Dignitas in Week 5.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
SK stampedes through playoffs to win ESL One Cologne
It was a tale of two SK Gamings at the Lanxess-Arena in Germany as the Brazilians struggled to make it to the playoffs but then crushed the competition en route to winning the ESL One Cologne 2017.
SK looked out of depth in the start of the competition and lost enough games to reach the last round, where it suddenly looked like the dominant team of old as it went through Fnatic 16-6 to grab one of the last semi-final spots.
The world’s number one team lost its opener to fourth seed OpTic Gaming but then the demons inside the Brazilians got unleashed, as SK defeated OG in the next two maps and never lost again in the competition.
After sweeping past FaZe Clan 2-0 in the semis, SK got heavily challenged by Cloud 9 in the final but it proved it had enough in the bag to make the kill shots that matter and won the final 3-0.
SK pocketed $100,000 as champion, while C9 went home richer by $40,000 and the other semi-finalists Natus Vincere and FaZe earned $20,000 each.
Overwatch
Rogue grinds out 4-3 victory over the Immortals in BEAT 2 championships
Rogue reigned supreme anew after it added the BEAT Invitational 2 to the list of competition where it won as champion.
The French-filled, North America-based club saw its 3-0 lead in the ultimate series evaporate after the Immortals thundered back from the almost insurmountable deficit, but Rogue displayed composure to pull-out the series-winning 3-2 victory in Game 7 at the Volskaya Industries map.
Rogue began its assault on BEAT Invitational with a 3-1 thumping of Tempo Storm in the first round, then outlasted Arc 6 3-2 in the semi-finals before sending the Immortals to the lower-bracket with a 3-1 triumph in the upper-bracket final.
