LoL: 100 Thieves Defeated Team Liquid, Booked A Ticket To Worlds 2022

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By: Hypron|| Aug 29, 2022

The last time Team Liquid Honda and 100 Thieves met in postseason play, TL led 2-0 before 100 swept them. However, in the 2022 League of Legends Championship Series summer playoffs, with the first LCS Worlds 2022 slot on the line, TL attempted to flip the script by racking up two wins in a row to threaten their own reverse sweep. However, with Game 5 on the line, 100 halted the bleeding and secured their place at Worlds 2022.

After advancing to the winners finals of the 2022 LCS Championship, 100 cannot finish lower than third. Because the LCS has three seeds at Worlds 2022, no matter what happens now, TL will at least secure the third seed; a far cry from the beginning of the series, when it appeared that TL would not qualify for Worlds at all.

From the first minute of the series, 100 Thieves were in complete control, as one would expect from a team that has been on fire since the second half of the summer split. According to Gol.gg, TL added some spice to the Game 1 champion selection by selecting Urgot, the first Urgot pick in any major region this summer. But it didn’t make a difference. 100 made a statement not only by winning the game in just over 30 minutes with a 12k gold lead, but also by not allowing a single kill.

DEATHLESS. #LCS | #100WIN pic.twitter.com/FsLLSf9bf7
— LCS (@LCSOfficial) August 27, 2022

With the momentum now in their favour in Game 4, TL kept 100 guessing. For the first time in the series, 100 picked up Zeri, but TL had the crazy answers. TL dismantled 100 with a “deathball” comp highlighted by Swain, Sett, and Nocturne to push 100 all the way to a do-or-die Game 5.

Draft was another banger for Game 5 with both teams making major adjustments when it comes to champion priority. With Seraphine undefeated in the series, 100 first picked the champion while TL answered with the first Miss Fortune pick since TL’s bot laner Steven “Hans Sama” Liv played it at the end of July. The pick worked out masterfully through the mid-game punishing 100 for marching forward into teamfights. But with the game dead even in gold but with 100 on soul point, it was 100’s jungler Can “Closer” Çelik on Lee Sin that made the critical pick onto Hans Sama which opened up the game and gave 100 the win condition they needed. Even though Hans Sama stole Baron, TL lost the fight and the series. 100 prevented the reverse sweep to clinch their second straight Worlds appearance.

The road to Worlds isn’t over for TL yet; after this, they’ll be in the losers bracket.

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