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　　As previewed in yesterday's Speed Gaming.int G-League recap article the first day of playoffs that were scheduled for today have now finished and will see LGD.cn join their rivals Team DK and Invictus Gaming in the G-League 2013 semi-finals after beating Speed Gaming.int today in a best of three series with a score of 2-1.

　　Team LGD.cn. Photo Credit: SCNTV.com

Game 1

The first game in the series was a pretty one sided victory for LGD.cn after Speed Gaming.int's aggressive trilane failed after it fell victim to an unexpected mana burn pickup from the Doom. The game snow balled in LGD.cn's favour and Speed called the GG just shortly after the 16 minute mark.

　　Bans/Picks

　　

Speed Gaming.int's Bans	Speed Gaming.int's Picks	LGD.cn's Bans	LGD.cn's Picks
Rubick	Elder Titan	Alchemist	Chen
Slark	Crystal Maiden	Clockwerk	Outworld Devourer
Timbersaw	Leshrac	Visage	Nyx Assassin
Pugna	Treant Protector	Enchantress	Shadow Demon
Juggernaut	Weaver	Clinkz	Doom

VOD

　　http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit/b/488110907?t=19m

　　

Game 2

The second game saw a much stronger draft from Speed Gaming.int with the majority of the team ended up on their signature heroes. The end result was a still an extremely close game however it was once again Sing Sing's Mirana who brought them the victory after landed a ton of arrows and bringing out the GG call from LGD.cn after 47 minutes.

　　Bans/Picks

　　

Speed Gaming.int's Bans	Speed Gaming.int's Picks	LGD.cn's Bans	LGD.cn's Picks
Slark	Mirana	Outworld Devourer	Clockwerk
Alchemist	Visage	Chen	Rubick
Storm Spirit	Crystal Maiden	Timbersaw	Windranger
Beastmaster	Luna	Clinkz	Gyrocopter
Dragon Knight	Elder Titan	Nyx Assassin	Kunkka

VOD

　　http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit/b/488110907?t=61m

　　

Game 3

The third game was a pretty poor showing from Speed Gaming.int after LGD.cn took advantage of the lanes and ran an aggressive trilane which completely shut down EE's Luna. Towards the mid game it was xiao8 aka director8 who put on a brilliant show for us on his Nyx Assasin proving that the hero can still work very effectively on v6.79. Speed ultimately called GG at the 31 minute mark and will now have to fight back through the lower bracket playoff match in order to comeback and secure a top four finish.

　　Bans/Picks

　　

Speed Gaming.int's Bans	Speed Gaming.int's Picks	LGD.cn's Bans	LGD.cn's Picks
Slark	Chen	Elder Titan	Rubick
Outworld Devourer	Mirana	Alchemist	Visage
Beastmaster	Luna	Clockwerk	Nyx Assassin
Dragon Knight	Bounty Hunter	Timbersaw	Nature's Prophet
Pugna	Vengeful Spirit	Crystal Maiden	Lifestealer

VOD

　　http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit/b/488110907?t=134m

　　

Lower Brackets

Speed Gaming.int still have a chance at coming back into the tournament and will now face off against the winner of the second play off match featuring Vici Gaming vs TongFu.

　　Bracket Credit: Team Liquid's LiquidpediaThe Vici Gaming vs TongFu match is due to be played tomorrow (18th December) at 07:00am CET and will be streamed live on the Beyond The Summit channel casted by Chan 'WinteR' Litt-Binn and Theeban '1437' Siva: http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

　　

PST	EST	GMT	CET	CST
10:00pm (17th Dec)	01:00am	06:00am	07:00am	02:00pm

The winner from the first best of three series will then move on to then face against Speed Gaming.int later in the day in another BO3 at 01:00pm CET.

　　

PST	EST	GMT	CET	CST
04:00am	07:00am	12:00pm	01:00pm	08:00pm