ALGS Champs Day 2: Falcons On Top Form As Crazy Thieves Comeback Is Too Little, Too Late

Day 2 of the Apex Legends World Sequence 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 package deal 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 effectively, however six matches with an excellent unfold of victors ensured Staff Falcons secured the highest spot of the group stage with a powerful 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 event in time. With no substitute out there, the duo registered simply six factors on the second day of motion. With their third certainly arriving in Sapporo in time for tomorrow’s motion, they’ve acquired numerous work to do to combat by the losers bracket tomorrow. 

Nonetheless, the true juicy tales have been within the last spherical of group stage motion, Group A versus Group D. Supernova went, effectively, 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 most important factors whole of any spherical within the competitors to this point. This noticed Supernova leap an enormous 23 locations to take fifth spot total.

Which Groups Fell?

Nonetheless, the other was true for Alliance, who failed to show up on the second day of competitors. After being positioned so effectively 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 in a position to nick the North Pad drop spot for tomorrow. Alliance will combat from Jurassic, a tough POI that might result in extra hassle. 

Talking of Legacy, the Mexican trio has carried out persistently since being dropped by Staff Liquid late final 12 months. 120 factors have 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 surprise if the Staff Liquid execs are regretting that call now.

Nonetheless, 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 in the present day), Loopy Thieves received back-to-back victories with large kill tallies to finish the day on 101 factors. An aggressive staff comp and the data that this roster needed to pull out all of the stops to succeed in the winners’ bracket led to an unbelievable 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. Nonetheless, some huge names be part of it and Liquid within the backside 20. FaZe, Sentinels, Riddle, and Aurora are all groups to observe 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 last circle.

Mixed with legend bans eradicating many of the sight-obscuring talents from the battlefield, these have been a few of the clearest, most enjoyable last fights of the event to this point. It helped that NiP and CT have been two of the ultimate three within the last spherical, each vying for the final spot within the winners’ bracket. 

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