LoL: TSM suffer shocking loss to Clutch Gaming in LCS Worlds Qualifier Riot GamesClutch Gaming have handed a stunning loss Team SoloMid in the LCS 2019 Regional Finals, qualifying for their first League of Legends World Championship. After going down 0-2 to one of North America\u2019s most recognizable League teams in Team Solomid, Clutch Gaming won three in a row to make it to Worlds. It will be the organization\u2019s first appearance at the end-of-season tournament, set to be held in Europe in October. Off the back of a late-season resurgence, Clutch Gaming stormed home through the Regional Qualifier Gauntlet to face off against TSM for the final spot at Worlds. The experienced roster was expected to qualify for their eighth Worlds after missing out in 2018, but the rising stars rose up to the occasion. Veterans Sun \u2018Cody Sun\u2019 Li-Yu and Heo \u2018Huni\u2019 Seung-hoon shone for the Dignitas-affiliated team throughout the postseason. Read more: Damonte explains why TSM \u201cf*cked up\u201d – In the final series on their run to Worlds, Cody Sun\u2019s Ezreal and Kog\u2019Maw proved to be a nuisance for TSM, drawing multiple bans. This freed up the map to allow Huni to shine on some signature picks like Gnar and Irelia, with jungler Nam \u2018Lira\u2019 Tae-yoo helping keep the pressure up across the map. The LCS tweeted out the final moments of the five-game series, saying \u201cThey\u2019ve done it! @ClutchGaming reverse sweep @TSM and qualify for the 2019 World Championship!\u201d THEY’VE DONE IT! @ClutchGaming REVERSE SWEEP @TSM AND QUALIFY FOR THE 2019 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! #CGWIN #LCS #Worlds2019 pic.twitter.com\/zGHvcM0cm7 \u2014 LCS (@LCSOfficial) September 9, 2019 Mid laner Tanner \u2018Damonte\u2019 Damonte was left speechless after the upset in an on-stage interview with Ovilee May. Read more: First look at Nike LoL jerseys – \u201cHoly shit. This is surreal. I feel like this split there\u2019s been so much shit that us as a team has had to go through, so much shit I\u2019ve had to go through, and this feels crazy,\u201d he said. Damonte was able to match star mid laner S\u00f8ren \u2018Bjersen\u2019 Bjerg, negating his influence across the final three games. Clutch played 27 games across both the LCS Summer 2019 Playoffs and the Regional Finals to make the run to Worlds. After finishing the Spring Split in ninth, the team changed the way they approached the game, allowing for a miracle run like Cloud 9\u2019s last year. For TSM though, the loss is the end of a bitterly disappointing 2019 season. They lost to Team Liquid in the Spring Playoffs in a reverse sweep and missed out on MSI, while they didn\u2019t make it past the quarters in Summer. Clutch will join Team Liquid and Cloud 9 as North America\u2019s hopefuls at the tournament. North America have never won a world championship, but Cloud 9 got to the semi-finals in 2018, while Team Liquid lost to Europe\u2019s G2 Esports in the final of this year\u2019s Mid-Season Invitational. You can keep up with who has qualified for Worlds via our League Worlds 2019 hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LoL: TSM suffer shocking loss to Clutch Gaming in LCS Worlds Qualifier Riot GamesClutch Gaming have handed a stunning loss Team SoloMid in the LCS 2019 Regional Finals, qualifying for their first League of Legends World Championship. After going down 0-2 to one of North America\u2019s most recognizable League teams in Team Solomid, Clutch Gaming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}