LCS EU Playoffs: H2K v Origen LIVE BLOG

The playoffs for the League of Legends Spring Split are happening all weekend long, as teams face off in a battle for Championship points and eventually a place the World Championships in September.

EU and NA Playoffs Preview

H2K v Origen
Stream: Riot Games

Today we’re starting with the EU region, and the semifinal match between 2nd seed H2K, and 4th seeded Origen.  I’ll be on live blogging duties all weekend for the playoffs, so do keep me company while we watch some League of Legends for literally days on end.  Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter with any comments and observations about the matches!

 

LIVE BLOG (refreshes automatically)

Joe Michallat April 9, 20163:06 pm
Hello, and welcome to the EU Semi-Finals! Today we see H2K face Origen for a place in the LCS Spring split finals.

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The playoff picture (Riot Games)

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Here is how the Championship points are awarded.

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OG are only on the blue side for Game 1 and Game 5.

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PREMATCH INTERVIEW – Amazing

“Regular season doesn’t matter” – It’s all about the playoffs for Origen.

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Game 1 – Pick and Bans

Game 1 pick and bans done – this is how the teams look going into Game One! Can H2K reach their first EU LCS Final EVER?

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Game 1 – Keystone Masteries

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5MIN

Standard early game so far. Here is your 5 minute update as OG take Rift Herald.

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6MIN

The flash, the ult, the kill! Ryu goes down and it’s first blood for Origen and Amazing!

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7MIN

When that action was going down mid, H2k pushed Origens top lane very hard. Taking the inhib tower down very very low.

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11MIN

Nothing to separate the two sides just yet.

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13MIN

Amazing and Soaz catch Odoamme overextending in the top lane

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14MIN

The first big fight and Origen show their team fighting prowess! A huge lockdown by POE starts off a clean demolishing of H2K. 5-0 on kills and H2K down around 2,000 gold right now.

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17MIN
H2K grab dragon. Origen take down Vander.

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19MIN

PowerofEvil and Odoamne are 1v1’ing in the top lane, both teams come over to help out…but Origen react much much faster! They take down the Ekko.

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21MIN
Here is your 20-minute update. Look at the amount of pink wards around Baron by Origen! They’ll definitely be targeting that objective some time soon.

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27MIN

27 minutes in, and nothing has happened since I updated you about 6 minutes ago. Origen need to start baiting Baron more and force a team fight.

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30MIN

Origen do finally bait baron like I said…and it didn’t work! You didn’t have to listen to me, there is a reason why I’m Gold…H2K kill off Soaz and PowerOfEvil, the game stalls out longer.

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34MIN

A huge fight in the midlane! POE gets burst down super quick by H2K, but Amazing grabs the first blood in the fight! Amazing pushes on down mid lane chasing two H2K members – but a teleport in by Ryu changes the tide of the fight! The chase down power of Kassadin sees Ryu clean up and grab 2 kills. 4-2 for H2K in that fight. They then push on to grab Baron.

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37MIN

A really good first game here in the LCS. H2K are now back in this game and will be looking to push with their Baron buff.

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42MIN

The Barons about to come up, so here comes the Baron dance…surely whoever wins the next team fight will win the game?

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47MIN

Double teleport advantage for OG. Each team keep on posturing around Baron but nobody is pulling the trigger. Nervy game.

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50MIN

Ryu catches out Mithy. Soaz pushes top lane, minions push bottom. H2K then push Baron and Amazing steals it! H2K clean up there in an amazing team fight – Forgiven with a quadra kill! 4-3 in H2K’s favour and they can now push inhibs.

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51MIN

The aftermath as Forigven gets a quadra kill.

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54MIN
OG are the first team to reach 100K gold. They are grouping and pushing mid now…

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54MIN – H2K WIN

Oh no…it all goes so wrong for Origen. They push down mid game and are picked off one by one. H2K push on to win. What an amazing Game One.

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Game 1 – H2K WIN

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Game 1 – That fight

This was the fight that changed the course of the game. Huge mistake by Zven for getting so close. Also bad positioning by him on the last fight – went for a tower hit but got caught out.

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Game 2 – Pick and Bans

Game 2 pick and bans to come shortly! PowerOfEvil will stay in as Origen’s mid laner. xPeke will not come in despite the loss.

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Game 2 – Pick and Bans

Here we go, the bans are in. I’ll update you on the picks.

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Game 2 – Picks and Bans

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Game 2 – Keystone masteries

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6min

A fairly boring 6 minutes – players now start to make their first recalls of the game to grab items.

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8MIN

H2K plan a 5 man tower dive on 3 members of OG in the top lane…but OG out play it! Zven grabs first blood and the teams trade 2 for 2. Amazing makes his way over after the fight has defused and grabs himself a kill – Soaz grabs himself bot turret. 1,500 gold advantage for OG.

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12MIN

A fairly even trade. Amazing kills Vander in the top lane, but they waste quite a lot of resources for it. H2K take their bottom turret in the process.

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13MIN
Origen gets the first Dragon of the game.

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14MIN

H2K go for another tower dive….

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14MIN

But OG pick them off yet again! It’s all so sloppy by H2K, their decision making has been so poor when tower diving.

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17MIN

This is how the gold looks after that failed tower dive earlier.

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20MIN
Jankos steals the Dragon for H2K! Their 1st Dragon of the game.

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22MIN

Origen dive H2K under their own turret after Soaz catches Jankos. The team fight works out for them, they take it 3-0 and then take Baron. Great synergy and decision making by Origen. H2K are too scattered in these fights.

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26MIN

Origen didn’t make huge use of their Baron buff. They pick up their 2nd Dragon of the game now and return to pushing side lanes.

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29MIN

Here’s an update at nearly 30mins. Baron up in 15, Origen go to start it straight away but H2K pressure them off it. A fight to come very soon around Baron.

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32MIN

Origen keep on starting Baron and H2K keep stopping them. Soaz manages to block some members of H2K off – and the rest of the team bursts down Baron. Amazing gets the smite and OG are able to clean up afterwards.

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34MIN – ORIGEN WIN

A scrappy fight bot sees PowerOfEvil dropped, Vander goes down for H2K. The rest of H2K is low and Soaz collapses round – he twisted advances onto Ryu and picks up the kill – Zven then picks of Jankos. Origen push in to win. 1-1 in the series.

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H2K 1 – 1 ORIGEN

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Game 2 – Origen win.

Zven, who made some mistakes in Game One, was unbelievable that game.

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Game 2 – Origen win


Amazing, who was deemed to be a weaker jungler compared to Jankos, has stepped up in this Series too. He performed well in Game One on Kindred, and replicated that performance in Game 2.

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Game 3 – Pick and Bans

And we’re into Game 3! Pick and Bans on their way.

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Game 3 – Picks and Bans

Here we go then. Origen going for a late scaling composition, but in the early game they’re really weak. They’ve got little to no wave clear. H2K need to punish this.

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2MIN – KEYSTONE MASTERIES

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3MIN
PowerOfEvil blows flash in mid lane to avoid a gank.

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3MIN

PowerOfEvil blows flash in mid lane to avoid a gank.
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7MIN

500g lead for H2K in the early game. They’ll have to make moves soon to punish this weak early game composition of OG.

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8MIN

H2K secure first blood onto Mithy due to Ryu’s beautiful Lissandra ult.

Ryu has opening up a strong CS lead in mid lane too.

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10MIN
Odoamne takes down Soaz. H2K up nearly 2K on gold, 2-0 on kills.

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12MIN

Ryu is dominating PowerOfEvil in this mid lane on CS. He now pushes in on OG’s second tier mid turret.

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16MIN

H2K now 3-0 on tower kills, opening up a 5k gold lead. This will be a slow methodical game. H2K take Dragon to extend the gold lead even more.

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20MIN

H2K suffocating Origen here. It’ll be a long drawn out process until they can take down the baron – maybe in like 5 minutes.

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21MIN

PowerOfEvil steps too far up from his bottom turret and is taken out by Jankos and Ryu. H2K destroy the 2nd tier tower and the inhib tower. They’ve backed off and will certainly target that open inhib.

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24MIN

Origen try and get H2K off their turret by engaging with Mithy’s Alistar. It doesn’t work though and, although none of them die, Origen lose their turret – H2K take it and then go take their 2nd Dragon of the game.

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27MIN

H2K get the baron and are now 12K gold ahead. A perfect game from the 2nd place seed.

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30MIN – H2K WIN

H2K push in top lane with their baron buff to win. The champion select let OG down – like I said before the game started, Origens comp is weak early game, H2K knew this and punished them. They are now one win away from the Finals.

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H2K 2 – 1 ORIGEN (BO5)

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xPeke subbed in for Game 4 (PowerOfEvil subbed out)

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Delay here is due to xPeke warming up…will be with pick and bans shortly.

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Game 4 – Pick and Bans

Here we go! Pick and bans underway. H2K need one more win to get into the EU LCS finals for the first time ever.

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Game 4 – Pick and Bans

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2MIN

Lane swaps in progress, both teams push the bottom/top towers. Slight tempo lead for H2K.

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4MIN

Ryu and Jankos stun xPeke in the mid lane and secure first blood.

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7MIN

Both teams push town top/bot towers. They both get the 2nd tier turrets – H2K manage to push the minion wave to the inhib tower to deny Soaz farm.

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8MIN
Mithy, Amazing and Zven catch out an overextending Forgiven – lack of concentration there.

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13MIN

A quick update on stats as Origen take Rift Herald.

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15MIN

Origen take the first Dragon of the game.

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19MIN

Nothing to report just yet. The game is slow and methodical. Teams joint on gold as OG secure the Rift Herald.

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21MIN
An amazing flash cocoon catches xPeke – Ryu secures the kill. Them two combining again.

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24MIN
Zven takes down Jankos as the team groups mid. OG waste so much resources though and aren’t able to pick up anything else.

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28MIN

H2K and Origen still even going into the 30-minute mark – still awake?

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29MIN

H2K take Dragon.
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32MIN

H2K and OG are just mirroring each other in mid lane. Each team threatens to fight, but then just pulls back.

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34MIN

HERE WE GO! Amazing catches out Jankos in his jungle with a body slam, Smithy throws out his Braum ult and….nothing happens. Yeah nothing. Jankos probably lost a bit of health that’s about it.

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37MIN

A fight! I promise, there was! OG get 2 kills and push on to get Baron. They then push mid and get themselves 2 towers.

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37MIN
Origen also got themselves an inhib on the baron push.

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41MIN

Zven having a great game, just like he did in Game 2. He’s currently 3/0/1.

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43MiN

H2K’s inhib respawns. Baron up in 1:20.

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44MIN

OG take the inhib with ease.
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44MIN

We have a pause. xPeke having keyboard problems.

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Even Ryu’s falling asleep during this pause

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45MIN

Never mind, Ryu is awake! Amazing gets melted and H2K manages to clean up. 3 kills for the LeBlanc, huge!

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46MIN

H2K live to fight another day. Can they hold Origen off and get the win?

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50MIN

A well fought team fight by Origen sees them ace H2K! Origen push on to win. We’re going to a game 5, get Silver Scrapes ready!

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Game 5 – xPeke has been SUBBED out for PowerOfEvil

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GAME 5 ON THE WAY

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Game 5 – Pick and Bans

We’re back. The FINAL game of today’s EU LCS Semi-Final. Who will move on to the final? Full picks and bans coming very soon.

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Game 5 – Picks and Bans

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0MIN

Here we go – the winner takes it all. Will it be OG making it back to back finals? Or will H2K make their first ever final? Lets find out.

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5MIN

First 5 minutes of Game 5. Standard lane swaps, H2K take Rift Herald.

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8MIN

Amazing steals blue from Jankos and Ryu. Thats quite a big move as it means Ryu can’t spam abilities on PowerOfEvil, who has no summoners.

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12MIN

Mithy goes down to Ryu for first blood – but Origen respond by taking mid. Origen end up coming out on top in that trade.

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14MIN

H2K secure the first Dragon of the game.

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18MIN

OG and H2K have a little scuffle mid lane then just walk away from each other.

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20MIN UPDATE

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21MIN

OG grab their first Dragon. H2K collapse on sOAZ top lane and secure the kill. H2K behind on gold by about 2K and POE has a good CS lead in the midl ane too over Ryu.

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23MIN

Mithy blocks all projectiles and chains, he does go down, but it leaves carries like PowerOfEvil and Zven to reak havoc in that fight! OG still have 4 up so go and secure Baron too. OG have a hand on that ticket to Rotterdam.

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26MIN

OG destroy the middle inhibitor. The gates are open.

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28MIN

H2K try hard to defend this turret. Ryu manages to put good damage on to Zven (as seen below), but OG end up taking the turret anyway. Far too strong right now.

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30MIN

Baron up in 15 seconds – the end could be near if Origen bait H2K out to it.

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32MIN

Jankos caught out by OG as he walks too close to a brush. They then grab Baron. They’ll look to use the Baron buff to push in and win here.

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34MIN

OG take the inhib and catch Ryu off at the side. They then push in top lane and grab top lane inhib. They try to end but H2K force them back, they recall and will be back ASAP.

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37MIN

OG take bottom inhibitor and recall. All inhibitors are now down for H2K.

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39MIN – ORIGEN WIN AND ARE THROUGH TO THE FINALS

H2K try a heroic last stand, but it’s not enough – Origen are through to the EU LCS Finals!

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Here’s how the EU Spring Playoffs look now. H2K still have a 3rd place game to play – so not all is lost for H2K.

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You can catch the BO5 between G2 ESPORTS and FNATIC tomorrow at twitch.tv/riotgames and here at esportssource.