SLE Play-offs Round 1 GCG vs RUN

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SLE Playoffs Round 1 - GCG vs RUN

    Here we go, SLE playoffs are here and kick off with 3 hype matchups in the Top Bracket first round and the Bottom bracket play-in stage. The way this works is very simple – If you drop a series in the Top bracket, you drop down to play in the bottom bracket. If you lose a series in the bottom bracket, you are eliminated. All division 1 teams start in the Top bracket, while division 2 regular split champions Runtime is rewarded with starting in the Top bracket as well. D2 second place, Negative Mental Energy starts the tournament in the bottom bracket round 1 while CCG and Jalapeons will duel to decide who will get in the bottom bracket round 1. Let's take a look at matchups!

Good Chi Gaming vs Runtime 05.04. 21:00 CET

    SLE veterans vs SLE newcomers, D1 contenders vs the best of D2, talent vs preparation, in hype Top bracket first-round play Good Chi Gaming are facing Runtime, both teams have a lot to prove. Good Chi Gaming is debuting in the SLE playoffs, with no prior experience they will look forward to proving that they are in a different class and their finals dreams are justified. Meanwhile, SLE veterans Runtime have proven that they are force to be reckoned with, time after time being underrated and coming in strong.

 Recently there have been talks about d2 strength compering to d1 and possibility of uniting the league, this series will give us a look to see if the strongest d2 team is competitive with 3rd strongest d1 team. Runtime will have pressure on them to not only represent themselves but also d2 as a whole. That being said I believe that Good Chi Gaming is a bad matchup for Runtime as it might be tough to build leads vs strong Good Chi Gaming laners which is Runtime's weak spot.

Matchup of the series: Savage(Good Chi Gaming, ADC) vs Diasobo(Runtime, ADC) – both teams bring strong adcs to the table, Division 1 kills leader Savage will match up against Runtime new and confident recruit Diasobo. Diasobo promised to „bot gap” not only Savage, but also the rest of SLE, lets see if he will walk the walk in playoffs.

Good Chi Gaming

Strengths: GCG has grown into a very disciplined team that has strong laning combined with excellent setups for team fights and plays from jungle and support, lol gog and loco64 respectively. Good Chi Gaming plays at its best when placed in a classic game style where it can use its fundamentals, vision, and synergy to set up clean fights, transition leads, and close-out games. Very Korean style of play.

Weaknesses: Draft. Good Chi Gaming can get into big brain LS mode and start overthinking drafts with fringe picks and unpracticed strategies that can backfire. Playing vs GCG you can find yourselves getting picks you did not expect to get and seeing them pick very off-meta bad champions.

Runtime

Strengths: Set plays and closing out games with a lead. Runtime plays coordinated gameplay and has plans of plays that they are about to do no matter what. They might be predictable, but having 5 players that move and do the same plan together is a strength. After getting a lead Runtime knows how to close out games as they have shown many times in D2.

Weaknesses: Playing from behind. The runtime can set up plays and push leads when they are ahead but struggle to do the same when they are behind. Taking an early game focused champs to nutralize Runtime early plays might be the way to secure wins against them.