[S7E1] Spring Awakening ((EXCLUSIVE))
Karen's spring fling concludes with a whole lot of drama. Mia battles more than just a health scare when the ladies make a jarring allegation. A newly liberated Ashley hosts a sexy dance class for the ladies, but the fun comes to an end when Gizelle drops a bombshell allegation.
[S7E1] Spring Awakening
The Darbys might divorce, but Ashley's story doesn't quite add up; Wendy explores a new venture; Mia's murky social media behavior is questionable; Karen hosts a spring fling celebration of life party; some of the ladies are confronted on their lies.
Liquid's spring split started out rocky, with an 0-2 first week and cumulative winrates of 50% or worse after each of the first eight weeks. Eventually, their new roster started to solidify, and they climbed into a fourth-place regular-season finish, behind the newly-formed and almost-undefeated Immortals, CLG, and Cloud9. A lot of their success was attributed to Dardoch's jungling, and he was named Rookie of the Split. Team Liquid's quarterfinal series was an easy 3-0 over NRG, but in the semifinals, they lost a narrow five-game series to CLG (the eventual champions). In the fifth game, Piglet was caught out in mid lane by a double-teleport from both Darshan and Huhi at the same time to the same ward and died. While Liquid were already behind in that game, it was this play that sealed the win for their opponents. In the third-place series against the tournament-favorite Immortals who had been knocked down in an upset by TSM, Liquid lost once again, this time 0-3, to finish the playoffs in fourth place overall and continuing their "fourth-place curse."
Despite Dardoch's stellar spring split performance, on May 27, he was suspended by the team for "behavioral problems and team dynamics issues" ahead of the Summer Split.[9] Liquid Academy jungler Moon was used for the team's first series instead, which they lost, and by the end of the week Dardoch was starting again, where he remained through the end of the Playoffs. Soon after Dardoch's return, fabbbyyy was also traded to the main Team Liquid roster, this time in exchange for Piglet. This roster of Lourlo, Dardoch, FeniX, fabbbyyy, and Matt stabilized, and the team finished in fifth place with a 9-9 series record. In the playoffs, they shook up their roster once again, substituting in Jynthe for their third game against CLG after two losses. Jynthe won his first game, but Team Liquid ultimately lost the series 3-1 and then also lost in the first round of the Regional Finals to Team EnVyUs, this time with both Jynthe at AD carry and former substitute mid laner Arcsecond jungling.
In the midseason, Doublelift returned to TSM. The team then announced that Piglet would swap back to ADC and that Goldenglue would return from bootcamping in Korea to start in mid lane. This meant that the team would start the same five that they had to begin the spring, despite the underwhelming results. However, this lineup would not last long, as after a losing to CLG to open the Summer Split, Goldenglue was subbed out for former Phoenix1 mid laner Slooshi. Liquid lost that series as well, and Goldenglue returned and held the starting position until week 4, in which he was once again subbed out for Slooshi and veteran support KonKwon was subbed in for Matt. The team also began to sub in Inori, acquired from Phoenix1, for Reignover. None of these changes led to any lasting sucess, and Liquid finished the first 7 weeks with a 4-10 record. Before week 8, the team announced that Dardoch, who had left CLG due to conflicts with his teammates, would return to the team he had started with, and that they had also acquired ROX Tigers mid laner Mickey. Despite the high profile acquisitions, Liquid proceeded to lose all four of their final games, sending them to the promotion tournament for the second time in 2017, the worst year in the history of the Liquid organization.
TL dominated the first half of the 2019 spring split with help from strong performances by the bot lane of Doublelift and CoreJJ and lost just one game, against TSM, in the first six weeks. TL struggled in the final three weeks and went 3-3 with losses to Flyquest, Echo Fox and Team SoloMid to finish 14-4. Cloud9 also finished the season with a 14-4 record but lost both regular-season games against Liquid to give TL the regular-season title.
Liquid avenged its loss to Flyquest by sweeping them in the spring playoff semifinals while SoloMid advanced in a close 3-2 series against Cloud9. Team SoloMid picked up where it left off in the regular season and won the first two games of the finals. TL fought back and reverse swept TSM to win its third straight LCS championship and a berth to the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational. 041b061a72