Evil Geniuses’ dominant run in the direction of a locked-in top-three end at VCT Masters Tokyo has been the speak of the match. The group that wanted MIBR’s upset win over 100 Thieves simply to make it to the Americas playoffs has gone 8-0 in maps played in Tokyo, together with three decisive wins on Fracture by six rounds or extra.
Following their newest and most lopsided win on Fracture, a 13-2 beatdown of EMEA’s primary seed Workforce Liquid, EG coach Christine “potter” Chi spoke about why the map has turn into a favourite of theirs.
“Fracture is a map that actually completely suits into our playstyle,” she mentioned through the post-Liquid match press convention. “It’s a really reactionary map, and it’s a map that’s nothing like all of the opposite maps within the pool. We’ve actually dissected it and discovered how one can use the Sova; we have now a really sturdy sport plan.”
“And since it’s actually reactionary map it helps elevate gamers like Jawgemo, who from the beginning was a really aggressive participant. For me, it was my job to determine how one can spotlight and elevate a participant like Jawgemo, and Fracture works out very well for that.”
In all three victories at Masters Tokyo, EG have been working with Jawgemo on Raze, arguably the very best agent you’d need your aggressive playmaker on. Given the design of Fracture and the way straightforward it’s for attacking sides to pinch the defenders on both website, Raze’s grenades and Boombot abilities are extra generally used to punish defenders trapped on website.
EG has completely crafted website executes and pinches for each websites on Fracture, utilizing the ultimates offered by Breach, Sova, and Killjoy to ship the defenders into the ready crosshairs of the opposite attackers, or into defender spawn, which permits EG to take the location.
Total, EG is locked in on Fracture, now sitting at 8-2 on the yr on essentially the most distinctive map within the pool. Their solely defeats had been a 9-13 opening week VCT Americas loss to Cloud9 previous to the tide-turning roster change of bringing on Demon1 and a playoff loss to LOUD they’ve now avenged on a global stage. Moreover, all eight wins on Fracture have been by a spherical margin of six or extra.
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