If Golden Guardians weren’t in your radar as a prime contender throughout the LCS when the 2023 Spring Cut up started, they most actually higher be now.
After handily defeating final 12 months’s Spring champions Evil Geniuses, Golden Guardians have prolonged their unprecedented sweep of the LCS to seven-straight wins. This continues to be the longest win streak within the historical past of the group, and is near tying the eight-game win streak that FlyQuest accrued within the first half of the cut up.
Although Golden Guardians earned themselves an early lead in opposition to EG, overzealous play within the mid recreation allowed their opponents to seize much-needed goals for themselves. But minor hiccups didn’t deter the staff, as final week’s “participant of the week” Stixxay, alongside additional sturdy performances from the remainder of the staff, helmed a dominant late recreation that might enable the streak to outlive.
Throughout his “participant of the week” interview with Emily Rand, Stixxay defined that reaching this level after a number of downfalls felt extremely rewarding, however that that is only the start of what he expects from himself for the rest of this 12 months.
“I don’t need individuals to take a look at Golden Guardians as, ‘oh good, we acquired Golden Guardians in Playoffs, we will beat them,’” Stixxay defined. “I additionally simply need to compete in worldwide competitors once more.”
Golden Guardians notably made only a few modifications to its LCS roster heading into the beginning of the Spring Cut up. Licorice and River returned of their respective roles, Stixxay was introduced again as much as the principle roster, whereas Huhi would joined from 100 Thieves and Gori made his LCS debut. But in only a few weeks, this staff has discovered the synergy wanted to defeat nearly everything of the sphere—together with groups that had been projected to stay on the prime of the standings.
The staff heads into the sixth week of the 2023 LCS Spring Cut up with a 7-4 document, sharing maintain of third place within the standings with the staff they simply defeated, Evil Geniuses. The one remaining groups Golden Guardians need to defeat are the first-place FlyQuest and seventh-place Group Liquid, who they are going to meet within the last weeks of the common season.
