The NA Overwatch Contenders playoffs started today. Immortals played FaZe Clan to start things off. Sadly, I was not able to watch this game due to not being able to find a vod for it right away. I'm sure someone will put a vod up but I didn't find one prior to writing this article.
From the sound of it immortals dominated FaZe Clan and took the series 3-0. This moved immortals into the semi-finals vs Kungarna. Thankfully I caught this game live so I will break it down for you briefly.
Semi-Finals
Immortals vs Kungarna
Game 1 - Lijiang Tower
Round one, Control Center, starts off a little slow with both teams running pretty standard dive compositions feeling each other out, trading kill for kill. Both teams gained control of the point and lost it flipping control back and forth. The main turning point of this map was Immortals' player Agilities busting out a 4 kill Gengi Dragon Blade ultimately securing the map win for Immortals.
Round two, Market, is a bloodbath. Immortals' players Grimmreality and Agilities really focused down Kungarna's Babybay, playing Soldier76. It seemed like once he was down and not able to keep Immortals at bay, Kungarna would fall a part. Immortals took the map win here.
Round 3, Garden, Immortals pulled out the pharmacy, Agilities on Pharah and Kariv on Mercy. They are such a good pharmacy combo that put so much pressure on Kungarna it allowed Grimmreality unlimited flanking and back line killing as Tracer. Immortals wins this map point giving them the win for game 1.
Game 2 - Route 66
Immortals start on offence and push the payload pretty aggressively. There wasn't much Kungarna could do to slow them down.
Round two, Kungarna pushed the payload but couldn't break through Immortals defence. Immortals get the full hold not even alowing Kungarna to reach the first point! Dominant!
Game 3 - Hanamura
Round 1 Immortals start out on defence. Kungarna comes out very aggressive and gets first point right away. Immortals steps it up and begins to dominate from multiple angles with huge flanks from Grimm and Agilities while defending second point. With this hard dive defence comp Immortals had highly coordinated focus fire dropping Kungarna players one after another. Preventing Kungarna from capturing 2nd point
Round 2 Immortals captures first point almost completely uncontested. They had a few of their players jump ahead to jump on 2nd point instantly after cap'ing first point. This play was so fast it caught Kungarna by surprise and with 6:41 left on the clock Immortals caps second point to win the map. This was the fastest win on Hanamura I have ever seen!
Immortals win!!
Immortals goes to the Finals against Team Liquid. I will cover the finals in my next article.
Signing off for now
-Dwelling