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Manila Bulletin devider Sports devider Team Secret yields to SBTC Esports, drops to lower bracket

Team Secret yields to SBTC Esports, drops to lower bracket

Published Oct 1, 2021 09:00 pm
Photo from Team Secret Facebook page

By REYNALD MAGALLON

SBTC Esports fended off a possible reverse sweep from Team Secret to take a thrilling 3-2 victory and claim a spot in the upper bracket Finals of Wild Rift SEA Championship 2021 playoffs on Friday, October 1.

The Vietnamese set up a date with Buriram United Esports while they dropped the Philippine side to a best-of-three lower bracket match against Taiwan’s One Team

TS put up a gallant fight against the Vietnamese champions but SBTC displayed its poise by making the clutch plays all series long.

After absorbing two close game losses to start the series, TS rallied back in Games 2 and 3 to tie and force a winner take all.

Team Secret was even the one leading for the most part of Game 5 but a messy clash in the midlane allowed Tông “Kiral” Thái Dân’s Kai’sa to hunt down the Filipinos one-by-one and score the first pentakill of the playoffs.

Kiral finished with an impressive nine kills, three assists against a single death to power the Vietnamese to the Game 5 comeback.

That had been the case for Team Secret all series long as it also surrendered Game 1 after losing in the final clash.

TS, who were down by as much as 13k gold in Game 1, also came up short in their comeback bid as a perfect initiation from Hồ “Akeno” Trung Hậu’s Malphite caught the Filipinos off guard in the last clash. SBTC took down three champions on TS side to take the first point of the series with a 21-19 score

SBTC then took Game 2 in almost the same fashion as Game 1.

Just when the momentum had shifted towards Team Secret after Eleazar "Azar'' Salles' Fiora scored a quadrakill in a clash for the Baron, SBTC responded with a four-man wipe on the next clash.

SBTC sealed Game 2 on a 20-2 score with Akeno’s Thresh finishing with 1-4-18 KDA while Kiral contributing a 10-2-9 stat line

Team Secret refused to go down without a fight as Heri "Tatsurii" Garcia rallied the Filipinos to a 17-7 win in Game 3. Tatsurii on his Oriana made sure that there will be no more game-changing initiations for SBTC as he led the way with a 6-0-10 KDA.

Riding the Game 3 win, Tatsurii’s Diana joined hands with Caster "Chewy" Dela Cruz’s Varus to give Team Secret a dominating 24-10 victory in Game 4. The two finished with a 8-1-13 and a 6-3-16 KDAs respectively to help the Filipinos force a deciding Game 5.

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