Jonard “Demonkite” Caranto’s savage in RSG Philippines' triumph over TNC Pro Team and a gutsy backdoor play from ECHO to sweep Bren Esports highlighted an eventful opening day of the MPL Philippines Season 10 Week 6 at the ICITE Auditorium on Friday, Sept. 16.
With the series on the line in Game 3, Demonkite showed nerves of steel and delivered his first career savage during a huge team fight for the 17-minute Lord. The RSG star jungler secured the Lord during that clash before the defending champions went on for the punish against TNC.
As TNC’s heroes HP falling low after the initial engage from Eman “Emann” Sangco’s Claude and Arvin “Aqua” Calderon’s Valentina, Demonkite put on the finishing touches with his Karina to score a five-man wipe that capped off RSG PH’s reverse sweep.
RSG PH hiked its record to 6-3 with 17 points across the board just behind league-leading Blacklist International in the standings.
Meanwhile in the second game, needing a victory in Game 2 to score a sweep against a well-fed Bren Esports heroes, the trio of Karl “Karltzy” Nepomuceno, Tristan “Yawi” Cabrera and Benedict “BennyQT” Gonzales went for a desperate no minion three-man backdoor play to closeout the series.
The three took advantage of Bren players focusing on taking the 24-minute Luminous Lord with Sanford “Sanford” Vinuya and Alston “Sanji” Pabico also keeping them busy. The three then went on for the base lock securing the 15-17 come-from-behind series clinching win.
ECHO moved up to a 7-2 record in the standings while dropping Bren to a 5-5 record.