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Team Dignitas swept Counter Logic Gaming on Saturday during Week 7, Day 2 of the North American League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split in Los Angeles.
Team Dignitas (5-8, 14-18 match record) top laner Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho has been the victim of ganks during the laning phase throughout the Spring Split, a trend that reared its ugly head once again against Counter Logic Gaming (6-7, 14-18) in Game 1. Ssumday's Nautilus was ganked twice early, dying each time to Counter Logic Gaming jungler Jake "Xmithie" Puchero's Graves. However, Dignitas' middle and bottom lanes were ahead enough to cover the top lane deficit. In the first major teamfight of the contest, Team Dignitas slaughtered Counter Logic Gaming and picked up an ace. That gave Dignitas the ability to control the pace the rest of Game 1, freely rotating around the map, pushing CLG off objectives and winning teamfights. CLG had poor vision control throughout the match and finished with those two kills of Ssumday as its only kills of the game.
Counter Logic Gaming focused on vision control in Game 2, which allowed it to make smart calls and successfully secure objectives early, including the first Dragon. However Team Dignitas' teamfighting dominance reemerged around the 18-minute mark when it aced Counter Logic Gaming and only gave up one death.
With Team Dignitas now sitting on a lead, CLG appeared to make a somewhat desperate Baron call near the 21-minute mark to turn the tides. That play predictably backfired as Team Dignitas contested the buff, adding a kill and a turret to its lead. Counter Logic Gaming focused on split pushing afterwards with top laner Darshan "Darshan" Upahyaha's Fiora pressuring bottom lane while the rest of the team tried to control vision around Baron. Darshan was able to knock down the bottom lane's inhibitor, but Team Dignitas cleaned up the rest of his team in a fight around Baron. After trading lane turrets, Team Dignitas overpowered Counter Logic Gaming's defense and sent Ssumday's Nautilus back to base to slow Darshan's split-push. The final base race wasn't even close as Team Dignitas closed out the series sweep.
Team Dignitas will kick off Sunday's action against Echo Fox at 3 p.m. ET while Counter Logic Gaming will start at the same time on the opposite stream in a battle against first-place Cloud9.