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Renegades, but suffered defeat, and they then announced IWillDominate was retiring and Smoothie was benched. Their replacements were Dardoch and Matt. Dardoch was a very hyped up jungler and Matt was a fairly unknown player who was known for being a Thresh and Bard player, and made challenger playing on the NA server in Hawaii with high ping. After a rough start, Team Liquid were able to bring it back to a fourth-place finish with Piglet touted as the best player in North America with Huni and Reignover by fans. Team Liquid won 3β0 against NRG and many pro-players were impressed by their dominant scrims and said they could win the split. However, Team Liquid lost 3β2 to CLG, which ended with a very close game 5, decided by Darshan and Huhi double-teleporting onto the same minion, tricking Piglet into thinking it was one person. They then lost to Immortals.
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