Tales of a Bronze Bastard XXX - Fall Split Qualifiers

Game 3 - Qualifying 1 -1

Both of my first two matches were as top ELO.  I hope I can just roleplay somewhere down the chain and take Sylvanus supp.  And nope, I'm top pick again.  This team doesn't talk in the lobby and I have to first-pick Sylvanus.  Not feeling good about it, but let's do this. I spend my second round of bans on hunters after they took a hunter 2nd.  FML. 

I am afraid of this Cerberus countering me hard.  As it turns out, this was misplaced fear.  I own him pretty hard.  I use blink and 1 to surprise them, as I usually do.  People underestimate Sylvanus.  It happens this game multiple times.  I secure no kills, but I rotate early and often and get to a nice 0-5-15 line with 2.0 KDA.  I'll take that any day.  I also drop some sweet CC hits and I'm sure I'm really frustrating the enemy team. 

I play solid, the team plays well, the Bronze Bastard is 2-1 in qualifiers.  Dare I press again?

Game 4 qualifying 2-1

I forgot to queue, then queue up in the last minute.  Sweet!  Wait, I go to suggest Sylv pick and I actually end up locking up him.  WTF? Oops...I queued normal instead of ranked.  Oh well.  We straight roll this team.  They surrender at 10 minutes and 11 seconds, lol.  Onward and upward.

OK, once again I'm top ELO.  I take Achilles for the last pick, who gets my Sylvanus.  Thoth mid, AMC ADC and Thana jungle.  Let's do this. 

Well, the enemy team takes Khumba support and DC's after we connect.  The other team is matching us kill for kill, and I figure they are just pushing early surrender to the breaking point.  Surprisingly, they keep pace with us and do not go for early surrender to save TP.  I build luxuriously, going for Thebes to be really tough in the late game in case stuff gets out of hand.  We end up taking this one down easy. 

Not the most graceful of runs, but the Bronze Bastard is 3-1 in Fall qualifying.  Sweet.