Groups A and B finished playing over the weekend. From an NA perspective it was a pretty soft weekend. Group A didn't have any NA teams, so we only had TSM playing in Group B. TSM did well, about as well as I expected. They came in second in the group, overcoming a soft SK (missing suspended jungler Svenskeren for 3 games) and a soft TPA. They had a chance on the last day to tie SHR and force a tiebreaker for the top spot, but they totally choked against SK.

You definitely got to see the best and worst of TSM this weekend. When Dyrus is playing well the team is really really strong and can compete with B tier international teams. When Dyrus is weak/shutdown early they just don't have enough playmaking from support/jungle/adc to compete at even a B level. We'll see if they can manage one A tier game against SSW in the next round. I hope they have a good showing. Even taking a game off of SSW would be a major accomplishment.