With just a week left the playoff picture is becoming clearer, and it’s also helping a lot with figuring out which teams are the best in the region. The feeling is that the top three is likely locked as we head into finals, but the middle of the rankings are a bit more muddled.

Bombers have made a big move up with their win on the weekend, and despite the big difference between their win/loss compared to the big three they’re beginning to feel more like a gauntlet team. I also almost put Tectonic into the seventh slot and think they are on equal footing with Avant Gaming at the moment. Interesting final match for them both considering their current levels.

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The race for playoffs continues with Legacy and MAMMOTH fighting for their chance after Bombers secured their spot with a victory over MAMMOTH on the weekend.

Each of these teams are on close to equal footing. For this reason Bombers move into 4th and MAMMOTH move into 6th. While Legacy may hold the victory over Bombers in week 8, it is difficult to justify a rise in the rankings following a 2-0 defeat – even if it were to the Chiefs.

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As keen as I am for next week’s Dire Wolves/ORDER showdown as an ORDER fan, you’re kidding yourself if you think all eyes aren’t on the MAMMOTH/Legacy clash.

Legacy need a 2-0 to get to the gauntlet, and MAMMOTH need only to win 1 game in that best of 3. It’s do or die time for these teams and this gauntlet is looking spicier and spicier.

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We’re somewhat returning to some split 1 normalcy here – the top and bottom of my list should look pretty darn familiar. I think the first three are a no-brainer, and I’m pretty convinced on the bottom 2 as well. AV have a real chance to break into the dogfight for the final gauntlet spots, but as we stand right now there’s a slight gap between them and 4-5-6.

And this 4-5-6 split is where all the fun happens. Right now I think that MAMMOTH is the most talented of these teams, but they’re struggling a bit getting it all to fire. They look dominant when they do, but it doesn’t happen often. I also think that sometimes they make things harder on themselves than they need to and it really makes them look worse than they are when things go south. Legacy have had the best results and have looked like making at least some of the improvements they needed to make. Decoy producing a really good Rakan performances out of a string of terrible ones was a huge help, and I thought his Alistar was encouraging as well. Bombers can’t get out of their own way. Sometimes it’s okay to be a predictable team when you can do your Plan A so well. These three teams are super-close together but based on how they’ve been lately, this is how I see them shaking out.

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This week is very simplistic, with no tough decisions. Legacy and Bombers switching places after Legacy won 2-1 while AV continue to push for the 6th place position taking a map off ORDER.

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More shifting for me in the bottom end. Legacy jumping a couple of spots after their match against Bombers.

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Pretty boring top 4, we have 3 clear best teams. MAMMOTH look the next best overall, and I don’t think they should be getting penalised below fourth for getting well handled by the DW.

I agonised over LGC vs BMR as both teams have an identical win and you can make a very strong case that Bombers’ win over TTC was more impressive than Legacy’s. In the end I think that Legacy have looked better in their losses than the Bombers have – but obviously when I’m making this fine a gradation between two squads they’re both on pretty equal footing.

Tectonic and Avant are also still quite close and I don’t blame anyone for putting them in the other order. This race for fifth is going to get super-exciting.

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Top half of the ladder remains stable with no shifts.

The bottom half is another matter. All four teams, are exceptionally close. Starting in 5th, Bombers were able to defeat Tectonic 2-0 and for that reason they are placed at the top of the bunch as the only team to pick up a game.

For the bottom three strength of schedule separates Legacy/Avant from Tectonic. Legacy and Avant being interchangeable, and for me Avant did not quite do enough to place higher despite a close game 2 against The Chiefs.

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Another week, another series win for Dire Wolves. Chiefs pick up what was a much closer 2-0 win over Avant than I had anticipated, playing from behind is becoming a trend for them.

ORDER and MAMMOTH keep the same spots in my rankings they did last week, but the bottom four have changed yet again.

Bombers picking up a 2-0 over Tectonic edged them a little higher than Legacy this week but for me, 5th & 6th are very close and 7th & 8th are just as close to each other as well. It was amazing to finally see Value play, and boy did he not disappoint. I’m excited to see more from him.

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Top of the race is pretty static I think. The only thing I have here to note is that I think that Chiefs and ORDER played two pretty close games, and MAMMOTH and Avant played three games as well. If ORDER had been put away with ease, or if MAMMOTH had handled Avant comfortably then 3 and 4 becomes a big mess. As it is I think it’s close, but clear between MAMMOTH and ORDER, but MAMMOTH are rising with a bullet.

Tectonic fall into the pit of the bottom four with some really baffling stuff from them over the last couple of weeks. Two ugly games from them were matched only by one really smelly game from Legacy which made Tectonic look competitive in game 2.

Speaking of making people look competitive, there are those that might question the order I have the bottom 2 in, and I’m just going to be blunt and say I put absolutely no stock in their win over the Dire Wolves. On rare occasions we’ve seen Shernfire willingly gift a game over to the other team and while you do need to be good enough to catch the throw, the Bombers weren’t good enough to be lifted over Avant from where I was watching. But, as always, this bottom group (four now) is super close together so I’m trying to split them along very fine gradations.

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Tectonic… again being forced to use a substitute, take a one position slip losing to Legacy and are yet to pick up a victory against any team not ORDER or Chiefs and have fallen to the bottom half of the ladder and are still very difficult to accurately rank due to these factors.

Legacy’s rise while a large rise however, is far closer to expectations of the roster whom had fallen to eighth in the previous week having failed to find consistency between matches. Hopefully this marks a turning point in the split and Legacy begin to find their groove coming into the back end.

As for the bottom two while both picking up wins in their respective series, Bombers and Avant slip to the bottom two positions with Legacy’s rise. The shift created by Legacy’s victory is largely in part to how close these three teams have been. Arguments can definitely be made for the ordering of the bottom three with Tectonic starting to slide down the ladder.

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I’m in line with the Community this week (something I thought I would never say just a couple of weeks ago). The Dire Wolves and the Chiefs undoubtedly are the top 2. While the games were close, ORDER failed to pick up a game win against Chiefs.

Legacy prevailing over Tectonic in a 2-0 I didn’t expect, nor was it particularly clean from them but I’m happy to see them up off the bottom of the rankings.

Bombers edge out AV only because they took a game off the Wolves, although even then they looked unbeatable and remain undefeated.

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Fairly straight-forward list this week I think. CHF/ORD is becoming close, as Chiefs have been belted twice in a row, and ORDER continue to rise with a bullet since the Tectonic loss.

MAMMOTH really showed the league something this week, I felt. Chippys put Papryze to the sword and the rest of Tectonic was made to look similarly ordinary. The real squirming takes place at the foot of the ladder. I think these three teams are super-close together which makes splitting them tough.

In the end I think that the Bombers’ win is the most likely to be a fluke among these, so they slot into 8th and of the two remaining teams AV just took the head-to-head, so that’s how they end up. I don’t think there’s any ranking of these three teams where I would definitively say that it was wrong.

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After another week of the OPL and moving forward to the second half of the split, the standings yet remain unstable.

… Outside of the top two. Chiefs and Dire Wolves having played each other this week were only threatening an ordering shift, and after a 2-0 to the Wolf Pack, no shift was necessary.

Moving into the middle of the pack, Tectonic are once again forced to play with a substitute and while they had been able to beat both Chiefs and ORDER 2-0 with such conditions, succumb to MAMMOTH, seeing them fall down to 5th with both ORDER and MAMMOTH shifting one and two positions respectfully.

The bottom of the ladder, is honestly quite a bit of a shock, being forced to move Legacy down into 8th place following a 2-0 defeat to Avant. Unfortunately for Legacy, Avant remain their kryptonite. That being said, I do not think that this ranking truly represents the ceiling of the team and fully expect them to bounce back in the latter half of the split.

And I say this for the vast majority of the teams in the OPL, as I do not believe that teams are yet to perform at their ceilings, and if they have, on a consistent basis. Being a contributing factor in the fluctuations in the Power Rankings that was not seen in Split 1.

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Some shock results this weekend. I honestly believed this would be the weekend we get 12 games of League of Legends, but instead we got the bare minimum in 8. 4 2-0s. Dire Wolves are still looking like they’re not dropping a series anytime soon, while ORDER continue to be on form.

MAMMOTH taking out the dark horses in Tectonic I did expect, once I found out Value was yet again not going to be able to play. The bottom of the standings was a little tougher. Certainly not expecting the 2-0 for Avant (well done lads, out of the slump), and heartbreaking to see Legacy at the bottom of the ladder and the bottom of my rankings.

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DW solidify themselves as first after a great victory over Legacy. Chiefs over Tectonic might look weird given the weekend’s results but one win doesn’t surpass the entirety of the Chiefs’ season. These two are now very close, however.

ORDER edge Legacy for the next spot despite having very similar wins (BMR/MMM and AV/MMM) and a very similar loss (TTC and CHF) due largely to how strong they looked against DW respectively. Otherwise I think these teams have looked pretty equal in strength.

I have MAMMOTH has the 6th best team, and Bombers just behind them but it will be interesting to see how each of these teams approach cross-group play. MAMMOTH need to convert some of these game wins into match wins to keep getting the benefit of the doubt here as they’ve dropped three on the bounce. AV, alas, rounds up the rear. I can’t explain what happened last week, they just laid a massive egg. Hopefully we see them rebound strongly with a couple of weeks to fix things.

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Another week, another upset.

Tectonic is turning the OPL on its head. Surprising many coming out the gate 2-2, with arguably the toughest schedule – and doing so with substitutes. Despite 2-0ing CHF, it is not quite enough for me to put them in second place just yet. Tectonic are definitely proving themselves a threat in the OPL, despite all the substitutions and inconsistency it will be very interesting to see how far Value can push them once he is finally able to make his debut.

Moving further down the ladder, despite being placed in 7th in the OPL Rankings, in my power rankings I have Legacy in 5th, having both taken close wins over MMM and BMR but also due to strength of schedule having faced both CHF and DW. They’re in a close contest with MAMMOTH for 5th place.

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This current top 4 for me is as tight as it gets, with the Wolves having a slight edge over the rest. Tectonic continue to prove to all that the OPL is indeed not ready for Trance, taking down the Chiefs in a surprise 2-0.

ORDER continue to look like the dominant team from Split 1, and the Dire Wolves seem to be back to business as usual. The Bombers with their win over Avant have now made it off the bottom of my rankings for the first time since the preview week.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The Chiefs and Tectonic this week are tied for 2nd.

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The Dire Wolves edge Chiefs by the narrowest of margins. These two are super-tight but the way they dropped game 2 was disappointing and the Wolfpack are ramping up. I believe that Chiefs’ mistakes are easily fixed and I’d back them to do so but that doesn’t factor into a power ranking.

Legacy leap to the top of the still-incredibly-tight congestion that is third to seventh. Trying to make fine gradations among the “let’s just split with each other” pack of ORDER/Avant/Tectonic is tough. In the end I looked to how they did against the Wolves to split them.

Avant and ORDER were both strong, so ORDER gets the nod due to head-to-head. Avant slots in behind them, and Tectonic take seventh. Again, these five places are incredibly close together in my mind.

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The top two spots oscillate between Dire Wolves and Chiefs. This week, Dire Wolves take first because they secured a 2-0, while Chiefs lost a game to clear bottom of the OPL ladder- Bombers (whose own performance has moved them up my power rankings this week).

Fifth through eighth were determined by this week’s match records against the top four as well as strength of play during the matches. Very little splits the teams in the section previously known by EGym as “irrelevant” – fourth to eighth place.

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With Dire Wolves getting a 2-0 this week and Chiefs dropping a game to last-placed Bombers, my top two has shifted.

ORDER have bounced back with a very dominant 2-0 over Avant, who have fallen to 6th. Legacy (apart from game 2) in their series against MAMMOTH look to have returned to form.

I’m keen to see what Tectonic can do next week with Value playing.

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