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North America’s Oldest rivalry dates back to the very beginning of competitive League of Legends. Fueled by an early competitive fire between HotshotGG and Reginald, the two became owners of their very own LoL teams. Ever since, CLG and TSM have had legendary games on the rift, talking trash the entire way. Here’s the 5 Best CLG/TSM Matches in LoL History.

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5. Summer Split 2017, Week 3

In week 3 of the 2017 Summer Split, Dardoch got his only taste of the rivalry. On Graves, he helped CLG pick up first blood and an early lead. However, it didn’t take TSM long to answer back and a 30 minute baron gave them a significant edge. Even though CLG was down 10k gold, they found the perfect engage to give them a chance to end the game.

4. 2016 Spring Split, Week 1

The rivalry took an interesting turn when Doublelift was booted off of CLG and joined Team SoloMid. In the 2016 Spring Split, DL faced his former team for the first time. Dead even at 20 minutes, CLG utilized Kalista’s ultimate to pick up a couple kills. With CLG pushing side lanes, TSM b-lined it right down mid in an attempt to take an inhibitor, but a Darshan teleport turned the tides. Then TSM tried to force baron and Doublelift nearly won them the ensuing teamfight.

3. 2015 Summer Finals, Game 2

Finally in 2015, Counter Logic Gaming made their first appearance in the LCS grand finals. Already with a victory in game one, CLG had a chance to put a stranglehold on the series. CLG had control throughout but the lead accelerated after they secured baron and then wiped TSM. Yet TSM had a chance to win a teamfight after ZionSpartan botched an initiation.

2. 2016 Spring Finals, Game 5

In 2016 Spring, the finals went all the way to game 5 against the two rivals. Darshan was the recipient of several early kills but both teams seemed hesitant to make plays with the title on the line. Eventually TSM came up huge in a 40 minute baron fight, as Bjergsen was able to drop Stixxay. But not long after, even though TSM had elder dragon, CLG somehow come out on top of an intense teamfight.

1.MLG Anaheim 2013

No one could have predicted how this one ended. In a bloody contest, CLG slowly accrued advantages to the point where they led by 10k at 40 minutes. Yet the game dragged on...TSM evened up the kill score and eventually the gold lead became irrelevent. As the game neared sixty minutes, Nien became unstoppable as he took down inhibitors in the face of Dyrus. With all 3 inhibs down, TSM wiped CLG and had their opportunity to end the game.

[TheAssassinscreed]

its funny how most of these close games are Clg winning, bc when tsm won they were stomps.

[horseaphoenix]

You missed TSM's insane comeback in Spring 2015 the pink hair bet.

[acurlol]

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[Dragonpike]

This feels pretty CLG biased, are you trying to make the TSM fanboys mad

[ΓιωργοςΚαραπουλιος]

Salty CLG fan boy. You picked the games that T S M lost. So much hate for the best team in NA.

[jasonterry]

like, 56th comment or so. Pin me Daddy.