MidwayAfter a crushing Game 1 loss, FPS Lounge pivoted to Bebop in Games 2 and 3, with Erebus delivering an MVP-worthy performance to secure a 2-1 victory in the Deadlock Night Shift NA #34 finals.
FPS Lounge are on the board.
FPS Lounge broke through for their first Night Shift title under the new banner on Wednesday night, coming back from a map down to reverse sweep Floormen 2-1 in the #34 finals. They looked dead in the water after Game 1, then flipped the entire series with one key adjustment: putting Erebus on 
Bebop.
Game 1 belonged to Floormen. They controlled the pace from the start and turned the opener into a one-sided 34-minute win. League was nearly untouchable on 
Mirage, finishing 6/0/26, while Dimov put up a huge 12/1/20 line on 
Shiv. FPS Lounge never really got comfortable, and Erebus had a rough time on 
Drifter, ending 3/7/7 as Floormen cruised to a 44-15 kill lead.
Then came the switch. FPS Lounge moved Erebus onto Bebop for Game 2, and the whole series changed. Erebus delivered immediately, going 9/2/18 in a dominant Game 2 performance that earned him MVP honors from the Night Shift broadcast team. FPS Lounge ran over Floormen 36-13 in under 29 minutes, with hydration helping tie it all together on 
Dynamo and LOMEIN breaking out on 
Mina at 10/2/11.
FPS Lounge stayed with the formula in Game 3, and it paid off again even though ZP on stream openly questioned if two straight maps of Bebop would backfire. Erebus was not quite as explosive statistically, but the Bebop hook kept working snagging around 10 different heroes. He finished 6/4/17, constantly creating openings, while LOMEIN took over on Shiv with a 7/2/16 line. rocaine also gave the team a huge backbone with 79,334 healing on 
Lady Geist as FPS Lounge closed out the decider with another lopsided kill score, 34-17, in just under 29 minutes.
That is the big takeaway from this finals: the Bebop pivot may have restarted its spot in the NA Meta. Erebus looked bottled up in Game 1, then became the defining player in the last two maps. It was the kind of adjustment that wins a finals.
And if you needed a reminder of how tight North America is right now, Snakes summed it up well after the match with this quote to the Night Shift crew:
“It’s a coin flip right now between the top 3, Melee Creeps, Floorman and us (FPS Lounge).”Based on how this one played out, that feels about right.