Poppers Pupils wins the largest prize pool thus far in DLNS NA #50

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With the largest prize pool up for grabs, Melee Creeps seemed to forget what was at stake, leading to an anti-climatic night for the milestone DLNS #50.

Poppers Pupils was in the hot seat this week, as they made quick work of Pulsar Esports to have a rematch against the new and rising Melee Creeps. Deadlock Night Shift also had their largest prize pool for their weekly tournaments, ending at a crowd funded $6,767.67 USD across both EU and NA.

Game 1: God forgives, Poppers Pupils does not.

Hidden King: Poppers Pupils, Archmother: Melee Creeps

Bans: Bebop, Billy, Ivy, Viscous

Poppers Pupils had a stunning game, outclassing almost the entire Melee Creeps 's roster despite their strong showing last week. AVG turned this game into his playground on Calico (6-2), prowling around and taking picks every moment he could. He racked up 45.2k player damage alone, which was 15k more than the second highest player in this lobby, who was oses on Pocket (8-4). ZP said it best while commenting the game, stating it felt like oses was trying to carry a losing game in matchmaking. Unfortunately, the rest of MLC couldn't find their footing this match. PP out macro'd, out farmed, out damaged, and simply outplayed MLC leading to a blowout with no chance of turning around.

Game 2: Poppers Pupils carries the momentum

Hidden King: Melee Creeps, Archmother: Poppers Pupils

Bans: The Doorman, Billy, Viscous, Yamato

While Melee Creeps managed to fight back a little bit this game, even securing themselves Mid Boss at one point, it was no where near enough for the behemoth that was Poppers Pupils tonight. Zeno took the reigns as Holliday (9-4) with League's McGinnis (10-2) this game, shutting down MLC once again. While AVG had a rocky start, he ended it off well on Lady Geist (7-8), catching up in farm to the most farmed JonJon on Venator (5-7) and surpassing him. Uncharacteristically, Saiah had a poor game on Infernus (2-11) meanwhile oses had a phenomenal game on Mina (7-4).

Much like the first game in this series, MLC fell behind and couldn't find an edge, albeit a bit more slowly this time. Ultimately, MLC couldn't hold a torch to PP this week as they played out of their minds, and won a deserving piece of the $6,767.67 USD prize pool.

GGs to both teams, hopefully MLC can pull themselves together next week and figure their draft out to put up more of a fight. A huge congratulations to PP for playing out of their mind and not only gaining bragging rights, but some nice cash as well!

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