Preseason Invitational Champions TSM

On the final day of the Apex Legends Preseason Invitational, Team Solomid (TSM) come out on top as the 2019 Champions in Krakow, Poland.

Preseason Invitational Champions TSM

On the last day of the Apex Legends Preseason Invitational, the losers bracket concluded in the morning and action picked up midway in the day. There were ten teams left fighting for a historic championship title in Krakow, Poland. The ten teams were

NAVI
G2 Esports
PENTA
Team 789
Rogue
Wyvern
Sentinels
TSM
SoAR Gaming
GamersOrigin

Each of these teams were on match point, meaning they were all very close to each other. They had a 50 points threshold after 10 matches. 50% of all teams have a chance of winning the championship. They have to win the next match to be declared the Preseasonal Invitational champion. The player with the most kills in the finals is given then Apex Predator Award worth $8,000 USD. After 9 matches in the finals, 9impulse from NAVI is the player with the most kills (21), but he is closely followed by ImperialHal from TSM. Selly from Wyvern and clawz from Navi all have 20 kills.

One of the best players in the tournament was Dizzy, who has been carrying his team to the finals. If NRG Dizzy was able to bring his team to the finals and win the championship, he would have godly status in the world of Apex Legends.

Final Match in the Preseasonal Invitational

After a 10 game series, Navi, G2, and PENTA have gone 5 straight games with match point not able to close it out. TSM had four straight games on match point. In the end, it was anyone’s game. the biggest surprise on the leaderboards was MVP and Virtus.pro, two very good teams missing out in the final 10 spots with 49 and 47 points in the end.

As match 11 started, all tams were being careful in choosing their landing spots, making sure that they would be able to loot an area as much as they could to get the upper hand. It took a while for some action to happen, and teams started to dropped fairly quickly after the first circle closed in. Throughout the entire match, TSM was the most consistent team, sticking together and using their abilities efficiently all around.

Towards the end of the game, three teams were left; MVP, GamersOrigina and TSM. If MVP won, they would push everything to a match 12. Here’s the final outcome:

TSM wasn’t the first team to push in after the circle started closing. MVP pushed aggressive early on but it cost them as they were eliminated, and TSM moved in to take GamersOrigin out for the championship win.

TSM became the first Apex Legends pro team to win back to back titles in its inaugural esports season. Congratulations to TSM for winning Preseason Invitational and a huge thank you to all the teams the particiapated. If there is anything that viewers learned from this tournament, it’s that Apex Legends esports is here to stay.