Apex Legends Esports: What Went Down In The ALGS Split 1 Playoffs

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The ALGS Split 1 Playoffs are over and the dust is still settling. The online regional tournaments arguably created more questions than they answered: will anyone beat Riddle at LAN? What happened to former ALGS Champions SCARZ EU? Is TSM back back?

As well as the questions, however, we did have some answers. TSM has clearly made things click in a post-Snip3down era, LANs can’t come soon enough, and Apex Legends esports broadcasts just keep getting better.

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If you want a rundown of the results, head to Liquipedia (the winners were Singularity, DreamFire, Riddle, NEW, and TSM if you really need to know). We’re here for some hardcore analysis and trying to work out exactly what it all means; what team compositions performed best, where the meta is shifting, and how effective the broadcast changes were. We’ll start with the Legends themselves.

Loba and Crypto were the biggest winners of Playoffs, seeing plenty of use in NA and EMEA respectively. Multiple NA teams have taken to combining Loba and Valkyrie; after the latter’s rise to power in Apex esports, rotating early and looting up for free using Loba’s Ultimate proved a fruitful strategy. While Caustic saw an increase in usage across the regions, this particular partnership was most often combined with Gibraltar for safe resets. If the rumoured Gibby nerf happens in Season 12, however, Loba/Valkyrie/Caustic compositions could be perfect for getting free rotations and securing a good position for the endgame of each round.

In what seemed like a flashback to ALGS Season 1, the EMEA Playoffs were filled with the sound of a dozen Crypto drones - just like my Twitter feed. Perfect for gathering