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It isnt a hyperbolic statement when I say the playoff matches coming up this weekend make up the greatest semifinals in the history of the North American League Championship Series, and maybe LCS as a whole. The three former champions of the league are in the top four, and the lone non-winner, Immortals, has been the rookie sensation of 2016, winning the regular-season crown last split and only dropping two matches to Team SoloMid in second place this split.On Saturday, Cloud9 vs. Immortals. The old gods versus the new. The battle of an organization attempting to establish itself as the elite of North America against a club in Immortals that resembles C9 in its early days, when it ran roughshod over the league. It will either be the fifth time C9 graces the finals stage, or the first time the finals is decked out in the green and black colors of Immortals.Sunday, its the El Clásico. The grandaddy of all rivalries in North American esports. The back-to-back defending, reigning and undisputed champion of the NA LCS, Counter Logic Gaming will put its belt on the line against the team it prevailed against twice in a row in the finals to win the league. Team SoloMid comes into the series as the frontrunner in the playoffs as the first-place seed with an organization best record of 17-1. Unless the two end up playing each other at Worlds, this will be the final meeting of the year between the rivals, with the winner of the semifinal automatically qualifying for the world championships.Four teams looking to rewrite their legacies. Two explosive days of action. Only one place they want to end up: the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Aug. 28 for the NA LCS championship finals.What does a win this weekend mean for each team?Cloud9It means Cloud9 is great once again. C9 has been in a transition period for the past year while former captain Hai Hai Lam has tried to gracefully maneuver into the management side of esports, and this split could finally be the end of the rebuild. The team is working well in its new democratic-style of shotcalling with all five players having a hand in making crucial in-game decisions. The return of William Meteos Hartman has been seamless along with the addition of starting top laner Jung Impact Eon-yeong. A finals appearance, which would be C9s first since spring of last year when it lost to TSM, would be a signal of the Hai era officially closing in favor of Cloud9s next chapter.ImmortalsIt legitimizes all the good things Immortals has done this year. Immortals won the regular season in dominating fashion last split, yet failed to make the finals following a 3-0 drumming by TSM in the semifinals. As the only team in the final four to not have a league championship, making the finals would prove that Immortals arent just a regular-season team that cant win the big one in the playoffs. Cloud9 is a tough opponent, but like last season, Immortals come into the series as favorites in a new meta it hasnt officially played in before. Another loss in the semifinals would make us wonder if the team cant adapt in playoffs, and if Immortals have become the new Team Liquid that cant find its way to the finals.Counter Logic GamingIf CLG can complete the three-peat, it would be the greatest feat in the history of the North American LCS. TSM won the first NA LCS championship, but then the emergence of C9 halted its progress. C9 would take the next two titles versus TSM in the finals before TSM roared back to beat C9 in the next two finals. When TSM went for its very own three-peat in New York City last year at Madison Square Garden, CLG were able to sweep them and win its first title. Now, CLG, working on its own three-peat, is on the verge of putting together championship runs in New York City, Las Vegas and Toronto if it can get through the next two matches as victors. It hasnt been the best regular season for CLG; however, no one will remember that if it can win a third straight title.Team SoloMidEverything. The team with the most to lose this weekend is TSM. A win against CLG and the past year of futility against its rivals is wiped away. Worlds is guaranteed, the constant losses to CLG in the playoffs are a thing of the past, TSM is once again the crown jewel of North America as Counter Logic returns to being the understudy. A loss, on the other hand, and it would be a third straight playoff loss to CLG, and if Immortals beat Cloud9, it would mean TSM would have to win a do-or-die match in the gauntlet to make the World Championships.Victory equals glory, validation and cleansing.Defeat represents despair and anguish, and confirms CLG is the superior team when it matters the most. Steve DeBerg Jersey . By having more great seasons. Manning was the only unanimous choice for the 2013 Associated Press NFL All-Pro team Friday. John Henry Johnson Jersey . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. http://www.custompatriotsjersey.com/custom-steve-spurrier-jersey-large-1731f.html . The Celtics closed out their first preseason under Stevens on Wednesday night with a 101-97 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, who rested a lot of their lineup including former Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Gene Washington Jersey . 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Their last and only ODI series win in England was way back in 1974 in their first tour there. Since then, they have lost eight series and have drawn one.22 Balls taken by Jos Buttler to reach his 50, the fastest by any England player. He bettered Paul Collingwoods effort of 24 balls, against New Zealand in Napier in 2007-08. Incidentally, Eoin Morgan also reached fifty in 24 balls in this match.46.2 Overs in which England reached 400, the joint-fastest by any team. South Africa also reached the mark in 46.2 overs against Australia in Johannesburg in 2005-06.13.41 The run rate during the unbroken 161-run partnership between Buttler and Morgan, the highest in any century partnership for England. Among 150-plus partnerships, this is the third-quickest by any pair.248 Runs added by Hales and Joe Root for the second wicket, which is the highest partnership for any wicket against Pakistan. They went past the 238-run stand between Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers at the Wanderers in 2012-13. This was Englands third-highest partnership for any wicket in ODIs.6 England batsmen whoo have made five consecutive scores of 50 or more in ODIs.dddddddddddd Root became the sixth to do so, having made scores of 65, 93, 61, 89, 85 in his last five innings. Geoff Boycott, Graham Gooch, Alec Stewart, Jonathan Trott and Hales are the other five England players to do so. Click here for batsmen with most consecutive 50-plus scores.59.23 Average of Englands top-three in ODIs this year - their highest in any calendar year. The only other time their top-three combined averaged more than 50 was in 2012. Their strike rate of 99.06 this year is also the highest for them in any year. Also Root and Hales are the top-two run-getters in ODIs this year.7 Instances of a team having two partnerships of 150 or more in the same ODI innings. This was the first such innings for England and six of the seven occurrences have been since 2013.1 Instance of a bowler conceding more runs in an ODI than the 110 by Wahab Riaz in this ODI. Mick Lewis went for 113 runs in the Wanderers ODI of 2005-06, when 400 totals were made for the first time. Wahab is the first Pakistan bowler to concede over 100 runs in an ODI.59 Boundaries hit by England in their innings - joint-most in an ODI innings - 43 fours and 16 sixes. Sri Lanka also hit 59 - 56 fours and three sixes - when they made 443. Englands 16 sixes was also their most in an ODI.0 Fifty-plus scores by a No. 11 in ODIs before Mohammad Amir made 58 in this match. The previous highest by a No. 11 was 43 by Shoaib Akhtar which was also against England, in Cape Town in 2003 World Cup. ' ' '