With regard to our loss against Epik Gaming I would just like to say:
I laned against Dyrus and didn't lose the lane! ^_^
We were never more than 5 CS from each other at any point during laning. Sometimes he would be up, sometimes I would be up, just as the lane fluctuated, but I never fell behind in farm. (neither did he of course).
And then when DanDinh came for that gank at 6 I survived it like a champ. I flung Dan into tower range to force him off of me and potioned myself in advance of the gank to be hard to put damage onto.
And then after the initial rush of the gank didn't work I survived a jarvan ult and exhaust on top of it. So I took 2 big ults and an exhaust and survived. I was singed mind you, but I still survived a coordinated gank from EG =P
Obviously there were things we all can work on, but I feel good about my performance against players at that level.
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Eff_Dee