idk what the point of letting Split be the decider was, looking at bans and picks, I don't understand why NRG didn't ban it on the second ban phase?? were they really THAT scared of Lotus/ didn't prep well enough for it?? Even on split, it didn't look like anything anti-SEN or anything crazy different that SEN hasn't seen. It's arguably SEN's best map and they let it be the decider??? I think the match was lost at that moment tbh.
(maybe they assumed SEN was gonna pick it first so they wanted to at least take bind away for sure?)