Flawless performance by EDG and more during the first day of knockout stage at Worlds 2018
Four days later of Play-In Stage, the Worlds 2018 returns with Knockout Stage, while the winner will advance to the Group stage from the main event.
The four winners of each group, including G2 Esports, EDward Gaming, Cloud9, and G-Rex were seeded against the four second-place teams of SuperMassive Gaming, Gambit Esports, DetonatioN FocusMe, and Infinity eSports.
Teams that were in the same group were ineligible to face each other in the next stage. So G2 Esports couldn’t fast off against SuperMassive once again, for example.
Knockout Stage Draw:
Saturday Oct. 6
- EDward Gaming vs. DetonatioN FocusMe
- Cloud9 vs. Gambit Esports
Sunday Oct. 7
- G-Rex vs. SuperMassive Gaming
- G2 Esports vs. Infinity eSports
The first day of Knockout Stage:
Cloud9 vs. Gambit Esports
After defeating Gambit Esports in a grueling five-game series at the end of the 2018 League of Legends World Championship play-in stage, Cloud9 have advanced to Groups Stage of the main event.
If you’re a North American fan or just a C9 fan, you should be happy that your team qualified for the main event. But if you’re like us, this series did absolutely nothing to convince you that they can compete with the best teams in the world. Aside from Cloud9’s second win of the series, each game against Gambit was atrocious, and they certainly have a lot to work on. C9 aren’t the only team to blame here, either. In every game of the series, one team or the other flopped during the draft, or picked a solid comp just to completely fail to realize its strengths in-game. For now, Cloud9 defeated Gambit Esports with 3-2 to advance to the Group Stage from the main event.
EDward Gaming vs. DetonatioN FocusMe
China’s Edward Gaming became the second team at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship to advance to the main event today by dismantling DetonatioN FocusMe in the play-in stage finals.
After watching the absolutely-gruesome game between Cloud9 and Gambit Esports earlier today in which neither team played well, seeing EDG step up to prove that they belong in groups was a breath of fresh air. Gambit and C9 struggled to win games against one another, stretching their series to all five games. But EDG ended this series against DFM in three short and bloody games. They moved around the map with proactivity and finesse, and they navigated big, clustered fights with ease. DFM were one of the most competent teams of the play-in stage, and EDG tossed them aside with ease.
The clear top-five at the tournament of RNG, Invictus, Afreeca, Gen.G, and kt Rolster may not be too impressed just yet, but some of the less-noteworthy teams like Team Liquid, 100 Thieves, Vitality, Fnatic, and the Flash Wolves could definitely be given a run for their money. In fact, after this dominating display, we’d wager that EDG are already better than most of those teams.
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