First day of League of Legends Worlds 2018 Play-In Stage results
Few hours ago the first day of Play-In stage started inside the Worlds 2018 tournament to kicked off the world championship, and that means starting the biggest league of legends event of the year.
There are many noteworthy teams in attendance in play-ins, including Cloud9, G2 Esports, Gambit, G-Rex, and EDG, but they’ll all have to grind their way up the play-ins ladder to make it onto groups to prove that they truly belong at this tournament.
Teams standings:
Group A
- EDG: 0-0
- Infinity: 0-0
- Dire Wolves: 0-0
Group B
- SuperMassive: 0-0
- Ascension: 0-0
- G2: 0-0
Group C
- Cloud9: 1-0
- DetonatioN: 1-0
- KaBuM: 0-2
Group D
- G-Rex: 2-0
- Gambit: 0-1
- KLG: 0-1
The First day of Play-In Stage:
Cloud9 vs. KaBuM! e-Sports
Cloud9 made some mistakes with drafting and vision early in the game, but they learned from those missteps and took control over KaBuM by the mid-game. KaBuM made so many misplays that C9 didn’t even need to capitalize on that map pressure to steam ahead and win the game.
Gambit vs. G-Rex
G-Rex missed out on playing with full aggression early on with their hyper-engage team comp, but they brought it together by the late-game to redeem themselves and win the game. Gambit’s comp was all about scaling, with a Gragas, Ornn, and Thresh to peel for Tristana, but they missed out on crucial map control and warding that were necessary to allow themselves to stall the game, and eventually G-Rex’s stranglehold on vision in the jungle completely zoned Gambit away until it was too late.
KaBuM! vs. DetonatioN
KaBuM is off to a pretty horrid start on the first day of the Play-in Stage after dropping another game to DetonatioN. While it was anything but a clean game, as both teams tripped over themselves at almost every turn, but unfortunately, the winner of most of those fights seemed to be determined by sheer dumb luck. Until the end of the game.
G-Rex vs. KLG
The game between G-Rex and KLG started off as the cleanest game of the day, as both teams danced around one another to get their own kills and objectives and practiced decent vision control. Unfortunately, that didn’t last, because after G-Rex landed a massive Yasuo + Gragas ultimate wombo near the top lane, KLG just started tilting. They made mistake after mistake, including poor positioning around Baron, and eventually gave G-Rex their second win of the day.
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