Yesterday, the 2017 League of Legends World Championship began with its Play-in stage. Involving 24 teams, this first phase aim to determine which teams deserve to reach the Group phase where best teams from the World already have their seats.
First week-end results
For those first two days, we can already underline that 4 teams access to the Play-in Knock-out stage since groups A and B played their whole games.
On September 23rd, Team WE showed its strength by taking the First place of group A, before Lyon Gaming in 2nd place.
Today, without a real surprise, Cloud 9 gets its qualification, followed by Team oNe Esports (2W-3L) which strongly fought against a combative Dire Wolves team (1W-4L).
During the next two days, 6 teams will battle for the last 4 seats in Play-offs. Since nothing is done, as Gambit shown yesterday, the biggest question concerns the european team Fnatic, fighting tomorrow.
Let's wait and see.
Knock-out stage
As a reminder, 1st and 2nd place in this 4 groups give a ticket for a Knock-out stage.
Those 8 teams will be randomly paired to determine 4 matches where every winners will access to the 2017 League of Legends World Championship group phase and continue their quest for the Summoner's Cup.
Let's summarize this with an infography from Riot Games :
Have fun with next matches, and let's wait September 29th to know which teams will have a chance to win this 2017 World Championship.
Sources
Groups picture and infography : LoL official website;
Gif : PePiiNeRO from Giants Gaming.