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eSports Weekly 08/08/16
NA LCS Recap and Standings
The regular season of the NA LCS has finished and the playoffs begin next week. Until then, the Challenger Promotion Tournament was underway with 8th place Phoenix1, 9th place NRG Esports, and 10th place Echo Fox fighting for their place in the NA LCS against Team Liquid Academy and Cloud9 Challenger. Echo Fox was able to beat Team Liquid Academy 3-2 before being swept against Phoenix1 3-0. NRG Esports lost against Cloud9 Challenger was was able to qualify for the league. With this turn of events, NRG Esports played against Echo Fox for the last remaining spot. Echo Fox swept NRG Esports 3-0 and secured their place in the NA LCS.
Playoffs Preview
The Quarterfinals begin with Cloud9 vs Team Envy and Counter Logic Gaming vs Team Liquid. Because TSM and Immortals are the first and second seed they both go straight to the Semifinals. TSM awaits the lowest remaining seed while Immortals play the highest remaining seed.
EU LCS Recap and Standings
Like the NA LCS, the EU LCS has the playoffs next week. This week was the EU LCS Promotion Tournament. The bottom three teams, ROCCAT, Schalke 04, and Origen, fought for their LCS spots against the winners of the Challenger Tournament, Misfits and Millennium. In the Promotion tournament, ROCCAT was able to beat Millennium and Schalke 04 to keep their spot. Origen beat Misfits 3-2 to keep their spot. In the final match, Schalke 04 fell to Misfits 1-3 to lose their spot next split.
Playoffs Preview
The Playoffs features Giants vs Unicorns of Love and H2K vs Fnatic in the Quarterfinals. G2 Esports awaits the lowest advancing seed while Splyce plays against the highest advancing seed in the Semifinals.
LCK Recap and Standings
Week 11 Results:
Day 1:
- Samsung Galaxy vs Afreeca Freecs (2-1)
Day 2:
- ESC Ever vs CJ ENTUS (1-2)
Day 3:
- SKTelecom T1 vs Jin Air Green Wings (2-1)
- MVP vs ROX Tigers (0-2)
Day 4:
- KT Rolster vs CJ ENTUS (2-0)
Day 5:
- Afreeca Freecs vs ROX Tigers (2-1)
- SKTelecom T1 vs Longzhu Gaming (0-2)
Day 6:
- Jin Air Green Wings vs ESC Ever (2-1)
- KT Rolster vs Samsung Galaxy (2-0)
In the last week of the regular season, SKT fell to Longzhu which made them tie in second with KT Rolster. Nevertheless, KT Rolster is still the lower seed for the playoffs because of head-to-head results. Significantly, KT Rolster beat Samsung Galaxy 2-0 in the last match of the season which help legitimize their top three finish.
| Final Standings
1. ROX Tigers (15W-3L) 2. KT Rolster (13W-5L) 2. SKTelecom T1 (13W-5L) 4. Samsung Galaxy (12W-6L) 5. Afreeca Freecs (8W-10L) 6. Jin Air Green Wings (7W-11L) 6. MVP (7W-11L) 6. Longzhu Gaming (7W-11L) 9. ESC Ever (5W-13L) 10. CJ ENTUS (3W-15L) |
Playoffs Preview
The LCK Playoffs are organized in a gauntlet format where the fourth and fifth seeds play a best-of-three where the winner plays the third seed. This continues until the winner against the second seed play against the first seed. The playoffs begin with Samsung Galaxy vs Afreeca Freecs where the winner plays against KT Rolster. The winner of that match will play SKT for the chance to meet ROX Tigers in the Finals.
Here are the results of week 10:
Day 1:
- LGD Gaming vs Royal Never Give Up (1-2)
- OMG vs Vici Gaming (1-2)
Day 2:
- Saint Gaming vs Snake Esports (1-2)
- Invictus Gaming vs Edward Gaming (0-2)
Day 3:
- Vici Gaming vs Team World Elite (2-0)
- OMG vs LGD Gaming (0-2)
- I MAY vs Royal Never Give Up (0-2)
Day 4:
- Saint Gaming vs Game Talents (1-2)
- Snake Esports vs Edward Gaming (0-2)
- Invictus Gaming vs NewBee (2-1)
Group A
| 1. Edward Gaming (16W-0L)
2. Snake Esports (10W-6L) 3. Game Talents (7W-9L) 4. Invictus Gaming (5W-11L) 4. NewBee (5W-11L) 6. Saint Gaming (1W-15L) |
Group B
| 1. Royal Never Give Up (13W-3L)
2. Team World Elite (10W-6L) 3. Vici Gaming (9W-7L) 3. I MAY (9W-7L) 5. LGD Gaming (7W-9L) 6. OMG (4W-12L) |
Bang Insane QSS Play
Insane base Defense Penta Kill by Easyhoon
S04 vs MSF Licked by a Cat Fish
S04 vs MSF - Licked by a Cat Fish EU Spring Promotion
EU Promotion Soaz Escape
SKT T1 Teamfights are so Impressive
KFO is an Animal
StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2
The StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2 is a tournament organized by SLTV that involves a NA, EU, and CN qualifier. With the prize pool of $300,000, the main tournament takes place from September 7-11.
These are the current participants:
- Astralis
- Fnatic
- G2 Esports
- Team Liquid
- Natus Vincere
- Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Virtus.pro
- TyLoo (China #1-2)
- Vg.CyberZen (China #1-2)
- MVP Project (China #3)
The rest of the participants will be decided through qualifiers which are happening right now. Three can qualify from Europe and two can qualify from North America.
Stewie2k Insane 4K
Stewie2k Insane 4K
The sixth annual tournament The International has officially begun. The International 2016 is the biggest tournament of the year and is hosted in the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. With an enormous $20,117,274 prize pool, teams are have finished the group stage and are currently in the main event.
Group Stage
The Group Stage involves sixteen teams divided into two groups of eight teams each. Each match is a best-of-two with a win giving two points, a tie giving one point, and a loss giving no points. The top four teams in each group advance to the upper bracket and the bottom four teams advance to the lower bracket of the Main Event.
Here are the results:
Main Event
The main event involves the sixteen teams in a double-elimination bracket. Here's what it looks like so far:
EG - Alliance Group Stage Game 1 Ending
EG - Alliance Group Stage Game 1 Ending | DING DING
MooMeander Gem Steal Versus Alliance
MooMeander Gem steal versus Alliance | TI6
w33 e-blades a creep
9k Invoker Combo
9k invoker combo
Jerax Races Nono
Jerax races Nono
Dubu the 17% Bash Lord
Dubu the 17% Bash Lord
Meepo Ultrakill by XctN.Abed
Meepo Ultrakill by XctN.Abed @ The International 2016
Overwatch
Team EnVyUs Wins BTS Overwatch Cup
Organized by Beyond The Summit, the BTS Overwatch Cup had a prize pool of $10,000 and ran from July 9 to August 7. Each week, two teams qualified for the Playoffs which were in a double elimination format.
Here's how the tournament went down:
Team EnVyUs is incredibly dominant as they swept every single opponent in the tournament. To put this into perspective, Team Liquid swept TSM. CLoud9 swept Team Liquid. Team EnVyUs swept Cloud9 twice which would imply that they are several levels higher than even their closest competition.
The Overwatch Open
ELEAGUE and FACEIT partnered together to organize the biggest Overwatch tournament in history. Taking place at Turner Studios' ELEAGUE arena in Atlanta, competitors will be playing for a massive $300,000 USD prize pool. Notably, the Grand Finals will also be broadcast live on TBS.
The tournament starts with a European and North American phase, until the playoffs which will occur from August 26-28.
The third qualifiers have ended with Fnatic qualifiying for NA. TSM, Team Liquid, and NRG Esports got 2nd-4th. For EU, REUNITED qualified with their first place finish with Luminosity getting second.
iddqd creates so much chaos as Tracer
EISSFELDT making 5 kills with Pulse Bomb
2:55 | One of the fastest attacks
Beatiful McCree Rampage by Splyce Clockwork
Lucky Shuriken from whaz to Gods
How to Deadeye in Overwatch by Gods
Highlights EnVyUs vs Team Liquid
Highlights Cloud9 vs TSM
Liquipedia Bracket Images used under CC-BY-SA
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James Hwang
My first MMOs included Ragnarok Online, Gunbound, Diablo II, and World of Warcraft. Nowadays, my wife (also a writer on MMOs) and I play League of Legends and any other MMOs we can get our hands on. I also love following eSports and attending eSports events.