OK, the new week has begun, and in the past week, except for the Vietnamese VCS division, all other divisions have entered the playoff stage, so in this issue of the global event report, we will focus on sorting out the current playoff situation in the major divisions, and also give those who want to understand the outer divisions to see what the upcoming MSI opponents are.
LCS North America
The playoffs in the North American division began last Thursday, and the LCS spring playoffs use the upper and lower halves, the winner's group and the loser's group, and the fifth and sixth places in the regular season will automatically enter the loser's group, and then the top four will determine who falls into the loser's group and who advances to the winner's final through two BO5 matchups, so from the entire schedule, if a winner's team wants to win the spring championship, win 3 BO5s.
Last week, FLY swept it 3-0 against the 100T into the loser's bracket, and then C9 won 3-1 against CLG, so that C9 and FLY will meet in the winners' final, the two teams have the same record in the regular season, but the win-loss relationship was finally completed by the playoffs, and although C9 won the playoffs, BO5 is not easy to say. In terms of the loser group, 100T fought with GG for five games after falling into the loser group, and finally failed, GG successfully advanced to the next round, and CLG, which also fell into the loser group, was even worse, directly swept out by EG 3-0, so ah, the regular season cannot be the same as the playoffs, especially the LCS regular season is still BO1 format.
This week, LCS will have a winner's final and a loser's knockout match, who will advance first to the final to secure MSI, and who will advance to the loser final to compete for the final spot?
LEC Europe
The LEC division will officially complete the spring regular season finale this week, and the finale game will start at 0:00 Beijing time on the 28th, but now the only suspense of the LEC spring regular season is the last playoff spot, because compared to the previous week, 9 out of 10 teams have confirmed their playoff tickets, and MAD, XL and TH will compete for the last ticket. The most surprising thing last week should be FNC, which was still in ninth place the week before, but last Wednesday won all games, a wave of four consecutive wins directly jumped to fifth in the league and got a playoff ticket, which is obviously an improvement over this year's winter season; And the disappointing should be VIT, the ranking from the previous tie first, dropped to the current tie second, in the game against BDS, VIT once expanded the economic lead to 10,000 through the rhythm of Bo, but Perkz inexplicably installed a second on the opposite face when taking the big dragon buff on the opposite side, Bo wanted to change the opposite AD can't succeed, can only watch BDS push off the base.
This year for the European division, another MSI qualification will be revealed in the spring competition, so everyone is still looking forward to it.
LCK Korea Division
The LCK Division officially started its playoff journey last week, and although LCK has been rated by many as strong this season after the spring regular season, the quality of the four BO5s in the past week is quite average. First of all, KT in the game against LSB, in fact, it is easy to win, LSB is relatively weak among these playoff teams, the follow-up HLE vs DK match, almost everyone is optimistic about DK before the game, but ShowMaker's performance in several games is really not good, and the fourth game is a lineup similar to the first game, without a special advantage in the case of line power, in the middle and late stages in the face of the barrel strong open and Yasso's sudden face, the final loss is regrettable.
The follow-up T1 and KT news agency battle is called a ups and downs, the two sides you go back and forth to the end, and finally in the tiebreaker, T1 stunned with a strong lineup in the middle of the game reversed the situation, the subsequent two sides attacked and defended various conversions for nearly 54 minutes, and finally decided the winner in the second ancient dragon, ending with a narrow victory in T1, this battle between GEN and HLE is a one-sided hard power crush, if not for Gao Dongbin's third game to send a human intelligence game, it is estimated that GEN ended 3-0 earlier.
In this way, this week there will be HLE and KT matchup, then T1 and GEN will also have a winner's group final to play, which is also more than half a year later, the two teams meet again in BO5, the last time was the summer final, GEN beat T1 3-0 to win the title, this battle will also determine who will advance to the final first to guarantee the MSI mid-season, and the loser will compete with the winner of HLE and KT for the final spot.
LPL Division
The LPL division also officially completed the end of the regular season yesterday, it is interesting that the LPL did not finalize the playoff match pick until the last day of the game, and in the ticket attribution of the playoffs, in addition to the several places that have been determined the previous week, there were also some very dramatic games last week, such as last week's opening screen lightning strike RNG overturned and lost to NIP, directly pushing himself to the edge of the cliff, fortunately, after the subsequent WBG defeated WE, Xiaohu pocketed the bottom for his old club, Dragged them back from the cliff and eventually won the game against RA, determining the playoffs. The follow-up game between TES and OMG can be called a win-win, because the points of the two sides at that time are similar, as long as they can win a small game, each can enter the playoffs, and as a result, this BO3 is also full, TES while getting a playoff ticket, but also lost to OMG, directly came a wave of five-game losing streak slip tackle, fortunately, TES made personnel adjustments in the finale game against FPX, and Wayward, who had been away for a long time, put on the battle, helping TES end a five-game losing streak, Let them be a little more decent and end their regular season.
Elsewhere, JDG and EDG played steadily, ending their games last week 2-0, leaving LNG in third place because of the win-loss relationship with EDG, and JDG and EDG won the playoffs. Although WE lost to WBG, they still took the opportunity in the last game against NIP, and defeated their opponent 1-2 and got the last ticket to the playoffs, and iG also missed the playoffs because of points. In the final finale of the regular season, WBG almost overturned, but eventually completed the 1-2 and locked themselves in the regular season ranking in fourth place, so that they would play one less round of BO5 in the playoffs, and at this point, the LPL spring playoff match table was also released.
Other divisions
At present, in addition to Vietnam VCS, other wild card divisions have entered the playoff stage, PCS Division is currently TB and CHF eliminated, Vietnam Division GAM is still winning and locking the playoffs in advance, Brazil Division FX was eliminated, LJL six playoff teams were determined, V3 ended its regular season journey with a total defeat, Latin America Division is currently in the middle of the playoffs, AK and Sharks ISG are eliminated, 6K and R7 enter the winners' group finals.
That's it for this week's global event report, and then as we enter April, MSI teams from all major regions will also be released, because there are two places in the four major regions of this year's mid-season competition, and G2 has become the first team in the world to qualify for MSI after winning the winter championship, so we are also looking forward to which teams will get MSI tickets next.