With the current summer tournaments in the major divisions coming to an end, our attention is gradually shifting to the upcoming global finals in October, although there is still more than a month before the world championship, but there are currently 18 world teams that have been determined.
So let's take a brief look at the 18 teams' journey to the World Championship.
LPL Division
JDG and BLG are basically the kings of the LPL division, but BLG lost in the hands of LNG after being captured by JDG seven, and relying on JDG's victory, BLG was also guaranteed to the world championship with the second seed, LNG was defeated EDG in the winner's group of the bubbling race after the failure to win the championship and successfully got the ticket, and then WBG from the loser group got the fourth seed ticket in EDG again, and EDG became this year's proper ticket seller.
LCK Division
GEN is undoubtedly the absolute powerhouse of this year's LCK Summer Tournament, after advancing to the playoffs in the second place in the regular season, it swept HLE 3-0 to advance to the winner's final, and here they met T1 again, the two sides fought five games and finally lost T1, but T1, who fell into the loser's group, defeated KT in the news agency battle and fought GEN again, only this time, T1 was actually greeted by a final sweep, and finally GEN won the championship, T1 won the runner-up again, and the two sides entered the world championship hand in hand.
In the bubbling match, KT defeated HLE with absolute crushing strength to get the third seed, and HLE was unable to parry DK in the loser group, and finally won the fourth seed spot 1-3.
LCS Division
There are only three places in the North American division this year, and there is no complicated bubble race, which is the top three in the summer competition, so when NRG and C9 met in the winners' final, it was confirmed that these two teams got their tickets to the World Championship, and then TL also emerged from the loser's group to become the third team in North America to go straight to the World Championship.
LEC Division
Unlike North America, the LEC Division has a match called the 2022 Season Finals after the Winter, Spring, and Summer Games, and the teams participating are the champions of the previous races and the top 3 teams in addition to the previous season's championship points.
Recently, the tournament has reached the second round, as both G2 and MAD have reached the winners' finals, so these two teams have also won the World Championship direct spot, and the third place will be selected this week, the two sides are FNC and BDS.
Wild Card Division
At present, five teams have confirmed the world championship quota in the four divisions including LJL, Latin America Division, Vietnam Division and PCS, including PCS Division, PSG advanced to the final after defeating BYG and became the first team in the division to finalize, and BYG, which fell into the loser's group, was chased by the opponent in three consecutive games when it won the match point 2-0 against CFO, and finally the CFO also became the second team of PCS to advance, and the seeded place needs to see the final summer championship.
In terms of other divisions, DFM is still the strongest representative of the LJL division, and this year is no exception to come to the world again, R7 is the representative of the Latin American division, this year's mid-season is also the representative team of their division, GAM as the leader of the Vietnamese division in the past few years, naturally can not be absent, of course, this year the Vietnamese division still has two places, the remaining places will be between TS, SGB and TW.
So the above is some brief introduction to the current 18 teams of the World Championship, there are 22 teams in this year's World Championship, which means that there are still 4 places that have not yet been determined, including:
the third pass-through quota for LECs;
LCS\LEC co-owns a fourth-seeded seat, which needs to be contested by the fourth-seeded in two divisions;
the second team in Vietnam;
Brazil Regional Team;
After the subsequent selection of these places, there will be no details, from the perspective of time, the common fourth seed spot in the two regions of Europe and the United States will be finalized, and the rest will be released in early September.