League of Legends S11 World Championship EDG defeated DK to reach the top of the championship

Reporter | Peng Xin Edit |

On the evening of November 6, the two top teams in China and South Korea, Edward Gaming (edg) and Damwon kia gaming (dk), competed in the League of Legends s11 annual finals at the Hot Springs Valley Sports Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, and after a fierce battle, edg defeated dk to win 3-2 and lifted the final championship trophy.

The final format is bo5, and the team that wins the first 3 sets is the champion. In the first set, the edg highland regiment destroyed the opponent first, and then the dk won two consecutive sets to hold the championship point. In the crucial fourth inning, Edg took the advantage in the team battle for the Dragon, chasing back and forth to kill, tie the score 2:2 and pull the final to the fifth inning.

In the fifth set, the edg team played well, withstood the pressure and kept the pressure on the dhk in the endgame, and finally pushed down the opposing crystal, and the team in the lpl division regained the glory of the division after winning the 2019 Paris championship in France.

In this championship battle, the dk team as the S10 world champion played against the LPL division representative edg, who reached the final four for the first time in the history of the team and set a final record. The point is whether DK can achieve the second defending championship record in history, or whether LPL can fight for glory.

Previously, as the DK team that won the spring and summer championships of the LCK Division consecutively, they did not lose in the group and quarterfinals of the world championship, and the super strength of its star middle runner Showmaker and the leadership of the triple crown coach kkoma made them all the way to be considered by many competition reviews and anchors to be the favorite to win the championship.

And edg, who has stepped on the world stage again after four years, the road to the finals is bumpy, not only did they fall into the loser group once in the LPL summer playoffs, but finally relied on the double-defeat format to reach the top of the division again. Edg, who advanced to the quarter-finals of the World Series by finishing second in the group, also played quite a stalemate in the divisional battle with Rng, and did not win until the fifth set. Similarly, they did not show dominance against gen in the final four, and only rushed to catch up after their opponents reached the match point first, playing five full sets to complete the reversal.

But it turns out that Edg won this S11 championship deservedly.

Under the epidemic, the holding of this year's S11 is also quite tortuous, this year's competition was originally scheduled to be held in China, but due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the venue of the competition was eventually transferred to Iceland in Europe. At the same time, for public health reasons, s11 did not arrange spectators to watch the game. Another impact of the epidemic is that the Vietnamese team did not qualify for the global competition, and its main competition place was replaced by the third place in the European division who originally participated in the qualifiers.

This year's S11 LPL division has four teams participating in the EDG, FPX, RNG and LNG. In terms of format, as last year, s11 is divided into finals, group stages, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final stages, and the fourth seeds LNG and HLE of the two divisions of China LPL and South Korea LCK division have to compete with 8 teams in other divisions for the final 4 group stage qualifications, and finally LNG qualified.

The 10 teams in the final stage are divided into two groups, the first single round robin bo1 competition in the group, the two groups with the highest number of points directly advance, the third and fourth ranked teams in the group play bo5 competition, and the winner and the second place in the other group are competed to determine the qualification for the last two group stages.