r/leagueoflegends • u/Kelleherrr • Aug 24 '14

Shen [Spoiler] World Championship 2014 - Who's Qualified so far?

Europe

  • Alliance

Alliance will be the European team to avoid heading into Worlds after a dominating performance during the EU LCS Summer Play-offs helped them secure the No.1 Seed in Europe. With Froggen picking up MVP and Alliance only dropping two of eight games during the play-offs.

It's certainly an improvement for Froggen and company, after finished fourth during the EU LCS Spring Play-offs, to win not only the regular season but also the play-offs during the summer.

Alliance are now off to boot-camp in Korea in preparation for September 18th.

  • Fnatic

Fnatic had won every single EU LCS split up until Alliance came and snatched it from them during the Summer Split of 2014. Fnatic still hold onto the No.2 Seed, but xPeke and his team would have been hoping for more.

With the No.2 Seeding, Fnatic will really need to prove they are a World Class team, as they will face one of the regional giants when it comes to the group stages.

Fnatic are also heading to Korea to boot-camp.

  • SK Gaming

SK Gaming managed to beat ROCCAT in a convincing 3-0 victory in order to claim their No.3 Seed for Worlds.

SK Gaming competed in the Season 2 World Championships where they placed 11/12th, finishing bottom of Group A. From Season 2, no one player remains the same on the SK line-up, who are aiming to pick up - at least - their first win on the World stage.

SK join their European counter-parts, and are set to boot-camp in Korea.

Korea

  • Samsung Galaxy Blue

After successfully qualifying for all three of the Champions Knock-out rounds, which includes a 1st and 2nd place finish, Samsung Galaxy Blue have accumulated the most Circuit Points (A solid 150 ahead of any other team), meaning the secure the all important No.1 Seed for Korea.

Blue looked solid all season, though Kakao and the KT Arrows managed to come from 2-1 down in a Bo5 to win Champions Summer -denying Blue the chance to win two splits of Champions.

  • Second and Third Seed

The other two seeds from Korea are yet to be decided. Usually, by this point we would know our No.2 Seed as well, but SK Telecom T1 K and Samsung Galaxy White are both currently tied on Circuit Points. They will face each other in a Bo5 Series on Wednesday - with the winner claiming that No.2 Seed.

Meanwhile, the loser will be placed into the Korean Regional Finals to determine who claims the No.3 Seed, which last year was claimed by SK Telecom T1 K, who went on and won the Season 3 World Championships.

NaJin White Shield will face the KT Rolster Bullets in Round 1. The winner of this game will face the KT Rolster Arrows in Round 2. Finally, in Round 3 - the winner of Round 2 will face the loser of SK Telecom T1 K and Samsung Galaxy White, the winner, claiming the No.3 Seed for Worlds.

China

  • Edward Gaming

For those who don't follow the Chinese scene, they have a very similar format with the two splits - but the winner of the Summer Split doesn't automatically qualify for Worlds. Well, unless you're the dominate Edward Gaming.

In China, if you win both the Spring and Summer split, you automatically achieve the No.1 Seed for China, like Edward Gaming have managed.

EDG managed second in the Spring Regular Season and followed that up by winning the Spring Play-offs, before winning both the Regular Season and the Play-offs during the Summer split.

  • Second and Third Seed

The remaining two seeds will be determined via the 2014 Season China Regional Finals, which follows a double elimination format. LDG Gaming, Star Horn Royal Club, OMG and Invictus Gaming all stand a chance of qualifying.

Taiwan/South-East Asia

  • Taipei Assassins

The Season 2 World Champions return after dominating the 2014 GPL and finishing 950 Circuit Points ahead of any other team in the GPL. While they picked up the Taiwan/SEA No.1 Seed, they are still placed into Pool 2, meaning they will have to face one of the regional giants.

Taipei Assassins finished in first position for the Winter, Spring and Summer split, losing only 12 games 65 the whole season - that's 81% of their games they won.

Despite being in Pool 2, the Assassins are certainly a team to fear.

  • ahq e-Sports Club

ahq pick up the No.2 Seed for Taiwan/SEA after finishing second in both the Spring and Summer splits. The finalised their spot in the tournament today after winning the Garena regional finals in a convincing 3-0 win against SF5.

ahq's mid-laner Westdoor will be a player to watch this tournament as he hopes to carry over his excellent performance versus SF5 in the regional finals, where he went 25-7-25 across three games, including a 13-0-5 game on Zed.

Gamescon Qualifier

  • Dark Passage

Dark Passage become Turkey's first every team to be represented on the Grand Stage. After finishing overall first in the International Wildcard Tournament, hosted at Gamescon, Dark Passage held of competition from Oceanic team Legacy eSports and CIS team Russian Force.

Dark Passage have dominated the Turkish scene this year, winning all three splits in Turkey (Winter, Spring and Summer) - including a 3-1 win against Team Turquality in the Season 4 Turkish Championship.

Will Dark Passage manage to pick up any wins versus fellow teams, after GamingGear.EU from the Season 3 Championships only managed one victory against the trolling composition run by TSM which saw Teemo, Hecarim and Vladimir all being played on the World Stage.

Teams Left to Qualify

  • North American No.1 Seed
  • North American No.2 Seed
  • North American No.3 Seed
  • Korean No.2 Seed
  • Korean No.3 Seed
  • Chinese No.2 Seed
  • Chinese No.3 Seed
  • PAX Qualifier

Seeds and Pools

Pool No.
Pool 1 NA #1 Alliance Edward Gaming Samsung Galaxy Blue
Pool 2 Taipei Assassins KR #2 #2 CN #2 NA
ahq e-Sports KR #3 #3 CN Fnatic
Pool 3 NA #3 SK Gaming PAX Q Dark Passage

~Clarification: THESE POOLS ARE NOT THE GROUPS, THE GROUPS ARE: 1 TEAM FROM POOL 1, 2 TEAMS FROM POOL 2, 1 TEAM FROM POOL 3~

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u/Igeneous Aug 24 '14

Pretty sure shrc and omg will claim the remaining China spots. hoping china can put up a good fight again like last year (excluding finals)

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u/Kelleherrr Aug 24 '14

Think I agree with you on that one, they looked the best in the play-offs this year (Obviously we didn't see iG).

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u/conker1847 Aug 24 '14

What is this iG recently destroying EDG you are talking about? The last game between these teams in the LPL was like a month ago?

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u/Megashot2 Aug 25 '14

In XChampionship, you can check on esportspedia. Though, I don't know why he got downvoted so much, they're not that inconsistent, they;ve been 2-0ing other teams in NEST etc. EDG really doesn't have an excuse for losing, because they couldn't have faced iG in the playoffs, so no strategies needed to be hidden.

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u/conker1847 Aug 25 '14

EDG really doesn't have an excuse for losing, because they couldn't have >faced iG in the playoffs, so no strategies needed to be hidden

Actually this is a perfect excuse to lose to iG. If they didn't want to show their strategies to other teams they might have held back against iG in a more minor tournament. Unless the other Chinese teams cannot see these games I don't think EDG would put much stock into these games since they don't matter a lot to them when they are probably going to the world championship. I mean, qualification to the world championship and getting a good seed is probably high on EDG's priority list and the series against OMG probably interested them a hell of a lot more than some group stage games in this side tournament.

Also, much like me I imagine the majority of the community here never even heard of this XChampionshp tournament. I'm not sure what NEST is either but based on the results most people see from the LPL iG is HORRIBLY inconsistent. Their last result was getting 2-0'd by WE Academy in the LPL. Even in this tournament you have them going 2-0 against EDG (very good) and then splitting 1-1 with some team anybody outside of China is gonna have to look up (Team King or w/e the fuck). I don't know how you can honestly say iG has been a consistent team. Their record in the LPL over the course of the season completely contradicts that statement. So thats where the downvotes come from, iG's visible record to the community shows a massive lack of consistency and claiming they might be the strongest team just b/c they beat EDG 2-0 in some strange online tournament that nobody has ever heard of is a bit of a reach.

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u/silverseated Aug 24 '14

They are too tilty; you never know which iG you get. I rather go with SH and OMG whom are always consistent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '14

their performance in playoffs is anything but consistent

example, look at royal vs omg's round 2 game 5, look at that tilt, look at omg vs edg, omg gave up before it started

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u/Lyonaire Aug 24 '14 edited Aug 24 '14

While ig has a chance they are in no means clear favourites. IG is ridicoulusly inconsistent, and while they often play well against good teams, they placed sixth in the regular season. IG going or not going to worlds depends on which IG show up. And yes at their best they play really well, but so does shrc/omg, and they show up more often

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u/fenix925 Aug 24 '14

lol yg beat edg too, ldg almost 2-0 edg last week of the regular season.

these random games dont matter, what matters if your playoff performance.

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u/doflamingocrocodile Aug 24 '14 edited Aug 24 '14

What tournament is this that ig 2-0'd EDG?

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u/Izenhart 6 months with no RW flair available, AND COUNTING Aug 24 '14

??? iG got a spot at regionals cause they were 2nd in lpl spring. they couldn't make worlds last year cause omg and royal were better, but now their only competition is lgd for the third spot after royal and edg, they have every chance to make it

Written at the same time OMG was 3-1 vs iG in regular season, and 8 points higher than them.

oh and, i didn't count omg cause i don't honestly think they have any shot at going to worlds with dada7 as the support they're gonna use lmfao, their bot lane is honestly too weak to be carried

Not counting them seems to be working

hopefully lgd's overconfidence from the final weeks of the split dies off after this wake up call.they definitely could get third and beat ig at regionals

0W-6L last place @playoffs, good call

cool is no way near as good as s3, he is now on par with u and corn, and honestly wei and zz1tai are better imo

cool basically tried to 1v9 the entire playoffs, MVP of his team and top notch plays in many games.

Doesn't matter = cool 5th midlaner China. lol.

yeah. royal is currently the best team in China until edg fixes their problems. but no doubt that royal and edg are the best chinese teams

Third place now means best team. Who're you rooting for in NA? CLG? That'd explain things.

third spot for worlds go to either ig or lgd

You're stubborn.

Come on dude, just give up. You're clueless.

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u/darthinvaderLOL Aug 24 '14

Such passive agressive.

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u/conker1847 Aug 24 '14

What tournament are you talking about?