The main event of this year World Championship in League of Legends is starting next week!
The play-in phase is about to end. Tomorrow morning we will learn which last two teams, will qualify to the main tournament. Last four teams that fight for the chance to win it all are: GAM Esports, Team BDS, PSG Talon and TEAM WHALES.
Two winners will join teams, that earned their spots through performance in the past season:
Pool 1: Gen.G, JD Gaming, G2 Esports, NRG Pool 2: T1, Bilibili Gaming, Fnatic, Cloud 9 Pool 3: KT Rolster, LNG Esports, Mad Lions, Team Liquid Pool 4: Dplus KIA, Weibo Gaming, Play-in winner #1 and #2
Stage 2 of the tournament will be played in Swiss system. Which means that before of start of every round, there will be a draw to determine who will play each other. In each round only teams with the same score will be able to battle it out on summoner's rift.
To advance into Stage 3 team must win three games. Contenders will play best on one until they will reach the Qualification or Elimination match. When that happens fate will be decided with best of three set. Half of the teams will be eliminated and half will go into the Knockout phase.
In Knockout Phase there will be no second chances. Each team will fight in the best of five match! Winner only will take a gold back home, but he will also take someone hefty cheque from the $2,225,000 USD prize pool.
As always players can try to gamble a little with Pick'em Challenge. My pick to win it all? JD Gaming! They won everything this year so far, and they are clearly on golden royal road.






