Team Liquid has advanced to the LOL World Championship Group Stage after a thrilling tiebreaker with Legacy Esports, a professional Australian esports team. Team Liquid topped the Group-B charts and slid into the Group Stage with ease.
Before the match, Liquid was ready to leave the play-in stage with automatic qualification for the Worlds group stage. Two prevailing successes over the range of the competition’s initial two days offered approach to one more solid appearing against Papara SuperMassive prior today. But when they faced the CBLoL’s INTZ Esports, Liquid faltered and found themselves in a position where a tiebreaker game would be necessary to determine their fate.
Despite the shaky position of the tiebreaker, Tem Liquid emerged victorious with ease. The triumph took a little more than 20 minutes, making it the snappiest round of the tournament by a long shot. The game was a complete seven minutes quicker as compared to other games during the play-in stage. Furthermore, the gold differential ended up skyrocketing to a total of 13,200 by the time the Oceanic team’s Nexus exploded.
Liquid had already crushed Legacy once before in the play-in stage, so the outcome was not unexpected. What was unexpected was the Legacy Esports performance. They had improved so much since their last stand-off. Moreover, they managed to prove that esports talent brewing in Oceania, a region often overlooked when it comes to esports champions.
With this triumph, Liquid will proceed onward to the group stage of the World Championship where they can be set into either Group A or B, considering other North American teams are already present in Groups C and D. Legacy will advance to the final round of the play-in stage, where they’ll await the winner of a best-of-five between Rainbow7 and LGD Gaming to determine the final spot in the Worlds main event.