China's Weibo makes an extraordinary break in LNG in the 'LPL Civil War' and comes first to the semifinals
Oct 18, 2024
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Weibo defeated LNG in the same region 3-1 in the quarterfinals of the '2024 League of Legends World Championship' (Lold Cup) held at the Adidas Arena in Paris, France, from the 17th to the 18th (Korean time). As a result, the team that won the match between LCK (Korea) Hanwha Life e-Sports and LPL's Bilibili Gaming on the 18th will compete for the final round in the semifinals.
While Weibo was the last team to the quarterfinals with 3 wins and 2 losses after going to the fifth round in the Swiss stage (the round of 16), LNG was expected to prevail because it was the favorite to decide to go to Paris early with all three wins, but the result was the opposite.
In addition, Weibo also made a splash reaching the final at last year's LOL World Cup, even though it barely reached the quarterfinals with three wins and two losses. Of course, in the final, he failed to meet LCK's T1 and lost 0-3 to finish second, but anyway, he made an unusual scene of beating the top team for two consecutive years this year following last year.
Despite the favorable situation of having a camp option in the first set, LNG showed confidence by choosing the red camp, which is considered to be somewhat disadvantageous for Banpick and hollow larva hunting, but was eventually defeated. Weibo's Korean coach Yang Dae-in and the team's only Korean player who played in LNG for three years until last year, Jungler 'Tazan'Lee Seung-yong, joined forces to quickly return their former team to China.
Following Hanwha Life e-Sports on the 18th, T1 will meet LPL's TES on the 19th, and Gen.G will play in the quarterfinals at the same place as LCS' Flyquest on the 20th.
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