MAD Lions eliminated in the preliminary round of the LoL World Cup

MAD Lions eliminated in the preliminary round of the LoL World Cup
Photo: MAD Lions has to say goodbye to the LoL World Championship after a clear defeat to Evil Geniuses. / Photo: Liu YiCun/Riot Games/dpa

MAD Lions has missed the entry into the main round of the League of Legends World Championship.

The European representative clearly lost to Evil Geniuses from North America with a score of 0:3 and was thus eliminated from the tournament. EG and the Chinese team Royal Never Give Up are in the main round.

"I was not confident that we would destroy them," ex-LEC jungler Kacper told "Inspired" Słoma of EG in the interview after the series. "I had great respect for Elyoya. But today he had to play with four bots. I think that's why we won so easily.»

Sensation: EU is subject to NA for the first time at a World Cup

MAD Lions had kept the chance of the main draw alive the day before with a win over Saigon Buffalo from Vietnam. But the LEC representative had no chance against EG and must clearly admit defeat. EG is making history: For the first time in the history of a LoL World Championship, a North American representative has defeated a team from Europe in a best-of-five.

Detonation FocusMe also made a small sensation in the best-of-five against RNG: the team from Japan was the first team from a "minor region" to deny the Chinese representative a game at an international tournament. However, RNG dominated the rest of the series and confidently advances to the next round of the tournament.

Group stage of the Worlds: Fnatic vs. World Champion EDG

Now the groups for the next tournament phase are also determined. Fnatic will face T1 from Korea, North American champion Cloud9 and reigning World champion Edward Gaming in Group A.

EG will have to compete in Group B against G2 Esports, among others, DRX from Korea will be an opponent of the European champion Rogue in Group C and RNG will complete Group D. The group stage begins on October 7 with the match between Fnatic and Cloud9.

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