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League of Legends Worlds 2019 play-in Day 4 recap – setting the knockout matchups

By Josh Tyler

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Day 4 of the League of Legends 2019 Worlds play-in stage is complete. Who advanced and fell short of the knockout round?

Day 4 of the League of Legends 2019 Worlds play-in stage is over and the four other teams have joined the victors from Day 3 to set the matchups for the play-in knockout stage. Which teams and players are trending upward or downward as the group stage closes out?

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Crash

Hong Kong Attitude secured the first seed in Group C as expected, but they looked pretty awful. Against MEGA, they basically got bled out until their opponents threw and against Lowkey they basically got a free win thanks to some awful play from DNK, Celebrity, and Venus.

Despite the uneven play, one player who really stood above the rest was their jungler Lee “Crash” Dong-woo. In two games on Lee Sin, Crash went a combined 9/4/10 for a 4.75 KDA. He dominated the early game and showed why he is one of the most underrated junglers at Worlds.

Royal Youth

Credit to Royal Youth, they put themselves in a massive hole after Day 2, going 0-2. They needed to take down Flamengo to force a tiebreaker and then dominated in that tiebreaker to earn the second seed out of Group D. They also got a fairly easy draw (or at least the draw they wanted) for the knockouts, taking on Clutch Gaming.

Knockout matchups

Now that the group stage of play-ins is over, we have our four matchups in the knockout stage. The winner of these best of five series will advance to round out the group stage of the main event. The match-ups are as follows:

  • Hong Kong Attitude vs. Isurus Gaming
  • Clutch Gaming vs. Royal Youth
  • Damwon Gaming vs. Lowkey Esports
  • Splyce vs. Unicorns of Love

This means that we’re going to get a rematch of old EULCS rivals in Splyce vs. UOL, Turkish’s hope taking on NA’s fan favorites, a possible upset risk in HKA vs. Isurus, and…a series. Sorry Lowkey, it should be over quick.

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Robo and Luci

Flamengo flamed out of the play-in stage in spectacular fashion and two players, in particular, stood out in a bad way. Support Luci looked absolutely awful in his three games on Pyke and Thresh, missing hooks all over the place. He went a combined 1/18/11 in those three losses.

On the other hand, top laner Robo struggled going 2/8/10 in the first two games on the day. Worse yet, in the tiebreaker game, he went 2/4/2 on Camille when he got to counterpick the matchup into Gangplank.

Group C

This group was actually pathetically easy. Congrats to Hong Kong Attitude for their free #1 seed in knockouts. But also, congratulations to Isurus Gaming, maybe the weakest team coming into knockouts, for getting to draw probably the weakest #1 seed for a shot at groups.

Damwon Gaming (still)

On Day 2, Damwon went 2-0 in games but looked incredibly sloppy doing it. Their fans were probably hoping that they would improve their play and look strong heading into the knockout round. Unfortunately, their inconsistent play continued.

The first game against Royal Youth was a fairly ho-hum game in which they bodied the Turkish team from the jump. However, in their second game, Damwon got massively outplayed early by Flamengo, falling behind 0-4 and over 2k gold at the 10-minute mark. It was only thanks to some massive throws from Flamengo that got them back into the game.

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Damwon did advance to the knockout stage with an unblemished record, as most pundits assumed they would. In all likelihood, they should be able to make it to the main event with ease. But for a team that many are saying could potentially challenge for the title, their struggles against two of the worst teams in the tournament is discouraging.

The League of Legends 2019 World Championship resumes Monday, October 7 with the play-in knockout stage.

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