Following the end of the LEC Season Finals, the Worlds 2024 play-in bracket was revealed as the best teams from around the world will clash later this month.
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LoL Worlds 2024 Play-In Stage draw results
On September 1, G2 Esports defeated Fnatic in the 2024 LEC Season Finals to win their fourth title of the season. And with most of the Worlds teams already locked in, Riot Games held the play-in draw show immediately after the Grand Final.
The play-in stage will feature 8 teams from the minor regions as well as the third seeds from the LEC and LCS to determine which four squads will join the remaining 12 in the Swiss stage.
VCS and PCS will each get two representatives in the play-in stage, with LLA and CBLOL each only getting one team.
According to the format, the eight teams are seeded into two double-elimination brackets where the top team of each group will directly advance to the Swiss stage. The second team, instead, will be decided through a second qualification match.
In the first bracket, MAD Lions have been seeded against VCS team Vikings Esports while PSG Talon will face the CBLOL team. In the second one, GAM Esports will face Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS Gaming while LLA team Rainbow 7 will face the third seed of the LCS (one team between TL, FLY, and 100T). Each match will consist of Bo3 series.
Play-ins Brackets
The Worlds 2024 play-in stage will begin on September 25, and ending on September 29. The schedule is yet to be confirmed.
Bracket A Matchups
MAD Lions KOI vs Vikings Esports
PSG Talon vs. CBLOL representative
Bracket B Matchups
GAM vs SHG
R7 vs. LCS #3 seed
My thoughts on the LoL Worlds Play-In Brackets
It’s still too early to say how each region will compare to one another but there are definitely some favorites at this stage. One of them is likely going to be PSG, which made it to a top-eight finish at MSI and showed they can be close to some of the best teams in the world when on form.
For all the teams in the first bracket, they will be a tough opponent to face, including for MDK. Speaking of the Spanish team, they are going to be a big question mark coming into the tournament considering their recent form.
In the second bracket, one of the teams expected to qualify will be the LCS representative: after what the teams have shown during the split, there are good fundamentals to believe they can deliver strong performance and join the other two NA squads to the top 16, regardless of which team lands there. They will be the ones to watch out in the second bracket alongside SHG, who looked on a crescendo towards the end of the PCS playoffs.
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