Veteran teams Cloud9 and Fnatic are going back to the Worlds main stage after defeating Lyon Gaming and Hong Kong attitude, respectively, on the first day of the play-ins knockout for Worlds 2017 held in Wuhan, China Thursday.
Cloud9 defeated Latin America’s Lyon Gaming in a dominating fashion, 3-0. Fnatic also swept Hong Kong Attitude, 3-0, to book their ticket to the group stages.
Play-ins Knockout: Cloud9 vs. Hong Kong Attitude
C9 was on a roll in the first match, as they clobbered HKA with 10-2 score. C9’s bot lane duo fended off the bot lane of LYN with C9 Sneaky’s Kalista leading the charge with a score of 6/0/2. Contractz was also on point with his Gragas with the initiations and ganks.
LYN tried to bounce back in the second game. It was a close game in the early to mid game until Cloud9 managed to secure the Baron and Dragon buff and it all went downhill for Lyon Gaming at that point. Despite the lead in kills, Lyon Gaming couldn’t capitalize and fell to 0-2.
Cloud9 didn’t hesitate to finish LYN in their would-be final play-ins knockout game as they were able to keep their lead all throughout the game. C9 Contractz and C9 Smoothie were the players of the game as both of them gave offensive and defensive presence for Cloud9 to sweep Lyon Gaming, 3-0.
Play-ins Knockout: Fnatic vs. Hong Kong Attitude
The first game was close for both teams as they went on with objectives and kills in all lanes. Both of them did not have much of a lead until Fnatic got the Baron at the 30th minute mark to give them an edge. Fnatic was able to secure a 4-0 in a teamfight 32 minutes into the game to give them their first at the play-ins knockout.
Game two was heavily in favor of Fnatic as they went on to get a kill lead of 12 and a 12k-14k gold advantage at the later stages of the game. It was a lopsided affair objective-wise as HKA was not able to push one turret all throughout the game.
FNC Caps dominated the third and final game of the day as he went 12/2/8 with Taliyah. Like the second game, Fnatic dominated most of the time from start to finish. HKA was not able get a gold advantage all throughout the game. The Hong-Kong based team tried to hold it off until Fnatic secured the Baron and three kills in the final moments of the game to give Fnatic the 3 to nothing win.
Only one more day before we get to determine who will be the last two teams to join Fnatic and C9 in the group stages. It will be 1907 Fenerbasche up against Team oNe Esports in the first match. Chinese favorites Team WE will be facing Vietnam’s Young Generation for the second game.
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