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| The undisputed best team from Europe, MAD Lions, had to squeak through the group stage of the 2021 League of Legends World Championship after tense tiebreakers and dramatic comebacks. Their quarterfinal opponents, DWG KIA, breezed through their group, becoming just the fourth team in Worlds history to post an undefeated group stage record. The two teams’ individual roads to their quarterfinal matchup couldn’t have been more dichotomous. DWG KIA and MAD Lions each won multiple domestic titles this season, but when the focus turned to the World Championship, they went down different paths over the last two weeks. While DWG KIA skated through the tournament’s “group of death,” MAD Lions have already had to fight for their Worlds lives on three separate occasions. Still, despite vastly different roads, varying international performances, and completely opposite starts to their respective Worlds runs, MAD Lions and DWG KIA—the best League teams from the West and the East, respectively—will throw everything on the line when they meet in a winner-take-all best-of-five on Oct. 24. The stakes couldn’t be higher. 안전놀이터 Destined to meet DWG KIA and MAD Lions have been on a collision course since their first meeting at the Mid-Season Invitational earlier this year. In that series, MAD Lions were up two games to one against the defending world champions, pushing DWG KIA to the brink of elimination. Had they held onto their lead, they would have sealed one of the most improbable upsets in League history. Instead, they were dispatched by the ever-resilient Korean titans. |
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