China’s Demacia Cup has run alongside the League of Legends Pro League in the past, but it’s been confined to just two weeks this year. The first games will be played this coming week, from June 29 until July 3, and will take place in Suzhou, China. At the Demacia Cup, 16 of China’s top teams will play in the round robin group stage and participate in the quarterfinals. The Top 4 teams will play semifinals, third place match, and the Grand Final in November. All 12 LPL teams and four teams from the League of Legends Secondary Pro League have been invited after winning the qualifier that took place in May. Qualified LSPL teams include Young Miracles, Thunder Bear Gaming, Star Horn Royal Club, and Legend Dragon. All four sit relatively high in the LSPL standings, jockeying for position below first place Newbee Young. LPL teams have been seeded based on their standing in the league. Here’s a look at the groups:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Team WE
EDward Gaming
Game Talents
Royal Never Give Up
Snake eSports
LGD Gaming
Vici Gaming
I May
Newbee Gaming
Invictus Gaming
Saint Gaming
Oh My God
Young Miracles
Star Horn Royal Club
Legend Dragon
Thunder Bear Gaming
The group stage will be a double round robin best-of-one format. The two teams with the most wins in each group will advance to the bracket stage, with the first-place team in each group facing the second-place team from another group in the quarterfinals. All bracket stage matches will be best-of-five, single-elimination. The streams and full schedule can be found on Tencent’s Demacia Cup website. Beginning on June 29 at 12:00 a.m. ET, four round robin matches will take place from each group every day, for a total of 16 best-of-ones daily and 48 games over the course of the first three days. Vici Gaming and Game Talents play the opening match on the main stream, while Newbee Gaming and Snake eSports will open on the second stream. Teams that move on to the bracket stage will face off in best-of-fives on July 2 and July 3 at 12:00 a.m. ET for a total of four quarterfinals matches to determine Demacia Cup Top 4. LPL will resume with Week 6 the week after. [Source: TheScore]
