{"id":97095,"date":"2025-07-17T07:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/esports-world-cup-g2-hanwha-life-advance-in-league-of-legends\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:50:54","slug":"esports-world-cup-g2-hanwha-life-advance-in-league-of-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/esports-world-cup-g2-hanwha-life-advance-in-league-of-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports World Cup: G2, Hanwha Life advance in League of Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/23587826.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/23587826.jpg\" alt=\"Syndication: Democrat and Chronicle\" class=\"w-full\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">YMCA member Austin Manengu works the keyboard as he plays a game of Fortnite during the unveiling of the new gaming lab at the Maplewood Family YMCA in Rochester Thursday, June 20, 2024. YMCA of Greater Rochester in partnership with Metro Sports &amp; Entertainment Group will open two gaming labs for youth and teens this year.<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>G2 Esports and Hanwha Life Esports won their respective groups Wednesday and advanced to the playoff stage at the Esports World Cup League of Legends event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Two more playoff berths are on the line Thursday, as FlyQuest and FURIA landed in the Group A lower-bracket final and KOI and CTBC Flying Oyster will square off in the equivalent in Group B.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Twelve teams are competing for shares of a $2 million prize pool at the Esports World Cup 2025. The tournament is also part of the Club Championship that will award $7 million to the winning team at the end of the Cup.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>The event began with a double-elimination group stage Wednesday and Thursday featuring the eight Low Seed teams. All matches were best-of-one, and the top two teams from each group advance to the playoffs, where they join the four High Seeds (Gen.G Esports, Bilibili Gaming, AG.AL and T1).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>The single-elimination playoffs run through Sunday. All matches are best-of-three until the grand final, which is best-of-five.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>On Wednesday, G2 Esports opened Group A with a 32-minute win over FURIA while playing on blue. FlyQuest defeated Cloud9 in 39 minutes on blue to join G2 in the upper-bracket final, where G2 pulled out a 34-minute win on red.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>FURIA eliminated Cloud9 with a 34-minute win on red in the lower-bracket semifinal. The winner between FlyQuest and FURIA on Thursday morning will have a quick turnaround to face Gen.G Esports in the playoff quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>In Group B, Hanwha Life cruised to a 28-minute win on blue over CTBC Flying Oyster, while KOI earned a tidy 30-minute victory on blue over GAM Esports. Hanwha Life continued to dominate in the upper-bracket final, though, prevailing over KOI in 29 minutes on blue.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>CTBC Flying Oyster stayed alive by beating GAM in 28 minutes on red and will face KOI in Thursday&#8217;s do-or-die match.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>The tournament continues Thursday with four matches:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">\n<p>&#8211;FlyQuest vs. FURIA (Group A lower-bracket final)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-12\">\n<p>&#8211;KOI vs. CTBC Flying Oyster (Group B lower-bracket final)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">\n<p>&#8211;Gen.G Esports vs. FlyQuest-FURIA winner (playoff quarterfinals)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-14\">\n<p>&#8211;Bilibili Gaming vs. G2 Esports (playoff quarterfinals)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-15\">\n<p>Esports World Cup 2025 League of Legends prize pool (money, EWC club points):<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-16\">\n<p>1. $600,000, 1,000 club points &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-17\">\n<p>2. $320,000, 750 &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-18\">\n<p>3. $230,000, 500 &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-19\">\n<p>4. $160,000, 300 &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-20\">\n<p>5-8. $110,000, 200 &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-21\">\n<p>9-10. $75,000, no points &#8212; TBD<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-22\">\n<p>11-12. $50,000, no points &#8212; Cloud9, GAM Esports<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-23\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/esports-world-cup-g2-hanwha-life-advance-in-league-of-legends\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YMCA member Austin Manengu works the keyboard as he plays a game of Fortnite during the unveiling of the new gaming lab at the Maplewood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}