Results of the group stage of The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier

The group stage of The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier has ended. The participants of the qualifying tournament fought in two groups to get a better seeding for the playoffs. Earlier, we wrote about how unsuccessfully the representatives of the Celestial Empire played today, how Team Liquid defeated Virtus.pro in the second series of matches , as well as about the results of the third stream of matches of the second game day. Below is a brief overview of the last matches of the stage, as well as the results of the group stage.

Polaris Esports vs Vici Gaming

Vici Gaming easily overcame the representatives of Southeast Asia. At the very beginning of the first map, Polaris Esports were able to kill Yang and Frisk, who were playing Snapfire and Marci, respectively. This provided them with a short-term advantage, up to the 4th minute, to be precise. After that, Vici Gaming did not leave a chance to the opponent. In 30 minutes, Vici Gaming defeated Polaris Esports with a 34:6 score. Erika and bab never died at all in the whole map.

The situation has not changed on the second map. This time, the Chinese team began to dominate from the very beginning of the fight. 36 minutes was enough for Xm and the team to double the score in the series with a score of 46:14 and take 2nd place in Group A. Polaris Esports will also start their way to the playoffs, finishing in 4th place.

Wildcard Gaming vs T1

Wildcard Gaming faced a difficult task. They needed to beat a team from Southeast Asia, reinforced by ana and Topson, two-time The International champions, for a chance to compete in a tiebreaker for a place in the upper bracket.

And at first it really seemed that they could succeed. WG won the first map against T1 quite confidently, seizing the advantage in terms of total cost almost immediately. But T1 wasn't about to give up so easily. The duel lasted 50 minutes, as a result of which Sammyboy and the team forced T1 to write “gg” in the chat. The result on the map is 39:16 in favor of Wildcard Gaming.

T1 recovered from the defeat and decided to draw the match. In 35 minutes, the eminent team from Asia defeated Wildcard Gaming with a score of 39:16. It is worth noting the perfect performance of ana, the esportsman played Morphling with 18-0-2 statistics. A draw in the bo2 series deprived Wildcard Gaming of the chances of getting into the upper bracket. T1, in turn, are on the 4th line of group B.

Leaderboard

Group A

The winner of group A was the Natus Vincere team, many did not expect such a performance from the Ukrainian team. Vici Gaming and Team Secret will predictably go to the upper bracket of the playoffs, but only 1 victory from Puppey and his teammates does not sound very impressive. The representatives of South America from Tempest performed the weakest of all, 4 losses and 1 draw do not add to their chances of reaching The International 2022.

Group B

In group B there were no surprises. Outsiders represented by Infamous and Wildcard Gaming go to the lower bracket, all other participants received slots in the winners' bracket. Pleased Team Liquid. A good performance was expected from MATUMBAMAN and the team, but the team was the only one in the group stage that won 3 matches out of 5.

The playoff stage starts tomorrow morning, the seeding of which became known at the end of the group stage. The format of all matches is bo3.

Recall that The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier runs from October 8 to 12 this year in a LAN format. The venue was Singapore. The 12 teams that did not qualify for The International 2022 based on DPC points are fighting for the last 2 slots for the World Championship.

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