MVK Esports stayed alive for a chance to reach the League of Legends World Championships’ Swiss stage with a victory over FURIA on Saturday in Round 3 of the play-in event at Los Angeles.
Karmine Corp will face MVK Esports in the final round of the play-in on Sunday, with the winner qualifying for the Swiss stage. Karmine had defeated MVK 3-0 on Friday to drop MVK to the lower bracket of the play-in stage.
Swiss stage action runs from Oct. 23-31 in Allen, Texas, with early-round matches consisting of a single map before advancement and elimination matches will be best-of-three.
Half of the 16 Swiss stage teams will qualify for the knockout stage, which gets underway on Nov. 3 and features a single-elimination bracket. The knockout stage, consisting of best-of-five matches, will also be played in Allen except for the grand final, which will be held at Barclays Center in New York on Nov. 14.
The championship team will receive $1 million from the event’s $5 million prize pool.
On Saturday, MVK played on blue and opened with wins in 31 and 27 minutes before FURIA rallied with a 36-minute victory on red. MVK closed out the match with a 28-minute win.
Ngo “Kratos” Khanh was selected most valuable player after posting a 13-8-25 kill-death-assist ratio for the all-Vietnamese MVK Esports. Teammate Nguyen “Harky” Van Huu wound up at 22-11-24.
Andrey “Ayu” Saraiva of Brazil had 18 kills for FURIA.
It was the second win over Furia for MVK Esports, which posted a 3-0 sweep in the first round on Thursday.
League of Legends World Championship prize pool
1. $1 million
2. $800,000
3-4. $400,000
5-8. $300,000
9-11. $175,000
12-14. $125,000
15-16. $90,000
17. $50,000
18. $40,000 — FURIA
19. $30,000 — Cloud9
–Field Level Media
