posted by towerrrr,
Following their great performance through out the group stage, the two time defending champions Alliance are entering the LAN finals as the team with the most wins trough the group stage. Notably, Alliance managed to drop only two games in the group stage of the tournament from Power Rangers and Na'Vi. The organisers of the StarLadder Star Series decided to let Alliance choose their opponent for the LAN finals in Kiev, following their first place in the group.
Na'Vi, FlipQ, and Team Empire are entering the LAN finals as the last three teams that managed to get a spot next to Alliance. The three teams ended up the groupstage with same results, which made the final day of the online stage of the StarLadder Season VII even more interesting. Rsnake.int didn't manage to win their last games against 4FC, Virtus.Pro and FlipQ, and therefore the chance of a tiebreaker between these four teams didn't occur.
However due to a wrist injury experienced by Adrian 'Fata' Trinks, FlipQ will not be attending StarLadder's LAN finals. RattleSnake.int is the next team in line to take FliQ's slot but are unable to attend as well due to short notice. Instead the sixth ranked team RoX.KIS will attend the LAN finals.
LAN Final Teams
The Alliance Jonathan 'Loda' Berg Gustav 's4' Magnusson Henrik 'AdmiralBulldog' Ahnberg Joakim 'Akke' Akterhall Jerry 'EGM' LundkvistTeam Empire Roman 'Scandal' Sadotenkov Airat 'Silent' Gaziev Ivan 'Vanskor' Skorokhod Andrey 'Mag' Chipenko Andrey 'alwayswannafly' BondarenkoNatus Vincere Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov Danil 'Dendi' Ishutin Alexander 'XBOCT' Dashkevich Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov Kuro S. 'KuroKy' TakhasomiRoX.KIS Stanislav 'BzzIsPerfect' Glushan Vladimir 'Yol' Basov Vadim 'Sedoy' Musorin Igor 'Nexus' Lisakovskiy Andrey 'androidP' Pishchikov
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The playoff stage will see a double-elimination system, with the regular best-of-three games until the grand final, where we will see a best-of-five games finale.
English coverage for the LAN finals will be provided by our own Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson who will be joined by Bruno 'Statsman' Carlucci this time.
Playoff Bracket:
Schedule:
10th October (Thursday):
1500 CEST Navi vs Empire
11th October (Friday):
1200 CEST Alliance vs RoX.KIS
1500 CEST Lower Bracket Round 1
12th October (Saturday):
1500 CEST Upper Bracker Final
1800 CEST Lower Bracket Final
13th October (Sunday):
1800 CEST Grand Final
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