Champions playoffs matches revealed

With the conclusion of the group stage, the playoff matches for Champions Seoul have been revealed in a live draw show by Riot.

The matches are as follows:

DRX DRX Korea Rank #7 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Athan Na Ha-jun (나하준) freeing No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) vs. Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #4 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid (Group A #1 vs. Group B #2)
Trace Esports Trace Esports China Rank #3 LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) Kai Lu Zhinan (卢智楠) FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) heybay Ho Shun Hei Biank Zhong Jianfei (钟剑飞) Zhao vs. EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) (Group C #1 vs. Group D #2)
G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #1 jawgemo Alexander Mor trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio JonahP Jonah Pulice leaf Nathan Orf vs. LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN Latin America South Rank #1 Demon1 Max Mazanov tex Ian Botsch kiNgg Francisco Aravena aspas Erick Santos C0M Corbin Lee (Group D #1 vs. Group C #2)
Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius vs. FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu stand-in Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder (Group B #1 vs. Group A #2)

Playoffs will kick off starting on the 14th, with all matches until the final three days of play being hosted in the COEX Artium arena. From the 23rd and onward, all matches will be played in the INSPIRE Arena. The match schedule for playoffs is set to be revealed in the coming days.

It makes sense to me. Group stage rematches aren’t allowed in upper bracket and it was clearly a random draw as seen on live broadcast so no riot didn't say "this team cant be on this side of the playoff bracket" . Just sucks to have regional match ups and even then most people don't watch every region but most likely do watch every international tournamnets and idk bout you guys but I'd rather not watch the same shit 2 days later. Aside from the fact that the draws were completely fair, to win the whole tournament, whether it be the first game or the grand finals, you gotta be able to beat the best to be the best. I don't understand how people cant seem to grasp this simple concept. Why complain? just because your team may have a "hard route" doesn't mean that its rigged. I say "hard route" as trace beat lev. And on top of that, we're sill in the upper brackets so there are no stakes on these matches. These regional match ups guarantee that in the lower bracket, where its actually fight or die, we will have different regions knocking each other out of the tournament which to me is a million times more interesting. This was the best case scenario.