Four teams opened the lower bracket. One walked out. Karmine Corp survived the weekend that buried the regular-season favourite — and they are now one series from a grand final. The two leaders started this stage in the same hole. Team Vitality went 8-1, Karmine Corp went 7-2 — and both lost their opening playoff series. This weekend, the lower bracket sorted out who could climb back.
KC get past NAVI
KC 3-1 NAVI. A comfortable series with one warning sign. KC controlled most of the maps without much trouble — the Olaf game four was outright dominant — but , the kind of map that suggests KC haven't buried all their demons yet. Yike was the MVP, and the clearest story of the series was him smothering from the jungle until had nowhere to build from. For a young, rookie-heavy NAVI, that's the lesson: the individual pieces are there, the in-game collective isn't yet.
