The semi-annual Demacia cup for 2018 is about to commence to round off the year of 2018 for the LPL. The event format will be a double elimination bracket starting with best of 1s in the first round of the Winner’s Bracket, before moving onto a best of 3 for the remainder of the Tournament with the exception of a Best of 5 Grand Final. The participating teams and their brackets are as follows:

Invictus Gaming vs Suning

JD Gaming vs Topsports Gaming

Rogue Warriors vs SinoDragon Gaming

Royal Never Give Up vs EDward Gaming





The schedule for the Demacia Cup for both NA and EU are as follows:

First Round A1: IG vs SN

PST: December 19, 8:10PM

CEST: December 20, 5:10AM

First Round A2: RW vs SDG

PST: December 19, 9:25PM

CEST: December 20, 6:25PM

First Round B1: JDG vs TOP

PST: December 19, 10:40PM

CEST: December 20, 7:40AM

First Round B2: RNG vs EDG

PST: December 19, 11:50PM

CEST: December 20, 8:50AM

First Round Loser’s Bracket 1: A1 Loser vs A2 Loser

PST: December 20, 1:05AM

CEST: December 20, 10:05AM

First Round Loser’s Bracket 2: B1 Loser vs B2 Loser

PST: December 20, 4:30AM

CEST: December 20, 1:30PM





Suning has been an organization that has always fought for the top 3 teams of the LPL despite being a fairly new team. They were unable to do it in 2018, peaking at 4th place in the 2018 Summer Split. With Maple, SwordArt and Smlz joining the team, they will be facing the World Champions, Invictus Gaming to start off the Demacia Cup, which will certainly be one of the highlight matches of the first round.





Rogue Warriors is a team that produced relatively good results in the last year, however having multiple key members of the roster leaving the team, their match against SinoDragon Gaming will be interesting, to say the least.





The main lane matchup to lookout for in the JDG vs TOP will undoubtedly be the midlane with Yagao going against Knight. Both players have shown high ceilings in terms of skill and watching them face off should excite most fans.





The remaining bracket will be RNG vs EDG, a classic rivalry between both the organizations and players respectively. With both teams being disqualified in the Quarterfinals of Worlds 2018 to European teams, this is an opportunity for indirect redemption.

You can tune into this event on lpl.qq.com and www.douyu.com/g_LOL on December 19 for the first exciting match between Invictus Gaming and Suning.





Written by: Benson Cheng @1337sn1per



