Week 8 opened with a very attractive match between the top two teams, Geng (Gen) and Hanwha Life Esports (HLE). However, the gene has shown an overwhelming performance and winning quickly even though HLE is removed in game 2. Besides the HLE victory, the gene continues to beat Drx with a score of 2-0 to raise the winning chain to 16, and will definitely topped the table after the 1-2 closed round.
Meanwhile, HLE besides the defeat against the gene also received an additional 1-2 loss to the other Dplus (DK). Thus, HLE received 2 failures this season and was narrowed by T1 to only 1 point. This week, T1 meets only two underneath teams, BNK Fearx (BFX) and Freoses (DNF) enterprises with the same score 2-0. The last week will eventually be very attractive when T1 and HLE will confront directly and if winning, T1 will have a great chance to win the second place in the table.
Along with 2 victories with genes and T1 this week also has KT Rolster (KT). This team continues to be highly stylish when defeating NS Redforce (NS) and BFX, although there are many difficulties when they have to play until game 3. However, the two victories have ensured the KT will appear in the top 6 after the group stage.
NS and DK both end the week of playing with 1 win – 1 loss result. DK received a defeat against Brion (Bro) but defeated HLE, temporarily ranked 6th on the rankings with a record of 8 wins – 8 losses. Meanwhile, NS defeated KT 1-2 in the middle of the week and faced many difficulties to defeat Bro 2-1. Currently, NS and KT are equal to the point (9 wins – 7 losses) on the rankings, DK ranked behind with 1 point less.
At the end of the table, the DNF has run out of the top 6 from week 7, until this week, although Bro and Drx have won 1 victory but the gap with the above teams is too far away. BFX with 2 losses also all the opportunity to shorten the gap with the above teams and all the opportunity to continue.
Although the top 6 has been identified, the teams in this group still need points to improve the position on the rankings. With the above teams, achieving high rankings will help teams gain advantages when entering the selection round. In addition, the Top 6 team after the group stage will fall on the Rise board in the 3-5 round and have to play more to reach the finals. Meanwhile, the Top 5 will go straight to the Legend board and 4 teams will be in the final round of LCK 2025.
