Start round: Favorable starting
Coming to Worlds 2022 with the position of LCK's No. 4 seed, unlike his compatriots to go straight to the group stage, Dragonx must start his journey at the boot round. They are classified in Group B with familiar names, typically Mad Lions of Europe, Saigon Buffalo of Vietnam and especially Royal Never Give Up – China's fourth seed.
However, Dragonx surprised the world with the victory that could not be more convincing than RNG on the first day of his troops. Not stopping there, DragonX continued to show the overwhelming power of the Korean League of Legends when not losing any next match and winning the top 1 Group B with a very impressive 5-0 record. With this result, Dragonx moved straight into the group stage of Worlds with unbeaten records.
Worlds group stage 2022: Top 1 Group C
At the end of the starting round, Deft and his juniors were classified by Riot in Group C with the No. 2 seed LPL – Top Esports, Seed 1 “The most easy to eat” from LEC – ROGUE and Dossy champion VCS – GAM ESPORTS in the group stage. Despite winning against RNG and all 5 rivals in the starting round, Dragonx is still expected to end only the group stage in second place.
The lack of confidence from fans for Dragonx was strengthened when they had to receive a surprise defeat before Rogue in the first match in the group stage. At the next day of competition, Drx must face top Esports again; However, they smashed all doubts with an overwhelming victory over the No. 2 seed LPL. Following the excitement, the seed No. 4 LCK continued to win a gentle victory over the Esports GAM.
The unfortunate defeat against TES in the final match of the second leg of the group made Dragonx play the tie-break match against Rogue to compete for the top of Group C, taking a big advantage in the quarterfinals. In that match, Zeka's inferiority Sylas made Seed 1 of Europe hugged. With a achievement of 5 wins, Dragonx finished the group stage as the first team Group C and officially filled his name in the quarterfinals.
Quarterfinals: Drx 3-2 EDG
Lucky visit has pushed Dragonx to encounter the defending champion Worlds 2021 – Edward Gaming. Not appreciated, there is also a face of a big boy with a face in the international arena, many people think that the Drx will have to stop in the quarterfinals. The LCK representative was led by Edward 2 games by Edward. Pushed into the foot of the wall, Dragonx was forced to win in the third game if he did not want to leave. Known as the gunner model waiting for equipment, so the Draven card was chosen from Deft to accompany Beryl's Soraka as a question mark in the game that Drx did not want to lose.
Dragonx had a resilient game when EDG took the lead during most of the match, the situation where they were drunk led to the Viper and Scout phase was held by Zeka's crazy compound, helping the Blue Dragon opened the hope of flipping. Turning over the battle, Dragonx disciplined a victory to hold his chance to continue. And that opportunity was transformed by the Blue Dragon into a goal when they had a spectacular flipping, each member of this team began to shine. Game 4, Pyosik has an extremely classy game when retaining many goals for Drx. Coming to Game 5, Zeka super rookie had a game destroying former scout with the Sylas card that helped Drx complete the backwards from the novel.
Semifinals: Drx 3-1 Gen
Deft returns to the semi -finals after 8 long years and the name Geng in the immediate future is a huge challenge. The audience judged Geng too high when they were the LCK champion in the summer and was considered by many players to be the strongest team, and people also forgot the saying “Only Koreans who treat Koreans” are always not good.
The scenario of the semi -finals accidentally similar to the T1 scenario of JDG type convincingly. Geng is the team that takes the lead in the first game, the remaining 3 games are clear. Dragonx had an extremely horror situation in the 2nd game, when both parties were dividing the attack – defending and dispute, the winner was Pyosik with his life sheep. Keeping the strongest dragon soul, Drx leveled by the gap.
It is Dragonx's initiative in operating the match as well as deploying the game that pushed Geng into a stalemate. During one day Ruler – Chovy and Peanut were extremely faint, the Doran god was the first broken link. Geng gradually dropped his chances of going on and gave it to an extremely brave Dragonx. They smashed all the doubts of the fans and the main road to the final match with a more miraculous journey.
