At the beginning of the Swiss round, G2 Esports and Funplus Phoenix both struggled to surpass T1 and Fut Esports with the same score 2-1. Geng also started to defeat the Leviatan of ASPAS 2-1, while the Heretics team ended the first round with a 2-0 victory over the Chinese representative Dragon Ranger Gaming.
At 1-0 branch, Geng continued to beat Funplus Phoenix 2-1, thereby becoming the first team to advance to the play-off. Shortly thereafter, G2 Esports also defeated the Heretics team to become the remaining team of the 2-0 branch. Meanwhile, in branches 0-1, T1 lost to Leviatan and Dragon Ranger Gaming lost to Fut Esports with the score of 0-2 and became the first two teams eliminated.
Finally, Team Heretics and Fut Esports are the last two teams in the play-off round after two victories against Funplus Phoenix and Leviatan with the same score 2-1. Thus, Geng, G2 Esports, Fut Esports and Team Heretics are 4 teams to continue with Paper Rex, 100 Thieves, Fnatic and Edward Gaming.
Immediately after the series of branch 1-1, the organizers also draw the first pair of plays of the play-off round. The list of matches includes:
– Paper Rex – G2 Esports
– Edward Gaming – Team Heretics
– 100 Thieves – Fut Esports
– Fnatic – Geng
Starting from this round, the teams will play in the formula of the winning – branch to the end of the tournament and all the matches are delineated in the results by the BO3, except for the Losing Final and the final final will play the Bo5. The play-off VCT Masters Shanghai will take place from 30/5-9/6 with the opening match of 100 Thievves-Fut Esports.
