Royal Never Give Up в четвертьфинале обыграла Fnatic со счётом 3:1.
Ещё одна пара полуфиналистов - SK Telecom T1 и RNG разыграют путёвку в финал 28 октября.
В полуфинале 29 октября Samsung Galaxy встретится с Team WE, которые 22-го числа обыграли Cloud9 со счётом 3:2. Longzhu Gaming, в свою очередь, закончила своё выступление на турнире и не поднимется выше 5-го места в итоговом зачёте.
Полуфинальные матчи пройдут на арене спорткомплекса "Восток" (Шанхай, КНР). Турнир завершится 4 ноября.
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Samsung Galaxy sweep Longzhu Gaming to become the first team through to the League of Legends Worlds 2017 semifinals
The first day of the League of Legends Worlds 2017 Knockouts kicked off with a huge upset as Samsung Galaxy decimated Longzhu Gaming.
In the first quarterfinal match of the esports championships, everyone expected the Korean champions Longzhu Gaming to come out the victors.
However Samsung Galaxy, Korea's third seed, defied expectations and played out of their skin to take a 3-0 victory and progress to the semifinals.
Surprising turn of events means that there are are no first seeds remaining from any region, as Team SoloMid, Edward Gaming, G2 Esports, Gigabyte Marines, and Flash Wolves are all out.
Longzhu Gaming were strong favourites for the tournament after beating reigning champions SK Telecom T1 in the Korean final earlier this year, and after going through the Group Stage completely undefeated.
There were talks of them even winning the Grand Final without losing a game in the entire tournament. However, Samsung Galaxy took three games off them and sent them crashing out.
The players from Longzhu Gaming will go to bed hoping it's all been a bad dream, as they certainly had a nightmare on Summoner's Rift.
Not only did Samsung Galaxy play well mechanically, they also seemed to have the beating of Longzhu strategically.
Game 1
Longzhu's mid laner Kwak 'Bdd' Bo-seong was licking his lips in the first game where he was Syndra matched up against the Malzahar of SSG's Lee 'Crown' Min-ho. And indeed, he picked up a solo kill early in the game to take first blood.
It was fairly even in the early game though. A dive in the top lane looked to be going all wrong for SSG, until Kim 'Khan' Dong-ha chased a little too far and lost his life.
The teams traded kills in the middle of the map a number of times, and Longzhu came out slightly on top in a couple of team fights.
They went on to win a big team fight in their own jungle around the 35 minute mark, but Samsung won a far more important one a few minutes later near Baron.
This was the turning point in the match, and Samsung were able to steamroll LZ from then on, until they barged into their base with the ace and the victory in the 45th minute.
Game 2
Longzhu took down Crown early in the game once again, but SSG turned it around a few minutes later with an unexpected four man stack in the mid lane to pick up two kills.
The kills kept coming for Samsung too, and although LZ picked up a dragon in the 19th minute, SSG swarmed them to pick up an ace, losing just two members of their team.
Longzhu simply had no answer to the gold disadvantage they faced, and it only took SSG half an hour to surge into their base and take game two.
Crown had a monumental game on Taliyah, securing 100% kill participation with his score of 9/1/7.
Game 3
Crown took the spotlight in game three even before the players loaded onto the Rift by locking in Lissandra.
He also took first blood in the game after the team invaded the enemy jungle to take down Lee 'Cuzz' Woo-jin on Gragas. Cuzz had a difficult series, often failing to make a meaningful impact.
Meanwhile, the veteran jungler Kang 'Ambition' Chan-yong from SSG was seemingly all over the map, and immensely tanky playing Sejuani in every game in the series.
Building on yet another early lead, Samsung Galaxy snowballed the game, and Longzhu simply didn't have enough damage.
Every time it seemed like LZ were getting back into the game with a kill or two, Samsung were taking an objective on the other side of the map.
In another relatively quick game, Samsung were able to take Longzhu's nexus after 34 minutes, securing a surprising whitewash, and a place in the next round.
Samsung have now shot up the prediction list, but the slight favourites now have to be SK Telecom T1, three time winners and Korea's second seed.
For now, Samsung Galaxy can relax before preparations begin for their semifinal match on October 29.
