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The 4 top teams from play-ins have been sorted into their groups at Worlds 2018

Cloud9 have been placed into this year's "Group of Death," because why not.

The play-in stage at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship has concluded, and this week, the main event will begin with the group stage in Busan.

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Today, after the final best-of-five series at the end of play-ins, the final four teams of the opening stage were sorted into their groups—and North American fans aren’t going to be terribly happy. EDG, the absolute best team of the play-in stage, was sorted into Team Liquid’s group and Cloud9 was placed into the “Group of Death” with RNG and Gen.G.

Here are the groups for the 2018 Worlds group stage.

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The group stage begins on Wednesday at 3am CT with NA’s Team Liquid facing off against Korea’s superteam, kt Rolster.


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