FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 Leo Leo Jannesson Derke Nikita Sirmitev Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder took a 2-0 win against Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #5 B3ar Yang Zhanxiong (杨瞻雄) whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) Levius Lu Yinzhong (卢胤中) Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) Yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) Biank Zhong Jianfei (钟剑飞) in the Group C winner's bracket. With this victory, they have qualified to playoffs. They will be joining NA's Evil Geniuses and Korea's DRX.

“We don't underestimate anyone,” FNATIC's Derke said ahead of the match. “We are excited to play Bilibili, we always want to play different teams.”

BLG maintained that their goal at Champions is to learn as much as they can, and whyz said that he was excited to play against a decorated IGL like Boaster.

FNATIC were able to close out the first map, Haven, with a 13-2 score. The game was, at times, a bit closer than the score suggested.

In his post-match interview, IGL Boaster called it his “life game” because he had to clutch several rounds for Fnatic. His ACS, 305, was the highest by far on his team. On the side of BLG, duelist whzy gave a valiant effort shown in his ACS of 223.

Map 2, Lotus, was a closer game with a 13-8 score. The game saw several multi-kills on both sides, with BLG's yosemite pacing his team in kills for the second straight map. BLG coach Jexen said in a post-match press conference that players felt an enormous amount of pressure, which affected their performance.

With the conclusion of this game, FNATIC have qualified to the playoffs stage in this tournament. BLG will get another chance to qualify for playoffs when they play the winner of the Zeta vs. NRG game.