
The Werkself eSports players began Tuesday evening with the fixture against Hertha Berlin on matchday 29 – with a 2 vs 2 between Marc ‘MARC_LDW23’ Landwehr and Furkan ‘FURKY’ Kayacik for Leverkusen and Tom ‘BISSO__23’ Bismark and Marina ‘MARI’ Preradovic for the Berlin side. The Leverkusen players secured a convincing 4-1 win. Landwehr was also able to come out on top in the following 1 vs 1 encounter (2-0).
draw against WERDER Bremen
Then came the games on matchday 30 against Werder Bremen: Landwehr and Kayacik faced Eleftherios ‘LEFTI’ Ilias and Max Julius ‘DIVINERS’ Gröne. Leverkusen lost the 2 vs 2 game (1-2) but Landwehr won the following 1 vs 1 against Gröne 3-1. The second 1 vs 1 between Bremen's Ali Oskoui ‘PREDATORFIFA’ Rad and Kayacik failed to produce a winner. That meant the final regular matchday in the Virtual Bundesliga Club Championship ended in an overall draw for the #B04 eSports players.
The Bayer 04 eSports players have narrowly missed qualification for the Club Championship play-offs by finishing seventh in the North West division.
Results on matchdays 29 and 30:
Bayer 04 vs Hertha Berlin (3 points)
2 vs 2: 4-1
Landwehr against Bismark: 2-1
Werder Bremen vs Bayer 04 ( 1 point)
2 vs 2: 2-1
Gröne against Landwehr: 1-3
Rad against Kayacik: 1-1

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