In showdown one, Leverkusen had won four of the six matches, which were drawn as usual in the online preliminary round. That meant they progressed to the offline knockout round in Leipzig, where they won the showdown. Now, in the second showdown, they failed to make it through to the offline round. With six points, Black & Red were in 17th place in the showdown two table before the start of yesterday's two games. To progress, they had to finish in the top 16. And it seemed that they would succeed at first.
Comeback keeps hopes of progressing alive
The first match of the day - the fifth of this online preliminary round of showdown two - was against Karlsruher SC. Sean ‘SEAN_LDW07’ Landwehr came up against Anton ‘EINFACHANTON’ Grienko and quickly took a 2-0 lead. Despite the KSC eSport player pulling one back to make it 2-1, Bayer 04 won game one of the encounter with the team from Baden.
Marc ‘MARC_LDW23’ Landwehr - with the one-goal cushion - then made things exciting in game two. The Leverkusen player went 2-0 down against Julien ‘JULIEN_FNGK’ Fungk. At this point, KSC were ahead overall. Then the game went back and forth. First Landwehr found his scoring form and made it 3-2. That was followed by an equaliser, Leverkusen taking the lead again and another equaliser. In the end, Landwehr scored two more goals to achieve a 6-4 victory. The 8-5 aggregate score secured an important three points.
RUTHLESS foals with knockout blow
The final match against Borussia Mönchengladbach was an all-or-nothing affair in the battle for a place in the offline round. But the Foals quickly threw a spanner in the Black and Red works. Sean Landwehr lost 6-1 to Lukas “LUKAS_OFFICIAL11” Wolff, while Marc Landwehr faced a mammoth task that he was unable to complete. He initially took a 2-0 lead against ‘JISTENNSQ’, but ultimately lost 5-4, meaning no points were secured against BMG.
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