#B04eSports: Leverkusen miss out on offline round by a whisker

Marc and Sean Landwehr had put themselves in a good position last week with three overall wins from the first four preliminary games. The final two matches were played on Tuesday.

Sean Landwehr took the first step with a 5-4 win against Eintracht Braunschweig. Cousin Marc Landwehr then increased the aggregate score to 10-5 with a 5-1 win in his individual clash, earning three points to start. The final preliminary game against Hamburger SV followed, which Sean lost 4-2 and Marc by a score of 6-4 - victory for HSV.

The results at a glance:

Cruel exit

Leverkusen ended the Showdown 1 table in 17th place with 12 points. Even though nine or 10 points on average would've been enough to finish in the top 16 every time last season, 12 points meant elimination on this occasion. This is due to the win/draw/loss record in the one-v-one games - each encounter consists of two one-v-one games. Bayer 04 won six times and lost six, but Holstein Kiel, for example, who finished 16th, also won six but only lost four times and drew twice. View the table HERE.

Coming up: Showdown 2 in early November

The Bayer 04 gaming pros continue with the second showdown in early November, when they'll have another chance to qualify for the offline round in Berlin on 14 November. There, teams can gain valuable extra points (2 per win) for the VBL CC overall table, in which points from all five showdowns are combined.