At the start of the online preliminary round in this third showdown, Leverkusen picked up six points from the first three games to create a reasonable position for the final three matches. However, more points were needed to finish in the top 16 out of 35 teams in the Showdown Three table to advance to the offline knockout round.
The evening started with the match against SV 07 Elversberg. Marc 'MARC_LDW23' Landwehr faced Rick ‘RICK_LIEBSCHER’ Mietzsch, but lost 4-2. Sean 'SEAN_LDW07' Landwehr won 3-2 against Felix ‘IFELIIX23’ Breitkopf, the eSports player man with the best defence so far this term, but the final result was 5-6 - and the three points went to the Saarland team.
The games against 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 followed, with Marc Landwehr coming up against Arda ‘XARDA08_’ Gümüs and he took the lead but ended up losing 2-1. It was down to Sean again. A narrow 1-0 win against Thomas ‘XTHOMAS_OM’ Ostermaier ultimately meant that the final score was 2-2 - and one point for both teams. Three points were needed in the final match to advance to the offline round.
Fortuna Düsseldorf awaited at the end of the preliminary round. Unfortunately, the Black and Reds failed to win. Sean Landwehr was beaten 4-1 by Antonio ‘ANTONIORADELJA’ Radelja in the first game, and Marc Landwehr's 3-2 victory over Fabio ‘F95_FABIO’ Immerthal afterwards was not enough for three points for the #B04eSports team.
Results at a glance:
Showdown 3 (online preliminary round) - Match 1
SV 07 Elversberg (W) vs Bayer 04 (L)
‘RICK_LIEBSCHER’ 4-2 ‘MARC_LDW23’
‘IFELIIX23’ 2-3 ‘SEAN_LDW07’
Result: 6-5
Showdown 3 (online preliminary round) - Match 2
Bayer 04 (D) vs 1. FC Heidenheim (D)
‘MARC_LDW23’ 1-2 ‘XARDA08_’
‘SEAN_LDW07’ 1-0 ‘XTHOMAS_OM’
Result: 2-2
Showdown 3 (online preliminary round) - Match 3
Bayer 04 (L) vs Fortuna Düsseldorf (W)
‘SEAN_LDW07’ 1-4 ‘ANTONIORADELJA’
‘MARC_LDW23’ 3-2 ‘F95_FABIO’
Result: 4-6
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With just one more point in the final three matches of the online preliminary round in Showdown Three, Leverkusen missed out on a place in the offline round to played in Cologne on Friday, 19 December. The Showdown One winners Bayer 04 already missed out on the offline round in Showdown Two last month. The Black and Reds are (still) in seventh place in the overall table but they are set to drop down after the end of this offline round.
The points from all online preliminary rounds (3 per win) and offline rounds (2 per win) of the five showdowns will be added together in the overall table, which will decide who advances to the final round of the German Club Championship next year. Places 1 to 8 will go straight through to the final event, while the teams in places 9 to 24 will play off in a play-off round to determine the remaining eight teams.
The Landwehr cousins will not be in action again until the new year. The fourth and penultimate showdown will start with the online preliminary round on Thursday, 22 January 2026. The offline round in this showdown is in Berlin.
This year - for the third time - the parents of the Bayer 04 youth players from the U8 to U15 age groups once again took part in the WDR Christmas Miracle. Under the motto "Goals against hunger in the world - parents in goal!", they organised their own fundraising campaign to once again actively support the important WDR campaign. The sum of €3,420 was handed over at the Glashaus in Essen in the middle of the week during the live programme.
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