#B04eSports: Perfect yield at the start of final showdown

undefeated in six games

The matchday opened with the game against VfL Wolfsburg. Marc 'MARC_LDW23' Landwehr took on the 16-year-old eSports talent Elias ‘ELIAS’ Eichler, whose first VBL CC season it is, and drew 3-3. Sean 'SEAN_LDW07' Landwehr and Eleftherios ‘LEFTI’ Ilias, the Wolfsburg eSports player had a player in his team who was not permitted under the squad restrictions, the match was ended early in accordance with the rules and a 3-0 score awarded to Bayer 04. The overall victory thus went to the Landwehr cousins.

The matches against Eintracht Braunschweig continued. Luca ‘DER_ERDKLUMPEN’ Rosowski lost 2-1 to Marc Landwehr, who took control of the game from the start, before Sean Landwehr secured the three points with a 6-2 win against Dennis ‘THAA_DEUS’ Erdmann.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth awaited at the end of the matchday. Marc Landwehr gave Manuel ‘MXNUABT’ Albrecht no chance in the first game and won 5-1, while Luan ‘LUBAPPE6’ Waldleitner then lost 2-1 to Sean Landwehr. The next three points were secured.

The results at a glance:

currently in Top 8

With nine points, Leverkusen have made a perfect start to the final showdown and are in third place in the Showdown Five table. As usual, after the online round, only the 16 teams with the most points out of 35 will progress to the offline knockout round, which this time takes place in Stuttgart on 22 February.

In the overall table where points from all online preliminary rounds (3 per game) and offline rounds (2 per game) are added up, Bayer 04 are currently in eighth place. In the final duels, it is time to go full throttle again and pick up points! After this fifth showdown, the overall table will decide who goes through to the final round of the club championship on 7/8 March (direct qualification for places 1-8, play-off round for places 9-24). Bayer 04 (58 points) have a four-point lead over ninth-placed VfL Bochum 1848 (54 points).

next up: Bayern munich on tuesday

The #B04eSports team are in action again with the final three matches of the Showdown Five preliminary round. They face FC Nürnberg, FC Magdeburg and FC Bayern Munich. A profile of the next opponents will follow on Tuesday. The matchday kicks off at 18:00 CET and the games will be shown on the club Twitch channel and on the Bayer 04 app.