The Demacia Cup run ends for Anyone’s Legend, who only played a single series in the tournament. Along with Top Esports, the LPL’s top team at Worlds, both teams are eliminated in the quarterfinals. LGD Gaming advance to the semifinals after a clean sweep against AL’s academy players, with the main roster resting following a busy year.

The only quarterfinal BO5 to finish in three games, LGD completely outclassed AL.young players, securing their spot at the Xi’an Qujiang Esports Center for the semifinals against JD Gaming, where teams will have access to the newly introduced coach communications. LGD are guaranteed at least ¥200,000 (around €24,145), even if they lose in the semifinals.

Their best result in the Demacia Cup

LNG have never reached the Demacia Cup semifinals before, despite participating since the tournament’s first edition in 2014. They will face JDG, the 2023 finalists who have yet to win the title. LGD completely dominated all three games of the day, never falling behind in gold.

In Game 1, we already saw some unconventional picks, with Malphite in the jungle for Yang "Heng" Cui-Heng, who ended up as MVP, while Xu "TheHang" Lin-Hang on Smolder failed to scale. In the second game, Qiu "Shaoye" Guo-Bin’s Kai’Sa was sharp, leading into Game 3, where Lin "Tangyuan" Yu-Hong delivered an outstanding performance on Sylas, finishing 14/2/7 to send his team to the semifinals.