In the past ten years, South Korea has held two global finals. Busan is the quarter-finals of 20 14, and Seoul is the semi-finals and finals. The final of 20 18 is Seoul, the group and the quarter-finals are Busan, the semi-finals are Gwangju and the final is Incheon. According to the Korea National Daily, the negotiation on renting the venue for the 2023 global finals has ended.
The first game seems to have been discussed with the host city and venue management. This year's overall competition system is very different from previous years. First of all, fist launched a brand-new qualifying tournament and advanced to the global finals series. Adopting B05 competition system, it is spread between LEC No.4 seed and LCS No.4 seed. The winning team will go to Korea with other 2 1 teams.
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The 22 teams participating in the global finals will compete in three stages: the final, the Swiss Round and the knockout round, and decide the final champion team. 10 teams are divided into two groups by lottery, with 5 teams in each group. BO 1 group stage ranking, the teams ranked first in the two groups directly advanced to the group stage automatically.
Then the two teams ranked third and fourth will play a game of BO5, and the winner will challenge the other team ranked second, and finally the winner will advance to the group stage. 16 teams were divided into four groups by lottery, with 4 teams in each group. Each team in the group needs to play two games with other teams in the same group, and finally the top two in each group will advance to the knockout stage.