Nexus Cup Groups Announced

Once again our God King TISrobin311 has graced us with some more information about the Korean scene. The nexus cup will have 16 teams this time around, 8 KR and 8 CN.

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/7f7cov/nexus_cup_group_stage_announced/

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His comment:
Source: http://www.inven.co.kr/board/overwatch/4538/3583770?my=chu

<Round of 16>

Group A: Runaway, Kongdoo Panthera, LGD, LGE

Group B: X6 Gaming, Team Seven, Team CC, LYB

Group C: RX Foxes, Meta Athena, VG, LF

Group D: Lunatic Hai, Element Mystic, MT1, MY

The Top 2 from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals.

Just want to highlight this:

Group D: Lunatic Hai, Element Mystic, MT1, MY

Like wtf is up with Lunatic Hai and groups of death?

Runaway and Kongdoo Panthera in the same group PogChamp

KuroiRyuu9625 [#2]

Just want to highlight this:

Group D: Lunatic Hai, Element Mystic, MT1, MY

Like wtf is up with Lunatic Hai and groups of death?

what about runaway,kdp,lgd in the same group tho

victococoblazin [#4]

what about runaway,kdp,lgd in the same group tho

KDP is a rebuild, LGD lost some of their players and haven't been at the top for a while so I don't think their groups is as obvious. Could be some surprises but just based on known factor Group D looks much stronger.

Edit: Letters are hard, A -> D

Any info on when this tourney is going to happen? That seems like decent list of teams!

Damn u beat me too it. ( I checked this time) ;)

KuroiRyuu9625 [#5]

KDP is a rebuild, LGD lost some of their players and haven't been at the top for a while so I don't think their groups is as obvious. Could be some surprises but just based on known factor Group D looks much stronger.

Edit: Letters are hard, A -> D

just based on known factor Group A looks much stronger

You meant group D, right? If so, I agree with you.
I would say rebuilt Kongdoo and Lunatic Hai seems to be about at similar level based on the name values.
Element Mystic is as strong as RunAway imo based on their recent performances.
LGD lost half of its starters. Moreover, their recent form has been poor even before the players' departure. Lost twice in a row against MT1 in recent matches.
MY is undoubtedly the strongest Chinese team atm.

So
Group A vs. Group D
RunAway ~= Element Mystic
Kongdoo ~= Lunatic Hai
LGD ~< MT1
LGE <<< MY

KuroiRyuu9625 [#2]

Just want to highlight this:

Group D: Lunatic Hai, Element Mystic, MT1, MY

Like wtf is up with Lunatic Hai and groups of death?

Let's see whether new Lunatic Hai can continue to live up to their reputation of surviving through the groups of death! I think it will be really hard this time as I think EM and MY are two of the top three teams in this tourney.

I predict a RunAway Element Mystic final :eyes:

Explodey [#6]

Any info on when this tourney is going to happen? That seems like decent list of teams!

To answer my own question, it seems like it will start on 11/30! And it will end on 12/17.

Sources:
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/overwatch/Nexus_Cup/2017/Annual_Finals
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/7f6sqp/china_nexus_cup_2017_annual_finals_participants/

http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=12918042

Rosters for all of the participating teams.
It seems like ArHan joined Meta Athena? Am I the only one who missed this news? He should be a great addition for Meta Athena to fill in for Libero. Excited to see how these new teams will look!

Explodey [#12]

http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=12918042

Rosters for all of the participating teams.
It seems like ArHan joined Meta Athena? Am I the only one who missed this news? He should be a great addition for Meta Athena to fill in for Libero. Excited to see how these new teams will look!

Interesting, this does give them a lot of flexibility since they now have a strong Tracer, a strong Projectile and a strong Hitscan to run different comps.

KuroiRyuu9625 [#2]

Just want to highlight this:

Group D: Lunatic Hai, Element Mystic, MT1, MY

Like wtf is up with Lunatic Hai and groups of death?

LH vs MY #hype