LCL Open Cup Qualifier is a qualification LCL Open Cup tournament which consists of 1st and 2nd qualifier. The winner of each one of the qualifier in addition allowed to participate in a group stage of the main event gets ₽ 100,000 prize pool and a seed for the 2017 Challenger League Spring.
Overview
Format
64 teams registration to participate in each of Qualifiers.
Teams that lost any round of 1st allowed to registration in 2nd qualifier.
Single-Elimination Tournament
Round of 64 — 16: Best of 1.
Round of 8, Round of 4, Semifinals and Finals: Best of 3.
The winner of each of Qualifiers advance to LCL Open Cup Group Stage:
Qualifier #1 — Group A
Qualifier #2 — Group B
Qualifying Teams
₽ 200,000 Russian Rubles are spread among the teams as seen below:
Converted prizes calculated with values provided by http://www.xe.com on November 17, 2016, as follows:
₽ 1 Russian Ruble = $ 0.015 US Dollars
₽ 1 Russian Ruble = € 0.014 Euros
Results
Qualifier #1
First qualification matches played between November 9 and 11th. 19 of the 64 teams lost technically due to non-appearance for the game in the 1st round and 2 teams in the 2nd round. Did not take place the 4th round series between 5FRAGS.ORG and Vega Academy A, training Vega Squadron squad also lost technically. Babuwkini ogurchiki earned a seed to the group A of the 2017 Pre-Season LCL Open Cup by defeating STAR TEAM 2:0 in a best of three final series.
Matches of the 2nd qualifier was held in between November 14 and 17th. 24 of the 64 teams lost technically due to non-appearance for the game in the 1st round. Krutyie bobryi which were defeated 0-2 in the semifinals of the 1st qualifier by Babuwkini ogurchiki, became the winners of the 2nd qualifier by defeating Import Jungler 2:0 in a best of three final series.