Fnatic and Team BDS had mixed feelings. Fnatic successfully advanced to the League of Legends World Championship (Worlds Cup) for the 11th time in total, and Team BDS headed to the Worlds Qualifying Series.
Fnatic defeated Team BDS 3-2 in the second round of the 2023 LEC season final losers held at the EMEA LEC Studio in Berlin, Germany on the 3rd (Korean time). Fnatic, who won, will face the losers of G2 Esports and Mad Lions in the LEC Season Finals Losers' Finals scheduled to be held at the Sud France Arena in Montpellier, France on the 10th to advance to the finals.
Fnatic ranked 9th in LEC Winter and 8th in Spring. However, Fnatic, 풀싸롱 who recruited Hyun-taek “Noah” Oh from KT Rolster ahead of the summer season, recorded 7 wins and 2 losses in the summer regular season. Although they lost to Excel in the playoffs, Fnatic finished third and advanced to the season finals with fifth place in championship points.
Ahead of the season finals, Fnatic, whose top laner Óscar 'Oscarinin' Muñoz left due to a finger injury, re-signed 'Wonder' Martin Hansen and secured a spot in the World Cup with a win that day. Since 2017, Fnatic has successfully advanced to Worlds 7 times in a row and set a record of advancing 11 times in total.
On the other hand, Team BDS will also come to Korea, but will face the Golden Guardians, the 4th seed of the LCS, in a best-of-five series at the WGS scheduled to take place at LoL Park on October here 9th at 1 PM for the final World Cup ticket. The team that wins here will be the last to receive a World Cup play-in ticket, and the losing team will not be able to go to Worlds and will be converted to tourists.