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RedBull Battle Grounds : The real deal starts now

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The five teams have finally arrived to battle it out at the Redbull Battle Grounds; which two teams will be able to withstand the pressure and the challenges to advance to the grand finals?

The best of the best from five regions around the world are now gathered in Santa Monica to battle it out for a spot in the RedBull Battle Grounds grand finals on May 10th. The five teams are Team Malaysia representing South East Asia, Invictus Gaming representing China, Summer’s Rift representing America, Secret representing Europe and HellRaisers representing the CIS region.

Unlike other LAN tournaments, the Redbull Battle Ground has a format where the teams will not know who they will be playing against. The format is that of a challenge system which works by the teams taking turn to each other, this means that there is a possibility for one team to play five best-of-one on the first day of the tournament. In order to make things a little more interesting and fair for the teams, the tournament uses a gimmick called the “Deflector". The Deflector allows a challenged team to deny a challenge and pick another team for the challenger to play against; each team has the opportunity to only deflect once.

Each team has three lives and whether they keep a live or lose a live depends on the outcome of a best-of-one against the team they challenged. By winning the best-of-one, the team keeps their live. If the best-of-one is lost, the team loses a live. Once a team uses their three lives, they are out of the tournament. Also, for every match, the winning team will receives a total of $1,500. 

The challenges keep going until two teams remain, these teams are the ones that will advance to the grand finals in San Francisco on the 10th of May. The first match starts at 12pm local time (21 CEST).

The table below is the order of challenge on day one:

 

Pick orderChallenger
1Malaysia Team Malaysia
2China Invictus Gaming
3Russia Hellraisers
4Europe Team Secret
5United States Summoners' Rift
6Malaysia Team Malaysia


 

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