China's OMG, Russia's Gambit Gaming, South Korea's SK Telecom SKT1, and Fnatic with players from all over Europe are the four teams to qualify into the bracket stage. While OMG and SKT1 ran away with Group A, the deciding spots from Group B came down to the final day of games between the top five teams. They will now face off against the four regional winners which have an automatic berth into the quarterfinals, with OMG playing fellow Chinese team Royal Club, Fnatic taking on Cloud 9 from the United States, Gambit against Najin Sword, and SKT1 verse Taiwan's Gamania Bears.

"I think the Chinese are the unexpected region so far, they've been playing really well," . "We played Royal and have watched OMG play--they put insane pressure on the map and really know how to push an advantage. The Chinese teams are the ones to watch out for the most."

What looked to be a lost game for Gambit against Vulcun, and with it an automatic bid by Korea's Samsung Ozone into the brackets, was turned around after mistakes by the Americans in the mid-game. Gambit came back to secure the victory and force a one-game decider with Ozone to determine the last spot. Led by captain Alexey Ichetovkin's Kassadin, Gambit defeated Ozone for the second time at the Championships, and secured themselves into the bracket stage.

"We should lose that game, the game was lost," Ichetovkin told GameSpot about their match against Vulcun, thinking their tournament life was coming to an end. "But we were fighting till the end."

#147;I was much more prepared for the game against Ozone and it paid off. I asked [Fnatic]#147;s XPeke about the matchup and the style beforehand.#147;

Gambit will now go up against Korea's top seeded team Najin Sword in the first round of the quarterfinals, the team he wanted to face the least.

"I don#147;t want to go against Najin Sword," Ichteovkin said before the brackets were drawn. "We don't know anything about them, we have no information. We've scrimmaged all the teams except Najin."

A transatlantic battle waits ahead for Cloud 9 and Fnatic, as America's far and away number one team is faced with a hungry European squad who has only lost one game at the championships thus far.

"We've practiced [with] a few of the international teams such as Gambit and Lemondogs," says Cloud 9's Hartman. "We've been watching all the games from World's, play solo queue, just doing anything we can to prepare. When I watch the games I look for certain things and how teams play, but I don't want to go into what I#147;m looking for."

"Our play style holds up to the other regions and we're not significantly behind like some people like to think we are. Fnatic#147;s been playing really well, I don#147;t really know how it#147;ll go.#147;

#147;Cloud 9 and Gama Bears are probably the two easies [teams to play in the Quarterfinals], but I#147;m really not sure at all," said Fnatic Lauri"Cyanide"Happonen before the brackets were drawn. #147;It#147;s really hard to figure out these teams because we haven#147;t seen anything from them. "It'll be easier for them to research us, but it might be our advantage that we are kind of warmed up from the groups, while it#147;s their first offline event in a while."

The group stages ended with some controversy between Team SoloMid and SKT1, where hometown fans for TSM from SKT1. While players use noise-cancelling headsets, teams competing in the group stage are not inside sound-protected booths which are standard for all games in OGN's Champions League.

Counter Logic Gaming Owner and former starter George "HotShotGG" Georgallidis is not happy with the current setup that Riot Games has for the players.

"Riot, please stop this bulls**t and get soundproof booths," Georgallidis wrote in a scathing statement on "The extra production value is not worth it. Putting the white noise up DOESN'T HELP, so please stop that too. I'm sorry, but this issue has gone on for too long. I've heard countless Barons and ganks as they were happening because of the speakers + audience. In my pro career I can safely safe I've heard GAME CHANGING things from the outside at least 5 or 6 times."

"Ruining the spirit and fairness of competition is NOT worth it. I love Riot and everything they've done for the scene but this just boils my blood to hear about every time. Sympathize for the players, I know a game where it was lost for a team due to players hearing outside noises. Even if there is a small chance of it happening, this is a teams future being diminished because of negligence."

At the time of publishing, Riot Games has not responded to requests for comment.

The Quarterfinals begin today at 3 p.m. EST/Noon PST and continue through Thursday. The Semifinals at the Galen Center begin on Friday. Watch the eventlive

From: www.gamespot.com

The Season 3 finals began with the first day of group matches, where the top two teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinals to meet with the first-place finishers of each region. Teams in the group stage include Team SoloMid and Team Vulcun from the United States, Samsung Galaxy Ozone and SK Telecom T1 from South Korea, Fnatic, Gambit Gaming (Russia), Lemondogs (Sweden), GamingGear (Lithuania) from Europe, OMG from China, and Mineski from the Philippines. Cloud 9 from the United States, Gamania Bears from Taiwan, Najin Sword from South Korea, and Royal Club from China wait the winners in the Quarterfinals.

Games kicked off with TSM taking a quick victory over a GamingGear team who will have a rough road ahead of them these playoffs, and Lemondogs putting up a battle with tournament favorites SKT1.

Things ramped up much quicker for TSM's next match against OMG, a team that is playing outside of China for the first time. OMG AD Carry Guo "San" JunLiang left no question of their tournament inexperience by leading them to two wins over TSM and SKT1. Guo in average gold per game, and second in KDA with 19.

"I never thought we could beat SKT1," midlaner Yu "Cool" JiaJun told GameSpot about their wins. "We've watched all of their previous games and their AP and AD carries are so strong. I think the reason we were able to win against SKT1 was because our Jungler [Yin "LoveLin" Le] played great in the beginning. He was able to get us our advantages."

"We didn't know much about TSM before our game. We didn't put a lot of pressure on ourselves before playing them. We actually have very high expectations for ourselves. I think it's important to have confidence in your own team."

"The biggest thing was that we lost mid," TSM support Alex "Xpecial" Chu. "Fizz vs. Ahri is supposed to be a winning matchup for [TSM Captain] Reginald, and he lost the lane. Ahri got out of control. Today was a frustrating experience and hopefully we learned a lot from it. We've still got six more games, and if we can win five we have a really good shot of making it out of the group stage."

Chu believes Group A to be a much more difficult group, stating that most analysts have picked SKT1, OMG, and Lemondogs as the best teams in each of their regions--Korea, China, and Europe, respectively.

"I say we'll get out of group stage, and I firmly believe Vulcun can get out and have a really good shot," said Chu. "I'm 100 percent sure if we were in Group B, we would get out."

Group B saw Vulcun with a big win over Fnatic to start things off, and SG Ozone return the favor soon after. SG Ozone closed out the day against Gambit Gaming, which earned the final spot in the European playoffs after a close decider against Evil Geniuses. Gambit used Vulcun's similar lineup in their game against SG Ozone for their own benefit, getting them a crucial win against one of Korea's best teams.

"I think we were not that nervous, we knew what they were going to do," said Gambit Captain Alexey "Alex Ich" Ichetovkin. "They really suffered versus Vulcun, and we were pretty sure we had an edge. We decided to pick our comfort picks, and we knew [what they would pick] because we picked similar to Vulcun."

Ichetovkin says that Gambit has used their preparation against teams like OMG in the days leading into the event.

"We're scrimming a lot against the Chinese teams, against OMG. They brought a lot to our teamplay and game overall. We've changed a bit about our game. We're pretty confident. I think we should be able to win against the other teams. The only team we#146;re not sure against is Fnatic. They're really good against us."

Day two was headlined by a battle between Gambit and Fnatic for the top spots in Group B. Fnatic has not lost a game to Gambit since the Spring Playoff Finals, having lost all the games in the Summer Season. Ichetovkin's worries came true as Fnatic continued their streak to tie up both teams 3-1 on the top of Group B.

Fnatic Top Laner Paul "sOAZ" Boyer believes the picking phase played a key factor in their win.

"Everyone thought went good for us. I think we really out banned and out picked them, and we played good. I think Gambit is the team we know the most in Europe. We know how to play against them. Gambit is really predictable on their picks."

"We expected a bit more from the Koreans. I think they're really strong individual players but their teamplay is not that good compared to what we've seen before."

Hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in from around the globe to watch the opening day of the championships on live-stream, though no confirmation could be given on peak concurrent viewers or total views. The #Worlds hashtag trended third in the United States above NFL games at certain times, and at one point there was over 25,000 concurrent users on the League of Legends community hub on Reddit.

Reddit General Manager Erik Martin tells GameSpot that the League of Legends subreddit was the most active subreddit on the entire site yesterday. "It was indeed the most active (by pageviews) subreddit for the day," he said.

Riot Games head of eSports Dustin Beck told GameSpot that the developer has been blown away by the event's reception thus far.

"We're just completely floored by the community's reception as we kick off the group stages of the Season 3 World Championship," Beck said. "We can't wait to see which teams make it out of the Group Stages, and we hope fans enjoy the rest of this week's games as much as we're gonna!"

The group stages continue again tonight and every night at 7 p.m. PST through till Saturday, September 21. Watch the event is live on location provided interviews every day of the championships.

From: www.gamespot.com

The Season 3 finals begin with six days of group stage matches, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the Quarterfinals to meet with the first-place finishers of each region. Teams in the group stage include Team SoloMid and Team Vulcun from the United States, Samsung Galaxy Ozone and SK Telecom T1 from South Korea, Fnatic, Gambit Gaming (Russia), Lemondogs (Sweden), GamingGear (Lithuania) from Europe, OMG from China, and Mineski from the Philippines. Cloud 9 from the United States, Gamania Bears from Taiwan, Najin Sword from South Korea, and Royal Club from China await in the Quarterfinals.

Group A begins with .

Professional players whos teams have been eliminated from the playoffs will be analysts for the event, including Counter Logic Gaming#146;s Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng, Evil Geniuses Stephen "Snoopeh" Ellis, and SK Gaming#146;s Carlos "ocelote" Rodr&iĂłguez Santiago. They will join Riot Games#146; broadcasters Leigh #146;Deman#146; Smith, David #146;Phreak#146; Turley, and Joshua "Jatt" Leesman.

Games started at 3 p.m. EST/12 Noon PST and can be watched live on .

will be providing live coverage and updates every day from the Season 3 Championships.

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No mention was made of the Target Ticket app being available for Sony's PlayStation devices, though Variety notes that Target's intention is to release the service for every Internet-video device by the end of 2014.

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Target Ticket does not carry a subscription fee, though Target divisional merchandise manager of entertainment Anne Stanchfield said this was considered. Ultimately, however, she said Target's own market research indicated users wanted the "newest content available," which is not available on subscription video-on-demand services like Netflix.

Microsoft that Xbox 360 users in the United States spend more time with non-gaming Xbox Live entertainment applications that they do playing multiplayer games over the service.

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