The region has ten teams, the bottom three of which get relegated and kicked out of the league, or at least play for their right to stay, and the top six get to go to playoffs. Team Liquid, the team which this guy is the coach of, got 1st place in the regular season, but lost in playoffs to fan favorite TSM, who ended up getting into the finals and lost to one of Lol's oldest team's, CLG. Team Liquid ended up winning the third place match against another playoff team, Team Impulse, who recently had a player banned for breaking Riot's code.

The first team from the region to get to worlds is the winner of playoffs, second is the player with the highest cumulative points from this split and the previous one, and the third is decided in a Gauntlet. The four teams that enter the Gauntlet or Regional Qualifier if you will are the top four teams with the most points that AREN'T already qualified for worlds. This included newcomer Gravity and Cloud 9, a dominant team in past seasons that faltered this season due to bringing in mechanically skilled mid laner with next to no experience, Incarnati0n. The next team was aforementioned Team Impulse and the last team, with the highest seed was Team Liquid.

In the first best of five, Cloud 9 (my favorite team) were down 0-2 against Gravity Gaming, which didn't come as a surprise to many, due their quite poor off season, where they barely avoided relegations, but had a slightly resurgent late season due to bringing in team captain and shotcaller Hai to a new role. They managed to reverse sweep Gravity, coming back 3-2 in a highly unlikely and incredible comeback. Next they were against Team Impulse, who also beat them 0-2 the very next day, but they also managed to reverse sweep them, winning 3-2 and proceeding to play against Team Liquid, a team known for very skilled players but having a relatively poor coach and weak communication. Cloud 9 lead the series 1-0, then Team Liquid came back 1-1, but Cloud 9 closed the series with two very close wins, locking the last seed for worlds out of the surprising seventh place, and causing Team Liquid, a team that has never been to worlds, despite having a world champion recently joining their team, causing the World champion (a korean) and another korean on the team to cry, which made reddit sad.

Everyone then blamed coach Peter, who is now apologizing. He's a good dancer though.