LGD NBW knock out EDG in a seventh game at the KPL Grand Finals

Six days after EDward Gaming sent them to the lower bracket, LGD NBW ended EDG’s run at the KPL Grand Finals. LGD won 4-3 on Thursday in a lower-bracket quarterfinal in Changsha, and they did not lead the series until the last game was over.

Always one game behind

LGD spent the whole series answering. EDG won the first, third and fifth games, and each time LGD tied it up in the next one. After game five, EDG were one win away from the lower-bracket semifinal.

At 3-3 the series went to the Ultimate Battle, the KPL’s rule for a deciding seventh game. Each coaching staff hands in its five heroes within three minutes, and the other side only sees them once the game starts.

The two teams turned up with four of the same heroes, and LGD took the decider.

Polymarket had EDG as the favorites before the first game.

The long way back to EDG

It was the second lower-bracket series in a row that LGD won from 2-3 down. Against Kuaishou Gaming on Nov 1, they lost games four and five, then won the last two.

LGD and EDG had come out of the same Challenge Stage group, the Elite Group. EDG won it and went straight into the knockout stage, while LGD got there through the Play-In Stage, with a 4-0 win against Hero JiuJing.

The two then met in the upper-bracket quarterfinals, and EDG won that series. After a 2-4 loss to Weibo Gaming on Nov 3, EDG dropped down and met LGD again.

In our records, which start in July 2025, LGD won the first five meetings between the teams and EDG the next three. Thursday’s win ended EDG’s run of three, and with it their KPL season: the Grand Finals is the league’s last event of 2026.

What’s next for LGD NBW

LGD play Talent Gaming in the lower-bracket semifinal. The winner meets the loser of JD Gaming vs Weibo Gaming for a place in the grand final in Chengdu.

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