{"id":24664,"date":"2022-10-18T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2022-10-18T00:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:46:03","slug":"dwg-kia-players-cleared-of-covid-ahead-of-lol-worlds-knockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/dwg-kia-players-cleared-of-covid-ahead-of-lol-worlds-knockouts\/","title":{"rendered":"DWG KIA players cleared of COVID ahead of LoL Worlds knockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DWG KIA League of Legends players and staff who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 were cleared on Monday, ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/worlds\/\" title=\"LoL betting sites\">2022 LoL Worlds<\/a> knockout stage commencing this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028A League of Legends commentator, Rita, translated the screenshot of the franchise&#8217;s post on Discord and revealed that the entire team had tested negative.\u2028 \u2028&#8221;Canyon and Daeaokdam get recovery, and the whole team is tested negative,&#8221; her post read.\u2028 <\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DK discord updates Canyon and Deokdam get recovery and the whole team is tested negative. \ud83e\udd70 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4x4VbnjSPb\">pic.twitter.com\/4x4VbnjSPb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rita (@cutebchu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cutebchu\/status\/1581932941089083393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u2028Although the post revealed that the entire DWG KIA team, including their players and staff, had been cleared of COVID, Noh &#8220;Burdol&#8221; Tae-Yoon and Park &#8220;Bubbling&#8221; Jun-hyeong were not given any special mention. The substitute and the team\u2019s coach tested positive for the virus on October 14.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s post at the time explained that the &#8220;upcoming games and schedules will be adjusted accordingly to the Worlds protocols and policies&#8221;. This meant the players would participate in the next few games in a remote, isolated venue according to Riot Games\u2019 COVID-19 policies.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Besides DWG KIA, last week was riddled with several COVID-19 announcements from teams participating in the 2022 League of Legends World Championship. <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends-player-lee-scout-ye-chan-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\" title=\"Scout test positive for COVID\">EDward Gaming were the first to announce their players&#8217; COVID-19 diagnosis<\/a>, then DWG KIA and Gen.G followed suit a day before the group stage\u2019s second phase of round-robin matches.\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>On October 16, the entire lineup and coaching staff of Royal Never Give Up also tested positive for the virus.\u2028 \u2028Due to the number of teams and players infected with COVID-19, they had to participate in the group stage\u2019s second round-robin remotely.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, DWG KIA qualified for the tournament\u2019s knockout stage after defeating G2 Esports and Evil Geniuses.\u2028 \u2028The Korean team also emerged as the victor in their first outing against JD Gaming. However, they lost a tiebreaker and finished second in Group B.\u2028 \u2028<\/p>\n<p>The quarterfinal stage of the tournament will see eight teams play against each other in best-of-five matches, and only four teams will move on to the semifinals. This stage will kick off on Thursday, October 20, with Jingdong Gaming facing off against Rogue. \u2028 <\/p>\n<p>\u2028DWG KIA will duke it out with LCK\u2019s Gen.G on October 22. Coach Yang \u201cDaeny\u201d Dae-in\u2019s team will be going into the game as $3.69 outsiders, with Gen.G pegged as $1.26 favorites on the leading <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"Best LoL esports bookmakers\">LoL betting sites<\/a>.\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>DWG get the better of their Korean counterparts, they will advance to the semifinals and take on the winner between EDward Gaming and DRX. Those two teams will compete against each other on October 23, in the concluding match of the quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWG KIA League of Legends players and staff who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 were cleared on Monday, ahead of the 2022 LoL Worlds knockout stage commencing this Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2689,1524,4,24,1724],"class_list":["post-24664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid","tag-dwg-kia","tag-featured","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24669,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions\/24669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}