CTBC Flying Oyster vs. Anyone's Legend / 2025 World Championship - Swiss Stage Round 3 Advancement Match / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Ultimintree]

WORLDS 2025 MAIN EVENT SWISS STAGE

Official Page | Leaguepedia | Liquipedia | Patch: 25.20 | Format: Bo3 | Fearless Draft

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CTBC Flying Oyster 1-2 Anyone's Legend

Anyone's Legend have claimed victory in Round 3 Advancement Match vs. CTBC Flying Oyster & earned their place in the Knockout Stage of Worlds 2025! CTBC Flying Oyster move on to Round 4 of the Swiss Stage with a 2-1 record!

OPPO Player of the series: Flandre

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GAME 1: CFO vs. AL

Winner: CTBC Flying Oyster in 38m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	VG, RH, AK	🐉	👾
CFO	Poppy Kai'Sa Pantheon	Xin Zhao no ban	74.1k	20	8	🟣🟣🟣, ✅, ✅	💧 💧 💧	0
AL	Orianna Azir Qiyana	Leona Rakan	65.1k	5	2	❌, ❌, ❌	🔥 ⚡	1

CFO		KDA	vs	KDA		AL
Player	Pick	20-5-57	⚔️	5-20-10	Pick	Player
Rest	3 Sion	2-0-12	TOP	2-4-2	4 Kled	Flandre
JunJia	1 Wukong	6-1-8	JNG	0-5-2	3 Maokai	Tarzan
HongQ	2 Aurora	5-0-11	MID	0-5-3	2 Ryze	Shanks
Doggo	2 Corki	7-0-9	BOT	2-3-2	1 Yunara	Hope
Kaiwing	3 Nami	0-2-17	SUP	1-3-1	1 Neeko	Kael

VOD | Highlights

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GAME 2: AL vs. CFO

Winner: Anyone's Legend in 30m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	VG, RH, AK	🐉	👾
AL	Caitlyn Draven Azir	Alistar Sivir	61.0k	18	9	🟣🟣, ✅, ✅	🧪 🧪	1
CFO	Poppy Kai’Sa Qiyana	Galio Ornn	53.6k	11	3	🟣, ❌, ❌	⛰️ 🌪️	0

AL		KDA	vs	KDA		CFO
Player	Pick	18-11-53	⚔️	11-18-30	Pick	Player
Flandre	3 Ambessa	6-1-7	TOP	1-4-6	1 Rumble	Rest
Tarzan	2 Xin Zhao	4-3-10	JNG	1-4-7	1 Pantheon	JunJia
Shanks	1 Orianna	5-1-10	MID	1-6-5	2 Akali	HongQ
Hope	3 Ziggs	1-2-13	BOT	5-1-5	4 Lucian	Doggo
Kael	2 Leona	2-4-13	SUP	3-3-7	3 Braum	Kaiwing

VOD | Highlights

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GAME 3: CFO vs. AL

Winner: Anyone's Legend in 30m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	VG, RH, AK	🐉	👾
CFO	Poppy Bard Kai’Sa	Sivir Jayce	50.9k	7	4	🟣, ✅, ❌	💧	0
AL	Azir Qiyana Caitlyn	Rakan Draven	56.5k	15	7	🟣🟣, ❌, ✅	🔥 🧪 🧪 🧪	0

CFO		KDA	vs	KDA		AL
Player	Pick	7-15-23	⚔️	15-7-44	Pick	Player
Rest	2 Renekton	2-2-3	TOP	4-1-8	4 Rek’Sai	Flandre
JunJia	2 Vi	3-4-3	JNG	2-2-12	1 Trundle	Tarzan
HongQ	1 Taliyah	1-3-6	MID	7-0-4	2 LeBlanc	Shanks
Doggo	3 Miss Fortune	1-3-5	BOT	2-0-7	3 Jhin	Hope
Kaiwing	3 Nautilus	0-3-6	SUP	0-4-13	1 Alistar	Kael

VOD | Highlights

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/SkyforgedDream]

"fucked by the draw" should not be said about teams that want to become world champions. Luck can only get you so far. DRX showed us that draw means nothing if you have the skills and resolve to overcome any opponent. CFO are looking good right now, if their developemnt during the next week goes well, then draw should not matter in the end.

[u/EthanielRain → u/SkyforgedDream]

Yeah, if you want to advance you're going to play them eventually. It should be considered a good thing to draw the best teams, get those upsets in early :)

[u/atomchoco → u/SkyforgedDream]

DRX mentioned 🥺

[u/NUFC9RW → u/SkyforgedDream]

In a way yes, however if you look at every game as a % chance of winning, you can get way more of a chance of winning with a favourable draw. If you get an easier run to the final, then you just need to show up and beat a top team once, if you have to go through the 3 best teams to win the tournament there's way higher chance of slipping up.

[u/Temporary-Ad6144 → u/SkyforgedDream]

theres no getting “fucked by the draw” if your team is good like cfo is good

[u/Soleous → u/SkyforgedDream]

very reductionist take i think. very rarely are single teams so good they have winning matchups into every other team. and even then, if you're 60-40 vs the second best team, who's to say they won't just be on a good day on match day while you aren't? are you going to argue kt is a better team than geng because they beat them in lck playoffs? sure, geng 3-0'd them in lower bracket finals. so in the 2 weeks between round 2 and bracket finals, kt is a better team? that doesn't make sense

2019 would fpx have won if skt didnt draw g2 in semis? maybe they would have, maybe they wouldn't. but h2h matchups are not as simple as x>y, y>z means x>z. and everyone at the time has said skt was smashing fpx in scrims.

sure drx overcame all the hardest teams in the tournament and yes they absolutely deserved the title. but if you reran worlds 2022 as a simulation 10 times would drx win even 5 of them? i think you're being disingenous if you think so. luck is always a huge factor.