Outlook: esports year over
With just one more point in the final three matches of the online preliminary round of Showdown Three, the Leverkusen team missed out on a place in the offline round, which will take place this time on Friday, December 19th in Cologne. In Showdown Two last month, Showdown One winner Bayer 04 had already missed out on getting a ticket to the offline round. In the Overall tablein which Black and Red are (still) in seventh place, they will have to lose further places after the completion of this offline round.
In the overall table, the points from all online preliminary rounds (3 per win) and offline rounds (2 per win) of the five showdowns are added together and will decide next year’s place in the final round of the German Club Championship. Places 1 to 8 will move straight into the final event, the teams in places 9 to 24 will play against the remaining eight teams in a play-off round.
Things won’t continue for the Landwehr cousins until the new year. The fourth and penultimate showdown starts with the online preliminary round on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. The offline round takes place in this showdown in Berlin.
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