Immediately after the 2024 World Final Play-in round ended, Riot Games conducted the draw for the first matches of the Swiss round. Accordingly, VCS champion GAM Esports will face FLyQuest in the opening match at the Swiss round.

At the Play-in round of Worlds 2024, four teams MAD Lions KOI, GAM Esports, paiN Gaming and PSG Talon are the representatives who won the right to enter the Swiss round. Thus, 16 teams participating in the main event round of Worlds 2024 have fully participated to compete in the Swiss round of the tournament.

GAM Esports meets FlyQuest in the first series of the 2024 Swiss World Finals

Regarding the drawing method, the 16 teams will be divided into 4 seed groups, the teams in group 1 will face group 4, group 2 will face the teams in group 3. Especially in this first series of matches, teams from the same group will face each other. 1 area will not be able to meet each other. 

Immediately after PSG Talon won 2-0 against 100 Thieves, Riot Games conducted the draw for the first series of matches of the Swiss round with the following results: 

Hanwha Life Esports - PSG Talon

GAM Esports - FlyQuest

G2 Esports - paiN Gaming

Bilibili Gaming - MAD Lions KOI

Top Esports - T1

Team Liquid - LNG Esports

Fnatic - Dplus KIA

GenG - Weibo Gaming

Swiss World Championship 2024 draw results

Thus, VCS champion GAM Esports in group 4 will face FlyQuest in group 1. This is also the lowest rated team in the group of major tournament champions, compared to Hanwha Life Esports, Bilibili Gaming or G2 Esports. Despite being underestimated, GAM still has a chance to create a surprise by only deciding the result with a single match. 

In the remaining matches, the most notable match will be the rematch of the Esports World Cup 2024 final between Top Esports and T1. However, with unstable performance from both teams, the outcome of this match will be very difficult to predict. In addition, some other notable matches are GenG facing LPL's No. 4 seed Weibo Gaming and Team Liquid facing LNG Esports. 

The Swiss round of Worlds 2024 will take place from October 3-14 in Berlin, Germany. In terms of format, teams will be drawn based on the score, teams with 3 wins will continue, and teams with 3 losses will be eliminated. All matches that decide the ticket to continue or be eliminated are played in Bo3, the rest are played in Bo1.