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Who: Samsung Galaxy (South Korea, 5-1) vs. Cloud9 (North America, 3-3)When: Thursday, Oct. 13 at 6:00 PM Eastern/3:00 PM PacificWhere: Chicago Theatre in Chicago, IllinoisWhats at stakeFor Samsung Galaxy, this is the culmination of a two-year rebuild that has finally reached its end point. The organization was left in ruins after the 2014 World Championships when the two best teams in the world, Samsung White and Samsung Blue, decided to leave South Korea for bigger contracts in China. Instead of buying flashy names to replace them, Samsung went into a full rebuild, breaking down every remnant of the old championship teams and starting again from the rubble foundation.It hasnt been easy for Samsung these past two years. In 2015, it was a joke of a franchise. The teams it fielded were bad, and the former world champion organization was seen as cheap for not paying its players to stay or bringing it established names to replace them. But Samsungs two-year blueprint has come to fruition, and each starting member on the team has been systematically placed to get Samsung where it is now. The addition of veteran Kang Ambition Chan-yong at the start of the year was the piece that truly put Samsung back in a position of playoff contention, giving the youthful team a captain it could rally around.Samsung [started] from the bottom, Ambition said. People could watch us grow, and I think thats why [they] think were such a fun team [to watch].Cloud9, Samsungs opponent, is just trying to prove it belongs in the quarterfinals. After a disappointing group stage, the last North American team left in the competition needs to pick its game up on all corners of the map if it wants to have any chance of making it to the semifinals.But I guess the stars aligned for us, said William Meteos Hartman. I think we agree as a team we s--- the bed this group stage. And were just going to try to use the motivation of being the only NA team here.C9 was able to get ahead early against tournament favorite SK Telecom T1 in the second match the two teams played together, but NAs third-place team couldnt take control in the mid-game and eventually lost in the end stages. Its only win of the day was against Chinas I May, a team that was dealing with internal issues as one of its starters, Yun Road Han-gil, was banned for the first game of Week 2 for toxicity online. Funnily enough, the only game I May won was the one game Road sat out on.Matchup to watch: Lee Crown Min-ho (SSG) vs. Nicolaj Jensen Jensen (C9)Crown was one of the breakout stars in San Francisco for the group stages. His Viktor is a must-ban, with an overall record of 3-0 and a statline of 20/5/17 already in the tournament. 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Bryant, who signed a five-year, $34 million contract as a free agent with Cleveland in March, reported symptoms on Monday morning, a team spokesman said.The Minnesota Vikings and former coach Brad Childress denied allegations from former Vikings offensive lineman Artis Hicks that the team had a bounty system in 2008-09 that was similar to the one allegedly run by the New Orleans Saints.The NFL had no comment on whether it would investigate Hicks claims, which were revealed in a new book about Brett Favre by author Jeff Pearlman.It was part of the culture, Hicks said, according to an excerpt published by Deadspin. I had coaches start a pot and all the veterans put in an extra $100, $200, and if you hurt someone special, you get the money.The Vikings response: There is no truth to it.Childress, who now works as co-offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs, said Thursday, I had a great opportunity to coach a lot of great people there, including Artis Hicks, at the Minnesota Vikings. I have too much respect for the Wilf family [and] professional football to have anything to do with a bounty system. Im going to let it stand at that.Some current and former Vikings also denied any knowledge of any type of bounty or payment-incentive system.I havent heard of any bounty program since Ive been here [since 2007], defensive end Brian Robison said Thursday. Im very unaware of a bounty program. Im not going to sit here and talk about it all day. It is what it is. If Artis wants to say stuff like that, obviously, hes trying to bring attention on him. So what? At the end of the day, like I said, Im unaware of any bounty program thats happened here in the time that Ive been here.I was very surprised. I actually saw it [Wednesday] and I was like -- basically the first thing I said, in the car with my wife, was, What the hell? It was very shocking to me. But you know, its not surprising. We were on a roll, and of course, all this comes out when you get a loss. Whatever. It is what it is.Former linebacker Ben Leber and former punter Chris Kluwe also denied the claims on Twitter and chatted back and forth:The Vikings, of course, were the most prominent victims of the Saints alleged bounty program, with claims that a specific bounty was placed on Favre in the 2010 NFC Champioonship Game by Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma.ddddddddddddAnd Childress was the one who reportedly informed the NFL that he had heard about the bounty on Favre from a player.The league initially found no evidence of wrongdoing against the Saints when it first investigated in 2010. However, the league reopened its investigation in 2012 based on further claims from former Saints coaching assistant Mike Cerullo.The NFL then found that the Saints ran an injury-incentive program for three years under former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, including rewards for players being carted off or knocked out of games through legal hits. The league doled out the most severe punishments in its history, including year-long suspensions for head coach Sean Payton and Williams, and the loss of two second-round draft picks.The league attempted to suspend four players, including Vilma for a full year. All of the player suspensions were ultimately overturned after numerous appeals, with former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue serving as the arbitrator and finding that he saw no justification for such unprecedented punishments.Tagliabue wrote in his decision that he believed Vilma offered some sort of bounty on Favre in a team meeting but that it wasnt clear if it was a serious pledge or amount to trash talk that occurs regularly before and during games.Since that time, there have been other reports of players claiming that they were involved in similar injury-incentive programs, most prominently from several former members of the Washington Redskins when they played under Williams.However, the NFL said it found no evidence of wrongdoing following investigations into both the Redskins and the Buffalo Bills, where Williams previously coached.A separate claim in Pearlmans book was also refuted Wednesday when Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers strongly denied that he referred to Favre as Grandpa the first time he met him in 2005.ESPNs Ben Goessling and Adam Teicher contributed to this report. 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