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I thought that might be the case @KristineK86 as I have seen other posts from people saying they have received a second chance message.
The T&Cs are clear though and you have to finish first on your leaderboard to progress to the next round.
My opinion is that the second chance message is just typically King. That is, they haven't taken care with the details of the programming and the default message that people got during the Qualifiers has been forgotten about for the Final Knockouts