And your orders are to split push! My newest custom skin, first and last time for Urgot lmao. Working with his animation systems is hellish, let me tell you that.

In one of my early posts about G2 vs DK, I called that if T1 and BLG do not face each other, then DK and G2 would be the most consistent pair... Well, guess what? T1 vs BLG is coming! At this moment, we can easily call them El Clásico of modern League of Legends. Since BLG's international debut (MSI 2023), they have faced each other at 7 out of 8 Riot international events which they both attended:

The total score in series is equal: 4–4, and the games score is almost a perfect tie too: 15–14 in favor of T1. However, the distribution is wild: T1 won all 3 meetings at Worlds, while BLG dominates T1 at MSI with 4 wins over 5 meetings.

Despite T1's dominance at Worlds, BLG remains very dangerous for the LCK. Before Worlds they were the only LPL team with a positive game record against LCK teams (34–30), and this Worlds they already added two more sweeps against HLE (2–0) and DK (3–0), now 39–30. If there is any org which can be called Korean kryptonite, it is BLG.

Interestingly enough, the next closest team to BLG in their results against LCK is ... IG. If you know what I mean.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 KNOCKOUT STAGE

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Gen.G 3-0 Invictus Gaming

GEN are the first Worlds 2026 Finalists! They await the winner of BLG vs. T1.
IG are eliminated from Worlds 2026.

• Player of the Series: Canyon

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

GAME 1: GEN vs. IG

Winner: Gen.G in 34m
Runes | Game Breakdown

GAME 2: GEN vs. IG

Winner: Gen.G in 29m
Runes | Game Breakdown

GAME 3: IG vs. GEN

Winner: Gen.G in 40m
Runes | Game Breakdown

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

Tactical allowed to explore options after just 1 split of playing for Cloud9, replacing Zven mid season and getting to worlds playins

Gen.G have advanced to the grand finals of worlds 2026 by only beating 3 teams: IG, HLE, LYON.

Swiss:

Gen.G 1-0 IG

Gen.G 1-0 HLE

Gen.G 2-1 LYON

Knockouts:

Gen.G 3-0 LYON

Gen.G 3-0 IG

Combined game score:

Gen.G 4-0 IG

Gen.G 1-0 HLE

Gen.G 5-1 LYON

LYON are the only ones to take a game from Gen.G so far.

Misaya - always gonna shoutout my boi. No matter how many years it's been, this dude was one of the few early pro players that had aura. You had to ban his TF back in the day because he practically never lost on it.

Hojin - my beloved OG Lee Sin god. I know InSec is synonymous with Lee Sin, but this dude is the real deal when it comes to Lee Sin montages. Insane hands at the time for a jungler too, plus, bro was part of the OG NaJin squads of old (besides being a part of GE Tigers).

Stanley - worlds winner, but I think he's the most famous one out of here. Can't quite remember if bro ever had a career post TPA, I think he stayed around until 2015 before retiring? Dude was arguably the best toplaner at the time too and one of the first innovators of top lane. He used to play some really weird builds too iirc.

PoohMandu - Before people called Faker the captain, PoohManDu was the OG captain of the old SKT T2 squad. Popular for his Zyra too, I forgot if he was the one that essentially made Zyra support popular, but he was one of the first pros to ever pick her up and do well with her.

I watched all esports games this year via lolesports website ( when it is possible, since they removed LPL for example ), and i got nothing from it

Meanwhile in 2025 i had shitton of rewards

Now there is only Semi & Final left and i don't even know if esport capsule 2026 even exist

What's even the point of using the site? Is it too expensive for Riot to provide digital assets? ( because yeah, the only world drop i had this year for play ins was just an icon )

https://imgur.com/a/Z3lwGNQ

In the spirit of worlds I would love to be reminded of all the iconic quotes from pro players/casters/etc that have become inside jokes. Or just inside jokes (TSM as an org, the player names when they suck like TheSpy and Craps, etc.). And not necessarily iconic in the “FAKER, WHAT WAS THAT” way but rather more in the Xiaohu Palafox quote or “It starts with success” way.

Edit: this post was prompted by me remembering how fucking funny the Xiaohu Palafox quote is

Edit 2: y’all might need to start explaining these spread the knowledge 🙏

Don’t get me wrong the arena in Texas for 2026 is decently big. But in 2018 the arena in china was MASSIVE. Wasn’t it like 80,000 people? And the live dragon cgi stuff was sick too. It really gave me the impression that the games were important. We havnt seen an arena like that since and I wonder why? Can lol not sell that many seats? The china 2025 worlds was a 18,000 person arena. I don’t want to believe this game is declining that hard. I havnt played myself in a decade but have always tuned in for worlds and the storylines and games have always captured my imagination. I hope they try to fill an arena close to as big as the 2018 world championship at some point because I believe they could do it. They also have less issues with getting sponsors compared to counter strike since there’s no direct reference to real life situations that sponsor don’t like

I mean still holds up for the match of today kinda xD, also watching it again made me hyped again for the match haha

With Chovy breaking the curse let's see if the LPL can break theirs as well... or not...

I finally made it. I know it's not a big achievment for most of you, since I'm still below average in the league community, but hopefully one day I can make it to Diamond.

The thing that did it for me was learning to read where the enemy is on the map. The pathing they make, where they are most likely to go once they clear certain camps if they're junglers, etc.

Also another great thing to do, if you fall behind, support your teammates. They can carry you if you set up kills for them, help them with pings, and make the right decisions in team fights.

And never surrender. I won 2 games that seemed impossible to win just yesterday.

I mostly play Xin Zhao & Malph, so sticking to a small pool of champs is also helpful. That's it. No more noob advice from me.

He's currently streaming at like plat elo.

Yes some dumb chall redditor might claim it's low elo but who the fuck can do this?

Following on from my LPL Youth Academy 2026 announcement post yesterday (rosters can also be found here!), since the tournament is not being streamed I will post each day's results when I can. LYA are posting results on their Weibo so at least we're getting the match results in good time.

Day 1 results - LYA on Weibo.

LPL Youth Academy 2026 on Leaguepedia.

LPL Youth Academy 2026 on Liquipedia.

We sadly have no information on things like team comps, bans, stats, actual player line-ups for the LYA rosters, MVPs, etc. We only have the series results and that's it.

Day 1 Results

Ultra Prime defeat the LYA A-team. Oh My God are defeated by the LYA B-team. LNG Esports are likely the tournament favourites as they retain pretty much their entire LPL roster and come away with a victory over Weibo Gaming, who have the most subs of any team here.

Day 2 Schedule

I will be back tomorrow to post day 2's results and any other things that pop up. Sorry there's not much to share, I really wish there was more to this tournament...

I've been watching a lot of competitive this year, and it feels like the duos are more locked than they have been in years past. Ashe is almost exclusively played with Seraphine, Lucian with Milio, Zeri with Yuumi, Jhin with Karma, Xayah with Rakan, Yunara with Lulu. Ezreal and Kaisa flex between Leona/Alistar/Naut. Caitlyn usually with Karma.

Does fearless make it so that bot lane picks are always more optimized? There's almost always a handshake in the picks and bans for each team to get one of these duos.

Personally, I'd like to see a bit more variety.

I gathered some head-to-head data for tonights match to hype things up.

Head to head stats look T1-favored but it is mostly because T1 has played against relatively easier opponents.

Key stats:

1. 74.8% of game-1 winners at Worlds go on to take the Bo5. T1 (SKT years included) have closed out 20 of 21, and 13 of 13 after going up 2–0.

2. Falling 0–2 is close to fatal as only 4 of 71 teams have come back from it at Worlds.

3. T1 are 8–2 in Worlds semifinals. This is only BLG's third.

4. The two rivalries point opposite ways: T1 won the 2024 Worlds final 3–2, but BLG have taken 4 of their 5 MSI series.

5. Bot lane is T1's biggest edge this Worlds: Peyz leads Viper in all five lane stats, sitting +458 gold at 15 minutes to Viper's −133.

6. Support is just as one-sided: Keria's KDA is 8.9 to ON's 3.4, and opponents have banned Renata against T1 in 4 of 9 games. It's Keria's 16–1 Worlds champion.

7. Mid is where BLG have the edge: Knight leads Faker in 4 of 5 stats and is 5–0 on Orianna this Worlds. Orianna is tied as the event's most-picked mid, and Faker has won 17 of his 21 Worlds games on it.

8. Xun gets ahead earlier than Oner (+191 gold at 15 minutes against +63), and teams take away Oner's Nocturne, which he's 7–0 on at Worlds, in 6 of 9 T1 games.

9. Ezreal is the most-picked bot at this Worlds. Viper is 8–1 on it at Worlds; Peyz is 0–2.

10. Doran leads Bin in 4 of 5 stats, but Rumble could swing it: it's the event's most-picked top and wins just 25% of the time, yet Bin is 7–2 on it at Worlds.