Today, on March 12th, the European team Karmine Corp achieved a surprising victory at League of Legends: They were able to win against the favored Chinese team Top Esports at the tournament “The First Stand” in Seoul.
This was the situation: Currently, 5 teams are playing in LoL, each the best from their region, in a group stage at the new tournament The First Stand
. Everyone plays against everyone. 4 teams advance. The worst team gets eliminated already now.
The Europeans Karmine Corp lost against the 2 nominally weaker teams in the competition and were practically already confirmed as the team that would be eliminated.
The Chinese team Top Esports entered the tournament as co-favorites. They had lost one game against South Korea but won one game against the USA.
It was pretty much clear: Karmine Corp would lose today without a chance against Top Esports, and thus the tournament would be practically over for them.
Karmine Corp decisively defeats the Chinese champion
And this is how it happened: Karmine Corp unexpectedly won decisively against Top Esports with 2-0 in just 2 matches.
The 1st match was decided by the Europeans in 31 minutes. Star-rookie Caliste played 9-5-13 on Ashe. Top laner Canna contributed 10-3-6 on Jayce.
The Europeans also won Match 2 decisively with 18-5. Here, Caliste dominated with 8-0-6, while mid laner Vladi played 6-0-2 on Yone.
Twitch streamer Caedrel sees the performance of the Chinese as so poor that he wonders how the US team, Team Liquid, could lose against them:
The funniest timeline
This is the perception: On Reddit, the game is seen as a spectacular surprise victory, but especially the Chinese have to endure some mockery. For them, it is already an embarrassment, as they say.
TES is translated as Top Eastern Swimmers
, as the team that has to swim home the fastest from South Korea.
It is said that while Top Esports is nationally extremely strong, they regularly embarrass themselves internationally.
Others even joke: Now there is only one great region
in LoL, South Korea.
It is hardly imaginable, they say, what kind of trouble awaits the Chinese players if they actually lose against the team from Thailand and are eliminated.
The performance of Karmine Corp, first losing against the weakest teams and then dominating a co-favorite, is seen as “hilariously funny” and “typical for the LEC.”
One user compares Karmine Corp with “Counter-Logic” and calls them “Kounter Cogic”. Well. The tournament doesn’t seem to be running logically at the moment. Maybe we will still see our friend Teemo in the match against the favorites from South Korea, who have won everything so far: Professional in LoL considers playing the impossible champ to surprise the stars from Asia
