For him, the veteran Mata (25) was brought in: a legendary support player who did not seem entirely in top form during the quarter-finals.
However, it ultimately was not Mata’s fault that SKT1 lost.
Time and again, SKT1’s star player, Faker, made some mistakes. He seemed out of sync with the rest of the team, as if he was doing his own thing. G2 Esports punished this again and again.
The player camera caught a dejected superstar after a mistake in Match 4:
G2 Esports showed no reverence for the player who is revered as the “unkillable demon king”.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
The player camera caught a dejected superstar after a mistake in Match 4:
G2 Esports showed no reverence for the player who is revered as the “unkillable demon king”.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
For him, the veteran Mata (25) was brought in: a legendary support player who did not seem entirely in top form during the quarter-finals.
However, it ultimately was not Mata’s fault that SKT1 lost.
Time and again, SKT1’s star player, Faker, made some mistakes. He seemed out of sync with the rest of the team, as if he was doing his own thing. G2 Esports punished this again and again.
The player camera caught a dejected superstar after a mistake in Match 4:
G2 Esports showed no reverence for the player who is revered as the “unkillable demon king”.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
The semi-finals of the LoL Worlds 2019 were played today in Madrid. The Europeans from G2 Esports defeated the Korean superteam SKT1 with a score of 3:1. This means that the greatest player of all time in League of Legends, Faker, is eliminated from the championship.
What was played? It was the semi-finals of the LoL World Championship in Madrid, where they were looking for the final opponent for FunPlus Phoenix in Paris. They had won yesterday against Invictus Gaming.
G2 Esports is the “European super-team,” as they have acquired the strongest player from rival Fnatic, the midlaner Caps, and are stronger than ever in 2019. Their own midlaner Perkz now plays the ADC.
Excellent in every position, G2 Esports was considered one of the favorites to win the Worlds. In 2018, it would have been unthinkable for any team outside Asia to take on such a favorite role for the LoL World Championship.
However, G2 Esports has earned the reputation of “the best team Europe has ever produced.” However, they lost 2 games against a Korean team in the group stage.
At that point, some doubted whether G2 Esports was already ready for the big teams.
Just as large a team was waiting for them in the semi-finals.
SKT1 is the Korean team led by the legendary midlaner Faker. He is regarded as the “greatest LoL player” of all time.
This year, he has gathered particularly strong players around him. However, they were almost all inexperienced on the international stage before the World Championship.
Still, Khan on the top lane or Clid in the jungle had already shown that they could win games on their own. This was necessary, especially since Faker appeared to be out of form during the quarter-finals.
Europe defeats Korea 3:1 at the LoL World Championship
Here is how the series went: It was a balanced series where both teams gave no quarter. As soon as one team took the lead, a tiny mistake was enough for the opponents to catch up again.
Whenever a team made a move, the opponent countered at another part of the map, or the leading team wanted to force the fight and failed:
- When Jankos succeeded with a strong gank on the top lane, SKT1 took the dragon in the bot lane.
- In one match, Khan was 2-0 ahead on the top lane and had Wunder completely under control. But he got overconfident, pushed too far forward, and then carelessly got caught.
The game kept shifting back and forth; neither team gave an inch.
However, in the early games, the luck was predominantly on the side of G2 Esports.
- G2 Esports won Game 1 after 34 minutes with a score of 10-8, a cautious game with few group fights.
- Game 2 was won by SKT1 in 36 minutes with a score of 21-7, a clear affair where Faker showed up on LeBlanc (6-1-5), Khan on Renekton (7-0-5), and Teddy on Yasuo (5-1-8).
- Game 3 was taken by G2 Esports in 33 minutes with a score of 19:12. Perkz was outstanding on Xayah with 9-0-4. He is reputed to be the best “Xayah” player in the world.
It was noticeable that SKT1 was unable to convert the advantages their gameplay brought them. Even the Baron buff could not be used by SKT1 to pull ahead; instead, they lost in the team fight.
SKT1 substitutes Mata in for rescue
After the first 3 games, G2 Esports surprisingly led 2:1 and had match point.
SKT1 responded by taking the young support, Effort, out of the lineup. He had quite messed up Game 3. Analysts speculated that the pressure of the situation and the loud Spanish crowd were too much for the nerves of the 18-year-old.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
The player camera caught a dejected superstar after a mistake in Match 4:
G2 Esports showed no reverence for the player who is revered as the “unkillable demon king”.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
For him, the veteran Mata (25) was brought in: a legendary support player who did not seem entirely in top form during the quarter-finals.
However, it ultimately was not Mata’s fault that SKT1 lost.
Time and again, SKT1’s star player, Faker, made some mistakes. He seemed out of sync with the rest of the team, as if he was doing his own thing. G2 Esports punished this again and again.
The player camera caught a dejected superstar after a mistake in Match 4:
G2 Esports showed no reverence for the player who is revered as the “unkillable demon king”.
Ultimately, G2 Esports was the stronger team. Also because they did not show any signs of pressure.
In the end, it was Perkz on Yasuo who made the decisive action of the series. With a quadra kill, he secured the final match.
G2 Esports won Match 4 in 36 minutes with a score of 23-22. Caps played 9-4-9 on Syndra. Faker on Qiyana only 4-6-9, having started so well with 2 easy kills.
This series also lasted only 4 games – no best-of-5 at the LoL Worlds 2019 went the full length.
Caps says: “Honestly, today was totally crazy”
Here is what the winners say: Midlaner Caps said after the victory in an interview (via Inven), that his team was “often against the wall” – especially in the last match, they were far behind. Thus, they simply thought from kill to kill to get back into the match. That paid off in the end.
He said, “It was just totally crazy today, to be honest,” says Caps. Now he is just happy.
What happens next: G2 Esports won the semi-finals with 3:1. They are now heading to Paris, where next weekend, on Sunday, November 10 at around 1:00 PM, the big final against FunPlus Phoenix will take place.
Clearly dejected South Koreans are heading home.
