After some semifinals with the big matches between South Koreans and Chinese, T1 and XRD earned the right to star in the grand finale of League of Legends World Cup (World Cup 2022)which began on September 29th and will culminate this Saturday at 21:00 in Argentina with a mega show at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
T1 and DRX, both South Korean teams will be the ones that will give us one of the unique and most anticipated finals of this 2022 World Cup, with a comparison best of five games (Bo5)which will be admired by 18,000 people at the stadium and millions through the official LoL Esports signals on YouTube and Twitch.
Additionally, this awesome series will feature the story of the most important Spanish-speaking streamer on the planet: Ibai Llanoswho will put all his mark on it with a set assembled exclusively from the home of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.
To give more color to the sports show, a show led by Lil Nas Xthe same one who gave voice to the official anthem of the 2022 World Cup (“Star Walkin”). He will be there too jackson wang will present his new song “Fire to the Flame”, which will serve as a promotional theme for the new cosmetic line of the video game.
World Cup 2022: Faker, the Messi of LoL, aims for his fifth final
Sang Hyeok Leeknown all over the world under his pseudonym “false”is by far the best player of all time in the League of Legends video game.
The 26-year-old T1 player transcended e-sports history by appearing in video clips such as Ignite, including countless World Cup clips for his celebrations.
Together with SKT1 he won the Season 3 World Cup against the Royal club, in 2015 he snatched the victory from the claws of the ROX Tigers and in 2016 he gave us a heart-pounding streak against Samsung Galaxy in which he triumphed with a 3: 2 in favor. of the team now known as T1, being the last year they won the World Cup.
But his lush title race was halted in 2017, against Spain’s G2 in 2019 and China’s Edward Gaming in 2021.
If he wins, Faker, often considered the best player in League of Legends history, would get a fourth title.
World Cup 2022: T1 and DRX’s path to the final
DRX is the “Cinderella” of the 2022 World Cupbeing the first quintet to reach the first final from the Play-In zone, the same one they shared with Isurus Gaming at the beginning of October, a real milestone in the history of eSports.
This Korean team, which entered the tournament through the previous round, defeated in the semifinals the favorites GengG (3-1). The day before, T1 had qualified by dominating the Chinese team JDG with the same result, led by their star “Faker”.
T1, which has already won the Summoner’s Cup, a trophy awarded to the winner, on three occasions (2013, 2015 and 2016), will play its fifth final in twelve editions on Saturday night in Argentina.
League of Legends (LoL for short) is a very popular game played in five-on-five teams with the aim of destroying the opposing team’s base. Within the world of eSports, video game competitions, the final of the LoL World Cup is considered the most prestigious event of the year.
Source: Clarin
