the South Korean team On Saturday, DRX was crowned champion of the League of Legends World Video Game Tournament after defeating the first candidate T1which has in its ranks the League of Legends MessiLee Sang-hyeok aka “false“, in an exciting finale held in San Francisco and which millions of people have followed through the Internet.
The DRX team began its adventure at the 2022 World Cup on September 29, in Mexico City, when it had to start competing in the previous Play-In phase where it faced several teams from emerging regions, including Argentina. Isurus gamefor instance.
After more than a month of competitions, this sort of “Cinderella” of video games has realized her biggest dream: to beat Edward game (China), champion of 2021, in the quarterfinals and the Korean champion Gen.G in the semifinals. Along with the title it also arrived $ 489,500 of the grand prize.
If we want to bring it to the level of football, the DRX epic might be linked a hypothetical triumph of South Korea in Qatar 2022. Does anyone imagine they can win their own group – which they share with Uruguay and Portugal -, eliminate Argentina, Germany and Brazil in the final? Here’s how incredible the win against T1 was, like a Hollywood script.
In this historic triumph, Kim “Deft” Hyuk-kyu received the long-awaited award in his ten-year career. Furthermore, at the age of 26, he became the oldest player to win the World Cup.
“Deft stands for 100% perseverance. I think as a team captain he spread it to his teammates and allowed them to lift the cup. Another who did not have that attitude and that desire to want to break all the mold and get such a difficult dream, it would be completely impossible “, they acknowledge. Markus “Ukkyr” Leuembergercoach of Isurus Gaming.
its counterpart, Lee Sang-hyeokknown worldwide in the video game by his alias “Faker”, possibly the best League of Legends player of all time and one of the highest paid in this virtual world, has been demoted from his fourth World Cup crown with T1 and become the most successful international player.
World Cup 2022: as defined at the end between DRX and T1
The most successful team in the history of this T1 discipline, champion of four titles, started as the favorite and took advantage of a series of best of five games in the first round.
By the second game, DRX was able to start countering the thrust and consistency of T1’s play. The 1-1 gave the team that no one had expectations for what it takes to dream of a heroic victory.
The third game It was the most complicated thing for the team that went from Play-In to the final, since the international community strongly criticized the participation of their jungler, as the rudeness was not as expected.
Up to this point, the emotion of the audience was immense, given that even a marriage proposal marked a day with breaks between games lasting less than 5 minutes.
in the middle of the fourth gamethere was an immense expectation around the possibility of reaching a fifth game in the current edition of the World Cup, all of this for DRX’s important work to obtain key resources and objectives, which about 20 minutes into the game , wiped out almost all of T1 against Baron Nashor with a series of impressive plays that began with Faker crashing in an attempt to escape into the top lane.
After this, in less than 5 minutes they managed to catch Baron Red Bull with an incredible ploy that will no doubt continue to contribute to Azir’s popularity in the middle lane.
The result was a total siege of T1 base which by the 28th minute of play had seen their first Nexus turret fall as DRX had 50 seconds left in Baron and with an 8k gold lead at that point, a fifth match was confirmed, thus weakening the chances of regaining the cup in the hands of T1.
The fifth game It started with great enthusiasm after the selection of Caitlyn and Bardo, champion who for DRX had a great advantage on skills against the T1 selections, which could not prevent them from suffering their first death in less than 5 minutes for the great Oner and Faker coordination in the middle lane against Zeka.
After that, the game remained very uniform, as they kept very low gold differences, similarly conquered objectives, and a similar amount of killings, only the turrets were a differentiating factor until DRX got its third dragon and a new death in his favor after 30 minutes of departure.
In a heartbreaking moment, the Ancient Dragon took it DRX after a major siege on the river against T1, which divided its resources and tried to lower the enemy base without success and thanks to that setback, the strategy of DRX was able to overcome everything that was thought and imagined, given that from the Play-Ins managed to take the cup designed by Tiffany & Co. after a 9-year career.
The rings of champions for winning the highest League of Legends competition were presented by John Needham, President of Riot Esports, Nicolò Laurent, CEO of Riot Games, and Naz Aletaha, Global Head of Lolesports.
League of Legends (LoL for short) is one of the most popular video games on the planet. It is played in teams of five on five with the aim of destroying the base of the rival team (Nexus).
Within video game competitions, the LoL World Cups final is considered the most prestigious event of the year and one of those with the largest number of spectators. This year the World Cup peaked with over 5 million viewers across the internet and the final between DRX and T1 was the most watched match.
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Source: Clarin
