The grand finals of the League of Legends World Championship 2019 is almost here. Mere hours separate players and fans from the epic clash between LEC's G2 Esports and LPL's FunPlus Phoenix in Paris.
Within the last couple weeks, the esports viewership record has been broken multiple times from various Worlds 2019 series! The SKT vs G2 series peaked at a near 4 million! Check it out here:
In the first semifinal match of the 2019 LoL World Championship, FunPlus Phoenix defeated Invictus Gaming 3-1 and advanced to the finals. After bringing down the defending champions, the players of
In the semifinals of the 2019 LoL World Championship, defending champions, Invictus Gaming fell to FunPlus Phoenix. Leaving the regrets behind, Song “Rookie” Eui-jin and Yu “JackeyLove
FPX’s jungler, Gao ‘Tian’ Tian-Liang, joined Sjokz in the official Riot Games English broadcast for the post-match interview to share his thoughts about the victory.
Everyone's said it, these are quite possibly the best Semifinals in Worlds history, and if anything was sure, this would be a close series. FPX took it in the end, but it wasn't as one-sided as a 3-1 might seem!
Let's take a look at the potential post-semis scenarios and the subsequent Grand Finals matchups.
In the quarterfinals of the 2019 LoL World Championship, FunPlus Phoenix reigned over Fnatic 3-1, crushing the hearts of the home fans. After the match, the players and coach of FunPlus Phoenix sat
FunPlus Phoenix knocked out Fnatic in the 2019 LoL World Championship Quarterfinals. Although Fnatic had a great run out of Group C, defeating both SK Telecom T1 and RNG on the last day, they weren't
Turns out FunPlus > OnePlus!!! After a disappointing Group Stage for FPX and an incredible comeback for FNC, this series easily could've been a Fnatic stomp, but the Chinese first seed showed up on the day and meet their regional partner in the Semis!
The third official Group of Death is over. Why Group of Death, you ask? Simply because of all the INTeresting play! Splyc and FPX make it out at the end, with Vizicsacsi earning MVP!
Well one thing is for sure, Group B has been... entertaining. What looked like FPX domination almost ended with an FPX emilination! But in their final matches, they went 2-0 to qualify for the Knockout Stage as the first seed!
After being tied for first in their group coming into the second Round Robin of the Group Stage at Worlds, J Team was eliminated after losing to Splyce and FunPlus Phoenix, both of whom qualified for the knockout stage.
FunPlus Phoenix defeated GAM Esports in their opening match and J Team in their last, sending them to a tiebreaker with Splyce for first seed in the Knockout Stage.
The second Round Robin for Group B brought great news for European fans as Splyce went 3-0 to start, becoming the first to qualify for the Knockout Round in this Worlds tournament.
Well... A lot. What started with an incredibly one-sided game for Splyce, finished with one of the biggest Baron power plays in LoL history. Here's how FPX was able to make it happen and secure their first win!
We’ve had a chance to catch up with Kuro, to talk about his season, and his plans moving forward.
Feature on some of the newcomers to Worlds who are ready to tear up a storm
On the 6th (KST), FunPlus Phoenix squared off against Royal Never GIve Up in the 2019 LPL Summer Split finals for the championship trophy in the Mercedez-Benz Arena, located in Shanghai, China.
Soo-hwan "Jopssal" Hyun, a.k.a JSS, is a Korean caster & commentator that has been garnering a lot of attention from the Korean League of Legends community. He's been commentating on LEC and LCS l
