The summer season of LoL Champions Korea (LCK), a professional league of the most popular e-sports, League of Legends (LoL), is just the last stage left. It has been three months since the regular league opened in June and has been running fast. LCK wrapped up its schedule for the third round of the playoffs on the 1st. Now, the winning team will be determined through two games, the final and the final. The final stage will be held at the 5,000-seat Gyeongju Indoor Gymnasium in North Gyeongsang Province on the 7th and 8th. Hanwha Life e-Sports and T1 will advance to the final first on the first day. The winning team here will face Gen.G, who came first to the final, in the final match for the trophy the next day.
Gen. G beat Hanwha Life Insurance in the third round winner’s group match on March 31 to play in the final round. Hanwha Life Insurance, which was attacked by Gen. G, will face T1, which came close to victory after catching D-plus Kia in the loser’s group match.
The three teams’ three-way race was the same even in the spring season in April. Back then, T1 beat Hanwha Life in the final. Gen. G beat T1 in the final to unify the world. Gen. G, who won the title for the first time in four consecutive seasons, aims to increase the number of unanswered questions to five. “I really want to achieve a milestone,” Gen. G. Kim Jung-soo said at the Media Day event for the final match on the 2nd. Hanwha Life Insurance plans to advance to the final and win its first championship since its acquisition of the game team in 2018. “It would be a great honor if we achieve the record while we are on our way to our ultimate goal of winning,” Hanwha Life coach Choi In-kyu said. T1, the most winning team in LCK history, is dreaming of ‘V11. T1 coach Kim Jung-kyun, who had suffered a bitter cup after losing the final match of the spring season by one point, pledged that he would give whatever players want to win.
Hanwha Life and T1 also met in the second round of the playoffs on June 29. Back then, Hanwha Life Insurance won the game 3-0. The team benefited significantly from its strategy to block “Jeus” Choi Woo-je (20), a key player in T1. “We will continue to control Choi and deal with him strategically this time,” said Choi. “We are preparing various operations. We will show that Choi is not the only one,” T1 coach Kim said, vowing to take revenge.
As long as they reach the final round, they will be able to get tickets to the LoL World Championship (LoL World Cup), an international e-sports competition that will open in Germany this fall, and hence cannot afford to concede their victory further. Gen.G, who advanced to the final round first, secured invitation to the championship early on. On the other hand, the losing team will have to participate in the selection match for the regional representative at the LoL World Cup, which will take place in mid-August, and seek to board the last train bound for Europe.
T1 sees thorough preparation and Hanwha Life Insurance and Gen.G see flexibility as key factors in winning the championship. 에볼루션 바카라사이트
“I’ve experienced many finals. After all, preparation and skills are important,” said Choi Woo-je of T1. “The ability to recover (收復) when what we’ve prepared is wrong is important,” said Son Si-woo (25) of Gen. G. “The finals are stages where each other shows their lethal moves. The ability to cope with those challenges is important,” said Han Wang-ho (26) of Hanwha Life Insurance.