For the second consecutive year, the best League of Legends team in the world comes from China. The Chinese champion FunPlus Phoenix (FPX) dominated the European team G2 in the final, after three games, the best-of-five series was decided.
On the way to the final FPX had switched off with Invictus Gaming the world champion of the previous year. For the World Cup title, there are 834,375 US dollars in prize money, the tournament had been endowed with a total of $ 2,250,000.
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- lolesports (@lolesports) November 10, 2019"I've finally proven myself," said Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang, who plays as a game designer an unconventional style of play and was thus at the World Cup finals in Berlin, Madrid and Paris one of the outstanding players. Previously, Tae-sang had not won an international title with his style of play.
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His teammate Lin "Lwx" Wei-Xiang said after the crucial third game, his team had not even played well - the opponent had been only very weak. The AD Carry - an offensive but easily attackable role - had to deal with his position with Luka "Perkz" Perkovic, one of the biggest stars of the scene. In World Cup history, "Lwx" became the first player not to be eliminated during a final series. However, the most valuable player was awarded to Gao "Tian" Tian-Liang.
G2 came to the tournament as one of the title favorites, with Mid Laner Rasmus "Caps" Winther and Perkovic joining two of the best players in the world. In the semifinals, the champion of the European league against SK Telecom T1 with the most successful player in history, Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, had prevailed. Winther had already reached the final last year with his old team Fnatic. Since 2011, no European team has won the world title.
