LoL: Hope of Europe beats unbeatable uber teams, loses to underdogs and now it’s jinxed
At League of Legends, the MSI 2022 tournament is proving to be quite an odd event for European hope G2 Esports. Because they managed to defeat the seemingly unbeatable giants from South Korea, T1, and the Chinese from RNG. In the first 2 days of the free-for-all stage, you won all 4 games. But from day 3 nothing worked in LoL anymore. Now you’re about to be eliminated: after losing to a small team and losing a series, you seem cursed.
What’s playing right now?? MSI 2022 sees the 11 regional champions go head-to-head in League of Legends.
In the preliminary round there were 3 groups and the 3 teams from the major regions remained undefeated in their groups:
- T1 from South Korea hadn’t lost a series in 2022 anyway and just marched through their opponents at MSI.
- the Chinese from RNG had to repeat 3 games because of ping problems and complained about the unfair treatment. But they looked very strong and didn’t show any weakness.
- G2 Esports were actually rather shaky candidates, but played well and remained undefeated. Even before the tournament, G2 had a long winning streak. They have been unbeaten in a professional game since the end of March.
After the preliminary round, the teams from the “small regions” were already kicked out, only the 6 largest teams played in the rumble round “everyone against everyone” to look for the 4 best teams. There were 4 teams from Asia plus representatives from Europe and North America.
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G2 wins the first 4 games – also against the Über teams
This is how weird it is for G2: The Europeans of G2 had announced ahead of the tournament that they were desperate to win against T1, the stars of LoL who hadn’t lost all year.
And in fact, G2 even managed to do that: In the first days of the Rumble Stage, G2 was actually able to beat both giants from Asia: Both RNG and T1 lost to the European champions.
G2 was able to defeat the T1, which seemed so strong in 2022, even though they were hopelessly behind in the early stages. After 20 minutes, G2 were 5,800 gold short.
But the team combination of Yasuo, Diana, Ornn, Kalistan and Raken was superior in teamfights and G2 actually managed to win. T1 vowed, as usual, to take terrible revenge on them.
After that, G2, because it was so nice, slammed RNG away, the other favorites. G2 banned Gankplank and went for an explosive team combo with Kai’Sa, Nautilus, Wukong, Vladimir and Zoe.
This time G2 was even able to keep up in the early game and make the game balanced until you could then play to your strengths in the mid- and endgame (via dotesports).
On Day 2, the Americans Evil Geniuses and the Saigon Buffalos were still dealt with.
After Day 2, G2 were brilliant at 4-0.
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After 24 wins in a row you lose once and you’re cursed
How did it go after that? Now you might think: Things are going brilliantly for G2, having defeated both tournament favorites and dominating the first 2 days. G2 even had a winning streak of 24 games across tournaments, because they had also marched through Europe. The last time G2 lost was on March 26th.
But on day 3 the plague began: Ironically, against PSG Talon, a team from Hong Kong, they picked up the 1st defeat of the tournament. After that nothing worked.
The return games against G2, again against PSG and against T1 were lost.
G2 is now at 4-4 and close to elimination.
The last day will decide whether to continue. G2 has to fight the Saigon Buffalos and Evil Geniuses, actually 2 solvable tasks, but in 2022 everything seems possible at G2.
It would be a special honor for the Americans to kick G2 out of the tournament:
LoL: Young US team promises to finish Europe – hits the boss in the 1st match and he is Danish
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