A new Hearthstone World Champion was crowned on Sunday afternoon as Kenta "Glory" Sato took down Jaromír Vyskočil three games to one in a grand final unlike any in the competitive scene's history. In an event held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sato pumped his fists close to his chest before folding his face in his hands in front of him as Vyskočil conceded for the final time.
This year marked the tenth World Championship in League of Legends competitive history – and it certainly was a memorable one.
Let's take a look at the factors that went into Bin's historic Pentakill that led to Suning's sole win against DAMWON Gaming in the finals of the 2020 World Championship.
Since the days leading up to the start of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, Inven Global has been tracking competitors' progress on the solo queue ladder of China's super server in collaboration with LoLVVV. There is only one more match before the end of Worlds 2020, so let's take a look at how many players from DAMWON Gaming and Suning are in Challenger on the super server ahead of the finals.
The finals of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship between DAMWON Gaming and Suning is only a few days away, and before the culmination of six weeks of competition in Shanghai, both teams sat down with the media for the second half of Riot Games' pre-finals media day.
Let's break down Karsa's amazing performance in Top Esports' victory over Fnatic in the quarterfinals of Worlds 2020.
LoLVVV has been able to provide data on which players at on China's super server leading up to and during Worlds 2020, so let's take a look at which players still competing in the tournament are currently in Challenger before the start of the semifinals.
Caps was rightfully awarded Player of the Series, so let's break down his dominance against Gen.G and how he created the most influence of any individual on G2 Esports.
Riot Games hotfixed a bug affecting an in-game item, Umbral Glaive, yesterday and applied the hotfix to the patch being played at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. Less than twenty-four hours later, Riot Games' Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter previewed some upcoming changes to Jinx, Annie, Ashe, Brand, and Nasus that will go live on Patch 10.22, which is set to drop on October 28th.
LoLVVV has been able to provide data on which players at on China's super server leading up to and during Worlds 2020, so let's take a look at which players still competing in the tournament are currently in Challenger before the start of the quarterfinals.
After finishing 4-2 in Group C of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, Fnatic has qualified for the knockout stage for its fourth Worlds in a row. Fnatic has only missed Worlds in 2012 and 2016, and since its last four qualifications starting in 2017 has only lost 2 of its last 15 games in week 2 the World Championship group stage.
Senna support will probably not be seen again, and rightfully so, but the methodology behind the pick was sound in context, and any questioning of G2's competitive integrity on the Worlds stage in favor of sabotaging Team Liquid is an immature conflation of the reasoning behind the result at best and a baseless accusation at worst.
Let's take a look at three players at Worlds 2020 who have exceeded our expectations throughout the first half of the group stage.
It is clear that MAD Lions did not play its best League of Legends coming into Worlds 2020, but now that the team has been eliminated, there are certain trends that became clearly exacerbated problems throughout the play-in. Let's take a look at where MAD Lions fell short at Worlds 2020.
As the 2nd seed from Taiwan's Pacific Championship Series, PSG Talon will be randomly selected as the team to round out any group except Group A, which already contains PCS 1st seed Machi Esports. PSG Talon is the first team to escape from the play-in at Worlds 2020.
After the second day of the play-in, MAD Lions support Norman "Kaiser" Kaiser spoke to Inven Global's Parkes Ousley to reflect on his first LEC season and give his thoughts on MAD's chances of qualifying for the main event in Worlds 2020.
The Worlds 2020 Merch Collection was posted to Twitter by a prominent community member just before the start of the event itself.
With the help of LoLVVV, let's take a closer look at these scrims and see if there are any trends that could become apparent throughout Worlds 2020.
Let's take a look at one star player from every minor region team competing in the Worlds 2020 play-in.
We have rated the top five tops, junglers, mids, and supports, and now finally, the top five AD carries at Worlds 2020.
