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DRX wins League of Legends Worlds 2022

South Korean team DRX stunned three-time Worlds champion T1 in the League of Legends World Championship finals in San Francisco. The final result was 3-2.

The broadcasters at the stadium referred to DRX’s victory as a miraculous run. In the finals, two South Korean teams compete in bouts of wits and technical prowess. This year’s “League” annual esports competition had a unique storyline: one of the teams, T1, was an obvious popular favourite as the game – winning organisation in esports history; the other, DRX, was the underdog nobody anticipated would make it this far. In the end, the underdog won. Cheers of “DRX” erupted around the venue.

The series was a hard-fought struggle between the two best Korean teams, with the Worlds’ titanic stories coming to a fitting end at San Francisco’s Chase Center. T1 dominated Game 1, with tragic dragon snatches and Rift Herald rejections keeping DRX on the back foot until Faker and his teammates slammed the door on the first game.

The second game seemed to be heading in the same direction, but a superb performance by DragonX against T1’s poke composition saw them battle back piece by piece at objectives. DRX eventually surrounded the dragon pit, pushing the issue with an extremely short finishing sequence over T1. On the Korean broadcast, DRX’s communications revealed Zeka saying the squad couldn’t go on, while BeryL, bloodthirsty after his Heimerdinger rampage, urged them on.

The third game featured the first genuine tanks picked by either team all season, with much more typical front-to-back compositions than the previous two games, which featured damage-heavy profiles on both sides. T1 and DRX battled back and forth, with DRX finding important fights while T1 established an early dragon advantage. However, a miraculous Baron theft by Oner resulted in T1 tilting the game in their favour, followed by another miraculous Baron steal with Oner dead by Gumayusi, and that was simply too much for DRX to overcome. T1 won game three in the blink of an eye.

In the post-game interview, 26-year-old Deft stated on what it means to him to finally call himself a world champion.

“Ever since my debut, every single night I’ve been dreaming about myself winning the world championship. It was only dream, but now, I’ve made it. I’m so happy right now,” he explained. “One thing I wanted to say was ‘I’m the best player in the world’, but today I realized that being the best player doesn’t matter. It’s is about our team being the best in the world.”

“My best talent is League of Legends. If I cannot be the best playing LoL, I told myself I won’t find any success in life. That’s why I didn’t want to give up,” Deft concluded.

The Worlds veteran, Faker, was the one who set and broke records. He was attempting to break the record for the most Worlds championships won with four. While that did not happen, he did set the record for the most kills in the Worlds series. He smashed the previous mark held by Uzi.

A Play-In team has won the championship for the first time in LoL esports history. Previous champions began their journey in the Group Stage.

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