{"id":32408,"date":"2019-11-10T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32408"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:48:08","slug":"funplus-phoenix-becomes-the-world-league-of-legends-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/funplus-phoenix-becomes-the-world-league-of-legends-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"FunPlus PhoeniX win World League of Legends Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Chinese team, FPX, dominated their opponent G2 Esports and secured the first place at the Grand Final.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FunPlus Phoenix managed to beat European team G2 Esports with score 3-0 and winning the 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> world tournament of the multiplayer online game League of Legends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4sQp6cJEYJ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this month, G2 Esports showed exceptionally strong team play by defeating the three-time world champion SK Telecom T1 at the semi-final stage. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tournament took place in Paris and it was watched by more than 500,000 people on Twitch \u2013 an online live-streaming platform for players. Meanwhile, Fnatic (a professional esports club based in London), organized a viewing party at The Clapham Grand in London for all of the fans seeking to share the emotion of watching the finals live. A similar event was also hosted by Red Bull at Red Bull Gaming Sphere, London. Cosplayers like Leon Chiro, Enji Night and Tabitha Lyons were part of the viewing party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4sQCVQF6OW\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gao Tian-Liang, also known as \u201cTian\u201d the jungler of FPX, had the honor of receiving the award for most valuable player for his great performance at the World Championship Finals 2019.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was planning my career retirement, but my girlfriend supported me throughout the\u00a0whole journey and I gave myself one more year\u201d Kim Tae-sang (FPX\u2019s mid-laner) told the League of Legends\u2019 reporter Sjokz.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the G2 Esports\u2019 players shared thoughts about their performance at the finals.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think we should be proud of what we achieved. It feels really fucking bad to lose. FPX was the better team<\/p>\n<p>I will try harder next year<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcin Jankowski (@JankosLoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JankosLoL\/status\/1193558997401579520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the finals, China officially announced that it will be the host country of the World League of Legends Championship in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/from-a-hobby-to-a-profession-the-rise-of-e-sports\/?fbclid=IwAR17LR8-C_NH2TklCHONJklClmqkPMNYyduE8ft2qwH_o61ha961fd88xMc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read more about E-Sports here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words: Martin Yonchev<\/p>\n<p>Photo: FunPlus PhoeniX<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese team, FPX, dominated their opponent G2 Esports and secured the first place at the Grand Final. 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