[Park Ye-jin Park Ye-jin reporter] Rollster Y, who played as a representative of Korea at the Wildlift e-Sports Global Championship icons (ICONS), lost to Nova e-sports in the quarter-finals. Nova e-sports, who played as a representative of China, won the final championship.
Icons is a global e-sports championship of the mobile game ‘League of Legends: Wild Lift’ using League of Legends Intellectual Property (IP). It took place until 9th.
The Wild Lift Icons Global Championship has played four weeks for four teams in eight regions around the world. Korea’s representatives were Rollster Y, the winner of the Wild Lift Champions Korea, and the runner-up, Guangdong Prix, and the T1, which ranked third.
T1 among the T1 and Guangdong Prix who participated in the play-in-stage entered the group stage with the second place in Group C. The Guangdong Prix was organized in Group D, which was organized in Group D, but it was strong and expected to enter the group stage, but after being beaten by the Southeast Asian team, Buriram United e-Sports, he lost one-on-two to North American Center Nells in the loser.
Rollster Y, who had a group stage direct seed, joined, and Korea aimed to advance to the quarterfinals, but only Rollster Y survived. The T1 in Group A lost to the Southeast Asian championship Team Flash, but defeated Leviathan in the loser match, but failed to reach the quarter-finals by defeating Team Flash again.
Rollster Y, organized in Group D, went to the quarter-finals after a fierce match. Rollster Y, who defeated Liberty two-to-one in his first game, lost one to two to China’s representative Jingdong Gaming in the winner. Rollster Y, who met North America’s representative Immortals in the final match, won two-0 and won the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-finals, Rollster Y’s opponent was China’s representative Nova esports. Rollster Y, who was in favor of the early and mid-sets of five games in the 3rd win, allowed the reversal without having to get rid of the persistence of the opponent, and eventually defeated and dropped out with a final score of 1 to 3.
The icons, which had been dominant that China and Southeast Asia would be formed in China and Southeast Asia, actually made three teams and three teams in the quarter-finals, with China and Southeast Asia. The only team in China and Southeast Asia was Korea’s representative Rollster Y.
In the semifinals, China has three teams. Nova esports defeated Rollster Y, Funplus Phoenix defeated Southeast Asia’s representative RRQ (REX Regum QEON), and J-team defeated Southeast Asia’s representative Flash Wolves three-to-1. Team Flash, the No. 1 Southeast Asia, was the only non-Chinese team that was the only four-finals, defeating Jingdong Gaming 3-0.
In the semifinals, Nova e-sports defeated Fun Plus Phoenix, who participated in the icons in China, and Team J rebelled 3-0.
In the final on the 9th, Nova esports defeated the J team 4-0. In the game of seven games, Nova e-sports made a kill score difference from the beginning of each set, with the jungler ‘Long’ Anshu Long, and lifted the championship without a big crisis.
Nova esports, who won the championship, was given a prize of $ 640,000 (about 830 million won), and Rollster Y, who finished his journey in the quarter-finals, also returned $ 80,000. Riot Games will convert 25%of the immortal hero Morgan or skin sales to the icons prize and deliver additional teams to teams that have advanced to the quarter-finals.