★ Game Horseshoe Original
2016 MSI, Shanghai, China
Eight years ago, the second edition of MSI was held in Shanghai, China, and SKT defeated the North American dark horse CLG in the final on May 15 to win the championship. Time flies, a lot has happened in the past eight years, during which the 2020 mid-season MSI was also canceled due to the epidemic. After a global tour of Brazil, Europe (Germany and France), Southeast Asia, Iceland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom, MSI returned to Chengdu, China.
Eight years, for many esports professionals, this is even the time from their debut to retirement, and it is one of the few players who participated in 2016 to be able to appear on the MSI stage today. Naturally, Faker, who has won the quadruple crown for 11 years, seems to have won the mid-season championship for the legend as if it were yesterday, and has hardly left the sight of the top competition.
A living fossil of the rise and fall of League of Legends esports
Faker debuted in 2013 and immediately won the S3 championship that year, and the 2015-2016 seasons were his early personal peaks. Not only did he win the World Finals in a row, but he also won the mid-season championship in Shanghai, China in 2016, which made him the first player to win a Grand Slam. And at the 2017 MSI in Brazil, they won back-to-back mid-season titles. The peak of League of Legends esports was also the reign of Faker and SKT. In recent years, when many people think that it is going downhill, Faker and the new generation of T1 won the S13 championship again, and they have won the achievement of four crowns, which can be called a living fossil of the development of League of Legends e-sports.
Riot's official Hall of Fame 001 is going to make him an exclusive legendary skin, and if Faker retires in the future, we even suspect that Riot will leave Faker a commemorative item, or a mural or bronze statue or text in the Summoner's Rift.
Maple
From LMS to LPL to LCS, and now back to the merged PCS region, Maple doesn't have much success at Worlds, but he is indeed a veteran who has been playing for more than 10 years. And after returning to his hometown competition area, he can even continue to control the thunderbolt and get MSI tickets, all of which are S3 famous for Enchantress and robbery, and Taiwan Faker is also a more appropriate description. In 2016, Maple and Karsa and SwordArt played for the Lightning Wolves at that MSI, where they were eliminated by the North American CLG in the semifinals. Eight years later, Maple led PSG to MSI, and from the play-in tournament onwards, we are looking forward to the performance of this veteran midlaner.
Kkoma
Eight years or so, only Faker and Maple were left in the pros, while the other two were from the coaching staff. The first is Kkoma, the former meritorious coach who returned to T1 on a championship ride. It's just that in 2016 he was still the coach in charge of BP, and now he has become the general supervisor of the team with only the platform, and the current BP of T1 is still in charge of Coach Tom.
Mata
Eight years ago, Mata participated in the 2016 MSI as a support player playing for RNG, and performed well in the group stage, but was defeated by T1 in the knockout round. After 8 years, Mata has long since retired, and is now a member of the GenG coaching staff, and this year will participate in MSI with GenG to win 4 consecutive league championships.
There are only 4 people left
Although G2 also participated, compared to the one 8 years ago, none of them are two completely different teams that have stayed in the team to this day. The former G2 team was still the league king with Perkz as the core, and now this team is the G2 of Caps. Only Faker, Maple, Kkoma and Mata went from Shanghai MSI eight years ago to Chengdu MSI eight years later.
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