“Stay true to yourselves,” says League of Legends’ rookie sensation in rousing exit speech

League of Legends’ World Championships are currently underway, with the best teams from the game’s biggest regions fighting to lift the Summoner’s Cup in early November. The tournament’s group stage wraps up today, and this week has seen multiple teams leave the tournament. One of those teams was Europe’s second seed, Team Vitality. Playing their first-ever Worlds, the team were drawn into what many fans dubbed the tournament’s ‘Group of Death’ - Group B also contained China first seed RNG, defending champions Gen.G, and North America veterans Cloud9. Many fans assumed that the Asian teams would dominate their groups, with Western organisations caught in the crossfire. But that’s not what happened. Vitality and Cloud9 showed up, while the game’s defending champions struggled to get going. Gen.G stumbled to a 1-5 win-loss record, eliminating themselves from the tournament with one of the worst performances of any Korean team. Even RNG had trouble, dropping two games, offering Vitality a chance to progress as the Europeans bested the Chinese champions. Sadly, it was not to be.