Europe's Fnatic and Origen have been two of the very best League of Legends teams at the World Championships this year, so fans went into this weekend with high expectations for their semifinals games. Neither team managed to live up to them, as both went 0-3 in their matches against Korean rivals.
The powerhouse Korean League of Legends team SKT had already set a new record before today's semifinals games against European challenger Origen, with their perfect 9-0 winning streak at the World Championships. Today, the question for eSports fans was: can Origen somehow interrupt that? Once again, SKT said nope.
The newly formed European League of Legends team Origen is widely expected to lose its match-up against the legendary Korean squad SKT. Their first game of today's World Championship semifinals didn't change that. But an amazing series of fake-outs did show that Origen isn't going down easy.
Taiwanese League of Legends team Flash Wolves was widely expected to beat European opponent Origen today in the World Championship quarter finals. The first game has probably changed some people's perspective on the match up, thanks to an Origen landing a pentakill so efficiently they made it seem...casual.
