FunPlus Phoenix take down G2 Esports to win 2019 World Championship Final

FunPlus Phoenix swept G2 Esports in the 2019 World Championship Finals, winning the first three games of the best-of-five series to defend the title for China and create a sense of deja vu throughout the AccorHotels Arena from last year’s finals which saw China defeat Europe in a 3-0 sweep.

In what was one of the most stacked semifinal brackets in League of Legends World Championship history, containing the ‘elite four’ of Invictus Gaming, SK Telecom T1, G2 Esports and FunPlus Phoenix, there could only be one winner, FunPlus Phoenix.

The tone of the 2019 World Championship started with the release of Cailin Russo’s and Chrissy Costanza’s Worlds song, Phoenix, and in a poetic ending after a full month of competitive League of Legends, the phoenix has risen from the ashes as FPX claimed the Summoner’s Cup in their inaugural year on the international stage. 

The European home ground advantage sparked electricity and a sense of ‘EUphoria’ around the AccorHotels Arena, giving G2 a man advantage heading into the most important day of their 2019 career. FPX displayed their mental fortitude to the emphatic European crowd throughout the series, convincingly steamrolling G2, raising the trophy and denying G2 the opportunity to raise the trophy themselves in front of the home crowd in Paris.

Despite G2’s miracle run towards the Grand Slam, going 8-1 in best-of-five series’ throughout 2019 and coming closer than any other team to achieve the unthinkable, November 10 was not the day for the samurais but the day of the phoenix. 

RAISE THAT TROPHY, @FPX_Esports! #Worlds2019 pic.twitter.com/D0psM2X2aL

— LoL Esports (@lolesports) November 10, 2019

Dissecting the action from today’s series, FPX’s convincing win in game one saw Kim “Doinb” Tae-sang take his signature pick of middle lane Nautilus versus Rasmus “Caps” Winther’s Pyke, also a signature champion for Caps and all of G2.