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While we were all sleeping<\/a>: SK Telecom\u2019s T1 squad wins the League of Legends<\/em> World Championship for the fourth time, defeating China\u2019s Weibo Gaming in a 3-0 stomping<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that I don\u2019t play anymore, I still had a loose ear to the ground when Worlds began.\u00a0 Obviously, I\u2019m always hopeful that a Korean team comes out the victor, but considering over the last few years, Chinese teams have finally gotten the monkey off their back and traded some championships with Korean squads, it\u2019s really a jump ball between the two LoL powerhouse nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a moment of dread when the final four shook out to be three Chinese squads and T1 as Korea\u2019s last hope, especially since the event was taking place in Korea, and I couldn\u2019t think of a more disappointing scene than Chinese celebrating a championship in the home of their overlords.\u00a0 The anxious feeling didn\u2019t go away when T1 survived the semi-finals, because there was yet a second chance at China getting to upend Korea, and over the last few years, history has not been kind to T1, with more close calls than there were actual victories, with T1\u2019s last championship being all the way back in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what\u2019s good about something that\u2019s happening on the other side of the planet, my ass was asleep while the finals were occurring, and I woke up to be pleasantly pleased to hear that T1 not only won the championship, they did so in an extremely dominant, one-sided affair, with not only T1 winning in a 3-0 sweep, the cumulative time of play was barely over 90 minutes, with T1 eating their breakfast in a sequence of 30 minute matches.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been to two Worlds championships too, I can assure that all the logistics, setup, festivities, ceremonies and break in between combined probably equaled to two days\u2019 worth of hours, and fewer things are probably as unsatisfying to the event and all the people who traveled long distances to partake, than the actual main event lasting 90 minutes.\u00a0 I\u2019m quite tickled imagining the ironic dissatisfaction from all those who run the event that it was over so quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a few minutes this morning, trying to think of the best analogy to describe T1\u2019s rofl-stomping of Weibo, to capture the combined sentiment of nationalism, shade, hometown pride and disappointment for spectators, and the following come to mind:<\/span><\/p>\n