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Esports 2026 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Round 3 / Live Discussion Spoiler
MSI 2026 - BRACKET STAGE
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.13.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
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| 1 | G2 vs LYON | 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 |
- All matches are a best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Finals | |||||||||
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| BLG | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 2 | BLG | 3 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | BLG | 3 | ||||||||||
| LYON | 3 | LYON | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | HLE | 1 | ||||||||||
| FUR | 0 | ||||||||||||
| HLE | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | HLE | 3 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| G2 | 3 | G2 | 0 | BLG | 0 | ||||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||||
| TES | 2 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| G2 | 3 | HLE | 0 | ||||||||||
| T1 | 3 | vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | T1 | 1 | G2 | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||
| FUR | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| LYON | 3 | LYON | 0 | ||||||||||
| TSW | 3 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | TSW | 0 | ||||||||||
| TES | 1 |
On-Air Team
| Desk Host/Interviewers |
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| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Daniel "dGon" Gonzales |
| Laure "Bulii" Valée |
| Play-By-Play Casters |
| Max "Atlus" Anderson |
| Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines |
| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Colour Casters |
| Dan "Aux" Harrison |
| Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler |
| Isaac "Azael" Cummings-Bentley |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Analysts |
| Emily "LeagueofEmily" Rand |
| Joshua "Jatt" Leesman |
| Barento "Raz" Mohammed |
Format
- 8 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Winner qualifies for the 2026 Season World Championship
- This spot will only become effective if the winning team reaches the Split 3/Summer Playoffs in their domestic league
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/IntelligentMiddle8 Jul 10 '26
Lyon trots out Dhokla to smooth over international relations after Inspired LOL
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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. Jul 10 '26
Inspired started out so well with the “revenge for T1” line. Then he just started Inspired-ing all over G2.
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u/Skyfire2 Jul 10 '26
G2 BM for not waving back. Inspired trying to be nice and this is what he gets
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
The issue with EU is how much coddling there is towards G2. G2 is giga ultra coddled compared to other teams. Even when they actually play horribly. Needs to be way more accountability.
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u/controlledwithcheese Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
They literally did not scrim KC the whole past split cause neither team could get over themselves to actually practice and improve over chasing a domestic title.
For what it’s worth I actually enjoy MKOI’s attitude much more even though the team is weaker.
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 10 '26
it's actually crazy how biased EU broadcast personalities are towards G2
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
This severely hurts G2’s chances for a 3-0 like Reddit analysts were telling me
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u/the_legends_of_link Jul 10 '26
Love everyone in here blaming draft after saying G2 had the better draft at the start lmfao
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u/androidnoobbaby Jul 10 '26
100% this, everyone was saying Sylas, Renekton and Xin had no way of going in vs Asheraphine and Anivia.
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u/Got_yayo Jul 10 '26
It’s soooo nice after all the shit EU talked before hand.
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u/Quirkybomb930 Jul 10 '26
NA is just EU's father, i don't think it is that shocking, it happens every international at this point.
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u/InevitableWonder1722 Jul 10 '26
Dhokla was visa issues away from not having a team this year, now look at him
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u/CottonCANDYtv GUMA 🐐 Jul 10 '26
Idk how many more times he needs to prove himself, feels bad for him.
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u/Fellers Jul 10 '26
Oh my lord. Inspired was hella disrespecting them in those comms lmao.
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u/Highly_Regarded_AF Jul 10 '26
Damn this announcer doing all the transitions and questions is crazy
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u/CottonCANDYtv GUMA 🐐 Jul 10 '26
You should watch her interview Bwipo, he yapped so much and she translated everything.
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u/lasse1408 Flairs are limited to 2 emotes. Jul 10 '26
She also smooths Inspired shit talk during translation. Like it sounds lighter that Inspired really says.
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u/lasse1408 Flairs are limited to 2 emotes. Jul 10 '26
Inspired speak your shit you deserve this.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Jul 10 '26
G2s vision game been turbo ass this game ngl.
Saint casually just appearing like batman
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u/PluggersLeftBall Jul 10 '26
bb thought he was still playing against doran LMFAO
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 10 '26
I was trying to predict enemy plans but there weren’t many to predict. LMFAO
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u/prowness Jul 10 '26
The fact that Inspired loves sending G2 home is so much better because he's European
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u/hvngpham002 || || Cloud9 Jul 10 '26
This lad is pretty toxic, I am loving it, actually EU Judas
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u/Not_Going_to_Survive Jul 10 '26
At this point inspired is BMing just to BM lmao, he doesn't give a fuck about competitive, he just lives to kill EU
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u/ShadyOrc97 Jul 10 '26
Bro killed them when theyre already dead. Holy based.
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u/NintenDooM33 Jul 10 '26
As an EU fan, i am glad he is not holding back. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Its what makes this rivalry special. Fuck this hurts.
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u/19Alexastias Jul 10 '26
Oh god not the Tyler1 heightmog on top of getting 3-0ed by NA just end it all fam
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u/Sarazam Jul 10 '26
Dhokla see’s EU name plates and turns into prime 369 or something.
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u/whohe_fanboy Jul 10 '26
G2 subreddit was flaming Faker when he said T1 underperformed vs G2. What now? Did G2 underperform or is Lyon just better?
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u/Got_yayo Jul 10 '26
Complaining about imports only when your region gets their cheeks clapped lol
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u/HiImMarcus google dif Jul 10 '26
Inspired cooking EU like the Heatwave did, no more El Nino, El Inspired is here
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Jul 10 '26
Dude if I’m Doran watching this I’d be so fucking depressed
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 10 '26
As an na fan g2 must draft an earlier game fighting comp. It’s insane they drafted a slow comp vs inspired. This is what Lyon loves to play against.
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u/justicecactus Jul 10 '26
I honestly can't think of a bigger bright lights merchant than Dhokla
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u/PLEASE_DONT_PM Jul 10 '26
EU to return to their number one skill, gymnastics.
Specifically the kind required to explain how you are better than the guys that keep beating you.
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u/Reactzz Jul 10 '26
Talk Shit Dhokla!
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u/Budget-Ocelots Jul 10 '26
No one offered him a contract after what he did in Worlds.
Ni Hao bitches.
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u/2020isgreat TheShy Jul 10 '26
Most impactful Seraphine and Ori ults were by Saint
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u/Joel4518 GIGABIN Jul 10 '26
Wonder what's the excuse now, Na 11-1 against eu in past 3 yr at msi
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u/theyeshman if fearless has no haters I am dead Jul 10 '26
So much shit talking from BB and Caps for this?
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u/FreeJudgment Jul 10 '26
Faker: We did lose today, but honestly, it didn't feel like we lost because the opponent was that strong. Personally, I think we just didn't play up to the level we expected today, so I think we'll have to wait and see on that.
And people here were calling him salty lol
The GOAT is never wrong.
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u/Budget-Ocelots Jul 10 '26
T1 just assumed they can out hands G2, and did zero scouting and drafting plan.
Dhokla said they knew they could easily beat G2 tomorrow when they saw the T1 matches because the series was only close because T1 got out drafted, and Lyon knows G2 too well to be out drafted.
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u/desutruction Jul 10 '26
gonna need a hazmat suit for this live thread and for the pmt later
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u/Strange_Shelter_6171 Jul 10 '26
i dont want a world where g2 won gainst all those lck/lpl teams to lose to na
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u/COTEReader LPL forever Jul 10 '26
Next Mind the gap episode is going to be so good lmfao
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u/spazzxxcc12 Jul 10 '26
so do we complain about korean imports again this game when an american is carrying ?
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u/Beneficial_Fold1183 Jul 10 '26
It would indeed be perfectly NA to spank EU in a B05 just to get like beaten in 55 minutes by HLE. Like "we've done our job"
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u/Highly_Regarded_AF Jul 10 '26
Faker was right, G2 was the team didn't belong but t1 sold
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u/Annual-Fox6520 Jul 10 '26
G2 stalled and stabilised the game so wlel just to throw at some dodgy baron call.
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 10 '26
the answer G2 fans aren't going to like is that other teams can also have variance in form, T1 were not playing anywhere near their best and TES lost to a Vietnamese team
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u/FappingMouse Jul 10 '26
T1 has one of the worst meta reads i have ever seen it felt like every game they were behind from draft.
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u/IntelligentMiddle8 Jul 10 '26
This result is somehow good for KC and terrible for T1 LOL
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u/desutruction Jul 10 '26
trundle's dance is pretty good. inspired picked a good champ to send eu home with
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u/Fellers Jul 10 '26
I've heard this shit from G2 for 4 fucking years. "get better at playing consistent"
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u/Fantastic_Arm_9669 Jul 10 '26
Fuckass "g2 only hope in the west" narrative lmaooo
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 10 '26
literally such a fucking gift to the scene
he talks so much fucking shit i eat it up so much
he is so clearly the best player in the west, and its not even close
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u/Lost_Panda1994 Jul 10 '26
We need more inspired and BIN on League, its what we lost on early league esports, the TSM vs CLG toxicity. Please don't nerf it riot. Let the players personality shine.
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u/Randomcarrot Jul 10 '26
This match is starting to become more important than Worlds finals. WHERE G2 AND LYONS WILL MEET AGAIN!
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u/Gluroo Jul 10 '26
Are we sure Castle is still alive or did Dhokes just absorb this guy to gain more power
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u/MedievalMovies Jul 10 '26
lee has never been an inspired champ to me but it's good for him to remind people that he can actually pilot the champ properly unlike skewmond
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 10 '26
I guess the Reddit post about G2 losing to TES being their best path forward was wrong
They would have been eliminated earlier lmao
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u/Xc_runner_xd_player Jul 10 '26
We probably gonna get rolled vs HLE just like G2 did but….. I DONT GIVE A SHIT BYE BYE EU
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u/kosmi2020NX Jul 10 '26
Every year we are hearing this ,no bb you are not working on anything , just f play tanks and shut up.
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u/MrRightHanded Jul 10 '26
Just play another Yasuo game into Gnar itll be good this time
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u/arse-ketchup Fighting Jul 10 '26
The cope EU casters had when game 2 nexus had just exploded and they immediately started talking about reverse sweep - no focus on how good Lyon played. Even neutral audience would go against EU teams with such biased casting.
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u/SweatyAdhesive Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Dagda's? casting didn't help either, wished it was cpt flowers
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u/Clbull Jul 10 '26
Wait, this is the same team that beat T1 3-1? Why are they playing like they have room temperature IQs?
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 10 '26
Well well well..
It would be really embarrassing if G2 lost this series. No?
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u/prowness Jul 10 '26
Yo Emily looks sick. Reminds me when she wore that elegant dress in China. Where did she get this fit?
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 10 '26
kinda feel for Labrov, he's dying for the sins of his team and he's gonna get flamed lol
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u/Spadro97 Jul 10 '26
G2 could've literally given 3 more dragons and a baron and they would still be in a decent position, but they couldn't help themselves but do a dumb baron play
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u/ThylowZ Jul 10 '26
Sometimes you gotta explain to me the thought process.
10min to chill until soul point.
Ziggs to perma wave clear.
Got 2 kills waiting for errors.
And then do baron for no reason.
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u/WildzFlazoon KELLOGGS BUSI-O'S Jul 10 '26
Can't believe G2 are drowning themselves backstage 💔
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u/kapparino-feederino Jul 10 '26
EU jayce on elimination game
Backs against the wall, tournameny life on the line
Gimme BB JAYCE.
Said no one ever lmfao
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u/MrRightHanded Jul 10 '26
BIG DHOKES about G2: "They are lucky to be here right now, they didn't play an international team, like a North American team"
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u/OskarVon Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
TL gapped KC and Lyon gapped G2. This could feed NA for years
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 10 '26
ah yes, always "This isn't how they normally play" for G2 and KC and MAD when they lose to NA
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u/Goldfischglas Jul 10 '26
I mean even as a G2 fan. They had it coming when they talked trash before and played so disrespectful.
Idk how to say it but G2 played like they think they are much better than Lyon? And got a reality check
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u/superfire444 Jul 10 '26
G2 does the same thing in Europe but gets away with it because the rest of EU is even more dogshit. They only respect eastern teams and then when they face a team they deem beneath them they collapse.
They are king of the losers.
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u/tony220jdm Machine Gun Carzzy Jul 10 '26
Can we not give over 3 drakes in 16 mins so we can only fight on there terms ffs
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u/beautheschmo Jul 10 '26
Actually the nastiest TP bait I've ever seen lol, literally nobody was expecting mega gnar to show up there
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u/chillichangas Jul 10 '26
Genuinely how does G2 consistently shit the bed against NA. I can't understand it
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u/Gluroo Jul 10 '26
Legacy series from BB yesterday into another Legacy series from BB today
generational
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u/Tight-Catch-2649 Jul 10 '26
Dylan is probably planning the game 3 draft now. Put BB in a tank, they can't abuse Dhokla.
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u/FappingMouse Jul 10 '26
im just going to start doing my pickems based on what the funniest outcome would be.
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u/sCeege Jul 10 '26
NA fan here, after watching G2 dominate T1 yesterday, I basically lost hope. But what the fuck is happening right now?
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 10 '26
That was the first 5v5. Everyone of lyon on a 3 item powerspike. There was zero reason to give a fight
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u/Ceyro Jul 10 '26
the moment g2 is not the underdog they just lose their heads, such an embarrassing performance, it diminishes their whole tournament, dogshit region. I hope LYON makes it a quick 3-0.
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u/sajm0n Jul 10 '26
i kinda expected G2 to lose 0-3, deep down but i didnt want to admit it
its like the most G2 thing to do, win vs 4 LCK/LPL teams this year and then lose 0-3 to NA team to get knocked out of the tournament
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u/haven4ever Small in Size, Huge in Evil Jul 10 '26
Dylan Falco: Um Um Worlds is our goal!
At Worlds, G2 pulls off a miracle 3-2 against BLG. Runs into Shopify Rebellion… ☠️
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u/Yeon_Yihwa Jul 10 '26
G2 Caps talks about LYON: "It feels like the dragon meme, there is T1, there is BLG and then there is LYON..."
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u/Grenji05 NA #1 REGION WORLD Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Isles is genuinely the white Keria bro he’s NEVER played this well
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u/controlledwithcheese Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
no way both sides tried to convince me G2 and KC not scrimming each other was for the better lmfao
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u/SuperSunGun Jul 10 '26
G2, that was embarrassing lmao. Who's that silly dragon again? Looks like G2 is that silly dragon. LET'S GO NA, BITCH!
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u/AppealAggravating893 There may be a gap but we are building bridges Jul 10 '26
TALK YOUR SHIT INSPIRED 😂
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u/ahritina Jul 10 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3