Total Strangers
Gen.G and IG Open the Main Event Having Never Met
Gen.G have played 116 Worlds games and IG 47, and not one of them was against the other.
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The Piltover Gazette
Hard numbers, vibed takes
Today
Yesterday
None
On This Day
23 October at Worlds
2022
DRX beat EDward Gaming 3–2
Quarterfinals
Playing today: Flandre, Viper, Zeka, Meiko
2021
EDward Gaming beat Royal Never Give Up 3–2
Quarterfinals
Playing today: Flandre, Viper, Wei, Meiko
2025
Gen.G beat Top Esports 2–0
Swiss Round 4
Playing today: Gen.G, Top Esports, Kiin, Canyon, Chovy, Ruler, Duro, Kanavi, 369, Creme, JackeyLove
Who Am I?
One player at Worlds 2026
My Worlds debut came in 2015.
Clue 2 →
Dplus Kia v 
G2 Esports Main Event Round 1 · Bo1 · Old Knockout Foes+ overheard
G2 and Dplus Kia Traded Knockout Wins in 2019 and 2020
G2 took the 2019 quarterfinal 3–1, and a year later DAMWON won the semifinal by the same score.
3–2
Dplus Kia’s Worlds series record against G2
8
assists Keria needs for 1,000 at Worlds
26
LYON’s Worlds games, all in the Play-In
Out of the Play-In
After 26 Play-In Games, LYON’s Club Reaches the Main Event
Top Esports v 
Hanwha Life Esports Main Event Round 1 · Bo1 · Other Side of the Map+ overheard
After 429 Games Together, Kanavi and 369 Are Opponents Again
They last faced each other in July 2024, when Kanavi was still at JD Gaming and 369 back at Top Esports.
429
games as teammates at JD Gaming and Top Esports
8–21
Kanavi’s teams against 369’s, in games
In Brief
The Long Way Back+ overheard
IG’s First Main Event Game Since the 2019 Semifinal
1–3 IG vs FunPlus Phoenix, 2019 semifinal, their last Main Event series
Academy Days
Zest Debuts at Worlds Against Old Academy Teammate Peyz
0 games Zest and Peyz have played against each other
Also Today
Milestone Watch
Within reach today
100
kills
Hope
Anyone's Legend
4 to go
500
assists
Chovy
Gen.G
9 to go
200
kills
Zeus
Hanwha Life Esports
1 to go
400
kills
Gumayusi
Hanwha Life Esports
2 to go
500
assists
Gumayusi
Hanwha Life Esports
1 to go
Birthday Watch
- Supa Turns 26 on the Day Movistar KOI Play BLG
A win would be his 10th at Worlds, in his 21st game there.
Who Am I?
One player at Worlds 2026
1 My Worlds debut came in 2015.
Clue 2 →
2 I joined EDward Gaming in 2014 and didn’t leave until 2023.
Clue 3 →
3 For one season I played next to JackeyLove at Top Esports.
Clue 4 →
4 Viper was my bot laner the year I won Worlds.
Show the answer →
Meiko
Invictus Gaming
Last edition’s answer: Yike (Karmine Corp)