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At the tail kết thúc of 2014, South Korea"s Samsung Galaxy White, who were the reigning world champions, dissolved, with all five starting members signing big-money contracts in China"s League of Legends Pro League. Their sister team, Samsung Galaxy Blue, considered widely by pundits & players alike to be the second best team in the world at the time, followed suit, with all of their starting roster moving over to trung quốc to play in the LPL. On vị trí cao nhất of those seismic moves, the game"s developer, Riot Games, announced that all sister teams would be abolished, and organizations would be forced to downsize their overall talent pool lớn a singular squad.

That offseason would famously become known as the "The Korean Exodus," as a slew of South Korea"s đứng top players left their trang chủ region to lớn play abroad for higher wages. South Korean League of Legends, hamstrung with its đứng top two teams leaving & regulations put in place to lớn downsize overall rosters, reconfigured its format, moving away from a 16-team tournament structure to lớn an eight-team league more closely resembling the other major regions in the world lượt thích China, North America and Europe. Overnight, the strongest region in League of Legends, winner of the past two world championships, had been fractured and left a shell of its former self.

The lone South Korean organization khổng lồ come out of the exodus relatively unscathed was the team that had been the centerpiece of the country"s esports scene for over a decade at that point: SK Telecom T1. The unofficial national team for South Korea, SKT captured the country"s first League of Legends world championship in 2013 and had been the gold standard of South Korean esports since its early days as a Star
Craft club, behind the legacy of the company"s godfather Lim "Boxer" Yo-hwan.

Whereas other teams were hamstrung with their top talent leaving for China, SKT were able lớn keep the key pieces from their two sister teams, most notably their crown jewel in mid laner Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, who reportedly turned down millions in the offseason from Chinese organizations lớn stay with them. SKT built a star-studded starting five around Faker, keeping his right-hand man & confidant Bae "Bengi" Seong-woong in the jungle while adding the best parts from the organization"s secondary team.

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In a new landscape of uncertainty & turnover, SKT were once again looked upon as kings, claiming the crown left by a Samsung Galaxy organization in upheaval. While SKT kept ahold of their important pieces, Samsung were left aimless, signing relative unknowns & rookies to lớn bolster their makeshift roster. Except for CJ Entus, another storied organization that was able lớn keep hold of some of their big names, the road for SKT lớn take charge of the restructured South Korean scene seemed lớn be clear.

Light years away from the prestige và standing of the country"s golden boys, the last few spots in the new South Korean competition, League of Legends Champions Korea, were being filled out. In a do-or-die battle between players on the edge of continuing their careers as pros or needing lớn possibly rethink their futures, a full team of five took the stage wearing matching grey cardigans instead of thể thao uniforms; they were a mashup of players from different organizations and backgrounds, looking for a second chance to lớn compete at the highest cấp độ in esports.

Their đứng top laner, song "Smeb" Kyung-ho, was once considered one of the worst players khổng lồ ever play professional League of Legends in South Korea, a history only filled with losses and heavy criticism. The jungler, Lee "Hojin" Ho-jin, had played one unremarkable season in the pros before moving on from his former organization. Mid laner Lee "Kuro" Seo-haeng was a reliable presence và seemingly nothing more. & their bottom lane, the most well-known players of the bunch, was a tandem between Kim "Pra
Y" Jong-in, who had one foot already into retirement, và Kang "Gorill
A" Beom-hyun, a player who recently got blown out at the League of Legends world championship in the quarterfinals by Chinese side OMG. Even their coaches, Jeong "No
Fe" No-chul & Kim "SSONG" Sang-soo, were newcomers to the position, recently retired from professional play themselves.

They were outsiders in a region during a time of great change, the converse of the history & reputation of SK Telecom T1. These oddballs, wearing their matching sweaters that looked lượt thích they were picked out by their grandmothers, were none other than the team now known as ROX Tigers. A team, unbeknownst khổng lồ even them, that would change the course of League of Legends history forever.

"Every single player on the team was light-hearted và easy khổng lồ get along with," Gorill
A said. "Age between the players is such a big factor in Korea, but all the players were similar in the age group, so we really got along. Also, coach No
Fe và coach Ssong had come from professional gaming backgrounds themselves và understood what the players like, what situations players like to avoid. So they applied that knowledge as they led the players."

Regardless of their team name, the Tigers played lượt thích champions.Riot Games/Getty Images
The Tigers qualified for the newly founded LCK and started the underdog story of the năm ngoái League of Legends season, bursting into the scene with a dazzle và showmanship that had been missing from previous years in South Korea. The team not only won games, but they did it while screaming at the vị trí cao nhất of their lungs, becoming famous for their boisterous communication between one another. They were known khổng lồ sing before matches lớn warm up, and, with a lack of established sponsor behind them, their uniforms changed on an almost nightly basis, one match the Tigers showing up in their cardigan sweaters và the next in matching pink vests with bunny ears sprouting from their gaming headsets.

Soon, it became a war of the past và the present. SK Telecom T1, the pillar of South Korean esports, were all business behind Faker, their uniforms branded with the iconic winged "T1" logo. A victory domestically was not a goal but an expectation for SKT T1 -- anything else considered a failure. On the other side, the Tigers, like their wardrobe, were in constant flux, their team name & title sponsor changing four times in 2015, the team finally simply becoming known as the "Tigers" by the end of the year.

"I don"t even remember their first name," former SK Telecom T1 AD carry Bae "Bang" Jun-sik told baf.edu.vn. "They were our biggest rival. We knew they were the only team that maybe could beat us. Individually, they were just the best players in Korea, obviously except for T1 players. They were really good at a team."

While the upstart Tigers bested SKT in their inaugural regular season, finishing atop of the LCK standings, it was the experienced juggernaut that would end up getting the last laugh in the playoffs. The grand final, which was expected to lớn be a heavyweight title fight between South Korea"s two strongest teams, quickly turned into a one-sided beatdown, the Tigers failing lớn take a single victory over SKT in the best-of-five.

It was the first of what would become a string of growing pains for the Tigers in their inaugural year. In the second season of the 2015 campaign, the summer split, the then-KOO Tigers failed it back khổng lồ the domestic final, turning in an inconsistent regular season & losing in the semifinals to KT Rolster before gaining a rematch with SK Telecom T1. SKT only dropped a single series in the summer season, including playoffs, winning back-to-back seasons as they marched their way to the world championship that year taking place in Europe.

The Tigers, due to their impressive results in both the spring & summer seasons, also qualified for the biggest tournament of the year as the No. 2 seed coming from South Korea.

There, history would repeat itself: T1 on one side and the Tigers on the other, a championship trophy positioned right in the middle. This time around, though, it was for the grandest prize in all of League of Legends, the Summoner"s Cup. SKT rampaged through the international competition with little resistance as the Tigers finessed their way through the month-long odyssey khổng lồ find themselves with another chance lớn take down the established kingpin.

"SKT was lượt thích that big demon in a video clip game," Gorill
A said. "The final trùm cuối that always waits for you at the over of a trò chơi ... That"s just how good they were, the best."

The Unkillable Demon King lived up khổng lồ his name in 2015.Riot Games
The final, played in front of a sold-out Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany, was another bittersweet reminder of who the main characters of the League of Legends scene were. Although the Tigers rallied the crowd behind them & had the fans firmly against SKT following a hard-fought victory in the third trò chơi of the final, right as the underdogs started to lớn believe, SKT and Faker shut the door on any possible comeback. SKT stomped the Tigers in the fourth game & before the viewers at home could tell, the entire Mercedez-Benz Arena had turned as quiet as a library, the series over right as if it felt like it was about to get started.

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The final boss và "The Unkillable Demon King" Faker were not to lớn be conquered on the night.

Bang remembers the rain, all of the rain.

A year removed from the 2015 world championship final, the League of Legends competitive setting has changed from backpacking across the continent of Europe to lớn road tripping around the United States. After trips in San Francisco và Chicago, the semifinals of worlds had settled in new york City. Và on the particular weekend Riot Games rolled into America"s busiest and most populated city, it was pouring rain as SKT made its way into the venue, on the verge of making their second-straight world final with a chance to lớn become the first khổng lồ ever repeat as Summoner"s Cup champions. In particular, for Bang, it was the people of new york City -- zipping & scurrying around in the downpour without an umbrella to lớn their name -- that he remembers the most. It was a stark contrast from his trang chủ of South Korea where umbrellas are in abundance.

The semifinal venue, Madison Square Garden, was one of the world"s most famous sporting arenas. As fans from across the world packed into the venue, the rafters filled with the sound of noisemakers echoing off the walls, they were ready khổng lồ watch the consensus two best teams in the world duke it out for a lone spot in the grand final a week later.

The Tigers, now the ROX Tigers, had another opportunity lớn exorcise their final boss và its demon king. The entire year had been building up to this moment, another chance for the Tigers to raise the Summoner"s Cup. During the offseason, captain và jungler Hojin retired, & the Tigers picked up explosive jungler Han "Peanut" Wang-ho khổng lồ take his place. It was the nâng cấp needed to take the Tigers to lớn their next level, the team finally LCK in the năm 2016 summer split, though not against SKT, beating KT Rolster instead in the final.

At worlds, they were going to lớn get their chance at SKT. Although both teams had their missteps through the opening weeks of the tournament, as fate dictated, the two found themselves crossing paths at a packed Madison Square Garden with millions more watching from home.

While the defending world champions came into the match prepared và confident, coming off a 3-1 victory over China"s Royal Never Give Up in the quarterfinals, the Tigers were feeling the pressure, and especially their star support. By the time the Tigers had landed in the soaked streets of thủ đô new york City for a rematch with SKT, Gorill
A"s confidence & self-esteem had dipped. The bottom lane meta had developed into Zyra and Karma, two ranged utility supports, becoming the key champion selections, & Gorill
A was losing both sides of the matchup in practice.

With minimal time to lớn prepare for the biggest match of his career, he went into the proverbial workshop along with Pra
Y và his coaches lớn try và find a solution for his issues. In the first trò chơi of the series, Gorill
A attempted lớn play towards the meta, handshaking opposing tư vấn Lee "Wolf" Jae-wan by taking Karma và the SKT support selecting Zyra. Though the Tigers put up a strong fight, they were eventually dispatched in a 43-minute war of attrition, putting them on the verge of letting another golden opportunity split through their fingers.

In the champion selection of trò chơi two, it appeared as if the Tigers would try making Karma work for the second trò chơi in a row, picking the mage tư vấn early on in the draft as SKT & Wolf picked up Zyra once more. Then, with their last selection, the Tigers instantly locked in marksmen Miss Fortune, the crowd và commentators sharing in a second of confusion and then raucous excitement.

What was the problem with the Tigers picking a sharpshooter for their bottom lane carry Pra
Y?

They"d already picked Ashe. Karma wasn"t going bottom lane & Pra
Y wasn"t playing Miss Fortune -- Gorill
A was. It was a move that would turn the entire series around, the Tigers taking games two & three behind the experimental bottom lane pairing of Ashe and Miss Fortune, pushing the world champions lớn the brink of elimination.

An unusual pick proved extremely beneficial for Kang "Gorill
A" Beom-hyun and the Tigers.Riot Games"Pra
Y, coach No
Fe, coach Ssong, & I put our heads together and tried khổng lồ find a new solution và what we found was Miss Fortune," Gorill
A said. "The Miss Fortune pick was actually working out & I guess that"s why the series was winnable for us. I remember ... As a player, I was happy that a pick that we"ve come up with together found success on the stage."

"My memory from that day...I think the most memorable thing was Ashe & Miss Fortune," Wolf said. "The fans still send me that video and it is used as a meme, which I am grateful for."

The series opened a battle between the world"s two best và as the third game came lớn an end, it turned into a spectacle. Every substitution, every champion selection, every twinge of the finger on the mouse caused a reaction from the crowd. A clip game competition suddenly turned back the clock and resembled Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier in their classic bouts from the 1970s, the crowd on their feet, strangers holding onto one another with each blow from the teams slugging it out on the stage floor. One second, it was the crowd exploding for SKT, và the next those same fans were screaming their lungs out for the Tigers, both sides giving everything they had lớn leave the arena as victors.

As the clock neared the midnight hour và the teams were on their final gasps, the series turned lớn the final games of the series where after two years of battles, the iconic rivalry between the Tigers & SKT would come down lớn ... A mistake. SKT, down 2-1 in the series, brought in veteran & former world champion Bengi in place of youngster Kang "Blank" Sun-gu, needing his experience và leadership in a do-or-die moment. But, as the team drafted in the fourth trò chơi that could have ended their season, SKT accidentally left xuất hiện the ever-powerful jungler Nidalee, forcing Bengi lớn play a champion outside of his comfort zone he hadn"t played professionally in over two years.

It was another curveball in a night filled with surprises, just adding to the surreal nature to the evening. The mistake resulted in Bengi having the most important trò chơi he"s ever had in his career, playing a near perfect Nidalee trò chơi to help tie the series and send it khổng lồ a deciding fifth map, leaving the fans, commentators & the world-at-large on the edge of their seats on which team would be flying lớn Los Angeles to play in the world final and which would be taking the long quiet ride back to Seoul.

"There were too many amazing moments in series that you can"t expect to happen," current Team Liquid head coach Joshua "Jatt" Leesman, who commentated the Tigers vs. SKT semifinal, told baf.edu.vn about his memories on that night. "Bengi wins the first game, gets subbed out, SKT loses the next two & he comes back in. Kim "kk
Oma" Jeong-gyun forgets khổng lồ ban Nidalee, right? Actually just forgets & they have khổng lồ pick it. & then Bengi pops off with it. It was too incredible. Looking back, it"s probably the best series I"ve ever cast."

In a fairy tale world, the Tigers would have won trò chơi five. A two-year ascent from nothingness to lớn becoming one of the most beloved esports teams of all-time, finally slaying their final quái vật in a venue famed for its magical moments. Faker would rise from his seat, saunter over lớn Gorill
A and the Tigers, extending a hand of good sportsmanship, wishing them well in the final. The Tigers would serenade the halls of Madison Square Garden, arms around each other, walking out in the falling rain without a care in the world, the droplets from the sky masking the tears of relief on their faces -- conquerors, finally.

That"s not what happened, however. SKT, as they always did, found control and stabilized, playing an intelligent fifth game and taking care of business against the Tigers. The world champions were the ones left to celebrate và raise their hands khổng lồ the thủ đô new york faithful, & the Tigers left to meander around in a half-circle, dazed expressions on their faces while congratulating their rivals on a hard-fought win. Instead of tears of joy, it was tears of what could have been, the Tigers applauded off by the crowd, a bittersweet taste left in their mouths as they took a final glance upward at the blinding lights of Madison Square Garden.

"Once again, we collapse at the foot of this mountain that is SKT," Gorill
A said. "We had at least made it a close series, so we felt bittersweet. Always, if you have a victor, on the other side of the trò chơi you have the defeated. And the defeated must once again go through the process of becoming a victor themselves. After we had lost that series, we wondered what changes would come out of this series, whether we could bởi vì well again in the following year."

It may not have had a Cinderella story ending, but Rox vs. SKT in năm nhâm thìn was one of the most memorable matches of all time.Alex Goodlett/Riot Games via Getty Images)Afterward, SK Telecom T1 would go on to lớn win their back-to-back world championship inside another sold-out arena, this time the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Tigers, dropping the ROX tag, returned to lớn Seoul và with offers out for them, having raised their stock to the highest-prioritized không tính phí agents on the market, decided to go their separate ways for the 2017 season, only Pra
Y & Gorill
A staying together.

The final time the Tigers were together as a team, they all went out for Korean BBQ, sharing drinks & stories of the past two years. How they went from relative nobodies in knitted cardigans & bunny ears to lớn having millions know of their names from across the globe. At the bottom of their glasses, story after story could be told, about how a team with multiple names & identities made fans from Berlin to thành phố new york City cry out their names.

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