Although they came into the tournament as one of the two main favorites, although they had the support of the home crowd, the South Korean champion Gen.G stumbled already in the quarterfinals of the LoL World Championship 2023 where they were defeated by China's Bilibili Gaming with a score of 3-2.
Since the group stage of this year's world championship ended, most of the attention has been focused on Gen.G and JDG, the LPL and LCK champions, and their potential meeting in the finals. The two teams that finished the group stage with 3-0 and first secured passage were absolute favorites for the title on all betting sites, and of these two teams Gen.G drew a much easier half of the draw, which made their passage to the he did not even question the final of Maltene.
All forecasts, however, fell into the water very quickly when today's quarter-final clash began. Bilibili took the lead with a convincing win in Game 1 which saw a huge cannon difference where Bean dominated against Doran, as well as the first of five releases of jungler XUN on Jarvan, a hero who played a key role in the decisive Game 5.
In the second game we saw a surprise in the form of a rumble pick on the cannon for BLG, a hero that Bean has never played before in his professional career. It turns out that Bean did more than well, and the killer combination of Rumble - Jarvan - Orianna gives BLG a big 2-0 lead.
Gen.G opened the third game with an unsuccessful gank on the mid, which showed that nervousness had crept into the team, but despite that, they found the strength to mentally reset and return to the match. After a marathon fight and a game that lasted 46 minutes, they managed to triumph and reduce the deficit to 1-2.
In the fourth game, Chovy played well on Akala, and Delight with Rell on several occasions in the late game gave his team a big advantage at the start of teamfights, which was enough for Gen.G to level the overall score.
Both teams entered the fifth game extremely cautiously, knowing that after it one of the teams will end their participation in the most important LoL tournament. The party seems to break down in the dragon fight where Doran makes a crucial mistake and dies on Gnar even though he had a flash, after that BLG comes to Baron and they slowly take control of the map, taking down Gen.G's towers and progressing step by step to the victory that came at the end of the 34th minute, to the great celebration of the Chinese team and the complete shock and disbelief of the local fans.
With this victory, China is guaranteed to get at least one representative in the finals, because the first semi-final pair will be Weibo Gaming and Bilibili Gaming, and if T1 falls by any chance against LNG and JDG justifies the role of favorite against KT Rolster, there is a chance to see four Chinese teams in the top 4, which would be unprecedented at the world championships.
