The biggest fake powerhouse in the LOL World Championship has been eliminated.

Since the LCK region's BFX team consecutively defeated T1 and DK within the league, many LOL viewers have been hyping up BFX's strength. Even though the BFX team lost to BLG, many spectators still believed that BFX would crush G2 and ultimately advance to the knockout stage. However, something that shattered many BFX fans occurred: the BFX team, which LCK fans had "high hopes for," ultimately fell in the final round of the group stage, directly setting the worst record for LCK in recent World Championships.

Many viewers, reviewing the match between BFX and G2, found that BFX's current tactical approach is overly monotonous. The individual skill of BFX's mid and top players isn't particularly strong, so even giving them dominant champions wouldn't help. To beat BFX, simply target the hero pool of their support player; then BFX's prized "Korean version of Uzi" cannot dominate the battlefield. In this BO5, G2 continuously banned soft supports and picked the soft support heroes that BFX excels at, ultimately causingDiableto completely "disappear" during the match.

G2's teasing about the "protect one" strategy sparks heated discussion.

As the most playful team in LOL, G2 directly taunted the BFX team after the match. G2 joked that "the protect-one strategy is easy to counter." This remark from G2 also made many LPL viewers feel "painful," because eight years ago, in a quarterfinal match, G2 personally eliminated a very powerful protect-one team. Of course, many viewers also believe that BFX isn't as strong as RNG was back then, since RNG at that time only lacked a world championship to complete the "Golden Road," whereas BFX's biggest competitive achievement now is defeating T1 and DK in the playoffs.

Of course, in its official blog, G2 also asked fans: if Caps is inducted into the Hall of Fame, what should his Hall of Fame skin be? This hint from G2 sparked much discussion among viewers, since Riot hasn't officially confirmed Caps' induction, but many industry insiders have hinted that the third LOL Hall of Fame skin will be given to Caps. Honestly, Caps' current achievements and popularity are similar to Uzi's, so I personally think it's highly likely Riot will award Caps.

BFX becomes the Korean version of TES?

After being swept by G2 and eliminated, many LPL viewers joked that BFX isn't the Korean version of RNG but the Korean version of TES. Like TES, BFX is an "internal war phantom," but once the World Championship begins, BFX starts creating "new history." The BO5 match between BFX and BLG ended LPL's 10 consecutive losses to LCK, and the BO5 between BFX and G2 even ended LEC's 17 consecutive losses to LCK. The last time the LEC region defeated an LCK team in a BO5 dates back to 1979 days ago in the S10 World Championship, when G2 successfully swept GEN.

As G2's competitive form improves, many viewers are starting to look forward to the knockout stage match between G2 and GEN. After all, both G2 and GEN swept BFX in BO5s. Many hope G2 can display more strength during the match, helping LPL teams scout GEN's hidden trump cards, which would reduce some pressure for LPL in winning the championship. Some viewers even fantasize that G2, as before, will defeat GEN in the knockout stage and then advance to the finals to give LPL teams a warm gift.