When the FBI Destroyed the Most Dominant League of Legends Team Ever

in the competitive history of league of legends there was one team who stood above the rest a team more successful and dominant than we had ever seen before they essentially invented how we play modern league of legends today and were one of the best Western teams in the history of the game but as quickly as they exploded onto the scene they would disappear nearly as fast and due to the US government no less federal officials have announced the largest bust of a hacking ring in US history five men are charged with stealing more than a hundred and sixty million credit and etic debit card numbers the intrusions into the networks of Nasdaq 7-eleven JCPenney Heartland Payment Systems one of them was a championship game who travelled from city to city winning you know video game championships and and things like that twenty-nine-year-old Dmitry's million its is in a new jersey jail thirty two-year-old vladimir drink man is in the netherlands awaiting extradition the other three are at law [Music] one thing that's important to understand about the early years of league was how different the competitive scene was compared to today namely there were no established leagues with regular seasons or splits for teams to clash and the only thing out there was tournaments one of the most popular tournament series were the weekly gopher lulls hosted by ESL these were tournaments that happened every Sunday where teams would play through a massive bracket of best of ones until one was crowned that week's champion the only prize for each week's tournament was a hundred bucks for the winners as well as circuit points to qualify you for a monthly finals bracket where the winner there would get 250 bucks yeah there wasn't a lot of money in the scene back then but this was all that was available to the top teams who wanted to compete teams wouldn't really enter these tournaments for the cash but rather they would enter because they wanted to prove they were the best of their region since this was the only way for high-level teams to challenge each other regularly in a formal setting you would have plenty of top players entering these to try and show the world what they were made of now one of the more interesting things about the Gopher law system was that anybody could play in them any group of 5 players could make accounts on the ESL site and sign up together as there wasn't any sort of rating requirement or qualifying points needed if you wanted to test your skill against the best players in the world just look through the team recruitment forms on the league website and you'll find players willing to enter with you theoretically this means it should have been difficult for new competitive teams to break into the scene and make a name for themselves as each and every week any group of 5 newcomers could come along and challenge the best out there potentially rising to the top themselves but that almost never happened the two main regions North America and Europe had almost all of their tournaments won by the same few teams in na there was CLG and TSM who simply developed a stranglehold on the region winning everything whereas in Europe three separate teams named fnatic SK gaming and a French team called against all authority would often trade wins for the weekly tournaments there occasionally you would see a week here or there where a new team that you hadn't heard of before would get first place and win it all but that was typically only when the bigger teams were too busy and didn't bother to enter just to illustrate how far ahead these top teams were compared to everyone else some of famously didn't bother practicing or scrimmaging others for improvement CLG in particular was known for this at one period of time they were so far ahead of everyone else in North America that they figured there wasn't a reason for organized practice they could already win everything by a mile and scrimmaging other lesser teams below them would only give those lesser teams practice and exposure to their own strategies so for them they figured it was just better to hone their skills individually through practicing in soloqueue this sounds like an insane strategy nowadays but it actually worked for a while that's just how far ahead all the top teams were this of course resulted in fans being subjected to seeing the exact same names win every single tournament for months on end which got some people pretty upset those who were on top were reaping the rewards of growing their fan base and getting viewers on their own streams continuously proving that they could not be beat throughout the entirety of season one nearly every tournament was won by these select few that is until oh no gauge is gonna get closed out here by also that it will be gone so actually that's it see get your dues use the urgency gosu actually popping his own ulti what oh my god can office ulti backed him with it Wow they were not expecting that escape just got it destroyed suddenly a newcomer appeared out of nowhere team empire from Europe five new faces that nobody had ever heard of before came together and just started beating all the other top European teams this was a hugely exciting development at the time as this may have been the first time a group of five truly new faces joined the competitive scene prior to this there was some roster shuffling amongst the more established teams particularly in Europe so occasionally you would see one player from a big team leave and then go start up a new organization where this is pretty much the only way we would see quote-unquote new competitive teams form but they weren't really new since they would still have a roster filled with old familiar faces that you had already seen on other top teams naturally seeing them go and then take home a gofer lull or something wasn't quite as exciting or nearly surprising the team Empire was the exception to this rule Darrien and top lane diamond proxxon jungle alex ich mid ganja and gosu pepper botlane these were five players almost all hailing from Russia that nobody had even heard of before and shockingly they seemed able to beat the best of Europe right out of the gate Empire played in one go for lull where they would get fourth place and then in the very next one they won it all this qualified them for the monthly finals in October where again they would enter and win it all this is one of the things that made their entrance into the competitive scene so memorable just how explosive it was like this wasn't some up-and-comer who was constantly getting poor placing for years before they finally managed to win something this kind of success from new teams simply wasn't something you would ever see so of course some hype began building around them after these exciting wins they would quickly get sponsored and branded under a new organization appropriately named Moscow 5 but there were still a few questions about how good this team really was in those early days they had never played in a LAN environment at any sort of a live tournament yet as their limited professional experience only came in online tournaments where they got to play from the comfort of their own home and if you want to be nitpicky these gopher laws that they won didn't have too many of Europe's best teams nobody really knew if they would be able to translate their early performance to the live international stage yet at least until IEM Kiev Kiev would be one of the most competitive tournaments the world had seen up until that point the tournament originally was supposed to host the number one top team from almost every region but there were some visa issues that prevented that this was back when eSports was still a very new concept to the world so the number one Chinese team at the time Invictus gaming was unable to participate due to a visa rejection there was also an up-and-coming team from North America called a picture of a goose that was unable to participate and was instead replaced with team curse but the competition here was still fierce against all authority the runners-up to the season 1 world finals SK gaming at this point the best team in Europe Dignitas the new kings of North America and TSM a historically good na organization all stood in the way of these Russian rookies this was also in 2012 a full two years after league had been released meaning that players getting pretty good at the game at this point a meta had developed mistakes were less common teams had better draft phases better mechanics and were no longer pushovers susceptible to cheesy strategies and five were essentially the David going up against not just one but four Goliath however the Russians had a strategy that they thought could help them go toe-to-toe against every other top team out there and in this tournament m5 would showcase that strategy to the world changing the way teams played league of legends forever so if you've ever paid attention to high-level League of Legends play you've probably heard players casters and analysts use this one particular word priority Lane priority jungle priority what exactly does that mean essentially priority refers to the ability of one player's team being able to come and give assistance to them faster than their counterpart on the enemy team so for instance if we take a look at this freeze-frame from a hypothetical game we can see three players on each team two in the top lane two in the jungle and two in the mid lane the jungler on blue side here is making an aggressive move towards his enemies jungle in the hopes of stealing the red buff which would give him a pretty big advantage early on in the match but the enemy jungle is still nearby and is going to potentially be able to defend however the invading jungler here still has the advantage because his team has a lane priority in the two closest lanes both of his teammates are pushed to the enemy Tower which gives him an advantage if he runs into the enemy jungle his laners are going to be able to come and help him faster than that enemies laners would be able to that's because his liners have just cleared out the minions in the lane and are free to roam around without any sort of consequences while the enemy laner is on the opposing team are forced to farm their gold and experience from the minions under their tower since if they leave the minions will just die to the tower and they won't be there to get the precious gold and experience they need so because of this the jungler here has Lane priority and he's able to make this aggressive invade into the enemy jungle hoping to get an advantage the enemy jungler can't really defend here because he's going to end up being outnumbered because his teammates are stuck in their lanes similarly the laners here also have jungle priori meaning that they can keep pushing and being aggressive because of the same thing let's say the red side top laner calls for help here asking for his jungler to come to his Lane and ambush the enemy top laner for a two versus one gank that's still okay for blue team since blue side top laner knows that the enemy jungler isn't in range to do anything like that his jungler is standing in the way of the path of the enemy jungler would have to take so not only does he have vision here thanks to his teammate and knows that the enemy isn't in a position to make a play like that right now but even if the enemy does come and try and set something up his teammate is gonna be there to likely meet the opposing jungler and stop them all of this meaning that our top lane friend here can continue pushing being aggressive and not having to worry about the enemy team collapsing on him priority is an important mechanic to understand in league since it can allow you to make very aggressive moves that could potentially give you huge advantages even if you don't have direct vision on all the enemy players on the mini-map the reason I'm bringing this up is because these are basic fundamentals of every professional league of legends match nowadays and moscowfive kind of invented it before m5 the meta that existed at the time was something much more simple each laner would just sit in their lane trying to beat their lane opponent one versus one with an expectation that they're just gonna stay in that lane until the late game the mantra that players had was win lane win game they would focus on out farming their opponent in lane last hitting more minions possibly trying to kill the enemy lane opponent if they can one versus one but otherwise just sitting in lane continuing to farm items until the late game the expectation was that the jungler would play around the lanes with a very gank heavy somewhat supportive play style so most of the popular junglers at the time were the ones that were best at ganking such as skarner or lys in this heavy focus on playing around the laners also led to the development of strategies like freezing a minion wave if one player chose to push a minion wave in a lane the defending player with some careful manipulation could keep that minion wave frozen in that exact spot meaning that if the enemy laner wanted to come and farm some of their own creeps they would have to stand very far forward in lane making them susceptible to a gank so freezing the wave was considered one of the best strategies out there and players who pushed waves and non-stop were widely considered kind of awful but moscowfive turned the game on its head when they came into the scene and changed the way we look at lead they picked champions who did nothing but push minion waves they would pick champions that were widely considered awful by everyone else stuff like mordekaiser specifically because they were good at pushing minion waves the enemy team could try and freeze the minion wave if they wanted to but that would just give Moscow five lane priority and allow them to leave Lane invade the enemy jungle and do whatever they wanted and this is where their favorite champion who they became very well known for came in Shyvana Shyvana was a jungler who nobody believed in she had no crowd control no slows no stuns which means she's generally pretty awful at ganking and if she's awful at ganking why would you bother playing her she can't play around the laners the way other good junglers like skarner or lee sin can but Shyvana has one big strengths those other champions down she's great in the early game when it comes to map presence more specifically she has some of the fastest jungle clear times and can easily get ahead of the other jungler by power farming a little bit which of course means that she can then go and invade the enemy's jungle start stealing a bunch of camps to get a gold and level advantage and if anyone ever tries to contest her she'll likely be able to out damage them and 1v1 them because she has very high base damages no mana and a ton of other things that make her very good at this very specific playstyle by picking her m5 were able to base their gameplay around controlling the map getting priority in lanes allowing their jungler to invade and steal camps while being supported by their laners when they look to take important objectives for their team all over the map this would give them massive leads in the early game they'd get so far ahead they could just push down the enemy base winning fights if anyone tried to stop them and more often than not m5 could look to win a game by the 20-minute mark even if things dragged on longer than that they would typically have a back-up plan as well while their mid laner top laner and jungler were typically all early game aggressive champions their bot Lane would be much more oriented towards scaling they would almost always at least have one hyper late-game scale or on the team like a kog'maw ad carry just in case the match went on too they still wanted to have a back-up plan in a wind condition so teams couldn't just hope to drag a game out as long as possible and this strategy worked like a charm I can't overstate the significance of m5 and what they did for how teams look at league of legends their contributions to dissecting the mechanics of the game are still seen today while every meta before them league was all about playing around the lanes now it was about playing around the map playing around the jungler playing as a team who aren't afraid to leave lane push in waves rotate around the map and be proactive and of course with moscowfive being the team to develop these new strategies they got to reap a whole lot of rewards if we go back to the event at hand IEM Kiev we would see Moscow 5 easily sweep through the group stage not dropping a single game in bracket they would sweep sk-gaming two games to nothing to qualify for the finals where they would face off against TSM in the grand finals best of three as if they hadn't pulled out enough crazy strategies in the earlier parts of the tournament they would start doing even more new stuff for instance after running Shyvana jungle all tournament during one of their matches they would go for an early first picture vana now TSM would obviously expect that to be a Shyvana jungle but instead Moscow 5 would run that pick top lane this worked out insanely well as its energized with their strategy perfectly their top laner Darien was able to use the good waveclear Shyvana has which is what normally makes her a very good jungler and instead use it to constantly push his lane letting him always have lane priority so he could leave lane to steal jungle creeps roam and gank even more than he had already been doing earlier in the tournament almost every team would start trying to learn how to run Shyvana top lane after seeing darienne's success they would also break out kenan ad carry which blew a lot of people's minds at the time most teams considered kenan a very high priority champion someone that you have to pick her ban but only because he was threatening as a mid lane mage if he went down mid lane he was considered one of the best champions in the game because of his incredibly high magic damage he had one of the easiest laning phases in game he transitioned into one of the best team fighters a late-game as well and all of this was because he had some of the highest magic damage on top of some of the longest ranges on his abilities meaning that he can burst someone down from a hundred percent health to zero before they can even reach him to attack back but m5 would stick their physical damage carry ganja on Kennon and use him in a completely different way so you can enhance really weird hidden stats that's energized with how attack damage and attack speed scaling works in league basically kind of had one of the highest base attack speeds in league and the way that attack speed scaling works is every attack speed item you buy will give you a percentage bonus of your base attack speed so the higher base attack speed you have the more efficient it is for you to build attack speed items I won't get too much into the math of how all this works all you need to know is that even though every one of Penance abilities scales with magic damage meaning that he's supposed to be played as a mage these weird obscure stats and the odd way they work make cannon a surprisingly good physical damage carry instead it's a really strange strategy that took some creative people to figure out how it worked and those creative people were moscowfive like the Shyvana top lane they would first play cannon ad carry with no prior practice or experience in competitive play in these grand finals in fact I believe these two picks here were the first recorded instances in League of Legends history of these champions being used this way and boy did it work out well m5 would beat TSM two games to one it's easy to get lost in the hype of how innovative and straight-up fun moscowfive were for league's competitive scene but remember this was still their very first major tournament they ever attended in fact it was so early in their careers that most of their players were dirt poor I mean they hadn't won any real money from anything else so far so the individual players of m5 couldn't even afford to play the game on good enough pcs that allowed them to stream for being that interesting enough you know some of these moscow 5 players that alex said in his interview their computers are not good enough to stream well they might be if they get the victory here would be a monumental success for Moscow 5 but it was still just the beginning they would continue entering tournaments the next of which would be an event called kings of Europe he they would end up getting second place to a team called CLG EU and this would be significant as CLG EU would turn into the longtime rivals for Moscow 5 they mainly turned into their rivals because as time went on CLG EU would be the only team that could regularly beat the Russians but in spite of this second-place finish m5 would still steamroll ahead onwards and upwards to the next event and the next event was a doozy the IEM season six World Championship this was a tournament with one of the biggest prize pools league had seen up until that point $50,000 to first place and all the best teams in the world were vying for that a total of 12 competitors from North America Europe and even China would end up attending for reference that's more teams than were at the season 1 World Championship this event in general would dwarf the season 1 finals as it had a much higher caliber of competition with a similar prize pool it would be the toughest test that all these teams had faced in their pro careers up until this point so how did m5 fare well they didn't lose a single game but everyone's come by as well there's the true pull off they're all eyes this could be pretty bad Darrien taking a lot of damage flash despite looking really good for them the flash is still going down for Ghana and it may be running looks like one more is going to fall will we're gonna fall yes she will as well three kills for nothing Moscow fight with an incredible push right there Anja was just face-first into that fight the entire time Warrick coming into the suppress and it looks like they could have the crab to pull get you back out he dodges Warwick with another attack but too slow when they get him in the time and Mo will go down as Cortney also pause at uphill from Moscow by the gallon our big for help he is gonna come in and support them and actually go see pepper using the old team in white you can see diamond to drive it in they did canal are very noisy by now the run to us cherish the Charles there has popped his ulti to try and get away from this one will he be slowed enough like the way he will he's gonna get caught sound that's gonna even other kills it will be all spend the time and he's gonna go any smite see straightaway on two all-time at dominate first blip will be coming down here you can see meanwhile they're pushing across towards goes swap is immediately on askaris Karnataka plays washes over the ball that's one of the best time for the do so they're gonna do as much difference they can't he's now dueling Darrien Darrien picked up that kill there it looks like Alex not going down he that picks up the kill on the Corki they're still dominating this fight right now I will dominate managing to actually steal away the Baron which is a big deal putt they've not picked up any kills and they will get ace for it well that is it well played Moscow five they are the world champions fantastic performance from them and a really well-deserved championship and what a great celebration these guys know it means a lot CIN a $50,000 has been taken for this Russian team there were champions in Kiev and they've continued that dominance losing one game across two events when you hear a phrase like that they didn't lose a single game it's easy to miss the impact of what that means but take a second to think about it this doesn't happen anymore really ever even the world champions we see nowadays will still drop games in the group stage or in a best-of series that's because everyone sees their strategies eventually you would think that someone could pull off a cheesy strategy against them or that the second-best team could take a game off them and a best-of but here nobody could do anything this was a group of Russian superstars who were so far ahead of the meta that the rest of the world's top players were just dumbfounded you'd think with everyone knowing m5 strategies after seeing Kiev they'd be more prepared for it but nope m5 were still invading and pressuring they still had a much better understanding of the game than everyone else individual players like their support gosu pepper ran unconventional strategies like tankier support runes which allowed him to be much more aggressive in laning phase m5 in general was just crazy aggressive overall running weird picks like clairvoyance exhausts nunu support her got ad carry flash healed tryndamere mid what even when their signature championship on ax was picked or banned away from them in nearly every game they still performed insanely well proving to the world that they weren't simply running one weird strategy they had legitimately good play and solid game plans that nobody else could replicate five oh and group stage four oh and bracket Moscow five were the undisputed champions of the world [Music] after the end of this tournament m5 would go into a little bit of a slump in their placings they had a few uncharacteristically bad tournaments here or there but for the most part they would still end up getting top three and almost everything they attended most of the times they got second place was to their rivals CLG EE you see the recent m5 struggled so much against CLG in particular was m5 had this crazy fast aggressive style of play whereas CLG was the polar opposite m5 wanted to be aggressive early going for the kills going for snowball and games as quickly as possible but their rivals were incredibly good at slowing the pace of a match down they have players who synergized with that kind of slower play style very well like their star mid laner froggen whose signature champion anivia is notorious for good waveclear making it nearly impossible to push against her and close out a match this clash and playstyles heated the rivalry up turning it into one of the most exciting rivalries of its time even though during a lot of this time m5 was considered the best team in the world they would still always lose to CLG EU if they had to face them in a tournament even if they got one of their perfect early games going CLG could always slow the game down long enough until they hit their own scaling in fact these two teams would play in one series at the Dreamhack 2012 finals where in grand finals CLG EU dragged a single match out so long that it lasted longer than an hour in one of the greatest comebacks in League of Legends history but that's a story for another time after some of these disappointing performances following their IEM when m5 would continue entering everything they could there was one event where they had to forfeit because their team was unable to attend but after that they would put together one of the craziest runs in the world of competitive League of Legends m5 would enter 16 tournaments over the course of three months of which they would take first place in 14 of them [Music] [Applause] [Music] some of these tournaments had unusual structures like the into loll king of the hill series this was an event where two teams would play and whoever won would get first place for that week the prize money as well as a chance to defend their title the next week five of em fives wins would come from this where they would take first place and then would simply not drop it for the rest of the event some of these tournaments were online some were small some were simply qualifiers for larger stuff some were the larger stuff but regardless m51 everything they simply beat everybody in every way possible they had no problem with Koreans when they eventually faced them even though this was when Koreans were beginning to dominate the league competitive scene they have no problems dealing with their rivals CLG EU where before this streak they were one in six against them all time during the streak they went for a now they beat amateur teams they beat the best Europe had to offer they'd beat na teams they'd beat everyone this kind of winning streak is not something we had ever seen before and it's likely not something we'll ever see again it all culminated in Moscow 5 winning the European qualifiers for the season 2 World Championships collecting $40,000 in their pocket along the way everything was going their way absolutely everything but eventually every successful run has to come to an end five Russians and a Ukrainian were charged by a US Court for stealing more than 160 million credit card numbers resulting in millions of dollars in losses pn3 McMahon Radosevich elegant assertive cast Ksenia might be a nebari Samara bottle of concealer is Google Iquitos boyo guilty heaps clubs for Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with hacking and fraud authorities have been pursuing the hackers for years as early as 2010 the FBI had begun an investigation into a Russian group of hackers who engaged in a longtime credit card scam this started with two individuals Demetrius Emilia Nets and Vladimir drink men met each other playing counter-strike back in 2003 they were both notorious hackers in-game and upon meeting each other quickly became friends they'd hang out online playing games together but also in real life too regularly going fishing or drinking vodka and web blossomed into a pretty close after two years or so of spending time together the pair would eventually start a scam where they would hack into computer networks of financial companies they would mainly focus on breaching any sort of payment systems or online stores where they could find credit card numbers and then after gaining access to that data they would turn around and sell it online for 10 to 50 bucks per stolen credit card they intruded on a number of companies and financial institutions all over the US and Europe stealing a total of 160 million credit cards and causing damages of up to 300 million dollars it was called the biggest cyber fraud case in history the two would be on an excursion to the Netherlands for vacation in mid-2012 when FBI authorities would arrest them after a couple of months they would be extradited to the United States to stand trial a trial that would end up lasting nearly three years they were facing up to 35 and 25 years in prison for their crimes initially and would both end up pleading guilty in February of 2018 drink men would be sentenced to 12 years in prison simili nets would be sentenced to 51 months time served and would be released Dimitri's Amelia Nets was the founder and owner of Moscow 5 the arrest of M Phibes owner couldn't have come at a worse time for their League of Legends team immediately the organization began having solvency issues as their financial accounts had presumably been frozen by the FBI at the season 2 World Championship which occurred shortly after their owners arrest m5 would put on a pretty good performance they only ended up losing to the eventual world champion Taipei assassins still securing a tied third place but unfortunately this would be the last high point for the roster under the name Moscow 5 shortly after worlds the organization would fold and the League of Legends roster would be released now it may not be fair to blame the FBI for the end of m5 s dominance while they did obviously end up destroying the eSports organization as a whole the league of legends roster would still stick together they would rejoin a new Russian organization named gambit gaming with all five players still there ready to compete when all was said and done they likely were affected by the whole ordeal apart from some possible mental stress but regardless of whether this event changed them or not gambit gaming would simply never look as good as moscowfive gone were the days of the roster instilling fear into their opponents always showing up as a potential competitor to take first place instead the years with gambit would be filled with inconsistency and mediocrity that's not to say the roster did nothing as gambit you would still see flashes of the potential that the players had from time to time for instance one of the great things about this roster was how well they performed against Koreans they entered the League of Legends scene right as the era of Korean dominance had begun but for some reason or another Koreans couldn't ever break them the way they seemed to break all the other Western teams and the season 3 World Championship gambit would beat Samsung ozone once in group stage and then again in a tiebreaker to knock them out of the whole tournament up until this most recent 2018 Worlds it was the only time a Korean team had been eliminated in the group stage of a world championship at that world's gambit would only end up getting knocked out themselves by another Korean team najin black sword in a very close two games to one set but as the years went by gambit would eventually see their roster fall apart we had entered the LCS era now a span of years marked by regular-season leagues that had sprung up all across the world instead of those old tournament circuit formats and gambit sadly weren't built for that their star mid laner Alex ish would end up leaving the team stating the difficulty of travelling from his home in Russia to Cologne Germany every week where the EU LCS games were played it was too much of a strain on his family life as Alex had been married for a number of years now as he left the rest of the roster would continue on a downward slope in the 2014 LCS blitz they would get fifth place fifth place and then seventh the latter result forcing them to play through a relegation series to stay in the league they would beat SK gaming managing to hang around for a little while longer but they wouldn't do any better following this eventually the team would be relegated a few splits later and ended up disbanding however we are missing one really big piece of this story although most of their success did come when they were moscowfive the gambit roster would end up having one magical tournament run right after joining their new organization it would be the first instance of them playing under the gambit name at IEM katowice their play had already begun to decline and deteriorate with mediocre performances that were nowhere near their previous highs naturally they were no longer favorites to show up and win everything they entered and their team's struggles were pretty evident in the group stage of this event the only wind gambit would be able to muster was against a Polish team called meet your makers other than that they would lose not only to the Korean team azubu blaze but even to team curse who in those years was a pretty mediocre North American team with this embarrassing loss and a score of just one win two losses there's no possible way they could make it out of group stage right they might say these two strange worlds the Nexus coach Jamie are gonna not come back getting out of the tournament a beautiful comeback for what look like gambits game however something interesting ended up happening as Ubu blaze would win the group by beating everyone but the rest of the three teams would all end up with the same record gambit would beat my m-my my give a creating a three-way tie for second this tournament didn't have time a KERS as it was on a fairly strict schedule that didn't allow for extra games so instead in the event of a group stage tie they would determine who advanced into the bracket by a time coefficient adding the game times of the losses while subtracting the game times of the wins to see who lost slower and managed to win faster combined whoever had the best time would advance into the bracket stage this was a pretty obscure rule even for those early days of league and it's obviously not something we've seen anytime recently but here it paid off for gambit they would advance by just a few minutes they had a chance of life here this frustrating disappointment could all be turned around but it wouldn't be easy two of korea's best teams azubu Frost and his Ubu blaze stood in their way to the championship but again you have to remember that unlike the rest of the West gambits doesn't have problems with playing Koreans [Music] get towards that fight here we go then all hanging around by the middle I've seen Alex just diving I have a concept we're gonna get the old see down there is a crescendo coming out of Edward he's already fairly low at local rapid stop falling so simple thing started without the focus from that one we are gonna see him Alex each company's got the reset he's gonna jump over get the flow south rapid star port shields went down catches everyone out there going in though it's gonna be a diamond force my luck get justice please I'm gonna took now he can't eat that crap killing fear that porchetta can be gaming are going to take the neck sister to zero that subbu frost its gg gg the definition towards our mission the Ignite go down [Applause] weekly spent aside from the shed all Nevers gonna go over this inhibitor right here they gotta go target straight into old flame their capture jackets they're no bigger girlfriend this could be it this could be a big big truck [Applause] here I'm the new favorite team I think they are on that thing everyone here amazing amazing that can happen when you've got the support around this big that could really help you and let's be honest gambia be so confident all day after they watched us after they destroyed blazing game number one and look damn you'd have to be a crazy person to say they were gonna lose his second game this is the biggest momentum shift I've ever seen in League of Legends tournaments everyone thought gambit gaming over just listen to this crowd

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Keywords: League of Legends, Documentary, Moscow Five, M5, Gambit, Gambit Gaming, Moscow, Five, Season 2, Season 1, World Championship, IEM, ESL, LoL, League of Legends Documentary, Gbay99, Gbay, Russia

Id: MuQV0pYUkJQ

Length: 36min 55sec (2215 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 18 2019