Korea’s 8ljaywalking wins TFT Fates Championship: final placements & recap
Korea has taken home their first TFT title with 8ljaywalking beating out Frenchman Zyk0o and the rest of the pack in the TFT Fates Championship. He walks away with $41,500, the biggest individual prize in Teamfight Tactics history.
It was the biggest event in TFT history. The $250,000 TFT Fates Invitational trumped the$200,000 Galaxies Championshipand the $150,000 Rise of the Elements Invitational. 24 players were eventually whittled down to one, and it was Korea on top. 8ljaywalking posted huge results on Day 3, coming down to a nail-biting 1v1 against Zyk0o to take home the Fates Invitational title. Here’s how it went down.
TFT Fates Championship: results & recap
Day 1: Wednesday, April 7NA dominate with three players in Top 4
NA came out to play on the first day of the TFT Fates Championship. Kurumx and RamKev led the pack, while DQA TFT was also in the top four. Europe’s Pas De Bol also put up a great performance, winning two matches on the day.
Brazil and Latin America had their two representatives each knocked out on the first day of action, while Korean Thunder rounded out the action with a measly seven points, not even managing a better placement than sixth across the five games. https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1379819600649592834Day 2: Thursday, April 8China eliminated as Europe stays strong
All three of China’s remaining hopefuls, including tournament favorite Juanzi, have been eliminated on Day 2. Europe’s Lallana and Pas De Bol dominated the lobbies, with the latter winning yet another couple of games after a strong Day 1 performance. Japan’s Yatsuhashi and Australia’s Razza also managed to edge themselves into the Top 8 with two crucial wins at the end of the day’s play. Zyk0o beat DQA out in the tiebreaker for eighth, making RamKev the final NA representative heading into Friday’s final. https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1380205810651951104Day 3: Friday, April 98ljaywalking crowned TFT Fates champion
It was really a two horse race on the final day of the TFT Fates Championship. France’s Zyk0o got off to a blistering start, getting two wins and a third in his first three games to get to ‘check-position.’ His Fortune strats paid off big time, making one of the biggest comebacks in TFT history with the 1HP 11-loss streak cash out in Game 2.
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With only one win needed, the rest of the lobby had to play catch-up, and 8ljaywalking took him to task. The Korean won Game 4 to put himself on match point, and then converted a huge Slayers board in Game 5 to take it all — beating out Zyk0o in the final 1v1 to win it all. https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1380556907610529795
TFT Fates Championship: final placements
Below is the TFT Fates Championship final placements, and how much prize money each player won.
TFT Fates Championship players
Here is a full list of players who competed in the TFT Fates Championship, and what regions they qualified from. Some big names were upset in the qualifiers. Galaxies champion ‘Double61’ wasn’t be in attendance, and neither was NA streamer extraordinare ‘k3soju’.
