GamingSportsLoL: SKT crowned 2016

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South Korean team SKT Telecom T1 has won the 2016 world championships of the League of Legends (LoL) video game.</div>
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For its 3-2 victory over a team backed by phone-maker Samsung, SKT's five members shared a prize of $2m (£1.64m) between them.</div>
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The win is the third time in four years that SKT has taken the title. It also won the title in 2015.</div>
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The final ran for six hours and was held in front of almost 20,000 LoL fans at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.</div>
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SKT's Lee Sang-hyeok, aka Faker, was named as the most valuable player of the tournament.</div>
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The total prize pot for the tournament was $5m with $750,000 going to second place team Samsung. The money available to teams taking part was increased by fan contributions.</div>
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<a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/10/30/league-of-legends-worlds-2016-winners/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing on the Rock, Paper Shotgun gaming news site</a>, Philippa Warr said the final had been "breathtaking", as the Samsung team had fought back from losing the first two games.</div>
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However, she said, everything had changed in the "beautiful" third game, which lasted 70 minutes and saw Samsung wrest a keenly contested win from SKT.</div>
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Samsung then took the fourth game more easily to set up the decider.</div>
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In the event, Warr said, SKT's "fluidity" and experience had won through, giving them the title, cash and Summoner's Cup trophy.</div>
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League of Legends is a massively popular game involving two teams of five players fighting over a small map</div>
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Each player controls a hero outfitted with a variety of attacks or defence abilities, and the winner is the first to destroy their opponent's base.</div>
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According to <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/09/13/riot-games-reveals-league-of-legends-has-100-million-monthly-players/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">statistics from Riot Games</a>, which created LoL, about 100 million people play the game every month.</div>
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SKT crowned 2016 League of Legends world champions

South Korean team SKT Telecom T1 has won the 2016 world championships of the League of Legends (LoL) video game. For its 3-2 victory over a team backed by phone-maker Samsung, SKT's five members shar…