Gen.G Sweeps iG 0-3 at Worlds, and Chovy Reaches His First Final

Gen.G beat iG 3-0 in the League of Legends Worlds semifinal early on Sunday morning, ending the most improbable run of this year's tournament and sending the Korean team to the final. Chovy, Gen.G's midlaner, will play his first Worlds final in a decade of trying — and the Chinese team's fate now rests with BLG, who face T1 in the other semifinal.

iG's run had been the story of the tournament. The team clawed back from the "Nirvana" group, through the Knights Road, the playoffs and the gauntlet into the last four, and as one summary put it: through Nirvana, the Knights Road, the playoffs, the gauntlet and the final four, "iG's 2026 story has come to its end." The 0-3 scoreline was harsh, but it reflected the gap. On the decisive game, a Titan hook from the young AD carry JiaQi flew straight into the Gen.G crowd — the kind of gamble that turns a close fight into a rout — and the game collapsed from there.

The aftermath was the part that stayed with viewers. In the post-match photo, TheShy and Meiko, the two veterans, went to the youngest player: TheShy put an arm around JiaQi, Meiko patted his shoulder. "The veterans' gentleness and sense of responsibility came out at once," one post read, and a post liked more than 5,000 times drew the same conclusion: "a single mistake in one game shouldn't define the fight he put in across this whole World Championship."

Chovy himself was the one explaining the gap. Asked in the post-match interview what had blocked him from reaching a final for so long, he said: "In the past I always felt I had to meet everyone's expectations, or overcome that pressure, so I never really enjoyed Worlds. This time I didn't want to think about any of that — I wanted to play a game I could enjoy." This whole tournament, he said, from the moment he walked in, had been fun — and that, he suspected, was why he was playing so well.

iG's jungler Wei was more blunt about the result: "Gen.G is the number one seed, they're genuinely strong, we couldn't beat them. Fighting from the Nirvana group all the way to the semifinals was already a surprise. Do your best and there's no regret." The final hope, he added, "goes to BLG now."

BLG's task is heavy. The site has followed the LPL's bracket through the knockout stage, and BLG swept DK in its quarterfinal to earn the T1 match. But the deeper structural fact is the one this tournament keeps making: every remaining team at Worlds 2026 carries a former champion, so this year's winner will be a two-time champion — unless Gen.G, who have never won one, break the pattern. A first final for Chovy is now the first step toward that.