Former competitive gamer Lauri "Cyanide" Happonen has died at the age of 31. This has been confirmed to Ilta-Sanomat by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV). He passed away on July 31. The cause of death is not known. Happonen was one of the first stars of the game League of Legends.

He won the game’s world championship at the age of 16 in 2011, reached the world championship semi-finals in 2013, and was crowned the European league champion three times in a row between 2013 and 2014.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 SWISS STAGE

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Team Liquid 2-0 Anyone's Legend

TLAW have prevailed over AL & move on to the 1-2 pool!
AL is the first LPL #1 seed to exit the World Championship in Swiss Stage with 0-3 record.

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

GAME 1: AL vs. TLAW

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 33m
Runes | Game Breakdown

GAME 2: TLAW vs. AL

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 47m
Runes | Game Breakdown

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2-1, Qualification matches:

• TES vs BLG

• IG vs LYON

• MKOI vs T1

1-2, Elimination matches:

• KC vs CFO

• TLAW vs LOS

• HLE vs G2

Absolute legend. I watched this live and it floored me. I genuinely quote this to myself almost weekly.

Absolute legend, RIP

WORLDS 2026

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T1 1-0 CTBC Flying Oyster

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MATCH 1: T1 vs. CFO

Winner: T1 in 27m
Game Breakdown

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 SWISS STAGE

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Bilibili Gaming 1-0 Karmine Corp

BLG have defeated KC!

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GAME 1: BLG vs. KC

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 SWISS STAGE

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Team Secret Whales 0-2 LØS

LØS will play vs. another 1-2 team in Round 4!
TSW's Worlds run is over. They exit the World Championship with 0 wins.

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

GAME 1: TSW vs. LOS

Winner: LØS in 40m
Runes | Game Breakdown

GAME 2: TSW vs. LOS

Winner: LØS in 37m
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The stages of depression and excitement for each individual is so funny I feel like I had to share. Despair for EU obviously but Kobe, Spawn and Azael's relief that HLE would be an invalid matchup because of LOS/G2 playing earlier is hilarious

• On Chovy: “I think Chovy is like a transcendent player. I think he’s the best in the world - probably the best player in the world. Chovy in mid lane is just unmovable in any matchup. Blind pick or counterpick, he’s just unbelievable.”
• On Keria: “I think Keria’s arguable as well, I think he’s also fantastic. T1, I think, is the only team in the entire world where their support is their best player.”
• On how LYON drafted against him: “We had a lot of priority on mid bans, trying to shut down Chovy - I think a lot of people probably would have noticed that in our drafts - and picking jungle matchups where our jungler is going to have agency.”
• On Gen.G: “Everyone thinks they’re the best team in the world, they’ve shown time and time again their pedigree, their standard. I’ve seen all of their games, and we scrimmed them, and they’re unbelievable. Any angle you give them, they will take.”
• On Inspired’s Xin Zhao: “I think Inspired is probably the best Xin Zhao in the whole world. He understands when the champion is strong. He coordinates the team around it so unbelievably well. He just really knows where the win condition is.”
• On going double ranged bot lane: “A lot of the reason is we wanted to have counter pick mid in many of the games. If someone had to pick, it was going to be us, we were just going to pick a duo together. I wouldn’t say it’s a confidence thing. I think we’re confident in many lanes.”
• On LYON’s teamfighting: “When Inspired is playing Xin Zhao, I think these comps look perfect when we play them. It’s a style that fits us. Ever since the LCS finals, I think it’s gotten a lot better. Just playing as a coordinated team has looked much better for us.”
• On his own year: “I always just credit my teammates. I think Berserker and Inspired have been instrumental to my growth this year. I think just a little bit of confidence for me, and the nurturing of my teammates over this year, is what’s led to the results you see.”

as it currently sits Bee! counts as an ability for every champs effects. tahm kenchs passive is procced off each bee tic without ethereal weapon. it procs karmas ult cooldown meaning you can recast your ult instantly.

Reddit doesn’t allow direct image links so here’s the Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/y0NzhG4

Here’s the link to the tweet: https://x.com/hupuesports/status/2114431112483340426

369 gets a 10 for his performance.

Hupu comments: (I’m not great at Chinese so I’m using some Google Translate to help fill in blanks)

“Who would have guessed the guy playing valorant would go C (Carry in Chinese slang) twice in a row. Picking nocturne to smoke for 369 is genius”

“This win is dedicated to Valorant China”

“Tian smokes them off and 369 holds the angle with a sniper”

“369 attained enlightenment on the Valorant battlefield”

“When TES win the World Championship, people who don’t know the full story will think 369 was the MVP. Only those in the know will understand that the real MVP was that unknown American visa officer.”

“Mosquito Akali, no damage just annoying. Even his teammates are annoyed by him”

Shes playing Katarina at 0:54 of "You're Under Arrest"'s MV, and does actually have proper hand placement for playing lol in another scene shortly after (kinda cut off)

https://youtu.be/V2V9-9VhYJo?si=WmMLmkbZtglo4SRL

Note: This post does not spoil the results of any match from the past 24 hours.

The Swiss Stage resumes today at 1700 UTC+0, where T1 will play CTBC Flying Oyster.

In the worst case scenario for the west in the 2-1 bracket, Lyon loses to IG and KOI loses to T1. If KC at the very least beats CFO, then there will be a minimum of 4 western teams in the 2-2 bracket between Lyon, KOI, KC, and the winner of TL vs LOS, guaranteeing one team to get out. In a slightly better scenario, the four western teams get put into 2 matchups, meaning 2 teams get out. This is also assuming that HLE beats G2. If G2 are able to overcome HLE alongside KC beating CFO, two western teams will be guaranteed top 8 given 5 of the 6 teams in the 2-2 bracket will be western.

In the copium scenario of Lyon and KOI beating IG and T1, the west can theoretically get 5 teams out of groups assuming perfect draws.

^\assuming your definition of West includes Brazil)