Karmine Corp beat T1 2-1 in Esports World Cup 2026 semifinal in Paris
French side Karmine Corp upset T1 2-1 in the League of Legends semifinal at the 2026 Esports World Cup in Paris, reaching the final.
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T1, the South Korean organisation built around Faker, met French club Karmine Corp in the League of Legends semifinal of the 2026 Esports World Cup, held in Paris in July. Karmine Corp, from the European league (LEC), won the best-of-five series 2-1 in front of a home crowd.
The result was widely described as an upset. Karmine Corp had already eliminated China's Anyone's Legend in the quarterfinals, and the win over T1 sent the French team into the final, a rare achievement for a European side against Korean opposition.
In the final, Dplus KIA of South Korea swept Karmine Corp 3-0 to take the title and the top prize. T1 then lost the third-place match to Gen.G. The semifinal mattered because it gave Karmine Corp a recent win over T1, which shaped the build-up when the two teams met again in the Worlds 2026 quarterfinal.
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