The greatest charm of esports competitions is that you cannot determine the outcome based on "paper strength" or "stereotypes." For example, the 2026 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational produced many "upset highlights." Among them, the most memorable match for the audience was TES's shocking loss to TWS and G2's shocking loss to LYON. Before the matches, the pre-match prediction support rates for TES and G2 were around 80%, but both were easily defeated by their opponents.

In particular, G2's loss to LYON was unexpected for many LPL viewers. Before the match, both professional LoL players and streamers believed that G2's paper strength was superior to LYON's, especially since G2 had just defeated the six-time champion T1 the day before. However, who could have predicted that G2, whom we had high hopes for as "LPL's third seed," would be swept by LYON and eliminated. Perhaps G2's heavy defeat displeased many LEC viewers and G2 management, so the very next day after the match, G2 officially announced the dismissal of the team's legendary coach, Dylan Falco.

After this news broke, it immediately became a hot topic on various LoL forums. After all, from the start of this year's First Stand tournament, G2 had defeated three LCK teams in just half a year. Many viewers believed that G2 coach Dylan Falco played a significant role, and some even thought that if G2's coach and T1's coach were swapped, T1 would have beaten G2 3-0. Currently, most viewers believe that the main reason G2 lost to LYON was the poor performance of mid-laner Caps and bot-laner Hans Sama. It seems unreasonable for G2 to make the coach take the blame after the match.

Of course, what surprised viewers even more was that G2's future coach would be the former G2 star player PerkZ. This move by G2 led many viewers to suspect that it was a publicity stunt, comparing it to EDG making Clearlove their head coach. Many viewers even began to question PerkZ's coaching ability, since he has been retired for almost a year. During his time off, apart from occasional streaming, he never showed any potential as a coach. (Do you think PerkZ can be a good coach?)

Bin is only two championships away from being the world's top top-laner.

In addition to the discussion about G2's swift separation from the coach, BLG's top-laner Bin recently sparked widespread discussion among LoL viewers with an interview statement that was "overly modest." Bin stated that he does not yet consider himself the "world's best top-laner," and that to become the "world's best top-laner," he must win both the MSI and the World Championship. He believes he has a good chance of achieving this goal this year. Many viewers remarked that Bin has really changed.

In the past, Bin would always boast in interviews that he was the world's best top-laner, only to be proven wrong in subsequent matches. But now, BLG has not lost a single BO5 in international competitions, and Bin has become very humble. Personally, I think that if Bin completes the "Golden Road" this year, he will undoubtedly be the world's best top-laner in League of Legends, since no professional player has ever achieved this honor since the game's inception.

Conclusion

Do you think Bin has a high chance of completing the Golden Road this year? Although some viewers criticize Bin's interview remarks as "borrowing future championships," I feel that given BLG's current strength, winning the MSI championship should not be a big problem. As long as Riot Games does not deliberately target BLG, BLG could very well achieve the only Grand Slam in League of Legends history, and Bin might even get a "Hall of Fame skin" in the future.