The first major international tournament of the year is currently taking place in League of Legends: The First Stand. Everything looked like an embarrassment for Europe, but the French team Karmine Corp achieved a surprising comeback in front of thousands of spectators on Twitch.
What kind of match was that? The French team Karmine Corp had to go against CTBC Flying Oyster (CFO) on March 15, 2025 in the semi -finals of the First, the team from Taiwan. Although CFO is actually considered one of the weaker teams of the tournament, the chances for the Europeans were not exactly good, which of them had already been collected.
In fact, it looked as if the Europeans were being left out of the tournament without a win when Karmine Corp managed a surprise victory against the favorites from China. This obviously gave the team new buoyancy, because now they managed to send CFO home. The LOL streamer Caedrel was feverish on Twitch-and had up to 110,000 spectators.
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Instead of embarrassing embarrassing, Europe succeeds in a historical comeback
So the match ran: Karmine Corp got into the best-of-five and was able to clearly win the first two games. In the third match, CFO fought his way back into play, landed the first kill after 90 seconds and finally secured victory after some way.
In the 4th round, CFO was able to prevail with team fights and win it 2-2. The grand finale started balanced, with early successes on both sides. After all, Karmine Corp was able to position himself better, switch off the opponents and destroy their Nexus.
The match ended after 39 minutes and 28 seconds. For Europe it is the first international final in 5 years.
On Twitch, the streamer Caedrel was feverish, the current top streamer to Lol. The Briton was visibly tense towards the end, but also celebrated the victory of Karmine Corp all the more exuberant. Midlaner Vladi and Botlaner Caliste in particular had put an “absolutely monstrous” struggle, Toplaner Canna had “buried the entire game.” On Reddit, Canna is even declared a “latest French war hero”.
Up to 109,000 spectators switched to Caedrel at the same time, and another 11,000 were added to the German commentator Tolkin. On the French channel Otplol_, more than 50,000 spectators also followed the match, so more than 170,000 spectators were with the Europeans on these 3 channels.
Then there are the official Riot accounts and the LCP.
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