A TEAM whose name was derived from the TV show “Teletubbies” dominated the first competitive League of Legends (LoL) collegiate event in the Philippines.
The UST Teletigers outlasted the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) Monstrum Vel Prodigium, 3-2, in the best-of-five finals of the Garena League of Legends Varsity League (LVL) 2017 at Glorietta 4 Cinema 6 in Makati Sunday.
“We really made history kasi this is the first LVL championship and we got it for UST,” UST team captain and support player Theo Ignacio told the Varsitarian in an online interview.
The team consists of third-year Literature student Ignacio, fourth-year Information Technology student Brussel Isidro (top), third-year Toursim student Laurence Padilla (carry), Computer Science sophomore Isiah Loberiza (midlaner), and senior high school students Daeniel Fornea (jungle), Jan Edward Hortizuela (support) and Rallion Gatchalian (carry).
The Teletigers rolled to the top in the elimination round with a 13-2 record, losing only to TUP and AMA University-Quezon City.
The team then defeated TUP in the tiebreaker for the first seed and an outright spot in the finals, taking home 30,000 pesos.
Garena League of Legends Varsity League 2017 is the first competitive League of Legends collegiate event in the country which started last September 2017.
Last year, UST’s Team Kangkong bagged the championship in the best-of-five finals series of Impetus 2017, the first intercollegiate Dota 2 tournament in the country last June 25.
A partnership with Lenovo and Intel paved the way for seven colleges and universities namely UST, TUP, AMA University-Quezon City, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Malayan Colleges Laguna, Far Eastern University-Institute of Technology and iAcademy to participate in the tournament.
LoL is a fast-paced, competitive online game developed and published by Riot Games. with reports from Arianne Aine D. Suarez
