G2 Esports has clinched its seventeenth LEC title on the 2025 Summer season Finals in Madrid, marking its first championship of the yr and securing EMEA’s prime seed on the upcoming World Championship in China.
The LEC Summer season Finals have been held on the Caja Mágica over the weekend, with Riot Video games reporting to Esports Insider that 17,000 followers have been in attendance throughout all days.
Movistar KOI have been undoubtedly the native favourites, drawing within the majority of the group, making a sea of blue jerseys out and in of the world. But it was G2 Esports that lifted the trophy amongst cheers.
Delivering a commanding efficiency on stage, G2 defeated MKOI 3–0 within the closing match of the 2025 LEC Season. The collection was marked by quick, decisive video games, with G2’s jungler, Rudy ‘SkewMond’ Semaan, incomes the Finals MVP award.
Regardless of narrowly lacking the Rookie of the 12 months title to Caliste, SkewMond’s constant performs and synergy with help Labrov have been pivotal in G2’s victory, posting a powerful 84% kill participation and a 16/2/28 KDA, in keeping with GOL.gg.
Caps Displays on a Historic LEC Season
With in the present day’s win, veteran midlaner Rasmus ‘Caps’ Winther celebrated his fifteenth LEC title with G2 Esports. Whereas the participant and his staff’s names are sometimes related to dominance, this yr — for the primary time in LEC historical past — every break up had a distinct champion.
Whereas Caps attributes his staff’s losses in each Winter and Spring Finals to the shortage of connection between the G2 gamers, he identified how, general, all different groups grew into legitimate rivals.
“I feel with us underperforming a bit and doing a bit worse, I suppose I simply left house for everybody else to step up,” mentioned the mid laner.
“We had three totally different winners, however even Fnatic was additionally doing very effectively this complete yr, they usually had some robust performances as effectively. And I imply even GIANTX, I feel on stage they generally did a bit worse, however particularly in scrims, they have been taking a variety of video games from us and their different prime staff. So it was positively a really aggressive yr.”
Aggressive groups include huge fan bases that cheer rosters on, even when the organisations don’t carry out effectively. In some events, that courtesy and help can lengthen to opponents as effectively. Caps shared that, despite the fact that most followers have been cheering for MKOI, they have been welcoming and supportive of G2 when the staff visited a neighborhood internet café earlier within the week.
Among the many hundreds converging in Caja Magica, there have been some followers who had the chance to ask Caps a query. Most have been curious in regards to the challenges of being persistently on the prime of the LEC, to which Caps credited his success to robust teammates and mutual drive.
He acknowledged: “I’ve at all times had very robust teammates who push me, and we push one another. I actually need to win Worlds, and for that, we have to be quite a bit higher than even the LEC groups.”
