Bilibili Gaming ends T1’s reign at League of Legends Worlds, will face Gen.G in Saturday’s final

SAN JOSE — Bilibili Gaming beat T1 three games to one Sunday in the semifinals of the League of Legends World Championship, ending the reigning champion’s run and setting up a final against Gen.G on Saturday in Brooklyn, New York.

League of Legends is a free online game in which two teams of five battle to destroy each other’s base. Its yearly world championship, run by the game’s maker, Riot Games, is one of the most-watched events in esports. T1, a South Korean team, came in as the reigning world champion.

Bilibili Gaming, a Chinese team known as BLG, won the first game, lost the second and took the next two, according to posts from LoL Esports, Riot’s official esports account. The account said it was the first time in four years that T1 had been knocked out of Worlds, and that BLG is the first team from China’s LPL league to eliminate T1 at a world championship. The semifinal was played at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas, according to Ticketmaster’s event list.

Gen.G, the champion of Korea’s LCK league, reached the final a day earlier with its second straight sweep, LoL Esports said. The final pits Korea’s top league against China’s.

The final starts at 2 p.m. Eastern time, 11 a.m. Pacific, on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Barclays Center, the arena’s event page says. Doors open 90 minutes before the start. Riot shows its tournament matches online at lolesports.com, so Bay Area fans can watch from home.

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