californium. 2016 rox.
after winning the 2016 summer split, the tigers marched into worlds with one goal: the summoner's cup.
as fate would have it, they would run into skt t1, the defending world champions that beat their very team in the finals the year before. with a nearly-unchanged roster, it was also the first time a winning team made it back to the championship the following year - but rox had largely stayed the same, too, the exception being the addition of their young, star jungler peanut, and they were ready to settle the score, once and for all.
support mf?
the arrow! look at the arrow!
- so bengi has to play the nidalee.
it's up to smeb to try to save the game...!
faker, with just a ghost, gets away with it!
rox lost 2-3 in what many call the greatest bo5 to have ever been played. shortly following worlds 2016, the entire team went their separate ways, with smeb leaving for the kt superteam, kuro heading for afreeca freecs, and the ever-together pray-gorilla botlane making their way to longzhu. peanut, their young star jungler, would go on to join skt t1, the very team that ended their worlds run.
there will never be another team like the rox tigers.
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