{"id":30967,"date":"2018-02-07T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2018-02-07T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:11:24","slug":"phl-team-places-second-at-lenovos-legion-of-champions-series-ii-grand-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/02\/07\/phl-team-places-second-at-lenovos-legion-of-champions-series-ii-grand-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Phl team places second at Lenovo\u2019s Legion of Champions Series II Grand Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wargods Redlyt\u00a0from the Philippines emerged as the first runner-up of Lenovo\u2019s Legion of Champions Series II Grand Finale in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Wargods-Redlyt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Wargods-Redlyt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Wargods-Redlyt.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Wargods-Redlyt-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team took home a cash prize of 100,000 THB or approximately PHP 165,000. Argma from Hong Kong was crowned as grand champion after defeating Wargods Redlyt in a fierce and highly entertaining final matchup. Meanwhile, Fire Dragon from Malaysia was declared second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was our first time competing outside the country and we are very and happy and humbled to represent the Philippines in a huge gaming event,\u201d said\u00a0Wilson Mara\u00f1on of Wargods Redlyt.<\/p>\n<p>Wargods Redlyt won the right to represent the Philippines after besting 113 other teams through seven elimination rounds during the national qualifiers held last December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReaching the finals was beyond our expectations. It was a tough competition. We still can\u2019t believe that we reached that far,\u201d added Mara\u00f1on.<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo Legion gaming devices were used throughout the whole tournament, thus giving every team world-class experience in speed, performance, and consistency. Together with Intel, Legion of Champions Series II is one of Lenovo\u2019s major efforts in nurturing the next-generation gamers and growing the gaming community in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the devices that we used provided high performance and really helped our game. We thank Lenovo for all the support that they have given us, and we hope that the Legion of Champions tournament will continue its success,\u201d said Mara\u00f1on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team took home a cash prize of 100,000 THB or approximately PHP 165,000. Argma from Hong Kong was crowned as grand champion after defeating Wargods Redlyt in a fierce and highly entertaining final matchup. Meanwhile, Fire Dragon from Malaysia was declared second runner-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[34,312,5779],"class_list":["post-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines","tag-gaming-2","tag-lenovo","tag-wargods-redlyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}