"We decided to have as much fun as we could": DRX ahead of winning 2022 LoL World Championships (Exclusive)

sportskeeda.com:

In one of the great underdog stories in League of Legends history, DRX became the first team to make it all the way to the Worlds finals as a Play-In team. The 6th seed in the LCK playoffs and the 4th seed in the LCK at Worlds 2022, they had their work cut out for them in the finals.

Playing against one of the greatest teams of all time, T1, the underdogs of DRX showed up and claimed victory at the biggest League of Legends event of the year. Ahead of the finals, Sportskeeda’s Jason Parker spoke to DRX as a whole, and to individual players about how far they’ve come, what it means to be playing against pros like Faker, and much more.

DRX: We are happy and proud that we have achieved results through various trials and challenges, and at the same time, we are happy to be the first team to advance from the play-in to the final.

DRX: Perhaps if there is an international competition where teams can compete, those teams, who will go to a lower bracket, will also be motivated and be competitive.

DRX: To be exact, I hope there will be an international competition where minor league teams can compete and communicate.

DRX: There may be some strategies and meta, but there are parts that have developed from Worlds, and I believe that we prepared against Gen.G well.

DRX: Before we came to Worlds, there was a meta that our team had difficulty following up. We tried to follow the meta and try new things, but the results were not as good as we expected. The team's strength and teamwork had reduced.

We tried to unite the team by talking and discussing with each other, throwing away what we had to throw away, and taking what we had to take. The process was difficult, but I think it worked in the end.

Deft: I thought it was over, but it wasn’t. I