JackeyLove Stays Perfect Against G2 as TES Roll Into 2-1 at Worlds
TES moved to 2-1 in the Swiss stage of the 2026 League of Legends World Championship on Sunday, beating G2 in a best-of-one, and the win added another line to one of the tournament’s more lopsided personal records. TES bot laner JackeyLove has now met G2 in four best-of series across Worlds history and won every one of them, with an 8-1 game record across those meetings.
The run stretches back to 2018, when a teenage JackeyLove won the world title with Invictus Gaming, who swept G2 3-0. The other three meetings have all come with TES: a single-game win at Worlds 2025, a 3-1 series victory later at the same tournament, and now this 1-0 result in 2026. G2 have taken exactly one game off him in eight years.
For TES, the result matters more than the record. The team had already beaten G2 once in this event, and the second win puts them in the 2-1 pool, one victory away from the knockout stage. Top laner 369, who rejoined the roster in unusual circumstances before the tournament, said afterward that he had expected to be outclassed in lane but found the gap smaller than he feared, and that he is now trying to enjoy the process rather than fixate on results. JackeyLove backed him up, saying 369 has adapted to the intensity of the stage after roughly half a month of training.
The Chinese broadcast duo of Elk and Fengyue, watching the match, were less measured. Fengyue joked that 369 had been written off as barely able to hold his own in solo queue yet kept carrying, and said support player Zhuo has found his form, promising more from the team in the games ahead.
Korean fans watching the match were struck by the same theme. Threads on the result credited 369 with fixing TES’s top-side problems and joked that the team looked transformed since his return, while lamenting the showing of some other first seeds at this tournament.
G2’s loss leaves them with work to do in the Swiss bracket. The European side had earlier upset Bilibili Gaming, one of several stumbles for Chinese teams in the opening rounds, and a win over TES would have put them on the doorstep of the knockouts. Instead the two teams’ paths diverge: TES can clinch a knockout place in their next series, while G2 must survive a lower pool where one more defeat ends the run.
Elsewhere on the same day, Invictus Gaming beat HLE in the 1-1 pool, a result that had English-language casters reaching for 2018 imagery and Chinese fans talking about a sleeping giant. HLE’s jungler Kanavi admitted his side’s decision-making was poor around the early objective fight. And in the day’s first series, DK took the opening game against MKOI in the 2-0 pool, helped by a costly mistake from Jojopyun’s Anivia.
The Swiss stage resumes with the 2-1 and 1-2 pools, where every series is elimination or qualification. For JackeyLove, the question is whether a fifth meeting with G2 is still to come this year.