Overview
- Team Liquid defeated Mythic L'ura to claim the Race to World First title, sealing a fourth straight championship after roughly two weeks of attempts and 473 pulls.
- The race flipped over the weekend when L'ura hit 0% and appeared dead, only to revive to full health and trigger a secret fourth phase that wiped Liquid mid‑celebration.
- Teams learned the new phase on the fly, staying inside a light zone, dodging lasers and voidlings, and healing through heavy raid‑wide damage while the boss takes extra damage.
- Echo pushed Liquid to the brink with near‑kills, including a sub‑0.5% wipe, as both frontrunners logged hundreds of tries before Liquid closed out the encounter.
- Blizzard drew praise for pulling off a rare surprise in an era of datamining, delivering a high‑stakes live‑ops moment that reshaped strategies in real time on Twitch streams.