The first time I ever heard the name "Madlife" was during the League of Legends All Star Shanghai invitational in 2013. He was one of the five players on his team to be elected by his region's playerbase to play in the tournament. Being from NA, I naturally cheered on the NA LCS All Star team and hoped for an improbable but possible tournament win. But there was one major roadblock in the way: the Korean LCK All Star Team.
At the time, I didn't know much about the KR League of Legends scene other than the generalization that all of us in NA were familiar with: they were the best. Despite Azubu Frost's loss to the Taiwanese cinderella story Taipei Assassins in the World Championship in the previous season, Korean League of Legends pros were still at the top of the food chain. So going into this match, I knew NA were the underdogs but this didn't mean they were dead in the water. Where there was a will, there would be a way.
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