G2 Esports have extended their record at the top of European League of Legends, sweeping Movistar KOI 3-0 in the 2026 LEC Summer Grand Final to claim their 20th regional title and complete a clean sweep of Europe’s three championships this season.
Playing in front of the crowd at the Palais Nikaïa in Nice on September 20, G2 closed the best-of-five without conceding a game. The result capped a year in which the organisation won LEC Versus, LEC Spring and LEC Summer, while also giving G2 a fourth consecutive European championship stretching back to its 2025 Summer victory.
For Rasmus “Caps” Winther, the victory added another milestone to an already extraordinary domestic résumé. The G2 mid laner has now won 18 European titles individually, only weeks after becoming the first Western player inducted into League of Legends’ Hall of Legends. Support Lampros “Labrov” Papoutsakis, meanwhile, was named Finals MVP after dying only twice across the entire three-game series.
G2 needed just three games to settle the LEC Summer final
Movistar KOI arrived in the Grand Final after an impressive lower-bracket run, including a 3-2 victory over Team Vitality, a 3-1 win over Natus Vincere and a 3-0 sweep of Karmine Corp in Nice. G2 had taken the shorter route through the upper bracket, beating Vitality 3-0 and Karmine Corp 3-1 to reach the final.
The difference on Sunday was decisive. G2 won Game 1 in 27 minutes and 58 seconds, finishing with 15 kills to MKOI’s five. Game 2 lasted 31 minutes and 47 seconds and produced the most kills of the series, with G2 winning 21-8, before the champions closed Game 3 in 29 minutes and six seconds with a 13-2 kill advantage.
Across the entire Grand Final, G2 therefore outscored Movistar KOI 49-15 in kills and completed all three games in a combined 88 minutes and 51 seconds of game time. Riot’s official LoL Esports schedule records the championship series as a 3-0 victory for G2.
The sweep was particularly striking because MKOI had taken the long route through the playoffs. After losing its opening upper-bracket series, the Spanish organisation defeated Team Vitality 3-2, Natus Vincere 3-1 and Karmine Corp 3-0 on successive weekends to reach the championship match.
Labrov’s 7/2/34 Finals MVP performance
Labrov’s Finals MVP award came after one of the cleanest support performances of the LEC season. He opened the series on Seraphine with a 2/0/12 scoreline, followed it with 2/2/18 on Lulu and finished the championship on Lux at 3/0/4.
Across the three games, that left Labrov with seven kills, only two deaths and 34 assists. His two deaths in Game 2 were the only times Movistar KOI managed to kill G2’s support during the entire Grand Final. Sheep Esports reported the same 7/2/34 combined statline while naming Labrov’s performance as one of the defining factors in the sweep.
The award marks another significant step in Labrov’s career. The Greek support joined G2 ahead of the 2025 season after previously representing Team Vitality and Team BDS, and has since become part of a lineup that has continued G2’s dominance of the European championship.
The rest of G2’s championship lineup consisted of Sergen “BrokenBlade” Çelik in the top lane, Rudy “SkewMond” Semaan in the jungle, Caps in mid and Steven “Hans Sama” Liv alongside Labrov in the bottom lane.
G2 complete a sweep of every LEC title in 2026
The Summer trophy completes a dominant domestic championship year for G2. They began 2026 by defeating Karmine Corp 3-2 in the LEC Versus Grand Final, securing the organisation’s 18th European championship and qualification for First Stand.
G2 then added the LEC Spring championship before Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Movistar KOI completed the set. The organisation therefore finishes 2026 with all three European championships available during the season: LEC Versus, LEC Spring and LEC Summer.
The run also extends beyond the current season. G2 won the 2025 Summer championship by the same 3-0 scoreline against Movistar KOI, meaning the organisation has now won four consecutive European titles across the two seasons.
That sustained run adds further weight to G2’s historical position within European League of Legends. The organisation won its first championship in 2016; ten years later, the 2026 Summer trophy takes its current title count to 20.
Caps reaches 18 European championships
G2’s organisational milestone comes with another extraordinary number attached to Caps. The Danish mid laner has now collected 18 European championships during his career, with his first two arriving with Fnatic in 2018 before he moved to G2 ahead of the 2019 season.
His latest championship comes during a particularly significant year individually. Riot Games inducted Caps into its Hall of Legends in August, making him the third player to receive the honour after Faker and Uzi and the first player from the West. TalkEsport covered Caps’ Hall of Legends induction and career record when Riot announced the decision.
At that point, Caps had won 17 European championships. The Summer 2026 victory over Movistar KOI now moves the total to 18, further extending a record accumulated across Fnatic and G2.
Since joining G2, Caps has remained at the centre of almost every era of the organisation’s domestic success. His championship record spans the old EU LCS structure, the LEC era and its changing competition formats, while his international résumé includes G2’s 2019 Mid-Season Invitational championship and consecutive World Championship final appearances with Fnatic and G2 in 2018 and 2019.
G2 and Movistar KOI now turn to Worlds 2026
The result also determines Europe’s hierarchy heading into the 2026 League of Legends World Championship. G2 will travel to Worlds as the LEC’s first seed, while Movistar KOI will also represent Europe after reaching the Summer Grand Final.
For G2, Worlds will provide the more difficult measure of a season that has once again demonstrated its domestic control. The organisation has spent much of the past decade setting the standard in Europe, but its ambitions have consistently extended beyond the LEC and towards international competition.
That distinction becomes particularly relevant after another dominant domestic year. Winning all three European championships establishes G2 as the region’s leading team heading into Worlds, but the next question is how that form translates against the strongest teams from Korea, China and the rest of the international field.
Ten years after G2 won its first European title, the organisation leaves Nice with championship No. 20, three European trophies from three in 2026 and another opportunity to carry that domestic dominance onto the World Championship stage.
