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Shad0w of CTBC Flying Oyster walk onstage at League of Legends Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Swiss Stage Day 2 on Saturday in Allen, Texas. (Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games)

Shad0w calls LCP 'refreshing,' as CFO tries to make Worlds run

One day after upsetting the LCS's top seed, CTBC Flying Oysters ran into one of the LCP's key struggles. CFO jungler Shad0w explain why the region's limitless style is a strength and why macro is what keeps it from being consistent.

25.10.26, 03:02

ALLEN, Texas – It’s hard to tilt underdog teams who think they’re playing with house money.

But for CTBC Flying Oysters, house money might as well be their own. The No. 2 seed from the LCP fell to the No. 2 seed from the LEC, Movistar KOI on the second day of Swiss.

“We’re a bit tilted,” CFO jungler Zhao “Shad0w” Zhi-Qiang said. “The early game didn’t go as well, and they punished us. We were falling a little behind in the early game, so we didn’t have much tempo and we didn’t manage to bring that tempo back.”

The result came less than 24 hours after CFO secured a stunning upset of Team Liquid Alienware.

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Paul Delos Santos

is a reporter based in Las Vegas. He covers the Vegas Golden Knights for NHL.com and covers esports and general Las Vegas sports for The Sporting Tribune. He’s a gamer who never has time to play them, so he naturally opted to write and talk about them instead.

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