The NGL ONE finals two weeks ago made champions of the World Elite team, without its famed Chinese players. Even after suffering an early 0-4 defeat on the earlier rounds, the stellar underdogs managed to swing the momentum to their favor, winning when it counts—twice.

MYM managed to take two clean sweeps in the finals alone—with Susiria cleaning out fnatic early on, and Moon taking down the whole World Elite team during the upper bracket finals. Things were looking good for Meet Your Makers. Even their perpetual nemesis and finals-favorite, Four Kings, fell early to World Elite.

Then how come World Elite managed to take the victory this second season of NGL ONE?

World Elite doesn’t have heavy hitters like Meet Your Makers. World Elite doesn’t need a person to beat a whole team by himself. Lucifer did it during the online leg of the league, and Moon did it during the LAN finals. Only one WE player has ever done it, when ReiGn cleaned out Serious Gaming.

World Elite has good players, a great win percentage, but they certainly don’t have showstoppers to blast their way into the NGL ONE hall of fame.

World Elite won the finals by hitting hard where it counts. They won NGL not by being one man machines, but by playing their strengths and taking advantage of their enemy’s weaknesses.

So let's take a look on the results of the tournament. Mock awards are listed below, and full team results for the finals are on page 2.

Sung Sik "WE.IGE.ReMinD" Kim

Finals Results
Zeus[19]	TR
ToD	LT
Moon	EI
Creolophus	TR
ToD	LT
Moon	TR
Lucifer	TM
Susiria	TR
Moon	EI

There will be few people to contest that ReMinD is the hero of this tournament. Without him, World Elite probably wouldn’t walk away with the championship. His track record isn’t at all impressive at first glance—a meager 5-4 win loss ratio during the finals. But looking at it further and then you’ll realize why he’s so indispensable.

For one, he’s the ONLY person who managed to defeat Moon during the entire finals—I hate to say this again, but twice. That counts for a LOT because Moon is, well for the lack of a better word—Moon. He’s close to unstoppable, but ReMinD pulled through in the end with finished with a flourish to win 1st place.

Jae Ho "MYM]Moon" Jang

Finals Results
SoJu	EI
ReiGn	TR
ReMinD	EI
Lyn	LT
ReiGn	EI
ReMinD	TR
SoJu	TM
Lyn	LT
ReMinD	EI

If Meet Your Makers won the finals, then Moon would take this honor, no questions asked. Moon has the best win-loss ratio throughout the whole finals.

But there is one glaring dent in his otherwise stunning performance—not to state the obvious but duh—it’s ReMinD! ReMinD is the ONLY player to give Moon losses, which became pivotal for the eventual results of this tournament.

These two are the powerplayers of the NGL ONE Finals, and it’s pretty clear why. Things would have been so different if Moon won.

Jae Wook "MYM]Lucifer" Noh

Finals Results
ReMinD	TM
ReiGn	EI

If I can start with a sad smiley face, I’d do it right now. Lucifer came out of the online qualifiers like he was unstoppable, soloing entire teams all by himself. And we’re not talking about pansy teams here, Lucifer took down World Elite and SK Gaming—two of the league’s top teams—all on his own.

A lot of expectation rested on his shoulders, and fans immediately clamored up to see just how much he can own during the online finals. But it just ended up with Lucifer playing 2 games, and losing both.

It’s not his fault really—he didn’t get much playing time with Moon and Susiria sweeping early on the tournament. When it was Lucifer’s turn to step up to the plate, he certainly lost footing—and his team stumbled along with him.

Shame, really. No, not because Lucifer didn’t win any games (that’s so trivial!)—but because 2 games is too short to watch Lucifer in action.

Manuel "4K^Grubby" Schenkhuizen

Finals Results
ReiGn	GW
elfittaja	LT
RotterdaM	LT
SoJu	TM

The performance of everybody’s favorite Orc has been under heavy scrutiny lately. “Oh, Grubby losing shape,” etc. etc. etc. and it goes on and on. When you’ve been on the top for so long, people expect you to be immaculately consistent.

Grubby’s performance on the NGL finals just adds fuel to the fire. His 1-4 win loss ratio certainly isn’t befitting this top ranked player. He won only against elfittaja, and lost to SoJu, ReiGn and RotterdaM.

Obviously this isn’t what people expect of Grubby. But does one bad tournament define a player? I don't think so.