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Korea Sweep Chinese Taipei for Asian Games Gold

Oct 3, 2026 4 min read
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Korea Sweep Chinese Taipei for Asian Games Gold

South Korea won a second consecutive Asian Games League of Legends gold medal by sweeping Chinese Taipei 3-0 at Aichi Sky Expo on October 2. The result also gives Chinese Taipei a second straight silver medal. Korea completed the entire tournament without losing a game across the group stage, semifinal and final, turning two early challenges in the title series into victories before controlling the third game from an earlier point.

Chinese Taipei created the first pressure of the final. JunJia helped establish the early initiative in game one, but Korea changed the position around the dragon-soul fight with an ace that erased the disadvantage. Further successful fights completed the comeback and put Korea ahead in the best-of-five. The reports confirm the sequence but do not provide a complete kill, gold or duration line, so those figures are not reconstructed.

Conceptual illustration of an esports team reversing a large game-two deficit around an elder objective

Game two produced the largest confirmed deficit

Chinese Taipei again opened well in game two. Doggo and JunJia built momentum, and the team secured Baron at about 30 minutes to extend its gold lead beyond 6,000. Korea recovered around Elder Dragon, first removing HongQ and JunJia before Canyon secured the objective. An ace then allowed Korea to finish the game and move to a 2-0 series lead despite the earlier resource gap.

The second comeback made the third game decisive for Chinese Taipei. Korea did not repeat the same early deficit. Instead, the gold medalists controlled objectives from the opening phase while Chinese Taipei kept the economy relatively close for a period. A mid-lane ace before the wind-soul point gave Korea the opening to take the soul and Baron, creating the separation that the earlier game state had not supplied.

Elder Dragon closed the undefeated run

Korea later secured Elder Dragon in game three and used that advantage to finish the series. The objective sequence is important because it distinguishes the closer from the two comeback wins. Game one turned around a dragon-soul fight, game two around Elder Dragon after a large deficit, and game three through Korea’s own growing control of soul, Baron and Elder Dragon.

The 3-0 score confirms five possible games were not needed. It does not mean Chinese Taipei had no winning positions. The first two games both contained early advantages for the silver medalists, including the verified 6,000-plus gold lead in game two. Korea’s achievement was converting the later fights, not leading every stage of every game.

Korea’s undefeated tournament record includes every completed game in the group stage, semifinal and final. That is broader than the final sweep but should not be converted into an invented aggregate kill or duration total. The available evidence supports a perfect game record and the medal result, while detailed full-event statistics require a separate verified dataset.

Chinese Taipei leave with silver for the second consecutive Asian Games. The medal is a confirmed placement, not a description of how close every game was. The two comeback opportunities show competitive pressure in the final, while the 3-0 score shows Korea consistently found the last decisive sequence.

The final also completes the development reported after the semifinal. Korea had earned a third consecutive title-series appearance and the chance to defend gold; the October 2 result now confirms the defense. The earlier semifinal should not be retold as new news, because the new development is the completed best-of-five and the medals it assigned.

No individual most valuable player is declared here. Canyon’s Elder Dragon secure in game two is a verified turning point, but one objective does not independently establish an official series award. The accurate conclusion remains team-level: Korea solved three different game states and completed a second straight gold-medal run.

  • Game one turned after Korea won an ace around the dragon-soul fight.
  • Chinese Taipei led by more than 6,000 gold after a game-two Baron.
  • Korea recovered around Elder Dragon and moved to a 2-0 lead.
  • Soul, Baron and Elder Dragon helped Korea close game three and the 3-0 sweep.
Conceptual illustration of three final victories completing an undefeated gold-medal tournament run
GameConfirmed Chinese Taipei positionConfirmed Korean response
OneEarly initiativeAce at the soul fight and comeback
TwoBaron and 6,000-plus gold leadElder Dragon fight and ace
ThreeEconomy initially stayed closeWind soul, Baron and Elder Dragon

Korea’s 3-0 victory delivered a second consecutive Asian Games gold and completed an event without a lost game. Chinese Taipei found meaningful early advantages, but Korea controlled the decisive later fights in all three games and left Aichi with the title.

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