Ground Zero Gaming vs Team Secret Whales — a LCP match played on 2026-01-16, and the win went to Ground Zero Gaming. At 35:07, this game ran deep into the late game. It produced 18 combined kills, and in long games per-minute figures such as DPM and CSM get pulled toward the average, so read them next to the totals. The total gold gap grew to 13,113, with Ground Zero Gaming ahead. At that size the item tiers differ, so the late-game combat figures should be read as numbers produced after the gap opened. Ground Zero Gaming finished with 9 on Towers against 2 for the opponent — the widest objective gap in this game.

The standout line on the winning side belongs to JimieN, who finished on Ryze with a KDA of 5/1/7. In the Bot matchup, Shunn finished 4,495 gold ahead of Eddie. This compares end-of-game totals for the same position, so it is not a laning-phase figure on its own. The draft started with Ground Zero Gaming removing Malphite and Team Secret Whales removing Jayce. Those first two cards set the direction of the draft. On patch 16.1, this counts as game 1 within a series of 3.