Nongshim Esports Academy vs Hanwha Life Esports Challengers — a LCK CL match played on 2026-01-26, and the win went to Nongshim Esports Academy. At 41:16, this game ran deep into the late game. It produced 30 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 was only 1,775, so resources alone did not decide this game. Nongshim Esports Academy finished narrowly ahead, and in games like this a single objective or a single fight is usually what settles it. On objectives, Voidgrubs split 3 to 0, and Nongshim Esports Academy took the larger share.

The standout line on the winning side belongs to SeTab, who finished on Ryze with a KDA of 9/3/5. In the Mid matchup, SeTab finished 7,169 gold ahead of Cracker. 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 Nongshim Esports Academy removing Orianna and Hanwha Life Esports Challengers removing Neeko. Those first two cards set the direction of the draft. This is game 1 of a 3-game series, played on patch 16.2.