Team Phoenix (Turkish Team) vs Dark Passage — a TCL match played on 2026-01-21, and the win went to Dark Passage. With 19 combined kills, fights were rare, and the game lasted 31:11. When kills are scarce, the gold and objective gaps are what explain the result. The total gold gap grew to 16,363, with Dark Passage ahead. At that size the item tiers differ, so the late-game combat figures should be read as numbers produced after the gap opened. The clearest objective gap came from Towers: 10 for Dark Passage against 0 for the other side.

The standout line on the winning side belongs to Kireas, who finished on Wukong with a KDA of 6/0/4. 5,006 is the end-of-game gold gap Neramin built over ardaffler in the Bot matchup, the largest positional gap in this game. The opening bans were Kai'Sa from Team Phoenix (Turkish Team) and Orianna from Dark Passage. Game 1 of the series. The series ran to 3 games in total, and the patch applied was 16.1.