Hanwha Life Esports bowed out of the 2025 League of Legends World Championship in the quarterfinals after losing to Gen.G. Although Hanwha Life put up a good fight, Gen.G proved simply too strong.

After the series, Choi “Zeus” Woo-je said, “Gen.G played incredibly well, but I also think there were plenty of situations where we could have won. What sticks with me are those moments when we had the lead but failed to snowball, and the game flipped on us in a very deflating way—that’s what I regret.”

Asked how the team prepared after leaving Beijing with only a few days before the match, he answered, “Once we knew our opponent, we didn’t have much time. We felt that if we played well, we absolutely could win, and we prepared the way we always do.”

Game 2—an over 55-minute slugfest they ultimately dropped—seemed like the one that would haunt him most. “It was such a long game that I don’t remember every detail, but I got solo-killed at level 2. I thought I had the winning angle there, but I lost it, and that’s frustrating,” he recalled.

We also asked about the regrets from Game 4. Zeus explained, “We picked Camille because we thought she could look good into champions like Nidalee or Hwei. With the opponent’s long range, I felt she was necessary. But I took E at level 1 and swung by mid, and after that the lane phase was tougher than I expected. We kept trying things—like catching Yunara—but the game was harder than we thought.” Reflecting on his Worlds run, Zeus said, “Looking back at the year, we had a lot of titles and I believed we could do really well, but I’m left with a lot of regrets.”

Finally, on how he’ll spend the rest of October through December, he added, “We’re out, but Worlds goes on, so I’ll probably take a break while watching how the remaining teams play. This year had a lot going on and was a tough one in many respects, but we still had fans who kept supporting us—I really wanted to make them happy. And it was also Han ‘Peanut’ Wang-ho’s last match, so in many ways I’m left with mixed feelings and a lot of disappointment.” With that, the interview concluded.

This article was translated from the original that appeared on INVEN.