The League of Legends 2016 World Championship quarterfinals begin Thursday at 6 p.m. ET with what many expect to be the most lopsided series of the round: Group D winners Samsung Galaxy, the No. 3 seed from Korea, facing off against Group B second-place team Cloud9, the No. 3 seed from North America. If you know anything about international League of Legends, you know that Korea typically dominates such matchups, and C9 even taking a game off of Samsung could arguably be considered a success.
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