Revenge's Kaisa Ignites DN SOOPers Stunner in Game 3

TL;DR: DN SOOPers Challengers stunned Dplus Kia Challengers in Game 3 of the 2026 World Star Challengers Invitational, winning in 27:10 behind Revenge's flawless 11/0/8 Kaisa. The market gave them just 38%; they answered with 4 dragons, a 13.3k gold gap and total bot-lane control.

Key Takeaways

• Revenge posted a perfect 11/0/8 on Kaisa, banking +1390 gold at minute 15 and turning the bot lane into a one-way street for DN SOOPers Challengers.
• Lancer's Renekton finished 4/1/12 with +941 gold at 15, while Quantum's roaming Camille support added 13 assists — the two solos and support combined for just 3 deaths.
• DN SOOPers Challengers took the objective race 4 dragons to 0, 1 baron to 0 and 9 towers to 1, converting a kill score of 28-8 into a 60.1k to 46.8k gold chasm.

Building the Lead

The stakes were brutal and simple: Dplus Kia Challengers had to win to survive, and the draft gave them a theoretical edge. Pre-series modelling still leaned their way at 76.5%, and Polymarket's read on the series echoed that confidence. The nightly draft notes had flagged Lulu and K'Sante as the swing pieces for Dplus Kia, with Yunara or Vi the likeliest first pick. What actually landed was a different story.

DN SOOPers Challengers opened the bot lane as a pressure point and never let go. By minute 15, every single one of their players sat on a gold surplus while every Dplus Kia player sat in deficit — a clean five-for-five sweep of the early map. Revenge on Kaisa held +1390, Quantum's Camille was up +991, Lancer's Renekton +941, Flip's Cassiopeia +766 and DDoiV's Chogath +557. That symmetry is not luck; it is a team executing one plan across five lanes.

The Numbers Tell the Story

This was a stomp with a signature. DN SOOPers Challengers snowballed a 13.3k gold lead, and the kill column read 28-8 in their favour. DDoiV's Chogath jungle finished 6/3/13, a frontline that never died at the wrong moment. Flip's Cassiopeia added 4/2/15, locking down fights with sustained damage. Lancer's Renekton gave the composition its dive threat at 4/1/12.

For Dplus Kia, the collapse was structural rather than unlucky. Solid's Naafiri ended 4/7/2, repeatedly forced into fights his team could not follow. Loopy's Shen absorbed the punishment at 0/9/5, and Jaehyuk's Gnar never found a flank at 0/5/2. Wayne's Sivir tried to hold the line and finished 2/3/2 with a -1390 deficit, while Garden's Anivia closed at 2/4/3. Four dragons and a baron to nothing meant DN SOOPers Challengers never had to gamble.

The Final Push

DN SOOPers Challengers needed only 27:10 to end it. Nine towers to one tells the story of a map that simply ran out of Dplus Kia structures — the outer ring fell, the vision died with it, and the baron turned a lead into a siege. The draft question was answered too: Dplus Kia's favoured pieces never generated the tempo the notes promised, and DN SOOPers' compressed pool around Ezreal and Jarvan IV archetypes was not the liability it was projected to be. Against a 76.5% pre-match series probability and a 38% game read, this was a defied prediction in every sense.

Polymarket Market

The market closed the draft at Dplus Kia 62% to DN SOOPers 38%, and by minute 15 that number looked badly wrong. The pre-series anchor of 76% for Dplus Kia shows how stubborn the read was: even before Game 1, money leaned heavily toward the favourites. What traders underestimated was the bot-lane matchup. A +1390 gold swing at 15 for Revenge's Kaisa, paired with four dragons to zero, was never priced into a 38% line. The draft advantage Dplus Kia supposedly held was overcome in-game, and the market paid the price for trusting the paper edge.

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*Data: draftlol draft & meta model — WSCI 2026 stats, snapshot 2026-09-27 UTC.*

*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-09-27 11:34 UTC.*