G2 Labrov confident team can beat TES at MSI 2026 after fixing their mistakes

Lampros “Labrov” Papoutsakis is not pretending last time went well. G2 Esports’ support player has been refreshingly blunt about his team’s history against Top Esports, acknowledging they underperformed in previous meetings while simultaneously arguing that those failures point toward a clear fix rather than a ceiling.

The comments come as G2 faces TES once again at MSI 2026, a rematch that carries more weight than a typical bracket-stage series.

What Labrov actually said

Labrov’s framing was straightforward: G2 either played badly or choked in their prior encounters with TES, and fixing those specific problems is the path to a different result.

The most recent data point in this rivalry landed on October 30, 2025. G2 fell to TES 1-3 in the quarterfinals of the 2025 World Championship, an exit that stung precisely because it came at a stage where the gap between contenders and pretenders becomes permanent for that year.

Labrov also addressed what G2 expects of itself internally. Not winning trophies, in his words, is treated as a genuine failure by the organization.

The roster trying to make it happen

The G2 lineup heading into MSI 2026 has BrokenBlade in the top lane, SkewMond in the jungle, Caps in mid, Hans Sama as ADC, and Labrov anchoring the support role.

Labrov joined G2 ahead of the 2025 season, stepping in as the replacement for Mikyx. Before MSI 2026, G2 ran a bootcamp at T1’s facility in Korea.

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