CTC Flying Oyster had an incredible run at LoL MSI, and their performances have helped feed thousands of people.
The League of Legends Taiwan Facebook page agreed to give away fried chicken cutlets to fans depending on CFO’s performance.
The account agreed to hand out 10 cutlets for every kill and 100 cutlets for every game win CFO racked up at MSI.
Riot Games probably didn’t expect CFO to have a historic performance and now have to shell out for 2,430 pieces of chicken.
CFO were the top seed from APAC’s LCP, which features teams from Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
They were eliminated from LoL MSI last night after a valiant effort against China’s LPL champions, Anyone’s Legend.
Their one-game win and 46 kills in that last series added another 560 pieces of chicken to the LoL Taiwan giveaway.
That took the tally up from 1870 to 2,430, so close to the 2,500 mark.
It was unsurprisingly ADC Chiu ‘Doggo’ Tzu-Chuan who contributed the most chicken with 71 kills, meaning 710 cutlets.
His tally is the second-highest of the tournament so far, with elite midlaner Zhuo ‘Knight’ Ding picking up just one more.
Although 18-year-old Tsai ‘HongQ’ Ming-Hong wasn’t too far behind either, with 58 kills and 580 chicken pieces earned.
Riot has stated that a separate post will be made soon to announce how all of this chicken will be distributed to fans.
CFO’s historic LoL MSI performance
Before MSI even began, CFO had already gathered a fair bit of attention.
They were the only regional champions who attended First Stand earlier in the year and also qualified for MSI.
And there, they performed even more heroically than their First Stand showing.
They surprisingly pushed reigning World Champions T1 to five-games.
And then the defeated LEC champions, Movistar KOI, 3-1 in an APAC team’s first international best-of-five win in 13 years.
The last was by Taipei Assassins when they historically upset everyone to win Worlds in 2012.
The loss for MKOI meant that LoL MSI 2025 was possibly a new low for LEC teams.
Especially after Shen ‘Driver’ Tsung-Hua did this dance from the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime after eliminating Joseph Joon ‘Jojopyun’ Pyu
How did CTC Flying Oysters get their name?
You may find it ironic that a team with oyster in their name led to fans getting so much chicken rather than seafood.
Well the LoL team, unsurprsingly, doesn’t actually have anything to do with molluscs.
Their name is actually a bilingual pun as Flying Oyster in Mandarin Chinese (飛牡蠣, fei mu li) sounds similar to “family” in English.
CTBC (Chinatrust Commercial Bank Co.) own the team and their slogan is “We are Family.”
So in actual fact, CFO are called CTBC Family.
In my seven years of esports writing, I’ve introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I’m most proud of the latter.