G2 Esports mid laner Caps has locked in LeBlanc for the team’s 2026 Mid-Season Invitational opener against Top Esports on July 3. That’s a League of Legends champion pick, not a token listing. But the match itself is worth examining through a different lens entirely: what G2’s continued crypto sponsorship tells us about the state of web3 money in competitive gaming.
While the rest of the esports industry has watched crypto sponsors vanish, G2 still has Betpanda, a crypto-focused betting platform, plastered on its CS team jerseys. The partnership was announced in December 2025. And in a landscape where reports from mid-June 2026 point to a visible decline in crypto sponsorships across major events like Valorant Masters and IEM Cologne, that deal looks increasingly like an outlier rather than a trend.
The match itself: Caps and the LeBlanc factor
Caps, whose real name is Rasmus Winther, is one of the most decorated European players in the game’s history. He’s a multiple-time LEC champion and reached 100 international wins during MSI 2025.
LeBlanc is an assassin mage known for burst damage and deception. Caps has a 68.9% win rate on LeBlanc across 61 career games. That’s not a comfort pick. That’s a statement pick against one of China’s strongest teams.
