Berlin, Tuesday 18 August. There is a mural at the entrance of the Riot Games Arena now. Caps is on it, surrounded by his trophies and some of the champions that built his legend. On Tuesday afternoon, in front of his family, he added the last brushstroke himself with a can of spray paint: his signature, writing the "S" of his name from the bottom up.
That day, Rasmus "Caps" Winther became the third inductee into the League of Legends Hall of Legends, after Faker and Uzi, and the first Western player to be given the honour, probably the only for a long time.
A ceremony built around him
The Berlin studio had been turned into a small museum for the day. Along the walls hung the jerseys Caps has worn across his career, going all the way back to his 2018 Fnatic kit — pulled out of storage in Denmark and brought over by his mother, who had kept them at home all these years. Around them, the Riot Arena had been dressed with the defining photographs of his ten years on stage.
The speeches came one after the other. Riot's Global leadership called him "a defining figure in Western League of Legends history", and Maximilian Peter Schmidt (EMEA's LoL Esports Director) framed the induction: Caps, he said, showed a generation of European fans that a player from the region could stand on the biggest stages in the world "not as an outsider that hopes to belong, but as somebody who is capable of defining those moments."
