Taipei Assassins take out video game Goliath, win $1M[ Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:13:19 GMT ]The world's most-played video game has a brand new world champion. The Taipei Assassins, a team from Taiwan, has won the "League of Legends" world finals and the $1 million prize that goes with it. The Taipei Assassins were the surprise victor, taking out the powerful Korean team many had expected to win as 10 thousand people watched the match-up live in Los Angeles and more than 900,000 people watched online around the world.