I love a good story. Tons of storylines, interesting character matchups, and a strong overarching narrative. In eSports, we've seen a lot of great stories unfold over the years, especially in League of Legends — the Taipei Assassins winning the World Championship in 2012, Faker and SKT T1's rise to prominence as rookies in 2013, and even last year when the underdog from Brazil, Kabum! eSports, upset the European champions, Alliance, and knocked them out of the tournament.

On the cusp of the Final 4, we are left with four possible Grand Finals matchups. Through the first three weeks, we've seen major upsets and the field get cut down to only two regions remaining in the competition: back-to-back champions Korea with 2013 winners SK Telcom T1 and newcomers the KOO Tigers, and Europe, the region that once ruled over League before Korea and China entered the fold following the first World Championship in 2011. The European hopefuls are Fnatic, the organization that won the first world title in the game's history, and Origen, a new franchise created this year by xPeke, the legendary Western mid laner who played on the Fnatic squad that won the first World Championship.

Ranking the possible narratives is difficult since everyone has a different scenario they'd like to see play out. Some people want to see the European teams blow out the Korean teams simply because they want to see a new region become champions. Others only watch Korean games and want to see the three-peat happen. There are also Faker fans, Fnatic fans, and even people who just want to see the tournament implode with upsets.

I'm ranking the possible Summoner's Cup Finals on my own subjective basis in terms of which final excites me the most. With a week before the Summoner's Cup Final and days of analyzing and dissecting the matchup, which ones are the most interesting in terms of pure narrative and backstory? That's the criteria I'm working with. I know a lot of you are going to disagree with my decisions — honestly, it wouldn't be fun if some of you didn't — and that's fine. If you think another final is more intriguing, let me know reasonably or you can just tell me I'm an idiot for not understanding the makeup of a good story.

1. SK Telecom T1 vs. Fnatic

The top choice was obvious for me. We'd have the greatest western organization of all-time and winners of the first world title, Fnatic, going up against the greatest eastern organization of all-time and the winners of the 2013 Summoner's Cup, SK Telecom T1. We would be guaranteed to see a team win their second world championship and solidify themselves as the best franchise in the game's five year history.

I mean, just look at the two teams' trophy cases. SK Telecom T1 have won four domestic championships in the past three years. Fnatic have been equally as dominant in Europe, making it to all six European LCS finals and taking home the championship five times. These two teams rampaged through their regions this year after slow starts, getting acclimated to their new starting fives. In the summer, Fnatic went undefeated in the regular season and SKT T1 only dropped one match in Champions. In the finals, Fnatic were able to narrowly beat rivals Origen and SK Telecom T1 dominated KT Rolster, also their rivals, in a 3-0 victory.

Two international superpowers that controlled their domestic leagues in the summer split. What more could you ask for from a final.

Oh, you want player storylines? We got player storylines.

Reignover and Huni, Fnatic's two Korean imports, actually tried out for SK Telecom T1 before the year. In some parallel universe, Huni and Reignover signed with SKT T1 and the Fnatic we're watching now never happened.

"People believe I failed to qualify for SKT T1," Huni said in an interview with Inven back in May when asked about MaRin being his possible rival. "The truth is, I made it in but I decided not join. Even during the tryouts I thought I did better [than MaRin]."

Huni and MaRin are two of the best top laners in the world now, and they both tried out for T1's starting job during the 2015 offseason. MaRin stayed with SKT T1, became their captain, and has become of renowned for his shot calling and leadership in the top lane. Huni went to Europe and became a sensation with his humor, fiery offensive talents, and flashy playstyle that has made him elite.

So we have the Huni/Reignover vs. MaRin/Bengi storyline, and we also get to see Febiven take on Faker in a clash that pits the strongest western mid laner against the greatest mid laner of all-time. There hasn't been a first year performance in the mid lane by a player since Faker and his T1 team took over Los Angeles two years ago and hoisted the Summoner's Cup. Febiven has been equally as impressive in his rookie year at Worlds, sweeping the EDward Gaming team that dethroned Faker at the Mid-Season Invitational. A passing of the torch moment between the king of the mid lane and the prodigy, or would it be another chapter in Faker's continuing history as the best we've ever seen?

Speaking of MSI, this would be a rematch of the semifinals from that tournament. Fnatic nearly beat SK Telecom T1, losing in a 2-3 series. Both teams retooled and grew tighter as a unit in the summer season following their losses in the competition. Obviously the matchup will be different now with Rekkles in the lineup and Faker the undisputed starting mid laner on SK Telecom T1 after his up-and-down spring, but these two teams already put on a great match when they were around 80% of their current strength back then. A Summoner's Cup Final between these two teams has all the makings of the first unforgettable World Championship climax in the game's history.

2. Fnatic vs. Origen

Fnatic was one of the biggest disappointments at the World Championships last year. They came into the tournament reeling from their first Grand Final loss in EU LCS history, falling to Froggen's Alliance which put an end to their regional dominance. Still, Worlds was the grand prize, and after getting to the semifinals of the 2013 competition before losing to China's Royal, Fnatic believed they could return with another strong showing on the world's largest stage.

Last year's Worlds was the end of the Fnatic dynasty that began with their first world championship win in 2011 which was led by xPeke. Although they were able to take the only game off one of the tournament favorites, Samsung Blue, in the group stage, it wasn't enough to stabilize their inconsistent play. They came up short against another Chinese team, OMG, when they could have advanced to the knockout rounds.

It was the end of an era, as everyone on Fnatic left the starting roster except for YellOwStaR. Rekkles went to play for Elements, the rebranded Alliance squad that stopped Fnatic's reign as champions in the EU LCS. Cyanide, the team's longtime jungler since their first world title win, decided to retire from professional gaming. The last two members of the starting five, xPeke and Soaz, decided to not sign with another top European team, choosing to take their own road back to the world stage.

After growing beside Fnatic to become the biggest star in European League and the grandest franchise respectively, xPeke wanted to build an empire with his own two hands. That's where Origen comes in that consisted of xPeke, Soaz, veterans Mithy and Amazing, and rookie AD Carry Niels, who was recommended to xPeke by his former teammate, Rekkles. While YellOwStaR's reconstructed Fnatic won the spring season of the EU LCS through innate talent and growing teamwork, Origen steamrolled the competition in Europe's minor leagues, joining their former brothers at Fnatic as the summer split kicked off.

At the start of the summer season, Rekkles rejoined Fnatic due to a disconnect with Elements,. As the summer season began, two of the 2014 Fnatic team played on one side and a pair played on the other, creating an instant rivalry between squads before they even took to the Rift and played each other.

When we look at strictly player narratives, Origen vs. Fnatic is the best story you can tell. Friends who failed at the end of 2014 and went their separate ways. The man who helped Fnatic become a dynasty leaves to try and create his own kingdom with a friend from the former team. Another player stays behind to help rebuild the crumbling empire, crafting a new team that might be the best in the organization's history. A young, talented star player leaving to join the enemies that took their European crown before returning home only a few short months later to rectify his transgressions. If you're writing a Hollywood movie about a video game tournament's final, you can't ask for anything better than what these two teams could give us.

We've already seen that these two teams can deliver in best-of-five finals, Fnatic edging out Origen in the summer EU LCS championship, and I'd expect nothing less if these two teams cut from the same cloth met face to face for the chance to prove the road they took following 2014's collapse was the right one and win the Summoner's Cup.

3. KOO Tigers vs. SK Telecom T1

Going from one domestic rivalry to another, SK Telecom T1 and the KOO Tigers has backstory behind it, but not to the same level as Origen and Fnatic. Like Origen, KOO are a new franchise that was created at the start of 2015, the players joining together after the new rules in Korea that forced organizations to only field a single professional team. The Tigers were the rejects, the players that were good, but not good enough to start on their former teams that had to go from having 10 starting players to five.

A majority of the Tigers came from the NaJin organization, even their head coach, NoFe, played with the NaJin White Shield squad. Gorilla, their support, was the only player who'd gone to the 2014 World Championships, playing with the White Shield team that got into the quarterfinals before getting ravaged by OMG in an 0-3 blowout. It was a surprise to many when Gorilla didn't continue on with the linear NaJin team, instead moving over to the misfit Tigers on their quest to qualify back into their region's premiere league, Champions Korea. They did just that, as the rejects came together to overpower the rookie teams in the qualifiers and head into the Korean regular season as a perceived middling team with potential.

It wasn't SKT T1 who shot out of the gates as the possible saviors of Korea following a large number of their star players left for China in the offseason — it was the Tigers. The team learned to communicate and play together as a five-man unit before any of the new teams in Korea could, pushing them to a quick undefeated record and appearing like the best team in the world. It wasn't until IEM Katowice when they were challenged by international competition for the first time, and it was where they would lose all their mystique, losing in the semifinals to Team WE, China's last place team at the time in their premiere league. It went down as the biggest upset in League of Legends history, moving the Tigers from world champion favorites to a team that couldn't be trusted to perform under the bright lights.

KOO's misfortune were SKT's gain, as the former Summoner's Cup winners turning around their ho-hum first half of the season and gliding to a flawless second half of the split. When the Tigers and SKT T1 met in the spring finals of Champions, the Tigers once again failed to show up in a high-tension match, getting swept by T1 and their chances of competing on the world stage dwindling by the day. The Tigers were the first team to come together after all the changes in the Korean scene, but the rest of the squads seemingly had a higher ceiling they were getting close to reaching.

If the Tigers and SKT T1 meet in the finals, even with the Tigers' improvements in the latter half of the summer season, SK Telcom T1 would still be a big favorite. Regardless of how well the KOO Tigers have looked during the course of the summer season, they've been repeatedly shutdown by SKT T1 at every turn. They've not beaten SK Telecom T1 since the early parts of 2015 and are on a massive losing streak to the 2013 world champions ever since failing at IEM Katowice against Team WE.

The story of a Tigers vs. T1 final would literally be David vs. Goliath. The Tigers were a group of players that were pushed away and overlooked following the Korean exodus, the members that weren't seen as good enough to either stay on their former team's starting five or get picked up by an LPL team. Whenever they've played SKT T1 the last few times, it's been hilariously one-sided, Korea's champions knowing exactly what to do to beat the Tigers. At KOO's core, they're just a bunch of friends who wanted to play League together and have gone above and beyond their preseason expectations. The only player that had made it to a Worlds semifinal before, PraY, was considered all but retired before joining the Tigers and turning his deemed washed up career around.

SKT T1 are the neverending dynasty of Korean eSports. When the rest of the teams in their region were too stingy to pay their players competitive contracts compared to their Chinese counterparts, SKT T1 were able to keep their core players together heading into the 2015 year. They've been champions in StarCraft: Brood War, StarCraft II, and now League of Legends. If you bring up video games in Korea, SK Telecom T1 is one of the first things that come to mind. They are an institution of greatness that has produced some of the best video game players in history. Long past when League is knocked off its perch as the top eSport, SK Telecom T1 will be around, shaping new stars to take over whatever game has taken over South Korea next. Champions in the past, present, and undoubtedly in the future, as well.

4. Origen vs. KOO Tigers

In last, we are left with the final that is the least likely to happen between the two underdogs in their semifinal matches. This is the only Summoner's Cup Final that wouldn't have backstory behind it. Fnatic and SKT T1 played a best-of-five at MSI, and the other two finals would be between squads that faced off in domestic finals this year. Simply put, the Tigers vs. Origen would be an eccentric final with a narrative we'd probably never seen at Worlds again.

Both of these teams were created at the start of the year. if someone told me that the Summoner's Cup Final at the end of 2015 was going to be Origen vs. the KOO Tigers when Samsung White won the 2014 championship, I would first ask what a 'KOO' is and then ask why someone misspelled 'Origin'. If this final were to happen, it'd essentially be the story of 10 friends that really wanted to play League together and worked their way from the very bottom of the ladder to the top. The Tigers got into Champions only after going through a series of qualifiers at the start of 2015, and Origen had to play in the minors of the European league before being promoted at the start of summer.

Albeit an unexpected final with the least amount of prevalent stories heading into it, you'd have to admit it'd be the best Challenger to Summoner's Cup Final stream you've ever seen.

Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.