Former League of Legends pro and retired master brother Doublelift explains why he thinks TSM's lineup choices for the 2022 LCS season will damage their brand value and make it difficult for fans to cheer on the team.
Not long ago, TSM unveiled their lineup for the 2022 LCS season. The team retained Playano Spica and Shangdan Huni, who played for them in 2021. They also brought in Tactical players from Team Liquid, and the most surprising thing was probably the introduction of two LDL players, Keaiduo and Shenyi.
As a former TSM downtrodden, although now in opposition to the team, Doublelift shared his thoughts on the lineup change after watching the announcement video.
He said he doesn't think 2022 will be an "interesting" lineup.
"In terms of brand value, I don't think there's any fun for fans to be a big list of Chinese. That's the reality," he said. "We're in the West, we're in the U.S., we're in North America, this is the American team, and we want them to represent our culture. I think, as a fan, it's going to be hard. "
The former pro does believe, though, that these moves could have a good impact on a bad LCS team.
He concluded: "Although they're probably better than two random North American players, right?"
Master brother's remarks are indeed quite surprising, in fact, his words, and we usually say that Huazi is similar, in his concept, the LCS team should be relatively pure blood, at least if the team of all-English communication, although it is a little difficult to create the so-called all-American class, but in the past few years, the European and American mixed teams are not in the minority, and the team like TSM this year to introduce Chinese aid is indeed rare, although we often say that the club should not rise to the cultural level, but in the eyes of most people is not like this This is also one of the most fundamental reasons why many people hope that the all-Chinese class will win the championship.
Of course, the master brother also said that perhaps such a lineup will bring some changes to the LCS division, after all, the current North American division is too bad.