The 2022 LCK Spring Tournament will officially kick off at 4 p.m. on January 12, and the current schedule has been announced: the spring regular season will run from January 12 to March 20, with the opening match led by Deft and BeryL DRX against LSB, and the second game is Faker leading T1 to face the AF renamed KDF.
The first round of this year's LCK Spring Regular Season will end on February 18, and the first game of the day will be the much-anticipated LCK traditional arts "news agency showdown" - T1, KT brings the first round of finale, and the second GEN vs LSB is the first game of the second round of the regular season. January 30 was LCK's last day of the year, with two games of DK vs T1 and HLE vs LSB, with the follow-up schedule starting on February 9 of the following year.
The biggest difference between this year's LCK spring regular season and previous years is that the first three days of each week are rest days, starting from Thursday for 4 days of competition, this year is a day earlier, from Wednesday to Sunday a total of 5 days, so that the LCK regular season and playoffs will end earlier, LCK teams can have more time to prepare for international events such as MSI and S.
January 12 LCK Spring Season opener – DRX vs LSB
DRX in the transfer period in the middle, lower and auxiliary three positions of personnel changes, in the previous two years of LPL VG, BLG team of the singles Zeka returned to LCK and joined, while AD veteran Deft chose to return to the old club, will be with S10 champion, last year's S11 runner-up DK auxiliary "original god brother" BeryL, Ueno is still the main player of drx last year Kingen, Pyosik, plus the champion supervisor Kim Jin Jingsu, who coached iG and T1, I wonder if DRX can get back to the peak of the 2020 promotion to S10?
LSB, which is only one step away from S11, fell apart during the transfer period, with only the five main players remaining in the team, the former T1 single Clozer and KT single Dove joining, and Dove transforming into a single, and the next group Ice and Kael are new faces. As Faker's replacement, Clozer was under tremendous pressure in every game at T1 and looked forward to his performance in the new season. And Dove's transformation is naturally reminiscent of Xiaohu, who also transferred last year, can he play a good performance like Xiaohu?
Game 2 on the first day of the regular season – T1 vs KDF
T1 in the transfer period of the personnel changes little, there is no longer a substitute Ue nakano Zeus, Oner, Faker to sit in the main force of the new season, the next road is still LCK's T0 level duo - "Little Lü bu" Gumayusi plus Keria, with the new members of the coaching staff: Faker's old partner, S Tournament Triple Crown Playing Wild Bengi, so that this lineup from the paper strength can continue to "wait for the dawn" ~ Although the five players Zeus has the least league experience, But as long as he can grow up quickly in the new season, T1 is definitely worth looking forward to in 2022!
LCK's veteran team "African Team" AF signed a title sponsorship agreement with KWANGDONG Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., one of Korea's largest pharmaceutical companies, in the offseason, and was renamed KDF in the new season. AF is similar to LSB in the transfer period, only retaining the main single Kiin, the former T1 playing field Elim, AD veteran Teddy, substitute auxiliary Hoit joined, and the middle single is fate of last year's LSB. The three players who have played in T1 face the old owner is naturally the biggest attraction of this game, especially the next showdown between Teddy and Gumayusi, whether it is Faker who led T1 to get the first victory of the new season, or Teddy successfully revenge the old owner, let's wait and see!