At present, the start time of spring matches in all divisions around the world has been announced, and the LPL will start on January 10 next Monday, and the old rival LCK will be on January 12. In this year's new season 2022, the LCK division has adjusted its rules, and the biggest change is that the S12 qualifiers will follow the playoff double-loss system of last year's LPL: the top four teams with points below the LCK first and second seeds compete for places through a double-loss match.
Four major changes to the rules of the new season of LCK:
1. Personnel changes can be carried out in each team every week.
2. If LCK has four places in the 2022 Global Finals, then the S12 Qualifying Qualifier will be changed to a double-loss format .
Seed 1 and Seed 2 are unchanged;
Outside of this points first team vs points second team (R1), the winner will become the third seed;
Points Third Team vs Points Fourth Team (R2), the loser missed S12;
R1 loser vs R2 winner (R3) to decide the fourth seed.
3. Description of the four seeded teams participating in S12 in the LCK division:
No. 1 seed – 2022 LCK Summer Champion
Seed No. 2 – 1st in total points for the 2022 LCK Spring and Summer Tournament (if it is a summer champion, it will be postponed)
Seed No. 3 – S12 Qualifier R1 Winner (refer to Rule 2)
Seed No. 4 – S12 Qualifier R3 Winner (refer to Rule 2)
4. The regular season of the 2022 LCK Spring Tournament has five match days every week: every Wednesday to Sunday, two BO3s per day (this is due to the consideration of the League of Legends project South Korea team qualification schedule in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports event)
One of the most interesting is that LCK will try the double-loss format for the first time in the S-game bubbling competition, and it is interesting that LPL also tried the double-loss format in the playoffs of the spring and summer competitions for the first time last year, which is excellent in terms of the results of MSI and S11, so LCK's format changes this year are quite learning and learning, and netizens have also said: "LCK Is on par with our first division."
However, there may be a more direct reason for LCK's change: HLE, the fourth seed in the LCK division in last year's S11 World Championship, did not qualify for the summer playoffs, but participated in the bubbling race with the total points advantage of the spring and summer races, and took the last train to Iceland after completing one and two. HLE has also become the first team in LCK history to participate in the S Tournament without advancing to the playoffs, although the LSB and NS that have become the background board of the Bubbling Tournament are inferior, but the point rules and format of the LCK Bubbling Tournament are indeed unreasonable, so it is reasonable for LCK to change the S12 Bubbling Tournament to a double-loss format, how do small partners evaluate such changes?