Winning the League of Legends Demacia Cup for two consecutive years is a good start in the eyes of the vast majority of people. After all, everyone has just changed the new lineup, only you play a dominant force, you can naturally get the favor of the audience. TES has been optimistic since the S10 season, and the official commentary at the beginning of this season also rated it as an S+ team of the same level as EDG.
Fans who support TES hope that this "supreme all-Chinese class" can go further, but since the beginning of the spring race, their performance has not been satisfactory.
After losing to V5, TES's record reached 2-2 in the league to tenth place, and the slightest carelessness will give up its playoff spot. And in these games years ago, TES has not yet played against a really strong team, if you can't adjust your state in time, it may not be impossible to miss the playoffs.
During this period, the coaching staff of TES tried many methods, such as letting Xiaopeng start Tian as a substitute in the field position, but as the game progressed, the chemistry of the starting five of TES did not reach the best state. Xiaopeng, who was hastily and slowly lifted to the starting position last week, seems to have not grasped the opportunity to sit firmly in the starting position, and the recent training match of TES revealed some not-so-good information.
Netizens who often pay attention to the situation of TES runner Rank pointed out that TES today's training match time Xiaopeng alone is in the Hanbok qualifying. Tian, who previously affected the operation because of a mental problem, has now restarted the training session. Whether the two are the starting and substitute relationship, or the rotation of the post is unknown, but at least the current situation has an impact on the atmosphere of the team.
The TES team has a long habit of using the "control variable method" to find problems, and the assistants, coaches, singles, and wilds have all tried to change people, hoping to enhance the competitiveness of the team. But so far, TES's best results in team history have been achieved by the lineup of 369, Karsa, Knight, JKL and Yuyanjia, and this season's TES lineup still needs time to prove itself.
It is worth mentioning that in the face of RA (the team of the prophets) and V5 (Karsa's team), TES lost the game, and the JDG team joined by 369 has a better record than TES at this stage. It is difficult to say whether the players of this TES will have a greater burden and pressure because of this.
The cap on TES is a strong contender for the S title, which many LPL viewers thought when they won the MSC Mid-Season Cup and the Summer Championship. But last year's performance of TES also highlighted the instability of TES, which has always been a breath of relief in the BO5 war.
The game from a few years ago is not halfway through the entire LPL spring schedule, but how easy is it to achieve transformation in half a month? If you want to reach the top four and get a bigger advantage in the playoffs, TES needs to put more effort into subsequent games. At least for now, who will start in the field position is an urgent question.
So are you optimistic about the future prospects of TES in the S12 season?