With the arrival of the Spring Festival, it should be a very happy thing, but for the DRX team in the LCK division, this Spring Festival is probably very disturbing. Because not long ago, DRX issued an announcement that many people do not want to see, DRX's single player Zeka and auxiliary player BeryL have been diagnosed with new crown. Meanwhile, DRX's singles player Kingen and wild player Pyosik were positive. In addition, there is a DRX occupation that is also positive. That is to say, from the current point of view, in addition to the veteran Deft, drx has two confirmed new crown starts in the new season, and two are positive. In such a situation, having to think of the new season's DRX may be quite dangerous.
DrX this team should be the most "diligent" team in the current LCK team to change its name, and when it comes to the predecessor of DRX, KZ, I believe most LPL fans are not strangers. The 2018 season of KZ, which featured BDD, Khan, Cuzz, Peanut, PraY and GorillA, was considered by many to be the "Galaxy" of that season's LCK division. And at the beginning of the formation of the "Galaxy Battleship", they won the 2018 LCK Spring Championship and successfully entered the MSI of that year. Unfortunately, KZ encountered its peak RNG at the time and was not able to achieve a breakthrough in MSI. Interestingly, with the defeat of MSI, KZ fell sharply in form in the summer that year. It was the team that became the first LCK spring champion but missed the global finals.
However, when the Galaxy disbanded, KZ did not give up, and in the 2019 season, KZ signed PawN and Deft; KZ, which changed its name to DRX in the 2020 season, successfully signed Chovy. It can be seen that DRX is still more careful in terms of transfer. But unfortunately, these star players did not help the team to bring a real breakthrough. 2021 should be regarded as the year of DRX "swinging", this year DRX all adopted new people to compete in LCK. The result, of course, can be imagined. Not all rookie teams can be like GRF and DWG.
With the arrival of the 2022 season, the return of veteran Deft, coupled with the addition of Zeka and BeryL, has given DRX a certain competitiveness in the new season. Although at the beginning of the season, DRX suffered three consecutive defeats due to the run-in of the lineup, but before the Spring Festival, DRX ended his three-game losing streak and won two consecutive wins. All of this seems to indicate that DRX is in a good place. However, what people did not expect was that just when DRX was preparing to take off, the team members diagnosed the new crown like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Because according to the current situation, affected by the new crown, the game after the DRX Spring Festival will also be greatly affected.
From the forced departure of Coach Kim to the current diagnosis of new crown in the players, DRX has been quite difficult this season.
Finally, I hope they can recover soon!