On February 9, the 2022 King of Glory Professional League KPL Spring Tournament ushered in the opening match, Guangzhou TTG home against Wuhan eStarPro. The starting line-ups of both teams have not changed much compared to last season. The only change occurred in the confrontation road, TTG player Wu Jinxiang (ID: Qingqing) was absent due to the epidemic, and the newly recruited Huang Qiushen made his debut. In the end, TTG lost 1:3.
The format of this year's spring game still adopts the previous S/A/B group points game promotion and relocation system, which is divided into three rounds of regular season, and the last ten teams are selected after the regular season to enter the playoff stage. At the same time, due to the epidemic situation, the club's home stadium cannot be opened for the time being, and this round of matches will be played at the shanghai home stadium.
It is worth noting that with the blessing of many factors such as the Glory of Kings World Champions Cup, the major update of the season version of "Glory of Kings" and the operation of team transfers, the 2022 KPL Spring Tournament is destined to be a wonderful and suspenseful season.
"Will be the season with the biggest changes"
It is understood that the spring competition format is similar to the past, and it is still divided into three groups of S, A and B according to the results of the competition, each group has 6 teams, a total of 18 teams. Among them, the three Greater Bay Area station teams ranked very high, Guangzhou TTG and Foshan GK ranked in Group S, and Shenzhen DYG was in Group A. Among them, each group in the regular season carries out 3 rounds of intra-group round-robin; after the first round of the regular season, it is promoted and transferred according to the ranking within the group; after the second round of the regular season, the card game is played according to the ranking within the group, and the B group is eliminated; after the third round of the regular season, the playoff quota and position are determined according to the ranking within the group.
In the opening match on March 9, Wuhan eStarPro defeated Guangzhou TTG 3:1.
2022 will be a wonderful and suspenseful year for KPL teams. In October 2022, the First Global E-sports Competition Of Glory of Kings and Glory of Kings International Edition will be grandly launched, with teams from Asia, North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and other regions. At the same time, the KPL division has further optimized the promotion point rules for the 2022 King of Glory World Champions Cup: the champion teams of the 2022 KPL Summer Championship will directly qualify for the 2022 King's Glory World Champions Cup, and the rest of the teams will determine the qualification through the accumulated points of the 2021 KPL Autumn, 2022 KPL Spring and Summer Tournaments. The Glory of Kings World Championships means a bigger stage, a higher prize money and a stronger challenge, so the teams will definitely go all out for the World Championship place.
At the same time, the large-scale update of the "Glory of Kings" event version allows the major teams of the KPL Spring Tournament to try more diverse lineups and more flexible tactics, and at the same time, it also makes the Spring Tournament more unpredictable changes, and the tournament is bound to be more watchable.
For professional leagues, minor changes in the numerical, skill, and mechanics of units such as game characters, equipment, and monsters will directly affect the player's outfit, game tactics, and the adjustment of the game lineup. It is worth noting that the "Glory of Kings" version of the big update has made a large number of equipment adjustments, defense towers, military line rules, ancient creature mechanics and other aspects of the content changes, and even some players called it "the biggest change in the season".
Many changes are bound to make the rhythm of the game continue to speed up, and the pace of the confrontation continues to accelerate so that the strategic position of the military line operation continues to decline, the field invasion, team battles, and support become a new tactical highland, and the ancient creature lord and tyrant increase the BUFF effect and the new summoning dragon mechanism, which makes the difficulty of the battle rise sharply, and the higher frequency of team battles makes the event more confrontational. This also forces the team to no longer eat the "old book", must capture the impact of the version change on the lineup matching strategy, redevelop the new lineup, tactics and outfits, and constantly try and make mistakes in a short period of time to find the best solution.
The "Three Musketeers of the Greater Bay Area" are ready to go
Looking back at the transfer period of the 2022 Spring Games, although there is no shortage of teams recruiting for heavy money, the overall situation is "calm and calm". The WB team of Group B changed blood, spending more than 20 million yuan to introduce strong players such as Zi Mo, Xingyu and Qiao Xi, and fully impact Group A and even Group S. The starting lineup of the "Sirius Combination" (Guangzhou TTG, Chongqing Wolves, Wuhan eStarPro) and the AG Super Play Club has not changed, and more teams have chosen to maintain the basic set and seek to break through the upper limit.
Although the drama of the major adjustment of the lineup during the transfer period was not staged as scheduled, it also tested the ability of each team to "make up for shortcomings and break through the upper limit". Therefore, the three Greater Bay Area teams have also chosen to continuously enhance the ability of "doing dojos in the shell of the snail lion" to "respond to changes with no change".
Among them, Guangzhou TTG ushered in fresh blood, introducing Three players of Yinan, Shijiu and Promise in one go, which fully enhanced the depth of the bench. In terms of training, Guangzhou TTG's original training director LoveCD stepped down, head coach Kear became the director of training, the original youth head coach Xiao Feng served as the head coach, the change may affect the overall training level of Guangzhou TTG, but the comprehensive personal strength of Guangzhou TTG's five players and the results of Sanya in one year, it is not difficult to achieve good results in the first round of regular season S group.
However, in the Feb. 9 opener, TTG lost 1-3 to Wuhan eStarPro. Previously, in the 2021 KPL Fall Tournament and Challenger Cup Finals, TTG was twice defeated by eStar.
In the third set of the opener on February 9, Guangzhou TTG played wild or got five kills.
At the same time, Foshan GK did not have a bright operation during the transfer period, and even the training team lost a big general, and the departure of the head coach Hua Lou had to let the training director go to the front of the stage to serve as the head coach, and from the original substitute to the wild player Ziyue to an analyst. However, the return of talented development road player Menglan in April, coupled with his team that picked out Chongqing Wolves in the 2021 Challenger Cup, is still intact, and Foshan GK is likely to be able to leave a place in the S group of the first round of the 2022KPL Spring Season.
For Shenzhen DYG, the 2022 Spring Games may be back on track. The listing player Xingyu, the Fuzheng wandering position player Childish Thought, coupled with the famous middle road player Wendi in the First Division League, the addition of fresh blood has greatly improved the depth of Shenzhen DYG's lineup. In particular, the return of the veteran Xiangjun is more reassuring for this young team, without too much running-in, and the Xiangjun, who has a unique view on blue-collar fighting and command, may become a rhythm driver, help the young members grow up rapidly and launch an impact on the S group.
Written by: Nandu reporter Chen Peijun