Hello everyone, this is Jincheng, to bring you the latest information of the League of Legends e-sports circle.
2022 is a landmark year in the history of e-sports, and video games such as League of Legends have become the official projects of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games into the medal table, which also means that e-sports players who have won glory for the country will officially join the national team. Also because e-sports is the first time to join the big family of international sports events, there is a lot of information compared with traditional sports - how the national team is selected, how the competition format is unknown. In this case, the Korean media also obtained details about the e-sports projects at this year's Asian Games by interviewing Kim Hyun-bo, secretary general of the Korean Electronic Sports Association.
Qualifiers for esports events are held from April to July
First of all, the secretary-general said that the schedule of the e-sports project has not been announced, but it can be determined that it will be held within 10 days between September 10 and 25. And before the Asian Games can begin, each game in the e-sports program will hold qualifiers in advance between April and July, a bit like the Men's World Cup Asian Qualifiers. However, one of the differences in the qualifiers of the game projects at the Asian Games this time is that they are not eliminated, but are divided according to the performance of the qualifiers to facilitate the group draw of the subsequent main matches. In layman's terms, it is impossible to judge the strength of national teams to directly divide the files, so it is necessary to hold qualifiers in advance. Qualifiers are generally divided by region, so geographically close China and South Korea may meet in the qualifier stage. If the qualifiers are held in April, then the formation of the national team should be almost fruitful, and the recruitment of "national players" to play qualifiers may have an impact on the club's LPL event.
How to select the national team
The most concerned issue is how the e-sports national team is selected, because League of Legends, as a team game, cannot objectively compare the strength of the players, so in general, this group project is the head coach team according to its own tactical needs to decide the list of personnel, but the head coach has his own selfishness or nepotism can not be guaranteed. In this regard, South Korea has set up a special selection committee composed of e-sports experts, commentators and some well-known players to ensure the fairness of the selection of players. The South Korean national team is expected to be formed by the end of March, and the organizers of the tournament have not yet announced the number of substitutes, but will form a six-man roster including a substitute, as is customary.
What you've gained from esports competitions in the past
The secretary-general said that in last year's China-Japan-South Korea trilateral e-sports competition, South Korea created its own national team selection system. At the same time, due to the poor local training environment and food in Jakarta in 2018, South Korea decided to send as many logistics personnel as possible at the 2022 Asian Games to create the best training environment and prevent the players from being treated unfairly.