Before the start of the sixth week of the regular season of the 2022 LCK Spring Games, wild player Canyon held the first place in the POG standings by an overwhelming margin. The LCK League's POG is equivalent to the LPL League's MVP, with multiple commentators and staff voting for the best performer in the game, with 100 points for each POG.
The LCK official is to set a POG player award, that season the player who won the most MVP was elected, and there are bonuses to motivate. Of course, if the player can win this award, it also shows that he did a very good job that season.
After playing the KT team, the DK team came to the third place position in the LCK standings, which is indeed worse than the ten consecutive wins of the first place T1 team. But Canyon now has more than 1,000 POG points, which means that he has already won 10 MVPs, and he has 400 points to pull away second place Faker. With 8 games left in the regular season, the players have already broken 1,000 points, which is a staggering record that has never been seen so far.
Because after the regular season of the LCK Spring Games last year, the first place was Chovy, and he only scored 1,000 points. After the LCK league was changed to the POG points system, the highest results in history were Chovy and Bdd, who each scored 1300 points. Xiaohu is currently the number one MVP in the LPL Spring Games, but he has only won 7 MVPs.
Given the number of games remaining, if Canyon can stay competitive, he is expected to break the 1300-point mark this spring, becoming the player with the most POG points in LCK history.
However, given the unstable state of the DK team this season, it is not easy for Canyon to get more POG points, and the team's record last week was 1 win and 1 loss, losing to the DRX team that lost three consecutive defeats at the beginning of the season. The DK team, which has changed blood this season, will easily lose the game once Nakano can't play the advantage, which makes Canyon's pressure to become very strong, and he must work hard to carry the game.
On the evening of February 23, the DK and T1 teams will meet in the second round of the LCK Spring Regular Season, a match that is important for both sides. If the DK team can win, then they are still eligible to compete for the LCK championship, and Canyon's POG player prize is basically stable. But if Faker leads the team to victory, then Li Ge may get more POG points, he used Ah Beaver and Loveland to get the MVP in the last game, and this version of Ah Beaver has not been weakened by the designers.
If Faker is lucky enough to earn 200 POG points, the gap between him and Canyon will be smaller and smaller, and there is a chance to catch up later.
In the first round of the regular season, team T1 successfully defeated the opponent 2-1. But after that game, a lot has changed on both sides. Team T1 is getting better and better, ranking first in the league with a 10-0 record. In contrast, the DK team has also lost to the DRX, GEN and NS teams, who are currently 6-4.
Although the third place result is in line with expectations, considering that this was once a world champion team, creating an LCK triple crown last year, the DK team is undoubtedly in decline in overall strength. It has become an indisputable fact that they rely too much on ShowMaker and Canyon, and their personal ability to get on the road is not strong enough.
From the individual performance of the players, each member of the T1 team has played well, the next combination is currently the strongest two-person group in the LCK, Faker is also in good shape to prove himself, and the two young players in Ueno are playing better and better. On the contrary, ShowMaker, the core player before the DK team, has had a lot of ups and downs this season, and if Canyon does not have a voice, the team is a team with very obvious weaknesses.
Since the focus of this match is on Nakano confrontation, we can expect to see a clash between Faker and Canyon, which will undoubtedly make the chances of the two players scoring POG points even greater.