The first round of the KPL Spring Tournament was all over, and the "Galaxy Battleship" Chengdu AG Super Play club finally stayed in Group A due to the disadvantage of a small set of net win points, and failed to successfully advance to Group S. In the second round of competition, Group A will face extremely fierce competition, because there are four championship teams alone, which is not counting the two strong teams of Foshan GK and Changsha Taobo that fell from Group S, so the situation of AG can be imagined. There are also many people who think that AG will fall into Group B after the end of the second round, in fact, they have two statistics in Group A without opponents, and it is still expected to rush S if they are run-in.
The two teams that remained in Group A after the first round were AG and Shenzhen DYG, both of which were champion teams with one overall champion in hand, and DYG successfully awakened in the second half of the first round. The two teams promoted from Group B, Nanjing Hero Jiujing and Beijing WB, have a combined 7 championships, and their new squad shows great strength in the new season, and they have played an excellent record of 4 wins and 1 loss in Group B. GK and Doubo, who fell from Group S, one is the runner-up of the World Championship and the other is the final four of the Challenger Cup, and the strength is very strong. Therefore, many people are not optimistic that AG can play a good result in the second round, and even many people predict that they will fall into Group B.
It's true that the current AG is a lot worse than at its peak, but they still have two stats that they don't have opponents in Group A. The first is that the average time of the win is only 16 minutes and 26 seconds, which is more than a full minute faster than the second-place Xi'an WE (17 minutes and 43 seconds). This shows that AG's ability to end the game is still very strong, except for the game in which the disadvantages of the early stage and the final reversal, it is rarely dragged to the late stage with the opponent. Once known for their blitzkriegs, they were one of the fastest teams in the league to win a game.
Another statistic is that AG's average negative time per game is 21 minutes and 53 seconds, which is more than a minute longer than the also second-ranked WE (20 minutes and 32 seconds). This shows that the resilience of AG is very strong, even if it falls into a huge disadvantage in the early stage, it can be delayed for a long time, basically will not be hit by the opponent to die suddenly, and it also shows that other teams want to win the AG is definitely not so simple.
AG's two stats not only led the way in the first round of Group A, but also counted the four new teams together and basically had no opponents, only GK's average win time per game (15 minutes and 53 seconds) was slightly faster than AG's. Therefore, Xiaoyu believes that the current AG is not too bad, but the strength of the opponents is generally stronger than last season, as long as they continue to run in, there is still hope for impacting group S.