Cover news reporter Cai Shiqi
On March 2, the second round of the 2022 KPL Spring Regular Season is about to start in Shanghai, and the first day of the second round will be played on the first day of the next day, namely Foshan GK in Group A vs. Beijing WB, and Chongqing Wolves in Group S vs. XYG.
There are no longer "straight up" places in the second round of the regular season, and after the end of this stage, the teams in the lifting and lowering groups of each group need to play a card slot competition, but for the vast majority of teams in Group B, even for the teams at the bottom of Group A, the arrival of the second round of the regular season may also be the beginning of the countdown to the holiday, which also forces the teams to compete more hard in this round.
SAB group competition system is the new format that began to land in the spring race last year, initially some viewers questioned that this will lead to the polarization of the game ornamentation, and it is easy to form a Matthew effect of the stronger the stronger and the weaker the weaker the team level, but after a year of practice, the overall ornamentation of the game does not fall but rises, achieving a more ideal effect.
S is the best testing ground for team progress
Because Group S is mainly composed of the strongest teams, although there is no pre-season regrouping in the fall of 2021 and this season, there have also been cases where the 2021 autumn competition of Nanjing Hero Jiujing has slipped all the way from Group S to Group B without winning, but overall most of the teams in Group S are increasing in strength and continue to bring wonderful games to the audience.
▲ XYG's position has become more and more stable after entering Group S
XYG also experienced the big brothers' round of "beatings" after entering Group S last season, but this team persevered and tenaciously stayed in Group S. Playing with the strong team also makes them play better and better, the personal operation of the wild player September has reached a higher level, and the mirror he wields has also become a major point of the team, it can be said that they are squeezing into the S group by their own strength, and continue to this day, the high-quality learning samples accumulated in actual combat, as well as the quality of the training team brought by the identity of the S group, have made their strength have been rapidly improved.
Another team that has improved in group S is the Chongqing Wolves, who were still in group B at this time last year, won the world championship, and after half a year of being ruled by Wuhan eStarPro, finally became the team that ended the Wuhan eStarPro winning streak and became the new leader of Group S. Constantly improving the flexibility of their tactics and studying the weaknesses of their old rivals Guangzhou TTG and Wuhan eStarPro, the Chongqing Wolves have the ability to face the "Demon King" to solve the problem, and a long-term substitute player like Jie Jie can also get the opportunity to perform because of the team's confidence.
The two teams of Changsha TES.A and Foshan GK, because of the "pulling" strength of the S group many times last year, have been greatly improved, and they have refreshed the best results in the history of the team, although the first round of this season fell into group A, but referring to the situation in previous seasons, they still have a lot of probability of returning to group S.
In the second stage, Hangzhou LGD Big Goose and Xi'an WE entered group S by "no test", the former did not invest much in the transfer period, and the state picked up more because the direction of the training and the confidence of the players were clear again, while the latter was a representative of the complete reorganization and unbroken, whether they accumulated confidence in the S group, evolved again, or were poured cold water by reality and took turns to train by the strong team, which is an important point of view in the second round of the regular season.
The A component is a touchstone
The two-championship team Group B Dragon Field Gokudo bottomed out
Compared with the strong S group, the A and B groups have a higher probability of defeating all the opponents in the group, but the situation between the two groups is also very different.
▲ Beijing WB completed the Dragon Field Enlightenment
Group A because to undertake the previous stage of the fall from the S group of strong teams, there is a possibility of dimensionality reduction blows, "down to find confidence" phenomenon, at the same time there is b group up the sharp team, so it is a mixed group, last season Xi'an WE once won consecutively, many people think they have the opportunity to be promoted to group S, but in the late season to turn over the sloppy end, which is also one of the charms of group A uncertainty.
The only indigenous people in This round of Group A are Chengdu AG Super Play Club and Shenzhen DYG. Chengdu AG Super Play Club lineup compared to last season has been fine-tuned, the unit Xiaoying in a stage to replace Jiucheng stable starter, but in the team performance has not broken through, self-protection ability is stronger, whether the economic transfer output ratio is higher Jiucheng can become a sharp knife to be rotated on the field, is a point of concern for Chengdu AG Super Play. Shenzhen DYG is the first team to change coaches in the middle of this season due to poor results, and whether they can regain control of the wild area and complete the run-in of the new single command system is the key to their reversal of decline.
The Beijing WB and Nanjing Hero Jiujing, which have been promoted to Group A, will face significantly more resistance in this round, and the revival of these two former championship teams has been completed by a few percent, just tested by Group A.
▲ The shanghai EDG .M strength of Group B is also very obvious
As for Group B, in fact, the competition for the right to direct promotion in the first round is more fierce, and the change in the state of the team brought by Shanghai EDG .M fresh blood is very obvious, although it is regrettable that they failed to seize the opportunity, but whether they can complete the breakthrough in the second round also makes many "cultivation system" audiences pay attention. The JUST DOWNGRADED MTG and Jinan RW Heroes have just changed the head coach, and the team's state has changed, and the competition in the last round of Group B will be more intense.