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Recently, there has been more and more discussion about MSI, and now most viewers believe that there is no need for LPL teams to take the risk of not being able to play in the summer to participate in MSI, because once they participate in MSI, the Asian Games and S games may be affected, so they hope that the LPL division can make the right decision.
At this time, many spectators are asking, if the LPL division abandons MSI, will there still be a fourth seeding seat in S Competition? Let's analyze it for you.
Seed 4 rules are explained in detail
Many viewers may not know too much about the rules of this fourth seed, thinking that it is judged according to the number of points in the results of the past two years, but the actual situation is different, and the official rule of Fist is this: the MSI champion can get an additional S race seat for the division, that is, the fourth seed.
In addition to the MSI championship, the highest-point division can also get a fourth-seeded spot.
The audience closed their eyes and knew that the LPL and LCK were the top two in terms of points, so it was very simple that if the LPL division did not participate in the MSI, then as long as the LKK T1 team won the championship, the LPL could still get a fourth seeded seat.
Because the point gap between the Chinese and Korean divisions and other divisions is very large, LEC and LCS and other divisions, if you want to get the fourth seeded seat, you must win the championship, after winning the championship, and then look at the LCK and LPL points, who is higher will get another fourth seed.
Many viewers may not know that LPL's current points are not as good as LCK's, although EDG and RNG both won the championship last year, but in fact LPL's points are lower than LCK's.
LPL and LCK integration
Here and you briefly talk about the points situation of the two divisions, the EDG team won the S11 championship with 32 points, the RNG S11 quarterfinals and MSI champions combined to 8 points, SN won the runner-up in S10 with 8 points, TES in S10 is the final four with 4 points, jdg final eight has 2 points.
LCK Division's points situation: DK (DWG), S11 runner-up plus MSI runner-up plus S10 champion a total of 34 points, GEN's S11 Semifinals and S10 Quarterfinals have a total of 10 points, T1's S11 Semifinals have 8 points, HLE's S11 Quarterfinals have 4 points, DRX's S10 Quarterfinals have 2 points, and the cumulative is 58 points.
The LEC division has a cumulative score of 11 points, while the LCS has only four points.
Many viewers here may not quite understand, why dwg and EDG are champions, DWG points are so small? The reason is simple, because the DWG championship was won by S10.
Counting the points of each major division in the S12 season, the championship points of S11 are the highest of 32, but the points of the S10 champion are only 16, because looking at the strength of the division, more important is the recent honor, only the world results of S11 and S10, S10 will not be calculated before.
The LPL took the MSI and S11 titles, but the points were lower than the LCK, mainly because the MSI championship points were too small, and then last year the S11 Final Four had only one LPL team and three LKK teams.
LPL can completely abandon MSI
Personally believe that after the above analysis, LPL is completely able to give up MSI, of course, this abandonment of MSI is the last way to do, it is recommended that LPL and fist communication to see if LPL online to play other divisions of the team offline, if not look at the meaning of the fist, if the fist means to let the LPL come to Busan to participate, then the LPL then choose to give up.
Judging from the performance of each major division, I personally believe that in the case of LPL teams not participating in MSI, Faker's T1 will definitely win the MSI world championship, and the teams in other divisions cannot pose a threat.
Unless there is an extreme situation, that is, several players in T1 have physical recovery problems or sequelae, which seriously affect the state of the competition.
Or T1 players playing the World Championship extremely crotch-pulling, while the LEC and LCS championship teams explode.
If this is the case, the LPL can not get the fourth seed, personally think it is also an acceptable result, after all, compared to participating in the MSI to cause the summer schedule to be affected, the loss of the fourth seed is not so serious, because the LPL spring champion is likely to participate in the S tournament, participate in the MSI discount, even if the LPL has four seeds, it is also the loss of a member of the general, the consequences of the two situations are similar.