2023 Global Event Report: T1 ended perfectly, and after EDG overturned, the repechage A is likely to be lost

This should be the penultimate installment of this year's spring regular season global report, because with the end of the spring season in the world's major divisions, the playoff situation in many divisions has almost settled, last week including LCK, LCS and some wild card divisions, all ended the regular season, only some divisions are still in the spring regular season end, so let's take a look at what happened in the major divisions last week.

LCS North America

The spring regular season of the North American Division officially ended on the 18th of last week, and finally C9 won the top of the league with a 14-4 record, followed by FLY, which also had a 14-4 record, then 100T, CLG, EG and GG, and the veteran Phantom God TSM, this year's all-Korean class TL have been out, plus IMT and DIG, which have been listed as the tail of the crane from the beginning, the strength and weakness classification of the entire North America is still quite obvious.

Starting this week, the spring playoffs in the North American Division will officially start, and the match table is shown below, because the North American Division has been in the first round, and the winner group has adopted a double-elimination format, so for these teams, the error tolerance rate is still quite high. But for teams like EG and GG, which were listed in the loser's group at the bottom of the rankings, they have only one chance, because this year's LCS North America Division also has two MSI spots, so as long as they can make it to the final, it is obviously a success.

LEC Europe

After the winter season, the spring tournament of the LEC European division also started not long ago, but their spring season is only three weeks long, this week is the second week of the regular season, as of press time, the last day of the second week has not yet started, but from the current standings, SK and VIT, which were still winning the previous week, also suffered the first defeat of the spring tournament this week, SK lost to VIT and KOI in succession, so the ranking also fell all the way, and VIT lost in the game against G2. However, it is still tied for first place in the league with BDS, which have won four straight games after losing to SK in the first week, and if they win today's game against G2, they can basically lock up the playoffs in advance.

The old European powerhouse FNC also found confidence against TH and successfully won the first league victory, but now this 1-4 record, they can only pin all their hopes on the next few games to play at a high level, because once the defeat exceeds 5 games, the playoffs are basically out of play, you know that the previous winter FNC is the only two eliminated teams, will not repeat the same mistakes in the spring game, right? The other teams are similar, with three tied for third and three tied for sixth.

LCK Korea Division

The spring tournament of the LCK division just finished last week, and finally T1 ended perfectly with a 17-1 record, which is slightly worse than last year's spring game, if it were not for the loss to HLE in the first round, they would have been able to replicate last year's regular season victory, followed by GEN, and the third place was KT, DK also fell into the middle section because of the defeat in the key two-game battle with GEN, plus KT won both games last week, It also managed to finish third, so KT has the right to prioritize opponents.

In the end, KT chose LSB with lower combat power, and DK needs to face HLE in the first round, knowing that HLE is not as simple as improving the strength of LSB compared to LSB. The final playoff matchup table is also out, and the LCK playoffs will start on March 22, with the first round first KT vs LSB and then the 23rd DK VS HLE. Both T1 and GEN have the repechage, but T1 has the right to choose the winner of the first round, with the spring final scheduled for April 8 at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.

LPL Division

The ninth week of the LPL spring regular season ended yesterday, and this week will also be the last week of the regular season, and the entire league has identified 5 playoff teams, namely EDG, JDG, LNG, WBG, BLG, and the four eliminated teams are NIP, FPX, UP and AL. The order of the teams entering the playoffs has not yet been fixed, and we have also analyzed the final probabilities of these teams before, simply put, JDG and LNG have a higher initiative in the repechage A (first and second place), while EDG lost to FPX because of the upset, so it is necessary to see the faces of others in this regard.

The remaining 8-win teams have a relatively higher probability of entering the playoffs, after all, 8 wins is a stepping stone to the playoffs. At present, some 7-win teams still have certain variables, but as far as the remaining opponents of these teams are concerned, RNG is a relatively comfortable team, because their next opponents are weak teams, as long as there is no moth, entering the playoffs is basically not a problem, the most troublesome is IG, this wave of three consecutive kneelings also directly let them from [escort students] to [make-up candidates], and IG's subsequent opponents are not weak teams, so IG can enter the playoffs, really not sure, RA and LGD are not eliminated yet, but for them, there is only theoretical possibility left.

The LPL spring playoffs will be scheduled at Yangcheng International Esports Stadium, the home of Suzhou LNG, and the location of the spring finals has not yet been announced, and personal speculation will run to Shenzhen.

Other divisions

At present, the wild card division PCS has also entered the playoff stage, starting on March 23, the Vietnam regular season has three weeks left, GAM is currently leading the league with a total victory, the CBLOL playoff team has also been determined, the start of March 24, there are still two playoff places in the LJL division that have not been determined, V3 has been eliminated, the playoffs in the LLA division have started last week, in the two games of the winner's group, 6K and R7 defeated their opponents in the semifinals.

OK, the above is all for this global game report, the end of the season is here, the next playoffs are the key moment to test whether a team is really a strong team, because in the past many seasons, many teams are very strong in the regular season, the playoffs are crotch-pulling, there will be such a team this year, you can guess who it is in advance.