Under the iron fist of the fist, the seething LCS strike incident finally ushered in the finale. In fact, I have noticed the strike for a long time, but because things change every day, I thought about analyzing it in detail with you when the matter was over.
The LCS strike was caused by Riot's official announcement that LCS teams would be allowed to disband the second team, and that all LCS teams would not be required to have a second team. As soon as this announcement came out, seven of the ten LCS teams announced the dissolution of the second team, leaving only TL, EG and FLY to retain the second team, and more than 70 players lost their jobs overnight. The move of the fist is to reduce the operating costs of the LCS team, because Florida does not raise idlers, the youth training system of this division of LCS is very immature, the secondary league raises idlers, almost can not train new top players, LCS teams themselves are too lazy to raise the second team, keen to directly buy foreign aid from other divisions. But if there are not enough second teams, the LCS minor league cannot function at all, which is a huge blow to the LCS's already immature youth training system.
Therefore, the LCS Players Association strongly condemned Fist's approach, and said that Fist had promised not to adjust the LCS minor league, and this treachery would destroy the future of LCS. Many other LCS players and practitioners joined in denouncing Fist.
But verbal rebuke was useless, so the LCS Players Association decided to take action, and they voted to strike to protest the policy of the fists. It is said that all 52 contestants who need to participate in this vote are present and voted by a landslide walkout. So LCS shut down.
However, the fist did not hesitate, ordered LCS teams to abide by the contract to compete on time, and introduced a new policy that allowed teams to temporarily recruit players since there was a player strike. The calculation of the fist is that if you don't want to fight, then naturally someone will fight.
However, LCS players are also very united, whether it is the newly unemployed minor league players or the younger players of the college team, they have turned down temporary recruitment offers. Forcing the fist to directly increase the weight, it was announced that the LCS selection limit would be lifted, allowing anyone to join the LCS team and participate remotely. In other words, even gold and silver like me who are in the national service can sign up for LCS. Not to mention those national service unique brothers, at the top of the canyon during the day, you can also hang ladders to play LCS at night to earn extra money.
However, the measures of the fist still seem to be ineffective. Finally, a fist directly under the ultimatum is also a great move, if the LCS strike does not end within two weeks, cancel this year's LCS Summer Tournament and LCS World Championship spots!
At this time, LCS directly panicked, because the world competition is the guarantee of LCS exposure, and it is also the highest dream of all players. If LCS can't compete in the World Championship, there will be no sponsors and players will be lost. So the LCS Players Association relented, and they announced that they would take action to get players back on the field from tomorrow
So far, it can be seen that in this fight between LCS players and fists, LCS players have lost badly. Many of the demands made by the LCS Players Association were rejected by Riot. For example, the LCS Players Association hopes that Riot can ensure that the starting players of the summer championship team have a minimum guarantee contract for the next year, and Riot replied that the signing of players is the team's own business, and whether they can stay in LCS depends on the player's own ability. But Fist also gave in a little bit, the LCS Players Association asked Fist to provide each minor team with an annual subsidy of $300,000 to pay players, Fist refused, but was willing to pay a lump sum of $300,000 to help LCS secondary teams tide over the difficulties.
In fact, the biggest problem in the LCS competition area is still not competitive, and the pension in the competition area has become a trend. The all-Korean class of five Korean players plus Korean coach Marin like TL has been assimilated by LCS to the point that it cannot enter the world competition, and you can imagine how intense the LCS two BO1 games a week are. If the LCS World Championship spot is really canceled, I think I can give MSI the champion and runner-up a little more MSI content.