The much-anticipated Hangzhou Asian Games has finally kicked off, and e-sports have been included in the official competition in this Asian Games. That is to say, unlike previous exhibition competitions, if the e-sports event wins the championship in this Asian Games, it will be counted into the medal table, and the champion can debut in the family tree C position.
The League of Legends project is definitely the focus of e-sports projects. After all, compared with other "small categories", League of Legends not only has spring and summer competitions in major regions, but also MSI competitions in the first half of the year, and the global finals in the second half of the year. It has formed a complete and mature commercial system, which can be compared to traditional sports e-sports.
In this Asian Games, the League of Legends project is still a showdown between China and South Korea. Especially after the announcement of the draw results, the Chinese and South Korean teams, theoretically, will meet in advance in the final four and stage the gold medal battle in advance. For both teams, there is only one goal in this Asian Games, that is, to win the championship! On the European and American side, after learning the results of the draw, more than 60% of players believe that the South Korean team will beat the Chinese team to win the championship. In this regard, the king scoffed!
Interestingly, the foreign e-sports media ESPM announced the ranking of wild players they selected after the start of the Asian Games. In this ranking, ESPM divides the S race field players into five levels: S, A, B, C, and D. The details are as follows:
- S-class players: Canawi, Third Uncle, Tarzan, Little Peanut;
- A-class players: Oner, Cuzz, Razork, Smoke, Yike, Elyoya;
- B-class players: Weiwei, Junjia, Contrzctz, Blaber;
- C-class players: Sheo, River, Pyosik, Levi;
- D-Rankers: Oddie, Beanj, Steal, Gemini, Croc.
Frankly speaking, the S tournament field ranking selected by the EPSM, the king thinks that they have only watched the LCK league, not only the LPL league, but even the MSI competition. There are four wilderness players who have been rated S-class, and although two wilderness players in the LPL and LCK divisions are ranked in the S class, it is not difficult to find that BLG's wilderness players are not ranked in the S class. You know, on MSI, BLG has doubled out LCK's top teams T1 and BLG. BLG's wilderness players can't even rank S-class, and the king is slightly incomprehensible. In addition, the four players in the S class are all Korean players.
BLG's Wild Smokers were rated A by ESPM, ranking in the same gear as T1 Oner and KT Wild Cuzz. However, throughout the S13 spring/summer and MSI competitions, the performance of Fu is actually only slightly lower than JDG's playing wild Kanavi, far ahead of several other A-level players.
This is actually the biggest complaint of the king for ESPM rating: small peanuts are S-grade, no problem; But the smoker who has defeated Little Peanuts is only A-grade, and there is a problem!
But finally think about it, European and American e-sports media, originally inclined to Korean players, after all, from S3 to S7, the global finals have been monopolized by LCK, and a little Korean phobia is inevitable. In addition, ESPN is originally a traffic medium, and the ESPM below it is even less streamed. It's normal that they focus on a controversial one!
Dear canyon summoners, do you think that the S race field ranking in Europe and the United States is objective? If you are in line, how will you line up? Let's talk about it!