Another year of wildly trumpeted championship favorites! Will LPL repeat the mistakes of the past this year?

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S13

The Asian Games ended and the World Finals followed. Once again, JDG is the favorite to win this year's Global Finals, and their global paper prowess seems to have reached a new height compared to this year's mid-season MSI. Especially after Kanavi and Ruler helped South Korea win the Asian Games, many people seem to be unable to find the only favorite for this year's S13 title than JDG. However, just last year, DRX won the S12 championship in the most unpromising situation, and ten years of grinding a sword also made Deft the protagonist of the S13 theme song story. In addition, this is a grand event for the crowd, and JDG may not be so easy to win the championship.

The strongest Korean squad?

T1 led by 3-time champion Faker, former Samsung GenG with 2nd title winner in history, KT who came close to dynasty restoration this season, and DK with the most dominant in previous years. This should be the most visually explosive team in the Korean region since 2016 in the global finals. The 3 teams have won 18 LCK championships and 6 global finals, which is a great exaggeration in terms of historical honors. In particular, some T1 and GenG athletes reached the peak of their personal confidence after winning a valuable gold medal for South Korea at the Asian Games.

Although the MSI BLG is a double kill of GenG and T1, it is known that the mid-season and the global finals are completely different. Version changes, player status, opponent intensity, as these things change, past results don't have much reference value. South Korea's LCK is still the region with the highest probability of entering the top four of the S tournament in the world, and last year was also the first time in five years. If you look down on the South Korean team before the game, you will definitely pay a terrible price on S13.

Classic Europe's strongest year?

Europe has not won the global finals in the past decade since the ancient S1 championship. The only peak was in 2019, when Caps and Perkz's double champions won MSI, and with SKT, who beat triple crown champion Faker in a single season, their G2 game renewed the life of the European division. Without the G2's activity in the world competition, Europe today may not be much stronger than North America.

Caps' ups and downs this season were not ideal, but his performance in the summer and the final European final was excellent and gave many G2 fans and European spectators renewed hope. LEC is a region with severe gear discontinuities, with Fnatic and MAD far from G2. G2 can also be said to be the only light of faith in the entire two major leagues in Europe and the United States.

North America will not talk much, a stroke of it, this division has always been with the championship, the gap is 108,000 miles. If it weren't for the fact that Riot was in North America, they wouldn't have gotten 3 places to become one of the four major divisions. Pseudo-Level 1 True Level 2 Division.

The best developed but also the most exaggerated division LPL

LPL should be a global leader in the commercialization of professional leagues. The market is global-oriented, not exclusive to foreign aid, there are also foreign capital entering, the composition of players is diversified, advertising traffic is large, strong earning ability, good development momentum, sufficient stamina for the time being, can not see the decline for the time being. Although there are some professional chaos, the overall stability is good.

Thanks to the S8, S9 and S11 winning the World Finals, and the S8, S10-S12 winning MSI in 5 years, the World Championship has allowed the LPL to grow tremendously over the past few years. For competitive events, there will be no base audience without champions, which has a serious negative impact on the development of the league and the professional system. For example, in North America now, not only are fewer people watching, but there are also fewer young people working in the profession.

Although the LPL has won many world championships, it is indeed the most exaggerated division every year. We think it has a lot to do with MSI always winning the mid-season championship every year. Because of this midterm exam in the middle of every season, the Korean division cannot win, and it has always been the Chinese division that won the championship. This led to the fact that before the start of the finals, too many people blindly believed that LPL was much stronger than LCK, but in fact, China and South Korea are still in a state of mutual victory and defeat, and the strength gap is only a millimeter.

JDG is not much different from GenG and T1

JDG, GenG and T1 are the most favoured teams to win the World Finals. JDG, in particular, is considered the strongest LOL team in the world today because they haven't lost since the start of the season. And JDG is also rumored to have spent hundreds of millions for this lineup, and it is a veritable super galactic battleship. It is also ridiculed by everyone that "if you don't win the championship, you are losing money", at least for now they have been winning the championship.

In fact, JDG won T1 on MSI, and if there was no Joker Titan hook at that time, it would be difficult to predict. Especially after a version change, and weakening Zeli, who was unfavorable to T1, and strengthening T1's best policewoman, JDG's winning rate against T1 in the Global Finals was only 50% against 50%. GenG is the same, Yongen has strengthened the restriction of wild cores, which is beneficial for GenG against JDG.

JDG is not the invincible team in the S13 World Finals, and the LCK Division still has more stability on the Swiss wheel. If LPL wants to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, it should start by not contemptuously treating its opponents. Whether it is JDG, LNG, BLG or WBG, for the China and South Korea divisions with little gap today, their own underestimation and error rate are the big enemies.

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