S13 Global Finals: The teams with Korean aid in the play-in round, all eliminated, this can prove something
With Europe's fourth-seeded Adam's left-handed Galen and right-handed No-hand, BDS helped the two to beat PSG after the three. League of Legends S13 World Finals, the play-in tournament is all over.
Due to the group stage of this tournament, the previous group format was abandoned and the relatively fairer Swiss round was replaced. Therefore, the so-called upper or lower signing in the past lottery is no longer necessary. After all, for the Swiss round, there is no absolute sense of good signing and signing down. From the second round, it is to win and win, lose and lose, the strong will encounter, and the chance of civil war is also great.
And even if the first round of LPL wins all, then from the second round, LPL may meet each other. After all, in the second round, there is no circumvention principle in the same division.
In the offseason between the playoffs and the Swiss round, we just had time to review the different aspects of this playoff.
Still the old rule, the following words are all personal thoughts of the king, and only represent personal opinions. Welcome to discuss, don't spray without reason!
In this year's finalist competition, all the teams with Korean aid were eliminated!
Due to the strength of LPL and LCK teams in MSI and World Championships, from this World Championship, Riot has adopted a new rule - the four seeded teams of LPL and LCK do not have to make the playoffs. Therefore, in the qualifying round of this World Championship, the teams of the Chinese and Korean divisions will no longer be the roadblocks in the wild card division. In other words, the wild card division will finally show its skills without dimensionality reduction strikes.
Interestingly, when all the play-in matches are played, careful players may have already discovered that the three teams DFM, R7 and LOUD with Korean aid were all eliminated early. Among the two teams that advanced to GAM and BDS, there were no Korean players. In other words, in the qualifying round, all the teams with Korean aid were eliminated from the Swiss round.
Therefore, some players discussed after the game "Han Aid is not omnipotent?" ”
But, is that really the case?
The king believes that although all the teams with Korean aid in the play-in have been eliminated, for the wild card division, high-quality Korean aid can actually improve the level of competition in the division!
Take the LPL competition as an example: in ancient times, "three stars and ten sons, opened the era of Korean aid". During the period from S5 to S7, the overall level of competition, tactical thinking, and coach training in the LPL division has actually made a qualitative leap compared with the past. This is why there is a later broiler chicken; Du Silver Coins, Shame Man and Golden Gong that can't be mixed in LCK; and Junior Brother who didn't get a chance to play and Viper, who swooped in the record.
Since S8, LPL has won the first world championship, and then S9's FPX, S11's EDG, has actually played LPL's own set of things. In the subsequent seasons of S8, there are not many high-quality Korean aid to LPL development, and there are probably only Niu Guorui and Ru Di.
Therefore, to sum up, Korean aid is actually indelible help to the development of LPL.
As for the wild card division, why those teams with Korean support cannot reach the Swiss round, the king believes that this also has a lot to do with the LPL.
Take LPL as an example: after the rise of LPL, except for Niu Guorui and Ru Di, there are basically no big-name star players coming to LPL. However, the LPL has unearthed many talented young people from youth training and young players. For example, BLG once introduced the S12 World Champion Upper and Middle Singles. In other words, the slightly more powerful new generation of Korean aid has actually been bought by LPL. What is left to the wild card division are just newcomers that no one wants.
Finally, what the king wants to say is that Han Yuan is not omnipotent! The fact that the wild card team with Korean aid will lose so completely this time is actually closely related to the level of competition and training intensity in their own division. Without high-quality games and training, even if Faker is a foreign aid, it will quickly integrate into the segment, disappear from everyone, and change the speed of light.