The World Championship team had a network issue in Busan, and Riot said it had sent a team to fix it

The World Championship team had a network issue in Busan, and Riot said it had sent a team to fix it

The Swiss round of the 2023 World Finals has ended, with eight teams in the knockout stage decided, and the quarter-finals in Busan, where the teams have already left for the next city on Monday. On the one hand, it is necessary to adapt to the local environment in advance and shoot with Riot Games; On the other hand, you also need to make an appointment for a training match, after all, the knockout round is a BO5 format. However, the Busan Hotel, arranged by Riot Games, had some problems.

In the early hours of November 1st, Becker, the manager of the T1 team, tweeted that the team was experiencing network issues. "When I came to Busan, I had already filled in 2, and due to network problems, the team was completely unable to conduct training matches and qualifying matches normally. Although we have made many requests, the online environment is still not able to practice, so we ask the organizers to provide a better training environment for the team. "It's no secret that T1 has a lot of fans, and it went viral.

And Chovy, the mid-laner of the GEN team, also retweeted this tweet, and it looks like they are also experiencing network problems. According to foreign esports reporter Quest, a number of teams preparing for the tournament at the Busan Hotel have encountered network and equipment problems, such as monitors that do not work. This led some teams to return to where they stayed during the Swiss round, extending their stay in their previous hotel to get a better internet connection for training.

It seems that although South Korea has been touting that their network is good, in fact, not every place has a good network, and the Busan hotel arranged by Riot Games this time has a very bad network and equipment. If you have watched the Hanbok OB videos of the World Championship players in the last two days, you can see that they are mostly in the city or in the spring, not only the players of the T1 team, but also other teams, which is obviously because the network is stuck and there is no way to play the game.

Josh, the COO of the T1 team, also tweeted about the official accounts of Riot Games and LCK, "Whoever is in charge of this link, please help us solve the network problem in the training room as soon as possible." Some netizens left a message below to say whether this issue affects everyone, Josh replied: "I'm not sure if this is for all teams, I don't want to speak for others, but I did hear complaints from some other teams." ”

The incident sparked a heated discussion in the community, and South Korean esports journalist Ashley also asked Riot Games staff about the matter, and she received an official response. "I've asked League of Legends if there are persistent network issues at the Busan training room and how Riot plans to address this. The response received is as follows: We are aware of the ongoing network issues and have sent a technical team to resolve them, and professionals are working hard to resolve them. ”

So far, we have not received further information on whether the network issue at the Busan hotel has been resolved. Most of the teams traveled to Busan on Monday and Riot Games on Tuesday to shoot a promo for Riot Games, and they tried to practice in their free time, and the JDG team went for a barbecue yesterday. Although JDG and GEN teams are teams that prepare in advance, they can't know in advance which teams they will play against, and they will wait until the draw is over to conduct special training, so there is still an impact.

The quarterfinals will begin on November 2 at 4 p.m. CST, but teams typically arrive a few hours early to make up and test their hands on site. There is not much time left for the teams to prepare, so everyone wants to solve the network problem as soon as possible and play a few more training matches in the limited time. The first match day of the quarterfinals was WBG vs. NRG, where the WBG players also went to the beach in Busan, and Karsa appeared to be involved in a training match.