Over the past decade or so, League of Legends has grown exponentially to become one of the most successful and influential esports titles in the world. As we are about to enter the fourteenth year of the LOL e-sports event, the official blog of today's League of Legends tournament also released an article on "2024 Season Outlook", which mentions the adjustments and new content of the LOL event in the coming year.
The most talked-about part of this announcement is, of course, about the adjustment of the seats in the S competition of each region. Starting from the 2024 season, the LEC, LCS, LCK, and LPL regions will each have three basic S Race seats, and on this basis, MSI's results will affect whether each region can have additional S Race seats. The region where the MSI champion team is located and the region with the best place in place will receive an additional S spot.
In the article, LOL officials also use the results of the 2023 Mid-Season Championship as an example, according to this rule, the LPL where the champion team JDG is located, and the LCK region with the second best result will get an additional seat, plus three basic seats, which means that these two regions will have four seats in the 2024 World Finals.
Many viewers may think that this is no different from the allocation of spots in the past few years, but the biggest change this time is that in order to increase the importance of the MSI event, Riot said that the teams that will win the championship from the 2024 MSI will also go straight to the World Finals. This will greatly improve the embarrassing situation of the already very poor MSI competition, and allow more teams to pay more attention to MSI.
In addition, in honor of the players who have left a lasting impact on the game, the event, and the community at large, Riot has also announced that it will launch the LOL Esports Hall of Fame. To this end, Riot also convened a separate panel of esports veterans and panels from each region to vote and select the first inductee of the LOL Esports Hall of Fame. Although the identity of the inductee was not revealed in this announcement, as long as the audience knows a little bit about LOL, I believe they can guess that the first player to be inducted into the LOL Hall of Fame is basically impossible to be someone other than Faker.
At the end of this announcement, the start date of the spring tournament in each region is also posted, and the LPL region is confirmed to start the opening match on January 22, and the audience will be able to watch the new season of LPL games shortly after the end of the German Cup. What do netizens think about this matter? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area below and share your views.