The Saudi Arabian Esports World Cup has been as much discussed as the LPL Spring Finals in recent days, and the interest of players around the world is quite high for this event with a huge prize pool of $60 million. But with more and more new news, the audience of LPL is a little unhappy;
On the other hand, as the schedule of the MSI Mid-Season is approaching, the latest event schedule has been officially announced. A number of details related to the event have been adjusted...... Popular events are rotating in a row, let's take a look at today's LOL circle hot spots.
Esports World Cup or no LPL team
In the past few days, there have been revelations about the Esports World Cup. However, from the perspective of LPL audiences, the recent situation is not very optimistic.
Recently, a number of people familiar with the situation at the Korean Network revealed: "As far as I know, the regions participating in the E-sports World Cup are LCK and LCS, LEC, CBLoL, and LPL has not yet received an invitation." It is not known whether the "no invitation" here refers to the lack of direct invitations, or whether the LPL team does not plan to participate in the Esports World Cup.
In addition, the distribution of the prize pool that everyone was thinking about was not as optimistic as it was at the beginning. According to the content of the external network leaks, the prize money of the League of Legends project may only be $1 million. And the highest prize numbers are $5 million for Dota 2 and $3 million for PUBG.
The reason for this result is not because the Saudis look down on the League of Legends project, but because Riot and Epic do not want the prize money to be higher than the official event. This claim has not been confirmed, but if the prize money is really only $1 million, it will not be so attractive to the top teams.
At present, the Esports World Cup is no longer as filtered for LPL teams as it was at the beginning. Maybe the audience will have to be prepared for the next step, there are no LPL teams/top teams to participate in this event.
ZDZ is suspected of leaving the team in the summer season
The WBG team quickly entered the offseason after losing the playoffs, and former V5 coach Han Yi immediately broke the news that RNG top laner breath and former LNG jungler Tarzan were about to join, which gave fans a big shock. However, it was the contestants themselves who were most affected by this time.
Yesterday, when Zdz was live broadcasting, the barrage had already begun to say goodbye to Zdz and xiaohao, and said frankly: "24 Spring WBG has done everything it can to thank you for your dedication." Zdz did not directly refute this, but only explained:
"All I can say is brothers, a lot of things are involuntary, you know? What I'm saying is that if, that is, if I go, then where to go is also my own choice, do you know what I mean...... You can say that capital is ugly, but WBG is really not ugly, believe me, believe me, believe me."
Looking back at this season of WBG, at the beginning of the spring season, Zdz, who was originally introduced as a substitute for The Shy, sat in the starter. Switching from a world champion to a player who has never played in the playoffs, WBG fans were not optimistic about the new lineup at first. As a result, Zdz has gotten better and better along the way, and has repeatedly contributed Carry performances in the playoffs.
I never thought that the offseason had just arrived, but Zdz, who had performed best before, was leaving, and it was likely that he would join RNG in a swap way, which couldn't help but make people sigh. But gold always shines, and since the result can't be changed, let's do our best, and look forward to Zdz's good performance in the summer.
The No. 1 seed automatically qualifies for the MSI group stage
With less than two weeks to go until the MSI Mid-Season, it's time for the statutes to be announced. No, the official League of Legends tournament has recently brought the latest event arrangements and competition formats to the majority of players, so that everyone can have a deeper understanding of this upcoming international event.
This year's MSI Mid-Season will continue to be a double-elimination format, with two spots available in the four major regions, so the No. 1 seed will start directly from the group stage. Given DRX's S12 title, both LCK teams started with the group stage last year. This year, T1 had to start from the play-in stage.
In this year's MSI Mid-Season, the champion and runner-up teams will win an additional World Championship spot for their own region, and the champion team will also directly advance to the S Tournament. After that, the schedule is the normal knockout process, but this year, teams in the same division will avoid it, so you won't see the emergence of intra-regional battles too soon.
The specific schedule is as follows-
Play-in Stage: May 1 - May 5
Winners and losers group stage: May 7 - May 19
Champion and runner-up finals: May 19
This year's schedule is tight, and there is not much time left for BLG and TES after the LPL spring finals tomorrow. I hope that they will be able to achieve good results when they fight on their own soil.