Just yesterday, the LPL league officially announced that starting from this summer's tournament, a new format will be adopted to replace the original format! There are two major changes to the new format, the first is the use of a grouping mechanism in the regular season, and the second is the adoption of the dreadnought call-up (global BP) mode in the "fixed group" stage of the group stage. The magnitude of this format change is simply the largest in the history of the LPL! Because this format is too novel and unfamiliar, it has caused huge controversy on the Internet, and it has mixed reviews.
After the official announcement of the new competition system, LPL official commentators Guan Zeyuan and Miller also expressed their opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of this new competition system. Guan Zeyuan said frankly that when the league officially decided to launch a new competition system, it invited many commentators and industry insiders to participate in seminars on related issues, including himself. The new format of the "tie-for-the-spot game" is his own proposal to the league official, which is inspired by the NBA's play-offs, in order to give teams ranked 11-12 in the regular season more opportunities to advance to the playoffs.
The two first discussed the impact that Dauntless Drafting, the global BP, could have on the game. The two commentators bluntly said that in the BO3 game, the impact and role of the global BP is really not as big as everyone imagined, but he is too exaggerated and mythical, because LDL has been tried for a year before, and the effect is average, because it is difficult for the BO3 game to "exhaust the strong heroes", maybe the BO5 game has this possibility, but at present, only the BO3 game adopts this model. The two commentators believe that the global BP mode can force designers to pay more attention to some unpopular heroes, so as to adjust and strengthen them, so that more and more heroes can reach the intensity of the game, which may be the biggest positive effect that the global BP mode can play.
The two commentators were almost unanimous in appreciating the new bracket format for the regular season, saying that there were many advantages to the change. Because after the "group match" stage, the most important "group match" stage is grouped according to the strength of the teams, the strong ones are placed in the same group, and the weak ones are placed in the same group. This makes the teams in the same group infinitely close to each other's strength, and there will be no particularly large contrast between strength and weakness, which will make the game more suspenseful, and at the same time will improve the quality and enjoyment of the game, and can also reduce the probability of an upset to a large extent.
As for the final "place grabbing" stage, as mentioned earlier, this is Guan Zeyuan's suggestion to the official, and the main purpose is to give teams on the verge of the playoffs more opportunities to advance. Because the teams on the verge of the playoffs will be placed in the relatively weak Group B at the most important stage of the "intra-group competition" under the new format, and with their strength, there is a high probability that they will break through from Group B. In the final "tie-for-jab" stage, as long as they can win a BO5 match against the team ranked 7-8 in Group A, they will qualify for the playoffs!
It is also worth mentioning that in this episode of the show, Guan Zeyuan and Miller connected three guests on the spot: Zhu Kai, Posture, and ELK, and these three guests almost unanimously maintained an optimistic attitude towards the new competition system!
Finally, Guan Zeyuan said frankly that with the progress of the summer competition, there will definitely be some problems in the new competition system that have not been considered before, and there will definitely be some defects, so the new competition system will inevitably continue to be optimized in the future until the new competition system reaches a level that most viewers are more satisfied with. In addition, Guan Zeyuan also revealed that if the actual effect of the global BP mode in the game is better, they may make a suggestion to Riot headquarters to let the World Championship also adopt the global BP mode!
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