On May 12th, the Gushu Cup officially came to an end, and in the end, Sok helped the team win the championship with a wave of one wear and three AKs, and the big demon King Happy became the background board for Emperor Mao's ascension to the throne.
In recent years, Happy's performance in the individual competition can be said to be invincible, and most of the individual championships have been won by him, and the European Emperor has also established the status of "the first person in the magic world". However, in the team competition, Happy has only won two races (and 120 teams) so far in 2019, and other competitions such as the Golden Team Competition, Gushu Cup, Zimu Cup, China-South Korea-Europe Competition, Penguin E-sports Team Competition, etc., Happy has not been able to win the championship.
It stands to reason that Happy's individual strength is superior (by a large margin over the rest of the players), and the team competition should shine as well, even if it doesn't have the same high winning rate as the individual competition, and it shouldn't be as many times as it is now.
So, why does Happy have a low percentage of team wins? Let's analyze it today.
Teammates dragged their feet
Compared with the individual competition, the team competition pays more attention to the overall strength of the team, if the teammates do not give strength, even if the individual strength is strong, it is difficult to have the last laugh.
Should I say it or not, there are a few times when the strength of Happy's teammates is really average. For example, in the just-concluded Gushu Cup competition, Lawliet and Soin's performance was obviously not as good as Sok's, Sok wore three AKs in the final, and even won the game without captain Lyn playing, while Lawliet and Soin's performance in 1v1 was quite lackluster.
Another example is the Golden Team Competition, in addition to Happy, Team LF also has two players, Soin and WFZ. In terms of overall strength, Soin and WFZ are not as good as any of Newbee, RW, or LP (except for Xiao kk, who only plays 2v2), and even if Happy keeps winning all of them, LF may have a hard time winning.
In addition, like the China-South Korea-Europe confrontation, Happy's teammates are Dise, Hawk, and Blade, and the overall strength of the European team is obviously not comparable to the Korean team composed of Moon, Lyn, FoCuS, Sok and others, and it is reasonable that they did not win the championship.
2v2 is not strong
Of course, Happy's failure to win the team competition was not due to the failure of his teammates, and his own record was not as impressive as that of the individual competition.
Among them, Happy's 2v2 is his obvious shortcoming, due to the language barrier, the small number of exercises, etc., Happy's 2v2 record can be said to be quite average, which is in stark contrast to the "king of team competition" Lyn. No matter who Lyn teams up with to play 2v2, she can play a good record, and 2v2 has also become a stable scoring point for Lyn's team. The 2v2 of the Happy team has lost countless points, and Happy is helpless about it.
We all know that 2v2 occupies a large proportion of some team competitions, and once the 2v2 record is not good, the team performance will inevitably be affected.
The team competition format is very accidental (conducive to upsets)
In addition, the team format has also weakened Happy to a certain extent.
In recent years, the Warcraft individual competition format is generally as follows: group stage BO3 + knockout stage BO5/BO7. The group stage is usually seeded, and the strong opponents rarely meet in advance (there is not much pressure to qualify from the group), and when they meet in the knockout round, they will have to play a BO5/BO7 matchup.
Happy's ability to maintain a very high winning rate in the individual competition is not unrelated to the long-handicap match-up system. Like many of the previous key matches, Happy started behind and could have lost the game long ago if the format had been BO1/BO3. But when the format is BO5/BO7, Happy can often rely on super strength to turn things around (improve technical and tactical play in time), and there are really countless classic battles in which the European Emperor falls behind 1-3.
The format of the team competition is mostly BO1/BO3, and the chance of the game is much greater than that of BO5/BO7, and the weaker side is also more likely to cause an upset. Under this format, the advantage of the European Emperor is not as big as the individual competition, and it is natural that the winning rate will decline, such as Happy, who has lost to Color in the team BO1 duel before, which is also the only time in his career that he has lost to Color.
In addition, the KOF competition also has the advantage of the loser's selection map, and the challenger can choose an advantage map to play against the "champion" (BO3 two advantage maps), which also makes the game less "fair". Of course, this in itself is also the charm of the team competition (KOF), and there is nothing wrong with the format itself, but it will make it more difficult. If the European Emperor wants to be as invincible as the individual competition, it will not be so easy.