Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
Due to the addition of global BP international events this year, the competition system has been adjusted in each major region, and the matches before the group stage of the first stage of the LPL have always been tepid, and there have not been too many surprising episodes.
What I didn't expect was that yesterday BLG gave the audience a big job, and after losing to TT, the LPL pattern changed greatly.
A day ago, there was a game of life and death in the LCK region, and the T1 team, which was generally favored, was defeated by the HLE team with a score of 3-2, and finally eliminated from the playoffs in the top six, and after the defeat of T1, BLG, the runner-up team in last year's World Finals, also lost, losing to TT, one of the dark horse teams of this year in the LPL region.
Since the LPL is a group stage with a single round-robin format, every game is important, and after losing this one, BLG will end up in the second place in the group, and TT will win the first place in the group with three consecutive wins.
The pattern of LPL has changed dramatically, last year's LPL top four teams BLG, WBG, LNG and TES failed to win the first place in the group, among which the LNG team was the worst, stopping in the round of 16 after the lineup change, WBG and BLG were the second in the group, and TES still had one game to win before locking the second place in the group.
The format of the LPL is that the first team in the group enters the upper group, and the second group starts from the lower group, the difference is that the team in the upper group has one chance even if it loses, that is, the repechage A, while the team in the lower group, just like the duel between T1 and HLE, the team that loses the game is directly eliminated.
At present, the situation of the group stage of the LPL has been very clear, and the four group winners have been born, namely AL in Group A, JDG in Group B, TT in Group C and NIP in Group D.
Among the four teams, only JDG is recognized as a strong team before the game, and the other three teams are all dark horses, all of which are not favored but promoted, from the perspective of LPL league development, the rise of dark horses is definitely a good thing, especially in the past two years when the environment is not good, but someone wins and someone loses, and those traditional strong teams will face huge pressure.
There are only two matches left in the group stage, with IG facing FPX today and TES facing LGD tomorrow, and IG and TES need to win the game to ensure progress.
The IG team that the audience discusses a lot here can be said to be from getting the dream script to facing the test of life and death in the loser's group, if they win the second place in the group, none of the three opponents they face are easy to fight, the loser's group is simply a purgatory, BLG, WBG, or TES, who may be promoted, all have strong strength.
Personally, I think that after TT defeated BLG, the global BP competition system in the LPL region has risen to a new height, and every game in the next quarterfinals may have a surprising or dramatic trend, and there will inevitably be a script where the traffic team or the promising strength team is eliminated.
BLG needs to pay a huge price because of losing to TT, and you can't lose a single game in the future, if it is a normal game mode, the winning rate may be relatively high, but under the global BP mode, the outcome of the game will be unpredictable, because you don't know what kind of lineup the opponent will come up with, and the lineup you take out yourself may not be able to play an effect.
Under such a chaotic battle, the audience will enjoy the greatest pleasure of watching the game, which is the charm of global BP.
Personally, I think that this year's Global Pioneer Tournament, the teams that may eventually advance are all unexpected, LPL is like this, LCK is also like this, AL, TT, NIP, DK and NS These dark horses have made the game more beautiful.