Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LPL Pro League has undergone a wave of format reforms in this year's Summer Tournament, dividing the competition into four different stages, and yesterday the third stage of the LPL Summer Tournament officially kicked off.
In the first BO5 match to determine the playoff spot, Team LGD successfully defeated Team IG to advance to the playoffs.
Three of the six teams that entered the knight's path in the LPL can advance to the playoffs, and the specific rules are as follows, the LGD team ranked eighth in the summit group faces IG who ranked fourth in the Nirvana group, because the LGD team is slightly higher ranked, so there is no need to play a stronger team, and the winning team of the two teams can take the eighth place.
As a result, as soon as yesterday's game came up, the LGD team showed the strength of the summit group, and the IG team obviously did not adapt to this intensity and quickly lost the battle and fell behind 0-2 directly.
When the IG team was cornered, they began to sacrifice their unique skills, highlighting one without regrets, and the LGD team may have also changed in their mentality, and they did not choose what they are best at in the selection of the lineup, and Burdol's one-handed Jace was easily handled by YSKM's Qinggang Shadow.
IG successfully equalized the score under the condition of trusting the stunning, at this time, a large number of Incheon people began to get excited, eager to let the appearance of the two-chase three script, and as a result, LGD had a direct showdown in the fifth game, playing a smooth rhythm and successfully taking away IG, refusing to let the two chase three, which also created a new miracle, the most money-saving team in the league, and the water ghost can also advance to the playoffs.
As we all know, the most cost-effective team in the LPL division in recent years is LGD, and other teams are more or less pursuing some cost performance, but the LGD team focused on saving money in the previous season, that is, the kind that can use the least amount of money to open a game and never spend more, as a result, last year's offseason LPL league had a minimum wage cap rule, and then LGD spent a little more.
As a result, LGD took off directly after spending a little more this year, winning 4-2 in the scheduled stage of the summer season, including a defeat to BLG, which also helped them successfully qualify for the summit group.
Originally, after the reform of the LPL competition system, everyone said that the main purpose was to let a team like LGD go directly to play low-intensity games and make the club pay the price, but I didn't expect LGD to break out directly into the summit group, and after entering the summit group, the LGD team is okay even if the results are very bad, and there is still an opportunity to seize the position.
As a result, the LGD team successfully qualified for the playoffs, and it has been four years since the last time LGD advanced to the playoffs.
After the LGD team successfully qualified, the pressure will be given to Rookie and his NIP team, in today's game, the NIP team will face the RA team, the strength of the RA team is much stronger than IG, the previous summit group in the battle at the foot of the king of the mountain, NIP was LGD let one chase two lost the game, resulting in the difficulty of the position grabbing match has also increased.
Personally, I think that the strength of NIP and RA at this stage should be relatively close, and even the RA team is a little ahead, and the situation of the NIP team is obviously that the team is not suitable for the version and the state and mentality of the players are very poor, so that NIP may not be able to play well enough in the Nirvana group.
You must know that the configuration of the NIP team has cost a lot of money, and it will be too much of a failure if you can't even enter the playoffs this year, in contrast, the script of the LGD team is a little too dreamy, after LGD is promoted, in fact, including NIP, teams like WE, EDG, RNG are very envious.
Among them, WE can be said to be the most uncomfortable, WE's team configuration is actually not bad at all, and as a result, even the top four in the Nirvana group did not enter, which belongs to the type of failure that is not very acceptable.