Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.

At present, the major leagues of LOL have ended the competition for the first stage, and soon the S15 season will usher in the first international event - the Global Pioneer Tournament, where the champion teams of the five major regions compete for the world championship under the global BP.

Earlier today, Riot officially announced the schedule for the Pioneer Event.

LPL started with a king bomb, and TES's first opponent was revealed

First of all, I would like to introduce the format of the Global Pioneer, this competition is divided into three different stages, the first stage is a round-robin tournament, five teams play a round-robin round robin of BO3, and then the top four teams will advance to the semi-finals of the second stage, the semi-finals stage is the first group against the fourth group, and the second group meets the third group.

The final stage is the final, the battle for the final championship, and the whole stage is arranged to be played in a week, from March 10 to March 16.

The overall format is actually a bit similar to the earliest MSI events, the whole event is relatively short, and the number of matches and teams participating is also very small.

And in the schedule announced around the early hours of this morning, the first day of the game is at four o'clock in the afternoon on the 10th, for the European and American wars, TL (LTA) vs. KC (LEC), and then the highlight comes, after the end of the first game, it is expected to be around seven o'clock in the evening, the Sino-Korean war, LPL can be said to be the king of the opening game, TES will play the first game HLE.

TES played four BO3 games in five days to compete for the top four in the group

This kind of schedule can be said to attract everyone's attention on the first match day, whether it is European and American audiences or Asian audiences, they will pay close attention to the Pioneer event on the first day, and I believe that the game content will also be very exciting, from the perspective of the LPL region, the pressure on TES's side is undoubtedly very large.

But generally at the beginning of the World Series, when everyone is groping for a version, they will face each other more in an encounter way, and when they don't know each other so much, it is more important to see which side has a better tactical system and which side understands better is easier to win, which is an opportunity for TES.

Then there is the TES schedule, the first stage lasts for a total of five days, and the official schedule is scheduled for two games per day, of which TES has a rest day on March 13, and the other four games are against HLE, TL, KC and CFO in order.

After all, only one team is eliminated in the group stage, but if you want to advance to the finals, you must at least get the top three rankings, because if the performance in the group stage is too poor and the fourth place is no different from direct elimination.

Under the global BP, the game will be more accidental

Before the start of the Pioneer Tournament, everyone generally believed that the team power ranking was HLE greater than TES greater than KC greater than TL and CFO, and the North American team could be stronger than the European region if it was in good shape, and there was a certain possibility of wrestling with the LPL, and the same was true for the Wild Card region, while the team ceiling in the European region was slightly higher.

Personally, I think this year's Global BP International will be very special, and there may be some surprising scripts, for two reasons, the first is that under the global BP mode, the game is more variable, adding more unpredictable game elements, and there are more factors that affect the outcome of the game.

The second point is that this first event arranged by Riot, the schedule is tight and the time is short, all the games are played in just one week, and the team has very little room for adjustment, unlike the S competition, which spans a month, everyone has more time to adjust their version understanding and style of play.

There were also many viewers who complained that this event looked a little shabby, but considering that it was a test of the waters of Riot after all, it was like this in the first year, and maybe some changes will be made next year.