LNG Quarterfinals Eliminated, The Curse of ‘Swiss Victory’
The 2024 LoL World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds), which will determine the best League of Legends (LoL) team in the world this year, began its quarterfinal journey in Paris, France on the 17th.
Worlds is the most prestigious international LoL esports tournament hosted by developer Riot Games.
An upset occurred as soon as the quarterfinals, the knockout stage, began. 안전한 카지노사이트
Li-Ning Gaming (LNG) of the Chinese league LPL, which had advanced to the Swiss stage without a single win, lost to Weibo Gaming (WBG) of the same region with a set score of 3 to 1.
While LNG had initially advanced with 3 wins and 0 losses, WBG had 3 wins and 2 losses, making LGN the last team to advance to the quarterfinals in the final match.
With LNG’s loss this time, the curse of the ‘Swiss all-win’ Worlds continued this year as it did last year.
Last year, at the 2023 Worlds held in Korea, Gen.G Esports, a domestic league LCK team that had advanced to Switzerland with no wins, suffered a shocking quarterfinal elimination after losing to Bilibili Gaming (BLG) of the LPL in the quarterfinals.
At that time, BLG was a team that had advanced to the finals after a fierce battle with Switzerland with 3 wins and 2 losses.
The reason why the Swiss team, which won all the games, is struggling in the Worlds quarterfinals is that the ‘interval between schedules’ is too long.
In the case of LNG this year, they played the quarterfinals on the 17th, 12 days after their last match in Switzerland on the 5th.
Although they are playing scrims against other teams, there are criticisms that it will be difficult to maintain a sense of actual matches.
Last year, Gen.G also played their last match in Switzerland on October 25th, and had a 9-day gap between matches.
The lack of actual data, such as the organization of champion tiers, is also cited as a reason.
There is an analysis that it is difficult to understand the main ban picks in the current competition by just watching other teams’ games and doing scrims.
