Profile picture: The audience is watching the finals. On the same day, the 2019 NEST National Esports Competition (League of Legends) Summer Finals was held in Guiyang, Guizhou. The first match against the BLG team won the WE team 2:0. China News Service reporter Qu Honglun photo
Chinanews.com client Beijing, June 4 (Wang Hao) With the end of the League of Legends Champions League, the Chinese e-sports audience once again found the pride of the first division. In the confrontation with the South Korean Division (LCK), teams from the Mainland China Division (LPL) occupy three of the top four, of which TES and FPX took the final championship.
In the past two years, the LPL team has repeatedly defeated the European team and won the championship of the global finals. This time, it has crushed the Korean division. Objectively speaking, LPL has become the first division of the current League of Legends project .
From the previous "half year after year" to today's brilliant record, behind the rise of LPL, the contribution of "unionization" is inseparable. The so-called "unionization" means that the event organizer and the various clubs share the benefits and share the risks. One of the most important manifestations is the abolition of the downgrade system.
Official championship poster of the mid-season cup.
In fact, sports leagues such as LPL are not uncommon. American NBA, domestic CBA and other leagues all follow this system. Just put it on the LPL, and the term "alliance" is widely used by domestic media.
The benefits of alliance are obvious, the overall appreciation of the alliance's brand, and small clubs can also avoid the survival crisis. The cancellation of the downgrade system gives investors more protection, without worrying about the depreciation of the club caused by the sudden downgrade.
In the past two years, the number of LPL sponsors and the income of players have been steadily increasing, and this year's global finals in China have stimulated some teams to increase their investment to attract star players. LPL became one of the strongest games in the eSports circle.
The GRF official announced that the team member was cancelled.
The LCK is a typical non-unionized division, and there are still teams relegated this season. Last year, the GRF, which had been shining in the LCK league, plummeted in the spring of this year. After relegation, the core players of the team have left and the team is facing a crisis of dissolution.
Comparing the development trends of the LPL and LCK regions in recent years, the benefits of alliance can also be easily found. In 2017, in the global finals held in China, it was the two South Korean teams that had finally appeared on the stage of the Beijing Bird's Nest finals. At that scene, many Chinese e-sports enthusiasts were stunned.
Now, the more lucrative LPL has many outstanding foreign aid from South Korea, more and more local high-level players, and the LCK is gradually fading.
On January 15, 2019, the regular season of the 2019 League of Legends professional league spring season attracted many League of Legends fans to watch. On the same day, the match was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and the BLG team won the LGD team 2:0. China News Service reporter Wang Gangshe
However, LPL fans should not be too happy because LCK will also start the road to alliance next year. According to media reports, LCK has attracted the attention of many Korean and overseas investors. This is a new challenge for the LPL who has just been on the throne of the first division for a short time.
It seems that unionization does have a lot of benefits, but on the other hand, it also gives a lot of room for clubs to "live together." In the previous LPL spring games, the bottom of the regular season was the V5 team, and all their 16 games were lost.
Interestingly, every time the V5 club has a game, its official Weibo organizes a lottery event. Every time V5 wins a game in three games with two wins, it sends a box of weird beans. So how many games did they win throughout the spring season? There is only one game. So much so that the audience ridiculed under the lottery Weibo, did your club not buy weird beans at all.
Netizen comment screenshot.
In the summer transfer period after the spring game, V5 did not introduce any big-name star players. It seems that the strength has not been greatly improved. How to play a huge question mark in the summer game. Of course, V5 is not an example. There are several other teams in LPL that have similarly weak results and are not actively recruiting, but they are not as "prominent" as V5.
In the NBA, fans often see the phenomenon of "putting bad". For example, before a certain draft year, the performance of some teams gradually declined and became the countdown in the league, in order to win the high draft pick.
In fact, this is the biggest disadvantage of alliance. Without the pressure of downgrade, if the club owner is not willing to increase investment, then it can only be passed. And even if the results are not good, as long as you catch the big ship of the entire league, the club quota itself still has no small value.
On January 15, the LGD team members focused on the game. On the same day, the 2019 League of Legends professional league spring season regular season was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The BLG team won the LGD team 2:0. China News Service reporter Wang Gangshe
The existence of such a team makes each game they participate in almost lose their suspense, and the impact on the game's appreciation is self-evident. And if there are more teams like this in the same league, then the game between them will have a bit of "rooster pecking". Not only does it affect the audience's viewing experience, it also destroys the league's competitive soil and causes unnecessary interference to some big investment clubs.
On the 5th, the LPL Summer Games will be officially unveiled. While paying attention to those strong teams competing for the qualification of the World Championships, they may also be able to pay attention to the teams that are ranked lower and see how many V5's strange beans can be drawn Box, see which teams are still "mixing days"... (End)