Recently, the third day of the first week of the League of Legends 2022 LPL Spring Tournament ushered in the showdown between TES and RA. It is worth mentioning that before the two teams started the spring game, TES was considered to be the favorite to win the championship this season, and RA was considered by many people to be difficult to support this season after losing FoFo. Therefore, this game is also considered by many people to be a duel with a relatively large disparity in strength. But in the end, RA not only successfully defeated TES, but also in a 2-0 way, so many people also called this game a upset.
But in fact, can this game really be called a upset? If you only look at the peak level of the players on both sides, there is indeed a certain gap, because even if the personal ability of the newcomers on the RA side can be similar to TES, there will still be a certain gap in the competition experience. However, this game cannot be called a upset. First of all, Cube, Leyan and iBoy have played well in the 2021 season, and RA is also a playoff-level team in the 2021 season. Although THE RA has lost the core point of FoFo this season, it still cannot ignore the role of newcomers. We have no shortage of new people in the LPL, especially in recent seasons when there have been many talented newcomers. Therefore, if you call this game a upset, it is actually a bit of a light enemy.
Newcomer players will actually have two extreme performances in the LPL. First, just came to the LPL this strange environment, it will be more likely to appear unable to play, but the LPL for the new people to say the "big test" stage, the team to give the newcomer such an opportunity, the newcomer can not grasp, it is easy to be forgotten; the second, just like Bin, Ah Le such a newcomer, in the LPL when they dare to fight, the so-called "barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes", even if the game will lose, they can still play their own style, And this kind of player is easy to attract the attention of many people, and even the team will spare no effort to cultivate. Because the LPL has never lacked talented newcomers, but what is missing is the kind of newcomers who have a "big heart", dare to fight, and dare to shout in the face of any star player. At least from the performance of this game, the two newcomers to the RA are still very dare to play.
Another factor that cannot be called a upset is whether the TES team is overrated? In terms of paper strength, in addition to the auxiliary player Zhuo, the other four starters were very top-notch at their peak. However, this is only paper strength. Because in real competitions, you don't look at the paper strength of the players. Although TES's loss to RA is not a big deal, after all, the new season has just begun. However, whether the TES team can really be rated S, or even higher, we can only find the real answer from the performance in the official competition.
Dear friends, do you think TES is overrated?