Who is most likely to be out of the group stage? For 4 consecutive S-Games, the LPL has teams stopping in the group stage
With the end of the League of Legends event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, the Chinese team finally won the bronze medal that many people regretted. Although the bronze medal was won in part because of the early encounter with the strongest opponent, the South Korean team, the reason why netizens were unhappy was mainly because of the sluggish performance of the Chinese team in this Asian Games. Perhaps because of the sluggish performance of the Chinese team in the Asian Games, many netizens are still looking forward to the LPL team achieving good results in the 2023 global finals to "soothe the pain". Because although the Chinese team did not perform well in the Asian Games, the performance of the LPL team in the global finals is still worth looking forward to, although three of the four LPL seeded teams have Korean support.
However, anticipation is anticipation. Even from the current overall performance, the teams in the LPL division are indeed better than the teams in the LCK division. After all, in the 2023 MSI, JDG and BLG directly won the championship and runner-up. But in fact, if you look back at the overall performance from the 2019 Global Finals to the 2022 Global Finals, there have been 4 consecutive global finals where LPL teams have not played well and stopped in the group stage. Although the rules of the Swiss round are adopted for the group stage of this year's Global Finals, the format of the Bo1 is still not avoidable.
In the 2019 World Finals, second-seeded RNG changed its position on the road after a major defeat in the 2018 season. But even so, the double C formed by Little Tiger and Uzi is still a combat power that cannot be underestimated in the alliance. It's just a pity that perhaps because the loss of the 2018 Global Finals is like a mental demon, the players are still not out of the woods. In the group stage of the 2019 World Finals, they encountered such a strong opponent as T1. In the end, RNG won 3-3 in the group stage and lost to FNC in the final match, stopping at the round of 16. And it's worth mentioning that this is also the last World Championship of Uzi's career.
In the 2020 season, LGD restructured again with the introduction of Peanut, Night and Wolfwalk. The restructured LGD also successfully entered the World Championship again after five years. What's interesting is that because LGD is the No. 4 seed, it needs to start at the qualifying stage. At the beginning of the qualifying round, LGD experienced a two-game losing streak. But fortunately, they stabilized their mentality and finally entered the group stage with three consecutive wins. Unfortunately, after coming to the group stage, Peanut, who played quite well in the LPL, was not able to play at the level he deserved. In the end, LGD stopped at the top 16!
The 2021 season should be the most difficult season for many FPX fans. This season's FPX, after the introduction of Nuguri, was once described as a galaxy battleship. But what I didn't expect was the sluggish performance in the group stage and the poor mentality of the players. In the end, let them stop at the group stage. And what's more interesting is that the very classic phrase "I won't lose a single game in the next group stage" also became a very famous meme at that time!
In the 2022 season, TES was the second seed in the LPL, and at that time he was in a group with DRX, RGE and GAM in the World Championship. Even, this group is called "signing" by many people. But unexpectedly, TES not only lost to DRX, RGE and GAM in the group stage, but also lost to GAM in the life and death game. At the same time, TES wilderness player Xiaotian also set an embarrassing record in the world championship, that is, as a former world champion wildernesser, the world championship stopped the group stage for two consecutive years. In addition, it is worth mentioning that "Vietnamese curd is out of the ranks" is from here.
Finally, if the fourth-seeded LGD group stage exit may not be particularly surprising, then the three second-seeds at the time, RNG, FPX and TES stop the group stage. So the question is, if you look at the overall performance of this season, which of the four seeded teams, JDG, BLG, LNG and WBG, is most likely to be out of the group stage?