For the LPL region, this year's MSI mid-season tournament can be said to be quite disappointing, the BLG team, which has the strongest all-Chinese class, lost to the GEN team in the LCK region in the game, and the TES team is also quite disappointing, so many fans hope that these two teams can find face in the Saudi Cup, and just recently the Saudi Cup schedule was officially released.
However, I thought that the scale of the Saudi Cup would be very large, but I didn't expect that there were only eight teams participating in the competition, and this time it was an invitation system, so the teams participating in the Saudi Cup were officially invited, and these eight teams were TES team, BLG team, GEN team, T1 team, G2 team, FNC team, TL team and FLY team.
In addition, this Saudi Cup competition is not our current BO5 double-elimination system, but BO3 knockout round, each team has only one chance, and if they lose the game, they will go home directly, and this system has also been complained by many viewers that it is quite unreasonable, and this game also looks very perfunctory because of this system.
In addition, the grouping of this competition is not determined by drawing lots like other international competitions, but is divided by region, which means that in the first round of the competition, the LPL team must face the team on the LCK side, and according to the schedule, the BLG team will face the T1 team, and the TES team will face the GEN team that won the championship by MSI.
For the TES team, this can be said to be a hellish schedule, but on the side of the BLG team, many fans even opened champagne directly to celebrate, in last year's and this year's MSI competition, the T1 team lost to the BLG team, but the celebration is still too much, you must know that in last year's World Championship, the BLG team still lost to T1.
If you look at the results of MSI, it is estimated that the champion of the Saudi Cup this time will be the GEN team, but there is no absolute possibility of everything, after experiencing the tempering of the global BP competition system in the summer season, the overall strength of the LPL team has also been improved, and the pressure of the BO3 competition system on players and coaches is also completely different from that of BO5.
Some netizens said that basically every time MSI wins the championship, the winning team will be targeted by Riot designers, for example, the RNG team and the JDG team in the past have been targeted to a greater or lesser extent, but this time I am afraid that it will disappoint everyone, because the designers have no intention of targeting the GEN team at all.
Not only did it not weaken but strengthened the hero of the plane, but the new version is still the wild core version, in the recent GEN game, after the canyon player got the hero of the death song, the rhythm of the game can be said to be quite good, and the gen team has no possibility of losing at all, so how to target GEN's Nakano has also become the most critical issue.
And it is said that this time the prize money of the Saudi Cup is very high, so many players are very eager to participate, but there is no way, this competition is an internal invitation system, just like the original S competition, if this event can persist for a long time, it may become a permanent event like MSI and S competition, and the competition system should be more formal at that time.
Is there anything you would like to complain about the Saudi Cup?