IG “new” has an excellent pitch at Demacia Cup 2024
Demacia Cup 2024 is a quite special tournament of LPL when it takes place immediately after a very noisy and “drama”. Even JDG with a team of many stars recently eliminated from this tournament when playing weak and lacking determination. In contrast to JDG, the “Super War” named IG has an extremely excellent pitch when he won all 3 matches in the group stage to grasp the ticket to play in the quarterfinals.
IG “New” has put his name in the quarterfinals after winning in the Demacia Cup group stage 2024
More specifically, IG also defeated RNG after only 16 minutes 27 seconds and set the fastest game record at the Demacia Cup 2024. This victory shows the complete overwhelming from the IG from the road, map control to the decisive fighting phase. The names that were suspicious of their form such as Thery, Rookie or Jiejie have shown excellent performances and smashed mixed opinions towards her.
IG has overwhelmed RNG and won after only 16 minutes 27 seconds
LPL fans constantly mentioned T1 after IG made a “terrible” achievement
For the audience in the LPL area, the last IG victory has a much greater meaning than the quarterfinals. The overwhelming IG makes many LPL fans repeat the match that this team has defeated SKT T1 (the forerunner of T1) after only 15 minutes 57 seconds at MSI 2019. This is even more reinforced when the current IG team owns up to 2 players who have sown melancholy for Faker and his teammates Thery and Rookie.
“The last match was really a god's acting performance” – an audience said after the match
“1557 is very close (referring to the match SKT T1 lost to IG at MSI 2019), I really want T1 to fight IG right now. Play a game” – another audience shared
“After looking at the new team of IG, I just want to say or bring T1 here” – another player agrees
When looking back on the three group stage matches of the Demacia Cup 2024, IG indeed blown a new and new stream of life and much hope to the LPL audience. This team, besides the ability to impose the gameplay on the opponent, also shows a small bravery. Even if the opponent applies the continuous road change and attack strategy, IG still has skillful macro phase, gradually regaining the advantage to win the final.
The return of IG has led to a lot of excitement from the fans
Naturally, IG's achievements recently stopped to win against opponents that are considered weaker, so the audience is still hard to accurately assess their strength. Therefore, the fact that LPL audiences talk about IG can defeat T1 (the defending champion of the world) is still just “early nape” sentences. On the positive side, IG's performance has brought back the excitement and confidence for the LPL audience in the new season, which has been a lot after consecutive defeats in international tournaments in recent years. Hopefully “Super War” IG will be able to rise in the new season and really challenge the top teams in LCK as expected.