Average Faker's opponent in EUW rank
At the moment, all teams participating in Worlds 2024 have been fully present to prepare for the Swiss round of Worlds 2024. Of course, during the competition at Worlds 2024, the players will be granted an European server climbing account to be able to practice for matches. However, there are a number of problems that have happened that these accounts still have to fight all the rankings, not Riot for them to be suitable for them. Put simply, the players will take some time to climb the appropriate rank to start training and try hard.
It is not strange to grant accounts to the players when attending international tournaments
And recently, Faker himself showed a clear shortcoming of Riot's account issuance policy. Specifically, only a few short days left, T1 had to enter the first series of the Swiss round and they were the team moving to Berlin very early. However, Faker until now is still playing “Unran” account and even grafted with gamers at iron to silver. This accidentally took a small amount of time that Faker or the players could take advantage to practice a bit more.
Faker must play with gamers of silver rank and iron rank
Not only Faker but Blg also once reflected
Facing Faker's case, Bilibili Gaming moved to Europe to ask Riot to restore all data of Normal Match of their accounts at the server, and apply it to the EUW server account to save time. Of course, BLG will still have to play 10 matches but at least, with the updated data, they can be classified as quality lobby rather than gamers from all ranks.
Previously, before moving to Europe to attend Worlds 2024, BLG asked Riot to update all parameters from the Normal Match of the players' accounts in the central server to avoid falling into poor quality lobbys.
In fact, the players will also be able to overcome these ranks easily. However, the time when they arrived at the place of Worlds/MSI matches until the beginning of the first match was really not too much. The schedule of the players is not only practicing and climbing rank but also meeting tactics, exchanging with the press and the audience … Therefore, perhaps in the future, Riot needs to change its account policies so that the players' training is always as effective as possible.