At the post -return of Worlds 2023, Theshy is probably the most interested name at LPL when he and the WBG happened many scandals during negotiation. As a result, Theshy and WBG have “gone their separate ways”, even this player announced the temporary leave in the spring LPL 2024. The absence of Theshy is one of the reasons why this tournament dropped to viewers in the last stage.
The absence of Theshy has made the audience's attention significantly reduced
With the temporary relaxation announcement, many viewers still keep the belief that “Top God” once will return at the summer LPL 2024. This belief is strengthened when managing the WBG once the intention to “spread red carpet” to welcome Theshy back. However, the latest information related to this player brings unhappy news to the LPL audience.
Specifically, in the last livestream, Uzi confirmed that the friendly tournament called “Veterans Cup” will continue to be held. And only a few hours later, the list of “veterans” will play in this tournament is also announced. It is noteworthy that besides the popular names such as Doinb, Uzi, Letme … Thery also participated in this list.
Theshy recently appeared the list of “veteran trophies” besides the DoinB, Uzi, Letme …
It should be known that the “veteran trophy” is a tournament only for players who have retired or no longer intended to play professionally. In addition, this tournament also gathered many famous streamer in the LPL area. With Thery's appearance on this list, the “Top God” ratio of retired and not returning at the summer LPL 2024 is very high.
Theshy probably will not return to play in the upcoming summer LPL 2024
Moreover, in the past few days, the information that the WBG has the top and new forest duo has appeared. The experts in LPL revealed that Breathe and Tarzan will join WBG in the upcoming season. In addition, other strong teams in LPL all own the full personnel in the upper position. So the opportunity to return to almost no longer counting up to the present time. Not to mention, as mentioned, to be able to own Thery, LPL teams have to buy a livestream contract with extremely high price of him. So the opportunity to return to almost no longer counting up to the present time.
WBG is revealed to recruit Breathe and Tarzan to prepare for the summer LPL 2024
It should be known that Theshy is an extremely famous player in the LPL area. The fact that this guy returns to play at LPL can attract an extremely large number of viewers. However, the above information shows that the LPL tournament can no longer rely on this player to “pull the view” in the future. For the press at LPL, this is extremely bad information for this tournament.
“After the new squad of the WBG was revealed, the rate of theshy retired has increased rapidly. Currently, there is no information about the player's return and the situation is not satisfactory at all. The most important point is that the top teams in LPL do not need Thesis and WBG is the most possible choice,” the Sohu page concluded
“With the above list, at least the group stage and the first half of the playoffs of LPL Spring LPL 2024 will not be noticed by this friendly tournament” – A gamer commented
“I believe that many people are now more interested in the” veteran trophy “than that of LPL. Sometimes they will find a way to make the most of this and organize it 2 times a year,” – another player sarcastically commented on the less attractive of LPL LPL
To be fair, Theshy had a successful career when each World Championship, LPL as well as extremely famous. The player himself has had serious injuries and not too young, so the retirement in the future is understandable. Of course this will have negative effects on LPL in the present, especially in the viewer. However, this is also an opportunity for teams to find and build new stars instead of being too dependent on Thery's popularity.