In 2023, it could be considered a very ups and downs of Knight. In fact, he and JD Gaming won 3 consecutive titles, including 2 LPL championships and 1 MSI championship. It can be said that this is a great year for Knight. And everything will still be good, without the top two tournaments in the sports industry in general and League of Legends in particular: ASIAD and Worlds 2023. In these two tournaments, Knight plays extremely disappointing and is one of the main reasons why the Chinese League of Legends team and JDG are empty -handed.
Knight owns almost all titles except ASIAD and Worlds 2023
After the Worlds 2023 ended, BLG and JDG had a middle line swap when Knight switched to joining the team of the largest media group in the billion people. And in the recent confrontation, Knight contributed greatly to help BLG beat JDG for the first time in a final at an official tournament. Granted, the size of the Demacia Cup is not really too big, but this is also Knight's first victory in the new season.
Knight switched to BlG and won the Demacia Cup 2023
Recently, according to LPL media, Knight has accepted a huge salary reduction to join BLG. Specifically, Knight has proposed a salary of 25 million yuan (about 86 billion VND). However, BLG negotiated a much lower salary than the initial proposal of Knight. This level was revealed as 15 million yuan (about 51 billion – only more than half of Knight's proposal). But after much consideration, Knight still agreed with the proposal of BLG and signed a 2 -year contract.
According to information from LPL media, the BLG salary paid for Knight is only 15 million yuan (much lower than the 25 million yuan that Knight suggested)
Initially, the audience thought that Knight's joining BLG was a mandatory decision for this player at that time. But if you look at the contract, Knight is really reducing himself, just because he wants to join BLG. Because the BLG's squad in 2024 was really likely to win. Knight's goal is simply wanting to win the World Championship. Therefore, he joined BLG. However, there are also some comments that are not so simple.
Not to mention, the most important defeat of Knight was before T1 in the semi -finals of Worlds 2023. Therefore, it can be said that T1 also somewhat indirectly caused Knight to decide to join BLG at all costs.
According to many assessments, Knight said that BlG was rich in the ability to win the title of JDG after JDG changed personnel.
After many difficulties (economically) as well as the effects of LPL's really good achievements in tournaments such as Worlds, the investment in League of Legends teams clearly has a significant decline. Therefore, Knight may have decided for himself a safe path with 2 years of contract. At that time, Knight will be about 25 years old and maybe at that time, he has started to calculate the last stages in his career.