Each match in the professional League of Legends village is extremely stressful, especially in major tournaments such as MSI or Worlds and the players who are playing in high expected teams will achieve the title. Even the players are too familiar with the pressure, but when the real battle is sometimes psychological problems, typically the case of T1 stars when almost always burdened with achievements on the shoulder whenever attending a tournament. For many League of Legends fans, if T1 does not win the championship means failure.
For the world's leading players like T1, the unable to win the championship can also be considered a failure
Therefore, the players of the top teams almost have more or less experienced heavy moments affecting the psychological competition from the expectations of the audience. This leads to possible consequences during the competition. Specifically, many people have just looked back at an extremely sensitive “Pause Game” situation in the match between T1 – Bilibili Gaming and discovered: BLG itself stopped the match because their players were not good.
Situation Pause Game in game 4 matches T1 – BLG belongs to the final of the losing branch
Specifically, in game 4 of the match, when T1 was having a situation of attacking the 2 lower lines of BLG, Elk was unable to stand the stress and act at the arbitration pitch forcing the match to stop the match so that Elk was stable. Worth mentioning, Elk is not a rookie player or has never faced pressure. But maybe he himself did not control himself when the opponent was T1 and BLG in the context of game 4 facing defeat. The vomiting of ELK is a completely understandable reaction. There are many cases after these reactions like this still have to go to emergency.
Elk is too tense and vomiting right on the field
This can also be explained for in game 5, BLG focuses on a large resource for another player who is also capable of “carrying the team” as Bin to reduce the pressure on ELK. But from the expression of Elk, it can be seen: Even the players playing at home and facing the opponent they used to easily defeat can still be psychological crisis. At the same time, this is only one of the countless manifestations that the professional LoL is increasingly harsh and the development of eSports culture and social networks also makes the pressure on the players greatly increased.