For LPL's fans, Invictus Gaming (IG) is always a very special name. They were the first team to bring the title of Worlds for this area and opened a strong development period of LPL. Moreover, the excellent members of IG 2018 such as Thery, Rookie … also become the idol of many gamers and have a great reputation until today.
IG is the first LPL team to win the World Championship
However, just a few days before MSI 2024 took place, the LPL had to receive an extremely sad news from one of her pride. Specifically, the Guokui manager of the Invictus Gaming (IG) team has recently shared pessimistic about the financial situation of the home team. Even, this team is still at risk of being expelled from the LPL tournament if there is no solution.
“We not only have no money, but you are carrying a huge debt. This has been happening for a long time, about 3 years and the situation is only worse over time. I really feel extremely tired and want to give up because the team does not have any way to make money” – IG's manager shared bitterly.
The manager of IG revealed that the audience was surprised: “We (IG) operate without money. Even the team has to carry a huge debt. This has been going on for a long time, about 3 years and the situation is only worse over time.”
Before IG, another LPL team, RNG, was in the same situation when facing financial difficulties and excessive debt. Even at the end of 2022, RNG also received a direct deduction warning from the BTC LPL BTP if it could not solve this problem. It is likely that this is the reason why this team has to sell big stars like Bin, Xiaohu, Gala and make the achievement constantly going down in recent years.
Despite being a MSI 2022 champion, RNG must then sell big stars like Bin, Xiaohu, Gala to “compensate for”
However, RNG's financial status was not as bad as the current IG when their debt was not 3 years. Therefore, the same thing is likely to happen to IG when they will have to receive warnings from the BTC LPL. The current disadvantage of IG is that they do not have any players who are considered a star in the squad. If RNG could previously “compensate” with Xiaohu's transfer money or Gala, the current IG could not do this. This makes IG deducted from LPL because the financial problem is entirely possible.
The current IG squad does not have a big star player to help them solve the financial problem with the transfer money
“Nobody wants to follow RNG's trace. But IG understands RNG and becomes a new RNG” – a bitter audience comment
“Sometimes they are about to sell the copy version of the Worlds Cup should also” – another sarcastic fan shared
“Agree that in the past 3 years IG has been in financial difficulties but it is not so bad? They have also been to the playoffs LPL. They still sell both xun and zika. Why do they say they don't have money? What are the previous contracts?”
Basically, IG is a traditional eSports organization when they are the first LPL team to win the World Championship. Sadly, IG's performance went down and led to the stars in turn. It is likely that this is the main cause of IG's debt at the present time. If there is no thorough solution to the debt, the IG is “colored” from the LPL tournament is probably just a matter of time.