A few days ago, the champion of the Lec Winter 2024 tournament was officially identified as G2 Esports (G2). With outstanding strength in their area, Caps and teammates were unbeaten in the playoffs round before defeating Mad Lions Koi (MDK) in the final. This victory helped G2 have the first title this season and won the ticket of the upcoming MSI 2024 boot.
G2 Esports recently won the Winter Lec Championship 2024
However, the convincing victory with the score of 3-1 of G2 is not the focus of attention in the day of the Winter LEC final 2024. Specifically, a series of technical incidents took place in the process of organizing this final and made the audience's experience very bad. Even many viewers also speak frankly Riot's organization with this match is really “disaster”.
The first is about the ability to handle the game error of the Riot Games too rigid and not guarantee the fairness for the match. At game 3 of the match, the quite serious error occurred when the pine beads exploded by the dragon chemical map carefully used 2 consecutive times. However, due to the fast speed of the match, they did not recognize this error to report to the referee. Despite realizing this error, Riot did not stop the match and handle it.
The MDK side hits the explosive pine seeds but it still exists on the map
Only a few seconds later it was the G2 turn to hit the explosive grain to chase the opponent
And right at the 4th game after that, it was the main broadcast channel of the LEC tournament that was completely crash in about 6 minutes. This makes both commentators and audiences uncomfortable when the excitement with the match is greatly reduced. With such severe errors, the 2024 winter LEC final called “disaster” is not too much.
In the 18th minute of game 4, the LEC LEC tournament is streamed, until the match will go through the 24th minute, everything will return to normal.
The main cause of this is thought to be from Riot's cutting most personnel operating at the LEC tournament. As revealed by veteran BLV Montecristo, this tournament has fired 27 employees and retained only a few technicians and filmed to operate the tournament. As a result, when an error occurs (for example, the stream is crash as above), the problem solving becomes extremely slow.
The veteran BLV Montecristo once revealed: “Riot has fired 27 employees in the LEC tournament team including production directors, technicians and 2/3 filming teams”
It can be said that the LEC Winter 2024 final has left an extremely unforgettable memory for Riot as well as the audience watching. Perhaps Riot needs to supplement the tournament personnel to operate the tournament so that similar “disasters” do not take place in the LEC tournament in the future.