LPL is in difficult circumstances
In recent years, in terms of international achievements, only the MSI arena is the League of Legends teams in the middle of the country, the opportunity to “bloom” when they hold 3/4 of the championships since 2021. But MSI has not been respected by many teams and caused Riot to change the format to be more attractive since 2023. And at Worlds, LPL is almost completely inferior to LCK when they only once won the championship in 2021 thanks to Edward Gaming's work.
BLG is carrying the responsibility from the expectations of the whole LPL
Poor performance is one of the reasons why League of Legends also gradually “lost heat” in the land of billion people. The strong development of mobile games, the streamers of this game here are no longer attractive, the fan community is not developing, the views of the domestic league decrease so dramatically that they also lose to VCS (according to statistics in September this year) and the government also limits the play time contributing the rest of China, causing Chinese Legends League to be on the edge of Lam Nguyet. There are also a number of other objective and subjective reasons affecting this area.
A channel specializing in monitoring League of Legends in the middle of China pointed out the factors that are causing LPL to be in danger and backward compared to LCK
In this context, if the BLG won the World Championship 2024, not only “washed” the warmths of LPL when they have never won the SKT T1/T1 in the BO3/Bo5 matches in this arena so far, but also predicted that it can greatly affect LPL. For the current League of Legends, perhaps what people expect is that LPL has to rule the Worlds, not the familiar MSI playground.
But even when the BlG champion, they can hardly “save” LPL
But even the championship has many other issues of LPL
But in fact, one thing must be mentioned: in the current BlG, except for personality like Bin or highly skilled players like Knight, the rest no one deserves to be considered influential at LPL. Even in terms of stature and coverage, Bin or Knight can not be as “senior”. The reputation of these two people cannot compare with Thery, Uzi or Doinb, Rookie. When they ascended the throne (if any), it is difficult to resonate enough as IG, FPX or EDG open and maintain the LPL's dominance era.
But if the BlG fails, the disappointment is greater than the previous periods
The only advantage of BLG is that they own the “all -medium” squad and the only team of LPL without foreign soldiers to set foot in the final of a World Worlds. But this can also put back the opposite pressure. Because from here BLG will be forced to win. If there are any other results, they will even have to get heavier than the previous “seniors”.