On the eve of the New Year 2025, looking back at Esports's journeys in 2024
VCS exploded negative “32 players”
In the history of League or Esports in Vietnam in general, perhaps it is impossible to find a bigger case than the “32 players” incident happened as soon as the LCK group stage of the 2024 Spring LCK is about to end. From only a few initial doubts, the incident exploded into a large drama, shocking the world lmht. Because, before that, the negative sentences in the League of Legends were only discovered in the lower divisions.
The negative sentence of VCS forced SOFM and many former players to come back to play because the team is not enough.
The incident almost pushed VCS into crisis. The teams lost from nearly half to the entire squad. However, thanks to the efforts of the parties involved, VCS still completed the 2024 season full of difficulties to prepare for 2025 promising more volatile.
EWC 2024 – The first World Cup Esports tournament in history
In 2024, it also marked the first time Esports World Cup – the tournament from BTC from Saudi Arabia as the equivalent of “World Cup of Electronic Sports” was officially started. Not only is the “huge” bonus, but EWC also marks the milestone of the Middle Eastern countries began to actually pour money into this “smokeless industry”.
For the first time, a World Cup Esports tournament was held in Saudi Arabia.
Although it has not been classified as the official competition system of Esports NPH, but EWC 2024 has attracted a certain attention. According to the Saudi Arab's announcement, future eSports development projects will continue to be implemented in the coming years, and the mighty teams of the world such as T1, Na'vi … will be the pioneer teams.
Ego's unexpected departure
One of the great losses of VCS in 2024, it is impossible not to mention the sudden departure of Ego – the former VCS champion and was once dubbed the “SOFM's tradition”. At the age that should have been raging in domestic and international arenas, Ego slipped after the dramas in a row and then broke up with a sudden temporary realm.
Ego left in the surprise of the VCS community because it was too sudden.
It can be said that the departure of Ego really makes the Vietnamese League of Legends community feel sorry. In just over 1 year, the player who has been at the peak can fall straight to the bottom of the cliff and until now, no one can say exactly who the responsibility belongs to whom but only the regret for a talented player with redundant but also many defects of ESports Vietnamese.
PUBG Vietnam roared in the world arena
2024 can be considered a very good year for PUBG. In June, the Cerberus Esports team excellently became the champion of PGS 3 and the Himass player also won the title of MVP – was the best player in the world PUBG at that time. Worth mentioning, CES's victory is also the “comeback” when before the final, they are 34 points behind the final team, Twisted Minds.
The Expendables closed the perfect year for PUBG Vietnam.
At the end of the year, PUBG Vietnam continued to “close” in 2024 as great as the Championship of PGC 2024 of The Expendables. The “mercenary team” has created history when the first time a PUBG team from Vietnam became the world champion, successfully touching the most prestigious trophy of the famous survival game.
The International “silent”
Since the Compendium system appeared, the DOTA 2 community has always been proud that they own the world's largest bonus tournament. At the same time, this is also a factor that helps this game retain a certain attraction, in the flow of games like League of Legends, Valorant still develops sustainably and mobile games are occupying large markets.
The image of the Vietnamese flag appears at The International 2024.
But Ti 2024 can be said to be a period of … silent. The Liquid team champion team only really impressed when owning another shield in the collection room. And the highlight for Vietnamese eSports is only the image of the Vietnamese flag brought by the Vietnamese family of Micke's original player on stage.
The sad year of the Vietnamese coalition
If LoL Viet still has certain imprints, PUBG, it makes history, the Mobile Union also makes a mark but in the way no one wants. Accordingly, the summary of 2024 of the Vietnamese coalition encapsulated in the word “empty -handed”.
At both the largest tournament of the World Lien Lien village, the representative of Vietnam “turned on” early. Worth mentioning, the Saigon Phantom players also have a “teasing” move that makes the audience annoyed after the defeat at AIC 2024. These players then have to delete the post but have not yet made any proper apology to the audience.
Vietnamese coalition completely empty -handed in international tournaments in 2024.
T1 occupies the full spotlight of Esports Village
In terms of ups and downs, perhaps in the Esports village, it is difficult to find any team like T1 in 2024. Even, they are even rated lower than 2023 when entering Worlds. And many people believe that, with the somewhat uncontrolled move of Faker, he is no longer the hope of the “King of Worlds” anymore.
But then, eliminating all doubts, T1 performed 180 degrees contrary to themselves. Faker became FMVP, directly brought in “flipping” situations for T1 and brought this team once again to the World Championship.
T1 occupies Spotlight with historical achievements.
T1's victory can be said to be the most prominent dot for the world Esports in 2024 and probably will not have any team or individuals who are recreated.