Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LPL All-Star and Awards Ceremony was broadcast live yesterday, which included a lot of exhibition matches interspersed with the awarding of major awards, which is more like a large team building for esports people, and can be participated in in a more relaxed state.
However, the awarding of major awards will still cause some controversy to break out outside the field, and the players themselves will also be troubled to a certain extent.
At this year's All-Star Awards ceremony, the biggest controversy is the selection of the best team of the year, long before the award ceremony began, many people made a forward-looking outlook or prediction for this year's best team, and most people gave a prediction that all five members of the BLG team were elected to the best team.
Then Bin or Knight is elected Player of the Year (MVP).
But the team of the year announced in yesterday's awards ceremony is BLG four plus Meiko, Meiko's selection has caused huge controversy off the field, you must know that Meiko is a state of zero honor in the whole of 2024, and the individual performance is not so outstanding, from any point of view, On is more worthy of the best support of the year than Meiko.
Although On had a lot of problems during the World Championships, no one was better than On in terms of individual performances throughout the year and individual accolades.
The definition of the best player of the year is the best player in the year, but Meiko clearly does not fit that, and from the perspective of pork distribution, the audience did not expect to be the auxiliary position to divide pork.
In fact, LPL has always had unspoken rules for awarding ceremonies, and this year's unspoken rules have come into effect again, but it may be the most controversial one, simply put, even if a team performs well, the five players are ranked first in hard power honors in their respective positions, and all of them cannot be selected for the best team of the year.
Including the three seasons when LPL won the world championship, IG, FPX and EDG have not been fully selected, in 2018, Uzi and Ming plus IG were selected for the best team of the year, in 2019, The Shy, Uzi and FPX's Nakano were selected, and in 2021, Xiaohu, who moved to the top laner position, beat the champion of the top laner and was selected for the best team.
This year, there is no championship in the LPL division on the international stage, but BLG is indeed a big step ahead of other teams in terms of performance and performance, but at the award ceremony, there is naturally no way to make the whole team selected.
Therefore, although the official did not specify the rules when awarding the awards, the unspoken rules have always existed in the best team.
It's just that Meiko was selected this time, and it seems that the controversy is even greater, and it is not that the audience is not aware of the possibility of sharing pork before the award, but most viewers think that the jungler position is more likely to allow other players to be selected.
After all, Xun has been substituted for a long time in the jungler position, and many people think that when the award is presented, players like Xiaotian or Tarzan will replace Xun's position, which seems to be more reasonable than Meiko's selection, and I personally think that at this award ceremony, Meiko was selected for the best team, and Wayward was nominated for the best laner, which is unreasonable.
There is also the so-called unspoken rule of dividing pork, which should actually be canceled, and there will be no such situation in the LCK region, which is judged purely by the performance and results of the players, and should not consider the situation of the player's team.
Of course, the official definitely doesn't want a monopoly situation to occur, so try to take care of as many teams and players as possible, but many players will also be injured because of this, and in the case of Meiko's election, he himself will not be too happy, because he understands his own positioning and position, and the selection may be criticized by public opinion.
All in all, the LPL still needs more strong teams and good players to appear, and I hope that next year there will be 1-2 teams in the LPL region that can wrestle with BLG to enhance the intensity of the league, so that the possibility of winning the championship in the World Championship will also increase.