Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.

The LPL Pro League ushered in reform again this year, introducing a bilateral global BP format for the first time, and the first phase directly adopts a cup-like format, with group stage and knockout round, and each game is BO5.

But now that the LPL has been open for a few days, the popularity is still low, which has also caused heated discussions among everyone.

The popularity of LPL is worrying, and the official commentary is open

I believe you still remember that last year's league popularity in the LPL region ushered in a cliff-like decline, which can be said to be the most difficult season experienced by LPL since its inception, at that time, everyone was analyzing the reasons, in summary, it is nothing more than three points, the first is that LPL failed to inspire the loyal audience of the league by winning the championship in the S competition.

The second is that many traffic players in the LPL region have left the arena, especially Uzi retired again after his comeback, and The Shy rested, which had a great impact on the league. The third is that LOL has been around for too many years, and it is difficult for this game to have more content with a heart, and players are aesthetically fatigued.

For this reason, the LPL division responded quickly and carried out the reform of the competition system, and the popularity has rebounded to a certain extent but not much, and this year's LPL has been reformed again, but the heat is still worrying a few days after the start of the game, and everyone's enthusiasm for watching the game is generally not high, it can be said that LPL has made its best efforts to improve the popularity of the league as much as possible, but with little effect.

The official commentator of LPL remembered that he also talked about this during the live broadcast, and opened a wave of LPL divisions, thinking that the biggest problem in LPL is bloated volume.

The traffic all depends on the IG team, and there are too many bad teams

I remember thinking that the reason why the LPL league is not very popular is because everyone can't see the matchup they want to watch, but the cup can only be played like this, there are too many teams in the LPL, it can be said that there are six teams in the LPL now that should not exist, and the audience of these teams is unwilling to watch the games.

And the teams that the audience really wants to see are actually those few, IG, BLG, TES, JDG, etc., and the traffic of the first stage can be said to depend on the IG team.

According to the words we remember, let's analyze the configuration of the current LPL team, analyze which teams should not exist, here we first have to take out the two teams of UP and LGD, which are pure rotten states, and then it is the turn of OMG, WE and other ancient giants, and then it will be RNG, TT and other teams.

But in fact, TT's performance in the new season is not bad, so I personally think that it is a bit exaggerated to remember that there are six teams that should not exist, four is more reasonable, and there are only two teams that are purely bad, and it is really difficult to say that the teams that are not in the middle of the game will not be able to play well, and it will be reduced to 12 places, and the talent will be more concentrated, and the volume is actually almost reasonable.

Analyzing the mentality of the audience, the competition system itself is fine

Remember to also use data to make a comparison between today's league and other leagues, in the past, no matter whether the game was ugly or not, there were millions of levels of popularity, and now the highest may be more than 600,000, with BLG and T1 rhythm are not coming, here we will analyze the mentality of the audience, first of all, there must be many viewers who choose not to watch the game because they are sad.

Last year, BLG was one step closer to winning the championship, and if it wins the championship, LPL will be completely different this year.

Continue to analyze the mentality of the audience, I personally think that the LPL format is no problem, it is better than LCK, the global BP is BO5 throughout the whole process, which is equivalent to a small world competition, and it is also possible to squeeze the players as much as possible to bring more interesting viewing experience with global BP, but the audience still doesn't like to watch it so much.

Because there are only two kinds of games that the audience likes to watch, one is the competition between the traffic teams or the top teams, and the other is the World Championship, no matter how bad the competition system is, everyone is willing to watch it, from this point of view, unless there is a situation that allows the Chinese and South Korean teams to play a league, and let the European and American teams play a league, everyone's enthusiasm for watching the game will definitely be very high.

But if it does, it will reduce the heat of the Worlds, and Riot is not expected to make such a decision anytime soon.