★ Game Horseshoe Original

Americas LTA Division

Although last year's World Finals saw a glimmer of life for this dying region with the help of FLY's wonderful performance, it was time to merge. The North American LCS eventually merged with the Latin American LLA and the Brazilian CBLOL to form a new LTA region, but before the playoffs, the regular season will be played in two sub-divisions, North and South. The upper limit of the strength of this division naturally depends on the 8 teams in North America.

In the first week of the tournament that just ended, most of the predictions were basically in line with the pre-tournament predictions, and the four old faces of FLY, 100T, C9 and TL won the first round. FLY and TL, who remain unchanged, remain the teams that look like North America have the best chance of qualifying for the finals at the moment.

C9

The old champion C9 lineup has changed a lot, with the upper middle and middle double Korean reinforcements, and the lower lane has changed Zven from auxiliary back to ADC, but with this VULCAN it is really hard to believe that they can go too far. C9 will meet FLY in the upper bracket this weekend, which should be considered the hottest matchup of the new season in North America.

European LEC Division

The LEC has played 5 match days and currently Fnatic, GX, KC and MKOI (formerly MAD) are tied for first place with 4-1. The old champion G2 was in second gear with 2-3, and the most interesting thing was Nosuke sent out by G2, one with KC and the other with Fnatic 4-1. Of course, some of these teams tied for 4 wins encountered opponents who were not strong, so there was a problem of fatness.

The only thing that is certain is that the penultimate SK is likely to be hopeless, not only is the lineup very G swept past at a glance, but the actual performance is also very poor. Fnatic and G2 still have the potential to stage a final showdown in the playoffs.

South Korea LCK Division

The first stage of the group stage of the Korean LCK is divided into 2 groups to play against each other, and currently GenG leads the big dragon group of DK, KT, DRX and NS with 13 wins, and the ancient dragon group led by HLE leads T1, BRO, DNF and BFX with 7 wins. The new LCK season has shown a very dynamic side, and in addition to still seeing living fossil players like Faker, mainstays like Showmaker and Chovy have also emerged with a large number of outstanding newcomers. For example, DK's 17-year-old top laner, T1's 18-year-old ADC, and DRX's 17-year-old Vietnamese foreign aid.

Old, strong and young

This is how it felt to be the LCK years ago, this is a team that has been in the finals since S2, S3 has started to win the championship, and S14 has reached 9 championships. Faker became the first five-star player in history, and the old and powerful but also the young blood made the LCK vibrant. Especially with a lot of new content added to the new season, the Korean division has a slightly different understanding of Etakhan and rhythm from other regions, and they are still mainly slow to operate.

China LPL Division

The overall is similar to last year, and it feels like basically only BLG can have the power to fight in the World Championship, and the other teams are much weaker. There are still too many teams, there are too many garbage time games due to a lot of bad tail swings, and the decision to divide the pool Bo5 to make the audience have to watch only one game a day is also terrible. Because there are some games that many viewers are too lazy to watch. The result is to gradually lean towards the side of fan traffic, if you don't have the strength, then you need to do something hot, even if it's negative.

Of course, there is also good news, such as AL's performance is not bad, and at least BLG, a relatively mature and stable lineup team with a long run-in time. The biggest competitor, LCK, is indeed strong overall, but if First Stand only has one team to participate, it can't be said that there is no chance at all.

The traffic content is indeed more exciting

Let's not talk about the strength of e-sports to win the championship, LPL's content in terms of traffic is indeed more exciting than other regions in terms of traffic years ago. TES controlled the variable substitution and then lost to AL for the second time in a row. In the mid-laner matchup that had a holiday, Rookie's superstar traffic team IG lost to NIP after Doinb, who was looked down upon by many people before the game. The dying RNG almost eliminated IG directly. The rotten brothers lie down as always, waiting for the end of the season to pay dividends. There are very few newcomers to gain, and compared to South Korea, which has begun to enter the 07 era, the gap between LPL is getting bigger and bigger.

In general, nothing has changed?

Europe is still Fnatic and G2, North America is still FLY and TL, South Korea is still GenG and T1, and China is still BLG. The top teams in these regions performed very differently in the previous year, and they will still be the old faces that everyone can see at the S15 Worlds. Even though there is a lot of new content in the new format, not much has changed in terms of esports.

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