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

The first stage of the LCK Pro League has concluded all the matches in the group matchup, and the two groups will determine the winner through the out-of-group matchup, after which the play-in and playoff matches will be played.

This year, due to the very special format of the LCK, there was a scenario of a life-and-death battle in the play-in stage.

The LCK group stage is over, and the big dragon group is lost

This year, the LCK named the two groups as the Great Dragon Group and the Ancient Dragon Group, T1 and HLE were in the Great Dragon Group, but in the battle with the Ancient Dragon Group, the Great Dragon Group was defeated, and the final score was 9-15, the DK of the Ancient Dragon Group played bravely and won five consecutive victories directly, and both GEN and KT ended the battle with 3 wins and 2 losses.

The strongest battle force on the side of the big dragon group, T1, is to win a 4-1 record, HLE is to lose two games, but the next three teams are not strong enough, and they lose too much and eventually lose the group.

The rules of this year's LCK are like this, after the end of the group competition, the top three of the winning group can directly advance to the playoffs, DK and GEN can directly enter the semi-final stage, which shows that the value of this group competition is still very large, and the team ranked first in the losing group is directly eliminated, and the other four teams all participate in the play-in round.

The four teams of the Great Dragon Group plus the two teams of the Ancient Dragon Group will determine the three teams that advance to the playoffs through the play-in tournament, and according to the ranking of each team, there is a scenario of a life-and-death battle, that is, HLE and T1 may meet early in the playoffs, and the losing team will be eliminated directly after the meeting.

T1 faces a harsh reality and is in danger of encountering HLE

The play-in matchups have been released, and the rules are as follows: DRX (4th place in the Ancient Dragon Division) will play DNF (4th place in the Great Dragon Division) in the first round, BRO (3rd place in the Great Dragon Division) will face NS (5th place in the Ancient Dragon Division) in the first round, the team that lost the game in two matches will be eliminated directly, and the team that wins the game will challenge T1 and HLE.

T1 will face the winner between DRX and DNF, while HLE will face the winner between BRO and NS.

Note that the losing team at this stage has one chance to advance to the playoffs, which is for the two losing teams to play another BO5, and the winning team advances to the playoffs and becomes the sixth seed in the playoffs.

If both T1 and HLE win, they will be the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds in the playoffs, respectively, and the playoff matchup will be played by No. 4 and No. 5 will play a direct BO5 and KT will play against the No. 6 seed.

That is to say, if T1 and HLE both win the first game of the play-in, the two teams will face each other directly and the losing team will be eliminated directly, because the rules of the LCK playoffs are to enter the semi-finals before the double-elimination system will be used, which is the script of the life-and-death battle that may appear in the LCK playoffs this year.

It is very important to analyze the possibility of releasing water and enter the top four

In this regard, the audience said that this year's LCK format is quite cruel, and the results of the group competition have a very big impact on the subsequent games, T1 and HLE as the top two in the big dragon group, they will meet in advance if they play in a normal way of winning, plus the grievances between Zeus and T1, Doran and HLE, this game is bound to be very exciting.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, the one of the two teams who play the game can choose to lose the game deliberately, in order to say that the first game should be T1, and the HLE game will follow, and both games will be played on February 8, so if T1 wins the game, HLE can choose to lose deliberately.

In this way, HLE can prepare for the sixth-seeded matchup, and the sixth-seeded opponent for the playoffs is KT, which looks much better than T1, and it will be less difficult to advance to the semi-finals.

The competition system determines that only by advancing to the semi-finals can you enjoy the repechage A, so I personally think that HLE can choose to release water and deliberately lose, of course, it must be based on the situation that T1 wins, if T1 loses, HLE will have to go all out to win.