Foreword: The S15 season has officially begun, I believe that the vast majority of players have paid attention to the recent period of confrontation, the first stage of the competition in each major region has basically ended, and all the five teams involved have been produced, and there will be a week of intense competition for the world championship of the first stage. The game has not yet started, and the official arrangements for the new season have all been released, especially the MSI and the World Championship, and many fans are also very concerned, after all, the version of this season is still changing a lot. This time there will be 17 teams participating in the World Finals, and if nothing else, there will still be four teams in the LPL and LCK regions.

LOL's new S Tournament rules

This time the format revision is a new challenge for all major regions. With the start of the Global Pioneer Tournament, the official has also made a lot of adjustments to the rules of the MSI and the World Championship, especially the selection of major teams. The first is the MSI competition, the top two teams from the LPL, LCK, LEC, LTA and LCP regions will participate in this year's MSI competition, where the first place in each region and the second place in the winning region of the Global Pioneer will directly enter the knockout stage without participating in the play-in stage, and the remaining four teams will compete for two teams to enter the knockout stage through the BO 5 double-elimination mechanism.

The knockout stage of the MSI will be played in a BO 5 double-elimination format, with the team that wins the MSI will qualify directly for the S15 World Finals, and the second-placed region will be awarded a fourth seed in the S tournament for their region. In other words, there are rewards for both the champion and the runner-up, which greatly increases the gold content of MSI, especially the champion can go straight to the World Championship. Then there are the rules of this year's S competition, the top three of the five major regions will directly participate in the S15 S competition, in addition, the MSI champion and the fourth seed in the second division will also participate in the S competition, which basically determines that the LPL and LCK regions have four places, and the rest of the regions have three teams.

In the Play-In Stage, the fourth seeds from both regions will compete for a place in the Swiss Round through a BO 5 tournament, with the winner advancing directly to the Swiss Round and the losing team being eliminated. This means that there is a high probability that the fourth seed in the LPL and LCK regions will meet before the official tournament begins, and one of the two teams will be eliminated home as soon as they arrive at the tournament. It may not even take a week from start to finish. For the fourth seed, this game can be said to be quite cruel, and the fourth seed in the LPL region is likely to be ridiculed, after all, there is still a certain strength gap between the two major regions.

Not much has changed in the Swiss round and the knockout rounds, as in the previous season, eight of the 16 teams were selected for a single-elimination BO 5 elimination, and the winning team would become the World Finals champion of the S15 season. Many fans feel that this kind of competition is not fair, after all, the No. 123 seed in the Americas and the Pacific may really be inferior to the No. 4 seed in the LPL and LCK regions, but they can directly enter the Swiss round, which is very cruel for the No. 4 seed, and they come up with a life-and-death battle.

Goodbye thinks

The revision of this competition really surprised many fans, especially the fourth seed, between the divisions, desperately got the promotion places, but the final result is that it is likely to go home directly in one game, and may even be besieged and ridiculed by fans all over the network, after all, this game is likely to be a clash between LPL and LCK. Many people thought that the play-in tournament was not interesting, and the teams of LPL and LCK were promoted, and this time they directly let the teams of LPL and LCK choose one of the two, and it is estimated that the highlights will be full.

What do you think about this?