Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The S14 World Finals is about to start the semi-finals this evening, and the first is the civil war in the LPL region, with the BLG team facing the WBG team, I believe everyone has been looking forward to this game for a long time.
And before the big war started, GEN revealed an important piece of information about the training match.
Before the start of the semi-finals, many viewers were discussing things related to the training match, and when it came to the semi-finals, how would the training match be played, according to normal logic, the teams in the same half region would definitely not make an appointment for the training match, and the most likely situation was that the two LPL teams played training matches with the two LCK teams respectively.
And GEN's team battle here revealed an important news, he released a dynamic, the content is to thank the players and coaching staff, as for why thanks, it is because GEN has ended all training matches in 2024.
This news also surprised many viewers, and it also caused a lot of controversy.
The surprise point is that the training matches are all over before the semi-finals start, and GEN's situation should be the same as the other three teams in the top four, which means that if GEN finishes the training match, the other three teams should also be over.
And the point of controversy is the sentence of the team battle, many LCK viewers think that it is a bit outrageous to say thank you in advance at this time, the game is not over yet, and a special dynamic was released to thank the end of the training match, which feels like a meaningless move, and gives people a feeling that GEN has been eliminated.
Then there is a guess of the training match, guessing according to the ranking of the players of each team, the most likely matchup is that BLG plays GEN, and then WBG plays T1, and the training match is played in pairs, because the timing of BLG and GEN player ranking is relatively close.
But there are no other clues, if this is the case, BLG may be the dominant side, because GEN has won many times against T1, and it is very restrained T1's style of play, and BLG and GEN training should be able to get something.
On the other hand, T1 is a team that prefers to play randomly in training matches, and WBG may not be able to get more valuable content from training matches in T1.
But these judgments are based on past experience, and it is not excluded that T1 will work hard to play training matches and use various special tactics, from another point of view, WBG is not so optimistic before the game, but it is an advantage for T1, if WBG must be eliminated, T1 is feasible to play WBG with some strange tricks, and there is no situation where the key Pick is directly pinched off in the finals.
Personally, I think that one of the situations that may occur in this kind of two-by-two confrontation is that one of the groups understands that the lead is better than the other group, so that when the matchup, even if there is a certain gap in hard power, it can be played back and forth and even say that the situation is ahead, for example, everyone thinks that WBG's strength is weak, but WBG may play T1 to improve the version of understanding, and then face BLG's main game to lead in BP.
In short, all pre-game guesses and various clues need to be verified through the actual game, and who can have the last laugh depends on the targeted tactical arrangements of the two sides before the game and the key on-field state.
Personally, I think that the training matches of the World Championship in recent years have been quite interesting, and the hard-powered competition areas can use various ways to play the training matches to create some illusions, similar to T1, which has reservations, so that opponents can't guess it, and there is also the situation that the LCK will deliberately not make an appointment with the LPL for training matches before.
Teams with deviant strength may have to go all out in training matches, because these teams need to take advantage of every opportunity to improve themselves, and they won't care so much, so sometimes there will be situations where teams with good training results can't play well.