Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LPL intra-group competition is about halfway through the game, and the overall situation can already see some clues, in the stage of the intra-group competition, the bottom four of the Nirvana group will be eliminated, and the top seven of the summit group will advance to the playoffs.
After yesterday's match, the situation in both EDG and NIP has become very serious.
The NIP team finished fourth in this year's Spring Tournament, defeating the strongest dark horse team FPX in the Spring Tournament, and the performance in the semi-finals was relatively poor, but overall the fourth place was still okay, and the NIP team was in the first seed pool after the reform of the competition system in the Summer Tournament, in other words, NIP was set to be the strongest team in Group D in the final group stage.
In the fixed group stage, NIP also showed a very good competitive state, although there was a rollover in the group, but in the end it was successfully promoted to the summit group.
The audience's preset for this team is that the summit group can successfully enter the top six, that is, they can lock a playoff spot without playing a tiebreaker, but what they didn't expect was that the NIP team suffered a wave of four consecutive defeats in the group stage, and was also defeated by the opponent in yesterday's game against FPX.
The most outrageous point is that in the second game against FPX yesterday, the NIP team was in the case of sacrificing Yasuo Jiaoyue, and once stretched the economic advantage to more than 10,000, but the result was that the opponent won three consecutive waves of team battles, and finally successfully completed the turnaround, I don't know if it was affected by the second game, and the NIP state in the third game was not adjusted and lost by consecutive mistakes.
After losing to the FPX team, the NIP team is now in a very dangerous situation to qualify, and Rookie is even facing the risk of being eliminated, let's briefly analyze the current situation of the NIP team, now in the summit group, the NIP team is at the bottom of the ranking after losing all four games, and there are four games left in the group stage.
The three opponents faced in these four games are very strong, which can be said to be a test of the devil's schedule, facing JDG, TES and BLG respectively, and the last group match against LGD is the opponent, all of which are life and death battles.
With the current state of the NIP team, these three games will be very difficult, and once they lose all three games, it will be useless to beat LGD in the last game, and they will have to play a tie-breaker.
To put it simply, the top four teams in the Nirvana group and the bottom two teams in the summit group play BO5 to determine the three teams that advance to the playoffs.
In contrast, if the team at the bottom of the summit group keeps losing, their self-confidence will suffer, which is the situation of NIP now.
The ranking of the NIP team in the regular season of the spring season is relatively high, and the results against the weak team are relatively stable, and the playoffs start in a relatively high position, and after the reform of the competition system in the summer season, the NIP team began to have problems, and I personally think that the team's hard power configuration is insufficient, the ability to play tough battles is not enough, and the team lacks a truly stable Carry core.
Moreover, the NIP team is still relatively versional, and it is difficult to play well once the version is not right.
According to the idea of the NIP team at the beginning of the season, their goal should be to be in the worlds, at least to enter the top five or six, and the spring season is considered to have achieved the goal, but the overall performance of the NIP team in the summer season has obviously not met the expectations of the management.
Personally, I think NIP has to prepare for the tie-up in advance, and it is difficult for NIP to lock up the playoff seats in advance in the later games, so it is better to study the opponents of the Nirvana group in advance, and strive to catch the last train to the playoffs through the victory of BO5, and then play from the back to the front, and strive to get a place in the World Qualifying Tournament.