Stop contacting LPL, we are so unfamiliar!

Although the S10 World Championship is over, the earthquake in the LPL region has just begun.

Because of Dark's speech in the post-match interview and post-match group interview, not only the LPL viewers once again vented their unparalleled anger to the LPL officials.

They even said that they would no longer watch the LPL league in the coming 2021 season, but would instead watch the PCS league!

And not only the LPL viewers reacted, but also some LPL professional players expressed their willingness to look for opportunities in the PCS division after confirming that they would not be able to play in the LPL competition in the new season.

All these off-site reactions finally put enough pressure on LPL officials, forcing them to stand up and apologize to Dark again without Dark's request.

Although they had already apologized once last year, LPL officials still did not hesitate to apologize this year. They admitted their mistakes to Dark in a seemingly sincere speech and hoped to gain Dark's understanding.

At the same time, I also take this opportunity to once again make it clear to all LPL officials that the LPL league will work harder next year to achieve better results in the MSI and S11 World Championship.

Not only the LPL officials, but the RNG team, which was at the forefront and was beaten to death again, had to issue an apology statement to Dark again, expressing its willingness to give Dark more compensation.

It's a pity that whether it's the LPL official or the RNG team, their apologies are always so hypocritical and insincere!

And it is indeed the case.

Although the LPL officially apologized, they showed no signs of changing when the 2021 LPL Spring Split officially started next year.

They seem to think that the disastrous defeat of S10 last year was just an accidental defeat, just like the previous S5 and S6. As long as they withstand the pressure, they can come out of the trough again.

But soon, LPL officials finally discovered and reacted. This time the LPL's low point was completely different from before!
In the previous S5S6 season, even if the LPL division failed to reach the top eight for two consecutive years, there were no problems with the LPL ratings in the coming year, and they even skyrocketed.

However, after the disastrous defeat of S10, the LPL ratings in 2021 have plummeted to a level that LPL officials can no longer remain calm.

In other words, when the ratings of the LPL division were about to "get cold", the LPL officials suddenly realized that they had to do something to bring the LPL division back to life.

Therefore, before the 2021 MSI officially started, the LPL officials, who could no longer remain calm, finally panicked and announced their reform plan.

First, restore the promotion and relegation system while retaining the alliance.

To put it simply, the 17 LPL teams are divided into two parts and placed into upper and lower sub-leagues.

There are 9 teams in the upper league. After the regular season competition, the top six teams will play in the playoffs, and the bottom three teams will enter the relegation zone.

After the regular season competition among the 8 teams in the lower league, the top three teams enter the promotion zone and continue to play double defeat with the bottom three teams in the upper league to determine the last three teams that can advance to the upper league next season.

Although this new competition system will also cause some teams in the lower leagues to enter a state of decline, it does not matter to the audience. They only need to watch the games of the first few teams.

The bonus resources available to the upper and lower leagues are also completely different, so if they want to continue the normal operation of the club, each team must go all out.

Otherwise, the team qualifications can only be sold to new teams that want to achieve results.

Second, comprehensively implement the salary cap system for professional players.

After several years of disastrous defeats in the World Championship, LPL officials have clearly realized the seriousness of the mismatch between the "salary" and "performance" of high-profile players.

Therefore, it was decided to implement a salary cap system starting from the summer split. All professional players will be graded according to their performance last season, and a corresponding salary cap will be set. This will force the players to go all out in order to receive a considerable salary.

Third, increase efforts in cultivating new employees.

Because Riot officials have a restriction that "each team cannot have more than two foreign players at the same time", the LPL officials have no way to take action on the issue of Korean players. They can only ask the major teams to give young people more opportunities to play. , and promote competition between newcomers and old people.

In this way, some older players can be forced to step down or work harder to improve their competitiveness in the world championships.

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In order to save the LPL league, LPL officials have indeed made a lot of efforts.

In the next 2021 MSI finals, the RNG team, which won the spring championship again after many years, once again defeated the HXA team 0-3 and finished second.

LPL officials have finally made up their mind to resolutely complete the implementation of these reforms.

The effect of the reform seemed to be immediate. In the subsequent S11 World Championship, the LPL division finally no longer stopped in the top eight, but the EDG team successfully broke through its "top eight every year" curse.

Not only did they reach the semi-finals, but they also reached the finals.

However, when facing the still powerful HXA team, the EDG team still failed to help the LPL division win the first championship trophy, and can only place its hope again in next year's S12.

On the other hand, Dark is not concerned about the reform of the LPL division, because he is convinced that no matter how the LPL division is reformed, it will not pose the slightest threat to him and the HXA team.

It is even less likely to affect his plan to lead the HXA team to create a new all-China dynasty!
After winning the world championship in the S10 World Championship, although the LMS division still failed to regain its independence from the PCS division, because the HXA team successively won the championship in S10 and 2021MSI, the PCS division in the S11 World Championship not only won three seats.

Two of them even directly qualified for the Swiss round.

In the S11 World Championship, after the HXA team completed two consecutive championships, Riot Games finally announced the restoration of the LMS division and relisted it among the five major divisions.

It is precisely because of the recovery of the LMS division that it has attracted a large number of former LPL professional players and former LCK professional players to join, causing the competitiveness of the LMS division to rise instantly.

And this terrifying intensity of competition was quickly reflected in the 2022MSI.

Since the MSI competition format has long been modified to include two teams in each division and double elimination, although the final champion of the 2022 MSI is still the HXA team, the runner-up is no longer LPL, LCK or LEC.

Instead, it directly became another traditional strong team after the reconstruction of the LMS division, the FW team!

In the subsequent S12 World Championship, the LMS division, which had already obtained four qualifications, still showed their strong strength. Facing the LPL and LCK, which had only three qualifications left, and the LEC and LCS, which had two qualifications, they were overwhelmed. A killing spree.

If it weren't for the bad luck in the grouping that caused the two LMS teams to be eliminated by the civil war, otherwise the LMS division would probably have directly won the top four seats in the S12 World Championship! Instead of letting the JDG team of the LPL and the DRX team of the LCK reach the semi-finals by luck!

In the end, the HXA team once again defeated the JDG team to advance to the finals, and the DRX team also successfully defeated its opponents and once again represented the LCK division and reached the finals after a year.

However, facing the powerful HXA team, although the DRX team finally succeeded in defeating the HXA team in a small game, the HXA team finally won the S3 World Championship with a score of 1 to 12 and completed the three consecutive championships in the Chinese class!

The following year 2023 will be a fruitful year for Dark and the HXA team.

In the middle of the year, after once again winning the 2023 MSI as the LMS Spring Split champion, Dark was immediately recruited by the League of Legends Asian Games national team and assisted the coaching staff in completing personnel selection.

Adhering to the principle that each team can only select one player, the final list of the national team is as follows.

Top laner Bin (from LPL league BLG team)

Jungler Dark (from LMS League HXA team)

Mid laner Knight (from LPL League TES team)

Bottom lane ELK (from LMS League FW team)

Assistance Missing (from LPL League JDG team)

Substitute top laner 369 (from PSG in the LMS league)

There are six players on the national team roster, three from the LPL division and three from the LMS division, which is enough to show the attraction of the LMS division to the majority of LPL professional players in recent years.

And although the six members of the national team are from different teams, because they had a deep connection and tacit understanding before that, the performance of the Chinese national team in the subsequent 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games can be said to be invincible.

In the semi-finals, under the leadership of Mingrui, the Huaxia team successfully defeated the Bangzi team led by Lee Sang Hyuk 2-0.

In the final on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at a venue called "Reunion", the Huaxia team defeated the Huaxia Provincial team with a score of 2-1 and successfully represented China and won the Asian Games gold medal!
With this enthusiasm to win glory for the country, in the following S13 World Championship, the LMS region once again reached the semi-finals with HXA and FW teams.

As for the LPL division, it was due to a combination of circumstances in the Swiss round that the extremely lucky WBG team successfully entered the semi-finals.

As for the last four top teams, the T1 team led by Faker, who is getting older and more sophisticated, was once again strongly selected.

In the first semi-final, the HXA team easily defeated the FW team in the civil war to advance to the finals. In the second semi-final, the T1 team defeated the WBG team 3-0.

While the LPL division once again began to doubt life, it also represented the LCK division and reached the World Championship finals for two consecutive years.

However, although Faker met Dark again after many years, he was no longer the young man he was back then. On the other hand, the 24-year-old Dark was still at the peak of his career.

However, except for the aging Faker, the overall combat effectiveness of the T1 team is still very strong at this time, which caused a lot of trouble for the HXA team on the stage of the finals.

But unfortunately, in the end, the HXA team was better and successfully defeated the T3 team with a score of 2 to 1.

While winning the S13 World Championship, he also successfully completed the great goal of the All-China Class for four consecutive championships and created a true dynasty belonging to the All-China Class!

After winning the S13 world championship, Dark also made a surprising decision in the post-game press conference.

That is to retire and transform into a coach!

The reason is very simple, that is, on the road of "professional player", he believes that he has no desires and desires and no need to pursue higher goals.

Led the G2 team to three consecutive championships and led the HXA team to four consecutive championships. This has fulfilled all of Dark's goals and fantasies before becoming a professional player.

Starting from 2024, Dark has a new pursuit, which is to lead the HXA team to win more championships as a coach!

At first, all the major teams in all the professional leagues around the world were ecstatic, thinking that with Dark's retirement, they finally had the opportunity to touch the championship trophy.

Especially in the LPL division, they believe that their first championship trophy will be "this year"!
Although the BLG team, the LPL spring champion that year, still lost to the HXA team coached by Dark in the 2024 MSI finals, they still firmly believe that they are only one step away from the final championship.

But what all the teams, coaches, players and viewers in the LPL region didn't expect was this.

Even in the S14 World Championship, the BLG team's performance has been unstoppable, defeating strong opponents such as T1, GENG and FW teams and successfully reaching the finals.

However, facing the 2.0 version of the HXA team, the BLG team tried their best but could still only win two small games, and then lost the finals with a score of 2 to 3, and witnessed the HXA team successfully win five consecutive world championships!

After the S14 World Championship ended, countless LPL fans with broken hearts cried and asked Dark why the LPL team was still unable to defeat the HXA team and win the final world championship even though he had retired.

But in fact, Dark doesn't need to answer. LPL fans already understand the reason.

That is, Dark once said that as long as he plays professionally again, he will never let the LPL region win the championship!

Although Dark is no longer a professional player at this time, his identity is still a professional coach!
Thinking of this, LPL fans became even more depressed.

Because under this situation, if you want to see the LPL division win its first world championship trophy, it seems that you can only wait until Coach Dark announces his retirement.

But the problem is that in a profession like coaching, it is probably impossible to retire forever!
"It would be great if Dark is willing to return to LPL."

After many years, similar fantasies appeared again on the regretful faces of LPL viewers.

But they also know very well that all this is just their fantasy.

Because Dark and LPL are really not familiar with each other!
(End of the book) (End of this chapter)