The commentator MonteCristo, who has been hailed as the "Korean Blow" recently, broke the news about the League of Legends e-sports event in a recent podcast video.
Riot Games may add a third international event to the League of Legends esports competition in 2024. This will be the third international event following the MSI Mid-Season Championship and the Global Finals.
Current League of Legends esports events throughout the year:
Spring Split—MSI Mid-Season Invitational—Summer Split—Global Finals—AllStar All-Star Game
The events will continue to be divided according to the LPL division. There will be an LPL All-Star Weekend before and after the AllStar All-Star Game, and after the end of the LPL division transfer period, there will be a Demacia Cup.
The LPL competition lasts from January to December, which can be said to be almost non-stop. If a team wins consecutive championships, coupled with business attendance, the players and teams may have almost non-stop competition throughout the year.
This is the current competition system of the LPL division. Among these competitions, the most popular one is the cross-region competition between the MSI Mid-Season Championship and the Global Finals, which the audience is most looking forward to. However, these are only two months of the year when such competitions are held. .
Previously, there was an intercontinental competition about two weeks before the summer split, but the intercontinental competition was held at an awkward and hasty time, and only the top four teams in the division's spring split participated. The intercontinental Asian competition LPL, LCK, PCS and VCS teams compete together and will be held for one week. However, it was canceled after three sessions. Riot Games stated that the reason for the cancellation was that it posed too great a challenge to the annual event planning. In fact, the lack of prize money and the lack of time also affected the competition planning of the competition area, so Intercontinental Games was canceled in 2020. race.
According to "Korean blower" MonteCristo's revelations, Riot Games wants to make some time in the year-round competition and add a third international event. The main reason is that the audience of League of Legends e-sports events like to watch cross-division confrontations. Riot Games It is also intended to add a third international event to continue to increase viewership for League of Legends esports events.
The competition formats of this year’s MSI Mid-Season Championship and Global Finals have been changed. Judging from the competition of this year’s MSI Mid-Season Championship, the changes in the competition system have made it less likely for more powerful teams to be eliminated in upsets, leaving teams in the wild card division without " lucky".
However, such a competition system makes the event more attractive and places more emphasis on the "drawing of groups." Judging from this year's MSI, the first and second rounds of the group stage are relatively "boring" , and the first round " "One-sided" I watched the second round of the Spring Finals again, and it wasn't until the third round of the top competition that the game looked good. Of course, the main reason for the unsightly first round of games is the gap in strength between the divisions. But the change in the competition system has also made the game more unsightly.
In addition to the global finals, adding a third international event will also increase the gold content of the championship. In the eyes of the vast majority of viewers, the championship of the global finals is the highest honor in LOL. Compared with the global finals, the MSI mid-season championship has a much lower championship value. Some viewers even think that it doesn’t matter whether MSI wins it or not, and that the MSI champion is not the LOL world champion. This is also the "what kind of champion are you" joke on the League of Legends TV show? Especially popular in competitive circles.
However, this is the gossip MonteCristo received. Whether there will be a new international League of Legends competition in 2024 will have to wait until the S14 season at the end of this year. The League of Legends' annual e-sports event plan is usually announced the night before the new season. Along with the new season plan of the League of Legends game, the e-sports event plan is also announced at the same time.
Everything depends on Riot Games.