★ Game Horseshoe Original
The last dance of RNG
In today's Nirvana group game, RNG finally lost 1-2 to EDG, and also got their fourth defeat, so they also followed OMG and became the second team to end the S15 season early this year. In the early years, RNG was a team named King in the era of relegation and relegation, and it was purchased and renamed RNG after the royal family lost its seat in the LPL. At the beginning, there were also players such as Mata and Looper, who were also Korean players, and Uzi carried the banner of the all-Chinese class for many years after joining, but in recent years, there have been many scandals, especially in the case of unpaid wages. It was also a surprise to many people that the club could continue to run under difficult circumstances, but this time it looked a bit of a run of gas.
1-4 pads
Although the overall strength of the LPL is not good this year, the new competition system is indeed more "ruthless" than other regions. The second stage stipulates that as long as the teams in the Nirvana group are the bottom two from the bottom, they will be directly disqualified from the subsequent third stage, to put it bluntly, they will be directly on vacation, and the rest of the competition this year has nothing to do with them. Zero exposure in the esports industry is a death sentence for clubs, and players who don't want to sit still can only try to move to other teams through transfers in the third stage.
In the end, OMG and RNG became the first two teams to be eliminated under the new format this year, given that there has been no championship in the World Championship in the past two years, and the continued decline in popularity is a downhill road, many clubs have also begun to retreat, after RA took the lead in running, it may not be possible to see these two teams again in the future.
No investment, no survival
Today's environment is different and many clubs have had to change. In the current LPL, it is either necessary to spend a lot of money to form a star lineup to attract traffic, or to spend a lot of money to form a powerful team to win the championship, and the era of not wanting to spend money and wanting to share it is gone. In the years when LPL could win the World Championship, the popularity was high and the traffic was large, and the dividend money could support many other branches of the club. But now, no, South Korea's LCK has re-dominated the World Championship for 3 consecutive years, and even MSI was lost last year, and there was no gain. This year's Pioneer was beaten 2-9, and it was ridiculed as the old fifth division, and everyone who should have run ran when they saw the signs was gone. Now I see that the top teams are also clubs that are willing to invest some money this season, and teams like RNG and OMG who are just looking for some newcomers to make up the numbers are also reasonable.
From glory to destruction
RNG has a lot of stories to tell, from Uzi winning the MSI to Xiaohu leading the team to achieve the highest achievement in team history of the first 3-crown MSI, RNG is a team with a certain peak. It's a pity that there have been too many scandals in the second half of the club's development, and almost all of what I've heard in recent years has been negative news. In this way, you can still insist on playing LPL, which is really outrageous in the eyes of many people. But in any case, ending the S15 season more than half a year ahead of schedule may be a relief for this team that wants money and no strength. As for whether it will continue in the future, that's another story.
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