Riot Games Korean commentator and former Azubu Frost jungler CloudTemplar believed in the interview that the North American competition area lacks "characteristics" and "culture", which is the only reason why LCS is struggling in the 2022 World Championships.
Nearly six years have passed since the League of Legends World Championship was held in North America, and the current LCS is at an all-time low in the local area. One week after the group stage, the LCS won the group record 0-9 as many were disappointed by their sluggish performance on the international stage. This prompted CloudTemplar to make a real response, which outlined the main issues the region has worked hard to address in the current time.
According to the translation of the Reddit post, in the video, he highlighted that the Cloud9 draft was the main issue they struggled to prioritize the "strong top" in the first week.
"LCS is not a region where you can use the sword (strong top) championship, and even LCK can't," CloudTemplar said. "Only a few teams selected in LCK and LPL can do this. So why would a team use such a combination in a region considered weaker than LPL, LCK and LEC?"
lacks identity traits
Although CloudTemplar mainly emphasizes the personal reasons for all three teams, he noted that other problems faced by Cloud9 are the same for every LCS team in this year's World Championship.
"I mean the world, not just C9, but LCS as a whole has no characteristics," CloudTemplar said. “There was a time when LCS had a strong color. We would laugh at LCS and call them 'funny leagues'.
When talking about LCS before, Yuntiancao emphasized the "creative game" the LCS team would do in Baron and Dragon before "fucking". He felt that the area had lost that.
" LCS Now, they were just terrible and not even fun anymore. I think this has been like this for a while. My heart hurts when they get criticism like this," CloudTemplar said. "There was a time when the LCS region was well-known because they were fun. For these reasons, some LCK fans will follow LCS. To be honest, LEC is more worthy of attention now.
CloudTemplar's main criticisms against it is the concept of LCS needing "fresh blood" in the alliance. Instead, he defended his old players, believing that LCS needs cultural change rather than player change.
CloudTemplar stressed that Ssumday, CoreJJ and Impact are all amazing players because they have to play in the professional arena for so long, and some people say they are too old and should retire, but you need to respect them because the current LCS may drop further when those people retire. That's why I keep saying we need to change the culture, not every player or coach.
LCS struggled on the world stage most of the time in League of Legends . In addition to Cloud9, the last time North American team passed the group stage was TSM in 2014. As of now, LCS is expected to miss the quarterfinals for the third time in four years.
"I heard something from coaches, staff and contestants in the LCS industry, and I don't know which of this information is real and which is not, but some of it is really serious," CloudTemplar said. "It got me thinking, no wonder why they weren't good.
That being said, while LCS was 0-9 at the 2022 World Championships, the unwinning start did not stop the team from doing miracles in the second week of the group stage. In 2017, Europe's Fnatic advanced to the quarterfinals after starting the group stage 0-4, while C9 achieved such a success last year 0-3 after the first week. In any case, no team would be willing to have a win at the start of the first week, and it would be a tough battle for all three LCS teams to pass the group stage part of the 2022 World Championships.The situation of the game in the arena is both inevitable and accidental. The probability of victory or defeat exists randomly, and victory or defeat is sometimes also "a difference in thought" and instantly different.
The second week of the group will start tomorrow. We will wait and see whether LCS can seize the last opportunity to face.
