LCK Always Laughs when ‘Peanut’ Appears at the World Cup [Lee Joo-hyun’s Login eSports]
The 2024 League of Legends World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds), which will determine the world’s best League of Legends (LoL) team, will kick off with the Play-In Stage on the 25th in Berlin, Germany.
Worlds is an international LoL esports competition that began in 2011, with top teams from each regional league participating.
It is also called the ‘Worlds’, like the World Cup in soccer, as it boasts the largest scale and authority.
As it is a competition that concludes the year, it is also very meaningful to players and teams. 바카라사이트
Riot distributes Worlds participating teams to regional leagues based on previous international competition performances.
The domestic League of Legends esports professional league, LCK (League of Legends Champions Korea), obtained four tickets by winning the 2023 Worlds and the 2024 MSI.
Accordingly, a total of four teams, including Hanwha Life Esports, Gen. G Esports, Dplus Kia, and T1, will participate.
The Chinese league LPL will also have four teams participating: Bilibili Gaming (BLG), Top Esports (TES), Li-Ning Gaming (LNG), and Weibo Gaming (WBG).
The European league LEC and the North American league LCS will each have three teams.
G2 Esports, Fnatic, and Mad Lions Koi from the LEC, and FlyQuest, Team Liquid Honda, and 100 Thieves from the LCS each earned tickets.
In addition, two teams each from the Pacific Rim league PCS and the Vietnamese league VCS, and one team each from the South American league CBLOL and the Brazilian league LLA will compete, for a total of 20 teams.
The Worlds has had many jinxes over its 10-year history.
The most representative example is the superstition that the team wearing dark clothes wins in odd years and the team wearing light clothes wins in even years.
Surprisingly, this jinx has been true in all but 2013, when SK Telecom T1 (now T1) won the championship in red uniforms. In addition, the jinx that all Worlds winning mids are Korean still remains.
The most notable jinx this year is the record that if Han Wang-ho, who is known as “Peanut,” advances to Worlds, an LCK team wins.