What to expect from the summer split LCL? Says Mikhail Olsior Zverev
Before the spring season of the Continental League, Gambrine has already learned about the global changes in the main e -sports tournament in League of Legends in the CIS. Then we talked a lot about the transfer of all stages of the competition in offline and the financing of organizations. But time goes on, and the rules of the game are changing. In the summer splice everything will be a little different.
– Let's start immediately with the main! What global changes await us in this competitive season?
Mikhail Olsior Zverev: There are no radical changes between the spring and summer split. But from what we have now: the new international tournament Rift Rivals , which will pass in parallel with the summer season. This has never happened before! In addition, the season is compacted quite strongly. There will be six games a day, and this portends a very rich and bright tournament. Interesting personnel replacements in teams speak in favor of entertainment and surprises. They can completely turn the location of the forces in the region and give us a different final at all, where there will be not a single well -known team.
Participants in the summer split LCL 2017.
– Regarding the seal of the grid: as far as we know, now in the summer split not 7, but 5 weeks. Whether such an intense schedule (six games per day) will be too heavy and tiring for teams, analysts and commentators?
Mikhail Olsior Zverev: To whom! There was no feeling that the audience said: “My God, how much can! 8 games per week!", When 100 games for the same period can pass in other disciplines. This has never happened. Even professional teams sometimes themselves said that 2 games per week is not enough. But they always want radical changes: for example, switch to V3 (Best of 3 – game up to two victories). But we don’t really want to go to this format – there is no urgent need. If we switch to the series up to two victories, we will not be 8 games a week, but to play twenty -five, and this is already hard. We found the middle ground – 6 games per day. Sometimes the team plays one, sometimes two games per day – more intense for them, but at the same time the value of one week increases. Therefore, we are waiting for a more interesting split for teams, commentators and analysts.
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I never had the feeling that we are working a lot. True, sometimes preparation is very difficult! That is, it is not entirely clear: one team played 0: 2, having lost the games in 20 minutes, and the second is the same, and in both compositions on accounts, players do not appear all week. And you think: “They are training on secret accounts? What is happening, what is happening? How to prepare for this?»Here is the case in preparation, for work – – no. I am ready to comment on six games, this is not a problem. Когда проходил MSI Worlds, наоборот, было ощущение, что две-три-четыре игры — это маловато. So six games twice a week is not difficult for anyone. But by the end of the split you get tired. But fatigue comes regardless of the number of games. Simply because working on weekends is a difficult schedule. After all, everyone else is not adjusted for you. And when you are: “Guys, I have a day off on Monday, let's go for a walk?", Everyone will definitely answer" no ". And there is nothing to change, split – they are like. But we entertain people, therefore it is not surprising that on Saturday and Sunday, like a normal schedule, we have to sacrifice.
– We understand you perfectly! But we have a World Cup ahead, and the rules of getting there have changed. Tell me more about it. Where are the winners Milky Wins Casino of the Continental League?
Mikhail Olsior Zverev: Let's just say that this year the format has changed so that you have more opportunities, but most likely the location of the forces will not change yet. This is the essence: like MSI, there was a chance that not one former WildCard command would pass, but two. But in fact, one went through, because still the position of Riot: “We want to give the opportunity to play everyone, but we do not want to make it so that we have some kind of clown phiesta when SKT opens against the weakest team of the tournament”. It would be just nonsense, and no one understands why it is to play. That is, it is not clear why to send all the teams from WildCard to play against large regions – no one is ready for this. Virtus.Pro did not even go through the group, why should they play with SKT? This is cool for us, for fans, but the whole world is not interesting to watch this beating. Therefore, both now and at the World Cup, the Play-in stage awaits us, where the teams will have even more chances. Not the largest and strongest regions will go there, they will also play in Play-in, and there will be more opportunities. But in fact, if the location of the forces remains the same, then one team from the region where Gigabytes played on MSI played from the first place to get to the World Cup, and the rest will play at the Play-in stage. That is, in this regard it has become even more complicated – light slots are smaller.
But if we have a very cool team of the level of the old “gambit”, which will tear everyone there, then it all is very easy and at the same time it is just as difficult. But if you really think: who deserves, he will pass, and whoever does not deserve, he, of course, will not pass. But everyone will get their experience. In a dialogue with one of the other offices (Europe, America, from the central office), I always adhere to more radical for the interlocutor of intonation, because I still want our region to succeed. But they still do not want teams to give unreasonable opportunities. Of course, we can send at the World Cup and all 32 compositions. But what will it give? This will give five Korean teams, four European, four Chinese and all the rest for one or two. But in this case, the majority of the games will look like this: Koreans beat the "non -oreans", and the "non -oreans" hit the weaker "non -oreans", just the same without a chance. Therefore, it is also not particularly clear why the fans around the world watch it. Than this is high quality, unusual, interesting and cool?
– And what a new Rift Rivals tournament? Its results will globally affect the world arena?
Mikhail Olsior Zverev: The test that the organizers of the tournaments faced is how to make a competition that will not duplicate the World Cup, but nevertheless interesting in its own way? So they came up with MSI: they played with a format for a long time, more than once and not two, so that the teams were satisfied, so that there is a large prize fund, so that it is significance, but at the same time, by winning MSI, you do not receive a slot for the World Cup. After all, this is wrong: even SKT over the summer can be rotted so that they will be just a terrible team, they must prove in their region that they are strong and deserve a place. But why another international tournament when there is All-Star? What should be in this tournament so that it is at least somehow different? Otherwise, if you have three world championships in a year, then not one of them will have matters. Yes, and every three to four months you can’t bring all groups to one place-it is very expensive, very difficult for teams, it is very difficult for the host region. There are a huge number of difficulties! Each World Cup is "the whole E-sport around the world is busy only with this". I used to think, since we still have not gone to the World Cup, you can still make your Starladder! And then I realized that there is nothing to do at all, everyone is busy, the championship requires a lot of effort. And Rivals – this is not a tournament for the championship or title of best. And if the World Cup is an Olympic run, then Rift Rivals is a brawl in the yard or boxing. The World Cup is a league where the gentlemen fight for the title of world champion, and this is a skirmish, where everyone takes out their pocket guns and fight as it turns out. Principal opponents, principal rival regions are faced with: CISTRY, Korea-China-Twin, European-American.
Rift Rivals will clap the foreheads with foreheads.
The idea is that the prize fund does not go to the team, but the region, equally between the teams. And the compositions within this competition with each other will never play. Even the tie-breaks within one region will not be considered. Moreover, it cannot be such that the “Rift Rivals CIS-Thut” in the finale will have two of our teams, even if all Turkish compositions lose with a score of 0: 4, and all four CIS commands will win with a score of 4: 0, only one CIS-collection and only one Turkish team will go to the Grand Final. Because it is important to identify the best players of the region, and not the strongest composition in this particular tournament. Therefore, it seems to me that I got a very interesting project. It is not so important from a tournament point of view, it just allows the teams to release steam a little, to the fans-look at this fun, and then discuss. I really like this format, and it is more significant than All-Star.