Perhaps in the history of MSI, the 2022 tournament is the most “turbulent” behind the scenes, especially in the organization of Riot Games. Allowing LPL representatives to compete remotely and having all the remaining teams play at 35 ping has caused Riot to receive a lot of hate from the audience and a series of technical problems. Even before the tournament took place, many people criticized this decision from Riot.
Many LCK viewers criticized Riot’s decision
Not stopping there, the format of the second biggest tournament in the professional League of Legends world is also frequently criticized. Most recently, a famous analyst of the LEC tournament, Caedrel, asked Riot to change the format of MSI when they “crammed” up to 66 Bo1 matches at this year’s tournament. Even BLV HeyMunchables of the English LPL channel frankly said that MSI 2022 is like having a 2-week qualifier just for a real 3-day tournament.
The world’s top commentators and analysts when watching MSI 2022 also have to “give up” with the format that Riot applies.
Even when discussed on the Reddit forum of the League of Legends community, the MSI 2022 format is considered a “joke” and Riot “does the prize as a joke”. Many gamers have compared MSI 2022 with the Major tournaments of DOTA 2 and CS:GO (the tournaments that take place close to MSI) and found that the Major events are much better organized.
Team OG won the Major well deservedly as they showed their strength in Bo3s and came up from the emotional draw
The reason is because these tournaments have an even number of Bo1 (Bo2 vs Major DOTA 2), Bo3 and Bo5 matches and make matches whether in the qualifiers or playoffs interesting. Meanwhile, the matches of the MSI 2022 Warm-up round are considered too “faded” when the weaker teams have too few matches to show and learn very little from the Bo1 matches. As a result, the audience will almost forget about teams like DFM, ORD…. no matter how hard they try.
Wildcard teams have too little chance to progress at MSI with the current format
With MSI 2022 having identified 4 teams entering the semi-finals, this tournament is also gradually coming to an end. It can be said that this is the tournament that gives Riot the most lessons on how to organize the tournament when they have revealed too many problems. Hopefully in the future, Riot Games will add Bo3 or Bo2 matches to the group stage as well as the losing bracket for the playoffs of major tournaments creating a fairer, more attractive format for MSI or even even Worlds.
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