At MSI 2024, GAM Esports brings a very special lineup. This can be considered GAM's weakest squad since this team began to completely dominate the Vietnamese League of Legends scene as well as create resonance in the international arena. Before the VCS Spring 2024 playoffs, not many people had an impression of who Emo was. As for EasyLove, he is the ADC of the bottom-ranked team with an “unprecedented” achievement in the history of Vietnamese League of Legends: not having a single winning game in the group stage. And without the match-fixing suspicion, perhaps these two players would never have dreamed of joining MSI, let alone becoming official players and even the hope of the team and the audience. fake.
Players like EasyLove or Emo will normally have a hard time playing at MSI
But there is a truth that is clearly visible, which is that psychological problems also weigh heavily on VCS players every time they compete internationally and this causes them not to have really good opening matches but can only explode at a stage where there's nothing left to lose. Expectations from the audience or pressure to play well in the opening match are natural. But there is a difference mentioned by Levi that affects the psychology of VCS players in particular and GAM in general when entering the international arena: the audience factor.
Levi admitted that the 180-degree contrast between the audience when playing in the VCS and the world had a significant impact on the players.
In the sharing after the loss to FNC, Levi admitted that Emo had some psychological problems when having to compete in a hall with an extremely crowded audience. This is completely understandable and reasonable when Emo is a young player. But worth mentioning, VCS itself does not have such a large audience, if not for many seasons since the pandemic period, there have been no spectators appearing in matches at VCS. Most of the time, viewers can only watch through the viewing party while the players have to compete in a much more deserted and quiet stadium.
Being too familiar with an environment without an audience will make players like Emo easily “suffocated”.
Emo's case could also be the case of many of this player's previous seniors, like Kati or Sty1e… The time when Kati and Team Flash dominated Vietnamese League of Legends, then he moved to GAM was also the VCS period. There are no longer any spectators coming to watch the players compete live. Therefore, combined with the pressure from achievements and audiences on social networks, it is not surprising that Kati clearly shows anxiety and psychology.
Kati herself also had a “joint” when having to compete in the passionate atmosphere of the first MSI of her career.
And because of Levi's revelation, Riot may be partly responsible. At VCS, the community has been waiting for a decent, neat stadium to replace GG Stadium for a long time. It is true that during the epidemic period or when Riot first took over League of Legends, this had to stagnate. But until now, nothing has happened, making the audience even more impatient. Meanwhile, the images of tournaments at PCS or CBLOL with their grandeur and fervor make VCS audiences feel heartbroken.
In a small area like CBLOL, the extremely passionate audience also made many VCS fans feel sad
Besides handling match-fixing cases, perhaps Riot and VCS organizers really need to make final moves on the arena issue. Not only for the players to get used to the passionate atmosphere of real professional League of Legends matches, but also for the VCS community to return to the majestic days of the past.
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