2023-08-31 12:29:51
The Worlds 2023 of LoL are taking shape with the first classifiedalready having 18 of the 24 that will make up the entire World Cup, pending the end of the last regional finals such as the LEC Seasons Finals, where G2 and MAD Lions are already waiting in the semifinals, ensuring the direct ticket to the international event.
Some Worlds 2023 in which it is repeated a phenomenon that once again gives rise to a reflection on the changes of cycles. Since the strange case that have the last champions among the great absences. As it happens with DRX, EDward Gaming, FunPlus Phoenix e Invictus Gaming.
The total changes in staff from one year to the next are the clearest factor for this to continue to occur. And it is that making a great performance in the World Cup, or of course winning it, is more than enough reason for many teams to pay attention to the quintet, sometimes dismantling it almost completely.
Only one of the last five champions will go to Worlds 2023
The most notable absence is that of the reigning World Champion, DRX, where only BeryL and Juhan remain. A bad year in general, added to an early setback in the playoffs and the defeat against Dplus KIA in the Regionals Finals, leaves them unable to defend the title.
But they are not the only recent ones, since EDward Gaming, champion in 2021, will not be there either, of whose champion roster only JieJie and Meiko remain. The signing of Uzi has not served them for the great objective of the season. And going further back in time, neither FunPlus Phoenix, champion in 2019, nor Invictus Gaming, champion in 2018, executioners in the final of G2 and Fnatic respectively, they have a ticket to the Worlds.
The only exception is Dplus KIA, champion in 2020, who had to resort to the Regionals Finals of the LCK to arrive. But still with Showmaker and Canyon they achieved what also seemed impossible on the fast track. And to see the next world champion in the Worlds, we go back to 2018 when it was conquered by Samsung Galaxy, renamed a couple of times to now be known as a Gen.G, called to be one of the favorites after a couple of years something diffuse, precisely after winning that World Cup.
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