LoL: Legendary Gamer Says Biggest Team In The World Will Damage His Name In 2022
Yilang “Doublelift” Peng (28) is a legendary player in League of Legends and is now a Twitch streamer. His career was closely linked to Team SoloMid, the most valuable and largest LoL team in the world. Now he says: The team is damaging its brand value with the current squad for 2022. Because TSM goes “full China”, which makes it difficult for fans to remain a fan.
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TSM brings 2 young Chinese – now has 4 Asians in the squad in 2022
This is TSM’s current roster for 2022: In addition to Jungler Spica (China) and Top-Laner Huni (South Korea), who are still left from 2021, 3 new players have been brought in:
- From Team Liquid, TSM signed the ADC “Tactical” which doublelift once replaced, but which could not really establish itself as an equivalent successor
- In addition, TSM has signed 2 talents from China who played there in the 2nd division, the “Academy League”: Support Shenyi and Midlaner Keiadu.
- The new head coach is 30-year-old Chawy, who was born in Singapore.
TSM now has 3 Chinese, a South Korean and an American under contract for 2022.
TSM actually wanted to sign their star player Bjergsen for 2022, but he decided to switch to Team Liquid despite a great offer. TSM then announced that it would focus on young talent, but promised to remain competitive.
Doublelift thinks it will be tough to be a TSM fan in 2022
That criticizes Doublelift: The Streamer said:
“When it comes to brand equity, I don’t think it’s fun to be a fan of a cadre who mostly speaks Chinese. It’s just like that. We’re in the West, we’re in America, in NA, and we seem to have an American team. We want them to represent our culture. It’s going to be really tough to be a fan, I suppose. “
He says TSM went “full China”. In addition to Team Liquid, which are actually a pure EU team, and Team Korea (Cloud 9), there is now a China team in the US LCS league with TSM.
Doublelift admits, however: The two Chinese newcomers are probably better than simply taking two NA players and totally dropping them off.
The other option for TSM would have been to buy expensive, established stars from Europe and the US like Jensen or Mikyx. The two Chinese talents are certainly much cheaper.
Doublelift doesn’t think investing in players from North America is a good option, they are just terrible.
TSM loses streamers with one of the largest Twich channels in the world
This is the next blow for TSM: In addition to the criticism from Doublelift, TSM has now also lost its star streamer Myth. He says he doesn’t feel so comfortable at TSM after people important to him have left, like LoL players Bjergen and Leena Xu. He also feels like he’s not a big part of TSM’s content strategy.
Therefore, Myth will not renew his contract with TSM and leave the organization.
Myth has one of the 10 largest Twitch channels in the world with 7.4 million followers.
Apparently there is a big upheaval at TSM. Almost all of the “big names” have now been lost in a few months: In addition to Doublelift, Bjergsen and Myth, the strong German midlaner PowerOfEvil, the sinfully expensive supporter SwordArt and, with Leena Xu, an important figure in the organization’s identity, have gone.
This is behind it: The US league LCS has huge problems building up players from its own region. In recent years, more and more Europeans and Asians have come into the league. It’s not like many Americans played or coached for TSM in 2021.
In 2022, TSM will replace a German, a Dane, an Australian and a South Korean with 2 Chinese, an American and someone from Singapore.
But the strong focus on people who speak Chinese is already noticeable and apparently also occupies Doublelift.
In the past, US teams often brought in players from Asia who had already peaked there and had a year or two gilded with a top team by continuing their careers in the US, where there is much less pressure than the US two top leagues LCK and LPL.
Top laner Huni is one such example. The now 24-year-old played one year for SKT1 in 2017 and has been playing around in the west through dozens of teams without being really successful.
TSM is not getting veterans for 2022, but young players from Asia. While in recent years they have relied on Western talent and in 2020, Bjergsen and Doublelift, two legendary US players, they are now going in a completely different direction.
It’s a bit puzzling that TSM would go for a “cheap solution” when so much money is coming in through huge deals. It remains to be seen whether the young players from China can delight the fans in 2022.
Overall, TSM is currently in a state of upheaval, probably also because many have a problem with the appearance of team boss Reginald:
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