LoL: MSI tournament mess – Riot takes 3 wins from a team, RNG has to replay all games
In League of Legends, the international tournament “Mid Season Invitational 2022” is taking place in Busan: the representatives of China, Royal Never Give Up, won all their preliminary round matches at MSI, but the results have now been canceled by Riot Games. RNG has to replay their 3 LoL matches. The reason was a discrepancy in the ping.
This is the situation:
- The MSI 2022 Tournament will see 11 LoL teams compete, each being the best in their own regions. The favorites to win the tournament are traditionally the representatives of the two major Asian regions: China (RNG) and South Korea (T1). Bookmakers at least give the European representatives G2 outsider chances, although they see it very differently.
- All teams play locally in Busan, South Korea. Except for the representatives from China, Royal Never Give Up: Because of the Corona situation, the team is starting from China.
- After RNG had already won 3 preliminary round games, there was a big mess on day 3. Riot Games canceled the 3 games RNG was involved in.
The German representatives, Eintracht Spandau, are still a few steps away from being allowed to play at MSI:
Ping discrepancy causes 3 games to be canceled
What is the problem? Because all teams play in Korea, except RNG, Riot Games had set up the technology so that everyone should play with 35 ping to create the same conditions: Both the Chinese and the 10 local teams should have exactly the same conditions play to ensure fair competition.
In video games, the ping means how quickly a player’s input is actually implemented in the game. The lower the ping, the better it is. In LoL, ping is crucial for skill shots, reactions, and evasive maneuvers.
But Riot Games reported on day 3 that there were problems here. Busan didn’t have the 35 ping they wanted. That was noticed now (via twitter). The configuration will now be changed to bring the latency down to the desired level.
RNG’s games “had a ping discrepancy”: Therefore, Riot Games decided that it was in the best sense of fair competition to now repeat all 3 games in which RNG was involved.
Apologies to all players and teams.
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RNG suggests that is somehow unfair
This is the result now: RNG were stripped of the 3 wins and they have to try again.
They have already won their first replay game against Istanbul Wildcats and are back at 1-0.
Because the 3 opponents of RNG are significantly weaker, there is actually little doubt as to how the next games will end.
RNG seems to have upset Riot Games’ decision somewhat, with a tweet saying “unexpected events” and “unfair treatment.”
This is how it is discussed: It’s definitely a weird situation. People are now debating on Twitter whether it’s really fair that RNG “makes 3 games more” than everyone else. Also, RNG would play without the arena sounds.
The fairness of the tournament as a whole is in doubt because RNG plays under these different conditions than the 10 teams on site.
Ultimately, one believes that it will result in a duel between T1 and RNG anyway.
In general, the tournament is also viewed critically at the moment because the preliminary round offered little excitement. Because in the first few days there were mainly clear victories for the favorites and almost no surprises.
For years, RNG has been associated with one name: Uzi, mechanically perhaps the best LoL player in the world:
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