VKE's World Championship 2024 opening match did not really end as expected.

VKE failed miserably at Worlds 2024

Right in SofM's first return to Worlds, he and his students had to face an extremely powerful opponent, MAD Lions KOI - a team from the LEC. Even though they have to appear in the Kick-Off round, it doesn't mean that "Crazy Lions" are weak opponents. Because, MAD starts from the Start-Up round simply because LEC only has 3 spots and they are also one of the last 3 teams still participating in the final rounds of LEC Summer 2024. Therefore, although there are still expectations VKE will win, but everyone understands that the chances for SofM's army are very slim.

VKE must play the opening match of the 2024 World Championship Kick-off round

The reality of the match showed that MAD was still too strong and VKE also made many mistakes. Not to mention, both Nanaue and Gury do not have much experience competing in international tournaments, which is also a big disadvantage for VKE. In both games, perhaps only Shogun was still able to somewhat maintain his high form. Kati and Bie themselves also have many situations where they make mistakes. And that's all MAD needed to end the VCS representative's chances of winning.

And VKE was not able to get the desired result when they lost 0-2 to MAD

The community believes that VKE at Worlds 2024 made the same mistake as T1

According to the audience's opinion, besides the mistakes in specific situations that occurred during the match, VKE made the biggest mistake when confronting MAD: VCS representative did not predict "Crazy Lion". " will use the roaming strategy. This is quite similar to T1 when Faker and his teammates were extremely confused at MSI 2024 until last Summer. Even this roaming strategy has eliminated all the power of teams with "huge" bot pairs, of which T1 and now VKE are the "victims".

"I haven't watched VCS for a long time but I feel like this is the first time VKE has seen this kind of roaming. Pretty sure they were confused and couldn't find a way to counter it. They're a small area but when they see the opponent pick K'Sante or Jinx, don't they think the opponent will switch lanes?"

"VKE is so confused when they see the opponent roam, hope they will improve in the next match"

MAD's lane reversal also hit VKE's weak point, which was Nanaue's lack of experience and untrained bravery. Although there were times in the match when this young player regained his advantage, they were still too few and it could be said that VKE's failure was like the fall of a chain of dominoes with the annoying roaming strategy being the origin. of all.