After consecutive failures at Worlds, the LPL side is looking towards the LCK tournament model to find success.

LPL is losing too much compared to LCK in the past few years

For gamers who follow the Esports industry of League of Legends, LPL and LCK are always considered great rivals and compete fiercely at international tournaments. However, in the past 2 years, LPL representatives have appeared seriously out of breath compared to the LCK side in terms of achievements. It is important to know that the last time LPL won an international title was from MSI 2023 with JDG's championship. After that, T1 won both the 2023 and 2024 Worlds titles and Gen.G also promptly pocketed the MSI 2024 championship.

LCK in recent years has had a superior international performance compared to LPL

This loss in achievements has caused the LPL side to encounter many difficulties, even losing the trust of the home audience. The most obvious is the decline in the number of followers of the LPL tournament in both the spring and summer periods. Next is a series of teams that no longer receive sponsorship and are at risk of bankruptcy or being expelled from the LPL in the upcoming season.

Doinb revealed the tournament organizers' plan to "revive LPL".

Faced with such a difficult situation, the LPL organizers were forced to take strong measures to reform and improve the competitiveness of the tournament. In his recent stream, Doinb revealed that the tournament organizers are looking to eliminate a series of weak teams in terms of both performance and business. The goal is to learn from the LCK tournament model when only about 10 really quality teams are needed.

The recent LPL Summer 2024 had 17 teams participating, but only a few teams were of real quality.

"The LPL organizers want to eliminate weak teams next season to increase the strength of the region and further win the World Championship. The goal is to reduce it to about 10 teams like the LCK and create a real environment. Many teams try to enter the LPL just to receive the annual dividends without caring about their performance or the quality of their squad. Few people watch them I heard it was the BTC side LPL really wants to eliminate such teams" - Doinb shared.

The former World Championship 2019 king revealed that the LPL organizers are planning to eliminate a series of weak teams and aim for a 10-team model similar to the LCK.

Indeed, in recent years, LPL is experiencing a "redundant crisis" when they own up to 17 teams in their tournament. However, the truly quality teams are only around some familiar names such as BLG, WBG, TES, LNG or JDG. Even if names like AL ​​or FPX can cause surprises, they still contribute too little compared to the remaining huge number of teams in the LPL.

There are too many weak teams in the LPL, making the playing environment here uncompetitive and leading to failures in international tournaments.

It is clear that in such a somewhat uncompetitive environment, the strength of LPL teams will be reduced with the result that they will be out of breath compared to the LCK side. Therefore, the plan to reduce the number of teams participating in the LPL tournament to about 10 teams (similar to LCK) is considered a reasonable plan. This will likely increase the competitiveness of LPL representatives and contribute to making this tournament more attractive. Hopefully this plan will work and help LPL return and compete fairly with LCK in the upcoming 2025 season.