LPL's shameful history repeats itself as JDG team gets eliminated! Swept by the Vietnamese team, losing all international matches

Hello to all LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is Tianxia Game Report.

The ASI Asia Showdown reached its most exciting match day yesterday, with three LPL teams performing very differently. Every game's outcome was shocking, and debates outside the game never stopped.

Among them, JDG was met with unanimous condemnation from the audience and created a new embarrassing chapter in history.

LPL’s shameful history repeats as JDG is knocked out

In this Asian Invitational, the official invitees included six teams from LCK and LPL, ranked fifth, sixth, and seventh in their regions respectively. The highest-seeded LPL team was JDG, yet JDG became the first team to be eliminated in this tournament.

The reason was that JDG was swept 2-0 by the Vietnamese team GAM in yesterday’s match.

The group stage adopted a single round-robin format, so JDG’s final record stood at 1 win and 2 losses. Since WBG defeated DK later on, WBG and DK advanced with identical records.

This means LPL’s infamous “Moonboy Fermented Tofu” shameful history at the World Championship has repeated. Previously, TES was defeated by a Vietnamese team in the second round of the group stage and ended their run in the top 16, leading to a year of ridicule.

Yesterday, JDG reenacted this history by losing directly to a Vietnamese team and being eliminated. At the same time, JDG made new history as the first LPL team ever to be beaten by a Vietnamese team in a BO3 stage. After the ASI event, JDG can prepare for disbandment and restructuring.

Levi’s Qiyana goes godlike, GAM dominates the entire game

JDG’s performance in this World Championship can be summed up in one word — confused. The team often gains some early advantages but then makes various mistakes and collapses in the mid to late game. Against DK, they showed some early and mid-game strength but still lost.

In the first game against GAM yesterday, a similar scenario happened. JDG got early leads, but a critical mid-game mistake cost them everything. Levi from the Vietnamese team went godlike on Qiyana, helping his team turn the game around and win.

In the late game of that match, JDG did fight back in team fights, but it was basically the typical turn-based exchange seen often in the LPL — you win a fight, I win a fight — until GAM secured the Dragon Soul in a decisive team fight to end the game.

In the second game, JDG completely collapsed from the start, losing control of the jungle early on. The team fights were brutal; they were crushed with an overwhelming kill score of 26-9 and lost the match.

After the match, many viewers urged JDG to disband immediately, while some said that although JDG lost, they actually won big.

All international matches lost, the five biggest failures

Looking back at LPL history, no team has ever lost to Vietnamese or other wildcard teams in BO3 or BO5 formats because losing a BO1 is more prone to chance, but BO3 and BO5 have greater margin for error. If the first game is lost, teams usually bring out their best strategies and play seriously in the following games.

However, JDG’s performance this time clearly defied logic, leading many fans to speculate about possible match-fixing. JDG invested heavily this year and suffered huge losses. The odds for the match against GAM were greatly skewed, and betting on GAM to win 2-0 would have yielded a big payoff.

Of course, this is only speculation; it’s also possible that JDG is simply inexperienced.

In any case, JDG’s journey in this Asian Invitational was a complete failure, losing all international matches and only winning one against WBG. It seems that after bringing in coach Changg, JDG also inherited his internal competition weaknesses.

Personally, I believe JDG has proven with facts that this year’s five players are the most disappointing and wrong group. Disbanding at the end of the year is the best decision. This once dominant LPL team has been on a downward slope ever since not renewing Knight’s contract, with player form rapidly declining. Next year might be a rebuilding year.