LPL's Controversial 2024 World Championship Cheerleading Shirt
Every year, CKTG is always a tournament that attracts a lot of attention from League of Legends gamers because this is where many top teams compete to win the world championship title. Therefore, in each region, they have their own ways to support the spirit and cheer on their “favorite” teams to compete in this tournament. With LPL, this tournament often creates special shirts for CKTG with meaningful messages to cheer on the players.
The new CKTG 2024 cheering jerseys have been officially announced after the 4 LPL representatives were determined.
And ahead of the 2024 World Championship, the LPL also launched a new shirt with a similar purpose. However, this shirt immediately became the center of attention when it was printed with a very controversial message. Specifically, the instructions printed on the inside of the shirt read “If you lose, don't worry too much”. This message was immediately criticized for causing the fighting spirit and excitement of players and fans to seriously decline because it mentioned defeat ahead of the 2024 World Championship.
LPL audiences were speechless with the new shirt design: “The small instruction line inside the shirt says “If you lose the match, don't worry too much”. You really wrote that.”
LPL fans are extremely angry about the 2024 World Championship jersey design
Not only the message, the price of this shirt also makes fans indignant. Accordingly, the CKTG 2024 cheering shirt of the LPL region is sold for 1999 NDT (about 7 million VND). This is considered an excessively expensive price for a jacket and has been heavily criticized by the gaming community. Many people even said that this shirt is “both ugly and expensive” and will not spend money to buy it.
“After seeing the price, I feel like this shirt is even worse. It's really ugly and expensive” – A gamer frankly shared
“I wouldn't wear it even if it was given to me. It's really annoying” – Another player agreed
Some gamers even have a sarcastic joke about this shirt: “If the LPL teams lose the match, we will simply take off this shirt and use it as a surrender flag.”
In recent years, there has been a fun theory in the community that teams with black uniforms will win the World Championship in odd years, and teams with white uniforms will win in even years. This comes from the fact that teams like DWG (2020) and DRX (2022) both won the championship when wearing white uniforms. Meanwhile, EDG (2021) and T1 (2023) won the final with their signature black uniforms. Perhaps this is the reason why the LPL has created a white 2024 World Championship cheering shirt to aim for the “spiritual” element of the upcoming tournament.
DWG (2020) and DRX (2022) both won Worlds with white uniforms
However, the design of this shirt itself is too simple with only a few red borders combined with the logos of sponsors and teams. Obviously, this simple “minimalist” design is not enough to convince many gamers to spend up to 1999 NDT (about 7 million VND) to buy the above product.
Furthermore, printing the phrase “If you lose, don't worry too much” on this shirt is also a very confusing decision from the LPL. If they wanted to use the “spiritual” element with the white shirt, they must have known that mentioning the words “failure” or “loss” before a major tournament like CKTG 2024 is a very bad thing to do. Combined with the “sky-high” price, the LPL audience community has even more reason to “stone” this shirt as soon as it is released.
It's no exaggeration to say that LPL has “self-inflicted” damage in the “spiritual” aspect.
The 2024 season can be said to be an extremely difficult time for the LPL region. From the decline in the number of viewers of this tournament to the defeat right at BLG's home field at MSI 2024. And the “drama” related to the CKTG 2024 cheering shirt mentioned above has continued to prolong the sad events of the LPL region. Perhaps if the LPL representatives continue to fail at the upcoming CKTG 2024, this will likely become a “disastrous” season for this region.
