HLE All-Star Lineup
As you know, on September 8, HLE defeated Gen.G with a thrilling 3-2 score to win the 2024 LCK Summer Championship. This is a worthy achievement for the efforts of the “all-star” lineup that HLE possesses when they made strong progress in 2024. Remember, in the playoffs of this year's LCK Spring, HLE lost twice to T1 and sadly stopped at 3rd place. However, in the summer tournament, they defeated T1 twice and then defeated Gen.G to win the prestigious LCK title.
HLE has made great progress in 2024
Of course, to achieve such a feat, HLE's lineup is full of “superstars” in each position. With old players like Zeka and Viper, they are all former CKTG champions with excellent performances. Meanwhile, new players joining HLE this season like Peanut, Doran or Delight have also affirmed their class in Gen.G's shirt with 2 LCK championships in the 2023 season. With such an “all-star” team, it is probably not too surprising that HLE won the LCK Summer 2024 title.
HLE's all-star lineup finally hits the mark
The price HLE had to pay in hundreds of billions to win the LCK title
It is worth noting that HLE's victory prevented Gen.G from winning their fifth consecutive LCK title. This is an achievement that no other team has achieved, so the fact that the “orange team” was able to stop Gen.G became the focus of public opinion in Korea. Even many traditional newspapers reported the victory on the front page with many interesting revelations about HLE's success.
The image of HLE winning the 2024 LCK Summer Championship was on the front page of the Korean newspaper News Workers. In addition, this article also revealed that: “The annual salary to be paid to the main team of HLE is up to 10 billion won (about 187 billion VND)”
According to the Korean News Workers website, the annual salary that HLE has to pay for the 5 players in the main squad alone is 10 billion won (about 187 billion VND). If you add performance bonuses, salaries for coaches, etc., the amount that this organization has to pay for the current HLE squad is much larger. The newspaper also has a funny comparison that with the above amount of money, Hanwha Life can buy up to 50 baseball players for its team. This also makes the 2024 LCK Summer one of the most “expensive” titles in the history of the tournament when HLE has only won one championship with this squad.
The amount of money HLE paid to own the current squad is really huge.
Another thing worth mentioning is that HLE has not shown any “fear” in spending such a large amount of money to achieve success. In fact, in the article of News Workers, HLE confirmed that they will continue to support the current team building method in the future. Therefore, it will not be too surprising if HLE continues to launch “blockbuster” contracts in the near future.
Of course, the 2024 season is not over yet for HLE as they still have an extremely important campaign called CKTG 2024. With good form and high spirits after winning the LCK Summer 2024 championship, fans have every right to expect that the “super team” HLE will go on and win the most prestigious title of the League of Legends village.
