Levi reveals GAM's behind-the-scenes at Worlds 2024
For strong teams from the past to present, their scrim schedules often prioritize equal teams or at least the level difference is not much. Because the scrim is only for testing purposes, but most importantly, the players need to see what a general can do in the game. If the opponent is too weak or a scrim happens too quickly, it will be difficult to have an accurate view of the specific matchups that teams will apply in real battle.
Therefore, Levi's recent revelation shows that GAM Esports really faces many difficulties at Worlds 2024. GAM's legendary captain said: “We don't have any wins when scrim with LCK, because there is no Can't scrim with them”. Meanwhile, LCK teams are proving to be the highest quality names in this tournament and are extremely knowledgeable about the meta. Not being able to scrim with 4 LCK teams is also a disadvantage that small teams like GAM have to accept.
In fact, VCS teams still have the opportunity to practice with top teams from LPL, LCS or LEC. However, the chances of scrim with LCK as revealed by Levi are very few and teams from Korean League of Legends are not really too serious. Levi himself also admitted that GAM only had 2 Worlds scrims with the LCK. In particular, in 2022, Dplus KIA is mainly a “troll game” rather than a real practice match.
VCS teams also have to improve their quality at tournaments like MSI or Worlds
Although VCS has made some impressions at international tournaments, when facing LCK, the only achievement lies in Lowkey Esports's only win against Damwon Gaming in the past, and Saigon Buffalo caused some difficulties. towel for T1. With such a large level difference, it's hard to blame LCK teams for not being “interested” in scrims with VCS teams.
VCS teams themselves also need to improve their position through competition results. If it remains as it is now, perhaps VCS's scrim schedule in the future will still not have the name LCK.