Due to the influence of Covid-19, the friendly tournament before the 2023 LPL season, the Demacia Cup will probably not take place as attractive as every year because many teams withdraw.
Recently, the LPL teams have just experienced a transfer season full of surprises and interesting. A lot of changes have taken place so fans are looking forward to these new rosters at the 2022 Demacia Cup, an annual kick-off tournament before each LPL season.
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However, this probably won’t be possible this year because the teams have all requested to withdraw in turn because of the extremely complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic. First, Weibo Gaming has officially announced its withdrawal from the tournament. Many of their members showed signs and tested positive for Covid-19. This is really a pity because LPL fans want to test the strength of WBG’s new team. This is a name capable of challenging both JD Gaming and TOP Esports.
After WBG, LGD Gaming also fell into a similar situation and decided to use the entire young squad to attend this year’s Demacia Cup. In another development, Thundertalk Gaming was also plagued by the epidemic when many members were leaving the possibility of being able to play again.
Ultra Prime also had to sadly drop out of the tournament for the same reason, their fans also had to wait a bit longer when the players recovered and could see the 2018 World Championship duo Ning and Baolan re-appear. With UP and WBG not playing, Invictus Gaming and Funplus Phoenix will be the teams that will benefit greatly thereby gaining the right to advance to round 2.
As a result, the 8 teams that entered the 2nd round will enter the BO3 matches to compete for 4 tickets to the 3rd round. Here they will face the teams participating in Worlds 2022: JD Gaming, TOP Esports, EDward Gaming and Royal Never Give Up. Matches since round 3 will still be in a knockout format, and all matches will be BO5s.
