LOL - Worlds 2022: Two teams classified to the World Cup could stay out of the tournament
The World Championship of League of Legends faces an unpleasant situation. By third consecutive edition, it is possible that two of the teams classified to the tournament cannot participate in it. It is, as has become unfortunately common, of the sets of the VCS . According to local media, both GAM eSports and Saigon Buffalo are suffering problems to get a visa that allows them to move to the United States to participate in the 2022 Worlds. A situation that, if not fixing, could lead to both of them to renounce the square acquired by sports merits.
A region may not attend the Worlds 2022
The situation of both teams is complex, although the most worrying is that of Game Sports . The current champions of the highest League of Legends competition in Vietnam have seen their request for entry to the United States denied. The refusal is not definitive and the organization may request its admission again on September 24. Even so, nothing guarantees that those responsible for visa at the United States embassy in Hanoi will change their minds. In addition, it is damage in order to prepare the 2022 Worlds, since many of the classifieds will take days training when they can barely land in the country.
As for Saigon Buffalo , they can still grab uncertainty. The team will move next September 14 to Hanoi to request the visa to Mexico, where the play-in is played, and the United States, which houses the main phase. In this case, the VCS boys need rapid approval. Having been in second position, they are obliged to go through the previous event of the 2022 Worlds, which begins on September 29. In this sense, a negative with the consequent 14-day delay would make its participation in the tournament virtually impossible. The situation is not ideal, but neither does irresolute.
Some Worlds 2022 with 22 teams?
Although the reasons are not the same, since in the past it was the restrictions of Vietnam that prevented travel to the representatives of the VCS, the World Cups of Legends have adapted prior to a format with 22 participants . In the previous absences of the region, Riot Games solved the problem in a simple way: it caused one of the play-in classified to advance directly to the main phase, causing the previous round to have only 10 teams distributed in two groups. In the case of this year, the format would be identical.
As for the team that could obtain the privilege of getting rid of the play-in before the possible absence of the VCS, it is difficult to find precedents. In the last two Worlds editions the prize was for the region with better international results that did not have three representatives in the main phase. In the case of this year, the position would be for Europe. However, we say that it is difficult to find precedents because the continent LEC has already won an unforeseen prize with the absence of Russia, which has allowed him to classify up to four sets to the World League of Legends championship. In this sense, it is not clear if Riot Games will want to grant two advantages to the teams in the region.
What in no case does Postbile seem to include new participants in the World Championship. Riot Games has always positioned himself against this solution, having made a single exception for the current edition due to the absence of Russia. The difference, however, is that the exclusion of the LCL gave months of margin to the company to make decisions. GAM Esports and Saigon Buffalo situations are much more complex, since they will be fighting until the last day-he presumably with the support of Riot Games-for participating in the world championship of League of Legends.
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