BLG Causes the First “Shock” at Worlds 2025, Leaving LPL Fans Disheartened
At Worlds 2025, Riot has returned to the BO1 format for the Swiss Stage. It goes without saying how risky this format is. When it was announced, there were predictions from both the audience and experts that at least one major team would face disaster due to the BO1 format at the Swiss Stage. However, perhaps no one expected the “victim” to be BLG – the LPL champions and runners-up of Worlds 2024.
Notably, BLG’s opponent is considered one of the weakest teams in the Swiss Stage. 100 Thieves is merely the third seed from the LTA region, even ranked below TSW from LCP. Therefore, after the match concluded, LPL fans did not hesitate to deliver the harshest comments possible to BLG.
The name BLG and their defeat immediately rose to the top of the hot search lists on the social media platform Weibo. On HUPU, only Elk received a score of 2.5, while the rest were all at 2.2 – the lowest score allowed by this platform for player ratings.
– Bin stated in an interview that “Avenging T1 is their destiny,” but perhaps Bin is confused as 100T bears some resemblance to T1
– Bin truly thinks he is TheShy. Oh wait, he actually resembles TheShy in this match (referring to TheShy’s drop in form and poor performance against T1 in the Play-ins)
– Quid (midlaner for 100T) played like Chovy while Knight played like in the match against GAM in 2022
But BLG Still Has Opportunities at Worlds 2025
In reality, while the loss is a “disaster,” it does not mean everything is over for BLG. Not to mention that losing 0-1 still gives BLG the chance to “avoid” a series of strong teams, currently T1, and possibly HLE, Gen.G, or G2/TES.
Therefore, this loss shows that BLG performed very poorly, but they can still regroup to prepare for the upcoming matches.