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We continue to watch the action at Demacia Cup 2024, the main tournament of the off-season. There the play-offs stage is getting ready for the Long Cogner play-offs.
TT Gaming and LNG Esports are among the contenders. We have already seen the first ones in action at Demacia Cup 2024, but LNG are just starting their way to the championship.
We are trying to figure out who of the TT - LNG pair will make it to the next round of play-offs.
Let's go.
LNG Esports uniforms
We open the analysis of the match LNG Esports - TT Gaming with the analysis of LNG's form. In this match they are playing as favourites with odds to win at around 1.4.
In 2022, LNG began their climb to the top of the Chinese League of Legends. They finished Top 6 at LPL Spring 2022, but fared better: in the summer split, LNG Esports finished Top 4 at LPL Summer 2023.
They also played at the regional finals in an attempt to qualify for the Worlds 2022, but had no luck. LNG Esports finished in the top 3.
At LPL Spring 2023, after a good group stage, the team finished in the top 6. Not to say bad, but not very good either.
- LNG Esports lineup: Zika, Weiwei, haichao, Photic, Zhuo.
LNG maintained their class at LPL Summer 2023. The team played a 12-5 regular season, which allowed them to finish in the top 4 and directly advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament.
The first play-offs opponent for LNG was Top Esports. The match ended on map 5 with a 3-2 victory for LNG.
They got here after defeat from the champions of LPL Spring 2023, and at the same time Mid-Season Invitational 2023 - JD Gaming. And defeat in a fairly even game, which ended with 5 maps.
In the next series LNG Esports met with TES. In the match for the exit to the top 3, the once titled club was unable to do anything against the obviously charged in the summer split LNG. As a result, the latter won 3-1.
Next up was the match to advance to the grand finals and a battle with Bilibili Gaming. Finalists LPL Spring 2023 and MSI 2023 could not oppose their colleagues and as a result Ledgeili with the score 1-3.
Having reached the Grand Final of LPL Summer 2023 LNG had every chance to defeat the armoured train called JD Gaming and almost took advantage of them - they lacked one map. LPL Summer 2023 Grand Final ended with the score 3-2 in favour of JDG.
LNG Esports started their performance at Worlds 2023 with a match against Fnatic. Scout literally single-handedly swatted the Orange on their Azir, defeating their opponents on mid with a score of 11-0.
In the second match of Worlds 2023 LNG again faced the representatives of the Western World of League of Legends: this time the number two team from North America, Cloud9. Once again LNG defeated their counterparts on class, although C9 held their nerve and managed to impose Long Sogpega on the match, but lost in a brawl on the centre line after a Baron takedown.
LNG Esports lost to JDG in the match to advance to the Worlds 2023 play-offs. However, they managed to advance to the main stage at the second attempt, beating KT Rolster 2-1.
However, it was not possible to stay in the play-offs for long. In the first match LNG met with their principal rival from JD Gaming and lost 0-3.
Before the start of LPL Spring 2024 LNG Esports tested their strength at Demacia Cup 2023. There the team played in the first round of play-offs, where they received an invitation, but lost in the first round against Rare Atom, which was a kind of sensation. However, Demacia Cup has never been a tournament of LPL level, and at LPL Spring 2024 LNG took the top 6, which is a bit "not suitable" for the status of LNG.
At the LPL Summer 2024 LNG Long Co-registered from Group C, where they faced big problems, but still made it to the next stage with a score of 3-3. They got back on the Rumble Stage, where they shared the top 1 with Bilibili Gaming, thus guaranteeing themselves the top 4 right away. However, in the first match of play-offs LPL Summer 2024 LNG ran into TOP Esports and, Ledgeiv with the score 0-3, fell to the bottom net. There they couldn't cope with WBG, losing 2-3 and leaving the tournament in 4th position.
At the Worlds 2024 they got to the LPL Regional Finals 2024 at the first attempt, beating WBG. Long Sogpegovar started the Worlds with a solid win over Liquid. Next was a tough match against LPL's top team, Bilibili Gaming, and LNG managed to pull out a willful victory, thus getting into the basket 2-0. In the play-offs match, LNG Esports played against DPlus KIA, where they closed 2-0 on class. But the play-offs Worlds 2024 LNG Esports played poorly, losing to Weibo Gaming 1-3.
The most popular LNG Esports champions
The most picked champion in the top 10 was Renekton (6 matches, 83% wins). Besides him, Jax (2 matches, 100% wins) and Fiora (2 matches, 50% wins) were popular.
Sejuani (4 matches, 50% wins), Maokai (3 matches, 100% wins), and Zac (2 matches, 1 win) played in the forest.
The centre line was dominated by Ryze. Scout played 5 matches on it and won 4 games. Azir (2-0) and Yone (1-1) were selected twice more.
Similar situation with the shooters. Varus has appeared 8 times and has 75% wins. Jhin (50 wins) has visited twice.
Of the shooters, Leon-a (5 games, 4 wins) is rather unfamiliar. Heim (2 games, 100% wins), Nautilus (2 matches, 50% wins).
TT Gaming form
We continue our analysis of the TT vs LNG match with an analysis of TT Gaming form. In this match they are obviously in outsider status with win odds around 4.3.
In 2021, TT were ranked top 13 and top 16 in the LPL Spring and LPL Summer respectively. The peak result, however, was last season.
At LPL Spring 2023, the team finished top-10 at LPL Spring, making it to the play-offs of the tournament for the first time. However, their journey through the LPL Spring 2023: Playoffs ended quickly, and they were helped out of the championship by Royal Never Give Up, outscoring their lesser title contender 3-1.
- ThunderTalk Gaming's lineup: Hoya, Beichuan, SeTab, 1xn, Feather.
TT Gaming are on the brink of 11th place in the LPL Summer 2023. The victory is crucial for them, as it will help them to partially equal NiP and get a grip on the top 10, which means a passage to the play-offs. They need to step it up. Or rather, they needed to.
At the end of LPL Summer 2023 TT Gaming took 13th place, having played in the group with the score 5-11. Next were NEST 2023 and Demacia Cup 2023 with approximately the same results: TOP-17 at NEST 2023 and TOP-12 at Demacia Cup 2023.
In the 2024 season, the team played at LPL Spring 2024 and LPL Summer 2024, with no success: Top-13 in Spring and Top-10 in Summer.
At Demacia Cup 2024, the team won Group C, playing it 3-0.
The most popular champions of ThunderTalk Gaming
Gnar (11 matches, 54% wins), Gragas (6 matches, 33% wins), Sejuani (6 matches, 50% wins) are the most frequent picks for TT Gaming's top.
Viego (15 games, 33% wins), Poppy (10 matches, 50% wins), Wukong (7 games, 28% wins) are favoured in the forest.
The centre line is most often occupied by Sylas (8 matches, 75% wins), Ahri (6 matches, 33% wins), Azir (5 matches, 100% wins)
Aphelios (10 matches, 30% wins), Jinx (9 matches, 77% wins), Kalista (5 games, 60% wins) appeared in the bot line.
Nautilus (5 matches, 50% winrate), Braum (5 games, 60% wins), Leona (5 matches, 60% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings LNG Esports - TT Gaming
In the season 2024 they played each other once and TT won.
Predicted result of TT vs LNG Esports at Demacia Cup 2024
In this match my bet is on LNG. Despite the history of head-to-head meetings and the loss at LPL Spring 2024, I don't see how TT will win here.
Bottom line: LNG win.
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