Taiwan’s League of Legends workforce is aiming for a minimum of a silver medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games with gold as the final word purpose, head coach Chen “Warhorse” Ju-chih stated yesterday.
Taiwan received silver on the Hangzhou Asian Video games in 2023, and Chen stated he didn’t need the workforce to take a step backward.
“I hope we will a minimum of win silver after which discover a method to compete for gold,” he stated.
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Though China is a formidable presence within the sport, it’s not competing within the League of Legends occasion. South Korea stays the workforce Taiwan desires to beat, however Chen stated Vietnam presents a extra instant hurdle.
4 gamers on Vietnam’s nationwide workforce play underneath Chen on Staff Secret Whales, which has dominated the League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) this yr.
The LCP brings collectively opponents from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
“They’ve performed collectively for almost two years, so we now have to get previous Vietnam earlier than speaking about easy methods to beat South Korea,” stated Chen, who believes his familiarity with their taking part in fashion and technique would profit Taiwan.
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Taiwan’s preparations are sophisticated by the membership commitments of gamers Yu “JunJia” Jun-jia and Tsai “HongQ” Ming-hung, teammates at JD Gaming in China’s League of Legends Professional League.
The total squad may need lower than every week to follow collectively earlier than departing on Sept. 27, though out there gamers have already skilled on the LCP Enviornment for about two weeks.
The remaining 4 gamers, every from a special LCP workforce, are Chen “1Jiang” Yi-chin, Chiu “Doggo” Tzu-chuan, Lin “Woody” Yu-en and Liu “ShiauC” Jia-hao.
Chiu is the one participant coming back from the Hangzhou Video games. Chen would coach Taiwan on the Asian Video games for a 3rd time, following an indication occasion on the 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games and the Hangzhou Video games.
Eight groups play best-of-one round-robin matches in two teams on Sept. 29 and 30, with the highest two in every group advancing. Greatest-of-three semi-finals are on Oct. 1, adopted by a best-of-five last on Oct. 2.