. Final up to date: Jul 27, 2022
After criticism for it’s dealing with of a bug-plagued match, the LCK has introduced a brand new protocol.
One week in the past on July 21, the LCK collection between reigning champion T1 and Hanwha Life skilled prolonged delays as a result of quite a lot of bugs.
The league tried to resolve the problems within the collection with chronobreaks and restarts, and finally managed to take action, permitting T1 to emerge victorious.
Though T1 managed to win the collection, the LCK’s high group nonetheless filed a grievance with the league as a result of inconsistency of the rulings relating to when a sport could be remade and when it might not.
In response, the LCK issued new pointers to deal with this problem sooner or later.
Beneath the brand new plan, the LCK will add a 15-second pause instantly earlier than every sport to make sure the runes chosen by the participant didn’t change whereas loading into the sport.
This was completed in response to T1 ADC Lee ‘Gumayusi’ Min-hyeong’s runes being reset in sport two. That match was not remade and was the premise for T1’s grievance.
The second change is that viewers will now learn of which participant executed the pause, what the rationale for the pause is, and the way far alongside the referees are in direction of resolving the problem.
Whereas bugs are by no means going to be fully eradicated, it’s good that the LCK is including new measures to make sure that the method for resolving points is quite a bit smoother and extra clear for groups and viewers.
