On the morning of April 20, Riot Games held a press conference to announce the WCS Finals with the participation of media and press units from many countries in the region. At the same time, the guests in the press conference are all names with great influence on the community of Southeast Asia. Including the Head of the operation of the APAC – Chee Koh Ban regional battlefield, co -owned and operating director of the RRQ team – Calvin Thenderdan and CEO Team Flash – Mark Chew.
Before the press, representatives of Riot Games shared the excitement of being able to publish the first information about WCS Finals. Accordingly, the tournament will take place from April 23 to May 8. The 11 best teams of the region will go through 3 rounds of warm -up, play -off and final before determining the 4 strongest representatives of the region to the World Rift Icons Global Championship 2022.
The representative of Riot Games also shared the plan to develop eSports activities in the speed of war. Accordingly, 2021 can be considered as the first “brick” to be the foundation for eSports activities.
Riot Games chose Southeast Asia to be the first market to launch tournaments, because this is the place with a huge number of players and extremely exciting community activities. In 2022, the Esports activities of the Chien Chien will be expanded to the world, starting with the Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022. Here, Southeast Asia will have 4 representatives.
The upcoming WCS Finals 2022 format has also been revealed. Of the 11 teams attending, the 6 teams will play from the play-off round and the remaining 5 teams will play from the boot round. Details of each round are also shared by Riot Games at the press conference.
Sharing before the press, the representative of Riot Games said that the WCS Finals 2022 was extremely important for the Esports plan of the Chien Chien. This will be the momentum for the development of eSports activities of the future speed, helping the subject to shape its brand in the Southeast Asian community.
Regarding the goal in the coming time, the speed of war towards organizing more tournaments for each small area. From there, Riot will be able to exploit the giant player community in Southeast Asia, towards the goal of creating an Esports ecosystem cooperating and developing. The representative of Riot Games revealed that the publisher will invest more in the bonus from the tournament, as well as improve the quality of production and broadcast tournaments in the future.
Talking at the press conference, two representatives from the Flash and RRQ team, the two teams are extremely successful in Southeast Asia at the present time have shared around the changes in recent years and the preparation of their team for the upcoming big tournaments.
Operating Director Calvin Thenderan affirmed that psychological state is the most important factor to bring RRQ to success at the present time. Accordingly, he shared that he was very concerned about the spiritual health of the players, especially when the players in the team were young.
In addition to professional factors, RRQ also hires a psychiatrist for the whole team. Besides, one of the aspects that succeeds RRQ is the way they solve the problem. When there is a problem arising in the battle, the team will sit down and quickly offer how to solve.
On the other side, CEO Mark Chew shared that Vietnam is always the top priority market of the Flash team. However, with the desire to build and improve the leading and strong eSports system in Southeast Asia, Team Flash will continue to operate in many new countries, such as Thailand and Cambodia. They understand that the mobile game market is extremely developing in Southeast Asia, and all expect where the Flash team will go away in the next 5 years.
When asked about the reason why the Flash team was completely inverted in the domestic tournament this year, CEO Mark Chew shared all success thanks to trusting each other. Last year, they had a difficult start when only the service of Elly and then had to find more pieces to create a complete squad.
So, in 2021, it is like the test season of the Flash team. By 2022, they talked to the whole team and found the most important key to the championship. At the same time, CEO Mark Chew also shared that the current team of the Flash team is very special, promising to bring many surprises in the upcoming tournaments.
Closing the press conference, guests and representatives from Riot Games answered questions from the media and press units. Accordingly, the details were not disclosed, but the speed of the battle was ready for 2022 to explode with promising eSports activities.
