[쿠키뉴스] Reporters Dae-chan Moon, Gyeol Kang, and Chan-Hong Kim = The results of the’LoL Champions Korea (LCK) Awards’ were announced on the 6th. The LCK Awards is an award system introduced in each season to select players who showed outstanding performance and highlight their achievements. In the context of LCK, where there is not yet a decent awards ceremony, the history of winning the LCK Awards weighs heavily in that it can be a value and career for a player. Therefore, the’First Team’, which selects the best players by position, and the MVP voting in honor of the best players in the league, requires caution.
Cookie News, a regular LCK coverage medium, was given a voting right following last season. In order to vote as objective and fair as possible, three reporters thought head-to-head.
Our media has set its own standards. If the superiority of skill cannot be easily determined, an addition to the team’s performance is added. The player’s weight in the team, position relative to competitors, etc. were also considered. Due to the nature of team games and awards, it was not possible to exclude the subjectivity at all because voting was not possible only with in-game indicators.
I know that the opinions of the fans are divided over the results of the LCK Awards. I don’t know if this will be a satisfactory answer, but I would like to share the reason and background of Cookie News’ voting by using this opportunity.
◇ Top liner
1st place vote: Damwon Kia’Kahn’ Kim Dong-ha
2nd place vote: Genji e-sports’Rascal’ Kim Kwang-hee
3rd place vote: DRX’Kinggen’ Hwang Seong-hoon
4th place: Live Sandbox’Summit’ Park Woo-Tae
5th place vote: Hanwha Life Insurance e-Sports’Morgan’ Park Ki-tae
There was no hesitation in throwing the number one vote. Kim Dong-ha, who joined Damwon Kia this season after deciding to retire, has completely filled the vacancy of Jang Ha-kwon of’The Raccoon’. Damwon Kia has grown into a stronger team this season because of the joining of veteran Kim Dong-ha. Kim Dong-ha’s personal indicators are also quite good. They also gave high marks for leading the top meta by pulling out’Sion’ and so on.
Prior to the 2nd place vote, I thought about Kim Kwang-hee and Hwang Sung-hoon.
Kwang-hee Kim was a little shaken at the end, but he showed the best of the first round. Having grown even further compared to last season, he was the leading role in the uptrend in the early days of Zenji. At the end of the 2nd round, I thought that it was possible because of the resurrection of Kim Kwang-hee that Genji raised the form by catching Damwon hunger. In the case of Hwang Sung-hoon, the indicators were very good. Both the 15-minute gold indicator and the creep score (CS) indicator are at the top, and they also excelled in the rate of involvement in kills and the proportion of damage within the team. However, it was an addition to Zenji’s second place this season.
The team’s Liv Sandbox ended the season with the lower ranks, but Park Woo-tae showed the same skills as the top-liners at the top. The line match indicator is also very good, and the weight within the team is also high. Park Woo-tae was at the center of Liv’s last spurt. He is a player who is looking forward to his performance next season.
Park Ki-tae had a hard time adjusting to the league in the early stages and showed a lack of appearance, but afterwards, he threw a vote of 5th place as he judged that he contributed to Hanwha Life’s first playoffs through solid game operation.
◇ Jungle
1st place vote: Damwon Kia’Canyon’ Kim Gun-bu
2nd place vote: DRX’Mark’ Chang-Hyun Hong
3rd place vote: Nongshim Red Force’Peanut’ Han Wang-ho
4th place vote: Taemin Kim,’Clyde’ Genji eSports
5th place vote: T1’Elim’ Choi Elim
The jungler also had no difficulty picking the best players. No other jungler in the current league is as stable and destructive as Kim Gun-bu. He is an overwhelming player with no competitors.
Chang-Hyun Hong is a jungler with a high percentage of damage and kill involvement in the team. But above all, he scored very high for leading the league’s meta this season. We believe that his first’Udir’ play, along with the LCK, inspired the junglers of the leagues around the world. In addition, he praised the fact that he, who was only a rookie in his second year, led the new players and led the team to the playoffs.
I was worried about Wang-ho Han and Tae-min Kim. His team, Genji, finished the season in second place, but Kim Tae-min remained in the middle of the ranks in various personal indicators this season. It can’t be denied that he showed good performance, but I think the expectations for him are much higher. On the other hand, Han Wang-ho showed a high weight and presence within the team as the title of’Synutsine’. Various indicators are also top rankings in the league. Since his team, Nongshim, advanced to the playoffs, he did not receive a big negative score in the team performance.
In the case of Choi Elim, the number of appearances in the game is as small as 22, but it shows a not bad indicator. KDA was the highest at 6.8, and in the initial gold reserves, it showed a significant difference from the opponent jungler, and was good at creating variables in the early stages. His ability to concentrate in the second half and his lack of performance compared to his growth caught his ankle, but he gave high marks for showing the least ups and downs despite irregular appearance opportunities. He is a young player who has never played full-time, but he also appreciated his skillful appearance in several places.
◇ Mid liner
1st place vote: Damwon Kia’Showmaker’ Heo Soo
2nd place vote: Hanwha Life Insurance e-Sports’Chobi’ Ji-Hoon Ji
3rd place vote: Zenji e-Sports’BD’ Kwak Bo-seong
4th place vote: T1’Faker’ Lee Sang-hyuk
5th place vote: Liv Sandbox’Fate’ Yoo Soo-hyuk
Heo-su and Ji-hoon Ji-hoon are really tough players. So, paradoxically, it was easy to decide which player would receive the first place vote. We voted for Damwon Kia’s imaginary man who won the championship with an overwhelming record. This season’s imaginary number was close to the finished midliner. If it is a line war, it is a line war, and if it is an operation, it is operated. He crushed the gorge as he wished. We dare to expect that the next-generation LCK star who will succeed Lee Sang-hyuk will be an imaginary person. Jung Ji-hoon is the romance of midliner. For him, Super Carry seems to be as natural as one meal a day. Without him this season, Hanwha Life’s first playoff challenge would have been a very difficult journey.
Kwak Bo-seong is also a midliner that deserves to be shoulder-to-shoulder with them. However, this season’s personal performance, team performance, etc. were taken into account. Lee Sang-hyuk still showed that he is alive. Even in a cluttered situation, we saved the team from the crisis. The indicators are also not far behind the top midliners.
Yoo Soo-hyuk is one of the midliners that our media has paid attention to the most this season. It ranks at the top in various indicators such as KDA, damage ratio within the team, kill involvement rate, and 15 minute gold indicators. If his team, Liv, had made it to the playoffs, he would have classified him as a player who could compete with Heo-Soo, Ji-Hoon Ji-Hoon, and Bo-Sung Kwak.
◇ Remote Dealer
1st place vote: Jaehyuk Park,’Ruler’ of Zenji esports
2nd place vote: Damwon Kia’Ghost’ Jang Yong-jun
3rd place vote: T1’Teddy’ Park Jin-seong
4th place vote: Hanwha Life Insurance e-Sports’Deft’ Kim Hyuk-gyu
5th place vote: Nongshim Red Force’Deokdam’ Seo Dae-gil
The position of a remote dealer was the area that I was most concerned about.
Three reporters discussed polling over the 1st and 2nd place votes, and the 3rd and 4th place votes. As Jang Yong-jun and Park Jae-hyuk belong to the 1st and 2nd place teams, respectively, it was difficult to cover the superiority and inferiority only by the addition of the team’s performance. In addition, the opponent’s score was 1 to 1 and the set score was the same as 3 to 3, so this part did not give any discrimination. As for the indicators, Jaehyuk Park at the beginning and Yongjun Jang showed strengths in the second half. Therefore, a more subjective perspective than any position had no choice but to influence the voting. After discussion, the main character was decided by a majority vote from the inside, and Park Jae-hyuk received two votes and Jang Yong-jun received one vote, and the main character of the’First Team’ was born.
Park Jin-sung and Kim Hyeok-gyu were also difficult to determine the superiority and inferiority.
The performance that Park Jin-sung showed in the mid-to-late season was overwhelming. It runs at the top in various indicators such as KDA, gold acquisition per minute, damage ratio within the team, kill involvement rate, and damage per minute. We did not receive the 1st and 2nd place votes in that the number of matches this season was not available in the 20th, but we failed as the protagonist of the 3rd place due to the superiority in the match against Kim Hyuk-gyu. Kim Hyuk-gyu was a player who played a large part in Hanwha Life Insurance, but it was regrettable that he showed ups and downs in the second round.
Seo Dae-gil is one of the most accomplished players this season. Without Seodaegil, it would have been difficult for Nongshim to advance to the playoffs. He is a player who is looking forward to his future performance.
◇ Supporter
1st place vote: T1’Keria’ Minseok Ryu
2nd place vote: Damwon Kia’Beryl’ Joo Joo-hee
3rd place: Hanwha Life Insurance e-Sports’Bustar’ Oh Hyo-sung
4th place: Genji e-Sports’Life’ Kim Jung-min
5th place: Nongshim Red Force’Keline’ Kim Hyung-gyu
This season, Minsuk Ryu was a player who was not ashamed of the title of’Reverse Heavenly Monsters’. The ability to create instantaneous variables and inish was outstanding. T1’s team showed consistent play despite the constantly changing facets of the teammates that match. I think it was thanks to Ryu Min-seok that T1 was able to play a bottom-oriented game this season. ‘Play of the Game (POG)’ points are also ahead of Joo Joo-hee, and he threw the first place vote for showing excellent numbers in various indicators as well.
Although he received the second place vote, Joo Joo-hee also showed creative play several times. He is Damwon Kia’s’acceleration engine’. He also showed this season that the game flows out of control in the atmosphere of Damwon Kia when his feet are released. However, I thought it was a bit disappointing in the performance in the second half.
Oh Hyosung, who wore clothes that fit my body, was more than expected. In particular, the skill level of’Reel’ was impressive. The appearance of turning the unfavorable game into a drastic initiative also drew attention. I think he is a player who will show a much better appearance if he gains more experience. In the case of Kim Jung-min, who is known as a’sapa supporter’, due to the meta change this season, he was unable to use signature pics such as’set’ frequently, and thus did not show a destructive appearance. It is true that the team’s performance is high, but we judged that it was not able to show a performance that exceeded the supporters listed above. Kim Hyung-gyu, who grew up unknowingly, played a strong support for Nongshim this season.
◇ MVP
1st place vote: Damwon Kia’Showmaker’ Heo Soo
2nd place vote: Damwon Kia’Kahn’ Kim Dong-ha
3rd place vote: Damwon Kia’Canyon’ Kim Gun-bu
4th place: Hanwha Life Insurance’Chobi’ Ji-Hoon Ji
5th place: T1’Keria’ Minseok Ryu
I thought that MVP must be produced from the winning team. Cookie News leaves the meta and sees LoL as a’mid game’ in the end. I think a good jungler also comes from a good midliner. That’s why I voted for the imaginary. Kim Dong-ha was chosen as the protagonist of the 2nd place vote because he set up a cluttered team atmosphere with Jang Ha-kwon’s transfer, and showed outstanding appearance both inside and outside the team. Geon-bu Kim also showed tremendous performance as well, but two reporters raised Kim Dong-ha’s hand and placed in third place.
Jung Ji-hoon did not join the’First Team’, but he showed the best appearance in his career. It is highly appreciated that Hanwha Life Insurance has won Hanwha Life Insurance several times with one man carry. Minseok Ryu is a player who deserves the 5th place vote. Without him, it would have been difficult for T1 to finish the season in fourth place. Even at a young age, he frequently played super with no ups and downs.