Daeny said at the post match press conference in regards to a Korean reporter’s question about scrim partners.
Q. I have a question for Daeny. I’m curious how you prepared for the finals. It was last minute and there weren’t many people to scrim against. Have you had a chance to scrim against any LCK or LPL teams in preparation for the finals?
Daeny : (Having the availability of scrim partners) I actually believe that could be of some advantage to the teams of the host nation, LCK for this year.
When I was with DWG for the Worlds 2020 in China, I couldn’t book any scrims for a week after having made to the finals. We perhaps played like three scrim games?
Even at this year’s Worlds, there are only a few teams that maintains the roster without being affected by the off-season: KDF, and teams that are having tryouts, such as LSB and Nongshim.
It’s disappointing that our team didn’t have a chance to scrim against KDF because I believe T1 scrimmed against KDF for a week straight before the finals.
My point is that the level of performance is significantly better from a team that maintains its roster than teams that are having tryouts because the players on tryout teams are trying to prove that they are worthy of a spot in first-team.
Maybe the Chinese teams shouldn’t have booked and just stayed one more week to help their fellows with better chances?
I’m not sure how this is on the LCK teams. Even if they outright denied WBG scrims, they wouldn’t be at fault.
LNG and JDG booking the fastest flight back home instead of helping WBG are at fault.
“Home advantage” when this is literally the first time a team won in their home ground since forever
Lets go! 2024 is the year of the BullDog
Korean team regularly scrim with Chinese team.
Worlds was in korea So why they didn’t scrim with lpl team ??
It is an excuse. He said they didn’t got scrim before finals in 2020. While Suning was getting scrims with other lpl teams and even then DWG smashed SN. He contradicted his own Point.
To be honest, even Daenny will be memed for this words, this is a real problem long time known for anyone around scene. The week gap between Semis and Finals make very little sense, teams usually have almost no one to scrim, especially with a franchise era and cancellation of promotion series. SoloQ is already like 4 patches ahead. Players just losing their skills basically burning out in that last week, unless you are like T1 who played at home and have scrim partners
This is the one Worlds where it’s fair because T1 legit sent all of their scrim partners home lol. JDG had a turbo advantage in terms of scrims going into semis because they had BLG & WBG whereas T1 had LCK McDonalds essentially.