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recently, riot released an announcement confirming that yaogao will be allowed to replace scout in the s14 world finals. this announcement quickly caused an uproar on the internet, and even some netizens on the korean forum believed that this was a special treatment given by the official to the lpl region.

but in fact, it is not the case.league of legendsin many world-class competitions in history, many regions have had cases of temporarily loaning players.

at the s7 world championship, the jungler of the wildcard team 1907 fenerbahçe missed the world championship due to personal visa issues. there was no other way, and the team management could only rent players from other teams. in the end, at the world championship held at the bird's nest, crash, the jungler of the lspl league vg team, played as the starting jungler of 1907 fenerbahçe.

at the s10 world championship, three players from the psg team in the pcs region had visa issues. mid laner tank, jungler river, and ad unified were all unable to participate in the competition due to the same reason. helplessly, psg urgently loaned two players from the ahq team, mid laner uniboy and jungler kongyue, as well as the coach dee of the mcx team (as the starting ad) to participate in the competition.

because kongyue's performance was so outstanding, there was a joke online that "tear up river's visa".

in the s11 msi mid-season invitational, ad unified of psg was unable to participate in this mid-season invitational due to a pneumothorax problem. psg had no choice but to rent doggo from byg to participate in the tournament. the latter is also an old acquaintance of lpl audiences. he has been in many lpl teams in recent years.

if we don't count temporary loans and only count temporary substitutions, there are even more cases. fnc's ad player upset asked for leave to go home on the eve of the s11 world championship, which eventually led to the team's elimination in the round of 16. eg's ad player danny left the game on the eve of the s12 lcs summer finals due to psychological problems, and a new player promoted from the second team eventually played in the summer finals and the s championship for him.

it is worth mentioning that edg also experienced an emergency in the s6 world championship. at that time, the team's top laner a guang asked for leave to go home because his father passed away, but edg only had scout as a substitute mid laner. (at that time, edg's starting mid laner was pawn) there was no other way. edg applied to riot and pulled koro1 (tong wudi) from the domestic base, so that they could continue the game.

based on the above cases, temporarily renting players during the world championship is not a privilege. it's just that the teams that rented players in the past were basically wildcard teams with low attention, which is why yagao's replacement of scout as lng's mid laner caused so much controversy this time.

at this point, the matter has not been finalized. as long as the deposit is paid, scout can still participate in the world championship. this point was specifically mentioned in the official announcement, so yagao's journey to the world championship is not completely stable.

for lng, they certainly still hope to go as far as possible. we also expect the lpl region to go further in this world championship than last year.