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the qualifying stage of the s14 global finals has begun. the competition for two competition days has ended. more intense promotion and knockout rounds will follow. the ratings of this year's qualifying competition are also considerable.

during this process, lol officials also released a data ranking of the team's popularity list, which aroused heated discussion among the audience.

faker tops the list, rng fails to be selected

when it comes to team popularity rankings around the world, the first player that audiences think of is faker. faker has been competing on the court for more than ten years. as the number one player in the league, he has continued to extend his career and has also won awards. a lot of fan support, especially after winning the fourth s-race championship of his career last year.

it can be said that a large part of the ratings in the lck and even around the world this year depend on the appeal of faker.

in this official lol team popularity ranking, faker's t1 team ranks first without any doubt. the official method of counting popularity this time is to count the team's highest ratings, but this time the ranking is still limited to the external network does not include lpl domestic data.

therefore, rng and ig, which are regarded by the audience as the top two teams in the historical popularity list in the lpl division, were not selected, and did not even make it into the top ten. once the lpl data is added, it is impossible for these two teams to enter the rankings. questionable.

the second-ranked team under t1 is dk. t1’s audience data and ratings are 2.95 million, while dk’s is 2.17 million.

the lpl team is in the cold, and the top one is edg

in terms of lpl teams, a total of five teams were selected, namely wbg, jdg, edg, sn and fpx. among them, wbg and edg were selected and ranked high. i personally think that one of the important reasons is because of their opponents in the finals. , wbg's opponent in last year's final was faker, and edg's opponent in that year's final was dk.

in other words, in terms of the highest ratings, wbg and edg are said to have benefited from a wave of korean teams on the internet.

jdg also played against faker's t1, so the ratings and audience data were relatively high.

on the contrary, the data here of sn and fpx are quite convincing. sn is ranked higher than fpx. as the champion of the s9 season, fpx is not as popular as the runner-up g2, which can also explain some problems.

sn's selection is more surprising, because in the same year, sn's biggest rival, the dwg team, was not included in this list.

it is worth mentioning that the teams selected into the top ten list this time are all after s9, and s8 and previous teams have not been on the list. from this point of view, the most likely situation is that the data of the s game is improving year by year. in the rising stage, s8 is not the peak, but starting from s9 to the s13 season, the highest ratings of the global finals team are increasing year by year.

ranked by the number of fans, rng and ig rank high

personally, i think the so-called popularity data released by the official has great limitations, because first of all, the selection criteria are not so reasonable, and it does not include the viewing data from china. of course, if the chinese viewing data is added, s7, s8 as well as edg in the s11 season, the data will be very amazing.

if we look at the popularity data alone, rng and ig are among the best in the world, because the popularity of these two teams at their peak was very terrifying.

the two teams also personally brought a huge public opinion war to the lpl division. because of wang sicong's weibo words, fans from both sides started a direct war. then the dialogue between the two teams was called the spring festival gala war. this shows how terrifying the popularity is. in the battle between rng and ig, it can be said that it is difficult for any team in the entire lol to replicate the popularity data of that time.

as time goes by, the popularity of the lpl division is actually declining. maybe the popularity of other divisions is not bad, such as lec and lck, but it is indeed impossible for lpl to have teams with huge fans like rng and ig again. .