At present, the competition in the spring of each major region has been going on for a while, and yesterday the 2024 LPL Spring Season also ended the first week of the regular season. For the audience in the LPL division, the most discussed topic in the week after the start of the game may not be the performance of which team or player, nor what wonderful operations or interesting things on the field, but the discussion about the sudden decline in LPL popularity after the start of the game.
Since the start of this year's LPL Spring Match, some netizens have come to the conclusion that the popularity of LPL has declined sharply through the popularity of the live broadcast platform and the number of game videos at Station B. Even if it is the opening match between TES and BLG, which should be very hot, the number of videos recorded in the past week has been less than one million, which is unimaginable in the first two years.
In response to the decline in LPL popularity, many viewers have also discussed the reasons for this situation. Some netizens believe that it was the final of the S competition that was crushed by T1 last year, which made it difficult for the audience to continue to support LPL with enthusiasm, and some people believed that it was the super popular and topical veterans such as The Shy and UZI who were absent from the spring game, which led to a decrease in enthusiasm for watching the game.
However, with the recent release of a long-term head data map of each LOL competition area, it may answer the question of why the popularity of this year's LPL spring game has decreased to a certain extent. According to the average length and headcount data of the first week of the spring competition in each major region according to netizens, the LPL is the competition area with the longest average duration and the second-lowest average head per game among the four major regions.
These two data mean that the LPL game can easily drag on to the late stage of more than 34 minutes, and the game rarely breaks out, which is easy to make the pace of the game very dull and boring. This situation is a bit like the LCK division that I liked to operate a few years ago, and some netizens also complained that they didn't think that one day the LPL, which was keen on fighting and fighting each other, turned out to be the same as LCK. Some netizens even commented that the current LPL ornamentation was completely blown up by the LCK next door, because now the LCK next door likes to fight very much in the early stage, instead of breaking out two or three heads in the early stage, and the team battle will end when you brush it up in the later stage.
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