Written by: Benson Cheng @1337sn1per

Photo credits: LoL's official weibo





Having your own region win Worlds is one of those prestigious achievements that happen once every 8 years, in LPL’s case. To complement the pride and bragging rights is of course looking forward to what type of special in-game rewards or goodies the servers in China would offer! Unfortunately for Summoners in these offers, none of their expectations were met. It was only after the boss of IG (Wang Sicong aka IG WXZ) stepped in to talk to Tencent that LoL China decided to ramp up rewards for players.

LPL has finally won worlds! After 8 long years! Team loyalty didn’t matter, everyone just wanted to savor the moment and of course log in and join Summoner’s Rift, after all Invictus Gaming won so the client must have some special loot or rewards to celebrate. Unfortunately this was far from the case; in fact IG winning Worlds was not even mentioned on the client’s main page! Instead it was….KD/A.

Well at least we’ll have all champs unlocked for a period of time? Or skins? The type of thing the Chinese LoL servers offered when RNG won MSI earlier this year. This was not the case for those ecstatic over IG’s victory. Instead the servers offered 3 lootboxes each containing 1 from the follow respectively:

- A random permanent skin (5011 total copies Arctic Assault Gragas) to celebrate Ning’s exemplary performance

- A random summoner icon

- EXP or BE boost





Additionally we would receive:

- 30 day trial on 5 champions and skins used by IG in the Group Stage

- 30 day trial on 5 champions and skins used by IG in the Knockout Stage

- 30 day trial on 5 champions and skins used by IG in the Final





A bit anticlimactic relative to the LPL region’s achievement by players’ standards as negative comments bombarded the official LoL’s post on weibo. One sarcastic comment includes “IG won? I though KD/A won Worlds!”

IG’s VP stepped into the conversation saying he understands how players feel and that “Mr Hotdog” (A nickname given to WXZ after a picture of him eating a hotdog at the Final was memed) had already spoken to representatives at Tencent about everyone’s dissatisfaction. He ends by saying “I hope we can get what we deserve!”





The manager of IG also chimed in replying to LoL’s weibo post saying “People can’t feel the excitement over this win, can you guys do a bit more to hype it up?”





To put this into context, the following rewards for RNG winning MSI 2018 were:





- A random permanent skin

- Special RNG emote

- Champions, skins, name change, server change tickets, exp and BE boosts are 50% off

- All champions and a skin for each unlocked for 3 days

- Double exp weekend





Rewards were given right after RNG won MSI whereas rewards for IG winning Worlds will be live on the 15th of November.

Shortly after the LoL official weibo had a new post saying that they will make a November a month of celebrations. Claiming that today’s announced rewards are only the beginning with more to come.









However the damage had already been done. Fans were unhappy about the rewards and now they are unhappy about IG’s boss having to step up for the team time and time again.













Comments translation:







“How embarrassing to have the boss step in every time”



- “Conquering mountains only to find out no one is waiting for you” (RooKie saying Faker, Pawn etc are mountains)





“Having Principal Wang (WXZ) to stick up for IG every time, you guys have really thick skin!”





“Didn’t KD/A win Worlds?”

- “Yea, the girl idol group won”

- “KD/A are the real winners of Worlds!”



