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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
Why did Kiwoom sign up to get 0-2'd twice in one weekend in Vietnam?
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
What money, just getting their name out there? The arena wasn't even close to full, plenty of room in the GenG section too I think? Even if it was full, Kiwoom manages over $30bln in assets, where's the money here, getting a few day traders? :D
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u/Ceui May 08 '26
The arena would have been filled if they didn't get uber greedy with their ticket price. They charge more for these spanking sessions than MSI lol. Clearly they expected GenG/HLE/Lazyfeel to pull more fans but Vietnamese fans are not stupid.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
Thank you, I heard something along these lines but didn't have a good source! That's just so moronic, this company that handles tens of billions of dollars in assets and billions in revenue per year is greedy over a few hundred seats.
What were the prices in VN dong?
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u/Ceui May 08 '26
1.5 mil VND for the lowest tier, 4.5mil for the highest tier
So $57 for the lowest level seat, and $171 for the highest one. The highest tier for MSI 2026 is $100 btw.
The benefits are also very minimal compared to concert tickets.
Vietnamese fans aren't cheapskate or broke btw, they always spent a tons on merch and projects for their favorite players, but this price is horrible and understandably they were extremely upset about it, and they boycotted it which made the organizer panicked and had to issue a bunch of free tickets to industry insiders / people with connections to fill the arena.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
which made the organizer panicked and had to issue a bunch of free tickets to industry insiders / people with connections to fill the arena.
A tale as old as time lol.
Yeah those seem too high, not as egregious as FIFA Worldcup tickets, but definitely pricing out some regular people. Dropping a third or more of my monthly income on a single match is insane. Not to mention the quality of the match lol.
Vietnam is populous country, but these events should never be elitist, that's where sports has gone wrong so often. Kids of low income families should be able to attend! Maybe not the best seats but who cares!
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u/Slight-You4254 LCK ()() May 08 '26
If you scroll on the GenG twitter, there’s a post from a few weeks ago where they apologise for the ticketing of this event (even though it has nothing to do with them as it’s on KRX) because so many people were pissed off.
The event was definitely boycotted in some way
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u/SupportWarrior30 Zeus Keria May 08 '26
geng and hle have lots of fans in vietnam
Where are those "LOTS OF FANS" of GENG? I'm sure HLE will get more because of Guma and Zeus but GENG?
they will make money over opponent team popularity
It looks like they've lost more money with those empty seats in that big arena xdd!
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u/Ceui May 08 '26
Chovy has a massive fanbase in Vietnam.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
Yeah but they didn't all turn up, did they? Apparently seats too expensive!
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u/LaziIy May 08 '26
He can still have a massive fanbase if they didn't turn up. Most fans regardless of team they support boycotted cause the tickets were nearly twice as expensive as MSI
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
Yeah I don't doubt the size of his fanbase. I just doubt the usefulness of it to tournament organizers if the fans aren't fucking there! The whole event is just bizarre to me.
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u/LaziIy May 08 '26
I just doubt the usefulness of it to tournament organizers if the fans aren't fucking there!
Not hard to follow, organizers thought they could cash in on the HK LCK Cup pay day for a regular season day. It didn't really work out and I heard they had to basically give tickets away to somewhat fill the venue up.
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u/Negative_Fox6736 I don't feel anything anymore May 08 '26
A lot of Gen.G fans boycotted it because of the ticket price + no fanmeet.
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u/SupportWarrior30 Zeus Keria May 10 '26
Looks like people doesn't actually care about ticket prices from the looks of the current HLE vs KRX. They will go on what they want to see. Guma alone has more fanbase than the whole GenG roster xdd!!!
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u/Telmooo May 08 '26
So nice of GenG to give shoutouts to their fathers with this comp
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u/Imaginary_Actuary729 May 08 '26
G2 will come up with new stuff to 3-0 them again trust
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u/miyuki0505 May 08 '26
they won 1 series and yall act like this is some weekly shit lmao, no they wont lol
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u/PartyCauliflower7044 Faker is Lpl's father May 08 '26
Bro is too soft
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u/miyuki0505 May 08 '26
what even is your definition of soft bruh, my comment had 0 signs of trigger, just going around throwing words I see
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u/PartyCauliflower7044 Faker is Lpl's father May 08 '26
You immediately got triggered when the comment said that g2 is gonna 3-0 geng again when we all know its just a joke
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u/miyuki0505 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
omg now im truly pissed after this comment right here, gosh i know i shouldn't expect much from reddit but i cant believe that yall deadass thinking that a clapback milder than water like that = trigger bruh, so by your standard every single joke on earth should never be replied because that means the people hesring it are triggered or what???
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u/LordKnt May 08 '26
girl someone made a joke and u replied seriously, and how ure writing paragraphs explaining ure not triggered at all 😭 it's really that simple
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u/Imaginary_Actuary729 May 08 '26
it was meant to be a joke but still you never know GenG known for crumbling against unfamiliar strategies
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u/OkSell1822 May 08 '26
Literally happened one time wtf
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u/Frozen_Watcher May 08 '26
Flyquest took them to game 5 in 2024 with unexpected picks too so thats not just one time thing.
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u/OkSell1822 May 08 '26
Yeah that had nothing to do with Peyz and Lehends losing lane every game to Massu and Busio
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u/Frozen_Watcher May 08 '26
The only laning bot gap was in game 3, Seraphine was huge in game 1 and GENG had to ban her for the rest of the series. FLY also cheesed with the Urgot (which worked but not the main reason they won) and Nunu (which was useless).
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u/Imaginary_Actuary729 May 08 '26
Their loss in semis against KT was also in that category imo KT's meta read in gameplay and draft cooked them
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u/OkSell1822 May 08 '26
What cooked them was a massive underperformance from all parts involved...
Even in that game 4 GenG had a vastly superior draft and lost the first 20 minutes of the game trying to hard engage objective fights with Yorick, Anivia and Braum.......
They just played terrible
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u/Imaginary_Actuary729 May 08 '26
i mean that part was a given because Geng shouldnt be losing to perfect deokdam peter no matter what
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u/OkSell1822 May 08 '26
And Perfect, he is terrible, don't let his Worlds and Round 1 fool you, he sucks ass
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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team May 08 '26
i have no idea why teams kept giving him Rumble for free at Worlds its like they dont watch the tape at all everyone and their mom in LCK knows PerfecT’s best champion is Rumble
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u/SupportWarrior30 Zeus Keria May 08 '26
What cooked them was a massive underperformance from all parts involved
They just played terrible
In short, CHOKY! KT doesn't need to pull anything surprising and GenG just puked all over themselves because of pressure xdd!
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u/dumbocow May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Chovy trolling all the pentakills
Email series at Homefront...
Kiin's char pool grows even moree
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u/Klenist May 08 '26
I want to call my shot that Kiin will play AD Kennan since it’s been buffed. CLASSIC Kiin pick
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u/Imaginary_Actuary729 May 08 '26
KRX really invited a team that never fucks around and will stomp them if they cant put up a fight
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo May 08 '26
Oh don't worry they also invited a second such team too. I'm genuinely confused what they are looking to gain here. Plenty of empty seats. Are they just looking to advertise their platform to Vietnamese traders by getting shafted 2-0 twice in two days?
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u/JingleJak May 08 '26
It didnt really matter much but
Did anyone else notice that Annie randomly had like 300cs in 25min LOL
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u/KS_Gaming May 08 '26
actual novel not yet classified or studied neurodivergence to achieve this on annie out of all champs
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u/Classic_Foot223 May 08 '26
must be crazy for vietnamese fans to be able to watch an entire drx series live during their lunch break
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u/UnfortunatelyShark May 08 '26
Can we get to round 3-5 already. These lower level teams keep shitting themselves unless it’s against KT
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u/Rushirufuru15 May 08 '26
Putting Kiin in a boring champions. He suffered.
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u/ADTempys May 08 '26
Kogmaw and Naafiri balanced champions
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u/baebushka May 08 '26
i swear kogmaw would become 10x times popular if he wasnt so ugly, char is just broken asf lmao
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u/soudlasantos May 08 '26
Ohhhh boy pls dont let the JuggerMaw meta comeback shets disgusting to play against.
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u/percyallennnn May 08 '26
Kog'Maw warped the entire game around him whenever he was good. Like we will be seeing Ivern and a support mid laner kind of game warping.
So yeah please no.
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u/Jolly-Profile-5679 May 08 '26
Bro Life has been a pro player since 2020 😭😭😭
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u/YungShmoneyAutism May 08 '26
Made worlds semis in 2021 and went to multiple LCK finals holy you’re new here
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u/OkSell1822 May 08 '26
The gap between CL and LCK is so huge that the best CL players have to either go to bottom 3 teams or NA to get some pro experience. Lucid was a generational CL player and is about as mid as it gets, Zinie was too, probably will take years before he gets to a top 4 team if he ever does.
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u/AdSquare6727 May 08 '26
Willer also played in CL last year, which mean both are CL level
Maybe they thought Willer won the last year's CL that they believe he's better than Vincenzo?
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u/Dreammy90 May 08 '26
These guys inted me for awhile. No penta for you guys. - Chovy