Doinb: If I am eliminated in the first round of the Nirvana Group, I will retire at the end of April

If eliminated in the first round of the Nirvana Group, NIP player Doinb vowed to end his professional career at the end of April.

The second stage of the 2025 LPL will be held from March 22 to June 14, and will go through four stages: group stage, group match, knight's road and knockout stage. In the group stage, 13 teams will be divided into groups according to their results in the first stage to start a BO1 double round-robin match. After the group stage, the top four teams in the summit group will advance to the knockout stage, and the bottom two teams in the Nirvana group will be eliminated directly, thus ending the 2025 season journey.

NIP was placed in Group C and will compete with TES, OMG and FPX for a spot in the summit group. The team's mid laner Doinb (Kim Tae-sang) recently talked about the possibility of being eliminated in the first round during a live interaction with Icon (Xie Tianyu), and said frankly that he had never considered this situation. He said: "If I am eliminated in the first round, don't look for me first. I may have to pretend to be dead for a week. If I am eliminated in the first round, you may not see me for a week, at least a week. Don't ask me where I am going. I will pretend to be dead first."

As for further assumptions, Doinb added: "If we can't even make it to the summit, if it's the Nirvana group, if the Nirvana group is directly eliminated, the competition will end at the end of April, and then my professional career will end at the end of April. According to what you said, my professional career will end at the end of April. If this is the case, at the end of April, I can prepare for the retirement ceremony. Then it will be more than a week, maybe a month. You won't see me."