The three LPL teams that were undergoing secret training were just like watching an outdoor movie organized by a school. They sat in rows in front of the big screen in the conference room, focusing on the lottery ceremony.
As the saying goes, playing well is not as good as arranging well.
In e-sports, strength speaks for itself, but sometimes a little luck is needed.
The hosts of the lottery ceremony are Ren Dong, Shiyi and Yutong, who are responsible for explaining the entire process.
After a spoken word broadcast, the program got to the point, and the director cut to a VCR to introduce in detail the competition arrangements for the global finals.
For the first time, the S7 Global Finals will consist of 24 teams competing in three stages: the qualifying stage, the group stage and the knockout stage.
There are 12 teams in the qualifying round. These teams will be divided into four groups and compete through a double round-robin BO1 competition system.
The top two teams in each group will advance to the second round of the playoffs.
In the second round, the first and second ranked teams in each group will be randomly paired for BO5, and the winning four teams will advance to the group stage.
“I feel like this year’s competition system is so complicated!”
"I'm a bit confused, so hurry up and get to the drawing stage!"
"Why do we have to play BO1 and BO5 in the finals?"
There was a lot of chatter below.
There is a saying that there are many scumbags among professional players, and their cultural level is really worrying.
Take the vcr just now as an example. The explanation with the pictures can be said to be very straightforward and simple, but some people still see it in confusion.
Therefore, the future of professional players is a big problem, and the direction of re-employment after retirement urgently needs to be broadened.
The four teams that advance through the knockout rounds will join the other twelve teams and be assigned to four groups for the group stage.
The group stage is still a double round-robin BO1 competition system, and the top two teams in the group enter the knockout stage.
By then, the competition format will also become BO5.
Overall, there are not many changes in this year's global finals format, except that the knockout stage has become more complicated due to the expansion of participating teams.
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After introducing the rules of the competition, we finally entered the drawing stage.
The draw guests for the final round are also old acquaintances, BLG’s ancient beauty and IG’s cock.
When the two chubby little guys came on stage, they put their shoulders on each other and made a scissor hand gesture. The scene was quite joyful.
Aj came to the No. 1 pool, stirred the glass jar with his chubby hands, and took out one ball from the four balls and unscrewed it.
I don’t know if it’s fate, but the first ball Aj touched was RNG.
"Well, good luck, a good start."
"In other words, we are assigned to Group A, right?"
"This lottery ceremony is so exciting to watch! There is only one ball left, so why bother!"
"Tuimoji, hurry up and draw the second and third pools below to see who your opponent will be."
RNG people are still a little excited. Although in the knockout round, except for the team in Pool 1, almost all the teams in Pool 2 and 3 are classified as "stinky fish and rotten shrimp", but "stinky fish and rotten shrimp" also have strong and weak points.
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It was Rookie's turn to draw lots, and the first team he drew from the second pool was also an acquaintance from the global competition stage, the GMB team from the CIS.
"GMB should be considered a more powerful team in the second pool, right?"
"Cute, a living jungle jungler who is older than the factory."
"The mid laner of their team, I remember, has a unique ice bird skill."
In the last pool No. 3, Aj took it out casually, and the effect of the show exploded.
The RPG from LJL will enter Group A where RNG is located.
"Fuck!"
"This must be won!"
"And it has to be the kind of bloody torture!"
"No one can lose to this RPG team, otherwise we will have a hammer career!"
Everyone in RNG was in high spirits instantly.
Just kidding, if it comes to the big picture, this game involves historical grudges. Whenever RNG loses to RPG, it will be expelled from the country and sentenced to social death in seconds.
Of course, as a newly created league, the level of LJL can be imagined.
If RNG can seize the opportunity to brutally abuse RPG, it will be a sure way to gain fans.
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Everyone is quite confident that RNG will make it out of the knockout rounds.
After all, before EDG was blindsided by captain INTZ last year, the LPL team had never lost to a wild card team in the World Championship.
Even if C9 and FNC play snake and fall to second place in the group, and randomly become RNG's opponent in the second round, why should they be afraid of playing BO5RNG?
The highlight is still to come, the drawing of lots for the next group stage.
Pool 1 of the group stage is WE, G2, LZ, and AHQ.
On the LCK Summer Finals stage, LZ continued their good form this summer, defeating SKT cleanly to secure the No. 1 seed spot.
SKT relied on its points advantage to become the second seed in the LCK.
KT, who had been highly favored before, performed very poorly in the playoffs, especially the bottom lane combination, which seemed a bit like an outsider. Smeb said that he really couldn't lead them.
In the end, SSG was worthy of being the king of the bubble competition, defeating the unbalanced KT and becoming the third seed in the LCK.
As for the LMS competition area, with a group of big fish swimming into the LPL, the LMS competition area has been completely reduced to a small fish pond.
AHQ took advantage of FW being hollowed out, and finally took back the top spot in LMS, and was lucky enough to enter the No. 1 pool.
To put it bluntly, except for FW who is avoiding the same division, it is estimated that the other teams in the second pool are eager to be assigned to the AHQ group.
Soon, the groupings of Pool 1 were announced one after another.
Aj is really lucky. WE is also the first team to be drawn and assigned to Group A.
Next are LZ from Group B, G2 from Group C, and AHQ from Group D.
Rookie, who was responsible for drawing the second pool, closed his eyes in a slightly playful manner, stirred in the glass jar with one hand, and covered his chest nervously with the other hand.
It’s just that you are destined to be unable to escape when it comes.
SKT!
This whole year, SKT seems to be completely stuck with WE!
"Oh, it's SKT again!"
"No, broiler, how lucky are you?"
"Although SKT's status is ups and downs, it is SKT after all!"
Many people in the room gasped. SKT in the global finals can be called the inner demon of the LPL.
On the contrary, everyone in WE is relatively calm. So what, has SKT defeated WE?
The most worrying thing now is the other teams except LPL and LCK. Whoever falls into this death group has basically no hope of making it out alive.
There are fewer and fewer balls in the glass jar, and the group stage groupings are becoming clearer.
Group A: WE, SKT, TSM.
Group B:LZ,IMT,GAM.
Group C:G2,FW,SSG.
Group D:AHQ,MSF,EDG.
Analyzing the qualifying situation, although WE is in the death group, it should at least be able to guarantee the second place in the group.
The senior brother is really miserable. It is estimated that this year he will be eliminated in the group stage again and will be eliminated in the top 16.
EDG, on the other hand, perfectly avoided all the powerful enemies and teamed up with their good friend AHQ, which can be said to be a great draw.
As for RNG, assuming it advances in the knockout rounds, due to the principle of avoidance in the same division, it will only be assigned to Group B or Group C, and is destined to encounter LCK teams.
Relatively speaking, other opponents in Group B will be weaker and far less competitive than Group C.
