Chapter 70 The dog son is about to take off again?
Every year during the global finals, the Anti-Stress Bar has the highest traffic, and the popularity has been very high since the lottery ceremony on the first day.
In the first draw, EDG got SKT, and the mentality of the piggies was naturally very explosive.
Rookie was obviously a little embarrassed, and when the lot was drawn later, he had the mentality of breaking the pot and quickly drew out all eight teams in the second pool.
Group A: EDG, SKT, AHQ.
Group B: LZ, GAM, IMT.
Group C: G2, SSG, RNG.
Group D:FW,MSF,TSM.
As the final result appeared, many EDG fans who had posted comments about Rookie suddenly stopped what they were doing, feeling that they were okay again.
Yes, Triple Crown champion SKT is indeed very powerful, but AHQ is like EDG's son!
Is it possible that this son can still kill his father?
It can only be said that these people have never heard a line.
The cloth has been wandering for half my life, and I just regret that I have never met the Lord...
Although each group has a to-be-determined quota reserved for the four teams that will compete in the bubble stage, the principle of non-meeting between teams in this division must also be followed.
Now Group A already has teams from three divisions: LPL, LCK and LMS. No matter which team breaks through from the finals, it will basically not pose a threat to EDG. EDG has a very high probability of advancing as second in the group.
Of course, the possible exception is FNC, the third seed in the European division. After all, they were beaten 4-0 by others.
But to be honest, with the addition of two newcomers, Yang Yi and Jiang Chenglu, EDG has undergone considerable changes this year. In the intercontinental competition, they even defeated the rising SKT. Fans still have some confidence in this.
If EDG still can't beat the teams in the European and American divisions, then really don't be embarrassed by going to the knockout rounds. Anyway, there is a high probability that they will be in the top eight.
RNG fans are a bit worried about facing a formidable enemy.
Yes, RNG fans still respect the G2 team very much at this time, unlike later.
After all, AC Milan lost 3-0 in the first half before popping the champagne at halftime. But RNG was already celebrating the victory before the game even started, and some rational fans wanted to give IG a third of their money.
Winning achievement.
This year, G2, as the spring and summer double champions of the European LCS division, also defeated WE head-on in the MSI semi-finals and won the runner-up. They are undoubtedly a very competitive team, while RNG barely won 3:2 some time ago.
WE, of course fans don’t dare to open champagne before the game.
Coupled with the LCK's third seed SSG, if a qualifying team with relatively strong paper strength is added later, then it is not necessarily that Group C where RNG is located will be the death group of this global finals.
But again, if a third seed in the LCK can't beat a European and American player, then don't advance at all.
And WE fans are very comfortable.
Since there is already one team from the LPL division in Group A and Group C, WE can only be divided into Group B or Group D after entering the bubble game. Basically, there is only one team in these two groups that is stronger on paper.
The teams in Group B are Longzhu, the No. 1 seed in the LCK, and FW, the No. 1 seed in the LMS division, are in Group D. No matter which group WE goes to, they will guarantee second place and compete for first place.
All in all, the LPL audience is actually quite satisfied with the grouping of this year's group stage. There is no real dead group in each group. The qualifying form of the three LPL teams is pretty good, and the public opinion of Kangba is also relatively optimistic.
[EDG's luck is really good. This will allow him to meet his son AHQ. If he throws in a piece of rotten fish in the bubble game, he can happily reach the top eight again this year.]
[To be honest, this grouping should be the most beneficial grouping for LPL in recent years. If the three teams cannot enter the quarterfinals again, then they can really only say that they are not good at it.]
[Haha, if you ask me to say that the death group is an excuse, do people who want to win the championship care who their opponents are? 】
However, as the bubble competition ended and the four qualifying teams were grouped into groups through the second round of draws, the format became different again.
As most people expected, the teams in the wild card division were basically no match for the third seed in the four major regions. In the end, C9, the third seed in the North American division that looked like Baidu Cloud, was assigned to Group A, and FNC, the third seed in the European LCS division
After going to Group B, WE, the third seed in the LPL division, entered Group D.
There is only one team excepted, and that is HKA, the third seed in the LMS division.
They first lost to 1907 Fenerbahce FB of the Turkish League in the intra-group round-robin BO1 in the first stage of the group stage, and only advanced to the knockout rounds in second place. Then they lost to FNC in the knockout rounds, and finally lost to 1907 Fenerbahce FB from Turkey.
The wild card team FB advanced to Group C.
It can only be said that Riot’s plan to ban the LMS division is not without reason.
As for C9, who was assigned to Group A, they were actually not taken seriously by the majority of LPL audiences.
The main reason is that the teams in the North American region are too stretched, and C9 is no exception. Although they can enter the World Championship every year, they are basically either the top eight or the top 16 every year. They are simply the North American EDG.
S3 top eight, S4 top eight, S5 top 16, S6 is still the top eight.
With this record, you still say you are not EDG?
There are more than 16 top teams, which is even better than EDG.
After seeing the specific groupings, everyone at EDG breathed a sigh of relief.
Except for Yang Yi, who is heartless, most people are still very stressed about being grouped with SKT. After all, it is SKT.
Wherever the three stars are placed, everyone has to take a high look at them. As long as SKT reaches the global finals, they will be the favorites to win the championship. They have the lowest odds on the betting website. With AHQ and C9, these two rookies
The team is at the bottom, and EDG can at least secure the second place and compete for first place. It is not a problem to advance to the knockout rounds.
Despite the smile on Klin's face, he is actually under the heaviest psychological pressure in the team. In addition to playing training matches every day, he plays crazy Rank solo queue. Now he has reached the 77th place in the Korean server.
He is almost twenty-five years old, and it is really difficult for him.
But even so, Clint Dance is not EDG's current highest ranking score.
This year's EDG is not only the king of the Korean server with all members, but also occupied three positions in the top ten, followed by Yang Yi, Jiang Chenglu and their junior brother.
After professional players from various competition regions came to China, they were supposed to go to the top of the canyon for rankings as usual. For this reason, the officials also launched a wave of severe crackdowns on actors and idle behavior at the top of the canyon.
But this effect... can only be said to be not very ideal.
After playing for a while at the top of the canyon, the players of the Korean team almost numbed themselves.
They are playing Rank at the top of the canyon these days. Every day they have to face a group of unique heroes who can't even make it to the competition and a group of Oscar contenders. They were already exhausted mentally and physically. When they looked back, they suddenly found that their home was almost stolen by EDG. They immediately...
I went back and started playing Korean.
Some good people made statistics on the Rank rankings of each team. EDG's starting five must have the highest average rankings in the two divisions of China and South Korea. After all, three of the top ten are EDG players, followed by SKT, LZ and
SSG.
As for the other two teams in the LPL... I can only say that they are a bit far behind.
There has been no competition in the past two days, and the members of the anti-pressure bar have been busy. When something like this happens, it naturally triggers a large-scale discussion, and the discussion is still the same old question - is there any use in having a high Rank score?
?
Originally, this question had been answered in the promotion and relegation games this spring. At that time, Gao Dewei, who was only in the second place, hoisted up Knight, who was number one in the Korean server, and beat him. In addition, the patriarch's previous words, "What's the use of high points? Just be strong."
”, “This trash Xiye made me laugh to death” and other famous quotes, at that time people had already concluded the issue.
A high Rank score is the same as a certain team being particularly strong in training matches, which has become a joke among bar friends while surfing the Internet.
However, as EDG, the top scorer among all players, defeated RNG 3-0 in the summer finals and continued their dominance in the LPL, some fans began to feel that the Rank score seemed to be able to explain some problems.
Just like Gao Dewei said, does anyone really think that he is just a second-level mid laner?
"Brother Yangzi, are you about to become the number one in the Korean server now?" Ai Luoli asked curiously.
Because Theshy's performance was still not stable enough, EDG finally chose to bring Mouse as a substitute just in case. The mascot Ailuoli was left at the base for the first time and missed the World Championship, but he was happy and relaxed.
Yang Yi sighed, "Forget it, we've already dropped to fourth place."
"Gitui, I saw you were third in rank yesterday... By the way, who are the three in front of you? Are they familiar?"
"I don't recognize the second one and the third one. The second one seems to be called Taishan? Judging from the hero pool, he should be a jungler. The third one's ID is [wanxiaowan], and he seems to be a Chinese who plays mid laner?"
"I do know that Wan Xiaowan. He is the talented domestic mid laner who was the number one in the Korean server before YM. I don't know why he suddenly changed his name to this... Could it be that he changed his name for his girlfriend? Then he has to mark it as the Korean server before the Rank settlement.
Are you the first to confess your love to her?" Tian Tian speculated with a gossipy look on his face.
"What about "Glory of the King of League of Legends"? Have you read too many online articles recently?" Ai Luoli complained.
"Damn it, no wonder I always feel that this plot looks familiar. I've seen it in it before," Yang Yi suddenly realized, "If this is the case, will the plot of "Accompany You to the Top of the World" also be able to be seen in the movie in the future?
Replicate it in reality?”
"To be honest, this is a bit difficult. I think the famous scene of [3, 2, 1, group start] is easier to recreate..."
"No, how come you all know so much?"
Everyone in EDG laughed for a while, and suddenly they heard Klin Ding Wu sighing:
"Speaking of which, Kuihe didn't enter the World Championship this time. It's really... surprising."
That’s right, the current number one in the Korean server is Mr. Dai, the pilot. With the ID [Deft123456], you don’t need to guess it to know it’s him.
Yang Yi also found it quite interesting. At that time, KT had already half-stepped into the World Championship, but ended up slipping out on his own and became the ticket seller for the World Championship.
KT is an LCK Galaxy Battleship with many star players such as Deft, Pwan, Mata and Smeb. Many people originally regarded them as the favorites to challenge SKT's status. In fact, KT did only lose one hand to SKT in the Spring Split.
Arrived at runner-up.
When it came to the summer split, they had four chances to get tickets to the World Championship, and many people even thought it was only possible to "fail to qualify" in theory... but they just did it.
The first opportunity, as long as KT wins one more BO3 in the regular season, they can surpass the LZ team and take first place in the summer regular season. According to the LCK competition system, the first team in the regular season will be directly sent to the finals, and then KT can
Rely on the points from the spring and summer games to directly advance;
For the second chance, as long as KT can win a BO5 game in the playoffs, they can also advance by relying on the runner-up points;
The third chance is that if SKT defeats LZ in the finals, which has no points from the spring split, then KT can still advance based on their points throughout the year;
The last chance was the bubble match. Unfortunately, KT still lost to SSG, the king of the bubble match, and it became a miracle that "theoretically failed to qualify".
At this time, the issue regarding the EDG cafeteria has not yet been exposed. In the eyes of the LPL audience, Deft is still the image of complaining about the poor food in China all the time, and when he returned to the LCK, he said that he could not improve if he stayed in the LPL.
The latter is actually not a big problem. After all, Yangtuo won all the championships they should have won in EDG. After winning all the championships, there is really no way to break through. But the problem in the front is huge. They actually say that Chinese food is not as good as kimchi?
After the Galaxy Battleship KT overturned this time, Brother Kang immediately posted a lot of spoof pictures about KT and Deft. One of them was widely circulated, and it was that one - ["Hey is this Mingkai? I am Deft, I am
I want to go back to EDG!" "Get out! I'm majesty!"]
"Yangzai, don't wait in line yet, it's almost time."
"Oh okay, I didn't pay attention to the time."
Yang Yi really wanted to try to hit the top spot in the Korean server again, but it was almost time for the training match, so he had to reluctantly fork off the client and accelerator.
It can be seen that the official attaches great importance to the global finals held at home. In order to allow the LPL team to perform well, they even organized a large number of LPL players who have been on vacation to come back to help play training matches.
In addition to the four IG players who just missed reaching the World Championship (Duke went back for vacation), IG also invited a very luxurious sparring team, namely:
Top laner: XiaoAL Langxing, Flandre Holy Spear;
Junglers: Ning, General Kid, Wild King Eimy, Hacker H4cker;
Mid laner: Doinb, Rookie;
ADC:SMLZ,IBoy,Jackeylove,Lwx;
Support: Megan, Crisp, Pyl.
It can be said that all the outstanding players who can be named in the LPL have been sent as sparring partners. Among them, the five members of IG and Brother Shengqiang formed a temporary fixed team, and the rest formed a rotating team to play against Yu Sanjia.
A training match started.
With four big characters, we are united and vow to keep the championship trophy in China.
In particular, the two Korean mid laners Doinb and Rookie are actually willing to give up their vacations to work as unpaid sparring partners for the LPL. With this awareness and this heart, can you not call these two "The Chosen Huazi"?
Of course, the three teams competing in the World Championship were also very moved and immediately devoted themselves more seriously to the intense training matches.
But what I didn't expect was that after only three days, the teams WE and RNG were no longer willing to play training games with IG, and it was rumored that Brother Zuko seemed to have been beaten to red temperature again.
The IG that joined Jack Dirty Dancing and Holy Gun Brother seems to have changed from a complete body to an ultimate body. Only EDG can compete with this IG 50-50.
Ever since, EDG simply asked IG to play training matches alone, leaving the other group of players to WE and RNG.
When the news spread online, many people thought it was another dog-son joke.
There is no way, who makes IG say that it wants to take off every year, but ends up breaking its legs every year, I can’t help but laugh.
After all, what's the use of just being strong in training matches?
If the training games were useful, then the TSM team would have been the Triple Crown champions by now!
So at the moment, few people believe in the complete version of IG. Many people just think that next year they can watch the classic dog son’s broken leg again!
In this way, in the training matches with IG day after day, the opening day of the group stage is getting closer and closer.
