After the week-long group stage, LPL achieved an excellent result of 13-3, ranking first.
Ranked second is LCK, with a group stage score of 11-5.
Compared with the past, the dominance of LCK this year is obviously much weaker.
Not only did they lose two games to the LPL, but even the European and American divisions were upset and stole points from the LCK.
LEC was a bit stretched due to the rear team, and in the end it only achieved a score of 9-7.
However, the European Division gave many surprises to the global audience in this global competition, with the weak defeating the strong and overthrowing the LCK teams.
The LCS was completely defeated by its old rival LEC, and its 5-11 score really disgraced the four major regions.
Stable abusers, while being stably abused.
Only C9 of North America's Light defeated SSG, and all other games against LCK and LPL were lost.
The strongest wild card coalition was killed to the point where they doubted their lives, and almost had their heads shaved on 2-14.
One thing to say, although the results looked bleak, the game was still quite close, and several games were close to each other.
If these teams can improve their details and give this new generation of FW some time to level up, they may have a chance to surpass the LCS and get rid of the shame of being at the bottom.
It can be seen that the gap between the top teams is not as wide as imagined, and there will be no underdogs in the World Championship!
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After the group stage, due to the pressure of the schedule, we directly entered the knockout stage the next day.
The bottom-ranked wild card alliance challenges the fourth-place LCS division.
There was no match in the LPL, so everyone watched the BO5 battle in the hotel room.
"Do you think the wild card can beat North America?" Abramovich asked.
"Only TSM and C9 can watch the LCS. The remaining P1 and FLY are a bit weak!" Brother Feng said seriously.
"Indeed, if the wild card team makes full use of the global competition system and thinks about how to arrange their troops, they will at least have a chance to postpone it to the fifth finals!" Zhuge Liang agreed.
The LPL coaching team has carefully studied the special format of this global competition in advance. It is no exaggeration to say that the coaching team's formation will directly affect the outcome of BO5.
The group stage is a battle between teams of the same name. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to have an upset.
However, entering the knockout stage, if the coaching staff handles it properly, even if the overall strength of the competition area is inferior, Tian Ji's horse racing method can still win.
"I hope Europe can beat LCK with a bang, that would be interesting!" OMG head coach Zhang Yu said with a smile.
After all, in terms of the outcome of the group stage, the LPL is definitely more certain to play against the LEC than against the LCK.
"Actually, I want to have a chance to compete with LCK!" Uzi said, gearing up after hearing this.
"If I didn't win the championship by stepping on the LCK, it would be a little less interesting!" The factory director couldn't help but nod.
"The disgusting people in LCK are really good at it. We were crushed by us in the group stage. They made all kinds of excuses, but refused to admit that our LPL is strong! Let's just crush them completely in the knockout round and see what they have to say then!"
He smiled and said coldly.
At the Enter the Dragon Cup held in Korea that year, WE were collectively disconnected during the match against KTA.
Ruofeng immediately negotiated with the referee team, but the referee team did not suspend the game.
Knowing that there was a network problem on WE's side, KTA had no sportsmanship and took the opportunity to kill two of WE's disconnected heroes, and pushed down the middle high ground along the way.
One thing to say, S2's disconnection door is terrible, but in terms of its badness, it is not worthy of being used in the Enter the Dragon Cup!
The five members of WE were completely irritated and gave up communication. After reconnecting, they repeatedly played perfect teams and beat KTA violently.
It was also in this game that the famous scenes of Smiling Plane killing five, Strawberry Olaf dancing and taunting under the tower, and KTA surrendering on their own initiative were born.
The older generation of e-sports players have a very strong obsession with "anti-Korean".
Even if the LCK team is very strong, I just want to hammer you, even if I can’t beat you, I will hammer you!
Don't fight over steamed buns to fight for reputation, if you can kill one more, you will earn it!
Now that the LPL has become stronger and is qualified to compete with the LCK, is it possible that it will still be used to the LCK?
Stepping on the corpse of the LCK to reach the top and winning the honor of the first division for the LPL, how exciting would that be?
Unconvinced? Hard-spoken? Thick-skinned?
That's something that needs to be dealt with, hammer it!
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The wild card coalition obviously does not plan to go home early. These stragglers from various competition regions around the world are closely united for the glory of each other's competition regions.
They want to tell the world that their division has its own name, not just a "wild card" in general!
In the first game, the wild card coalition sent out the relatively weak GMB team.
LCS should want to get a solid start and put the strongest TSM in the first match.
The GMB team from the CIS is not a ragtag team. Their star player is the ancient fossil jungler Diamondprox.
Dai Meng can definitely be called the ancestor of the jungle. The Dai Meng from the Tactics Master M5 can be said to have inspired subsequent jungle players.
It was the first time he used jungler Xin Zhao, jungler Widow, jungler Udyr and jungler Dragon Girl in the LOL arena, creating a counter-jungle style of play and a two-player strategy with auxiliary junglers. Even though M5 has long been disbanded, there are still many old players around the world who cannot forget this legendary jungler.
However, time is like a butcher's knife. The young man who was handsome and handsome back then has now gained a lot of weight.
"I think Dai Meng should change his ID to Diamondplus!" the factory director complained to the smiling person sitting next to him.
"That's too much! Did the fat man eat your rice?" The smile felt like it was being understood.
According to the factory director's logic, should his WX also be upgraded to WXX?
"Alas, the M5 back then was such a pity!" Abu said slightly sentimentally.
The grudges and hatreds in ancient times have changed in the blink of an eye.
There are fewer and fewer familiar faces remaining on this stage.
Watching the games of ancient players like Dai Meng, Big Brother, and even Smile and Factory Director will make you lose one!
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The lineups chosen by the two teams are quite unique. TSM has a pretty solid lineup, which will be worth at least five or six thousand in economy in the later stages.
GMB fully demonstrated the irritability of the fighting nation, drinking vodka, singing Katyusha, and holding bobosha, just to confront TSM.
Enter the game and invade in a group of five people at level 1 of GMB.
The two sides had just faced each other, and GMB's auxiliary Niutou didn't care whether his teammates could keep up. He flashed Q to start a team fight, sending three people flying on the spot.
What made the five members of TSM, the commentators from each region, and even the global audience dumbfounded was that the remaining four members of GMB actually followed up with a cross-dodge!
"Damn it, are you so fierce?" Kandi's eyes widened.
"I am Diguigui, these people show up for free, don't they?" 957 adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, saying that it was an eye-opener.
"This Niutou is such a reckless person!" Meiko frowned, not liking the reckless behavior of GMB Assistant.
"The big bug picked up three people! The cute Kayn stage is huge! Senior brother, senior brother, he is down! This wave of TSM explodes!" Xiaohu came to give an impromptu commentary, and his funny tone was full of joy. p>