Before the MSI Mid-Season World Championship, the official ranking of the top 20 professional players in the world was suddenly like throwing a boulder on an already unstable lake.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves!
This kind of list given before the game is too controversial.
After all, everyone comes from different competition regions and has never played against each other.
If you don't even play any games now, you just come up with a ranking of the top 20. Who among the fans in the major competition regions can convince whom?
Why are you ranked higher than me?
How about awarding the championship directly to the first person?
So let alone being a fan, little fat Clid saw the online rankings as soon as he checked in at the hotel.
I was anxious then!
He was not targeting Li Xiufeng.
On the way, Dad penetrated deeply into his heart.
However, Doub in the middle feels more "bad" than him this season, and he actually finished in the top ten.
Although at the bottom,
But he was ranked outside the top ten.
This made Clid a little intolerable.
In response to this, Doub said cheerfully, "Why are you so serious about the rankings on the poisonous milk list?"
"Poisonous milk list?" The little fat man was stunned.
Zhong Xia, who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea next to him, smiled and said, "This is what we say in China. Think about it, Riot Games publishes this list every year, but except for that man in Korea, who is not being sucked to death?
"
After hearing Zhong Xia's words, Clid thought about it carefully and realized that it seemed to be true.
Not to mention the far ones.
S4's Dade, officially ranked first.
As a result, Samsung's civil war ended.
Last year's Smeb was officially ranked first.
As a result, SKT was pushed into the semifinals.
It can be said that except for the man from SKT, no one else has escaped the official poison.
The little fat man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, it's okay then."
After saying that, he turned to look at Li Xiufeng, and said with a strange smile, "Among the three of us on the list, Brother Fengzi seems to be the highest ranked, seventh... tsk tsk..."
When Li Xiufeng heard Clid's malicious smile, he couldn't help but turn around, smiled slightly and said, "It doesn't matter, Qi is not in metaphysics."
"What?" Clid didn't respond.
Everyone else in the team smiled.
In the corner, Kake saw Li Xiufeng smiling, and he couldn't help but laugh too, but he was unconvinced in his heart.
Seven is not in metaphysics?
How can it be...
Isn't it true that there are seven meanings in the universe?
...
On June 10th, the MSI Global Mid-Season Invitational officially opened. A total of thirteen teams were invited this time.
In addition to LPL (China), LCK (South Korea), and LEC (Europe), teams from the three major regions directly advance to the group stage.
The other ten teams all started in the play-in round.
The qualifying round is divided into two rounds, with the North American LCS and Benwan LMS advancing directly to the second round.
The remaining eight teams will be divided into two groups, AB, for a B01 double round-robin duel.
The eight teams are:
Group A: FB, PVB, ISG, BMR.
Group B: MEGA, IEG, INTZ, DFM.
After six teams were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, the two teams that advanced to the second round will then compete with the LCS and LMS teams to determine the loser bracket.
The two teams in the loser group faced off again to determine the winner.
Finally, among the four teams in the second round, three teams advanced to the group stage.
Then, together with six teams from LPL, LCK and LEC, they will compete for the championship trophy of this MSI Mid-Season Global Invitational.
...
The finals took a total of ten days.
During this period of time, KG, South Korea's LCK and the three teams from the LEC were basically resting in the hotel to watch the playoffs while working hard.
After ten days of watching, everyone found that although the finals were basically wild card competitions, the overall strength was lower than that of Europe, America and other competitions.
But there are also some outstanding teams among them, such as the Vietnamese team PVB and the Japanese team DFM, both of which left a deep impression on people.
But on the last day of the qualifying round, it was no surprise that there was still a certain gap between the wild card division and the teams that could stand out from the competition.
TL from the North American Division and Flash Wolves from the Bendwan Division have all advanced, and the loser group Vietnam and Japan compete for the last spot in the group main event.
The Vietnamese team narrowly defeated the Japanese team 3-1 and successfully secured the last spot in the group stage.
By this time,
The rosters for this group stage have also been released.
The six teams are LPL's KG, LCK's KT, LEC's J2, LMS's Flash Wolves, LCS's TL, and Vietnam's PVB.
These teams will go through a double round-robin B01 to determine the top four in the semifinals, and the last four teams will compete for the championship of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational.
...
June 20, Yanjing.
It was a clear day and the weather was very good.
Today is the opening match of the group stage.
The competition venue is at the Olympic Sports Center, and Fengchao is the venue for this finals.
There are a total of six games every day in the group stage.
KG’s two opponents today are the PVB team from Vietnam and the TL team from North America.
One of these two teams is Vietnam’s wild card dark horse, and the players in this wild card division can be said to be the most amazing and admirable players.
Because with a keyboard and mouse worth twenty or thirty yuan, they can perform extremely sharp and amazing operations!
This can be seen from the fact that they defeated the wild card teams from the CIS and Latin America, which were also in the wild card division but had much better conditions, and stood out all the way.
The first game of today's group stage opening match is the Vietnam team's game.
However, the opponent in PVB in the first game of the opening game was not KG.
But the KT team, the champion team of the LCK that defeated SKT, can be said to be a very tough enemy!
The first game of the group stage started at 4 p.m., and the game opened two hours before the start. Countless spectators outside the stadium who had been waiting for a long time came in excitedly.
After simple preparations, the two teams, PVB and KT, walked into the soundproof competition rooms on both sides of the stage under the gaze of the entire audience.
The two official commentators, Yuan Ze and Wang Amnesia, were responsible for commentating the first half of today.
In front of the director's camera, Yuan Ze adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile:
"Hello, dear viewers, welcome to our S7 Global Mid-Season Invitational Tournament."
"That's right, the two teams that brought us the opening match today are PVB and KT. One of these two teams is Vietnam's dark horse, and the other is KT Galaxy Battleship."
"Well, some people think that PVB has no chance of winning against KT, but what I want to say is that there has never been a 10-10 game in our professional league. Today's first game is still full of suspense."
"Speaking of which, PVB had a bit of a miserable first day in the group stage today. The first game was against LCK's Galaxy Battleship KT, and the third game was against our LPL's KG. They are both well-known and strong teams."
"..."
The three commentators on the stage warmed up the game with each other.
In the player competition rooms on both sides of the stage, players from the two teams KT and PVB were debugging equipment.
Newborn calves here at PVB are not afraid of tigers.
Top laner Zeros, jungler Meliodas, mid laner Naul, bottom laner BigKoro, and support Palette!
All five players including the coach looked very excited.
Excitement is actually a good state before a game. At least it is not as nervous as a big competition.
Will not play wild cards and be as fierce as a tiger,
If you play against a strong team, you will be as timid as a mouse.
In contrast, the atmosphere in the game room of KT, the top team and favorite to win this MSI, was not one of excitement, but one of relaxation and comfort.
When the director's shot was shown on the big screen, Smeb and Deft were seen chewing gum at the competition table, and they were laughing and chatting about something.
Score was lying on a chair beside him, twisting the chair back and forth in a daze.
The remaining Pawn and Mata were relatively calm. The two fat men closed their eyes and lay back on the chairs.