LOL: God of the World Tournament

Chapter 233 Grouping Ceremony

Chapter 233 Grouping Ceremony
Under the "blackmail and blackmail" of IG and RNG, rookie found a relatively high-end restaurant in Busan and treated everyone to a big meal.

Of course none of them had anything to do with beef.

After the meal, there was nothing to do. Everyone just arrived in Busan today, and they were quite tired, so there was no training arranged, so everyone happily walked around the streets of Busan with the company of the Riot staff.

While walking, he was still whipping EDG.

"Hey, Boss Song spent a lot of money today~"

"Where is!"

"It's a pity that EDG can't enjoy this kind of treatment~ Brother Yijin doesn't have many opportunities to treat guests!"

"Forget it, the factory manager and the others are probably in a state of distress now, and Abu probably scolded them for having a problem with their thinking."

But this year, the problem is obviously not as simple as they thought. With everyone having different ideas, the S8 finalists finally came to an end.

As everyone expected, although it is only a finalist for the S8 World Championship, not even the main match, the popularity is still very explosive. After all, with the efforts of Riot Games and Tencent, they have been bombarding for so many days , The e-sports atmosphere unique to S8 has also begun to spread and ferment around the world.

In just a few days, the competition for the play-in competition can be said to be at an intense stage. More than a dozen teams from all over the world are fighting crazy, and their heads are going to be beaten into dog heads. Even EDG can overturn. One can imagine.

The qualifying round went from No. [-] to No. [-], and the final qualifying team did not exceed everyone's expectations.

The eight wild card teams, and the No. 2 seed in the four major regions, a total of 9 teams, in the end G8, C[-], EDG and the DRX team from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan provinces advanced to the group stage. The other teams can only regretfully start from S[-] Leaving on the stage of the World Championship.

But this is not unexpected. Although these four teams are the No. [-] seeds in each competition area, they are much stronger than the wild card teams.

Players' competitive intensity, training environment, and capital injection are not of the same order of magnitude.

In BO1, the wild card team can still create miracles, but in the BO3 battle for places, the gap is revealed.

Now that the play-in competition is over, it naturally means that the annual battlefield belonging to Chen Mu and his summoners has officially begun.

And before the summoners arrive on the battlefield, one more thing is to divide their own battlefields, which is the lottery ceremony for the group stage.

And what players around the world are paying attention to, the group stage draw ceremony is about to begin.

When local fans pay attention to their own team, they will also learn about the opponents their team has encountered, so as to deepen the communication between different competition areas, expand the influence of the alliance in the world, and increase the expectations of the audience.

This year's lottery ceremony has received huge attention in the entire league world.

On the evening of October [-]th, after dinner, Chen Mu and others sat in the lounge early, quietly watching the lottery ceremony in front of the screen.

Riot Games is also broadcasting the lottery ceremony live, and even the LPL division also broadcast the lottery ceremony.

Three commentators were also arranged, one is Changmao, the other is Guan Zeyuan, and a special guest is Abu from the EDG team who just finished the finalists.

"It's a great pleasure for everyone to come to the draw ceremony for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship group stage, and welcome our special guest, Abramovich."

"Here, I still want to congratulate EDG for successfully entering the group."

Changmao first made an opening remark.

In order to attract popularity, LPL also specially recruited Guan Zeyuan, wanting to let Guan Zeyuan continue to exert his tainted milk attributes and give these teams "strength".

Abu was also in a good mood, chatting and laughing with the two commentators.

Although there were twists and turns in the play-in match, they lost to the wild card team, which made EDG directly sprayed on the hot search, but then EDG became the factory manager's starter, and won the DFM Xiaotian team cleanly, which can be regarded as saving a little popularity. .

Then Abramovich, Eleven and Changmao sat in the commentary and talked freely, analyzing the pros and cons of the sixteen teams.

Up to now, there are already six major regions competing for S8 teams have all been locked.

In the LCK division, there are three teams: KT, AFS and Gen
In the LPL division, there are three teams: EDG, IG and RNG.

In the European division, there are three teams: FNC, VIT and G2.

In North America, there are three teams: TL, 100T and C9.

In the LMS division, there are three teams: FW, MAD and GRX.

There is also PVB, the summer champion of the wild card division with the best performance in the 2018 Mid-Season Championship.

There are 16 teams from all over the world.

These 16 teams are all well-known in the local competition area.

This time, they gathered from all over the world to compete for the highest glory of the League of Legends.

Everyone is wondering which teams will meet in the group stage.

Is there any enmity, is there any grievance, such as the battle between NA and EU, the battle between LPL and LCK in the first division, etc.
All the big teams are also staring at the screen at this time, hoping that their teams can enter an ideal group.

IG seems to have relaxed a lot. The big defeat after the winning streak brought not only flowers and applause, insults and responsibilities, but also the calmness after going through the wind and waves, and the bumpy road.

For them, it doesn't matter who they fight, the most important thing is to try to win.

And with the gossip of Abu, Changmao, Guan Zeyuan and others, the lottery ceremony at the scene has already begun
"Next, please ask Flame to draw for us the four No. [-] seeded teams"

Flame is also a handsome guy. He is a former top laner foreign aid player of LGD. After retiring, he returned to Korea. Today, he was invited to be a special lucky draw guest.

I saw today's Flame wearing a small gray suit, walking towards the transparent glass tank with Pool1 written on it.

During the live broadcast, Flame reached into the glass jar, grabbed a ball with a note hidden in it, retracted from the lottery pool, opened the note and pointed the front at the live camera, FW Lightning Wolves.

Then FW Lightning Wolves appeared in the No. 1 position of Group[-].

As he continued to take out small balls, the names of several teams were also continuously announced.

The first team in Group A, the strongest fantasy god in the LMS division, FW Flash Wolves.

The first team in Group B, this year's MSI champion, sits on Uzi's RDG team!

The first team in Group C, the Galaxy Battleship in the LCK division, and the increasingly terrifying KT team.

The first team in Group D, the S1 world champion, is the FNC team from Europe.

After the lottery for the first pool of Pool1 ended, the No. [-] seed team of each group was also updated on the big screen.

The lottery rules for the S8 group stage are as follows: LPL Division, LCK Division, LCS Europe Division, LMS Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Division, there will be No. [-] seed teams in these four divisions, and they will be ranked first in the four groups.

They represent the strongest teams in each competition area. These four teams will be divided into four groups of ABCD, and it is guaranteed that they will not meet in the first round.

As the No. [-] seeded team advancing to the World Championship, they still have a certain advantage in the group stage.

But as the saying goes, there are no underdogs in the World Championship, and there is not much difference between most teams. However, being able to become the No. 1 seed must have merits.

And the North American Division has been revoked this privilege because it has been too stretched over the years.

The three places behind each group will be drawn from Pool2, Pool3 and the play-in pool and put into four groups respectively.

Basically all the teams participating in the World Championship are paying attention to the lottery ceremony. After the first round of draws, the teams behind are also a little flustered.

After all, the draw for the group stage is very important, which is related to whether they can advance to the quarterfinals.

If you are unfortunately assigned to the death group, then it is really bad luck.

At this moment, many teams are staring at the three vacant positions below Group C.

To be honest, compared to the other three groups, no one wants to squeeze under Group C.

After all, the shadow of a tree, the name of a person, this season, the KT team is really a bit scary.

Originally, in this year's spring split, it was very inconspicuous, but in the summer split, it was full of firepower, punching SKT and kicking Samsung, just like a god!
The system in which old people lead newcomers in the team has gradually stabilized, and the running-in of the players has matured day by day.

Which one of Semb, Score, Deft and Mata is not a long-established player? !
All the three LPL heroes gathered, and Riot also ranked three on the tainted milk list.

Moreover, the top single version of the World Championship has basically been determined.

Semb is also one of the top three top laners in the LCK, and his strength should not be underestimated!
It would be really bad if they met this team early in the group stage.

If we do a poll of the other twelve teams at this time, it is estimated that these people don't want to go to group C.

Looking at Group A, the eyes of the other teams suddenly lit up again. The top seed team in the division is the FW of the LMS division.

In the past few years, the results of the LMS competition outside the competition area have really been stretched, and FW is also recognized as the weakest No. [-] seed team in the competition area. Which team does not want to pinch a soft persimmon?

And looking at the top seed team in Group B, everyone's fiery hearts suddenly cooled down, it was RNG!

Don't think about it, Group B is a proper death group, and no one wants to enter.

The top seed team in Group D is FNC in the European and American divisions.

Well, this can be touched. Although the European division is much stronger than the North American division, when facing FNC, other teams are not completely powerless, and they still have a chance to win.

However, each group always has four teams.

At this time, Flame, the "lottery draw" guest at the lottery ceremony, walked in front of Pool2's lottery position.

He took off the caps of the silver balls one after another, and AFs, GEN, MAD, and 100T were drawn out of the three groups ABCD.

The next lottery is the moment to see all living beings.

Flame walked to the position of the draw of Pool3 and started the third round of draw.

PVB, VIT, and TL were drawn out of ABC three groups respectively.

Then Flame, like the god of death controlling everyone's life and death, smiled slightly, and put his hand into the lottery pool again.

Next, it's Group D's turn.

The host smiled:

"Oh, the IG team entered Group D!"

The IG team was assigned to Group D.

Subsequently, Flame continued to draw the pools of the four teams in the play-in competition.

G2, C9, EDG, and GRX were divided into ABCD groups respectively.

At this point, the draw for the S8 group stage has ended, and the grouping is officially completed.

The 4 teams in Group A are the No. 2 seed FW Flash Wolves in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan LMS division, the No. [-] seed AFS Africa in the LCK division, the Vietnamese team PVB, and the European comedy team G[-].

The 4 teams in Group B are LPL No. 9 seed RNG, Samsung Geng, the champion of S Tournament last year, No. [-] seed VIT in Europe, and No. [-] seed C[-] from North America.

There are 4 teams in Group C, the top seed Galaxy Battleship KT in the LCK division, the second seed MAD team in the LMS division, the third seed TL Li Kui team from North America who entered the World Championship for the first time, and our old acquaintance EDG team.

The 4 teams in Group D are the European giants FNC, Chen Mu's IG, the second seed 100T100 Thieves in North America, and GRX from Hong Kong!

Seeing this, there is one Hamlet in the eyes of a thousand viewers.

Those who were drawn into Group A had unconcealable smiles on their faces.

In this group, there is no strong team in the traditional sense. The four teams all depend on their performance, and everyone has a chance to enter the top 8.

Those who are drawn in Group B are polarized.

The two teams of RNG and Geng Samsung are smiling. VIT and C9 seem to be the second seed in Europe and the third seed in North America, but compared with these two teams in terms of background, there are still differences A certain gap.

The same is true for Group D. Compared with the European e-sports giants FNC and IG, the strength of 100T and GRX is not enough.

But the one who was drawn in Group C was Sima with a face.

In this group, KT's strength can be said to be the leader, and it has firmly occupied a place for promotion.

But the remaining spot is up for grabs. North America's No. [-] seed TL, e-sports Sasuke doublelift's big brother is taking revenge, LMS No. [-] seed MAD, plus Guodian EDG, a veritable group of death.

EDG base.

Immediately, there was a sound of complaints.

"Oh, damn it." --
"Fucking Princess Flame!"

"Flame, his hands are too smelly!"

"Couldn't we have abused them in S5 and started to take revenge on us like this?!"

……

On the commentary stage, seeing that EDG and KT were assigned to the same group, and there was Abu who was talking and laughing before, the smile on his face began to become forced.

There is no way, KT is too strong, and at the same time, EDG's state is really not good.

Otherwise, there will be no loss to the wild card team in the finalists.

But now that KT basically holds a spot, EDG needs to compete with TL and MAD for a spot, and the pressure to qualify is still very high.

Seeing that the grouping has ended, the audience in the LPL division is generally very happy, although it is recognized that the best group A is not drawn by the LPL team.

But apart from Group C, the LPL fans in the group where IG and RNG are still very satisfied.

Except for EDG, the two teams with No. [-] and No. [-] seeds are grouped very well.

These two teams can guarantee at least one qualifying place. If they make a rush, there is a high probability that the group will qualify first.

Moreover, KT and EDG really have a relationship. EDG really met the LPL three heroes in the group stage. The group arrangement of this narrow encounter really filled the topic.

I just don’t know how EDG feels when facing old teammates, Deft and Pawn? !
Is it the fat general and the North Korean pilot who beat up the old club, or is EDG taking advantage of the two? !
In addition to Group C, RNG and Samsung Geng in Group B are also full of highlights.

As we all know, RNG's style of play is very restrained against Samsung.

In last year's World Championship group stage, RNG even blocked Samsung.

And this year, RNG met Samsung again in the group stage. I don't know what kind of love and hatred can be wiped out? !

(End of this chapter)

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