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Chapter 227 Reaching the pinnacle of perfection! The S8 World Championship group stage officially begins! (Ask for monthly ticket)

"What the hell?"

"For the LPL division, all four groups are groups of death?"

"Let's see... wow, it seems like it's true. None of the four LPL teams seem to be able to stabilize their group qualifications."

In the training room of the G2 team, when the G2 coach saw the final grouping situation of the S8 World Championship group stage, he couldn't wait to tell Mingrui the "good news" immediately.

Mingrui took a closer look, and then he was surprised to find that if you don't take into account the tough-talking nature of the LPL teams, then it seems that the four LPL teams really have a chance to go home together in the top [-]!
"The EDG team must go home as a group. There is no way I can let them reach the quarterfinals of the World Championship."

"As for the JDG team and the IG team, I don't care much. It doesn't matter whether they can qualify from the group."

"If even this RNG team fails to qualify from the group stage, it would be a bit uncomfortable. After all, I still want to complete the third clean sheet against the RNG team in the BO5 of the World Championship!"

Mingrui said rather uncomfortably, even feeling a little nervous in his heart. After all, if the RNG team had never beaten the GENG team, it would be like the GENG team had cut him off halfway!
As for the RNG team beating the FNC team?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!
The RNG team is so rubbish, even if FNC does not have Caps this year, but when FNC's overall strength is more even, there should still be no problem for the FNC team to beat the RNG team.

"I hope the RNG team will not disappoint me. It is best to reach the quarterfinals as the second place in the group, otherwise the taunting from the air will be too uncomfortable."

Thinking of this, Mingrui sincerely cheered for the RNG team.

"Well, I think so too. After all, we G2 have already gained experience in playing against RNG. It will definitely be much simpler and easier to deal with RNG in BO5 than to deal with other teams."

The G2 coach also smiled confidently, and then suddenly thought of something and wrote the name of the FW team on the "G2 team S8 group stage schedule" that had been previously vacant.

At this point, the G2 team’s S8 World Championship group stage schedule has been released.

I thought that as the S2 world champion, the G7 team would definitely attend the opening match of this year's S8 world group stage.

But it may be because the LCK officials are worried that the AFS team in the same group as the G2 team is not their opponent and will directly embarrass the LCK division in the opening game, so the opening game of the group stage is arranged to be played against the KT team and the C9 team in Group C.

Everyone in G2 is very "regretful", thinking that the LCK official's "scheming" is actually Sima Zhao's and everyone knows it.

However, although they cannot play the opening game, the G2 team will still make its debut on the first day of the group stage and directly face the EDG team. This makes everyone in G2, especially Dark, very satisfied.

After all, it was precisely because of the LCK official's "scheming" that they were given the opportunity to give the EDG team a good start on the first day of the group stage!
As for the specific schedule of the group stage, this is the schedule.

In four days from October 10th to 10th, the four groups ABCD will complete the first round of the group stage BO13 single round-robin points competition.

What is different from last year's S7 group stage is that there is no rest or preparation time between the two rounds of the S8 group stage.

In other words, after the 13th, starting from the 14th to the 17th, the four groups will directly complete the one-day round-robin within the group and directly determine the two qualifying teams for each group.

Such a tight and intensive group stage schedule is naturally a huge test for the 16 group stage teams, so in the two days of the 8th and 9th after the finals, all teams continued to invest in more intense and serious training. .

But not everyone can train for competitions with peace of mind, and Mingrui is one of the "unlucky ones".

In the last two days before the start of the group stage, in order to cooperate with the LCK official video shooting, he spent a lot of time on promotional video shooting, opening ceremony rehearsal, and even cooperated with the official to shoot a video to watch the S8 World Championship theme song " Promotional video for Rise!

Although the MV for the theme song of "Rise" was produced in the image of himself as "Dark", it uses animation to show the whole process of Dark and the G2 team passing through the S7 World Championship and finally winning the championship. The production is not bad. .

But in Mingrui's view, the LCK official's intention of "not wanting him to train" is really obvious. He wanted to complain, but could not find any evidence, which really made Mingrui want to cry.

But it doesn’t matter, after all, Mingrui’s S8 preparation training started very early, no less than a day or two.

Besides, Mingrui also has the existence of the [Dark System], which allows him to instantly obtain a large number of terrifying "training" improvements!
The last time Mingrui used the [Dark System] to "add points" to himself, it had to be traced back to the last time.

To be specific, it was before playing the RNG team in the 2018 MSI semi-finals.

Later, Mingrui also checked his dark value accumulation many times, but found that due to the increasing number of his fans, plus his own anti-fans, such as RNG fans, they were increasingly afraid to rush when the "headwind" was going on. When I started a team by myself, I only dared to yell at myself when RNG won the championship, so this resulted in my accumulation of dark points not being as fast as before.

Fortunately, after accumulating throughout the summer season, Mingrui once again accumulated enough dark points, allowing him to successfully increase the [Shock] attribute to the full value of 10 points in one go.

And this means that in Mingrui's next game, whenever he and his opponent enter a fighting state, there is a full [-]% chance that the opponent will make a mistake!

After completing the point addition, Mingrui's dark value only had a few million points left. However, Mingrui did not go to the lottery again, but chose to keep it as a backup.

Because for the upcoming S8 World Championship, Mingrui has prepared a lot of "complete junglers". If there is a chance to select them by then, Mingrui can increase the immediate combat effectiveness of his complete heroes at any time!

At this point, all preparations for the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals are complete!
And when Mingrui closed and opened his eyes, time finally came to October 2018, 10.

The official opening day of the S8 World Championship group stage!

……

"Rise! Rise!"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey..."

Early in the morning, before Mingrui had completely woken up from his sleepiness, Perkz's howling songs could be heard one after another in the hotel corridor, which made Mingrui shudder and then wake up completely.

"Ah P, are you the undercover agent sent by LPL to me?"

"As long as I deafen my ears so that I can't hear the sound of the game, LPL will be able to win the game, right?"

When he met Perkz at breakfast, Mingrui complained without tears.

"Damn, are you kidding? My song is very beautiful. If you don't believe me, I will sing a few more lines for you..."

"Rise! Rise! Ri..."

"Brother, I beg you to stop singing and eat first."

"People need money to sing, but your singing is really life-threatening!"

Now, not only Mingrui couldn't stand it anymore, but everyone in G2 couldn't stand it anymore, and they quickly stopped Perkz.

Caps even stuffed a piece of bread directly into Perkz's mouth, which blocked his "singing voice."

"..."

"what the fuck!"

"My singing is obviously very nice, but you don't know how to appreciate it at all!"

Despite this, Perkz still spoke unconvincedly, making everyone dumbfounded.

"When our S8 wins the championship, it won't be too late for you to sing during the celebration."

"You guys eat first, and I'll tell you about today's plans."

The G2 coach said with a smile, and then talked about this afternoon's schedule.

The opening ceremony of the S8 World Championship group stage will start at 04:30 in the afternoon, and the major teams will arrive at the competition venue at three o'clock at the latest.

However, since warm-up training was still required before the game, the team decided to head to the stadium training room immediately after eating so that their pre-game training could not be interrupted.

But before the opening ceremony of the group stage officially begins, the G2 team still needs to stop training. After all, as the S7 world champion team, they need to take the stage collectively and return the championship trophy first.

It was very simple, there was nothing to object to, so after breakfast and lunch, all members of the G2 team set off immediately and quickly arrived at the BEXCO Convention and Exhibition Center in Busan, South Korea.

"Fuck, is this the venue for this year's group stage? It's too small. It feels like a small concert hall, not as big as the lecture hall of our school."

"Suddenly I miss the competition venue of last year's S7 group stage. Why is it that even though South Korea is small, the competition venue is still so small?"

"The stage is also very small. No wonder each team can only select one representative to attend the opening ceremony this year. If it were like last year, the stage would not be able to accommodate 20 people from four teams at the same time."

After all members of G2 arrived at the venue, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them. They felt that the gap in the competition environment was really big.

"The competition environment doesn't matter, as long as you can beat your opponent."

"Perhaps you have forgotten that in the S1 World Championship that year, the FNC team became the first world championship in a place like an Internet cafe."

The G2 coach said with a smile, and then led the players into their training room and started the final pre-match warm-up training.And when the time finally came to 03:30 in the afternoon, the S Championship trophy that was still shining after a year appeared in the G2 training room again, everyone immediately realized that the opening ceremony of the S8 World Championship group stage, It's about to start!

……

"10, 9, 8, 7..."

"4, 3, 2, 1!"

Although the exhibition center is very small, it is already packed.

When the countdown numbers appeared on the big screen, all the audience began to count down loudly!

“Welcome all spectators to the Busan International Center!”

The next moment, with the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, the roar of the well-known LCK host Roar Brother Quan Yongjun finally sounded in the ears of every audience at the scene and in front of the screen.

"Thank you for the applause."

"Are you ready for the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals?!"

Brother Roar asked excitedly as he walked towards the center of the stage.

And everyone's answer was naturally the same excited "ready".

"Every year, all the powerful players from all over the world come to the World Championship with their hopes to chase their final dreams."

"Their dream is to lift the Legend Summoner Trophy!"

"This journey is very long and will involve countless tears and sweat, but in the end, only one team can reach the top, win the world championship, and win the world championship trophy!"

"Now, the stage is set and all the teams are ready."

"Then start from here, start from Busan, let us fight for the top eight seats together!"

After a sonorous and powerful opening speech, an "abbreviated version" of the Rise theme song MV began to play on the big screen.

Along with the singing of "Rise", on the left side of the stage, all members of the G2 team who were already ready, led by Dark holding the world championship trophy, walked majestically to the center of the stage.

"Now, let us invite the S7 world champion team G2, and invite player Dark and his teammates to return the championship trophy!"

"At the same time, let us look back together again to see who has engraved their names on the championship trophy over the years!"

When Dark gently placed the championship trophy on the base, and when the six members of the G2 team were arranged around the trophy, accompanied by the voice of Roaring Brother, the video began to play on the big screen again.

S1, FNC team.

S2, TPA team.

S3, SKT team.

S4, SSW team.

S5, SKT team.

S6, SKT team.

S7, G2 team.

And when the scenes of winning the seven World Championships flashed back one by one, on the stage, the players of the G2 team had completely exited, leaving only the championship trophy and Brother Roar.

"See this sparkling championship trophy?"

"I believe every professional player yearns for him!"

"Now, let me introduce to you the 8 participating teams in the S16 World Championship group stage and their player representatives."

"First, the four teams in Group A!"

Brother Roar smiled and walked towards the wings of the stage.

When the camera changed, the audience suddenly discovered that the four representatives of the four teams in Group A were already standing in the audience channel according to the positions of the No. [-], [-], [-] and [-] seeds!

At the same time, Brother Roar also completed the introduction of the team representatives from back to front in the order of four, three, two and one.

"Swordart, the representative of the FW team! Meeeiko, the representative of the EDG team! Kiiiiiiin, the representative of the AFS team! Daaaaaark, the representative of the G2 team!"

Brother Roar's roaring skills are truly revealed at this moment, or in other words, whoever is the most popular and the strongest will have a louder roar.

Obviously, although the S8 World Championship is the home court of the LCK division, as the S7 World Champions, the G2 team and Dark players who already have a large number of fans around the world are the ones who are most worthy of admiration and look up to the global League of Legends summoners. !

"Next are the four teams in Group B."

"Naul, the representative of the PVB team! Ambiiition, the representative of the GENG team! Reeekkles, the representative of the FNC team! Uuuuuuuzi, the representative of the RNG team!"

In the camera, the faces of the first three representatives were all smiling, but when it was Uzi's turn, he looked frosty and livid throughout.

This made Mingrui, who happened to be surprised by Uzi on the big screen, suddenly light up because Uzi's expression was obviously sulking!
And before the group stage has officially started, and it is impossible for Uzi to be sulky with other teams, it is easy to see why he looks like this...

There must be some problems within the RNG team!
If it is true, it can be said to be a good thing for the FNC team and the GENG team, but it is not so good for the G2 team. After all, Mingrui really hopes that the RNG team can reach the quarterfinals, and then Die in their hands!

"Next are the four teams in Group C."

"JDG team represents Yagao! C9 team represents Sneaky! VIT team represents Jizuke! KT team represents Scoooore!"

"The last are the four teams in Group D."

"SKT team represents Faaaaaaker! MSF team represents HansSama! IG team represents Roooookie! TL team represents Doubleeeeeeelift!"

"Now, all sixteen teams are ready, let us cheer for them again!"

"I announce that the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals has officially begun!"

The next moment, after Brother Roar introduced all 16 participating teams, and with his order, the S8 World Championship group stage officially opened!

However, the scene did not immediately enter the game state. Instead, while Brother Roar bowed to the audience and thanked the audience, the first promotional video of this S8 group stage was once again played to the global audience.

In previous years, the promotional video for the World Championship group stage would have been heavily discussed by audiences around the world, and would even directly trigger a war of words among fans because of the players' "brutal words" in the video.

But a similar situation did not happen this year, because the promotional video for the S8 group stage tasted too "LCK".

Because the entire promotional video is a one-man show of the LCK division. It is said that LCK has been the world champion since S3, but the loss of the championship in S7 last year made the LCK division very unhappy. So since this year’s S8 World Championship is held at the doorstep of LCK, so LCK The division will definitely regain its momentum and win the championship trophy again.

As for the shots of other people in the promotional video, it was not until the last moment that representatives from the competition such as Dark, Uzi, and Doublelift were released one after another without saying a single line, so it was impossible to arouse any enthusiasm from the audience for discussion.

Although it is a pity, for the audience, it does not matter whether there is pre-match trash talk or not.

After all, it is still the same sentence. The strength of e-sports speaks for itself. Wait until the 16 teams have finished the game on the field with real swords and guns, and then start talking trash to each other. Not only will it not be too late, but it will also become more exciting!
Thus, amidst the great expectations of global audiences, the S8 World Championship group stage finally officially began.

On the first day of the group stage, the first match was between the KT team in Group C and the C9 team.

The KT team fulfilled its mission and successfully defeated the C1 team 0-9, ushering in a good start for itself and the LCK division.

What followed was the second game of Group C, with the JDG team facing off against the VIT team.

This match between the LPL fourth seed and the EU third seed really attracted the attention of many LPL viewers, because they all wanted to see with their own eyes the strength of the other teams in the EU division except G2 and FNC. how!

Then, the LPL audience was overjoyed and ecstatic.

Because in this game, the JDG team actually "upset" defeated the VIT team and won the final victory of the game!
So in an instant, the entire LPL division, especially the EDG team, became extremely confident.

Because what they are about to see next is the intra-group competition between the EDG team and the G2 team!
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