Chapter 309: The group stage groups are released
All that remains to do is wait quietly for the final draw ceremony to decide which teams will be grouped.
Because Riot took into account the collective honor between the regions, it avoided the early meeting of the divisions in the first round of the draw in accordance with the practice of previous years.
Therefore, this is very good news for RPGs, Taobo, or the entire LPL.
When it comes to the world stage, there is no personal grudge, let alone a feud between teams.
All of us are working together, and we all hope to add more honors to the LPL division and the whole of China on this basis!
In everyone's opinion, the strength of the LPL team this year is also the highest year ever!
In the latest LOL team rankings released on ESPN, all four seeded teams in the LPL have reached the top 10 in the world!
Even, everyone has a dream:
Four teams, all topped the group, and advanced to the final quarterfinals!
Then, all of them will advance to the semi-finals, so that the semi-finals will become a civil war for the Chinese team!
Of course......
In addition to chasing dreams, there is also a point that everyone is more concerned about!
That is whether this year's world finals champion can continue in China!
This is a point that everyone values very much!
This year is the home field, with the home advantage, everyone hopes that the LPL division can inherit the honor of the previous two years, continue to keep the trophy in China, and win three consecutive championships.
This is not only to win glory for the country, but also to completely stabilize the status of the LPL world's No. 1 division!
The current LPL teams have given up the grievances of each team, and all their thoughts are focused on teams in other regions.
Everyone hopes that in this year's competition, there will be a perfect result!
In the next period of time, the four teams of the LPL, including RPGs, began to prepare for the following world championships!
At this time, the other teams in the LPL that were not selected were also very powerful, and almost all of them sacrificed their rest time to cooperate with these four teams that entered the World Championship to start training matches!
First and foremost, it's Team EDD!
The whole team, including the director of the pig factory, is ready to go and ready to be a sparring partner!
Moreover, because it was a training match, each team began to try different ways of playing.
For the four teams that have been selected, the most important thing they need to do now is to find out the current version, the World version, and the differences between the two versions.
Riot has already released this year's Worlds edition, so the first goal of each team is to understand the importance of versions.
According to past experience, which team can better fit the version, which team can have a better performance on the world stage.
Although the strength of the players includes the hero pool is a part, but to be able to enter the world stage, each team can not be underestimated, in addition to testing the operation of the players themselves, what is more testing is the cooperation between the teams, is the coordination between the teams.
After all, a player like Xiang Chuge who has a wonderful hero pool is still rare in the entire world competition.
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Therefore, only by better understanding the version, using the advantages of the version, and finding a style of play that suits your own team, can you make your team go longer on the stage of the World Championship.
Meanwhile, after the bubble match, four teams advanced, and Riot began the draw for a new round of group stage.
The draw for the group stage has little to do with Suning.
Since he was the fourth seed, he was only able to start from the play-in.
However, this is also a new breakthrough for this team!
You know, this is the first time that Team Suning has entered the World Championship stage.
This season is a fresh start for them!
Looking back, the other three teams in the LPL directly entered the group stage, the so-called "top 16" list.
The 16 teams selected this year have not changed much from previous years.
Of course, there are actually only "twelve" teams until the play-in tournament is over.
Including, three teams from the LPL, three teams from the LCK, three teams from the LEC, and three teams from the LCS.
It can be said that the four major regions in the world occupy at least two-thirds of the group stage seats.
Of course, there are four teams, which are selected from the knockout rounds of two teams from the North American and Chinese regions, as well as N wild card teams.
This year, the 12 teams in the four major regions have a lot of new faces and many old faces compared with previous years.
The first is the LPL's side.
In addition to the RPG team, Taobo and the team are both entering the world stage for the first time.
In the LCK region, this year, the Skty team, which originally had a hot chance to hit the World Championship, lost to Samsung in the final bubble match and missed the place in the World Championship this time.
Brother Li, who has won three world championships, is also very helpless!
But there is nothing that can be done!
This year's Skty showed a strong dominance in the spring tournament and won the spring championship in South Korea.
But......
In the summer season, there is nothing to be done.
Against several other teams, Skty lost his competitiveness, or rather, Brother Li was not as strong as before, and finally failed to stand out from the LCK region.
As for......
Over there in Europe.
Gtwo, the runner-up of last year's S9 Worlds, is still the No. 1 seed this year, followed by Team FNC and Team Rogue No. 3.
They are already frequent visitors to the World Championship, and as for the Grand Theft Team, although they are also a strong player in the European Division, they are not enough to see in front of many strong opponents in the World Championship.
Needless to say, in the North American region.
Every year, three teams from the North American region come, but basically they are given for nothing in the group stage and eliminated in the quarterfinals.
For example, the TSM team. As the "head snake" of the North American region, the TSM team has been able to enter the world stage almost every year.
With the addition of this year, TSM has entered the world stage for the eighth time.
As for Team FLY and Team TL, everyone doesn't know much about it, or rather, they haven't been taken into account by everyone.
Although North America is also included in the four major regions, it is ...... in terms of strength It's really a bit spicy.
Almost every year, the teams in the North American region are "happy to win the top 16"!
Therefore, rather than the four major regions in the world, everyone's attention is more focused on the three regions.
And the two divisions of South Korea and Europe, the biggest threat to the LPL side is the LCK division!
An opponent like Skty did not qualify in this year's LCK division!
And this also allows people to see the strength of LCK this year!
In addition, in the global power list, the first place in the world is RPG, and the second place is the big turtle team of the LCK!
And the Big Turtle team, in the LCK Finals, beat the second place with a completely crushing attitude and won the championship 3:0!
In the face of such a situation, even if RPG defeats Taobo and wins the LPL championship, in everyone's hearts, it is still a sweat.
After all, the RPG is 3:1, and the big turtle is completely 3:0 crushing. This means that after fighting for a long time, the big turtle has not revealed its true strength.
In such a situation, the entire LPL team doesn't want to face the big turtle team, but there is no way, the current draw is very likely to determine the fate of the LPL next!
In this regard, in addition to RPGs, Taobo and the two teams can't help but have some worries.
They also understand that if they want to enter the finals, they will inevitably have to fight against the LCK team, and they will inevitably collide head-on with the big turtle, and the goal of each of their teams is to rush to the championship!
However, they still hope to be able to adjust their condition to the best time and meet them again, and they don't want to meet the big turtle in the group stage.
However, this point is not something they can control, and their only idea now is to see what kind of luck the dog god has.
That's right!
The lottery guest of the group stage is the dog god!
As well as RPG veterans, spicy fragrant pot!
The draw for the group stage, under the expectation of the public, has finally begun!
This group draw is likely to determine the direction of each team, and everyone is holding their breath and praying that their team can have a good position.
As far as the LPL side is concerned.
Now the position of the RPG team is definitely the best. Because, according to the principle that the No. 1 seeds will not meet each other, in the first round of group stage matchups, they can still avoid the strongest opponents in other regions.
This is also the official hope of Riot that strong enemies will not meet too early, and leave the suspense to the end.
For such an advantage, Taobo and at this time, he can only express envy.
However, both teams are also very confident in their own strength, after all, the group stage is four into two, and qualifying from the group stage is not a big problem for both teams.
After an hour of intense and fierce lottery, the final lottery results were finally announced.
This time, the lottery is definitely a few happy and a few worried.
Judging by the current grouping:
The RPG was the first to be placed in Group D, and along with the RPG, the second seed DRX team of the LCK, and the FLY team of the North American region.
Obviously, this is very advantageous for RPGs.
In this group, it can be said that there will not be any pressure on the RPG qualification.
Even if the players often give things for nothing, and if they haven't played the second seed DRX team in the LCK, then the second place can also advance to the quarterfinals.
It can be said that the top eight places in RPG are relatively stable, and there is a high probability of being the first in the group!
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