The next day, as soon as the group stage started, when IG also selected the French core to get its first victory, announcing that the LPL had won all three games, the popularity of League of Legends exploded!

In S8, if it weren't for Rng's overturn in the World Championship, then this year, the three letters of Rng can be said to be the strongest.

The ID of Uzi is the vane of the current domestic audience, and even the global audience and public opinion.

is not only the popularity and traffic, but also the feeling of faintly catching up with Brother Li's status in history.

As long as it is a section related to the interests of League of Legends, the topic of discussing Uzi and discussing Rng has never stopped.

Whether this Rng can complete the unprecedented Grand Slam honor and ascend to its second S Tournament throne has become everyone's expectation.

The turmoil is expanding, and public opinion is continuing.

The strength of Group B, obviously no team is the enemy of Rng, and with Rng's second unsuspenseful crushing of Samsung, the official also seems to feel the trend of the year and personally come out to stand on the platform.

Countless Rng's surrounding news, daily breaking news, and even a few takeaway restaurants where Rng team members often eat were announced, and they exploded as soon as possible...

The four groups were played in a round-robin format, with the third day of the tournament being played by SKT and Rw.

For this game, the attention is also very high, and even if it weren't for the fact that this year is the king of Rng, the ratings of this game may reach the first new high of S8.

One is the No. 1 seed of South Korea's lck, the veteran Haoqiang team SKT, and the other is the lpl No. 2 seed Rw, who has just been formed in S8 and is known as the Galaxy Battleship in the spring game.

The first contact between the LPL division and the LCK division of the S8 World Finals, the battle of the century!

Especially at the home stadium of South Korea, at the Busan Stadium, even if the game does not start, everyone feels the pressure when they see Korean fans with national flags painted on their faces and like fanatics entering the stadium!

The result of the game was beyond everyone's expectations.

In this game, the story of skt bloodbathing Rw and thwarting the LPL edge that all the sticks were looking forward to did not unfold as scheduled, but played back and forth in the early and middle stages.

Although SKT was on the line in the early stage, he used his terrifying personal strength to complete the suppression of the line.

But Sima Lao Thief's method is to nucleate the song ADC, Doinb is a single Kelie in his hand, and the two wonderful heroes have completed self-redemption.

In a way, before S8 started, everyone divided the team into several tiers.

The first level is, of course, the first echelon dominated by the two teams of skt and rng, the S-level team, which at least has the strength to crush in their own league.

The second level is dominated by old strong teams, including Fnc, ig, Tl... and so on.

The third level is led by Rw, many emerging teams, or teams with good records in S8.

The S-level team played the B-level team, and before the game, except for the lpl's own brothers, no one in the foreign media was optimistic that Rw would win.

Eighteen minutes later, when Death Song's equipment began to take shape, two successive waves of SKT received devastating blows.

In this case, the Jungler Black Emperor was directly lost, and started a charge that his god couldn't stop, and the jungler, who had lost his position several times, took SKT into the end of death.

Twenty-eight minutes, no more, no less, after the three-piece set of Death Song, a wave of dragon white-knuckle battles, SKT lost and was bulldozed to the base.

So far, even if it encounters the LCK division, the LPL division's record is still a complete victory.

LCK's No. 1 seed can't beat someone else's No. 2 seed?

South Korea's public opinion instantly came to a peak, although all LCK fans had full confidence in SKT before the game, but in front of everyone, SKT played like this, with the Korean e-sports environment, it was completely unacceptable.

"Why don't you play the core of the road? How many times will it take for Skt to keep up with the release? ”

"Aren't the lessons of MSI enough? I'm afraid that Blank received money from the royal family? It's no wonder, after all, it's a member of the royal family."

"Is the lpl going to dominate the S game? Our country's coach-players are heading for self-destruction! ”

“...”

Unable to accept the defeat of SKT, waves of traditional arts broke out in the Korean forum.

The members of SKT, including Brother Lee, found it hard to believe that even at the last minute in previous years, the Korean esports circle, which thought that SKT could make a comeback, actually began to criticize SKT after only losing one group stage.

Is this what LCK deserves to get back three S championship teams?

Next, the game continued.

On the fifth day, when Rw faced SKT again, they sent their first defeat in the LPL region, of course, it was not SKT who was strong enough to win the game.

Instead, Brother Li took out a hand of Galio, who had been descended from the S7 gods, took the life C, activated the man who had not woken up on the road, and pulled it until 42 minutes, relying on the tenacity of skt, and won with difficulty.

In comparison, Rng in Group B has won all four matches and has already locked up its own promotion spot.

The situation of the major groups has also been basically settled with the end of the fifth day of competition.

Among them, the four major groups are the most dazzling as the most competitive groups A and B.

Group A is the all-star team where TL, Fw, G2, and Kt are located, there is no wild card area, all of them are the best teams in the world in the past, the four teams have played two rounds in a round, there are losses and wins, and in the standings, Kt is firmly fixed as the second seed of the lck.

G2 and Fw followed behind, with TL finishing last with a four-game losing record and on the verge of becoming the first team to exit Group A.

Not surprisingly, the TL where the big brother is located is again in the top 16.

Of course, no one will remember a top 16 ADC unless he is a top 16 every year!

Unlike the anxiety in Group A, the first team to be eliminated in Group B turned out to be S7's runner-up Samsung.

If Gen can win the playoff match with VIT on the sixth day, then there is still a slight chance, and if he loses, he will be the first to go home as the third seed in the LCK.

As for the two groups of CD, there were no winning teams, and it seemed that they were still quite anxious, and the game was also very exciting.

In these two groups, the second and third seeds of the LPL are all there, perhaps because of the changes brought by Li Luo, in the World Championship, the more Rw plays, the more he feels like S9fpx.

And ig is the champion team of S8 in the previous life.

On the sixth day of the competition, the two teams in Group C, Skt and Rw, took the lead in securing the promotion spots, leaving the two wild card regions with bitter tears in the sky.

IG in Group D also lived up to expectations, winning one win and one loss with FNC, and qualified first in the group with a record of losing one set.

In previous years, the group stage of the S competition was generally divided into two rounds.

In the format of a double round-robin in the group, three days is a small cycle, and a total of two weeks are played, and they are ranked according to the points.

On the sixth day of the second week, basically those who should have qualified have already qualified, and those who are hanging will go to the seventh day to play the final BO5 quota.

Every day there is a game, LPL fans are just like the Chinese New Year, and they relax on time every afternoon after school every afternoon.

If you go to work, when you get home from work, you turn on the computer as soon as you get home and enter the live broadcast room to start the meal competition.

In fact, after the first three days of competition, based on the first round of collisions between the major teams, it is basically enough to see whether this team has the potential to advance.

Upsets are always a minority, especially in the early version of this deformity, the strength of the major teams is even clearer.

At the end of the sixth day, the top two places in the four groups of S8 are currently released:

Group A: KT, G2

Group B: Rng, C9

Group C: Skt, Rw

Group D: ig, Fnc

In the top two groups, LPL occupies two seats, LCK occupies two seats, and the second is Europe and the United States occupy two seats, LPL occupies one, and North America occupies one.

At this point, all the wild card areas have been eliminated, and the TL team in the top 16 every year has no choice but to go home, and the lightning wolf, which has lost the wolf king, can only be relegated to the top 16.

And for a team like gen, which has not won a single victory at the beginning of 0-3, it has basically announced that it has bid farewell to this S tournament and ended it early.

Unless the match with vit is won on the seventh day, it depends on the face of C9 in Group B, if C9 loses to vit, Samsung will play a Bo5 playoff with C9.

This is a more difficult way to qualify than a theoretical one.

As the world runner-up of S7, in the case of no major change of team, in the S competition, in just two weeks, five people from Samsung were beaten into the bottomless abyss.

VIT and GEN's passionate commentary task was handed over to Colonel Guan.

Listening to the colonel's emotional and sad voice, looking at the colonel's slightly trembling body, when Samsung lost the game, countless LPL players were even cooler tonight than the Rng group won all.

As for the two teams of Rng and kt, it was unexpected for the two teams to win the group stage, and in my impression, it seems reasonable to add an s in front of kt.

"RNG has been so strong this year!! Like the S7 group's bloody abuse of Samsung, this year's Samsung is even worse than last year! ”

"Why is Uzi so fierce? S5, S6 fished for two years, but from S7 to now, the state is really the same as the previous Brother Li, strong for a whole year? ”

"No, no, no, will LPL win the championship again this year, right?"

"If RNG wins the second championship, turtle turtle, wouldn't this be a mountain in the LPL?"

"I see, the last mountain in the pre-game MV is not the champion of S8, it's Rng!"

The whole network is basically blowing Rng, whether it is msi or spring and summer, although the gold content is not low, but to compare with the S competition, the difference in gold content is not one or two points.

The S match will always be the highest level of League of Legends competition recognized by all players and audiences!

In the year of S8, Rng's performance seems to have no ups and downs, and it has always been an abyss that people can't see the bottom.

You never know, the next moment, which mysterious weapon Uzi will pull out of his arsenal.

won the group stage, and an unrealistic idea appeared in everyone's minds...

S race to win all?

Is it possible?

Of course, where someone blows, there are naturally people who are black, and you can't even tell whether the black person is a Chinese or a stick.

With the increasing level of translation software, there is no shortage of voices that are optimistic about Rng in Tieba.

"KT is also completely victorious, are you blind? And the combination of deft and mata is no worse than the Rng bottom lane, right? ”

"What kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp are in group B, a C9 and a Vit, these two are not experience babies? Besides, S7 Samsung can't beat Rng, what is S8 expanding? ”

"If it weren't for the knockout Rng not being able to touch kt, it would have been carried out for you!"

"The defending champion? I think it's the quarterfinals going home."

You can't see the true identity of these speakers behind the keyboard and screen.

Among these people, there are many lpl fans who have played all the way from S2 to live in the fear of lck domination, even if Rng wins the championship of S7, this nightmare still makes people can't believe that lpl has risen so suddenly.

Unless in the final in Incheon this year, RNG can really break all doubts and cut down their team's second championship and win the championship on LCK's home turf!

With the complete end of the group stage, this kind of public opinion and pressure has gradually formed a typhoon, and the sound of Rng is blowing everywhere.

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Sunday evening at half past nine.

The world's major live broadcast rooms did not turn off the live broadcast because of the end of Saturday's game, and at this time, as the time gets closer and closer to the hour, the popularity of the live broadcast room is still rising.

It's even much higher than when some weak rookies peck each other!

Needless to say, the importance of the quarterfinals draw of the S competition is that fans of the major teams around the world are worried that they will have a bad hand in the first round of the knockout round and draw their own teams into a civil war.

Of course, there are also some salted fish who want to draw the civil war, after all, there can be at least a guaranteed top four.

"Come on, come on, smile, what are you doing with a sad face in the quarterfinals?"

Sitting in the stage lounge, looking at the busy preparation of the front court, Li Luo lay on the sofa with a relaxed face and laughed.

In his previous life, Rng in the quarterfinals drew G2, smiled, and laughed to S9.

But in this life, that can never happen.

G2？

Without the joint efforts of Ah P and CAPS, G2 can only be said to be stinky fish and rotten shrimp under the current Rng.

If G2 is drawn, Li Luo has even thought of how to use the world's shocking style of play to put this team into a state of reorganization in advance.

"Puppy, be serious, the camera is shining! In case you draw Rw, you're sin with this smile," the handsome rookie guy next to him said in a weird way:

"I hope to draw C9 and let our ig team also enter the semi-finals."

Sima Lao Thief: "??? ”

"Assi, Assi, four No. 1 seeds, one is stronger than the other, two LPL divisions, two LCK divisions, Rw is down, doinb, S8 Global Finals quarterfinals!"

Listening to Doinb's funny, the LPL competition area sitting in the lounge, including the staff, laughed.

For Rng and ig, in fact, it is the same for whoever is drawn, because of the principle of protection, Rng will only be drawn to G2, Fnc and Rw.

ig will draw G2, Rw, and C9.

For the strength of the two teams, there is not much pressure to play these teams, but it is still a bit suspenseful for IG to draw the RW of their own division.

But for Rw, this opponent who can draw is too grassy.

According to the rules of the S competition, the quarterfinals can be drawn together in the same division, and the second-place opponent in the group stage is destined to be the first in the other groups because they are not in the same box.

The top team in the same group will not meet, which means that Rw will not meet the skt team in his group before the finals.

The opponent can only be the three firsts of the other groups: RNG, IG, KT.

Two teams in their own division, one LCK team, if they want to get a 33.3% chance without a civil war, RW can only hope for a special guest to draw for the quarterfinals tonight.