Chapter 219: Lottery! (3/5)
Riot had already announced plans for the World Championships, so the venue for the tournament had already been decided.
In an effort to expand the reach of League of Legends, this year's Riot Finals will be held in China, South Korea and Singapore.
The group stage was held in Taipei and Singapore, while the knockout rounds were held in Busan and Seoul in South Korea.
The two teams of AB will finish the course in Taipei, China, and the two teams of CD will be in Singapore.
According to Xiao Chen's idea, it is best to be in two groups of AB, and there is no need to run so far after playing in China.
And there have been some slight changes to the rules this year, and the group draw rules for the World Finals will not have more than one team from the same region in each group.
This means that teams from the same division will not fight each other before the knockout round, reducing the possibility of a civil war, which is good news for the LPL, after all, Riot has qualified three teams in the LPL.
There will be no meeting in the group stage, which increases the possibility that the teams will be able to go further back, after all, they are familiar with each other often in China.
Of course, the time has already been set, and the earliest group stage will start on September 18.
At this time, the second and third seeds of the LPL have not yet been determined, and they are indeed quite in a hurry in terms of time.
Compared to other teams, it has already been decided, especially the S3 defending champion SKT did not get a place in the World Championship, which is indeed a shock to the world.
The OGN division is already so terrifying?
Of course, the matter of the next division is also very concerned in China, after all, the four words of Europe and the United States are typed, and for China, the only competition area in the world that competes with us for the championship is the South Korean division next door.
Therefore, when the No. 1 seed was determined, they all went to inquire about the origin of SSB.
On September 7th, all the competitions in the LPL region have ended, and the remaining two places in the world championship have also been determined through the World Qualifiers.
Summer champions Royals are the No. 1 seed in the LPL, followed by No. 2 seed EDG, and No. 3 seed OMG.
It's a pity that Lao Gan Dad and WE didn't make it to the World Championship, and it's amazing that Lao Gan Dad, as a new team, can come this far.
After WE lost to EDG, we also failed to defeat Lao Godfather in the lower bracket, so naturally we lost the last chance.
Although WE is the most historical team in China, its popularity has been declining.
But that's the way it is, people only remember the winners.
All members of the royal team are now fully committed, and they will make an appointment with EDG and OMG for one or two training matches every few days to train team cooperation.
In this fulfilling training, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is September 11th.
This day is an extremely important day for the majority of friends.
The 2014 League of Legends World Championship group draw ceremony was held today.
At the beginning of the live broadcast, the number of people in the live broadcast room has been skyrocketing.
After a while, the number of viewers reached 300,000.
In the No. 1 pool, it is the No. 1 seed in each region.
edg,tsm,ssb,all。
Needless to say, Samsung Blue is not the final World Championship champion, but you must know that before the competition, no one thought that they would lose to Samsung White.
It's also a hard bone to meet.
TSM and ALL are the No. 1 seeds in North America and Europe, respectively.
It is worth noting that the mid-laner of the two teams, one is the North American king Plzen, and the other is the world's No. 1 Froggen.
There are eight teams in pool 2: EDG, SSW, TA, OMG, FNC, NAJIN, C9, and TAP
Pool 3 looks like the four weakest teams: DAR, SK, KAB, LMQ.
Seeing that LMQ Xiao Chen's face had changed slightly, he didn't think that he would be promoted without it.
However, the Tianci team is no longer the second team of the royal family, and Xiao's father did not buy the second team of the royal family on the North American expedition, so the royal family Tianci also changed its name and was directly called Tianci, and the final boss was still the Boss Lin.
Boss Lin, who got a lot of money, was also willing to spend money to buy stronger players, which won the No. 3 seed in North America.
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The royal family in pool 1 was drawn out first.
Group A!
The draw continues, but the groups are becoming clearer.
Since the EDG team in pool 2 was drawn first, and the change of rules was postponed to Group B, it was also to avoid regional attrition.
The final grouping was also displayed in front of everyone's eyes.
Group A: Royal, SSW, AHQ, DAR.
Group B: TSM, TAP, EDG, SK.
Group C: SSB, OMG, FNC, and God.
Group D: All, CG, NAJ, KAB.
The focus of everyone's attention is definitely on the royal family as the No. 1 seed.
On the whole, the strength of Group A is not weak.
There is South Korea's No. 2 seed Samsung Baek, and Taiwan's AQH team, and finally the wild card No. 1 seed DAR.
There is no doubt about whether the royal family can qualify, otherwise there is no doubt.
However, this grouping is the easiest for the royal family.
Compared with the royal family and EDG, everyone is more worried about the OMG of Group C, and Group C can be called the group of death.
South Korea's new king SSB, the king of Europe FNC, and the North American bubble tournament staged a Jedi counterattack, and the picture is really beautiful.
The strength of each team is almost the same, and naturally it is also the most chaotic.
All have the possibility of qualifying.
It is still very difficult for OMG to stand out from the encirclement. It is also mixed with the heaven-sent team, and the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat.
The audience in China is very entangled.
But Tianci's popularity in China is still too small, although it is said to be a domestic team, but he is a North American seat after all.
In this case, the sound of shouting OMG is naturally higher.
However, it has already reached the World Championships, and there are fewer and fewer discordant voices in major forums, and there are no personal attacks.
Patriotic feelings at home are like this, no matter what the situation, unanimity to the outside world is over.
What kind of ability is it to spray your own people?
The match in Group A is on September 18, which means that the royal family, as the No. 1 seed in China, only has seven days to prepare.
It's already very urgent.
For the S4 World Finals, the royal team once again entered the intensive training match, of course, the game is about to start, so naturally they will not do too high-intensity training.
After the three-day closed training, the royal team also flew directly to Chinese Taipei.
Although it is relatively close, it only takes two or three hours to take a plane from the magic capital to Taiwan.
But there's nothing wrong with going to the venue in advance to get used to it, at least not in the future.
It's definitely better to be prepared in advance.