Chapter 631: Trip to Busan!
Singapore Group Stage Results:
Group C Standings:
1SSB team, 5 wins and 1 loss
2OMG team, 3 wins, 3 losses
3LMQ team, 2 wins and 4 losses
4FNC team, 2 wins and 4 losses
Group D Standings:
Team 1NJWS, 5 wins and 2 losses
2c9 team, 4 wins and 3 losses
3 alliance teams, 3 wins and 3 losses
Team 4KBS, 1 win and 5 losses
As the dust settles on the entire group event, the knockout bracket is officially released.
Upper Half:
1rt(a1)vstsm(b2)
2ssb(c1)vs(c9)
Lower Half:
1ssw(a2)vsedg(b1)
2omg(c2)vsnjws(d1)
Undoubtedly, this year's World Championship is the most competitive year between China and South Korea.
Looking at the list of the top eight, three teams in China and three South Korea, of which the four teams in the lower half are all Chinese and South Korean teams.
This list of matchups alone can make many players' blood boil and their blood boils.
October 1st, National Day.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, all members of the RT team set off from Hongqiao Airport to start their own trip to Busan.
When I arrived, it was nearly dusk.
As the largest port and the second largest city in South Korea, Busan is located at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula, opposite the Japanese Tsushima Island, and is one of the busiest ports in the world.
According to the arrangement, the quarterfinals will be held in this city.
After Lin Mu and the others got off the plane, they first came to the hotel where they were staying.
It is worth mentioning that as soon as they arrived at the door of the hotel, they were surrounded by a large number of Korean fans, and for a while their ears were full of various "Oba" calls and shutter sounds and flashes of reporters taking pictures.
In terms of the madness of fans, South Korea ranks second, no country dares to call it the first, and the domestic fan circle is almost learned from South Korea.
Frankly speaking, Lin Mu didn't expect such a big battle, although his popularity in China is no less than that of many entertainment stars, and he will be asked for autographs and photos wherever he goes, but he didn't expect to have such a high popularity in South Korea.
This is his first time in South Korea.
However, how to say it, it is also an old Jianghu, although a little surprised, but Lin Mu's performance is still quite decent, while receiving the flowers and gifts handed over by fans, he smiled and said3q, his psychological quality is quite strong.
The other team members have been in this situation more than once, and everyone knows what to do.
Only the young Uzi, after being surrounded by many crazy Korean young ladies, is red-faced and looks helpless, keeping her head down and maintaining an embarrassed but polite smile.
Although his popularity in China is not low, after all, this is the first time in his life that he has gone abroad and met so many crazy female fans.
finally entered the hotel, and as soon as he entered the door, Jiang Bin, who was the team leader, bodyguard and porter, fell directly on the sofa and gasped: "A total of 7 bouquets of flowers, 11 packages, and 7 handbags, I'm tired to death." ”
"Wow, there are still people who send Givenchy, Korean fans are really generous." Shu Hao picked up one of the tote bags.
Not only clothes, but also masks, watches, shoes, backpacks, and jajangmyeon, there is even a package full of kimchi......
"Put it all away, and pack it up and take it away when you go back." Lin Mu waved his hand and said, "It's not too early, let's go have a meal first, and then start training." ”
Hearing this, everyone immediately put away the ridicule and fighting, and went out together.
It is worth mentioning that when Lin Mu and others were dining, Jiang Bin, as the team leader, acted as a liaison and arranged a training match for the team in the evening.
In this World Championship, Riot learned the lessons of S3 and rented eight competition rooms directly in the hotel for each team to train.
All teams train together, which is very beneficial for the communication between the teams and the arrangement of training matches.
And when Jiang Bin appeared in front of the managers and coaches of the major teams as the spokesperson of RT, he immediately became a big celebrity, and almost all teams were enthusiastically signing up for training matches with RT, including the two LPL teams of OMG and EDG.
This is very different from when S3 was held, when they were in Los Angeles, Lin Mu and others took the initiative to find Su Xiaofei, the manager of OMG, and proposed the idea of training information sharing together, but the other party ruthlessly refused.
This is the so-called weak country without diplomacy.
At that time in S3, although RT entered the quarterfinals as a seeded team, it was just a dark horse at best, and its momentum and reputation were far inferior to OMG, which dominated the domestic league.
A year later, the situation has changed dramatically.
The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.
The reason for this is that RT's fame and status have been greatly improved, and at this moment they have become a veritable superior, no matter what team they face, they have the initiative.
When Jiang Bin came back with the list of registered teams, Lin Mu quickly made a decision, "Forget about Samsung Blue and TSM, the other five teams can be arranged, emmmmm, leave it to your own people tonight, Lao Jiang, you go and arrange it." ”
“ok!” Jiang Bin walked away as if he had received a military order, and his whole body was full of excitement.
That's the benefit of being the spokesperson for a strong team, and if nothing else, the fact that other teams have to come up to curry favor with you is enough to make people feel happy and comfortable.
OMG vs. EDG!
Following Lin Mu's instructions, Jiang Bin gave the two domestic teams a place for the first day's training match.
It was OMG who came up first, and the two sides played three training matches in a row.
The result was brutal, 3-0, OMG did not win a single game, except for the second game, which dragged on to 30 minutes, the other two games were all 20 rounds.
It's a well-known fact that OMG hasn't been in good shape lately.
In the group stage in Singapore, they were not only killed by Samsung Blue, but also lost to an all-Chinese class LMQ from North America, and finally died nine lives, and after nearly 70 minutes of battle with FNC in the crucial battle to determine qualification, they finally stumbled to sit second in the group and barely reached the quarterfinals.
Among them, the stateless performance in the middle was particularly spicy, and he was almost humiliated by the mid-laners of the other three teams in the same group in turn.
The strong man is sad and old.
Including Ruofeng, Stateless and Flame God, it seems that all domestic mid-laners can't escape a law, that is, the peak period is too short, and it is difficult to maintain more than one season.
After playing with OMG, I took a half-hour break, and then started a BO5 with EDG.
Compared with OMG, EDG's performance is much better, although the final result is only 3 to 1, Ming Kai and others only won one game, but from the perspective of the game process and duration, EDG's resilience and synergy are a notch stronger than OMG, which is consistent with the performance of the summer game.
However, no one knows better than Lin Mu that the performance of the training match does not mean anything, not to mention that although the next opponents of these two teams are all South Korean teams, one three-star white and one najin white shield, in terms of strength, almost one in the sky and one in the ground.
In the case of this S4, many things have been doomed from the beginning.
(Tianjin)