S4 Finals Grouping:

Group A: RT, SS, AHQ, DP

Group B: TSM, EDG, TPA, SK

Group C: SSB, OMG, FNC, LMQ

Group D: Team A, C9, NJS, KBM

September 8th, the day after the end of the China Trials.

In the early morning of Beijing time, Riot announced the grouping of the S4 finals.

Unlike later generations, where professional players were invited to broadcast the lottery publicly, Riot adopted an internal lottery method in the first attempt to draw the lottery.

According to Riot, in fact, as early as a month ago, they completed the group draw with the seed code of each region, but they had to wait until the teams from each region were determined before they could correspond to specific teams one by one.

It is worth mentioning that although it was not a live broadcast of the lottery, Riot still released the lottery video, and said that in order to further achieve openness and transparency, it may ask a notary public to supervise it in the coming year.

In any case, the release of the grouping results has caused a lot of turmoil in China.

"EDG is in the quarterfinals!"

"From the perspective of grouping, EDG's qualifying situation is the best, followed by RT, and OMG is the group of death."

"Hehe, if there is no shady scene in this group, I will eat SHI, the two Samsung teams have been assigned to a group with the Chinese team, and the only team in North America that is in the same group as the South Korean team has only one all-Chinese class LMQ."

"The heart of the US imperialists will not die! the fist! ”

"Spicy Chicken Tencent, what about the big boss, every year the global finals make the Chinese team suffer!"

"Tencent is really a waste, I wanted to scold last year, so many divisions we only have two places, and this year it's hard to have three places."

"Tencent: Lao Tzu only counts the money!"

"OMG wants to cry without tears, South Korea's No. 1 Samsung Blue, the strongest European and American giants FNC, North American all-Chinese class LMQ, no one is easy to mess with!"

"This grouping, EDG laughed, North American fishing, Wanwan fishing, and wild card fishing."

"60E is really sour."

There was a lot of scolding on the Internet, and Tencent took a pot for no reason.

Although it is indeed wronged, everyone's doubts are not unreasonable, but many people do not know that although Tencent has wholly acquired Riot as early as last year, according to the agreement, Riot still has the right to operate independently without any interference.

The ownership of the company is yours, but you don't have the right to manage it, which may not be a problem at all for an empire like Tencent with a long-term layout, but for many players in China, this is definitely a bad thing.

It is worth mentioning that after the grouping results came out, most domestic players focused on the EDG of Group B and the OMG of Group C, but the RT of Group A was not discussed much.

The reason is very simple, in terms of the qualifying situation, the first two are a heaven and a hell, as for RT, which is neither good nor bad in the grouping, everyone has already tacitly agreed that they are qualified, but they will not have too much to worry about.

This is a symbol of strength, after all, RT is undoubtedly the strongest team in China.

For Group A, the only thing everyone cares about is that RT is a few times against SS.

In the end, the consensus reached was that it was at least June Fourth or above.

Don't blame people for being optimistic, after all, no one knows that Samsung White is the champion of S4, and in the World Team Rankings released by Riot last time, RT ranked second, second only to Samsung Blue, but Samsung White only ranked fourth.

In the perception of most people today, Samsung Blue is the strongest team in South Korea, and it may also be the only team in the world that is stronger than RT.

It is worth mentioning that after the announcement of the grouping, Riot created another event that had a great impact on future generations, and before the official start of S4, the strongest 20 players were selected and ranked from the 80 players in these 16 teams.

Rankings are based on a player's importance to the team, their individual skills and their ability in the position, as well as intangible factors such as leadership, consistency and performance in key moments.

The two people announced on the first day are the two junglers of the LPL.

Clearlove, ranked 20th

– Some players are not consistent and mediocre, but when it comes to a tight moment, he knows how to control the game.

Clearlove's task within the team is to create small battles with a bottom lane advantage. His ability to control areas in teamfights makes him particularly good at heroes like Garvin IV, the Widowmaker, and Nunu, but because he takes special care of his own path, powerful gank heroes like the Blind Monk also make sense to him.

He picked up the coveted MVP trophy at this year's LPL, and now he's ready to capture more of our attention on the world stage.

Qin Yitian, ranked nineteenth.

- From support to jungler, from retirement to comeback, she helped the team win after victory with ferocious invasions and frequent gank, and her performance in the jungle was amazing.

Compared to other veteran junglers, although she is still inexperienced, she has the keen insight and explosiveness of a cheetah, and we must say that she is an out-and-out carnivorous jungler.

Secondly, the seamless cooperation with the middle lane is her best magic weapon.

Among the three junglers selected in China, Qin Yitian's ranking is higher than Ming Kai and lower than the elixir.

At the same time, UZI also entered this list, ranking 10th, 5 places lower than the previous life, higher than Samsung's two ADs, but not as good as Oucheng Rekkle and EDG's Nami.

It's good to be in the top 10 in the first World Finals.

Even in the previous life, with the honor of the runner-up, UZI's ranking was not as good as that of Nami.

Twentie: Clearlove, playing for team EDG, position jungler, LPL division

Nineteenth: Seven, playing for team RT, position jungler, LPL division

18th place: Little Smile, playing for team LMQ, position in mid-laner, North American LCS region

17th place: Gogoing, playing for team OMG, position on the laner, LPL division

16th place: IMP, playing for team SS, position ADC, OGN division

15th place: YelloStar, playing for FNC, position support, European LCS region

14th place: SAVE, playing for team NJS, position in the top laner, OGN division

13th place: Spirit, playing for team SSB, position jungler, OGN division

12th place: DEFT, playing for SSB, ADC, OGN division

11th place: Lovelin, playing for team OMG, position jungler, LPL division

10th place: UZI, playing for team RT, position ADC, LPL region

9th place: Bjergse, playing for team TSM, mid laner, North American LCS

8th place: Rekkle, FNC, ADC, European LCS

7th place: COOL, playing for team OMG, position in mid-laner, LPL division

6th place: DANDY, playing for team SS, position jungler, OGN division

5th place: Frogge, playing for Team Alliance, mid laner, Europe

4th place: Namei, playing for EDG, ADC, LPL region

3rd place: MATA, playing for team SS, position support, OGN division

Time flies quickly, and as of the eve of S4, there are already 18 players on this list, and only the top two have not been announced.

In the early morning of September 18, under the watchful eye, Riot finally announced the top two.

Second place, Dade, played for team SSB, mid laner, OGN division

First place, Underood, played for team RT, position in mid-laner, LPL division