Chapter 332: Grouping
Just like the S5 Finals last year, this year's S6 Finals still use the draw to determine the group stage group of each team.
And whether you can draw a good draw also means whether you can qualify smoothly.
The S6 Grand Finals consists of four parts: the group stage, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and the final.
Group stage: 20 teams in total.
There are three places for South Korea: SK, Tiger, and KT
Three places in China: EG, SHRNG, GLT
Three places in North America: TSM, IMT, and NV
Three places in Europe: G2, FNC, S04
Three places for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: AHQ, FW, JT
There are two spots for the International Wild Card Tournament: HRD and SMS
There is also a spot for the women's team: HCNU
One spot for the winner of the Fanatic Race: SKT
Plus one spot for the Riot team: VVV
When the draw is made, the seeded teams from the four major regions, that is, the teams that are ranked first in their regions as seen above, will be divided into four different groups: A, B, C, and D according to the practice of previous years. In addition, the second tier of the draw is for the mid-range teams, which continue to be divided into four different groups, and the final wildcard, women's team, fanatic champion, and Riot team are also divided into different groups.
This means that there is a clear distinction between the different teams within each group, and it also reflects the identity gap between the seeded and unseeded teams.
And after the draw:
Group A: SK, SHRNG, NV, JT, VVV
Group B: EG, TIGER, FW, NV, HRD
Group C: TSM, KT, S04, SKT, SMS
Group D: AHQ, IMT, GLT, HCNU, HRD
In this year's S6 finals, what is more surprising is that in the four groups, there is no fratricidal situation, and it looks harmonious.
However, when the results of this lottery came out, fans and viewers had to start discussing which group was the group of death.
Group A: No doubt! Undoubted Group of Death! The reasons are as follows: (1) SK is invincible in foreign wars and grabs a place first; (2) The strength of the remaining four teams is indistinguishable.
Group B: Low mortality group. The reasons are as follows: (1) The EG team and the Tiger team are in relatively stable condition; (2) The challenger can only be one of FW and NV.
Group C: Welfare group, but not everyone can get benefits. The reasons are as follows: (1) These teams are not good at cooking, and the dishes are not equal; (2) TSM and KT may be the biggest winners, but they have always been in the international competition, and these two teams are not good, so it is possible to stumble.
Group D: Similar to Group B. AHQ and IMT are very likely to qualify, and the only challenger can only be GLT or HCNU.
After watching the draw results of the competition, Chinese fans can only lament that I am not taking a bath at the right time, so let's first introduce the two teams of NV and JT, these two teams are undoubtedly newcomers, but, although the background of these two teams is not very good, but they have shown signs of becoming kings in their respective regions, especially in the summer season, and have the experience of challenging the first and winning, as for the VVV team, not to mention, MSI is easy to semi-finals, and then play the losing team by themselves. When these teams that can happen happen appear together in Group A, each team in Group A has to be careful in every game they play, otherwise, it may just be a carelessness, or maybe it will be regretted.
Compared to Chinese fans, Korean fans prefer to see all the current groupings, because no matter from that point of view, it is more likely that South Korea will have three teams qualifying at the same time. So Korean fans said they were very calm!
Fans in North America are also happy, because the TSM team, as the top seed in their region, was lucky enough to avoid playing against the strong teams, and TSM's performance this year, they are still watching, and they can only say that they are looking forward to the return of the king.
Fans in Europe are bitter. Not to mention the impact of MSI's mid-season performance, as grouped above, they didn't feel that the teams in their region had any hope of advancing even half a star, alas, depending on the situation, maybe there was a sudden upset?
Fans of the wild card area: In a word, don't care what groups are not grouped, have fun, run away after killing the world's No. 1 midlaner, you are heroes when you come back, and we are brain-dead fans.
Fans of the women's team: Aside from that, support the double ponytail. But it's still a little uncomfortable that the two Chinese teams have met together.
Fans of the winner of the Fanatic Tournament: This group is always good! After all, they are in the weakest group, so they will practice in the group stage first, and then slaughter the professional team.
Team VVV Fans: Hey! They don't have fans! You ask if Rockpaper-Scissors dad has any fans? People are fans of the League of Legends game you made, not your rock-paper-scissors father, so they won't fan this team, hereby (staring) ...... Take a wait-and-see attitude. However, if you want to talk about this group, you will still worry or look forward to it, in case you lose like that, it will be very boring, but do you want vvv to win? It seems like...... The idea is not so strong. Tangled!
On the first day of the group's appearance, and the big tsundere, it seemed that she vaguely expressed her own views on the group.
In Weibo, there was no target for anything, but six words were quietly typed: This grouping, I like it!!
But under Da Tsundere's Weibo, Da Tsundere's fans replied like this.
"It's your business!"
"+1 for your"
"+2 for your"
"you +3"
"What the hell is going on with you+10010"
In this way, everything has been settled, and the S6 Finals, with the efforts of all parties, finally ushered in its first official game. And according to the schedule - of course, this will not be drawn, because the early and late fights are all played anyway. In front of the computer screen, all the spectators and fans can clearly see that the two teams in the first game are SK and VVV.
And this first battle seems to have some significance, one is the champion of the S5 finals, and the other represents the official rock-paper-scissors company. However, it is certain that at this time, many people believe that this must be a friendly match with a harmonious spirit, after all, since it is official, it will inevitably make way for the S5 championship.
Of course, to be honest, many people also don't think that VVV is enough to challenge SK. (To be continued.) )