The days of September were not comfortable.

To be precise, it's not just IG that is uncomfortable, EDG and RNG are also each other.

The most obvious manifestation of this discomfort is in the training match.

The three teams in the LPL are less than the Korean team.

Even the staggered teams couldn't make an appointment, and LCK's team turned down their offer for a variety of reasons.

European and American teams can make appointments, but EDG and RNG are comfortable in this regard.

Both of their teams made appointments with TSM, who was invincible in training matches, while IG couldn't ask them to play in training matches because they were in the same group as TSM.

Therefore, the quality of IG's recent training matches is not high, and although the winning rate is good, this is not what Li Luo wants.

All three of LCK's teams seem to be holding their breath and are poised to shine in this S-Series event in China.

In this situation, there is not much Li Luo can do.

Before the rebirth, the three LPL teams had a full IG as their sparring team.

But now there is no one to spar them.

The players of the WE team have all gone on vacation, and the ADC brother-in-law has returned to South Korea, and in this situation, they can't even get together, let alone sparring partners.

If you just change them to an ADC, you won't achieve any sparring effect.

In this situation, Li Luo can only hope that the team can adapt to the version in the short six games of BO1 in the group stage.

To be precise, they even had to adapt as much as possible in the first three games, the first round of the group stage.

Don't look at the group stage schedule, it's not too long, but there's a lot of stuff in it.

The first round is the stage of testing each other.

There are many teams that get a good record in the first round, but then they are found out by other teams, resulting in the second round being directly pulled and lost in the version.

As the No. 1 seed in the LPL division, IG has recently attracted a lot of attention in the circle, and there are various analysis posts appearing both at home and in the world.

There are good and bad analyses in these analyses.

And as Riot announced what they considered to be the top 20 players in this year's World Championships, the topic of IG teams reached its peak in an instant.

"TOP20, TSM North America Big Brother."

"TOP19, EDG junior brother."

“top18，rng, mlxg。”

“top17，c9，zven。”

"TOP16, SSG, Ann Zhangmen."

"TOP15, Lightning Wolf, Snake Snake."

“top14，rnguzi。”

"TOP13, SSG Crown Brother."

“top12，ig，the shy。”

“top11，skt ，bang。”

"TOP10, TSM Pilsen."

“top9，ig，shine。”

“top8，ssg，cuvee。”

“top7，skt wolf。”

“top6，ssg，bdd。”

“top5，ig，rookie。”

“top4，lz，khan。”

“top3, lz，gorilla。”

“top2，lz, pray。”

“top1，skt，faker。”

Of the 20 players, the LPL has six spots.

IG occupies three seats.

Of the three seats occupied by the IG, Riot gave their reasons for choosing to include the three IG members in the seats.

TOP12, The Shy: As a rookie, he has a unique understanding of the warrior-type top single hero, his presence has changed the tactical ecology of the IG team, and it will also make the hero selection of the upper unit in this World Championship more interesting, if you can reduce the number of times you are killed by Gank during the lane period, I believe the ranking of The Shy will rise a notch.

TOP9, Shine: It was very difficult for us to make this decision, as a rookie player, Shine's excellence is obvious to all, from the microphone of the game, it is not difficult for us to find that the existence of Shine has turned the original messy playing style IG into a well-trained soldier, we would love to give him a higher ranking, but he is too young, and he needs to prove himself with his performance in the World Championship due to his lack of experience in the World Championship.

TOP5, Rookie: Rookie won the LCK Summer Championship in 2014, but because of the competition system, his KTA did not enter the World Championship that year, this neglected player has always been very bright in the LPL, his ferocious suppression ability is obvious to all, IG has him, it is equivalent to having a sharp knife, after two years, Rookie who returned to the World Championship hopes to bring us better performance.

When the list was revealed, the reaction within the circle varied from region to region.

But needless to say, the controversy is huge.

The domestic post bar forum has been swiped recently.

"Outrageous, this poisonous milk list is outrageous for Nima, and the FMVP of the Shine summer playoffs will be given a ninth?"

"Hehe, I think the ninth place is already high, and he can actually rank in front of the two-time world champion bang, isn't it funny?"

"I think SSG's ruler emperor is quite strong, why didn't he make the list?"

"This poisonous milk list made by the fist, everyone can actually take a look, except for faker, this poisonous milk list is not very accurate."

"The Shy is high, he's so easy to get caught, and he doesn't know how to play Tank Hero to be ranked 12th?"

"Having said that, there are only three top laners in the top 20, and all three of them are Koreans, when will our local top laners stand up?"

There is controversy in all domestic forums.

Not to mention in other regions.

It has arrived at the SKT training room where Jiangcheng is training.

"Jun-sik, have you noticed the ranking list given by Riot? That rookie player is still above you. ”

Wolf munched on bread and mumbled.

Bang, who was playing the rankings, glanced at him casually: "See, I have never cared much about this kind of list, I was ranked 19th on the list in 15 years, I was the champion that year, and I was ranked sixth in 16 years, we are still the champions, there is no reference value." ”

"That's right, for us who are aiming for the sprint championship this year, these rankings are meaningless, and they may not be able to meet us in the knockout round."

"I remember that guy was interviewed before, not long ago, that guy was crazy."

Wolf, who had swallowed the last bite of bread, seemed to think of something and spoke.

What he called the smoke is huni.

"What he needs now is not to belittle his opponent in interviews, but to train well, don't you think he's too inconsistent, and he can give you a bright performance once in a while, but most of the time it's a send-off."

Bang shrugged his shoulders and said.

"You're right, Ah, you're full of food and drink, I heard that there is a good restaurant in the neighborhood, let's try it at night?"

……

As a topic standing on the cusp of the sealing, the home team IG team still did not react much to the reaction from the outside world.

Ten days ago, IG had come to Jiangcheng, and the club that was not bad for money had made a big deal for their trip to the country this time, and rented a large flat near the Jiangcheng Sports Center for the players to train and live.

The large living room can even play badminton.

"Brother Luo, the ranking of this fist has obviously ranked you low."

King Ning took advantage of the gap in the queue and complained while browsing the web.

"Will the top ones be paid more?"

Li Luo looked at the small notebook in his hand and said expressionlessly.

"That shouldn't ......"

"What's the matter with me, let the heroes who are practicing well?"

"This ...... Not yet. ”

"Then practice more."

Li Luo glanced at him: "Although this list is a bit of a poisonous milk list, but the top 20 didn't get in, so you can't go to the World Championship and slap their faces with your 45-size soles?" ”

King Ning was silent.

Of course, he was not convinced.

He is ranked 31st on the list of all players.

The lowest of the three LPL junglers.

There are even two European and American junglers who surpass him in the rankings.

Although King Ning didn't say it, he had already secretly written it down in his heart.

This is what Li Luo taught him a few days ago.

King Ning felt that what Li Luo said was reasonable, he should not be so proud, and he should humbly accept the criticism and lessons of others.

And then...... Remember these criticisms and teach yourself all the people, and silently write them down in a small book.

Well, that's right, that's it!

……

Soon, the play-in tournament kicked off.

The ig crowd only watched two or three of them and stopped studying them.

The frequency of players making mistakes is too high, such as the third seed C9 in North America and the third seed RNG in the LPL can't be said to be indiscriminate in this kind of play-in team, it is completely a one-sided slaughter!

On top of that, the European FCC also performed well, with Turkey's 1907 Fenerbahce not as dominant as the other three major divisions, but still worthy of respect for their resilience.

The team that had a very good life was not unexpected, and finally withdrew miserably with a record of zero bars.

With the emergence of these four teams, four vacancies in the four major groups of ABCD have also been filled one by one.

Group A: IG, AHQ, TSM, FNC.

Group B: LZ, MSF, IMT, FB.

Group C: G2, SSG, GAM, RNG.

Group D: FW, SKT, EDG, C9.

And when the dust settles on this list, these four subgroups are also clearly divided into two halves.

Group AB is jokingly called the Suspense-Free Zone.

In the foreign voting list, 99 percent of people think that LZ can qualify, and 86 percent think that LZ can qualify as the No. 1 seed.

The other IG team that is known as a strong team is quite controversial, but at least 70% of the people will think that IG can also appear.

However, it is worth mentioning that only 30% of the votes cast by the number of people who thought IG would be able to appear at the top of the group.

This is a foreign list, and domestic viewers cannot participate in voting.

It can be seen that the outer divisions are not optimistic about the LPL, the No. 1 seeded team.

Groups C and D are known as death groups.

The voting for both groups was very chaotic.

Every viewer has their own opinion, and on paper alone, it's hard to tell which four teams from the two groups will come out on top.

And in such an environment, an article quietly came out.

This article was written by montecristo, an English stream commentator of the famous Han Fuki.

It covers his own predictions and opinions on the World Championship, as well as interviews with a number of professional players.

And the title of this article completely ignited the anger of the LPL audience.

"Is this year the weakest year in the LPL division?"

Here's a summary of the title.

Although there is a question mark, the irony in it is self-evident.

The most important thing is that I don't know whether the release date of this article is intentional or unintentional, if it is synchronized from Europe and the United States to the capital time, it happens to be October 1st.

"On October 1, 2015, a team from the LPL region launched a surrender at the Pullman venue in Paris."

"Against them is the FNC team from Europe."

"It's interesting that this year the two teams are once again in the same group, and the FNC who came out of the play-in tournament is looking for the next stone to sharpen their knives in."

"In addition to the TSM team, there is also a team that is also from the grouping of the year, and the personnel of this team have not undergone a major replacement."

"What I didn't expect was that the IG team, which was unfortunately eliminated at the Pullman venue, was able to enter the World Championship as the No. 1 seed this year, and their luck and strength are commendable."

"I interviewed a few players from that year and asked them to give their opinions on this year's LPL region."

"I was the first to interview Huni, he was in the FNC team that year, but now he is in SKT, and FNC is only Ou Cheng left."

"Huni said: I regret the IG back then, because I don't think that the strength of that IG meets the standard of entering the World Championship, especially when I played Raven to complete the counter-kill in a tower, I think this IG is weak."

"Of course, I can't rule out that the game will be my delusion, so I'm hoping that IG will make it to the knockout round, and then lucky enough to draw us, and I want to play Raven again (laughs)."

……

"Damn, how can this force be so pretended?"

When King Ning saw this, he was so hung out of breath.

"Isn't that good?"

Li Luo glanced at him: "You have to thank the gesture, it was he who gave this man enough confidence, and now this one is obviously a little floating, if his performance in the World Championship is OK, then everything is easy to say, if the performance is not good, he may be sprayed back to the European and American divisions again." ”

"I have an impression of this commentary."

Rookie said thoughtfully.

He's seen too many similar articles lately.

This one just seems a little more excessive.

This feeling of being obviously angry but not having the ability to refute it at the moment made Rookie hold back a fire in his heart.

"The game is four days away, so take your composure, our first game in four days is against FNC, and we have to win, not only to win, but to win simply."

Mafa walked up and said.

He is worried that IG's players will have a problem with their mentality due to the recent public opinion.

IG's style of play is relatively easy to get started.

If this is because he is angry, he will be dug and ambushed by others, and then he will be hooked, then he will really become a laughing stock.

"Where are you guys, forget what the FNC ADC said two days ago when it had a post-race interview at the end of the play-in?"

Li Luo's words made the expressions of the IG crowd become a little strange.

It's true that most of the media lately has only been making a fuss about the old days.

The content for other IG players is considered to be very rare.

But with the exception of Li Luo.

As the FMVP of the Summer Finals, Li Luo's performance was too dazzling, and after Riot added another fire to the ranking of TOP20 players, the ADCs that were not on the list in each major region were more or less contemptuous of Li Luo.

FNC's ADC Ou Cheng was already considered to be more introverted among these people at the time of the interview.

Li Luo remembers very well that when Ou Cheng was asked what he thought of Li Luo, Ou Cheng bluntly said that he once thought he was a dazzling genius ADC, but after arriving at the World Championship, he found that the world was too wide.

These words did not sound like they were aimed at Li Luo on the surface.

But the hidden meaning is well known.

In addition, BANG of the SKT team also commented on the LPL finals, according to Bang, the BP done by the EDG team was too child's play, and he couldn't understand why EDG kept pressing Li Luo's drama master.

The ADC player who expressed the same opinion as Bang is also the women's clothing boss ADC of C9, and he also thinks that the drama master is not qualified to be in the ban position at all in this version, even if he plays well, can he play flowers?

Li Luo saw all of this, but Li Luo didn't react.

Li Luo has always firmly believed that practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

He doesn't care what others think of him, and he has no time to care.

He just had to do what he was supposed to do, and that would be enough.

……

And under such a turbulent undercurrent, the group stage of the 2017 League of Legends World Championship finally kicked off in the Seoul Stadium.

Under the arrangement of the organizing committee, the match between RNG and G2 was arranged for the first game.

With the LPL almost full, the G2 players took to the stage waving their arms.

Li Luo looked at the high-spirited Ah P in the field, and sighed with emotion in his heart.

At this time, Ah P is still a small p.

At this time, G2 is not the one in the S8 season.

Although they are the No. 1 seeds in the EU region, they are also favored by many people.

However, according to the tactical drills done by Li Luo and MAFA before this game, G2's chances of winning against RNG are not high.

IG's game today is at half past six in the evening.

There are still three hours left until their game.

IG still has time to observe the BP of the other participating teams first.

As for RNG and G2, who are the first to play, they will become guinea pigs in the eyes of all teams while harvesting the first wave of traffic.

Their every move will likely affect the BP trend of other teams in the subsequent matches today.

Li Luo frowned slightly after seeing that Xia was directly pressed on the first floor of the RNG on the blue side.

RNG's BP strategy doesn't seem to have changed from my impression before I was reborn.

As an opponent, G2 is very aimed at pressing Calista and Uzi's big mouth on the fixed ban.

As the opening match, G2 chose a rather conventional lineup.

But RNG chose a somewhat weird kitchen knife team.

In the case of the big tree in the top laner, Xiaohu chose Jace who was biased towards the early and middle Poke in the middle laner.

This first one, RNG seems to be going to play in the way they feel is the easiest to win the game.

"Uzi's rat has a saying.,To be honest.,I feel like G2's lower road resistance is not very good.,If their small cannon with Lulu can't play an effect.,Wait for the mouse to get up with the wind girl's shield.,The output is a bit exaggerated.。

Ning Wang commented at the beginning.

Uzi often chooses heroes like mice in the game during the S4 period, which is definitely one of Uzi's signature heroes.

Although Xiangguo chose the pig girl, his pig girl's playing style is obviously different from others.

G2's choice of mid-laner Ruiz was a little too slow, and under the strong gank of the pig girl in the early stage, the incense pot was stunned to suppress the rhythm of G2's jungler excavator in the early stage.

Using the pig girl to press the excavator, this is a very exaggerated thing in the competition.

In the end, Uzi's rat managed to harvest the game with a score of 9/0 thanks to the incense burner monster.

RNG with a big head lead made their debut.

Mafa and Li Luo were discussing and recording something.

As they expected, the incense burner monster has become the top priority of the current version, and they have hardly seen any team release Calista, nor have they seen any team choose to start a team.

5:30 p.m.

Finally, it was Group A's turn to play.

However, there was an upset in the first game of Group A.

After a 45-minute stalemate with the AHQ team, North America's No. 1 seed TSM was lured by a wave of AHQ's strong Ancient Dragon, which led to the destruction of TSM, who had a slight advantage.

AHQ took the first point in Group A and temporarily topped the Group A table.

Seeing the base crystal shatter, Mafa stood up and clapped his hands: "It's our turn." ”

"Hmm."

Everyone stood up.

Li Luo carefully observed the state of his teammates.

Except for Baolan, who looked a little nervous and cramped, Li Luo felt that his worries about the rest of IG seemed to be unnecessary.

King Ning was still shaking his legs before he got up, looking like he was hanging.

Rookie, who had already participated in the World Championship once, was not nervous at this moment, and whenever a nervous emotion was about to appear in his mind, a figure would fill his mind in his place.

Rookie knew that this time he didn't need to be the dean like S5 did.

His teammates, everyone can not talk about it, and there is also a king of the bottom.

In this case, what is he afraid of?

As for the shy......

Li Luo looked at the casual appearance of the shy, a little speechless.

At this moment, even he faintly felt the adrenaline rushing.

But the newcomer The Shy didn't react at all.

Nervous?

Maybe he didn't even know what nervousness was.

This is also another combat advantage that Li Luo feels is the IG team.

The character of the players determines their mentality.

And this mentality will also affect their on-the-spot performance on the field.

"This game is against FNC...... We want to win, we have to win. ”

IG everyone's hands were folded together, Li Luo looked around, and said word by word: "My requirements for today's game are only four words, focus, concentration." ”

"IG, just do it!"

"!"

The clothes danced, and with the music and drums coming from the scene, the IG players stepped onto the stage.

Today is their first fight in the World Championship.

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