On December 1st, sixteen teams gathered in Boston, and the organizers have completed the grouping of four groups. The group adopts a BO3 double-elimination system, randomly paired, and the top two enter the winner's bracket.

The organizers did not deliberately put passion and EHOME in the same group for the sake of gimmicks, but used the lottery method in earnest, and after the group was announced, except for a few unlucky people, the other participating teams were not interested.

Group A: Passion, WG, DC, LFY

Group B: Newbee, MVP, VP, NP

Group C: Serenity, Faceless, EG, coL

Group D: EHOME, IGV, OG, AD_Finem

The grouping made the domestic players excited, because from the perspective of the grouping situation, the future of the Chinese legion is bright.

The only suspense is whether Passion and LFY can both enter the upper bracket, even if one fails to cross DC, Group A can guarantee a place for a Chinese team in the upper bracket.

Group B's Newbee has just won the runner-up in the MDL Autumn Tournament, players are still very confident in their strength, the Korean team MVP is naturally not taken into account by the players, and NP has the famous EEsama, Chinese players are relieved when they think of his "3154", in the eyes of players, Newbee has entered the winner's group hand in hand with VP.

Group C is the most reassuring group for everyone, serenity in the pinnacle league shows a kind of dominating strength, the faceless led by Sanbing and the North American weak team COL have nothing to worry about, it must be serenity first, EG second, both advanced to the winner's group.

In the final Group D, although the strength of OG cannot be underestimated, everyone has never even heard of this team in the AD_Finem, and domestic players naturally default to AD as the bottom of the group, and at least one Chinese team in Group D can enter the winner's group.

What is this concept? There are 4 Chinese teams in the 8 winners' teams, accounting for half of the country, and the championship is not in hand?

The dota 2 community in the country is jubilant and has begun to celebrate in advance......

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Sixteen teams stayed in the same hotel, and the players also made private contact before the game.

Serenity and Passion are now completely left and right, and it's called an intimate one, gathering in a room in twos and threes to chat, and suddenly there is a knock on the door.

The elderly player Big Dog was closest to the door, moved two steps to open the door, and found a handsome guy standing at the door. Seeing that it was a big dog who opened the door, the handsome guy at the door grinned and said, "Coach, long time no see!" ”

This "coach" attracted the eyes of the left and right people, and the players of the two teams first looked at the person who saw the voice, and then invariably focused their eyes on Kyung Joon's body.

Jing Zhun raised his eyebrows, stood up and rushed out the door and said, "Old Song, come in!" ”

The person who came was Newbee's mid-laner sccc, and he was also an old comrade-in-arms of Kyungjoon. SCCC's eyes lit up when he heard Kyung-joon's voice, and the big dog who opened on the other side nodded and entered the door, hugged Kyung-joon, and made a muffled "bang" in his chest.

"Kyungjoon, your team has been very good lately!" Although the two often talk harshly to each other in private, in front of so many players, the SCCC naturally will not have such a low emotional intelligence as to say that it wants to blow them up.

Seeing these two people chatting sentence by sentence, the Rhythm Demon King quietly pulled the big dog and asked, "This SCCC used to be like this...... So ......"

He thought for a long time and didn't come up with a suitable adjective, and the big dog took over the conversation with the appearance of a passer-by: "Serious? ”

"Ah, yes, yes, yes!"

The temperament of Kyung Joon and SCCC is obviously different from other professional players, as can be seen from their straight sitting posture, and the most ruthless swear words in conversation are "bastards", which makes everyone present feel a little unable to interject.

Fortunately, the SCCC didn't stay long, and after a while, it got up and said goodbye. After Jing Zhun sent him out of the room, he asked casually: "Old Song, what ranking are you going to get this time?" ”

SCCC thought of the champion of the Serenity Peak League, and was naturally unconvinced, and replied with a stalk: "It must be the champion!" You wait, this is because you haven't played with our team, wait until you enter the upper bracket to let you know how good we are! ”

"Okay, okay." Kyung Joon didn't argue with him, waved his hand to say goodbye to him, and made the SCCC so angry that he couldn't do it - what do you mean by this attitude of coaxing children?!

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At 11 p.m. on December 3, the 2016 Boston Major Main Event officially started, and a total of 4 BO3s were played at the same time in the two groups of AB, namely Passion vs. WG, LFY vs. DC, Newbee vs. MVP, and VP vs. NP.

Three of the four matches were Sino-foreign confrontations, and the attention of this round of matches was naturally very high, but the domestic audience who stayed up until midnight to watch the Chinese team's games seemed to be stuffed with.

Passion 1:2 WG，LFY 0:2 DC。 Both Chinese teams in Group A lost in the first round!

The match between LFY and DC is completely a reflection of the difference in the strength of the two teams, and the cooperation between Nisha and her teammates has become more and more tacit, and DC is more like a whole than when it was in the peak league more than a month ago, and it has been playing smoothly from the time of the matching.

Several of LFY's veterans were able to win the game with experience advantage against domestic teams, but when they encountered a less familiar and powerful DC team, LFY had no way to fight back.

On the other hand, Passion lost even more aggrievedly, and in the good situation of winning one game first, he was forced to win two games in a row by the little-known WG!

Zhizhizhi and Xinq's performance in the last two games was a disaster, and the first time they played in a Major event, the two newcomers were burdened with the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing, and their operations were completely deformed. It's not so much that WG made them play extraordinarily in their last battle, but that passion was defeated by their own mistakes!

Newbee in Group B lived up to expectations and defeated MVP 2:0 in the first game, but before the domestic audience could breathe a sigh of relief, Newbee was defeated by VP in the second round, and it was 0:2, and Newbee also fell into the lower bracket!

VP has also completed its evolution, and after more than a month of running-in, VP's aggressiveness has risen by at least two notches. After being beaten up by Jing Zhun, Noone learned from the pain and strengthened the line training, but the result was that the SCCC, which is not good at the line, fell into bad luck and was executed by Noone on the line twice in a row!

The lower bracket match didn't start until 6 a.m. domestic time, and the barrage in the domestic live broadcast room still exploded. lost in the confrontation between China and foreign countries, the audience will not show mercy under their mouths, and they will scold everything ugly.

“zhizhizhi？ chichichi！ ”

"SCCC: This pair of lines is too TM dish! Hurry home! ”

"LFY is really disgusting, an insider's outsider in the civil war!"

If the rhetoric about passion and newbee is mainly focused on one player, then LFY is the whole suffer. As the champions of the Chinese qualifiers, they represent the highest strength of the Chinese team's civil war, and such a team will inevitably be scolded badly if they are beaten in the first round of the group stage.

Passion and LFY will face off in the first round of the lower bracket of Group A, and one of the two is sure to make it to the lower bracket of the playoffs. The winner will not be able to secure a place in the upper bracket, as they will also face the WG team that has just lost to DC.

Newbee will be able to sit back and relax as long as they meet the winner of the MVP and NP, and the pressure will be much less than that of the two Chinese teams in Group A.

But even so, before the group stage losers' bracket match, the major community forums in China were still dead......