After the play-in tournament on October 7, the group stage group was completely determined that night.

The group stage will officially start on October 10.

The venue of the competition was also changed from Seoul to Busan.

During this period, with the exception of LCK's local team, most of the players from the other participating teams stayed in hotels arranged by Riot.

IG people are no exception.

But to be honest, in the past few days, IG has been really boring.

Because in the past two days, everyone has not played a training match, and they can only play rank every day to maintain their status.

As for the reason......

It's about the same as when I was in China before.

In the beginning, when the IG people first came to South Korea, in fact, many LCK and LCS regions, and even wild card teams, were happy to make an appointment with IG for training matches.

However, after playing a few rounds with great anticipation, the mentality of each one became more and more wrong, and slowly, no one took the initiative to send out invitations.

I can't help it, the feeling of being beaten all the time, and then having a serious frustration in my self-confidence and doubting myself, is really uncomfortable.

What's more, many teams sincerely feel that they can't learn anything by playing training matches with IG.

Either you can't beat the line and collapse naturally.

Either the jungle area is bad, and then the lower or middle lane is crossed by the tower, and the snowball rolls and crushes over.

What can we learn from this?

What new tactics and new ways of playing, what new systems and new ideas, there is no at all!

I can't beat the pure counterpoint, and I've been suppressed, except for making people feel like they're cooking, I can't feel any improvement at all!

This kind of training match that only has negative effects for half a day, is it still a hairy one?

Substitution!

So, slowly, no one made an appointment with IG for training matches.

As for EDG and RNG in the same division?

Please, both teams have been tortured enough when they are in the country, okay.

The two teams that default to IG as the number one rival of the championship competition are even more reluctant to expose their tactics and hidden tricks in advance, so they naturally will not have other ideas about IG.

In this way, under unexpected circumstances, IG did not play a training match for two days in a row.

But fortunately, this kind of thing has little effect on the mentality of the players.

If you don't have a training match, you can play Hanbok Rank, and you just need to keep a stable state and feel.

After all, after so many victories, everyone already has a lot of self-confidence.

Don't panic at all!

……

As for the words of Zhao Yun himself.

To be honest, at the beginning, when he came to a foreign country to play a game, this experience of publicly-funded tourism made him somewhat excited and excited.

But after a few days, it quickly calmed down.

Because this place in Busan seems to be just like that.

In addition to the extremely low ping value of playing Hanbok Rank, which is more comfortable to play, there is really not much that surprises him.

If he had to say it, being able to hear the theme song "RISE" in Times Square near here made him feel even more happy.

By the way, IG's team uniform style this year is really good-looking, and the special 'pole' on the back makes it really handsome!

Overall, I'm looking forward to this World Championship.

Then, after three days of relative relaxation and calm, the group stage of the S8 World Championship also officially began.

On the first day of the group stage on October 10, IG's first opponent was the Samsung team that had been renamed, Geng.

The game was scheduled for eight o'clock in the evening.

This point made everyone sigh with emotion, and they were going to be hungry again.

Of course, although we won't have dinner in advance, the club still prepared some fruits and bananas for everyone, and it is not a big problem to eat a little while waiting for the game.

Before the start of the IG game, the results of the group stage on the day did not cause an upset.

KT crushed TL, RNG also won MAD, and FW Lightning Wolf also easily managed PVB.

After a few days of off-season, the first day of the group stage continued to play several exciting games, which also made the audience quite enjoyable.

Then, at eight o'clock in the evening, in the anticipation of countless spectators, the highlight battle of the first day of the group stage came.

IG Battle!

Of course, it is said that it is a battle of focus, but in fact, most of the focus is on IG.

Before this game, whether it was the domestic audience in China, the audience in other European and American wild card regions, or even the fans of the local LCK in South Korea, IG's support rate occupied a huge advantage.

No way, IG's own strength and honor are one of the reasons, and in addition, it can make IG's support rate in Korean audiences relatively high, and T1 has a huge number of fans, which is also a considerable effort.

Anyway, even as a pure passerby spectator, it is quite incredible to see that in the World Championship held in South Korea, the support rate of the IG team in the LPL division can surpass that of the LCK region.

In this way, in the expectation of countless spectators, the players of both teams have already sat on the table of the game, and the first group stage of IG is about to start!

Before the start of the game, on the commentary bench on LCK's side, several commentators also routinely expressed their opinions on the two teams.

There are four official commentaries on LCK's side, all of which are well-known popular commentators on LCK.

Then, they also take turns to speak.

"Ah~ How can I say it, although Geng's performance in the bubble match of the summer tournament is very impressive, but if the opponent is IG, it really makes people feel very uneasy, Smecta."

"Indeed, you know, that's IG! Not only the last S7 champion, but also this year's MSI champion, what's even more terrifying is that their winning streak has continued until now, and fighting such an opponent who seems to have no flaws is too stressful no matter how you look at it! ”

"What's more, in last year's S7 World Championship, GENG was already taken away by IG 3-0 at that time, and now I meet it again after a year, GENG himself has become weaker, and IG has become stronger than last year, which is very unsettling no matter how you look at it."

"Anyway, it's really appalling to not lose a whole year without losing a streak, Smectac!"

"If you only look at the strength on paper, I can't even imagine for a moment where the winning point of Geng's theory is."

"If I follow my personal opinion, I think that if Geng wants to win IG, then dealing with Lancer is the most important point, and if you can limit Lancer's play in the jungle, then Geng will have a good chance of winning."

"So the question is, what kind of methods should be used to effectively limit the role of lancers in the wild?"

“…… Well, I don't know, IMHO, the professionalism of this aspect of the design is too over-the-top, so let's leave it to the coaching staff at GENG. ”

"The coaching staff of so many teams in the LPL spent a whole summer game and failed to find effective measures, and now it is a bit too demanding for the coaching staff of GUNG to solve this problem in a few days."

"Ahhh The thought of this name makes people can't help but feel numb in their scalps, I originally thought that his performance on the S7 road was perfect enough, but I didn't expect him to be even more puzzled after he moved to the jungler position? How could there be such a terrifying existence! ”

"Regardless, GENG is the team that represents our LCK! Please give GUNG more trust! Trust the lads! ”

"Even if the opponent is the strongest big demon IG, we always believe in GENG!"

"Come on geng! Come on LCK! ”

“……”

All of a sudden, for the upcoming game, several LCK commentators began to cheer for GENG, which attracted the Korean audience at the scene to shout and cheer for 'GENG FIGHTING'.

Of course, in addition to LCK, the commentators of other regions are also doing the same thing.

It's just that, compared with the rational and objective style of LCK, the commentators in the LCS Europe and America divisions are much more unrestrained.

For example, in the live broadcast room that was being broadcast live at this time, three European and American commentators had even put on IG's white team uniform jacket directly on the spot, and a black guy even took a small flag printed with the IG team logo and shook it wildly.

"Oh~ I can see the game of my first favorite IG team again, and there is nothing more exciting than this."

"Ask who we think will win? Who are you more supporting? As you can see, no one at all thinks that IG will lose well? I'm even already thinking about how many levels will Haru be pressed by the lancer in this game, three levels? Level four? Or even an incredible five? ”

"Please, everyone, if you really watched IG's summer game in the LPL before this, you wouldn't have any other thoughts about the outcome of this game, this IG team is invincible, understand?"

"If the jungler is ning, then Geng may still have a 10% chance, but unfortunately it is lancer in this game, and I can't imagine how Geng will have to win."

"Instead of thinking about the impossible, let's guess what jungler will pick in this round, right?"

"I don't think there will be too many accidents, choose one of the three Qianjue leopard female rock sparrows."

"Anyway, if I were Coach GENG, then I would definitely send the Leopard Girl to the ban position, because compared to Qianjue He Yanque, Lancer's Leopard Girl made me feel for the first time whether he was a plug-in or not."

"Hey~ Is there a possibility, the three junglers are all banned?"

"Hahaha, how is it possible, what about the other positions where the three bans are all junglers? It's just the first group game, do you think Geng would have gone to such extremes? ”

"Anyway, no matter what hero you choose, Lancer is invincible and it's over!"

“ig！ God of War IG! I will always support the invincible IG! ”

“……”

In the official live broadcast room of LCS, the atmosphere of the three commentators was extremely joyful, and they even had to say a few words of rap to help the fun.

At the same time, compared with the rationality and objectivity on the LCK side and the exaggerated work on the LCS side, the official live broadcast room of the LPL is much more serious.

On the contrary, it is the Deyunse commentary of the second road, and the effect of the show is more joyful and interesting.

Then, at this point in time, Deyunse has just ushered in the addition of retired player KID, and in the camera, Xiaoxiao, Sika and Kid are making pre-match predictions for this game.

Bald: "Who does the anchor support to win?" It's hilarious that you can ask this kind of question in our live broadcast room, you know? I'll say it again when the new audience comes in, as long as this IG is still in one day, then we Deyunse will unconditionally support IG to win OK? ”

Fat man: "Don't be funny, brothers, if you want to say that it's a bit suspenseful to play KT, forget it, can you all be so nervous when you play a geng, I'll put my words here, none of the three ways of geng is an IG opponent, IG is definitely a blind eye to win, understand! ”

Kid: "Winning is definitely winning, I just hope that Geng can release the leopard girl to Lancer over there Okay, I can't wait to see the faces of Koreans crying and crying, brothers!" ”

“……”

Without any cover-up, the three of Deyunse are showing their identities as iron-blooded IG fans all the time.

Then, under the expectant eyes of countless spectators and commentators, the game finally began.

"Ok, BP starts, this game IG is on the blue side, and GENG is on the red side."

"The first three bans on the IG side choose ban: Karma, Xia, Marzaha, the two mid-laners are all bastard heroes who love to use in the bubble game, and Xia is to dismantle Xia Luo, this ban is very clear, don't let the mix, the middle lane must fight with me on the right line! IG's momentum is directly full! ”

"Then the first three bans on the geng side, Qianjue, Yanque...... After thinking about it for a long time, they were very hesitant and entangled, but in the end they still banned LeBlanc, two junglers and one mid laner, all of which are unique BPs that only appear when facing IG!

Ok, there is no problem at all, at least I can already see from this ban, there is a lot of pressure on Geng's side, although I can't see their expressions clearly, I can already feel that Coach Geng has frowned. ”

"Then what does IG say here, the classic one chooses to take Kaisha, although it has been weakened a little before, but IG still continues to grab, first help Jackeylove ensure the strength of the next road!"

In the picture, accompanied by Sika's real-time commentary, IG snatched Kai'Sa first.

Geng, on the other hand, quickly picked the bottom lane combination of Varus and Hammerstone.

The choice was made quickly, and it can be seen that it was prepared in advance.

And then the follow-up choice on the IG side is also very fast.

Second choice, Phantom Ling, Luo.

Three choices, Wild Huntress, Nedri.

The speed of light is determined by the two heroes.

Suddenly, looking at the familiar hero avatar on the live broadcast screen, the three of Deyunse shouted at the same time.

"It's coming! Leopard Girl! ”

"It's confidence! You dare to let me absolutely choose! ”

"! With brothers! I can see the Lancer Leopard Girl again! ”

"It can be seen that Geng should have been released on purpose, and then there are countermeasures to target, but Lancer is not afraid at all! Don't hesitate to take it directly! ”

"No problem, Classic Leopard Girl! It's my favorite lancer solo show again! ”

"Yes, brothers, without further ado, I will directly announce this pure and pure game!"

"Although I haven't seen the Geng lineup yet, I unilaterally announced that IG has won!"

"Lancer's Leopard Girl! Leopard Day Day! Kill Kill Kill! ”

“……”

For the first three leopard girls on IG's side, countless LPL viewers subconsciously rose to the same thought.

'Ness! This is stable! ’

The first thought of those viewers in other outer regions who didn't pay attention to IG before this was.

"Huh? The jungler on IG's side is Lancer, but don't I remember that he was a top player last year? ”

"Jungle Leopard Girl? Does anyone really play a match with this hero in the current version? ”

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