After seeing the distribution of the 16 teams, Riot immediately worked overtime that night to arrange the group stage schedule.

The opening match, played by IG from Group B!

First, after all, the LCK team is a local fight, and IG is last year's champion, so this grouping is normal.

In the blink of an eye, it is October 10th. ，

The Busan Exhibition and Convention Center in Haeundae was full of people, all waiting for today's opening match.

Although the number of fans of the Samsung team is not large, after all, it is in its own territory, and IG has suppressed LCK all year round.

Naturally, they have to play with their home advantage to create a wave of mentality.

Li Nian sat in the backstage of the venue, quietly waiting for the entrance ceremony of the next team.

At this moment, Vincent is like a verbose old lady, constantly wandering around the players of the three teams, explaining all kinds of opportune times.

Especially IG, as last year's champion, they also had a ceremony to return the trophy, and Li Nian, as the representative of this player, had to stand according to the instructions of the staff.

And Li Nian, this guy, seems to have not woken up, giving Vincent the feeling that this guy always has to get some moths out.

At this moment, Emperor Roaring Xiao on the stage has begun to torture the loudspeakers and the audience on the scene, even if it is through a wall, you can feel the backstage vibrating.

"Welcome to Day 1 of the 2018 World Finals, this is Busan, South Korea!"

His voice is not only loud, but also very penetrating, "After the seven-day play-in round, we met the elite teams from all regions, and we would like to thank them again for their wonderful performances. ”

"At the same time, I would like to congratulate the 16 teams that competed in the World Finals for more than a month starting today!"

Emperor Roaring Xiao said a lot, Li Nian just felt that this product was really noisy, and the host was really not as good as the immortal grip.

"Let's have teams invited to enter!"

"KT from Group C!"

Alpaca and Mata are at the front, and as the two most popular players in KT, they have a lot of fans and spectators.

Then, as all the members of Group C appeared on stage, the other teams around them also left the backstage of the stage.

In the end, there were only five teammates left around Li Nian.

Chen Zebin still felt that his legs were a little shaking, after all, he was still IG who had just played LPL and joined halfway, but now he has become a substitute laner and represented his team in the global finals.

Moreover, IG is still the finale of the 16 teams, standing in the center of the other 15 teams, so it will naturally become the focus of attention of the audience.

Who doesn't feel nervous for the first time?

Shiba Inu slapped Chen Zebin with his arm and laughed softly, "Dude, what are you afraid of!" ”

Before Chen Zebin could answer, he heard the end of the two letters of IG elongated by Emperor Roaring Xiaodi, and the staff and Vincent were also reminding them to go on stage.

Li Nian slowly stepped onto the stage.

The other five followed closely behind him.

When IG in the red team uniform walked onto the stage, the powerful aura instantly overwhelmed the other teams, and a gold star under the team logo was still shining.

Now......

Among the 16 teams present, only the predecessor SSW, the ultra-ancient overlord, had the title of S Tournament champion, and the others were all small Calaba.

Spotlights and spotlights of various colors are now tilting downward, and a stage light shoots out from the top of the stands to follow the footsteps of the IG players.

Many spectators who were watching the game suddenly found that Li Nian, who was walking in the forefront, would actually shine.

The crowd cheered and screamed, and even many South Korean spectators stood up to welcome last year's defending champions.

Li Nian took the summoner trophy handed over by the staff, and walked towards the eight stairs in front of him step by step.

Seven of the ladders are followed by the icons of the S champions of each year, while the last one is unrelated to the Summoner's Trophy.

The cameraman's camera was firmly locked on the summoner's trophy and Li Nian's movements.

When the trophy was placed on the podium, all of a sudden, the lights of the whole stadium were darkened, and only the summoner's trophy was still shining.

Then, as the lights at the back of the venue flickered, the flags of the sixteen teams hanging on the stage flashed one after another, and finally stopped on the flags of IG He.

Emperor Roaring Xiao took over the topic, "All the teams are ready to train, the battle in October has begun, let's wait and see, that team will lift this summoner trophy!" ”

The spotlights flickered again, making many of the contestants who walked off the stage feel dizzy.

Li Nian and four other teammates walked to today's table, and Mafa, the BP coach of the day, went to draw lots with Edgar to decide the right to choose a side.

Samsung's team members also started setting up and debugging the game.

The LPL's signal is connected to the commentary seat.

"Good evening, audience, I'm commentator Zeyuan."

"Hello everyone, I'm your friend remember, explain remember!"

The two commentators for today's opening game are Park Zeyuan and Wang Laoer, while Miller and Doll are still on the road due to visa problems, and they will come over tomorrow.

"This is the World Finals," Sawamoto said quickly, "It's about to start with Team IG vs. LCK's No. 3 seeded team!" ”

"Every game in the group stage is very important, especially in the first three games, and if you can win all or two games, it will be very beneficial for the second round of qualification."

"It can only be said that whoever can win the first game in Group B will have the first opportunity."

After all, the strength of TL and VIT in Group B is not too strong, Samsung and IG have a chance to compete for the No. 1 seed, and whoever wins the two teams in the double round-robin of the group stage will be much easier in the group stage.

Since the schedule of the World Championship is not determined by the LPL's broadcaster, everything is carried out according to the standard schedule of Riot headquarters, so the commercial break between the two commentators is particularly short.

Ze Yuan had to steal a hand of Hua Shao's 'I don't understand, but I think it's very powerful' ventriloquist to serve the gold lord's fathers comfortably.

Remember to pick up the conversation, "Let's get into the BP screen of this game!" ”

With a sonorous sound, the BP picture was presented in front of everyone.

"IG has the right to pick sides in this game, and they got the blue side with a higher win rate, and they disabled the bull head of CoreJJ first."

In the Play-In Stage.

The bull head used is a very important part of their tactical design, and most importantly, the bull head proficiency of CoreJJ is very high.

In order to avoid accidents on the road, Mafa specifically disables him first.

In this version, because Kaminakano is an offensive warrior hero, there is no shortage of output in all lineups, but the support heroes that are strong have gradually become a popular choice.

Alista is a near-perfect being.

It was without hesitation that Rookie's Sindra was sent to the ban position.

After the ball girl has been strengthened in version 8.18, the numerical damage of the lane period is ridiculously high, as a representative of the two balls and one Ji, plus Coach Edgar Choi experienced Rookie's lane strength in the Asian Games.

In order to prevent Crown from being blown up in the middle, he must respect and prevent accidents.

"IG's second hand is to ban Brother Crown's bastard hero Grasshopper, and GENG is to block Galio in the mid laner again."

In the last ban position of the first round, MAFA disabled the withered signature Kenan, after all, the top laners, including theshy, are not guaranteed to take advantage of Kenan in Cuvee.

Although Kenan's current priority as a top laner is not very high, Mafa still decided to respect the hero pool of the little fat man who withered with one hand.

Edgar hesitated for a long time in the final ban.

He actually wanted to ban Rookie's Enchantress, but in that case, IG's green steel shadow would be released.

An Zhangmen, who is good at controlling maps, may not be able to easily deal with Li Nian's attack, and if it is still like last year, it will be completely finished.

Especially.

In version 8.18, Pig Girl, who is best at Ann, is now ushered in an epic weakening, which is a devastating blow to Samsung, which is good at operation.

There's no way, they don't have the right to choose when they're on the red side, so they have to bite the bullet and release a hero.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally blocked the green steel shadow and decided to release LeBlan.

"IG took out the enchantress first," Zemoto analyzed, "so it seems that they still have to do things around Nakano." ”

Now Xia Luo is still outside.

If you want to take out the bottom lane combination first, then the strength of these two bottom lane heroes is not bad.

But that's the case.

The combination of Kai'Sa and Hammerstone is to be placed on the opposite side.

Edgar hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to take Kasumi and Hammerstone down and release Lo to IG.

Baolan was visibly relieved when she saw the other party's hero choice.

Recently, he has been working hammerstone, but his stats in the ranking look okay, but when it comes to training matches, he still has almost taste.

Jack always can't see the lantern, so he somehow feels a little problematic.

Remember to continue to look at the hero choices on both sides: "IG lock Luo down first, and see if they will give Brother Nian the hero first." ”

If you don't choose the jungler in front, then there is a high probability that Samsung will lock the jungler hero in the third hand, and then IG will face the choice of losing two strong jungler heroes in the second round of ban.

Mafa has a soft personality, and last year he became a well-deserved World Champion coach because he listened to the players.

Now that Li Nian is still in his prime, he is naturally very obedient.

"Don't take it, I have heroes to deal with them."

Li Nian raised the corners of his mouth, his face full of confidence.

Under Jack's shouting, the third hand IG locks Jack's Kaisha.

The bps of the coaches of the two sides are still tentative, and they have not had too fierce battles.

The main thing is:

Coach Edgar was still a little confused.

He studied his old opponent KKOMA for a year, but when he got to the first game of the World Championship, he directly changed to a BP coach.

Could it be that he should hold last year's notebook and do this year's BP?

Apparently unlikely.

So simply Coach EDGAR followed the step-by-step process, and did not deal with the players directly against IG's tactical system.

"Samsung took the keg." Ze Yuan continued, "They banned Zhao Xin and the Blind Monk in the last two bans. ”

"These two hands are very smart!"

Remember to nod and praise, "Now IG's middle lane is LeBlanc, and the current version of the popular hero, Rock Sparrow, has managed to combine with the Enchantress." ”

The collocation of Nakano, compared to the beaver, is the output form of AP+AD.

If Nakano chooses a single-output hero, then the opponent Nakano only needs to play a mercury shoe or iron plate boot to deal with the opponent's damage well.

The character ratio is very high.

Therefore, Li Nian's rock sparrow does not need to be disabled at all, and it is impossible for IG to take it out.

IG put the two top single heroes of Urgart and Sword Demon in the forbidden position, and then Samsung locked the knife girl.

"This hand knife sister is a bit of a taste of grabbing the ban," Ze Yuan said with a smile, "You can also use the knife sister to swing to magnify the advantage of the fifth hand TER position." ”

Mafa, on the other hand, felt nothing.

directly locked down Sain for his own top order to ensure the team's tandu in the middle and late stages.

"What do you want?"

Mafa asked Li Nian for the second time, but he didn't propose the choice of heroes like KKOMA did, but left it to the players to decide for themselves.

Li Nian twisted his neck, twisted his neck in the camera of the world competition, and finally turned his head to look at Baolan.

"Can you get me a Juggernaut?"

"Who? Juggernaut? ”

Baolan was a little surprised, "Brother Nian, don't be joking at this time!" I didn't choose a gem, and the Juggernaut must not be broken by the hotel in the early stage! ”

"Choose!"

Li Nian is determined in his choice.

Although Mafa also felt that it was inappropriate, he believed in his team members very much.

When Master Yi's green multi-eyed helmet appears in the Sapphire Hero Selection frame and locks down.

The spectators in the stands around exploded.

"Assi, this is looking down on us!"

"Juggernaut? It's really good for us Samsung to bully, right? ”

"I'm laughing to death, I remember that Brother Nian used the Sword Master when he first appeared on the World Championship stage last year, is this celebrating something?"

Including the domestic barrage has reached a climax, and I am very puzzled by Li Nian's choice.

But now that the wood is in the boat, you can't ask for a rematch.

And Edgar's face was ecstatic, and finally locked down the Shen of his own single-list hero, and shook the knife sister to Brother Crown.

Ze Yuan took a look at the lineups of both sides:

Blue side IG: Top laner Sein, Jungler Juggernaut, Mid laner Enchantress, bottom lane Kaisha + Luo.

Red side: Upper Single Caution, Jungler Wine Barrel, Middle Single Knife Girl, Lower Road Xia + Hammer Stone.

"If Boss An is in charge of the wine barrel, it is estimated that Brother Nian will still be able to develop steadily," Ze Yuan worried, "But now that Haru is on the field, his style is still biased towards attack!" ”

Since the second half of this year's summer games, Ambixin has subconsciously retreated to the second line.

He can feel that he can't do it, and now his style of play is not suitable for the current version.

Especially if you miss the second half of last year's S7, the operation control map at this moment is no longer popular - through the field of vision to exchange wild area resources to avoid head-on conflicts with the other party in the early stage.

Wait until the middle and late stages to pick up the group.

But now the wild area is full of Mengmen, Qinggangying, Zhao Xin and Mengnu Yanque have completely squeezed the living space of the herbivorous junglers, including the prince, to the living space.

And the exchange of resources in the wild area is no longer only.

Whether it is the river crab or the eight-minute canyon pioneer, the fist is forcing the team to play in the group, which makes Ambixin have no way to replace resources with peace of mind.

As long as the river crab with high experience in the early stage and the first purple garlic are taken down, then the team must be in a situation where they are completely suppressed and beaten in the early stage.

If it weren't for Edgar drawing cards in advance to get the Haru card, it is estimated that Samsung would not even be able to enter the World Championship this year.

While the two commentators were chattering, the Summoner's Canyon descended on the Busan Convention Center.

The sound of the signal has filled every corner.