Chapter 55: The mid-laner duel with full gold content
At the draw for the World Finals, the breakdown of the Play-in and Group Stage will be decided, a session that will be of great interest to all participating teams.
Because of the group stage draw ceremony, to some extent, it determines what the fate of some teams will be.
Especially those teams whose strength is in the middle and cannot be improved.
Because of the fact that there is a big difference in the strength of each major region, although before the draw, the tournament organizers have divided each team into different seed pools according to the World Championship points they have earned in the league, but even in the same seed pool, the strength of the teams is not equal.
For example, the No. 1 seed in some regions may not be as strong as the No. 2 or even No. 3 seed in other regions.
If such a soft persimmon is drawn in the lottery link, it is naturally a happy thing.
However, no matter what kind of good lottery is drawn in the lottery process, there is one thing that needs special attention.
That is, you must not open the champagne in advance.
At least the teams in the LPL region have a deep understanding of this.
At the knockout draw of S8, a certain team burst into laughter because it drew a weak team.
As a result, this laugh went straight to S9.
Afterwards, the scene of the team's unbridled laughter at the lottery ceremony has also become a classic scene that has been repeatedly ridiculed by netizens.
With such a lesson from the past, even if the team in the LPL region draws a good lottery in the future, they can only hold back their laughter in their stomachs.
The time soon came to the day of the draw ceremony, and the RA team also stopped training and sat in front of the screen to watch the live broadcast together.
The grouping you enter at the draw ceremony will directly affect the team's training plan for the rest of the game.
Once you know which teams your opponents are, you can better train in a targeted manner.
Before the lottery ceremony began, Fang Jie had already guessed that RA was likely to enter the same group as LNG at that time.
Because the timeline of this world as a whole has not changed, its own appearance cannot affect other things in the same timeline.
For example, the HLE team will not be changed from Group A to Group B because of their arrival at the draw ceremony.
From a long-term perspective, only if you successfully lead RA to the top 8 can you affect the entire draw form at the top 8 draw ceremony.
Therefore, Fang Jie had already predicted the grouping of RA in advance.
The RA will be placed in the same group as the HLE team in the Play-In Stage.
Coincidentally, when Fang Jie traveled back to S11, the life grid he carried on his body was Chovy's [Extreme Mending Knife].
And his first match at Worlds was against the HLE team led by Chovy.
Fang Jie had already planned for the play-in stage, and since the opponents he faced at this stage were not strong, he could just take this opportunity to give his two SR life grids [Extreme Supplement] and [Ice Horse Brave] a chance to evolve.
If Fang Jie's prediction is correct, once these two life grids are successfully evolved, their characteristics are probably very powerful among all SSR-level character grids.
Therefore, even in the face of the HLE team led by Chovy, Fang Jie will still choose to appear with these two lifeforms.
Thinking of this, Fang Jie couldn't help but faintly have a hint of anticipation.
Because at that time, there will be an interesting phenomenon of [Extreme Supplement] vs. [Extreme Supplement].
Chovy is genuine, the source of the character template of the [Extreme Mending Knife] character determined by the system.
At that time, is it that piracy can't beat the genuine version?
Or can't the genuine version beat the piracy?
……
Sure enough, as the draw ceremony progressed, RA and HLE were placed in the same group.
Then Fang Jie already knew everything about the next thing.
Although it is not difficult for Fang Jie to successfully break through from the play-in round, but in the group stage, every game is really a real hard battle.
Since FPX, EDG, and RNG teams have entered the first three groups respectively, RA can only enter Group D according to the principle of avoiding the same region in the group stage.
Waiting for RA in group D are MAD and GEN. G and TL.
Viewers who have watched past editions of the World Championships must be familiar with these team names.
Because these three teams are all regulars in the World Championships.
Fang Jie knew that he had obviously entered the group of death.
The so-called group of death does not mean that there is a team in the group that is extremely strong, but that the strength of each team in the group is almost the same, and everyone has the possibility of being eliminated.
In fact, with RA's current roster configuration, a loss to any team in Group D is a possibility.
What makes Fang Jie very excited is that every mid-laner in this group can be called a representative of the traditional mages in his region.
Fang Jie is looking forward to competing with these players.
TL's midlaner Jensen, who has been competing in the professional arena since S2, can be regarded as a living fossil-level existence in the history of League of Legends esports.
What's even more amazing is that since 2015, Jensen has reached the World Finals for seven consecutive years, and has never missed the biggest event in his career.
Since her debut, Jensen has maintained a first-line mid-laner level in the North American league for a long time, even if the overall level of the North American division is not very good, Fang Jie still maintains a trace of respect for him in his heart.
Humanoid, MAD's mid-laner player, has performed very well in the season, especially after the decline in the form of Caps players, Humanoid has carried the banner of the No. 1 midlaner in Europe.
As for Gen.G's mid-laner Bdd players, that's not to mention.
Of the three mid-laners from the other teams in Group D, BDD is the closest to the world's top mid-laners.
Of course, at the peak of his career, he even became a strong contender for the world's No. 1 midlaner at that time.
BDD has won the regular season MVP award three times in the LCK region, where strong players gather, and in this achievement, he has been able to compete with Doinb and Rookie players in the LPL region.
BDD has also been in great form this year, winning three teams in the LCK Spring and two teams in the summer.
In the 2021 LCK Summer Tournament, the first team in the mid laner position was naturally the showmaker player of the DK team, and the second team was the BDD player that Fang Jie met in the group stage.
As for the three formations, it was RA's biggest rival in the play-in stage, the HLE team's mid laner Chovy.
Good guy, Fang Jie is in the play-in stage, and he is playing against the LCK three-team midlaner.
After entering the group stage, he can play against the LCK second team mid-laner BDD.
According to this rule, if you can advance to the knockout round, wouldn't you have to harden the LCK mid-laner Showmaker?
What kind of anti-Korean wonder hero template is this?
Not only that, but in the group stage, he also had to play against the European French king Humanoid and the North American French king Jensen.
No matter where RA can go in the end, just looking at Fang Jie's alignment in the middle single, it is true that the gold content can no longer be full.
Fang Jie's heart suddenly swelled with pride.
Since God has given me the opportunity to play against the top midlaners in these major leagues, I will definitely show my best self on the world stage.
These mid-laner players, who are famous in the history of League of Legends esports, are trampled under their feet one after another.