"Good sign, peerless good sign!"

Seoul, Gangnam-gu, Andaz Hotel.

Inside the large suite 1020.

RNG everyone sat together, Xiaohu and Uzi leaned back in laughter, and Shi Senming and Yan Junze were also applauding gently.

"The draw for Group B is also too good!"

"Isn't this the quarterfinals?"

"Thank you, Wolf!"

Although Lee Jae-wan, a Wolf player who is an SKT support, has done a lot of inhumane things to RNG in various international competitions in the past two years.

But

After he ended the draw for the group stage, the RNG people's complaints about him disappeared in an instant.

It's really good to sign!

Not only did the weakest Samsung in the LCK division draw Group B, but the other two teams were also as Ming Kai described in his mobile phone memo - cannon fodder!

"I've never had such a great start!" The two-hundred-pound posture is also lying on the sofa, screaming with a strange voice.

Samsung Sentai Clan.

An established powerhouse in the LCK region.

This year's version is biased towards small-scale team battles in the early and middle stages, as well as confrontations in the middle and late stages, but it is still able to fight a bloody way out of the LCK and advance to the World Championship.

This is enough to show the strength of the Samsung team.

However, for RNG, the Samsung team is the one LCK team they are least afraid of.

First of all, no matter how popular Samsung is, it can't change the fact that it is the third seed in the LCK division.

Compared to the other two teams, Samsung is the weakest.

Even if the team of their team is still the team of the S7 World Championship, due to the personal state of the players, it is difficult for Samsung to play as dominant in this World Championship as in the previous edition.

Of course

In addition, there is another reason that the style of the Samsung team is perfectly restrained by RNG.

In particular, the lower lane with the ability to carry the game that Samsung currently relies on is completely unable to beat the combination of Uzi + Xiao Ming in terms of lanes.

"Ruler, this guy has been fighting Uzi a lot, right?"

"I'm always being abused."

"The group stage is basically a solid qualify."

RNG is very self-aware of the strength of their team, so even though there is still about a week before the start of the tournament, the crowd is not humble at all.

Samsung is still one of those players this year, and it is destined that this team is a natural disadvantage when it encounters RNG!

After some discussion, several players lay directly in the training room converted from a suite demon.

Casa opened his phone again, and the two-dimensional game in which the painting style was somewhat similar to butter.

And the gesture is watching the dance area of Huya TV.

The others started a big fight together.

Of course, this is not that the RNG crowd began to slack off when they learned that they were the best LPL team in the group.

Rather, because tonight, they will shift positions.

Now it's only an hour and a half before the departure time of the fist bus.

Training matches don't get up.

If Rank encounters a bladder game, he can only fight.

Therefore, it is better to relax your mood and reward yourself for your hard work during this time.

meanwhile

In the hotel room where the IG team was located, everyone was not particularly happy.

Because compared to RNG, as well as EDG.

Team IG is considered to be the team with the worst group score in the LPL.

They will face a strong team in the group which is the champions of the Europa League, FNC.

Although everyone is used to Europe and the United States, the intensity of the league in the European region this year is really not weak.

The three teams that advanced to the World Championship, G2, FNC, and VIT, are all strong and distinctive in terms of the strength of the players and the team's playing style.

If you underestimate the enemy,

It's easy to roll over.

And, on paper, the configuration of the IG team is even inferior to the FNC team.

Although the other two teams in the group are wild card teams, the group stage is played BO1 instead of BO3, and if there is any accident, it is easy to cause the small score to be abnormal.

As a result, there may be a situation where the play-offs or even the play-offs are eliminated.

"RNG hits Samsung."

"EDG fights AFs, this luck is too good, right?"

"Why don't you let FNC go to EDG's group and put AFs in our group.Wolf, I hate you!"

Sapphire Blue was a little timid before the fight.

Although FNC was taught a bad lesson by EDG in this year's international competition, the strength of this team is undoubtedly strong.

Especially after the run-in of the summer competition, FNC is a step forward.

In layman's terms, 'FNC' has evolved.

After letting the top laner play support, and taking over the top laner position as a substitute top laner, the strength of the upper and lower lines of FNC has been enhanced, plus Caps is a super newcomer in the European division, and he is the new king of the younger generation.

Such an FNC is indeed a big enemy for an IG team with relatively young players!

"That's it."

"It's just that it's hard to get out of the group, and it doesn't mean that it will be eliminated."

"Isn't this 100T team being abused by us casually?"

"And the GRX team doesn't have the strength of the lightning wolf, it's just faint, can't get the first and can't get the second?"

"It's a big deal to wait until the quarterfinals and see if you're lucky."

“.” King Ning said with a big grin, but soon his expression became solemn.

If IG is second in the group.

Analysis according to the strength on paper.

The first teams in groups A, B, and C should be EDG, KT, and RNG.

In this way,

In the quarterfinals, they will play one of these three teams.

Needless to say, IG is similar to its playing style, but EDG is much stronger than IG in the first half of the game, which directly leads to IG only winning a small game in the game when it meets EDG this year.

And RNG

IG's two BO5s this year both lost 2:3.

"It's okay."

"As long as you don't draw EDG in the quarterfinals, you can still play a dozen."

"KT is strong, but it's not the kind of strength that makes people desperate."

"If you win the RNG Civil War, it's better to get revenge."

When other teams were still studying their opponents in the group stage, Ning Wang began to fantasize about his opponents in the quarterfinals, which made the other players in the IG team all roll their eyes.

They knew that King Ning was very arrogant, but they didn't expect to be so arrogant.

"Let's prepare for the group stage first."

"It is said that RNG has been playing training matches recently, and they are all about leaving work on time after two and a half hours and 6 games, and Kasa chases people and kills indiscriminately in the wild area!"

Yu Wenbo's news is relatively well-informed, and Coach MAFA also nodded that his news is very true.

"Training match?"

"It's RNG's training match again."

"Didn't that guy fight with WE in the spring game, and he blew up 957 with the captain and has been blowing the invincible training match over there?"

"If the training match is useful, then why is RNG still Yan Junze's starter."

King Ning couldn't help but say, "Anyway, it's good if we fight ours well." ”

"I think it's still very easy to get the quarterfinals."

……

October 10th.

Gwangju Women's University, Universiade Gymnasium.

There are crowds of people, and the bustling crowd is surging like a tide.

Everyone's faces were full of passion and anticipation, and they either shouted loudly or discussed in low voices, and it was very lively.

As the time came to two o'clock in the afternoon, the mood of the crowd in the audience gradually warmed up, and the whole stadium was full of endless vitality and passion!

"This is the scene of the first round of the League of Legends 2018 World Championship group stage!"

Lee Hyun-kyung appeared on the stage in the middle of the gymnasium wearing a pink hip-wrapping skirt and holding a microphone in his hand.

"Today, it's Group A that will face off!"

"Let's welcome four teams in!"

The group stage is the beginning of the League of Legends World Championship, but due to its long schedule and many games, Riot did not prepare any opening ceremony.

Instead, it cuts through the mess quickly and directly follows the order of the four groups A, B, C, and D.

Therefore, there will be 6 matches today!

Since the teams in Group A are EDG, Lightning Wolf, PVB and C9, and there is no team in the LCK region, there are very few people in the audience who are of the nationality of the Great Han Netherworld, and most of them are students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or South Korea.

Five EDG players wearing black uniforms and a factory director in a sassy suit appeared, which directly triggered a burst of screams at the scene.

Again, since the Lightning Wolf is a provincial team.

The EDG fans present cheered and cheered for this team no less than EDG.

When the PVB team and the C9 team came out, the cheers directly showed a cliff-like fall, which also made the players of the two teams a little embarrassed.

[EDG and Lightning Wolf come on!] It's best to qualify together]

[Why is EDG and C9 in a group again, in my impression these two teams seem to be always divided into a group in the group stage, right?] 】

[Hey, the wolf king of the lightning wolf ran to RNG, how do you feel that the lightning wolf is going to be heavy this year]

[Can all three teams appear, I feel no pressure after looking at the draw grouping]

[The result is not obvious, EDG and RNG both qualified first in the group, and IG appeared in the second place in the group.] 】

[Hey, can IG come on, as long as you kill FNC, so that all three teams in our LPL are the first in the group, and we won't meet them in the knockout round]

[This cheer, those who don't know still think that the Great Cold Underworld is a province for us]

[There are so many Chinese people at the scene! 】

[The girl who gave the camera the director just now shouted cheering good locomotives, she won't be a fan of the provincial team, right? ] 】

【……】

"Welcome to the group stage of the League of Legends S8 World Championship, I am the commentary doll, I am Miller."

After the retired professional players in the commentary seat evaluated the strength of the four teams in Group A, the Haier brothers appeared in the LPL's official live broadcast room.

As the best partners in the current LPL region, these two are also the debut of the LPL team arranged by the league to commentate.

The first round of Group B where RNG is located tomorrow will be narrated by Guan Zeyuan, who loves the three-star team in Group B.

"The game is about to begin."

"And before the group stage started, there was actually a week of play-in."

"Although there are no teams from our LPL region to participate, what is reflected in the various games of the play-in tournament is still worth our study."

The two veteran commentators are simply handy at wasting garbage time before the start of the game.

The doll took the opportunity to speak: "The Worlds version is the 8.19 version, but to say that the 8.19 version has any important changes compared to the 8.18 version, it really hasn't changed anything, just slightly enhanced a few top laners and jungler heroes." ”

"But judging from the play-in tournament a week ago, not many of these enhanced heroes appeared on the field."

"Therefore, everyone is still in the stage of exploring the version, and there is no specific template for our reference."

"Of course, there are still a lot of changes this year compared to last year." Miller began to recall:

"In the S8 season, the most important thing is the revision of runes."

"In addition to that, there are several hero reworkes."

"But what really affects the rhythm of the game is the nerfing of teleportation and the weakening of Lulu's Censer's shield, the removal of the Green Jungler, the short-lived version of the Jungle Core, and changes to the salary equipment."

Many spectators don't pay attention to the usual games, and they watch the finals of the Spring and Summer Tournaments one year.

Therefore, the audience does not know all about the version.

So Doll and Miller listed a few of the more important changes this season.

"Of course, if there's one thing that makes the most important change, it's the revision of Critical Gear!"

"Riot's revision of critical hit equipment has directly led to the weakening of ADC's dominance in the late game, and in many cases, if there is no relatively large equipment gap, ADC will not be able to take over the game in the middle and late stages like the previous two seasons!"

Whether it is the S6 season or the S7 season, as long as the ADC equipment reaches two pieces, it can have a very high output, which can be regarded as an official outing.

However, after the revision of AD equipment in this summer's competition, if the equipment does not have a three-piece set, ADC will not work.

This makes the AD position no longer a key position in determining the outcome of the game.

And to see which team on both sides has the advantage, it can't be very simple, and it can be quickly judged from which of the two teams has better ADC equipment and is more smoothly developed.

"This year's Worlds is indeed the most balanced version in recent years."

"There are a couple of positions that can carry the game."

"You can choose an offensive laner on the lane, or you can choose a tank functional laner like last season."

"You can play the jungler and you can play the tool man."

"And in the middle lane, the warrior mage can choose."

"There were even various combinations of unconventional AD on the lower road."

"Therefore, compared to the previous two years of the World Championships, this year's World Championships are undoubtedly more interesting."

The Haier brothers are boastful, constantly telling how this year's competition is exciting.

Although there is an element of exaggeration in their words.

But veteran players and old viewers alike agreed.

The most important thing is that through the changes to the version, coupled with the recasting of runes, the original League of Legends match took more than half an hour, and now the rhythm has been changed to nearly half an hour.

This greatly reduces the appearance of bladder localization.

"In the past, everyone could develop steadily in the early stage."

"Now that this version is being revised with the river crab, the jungler will also break out in the early stage."

"Therefore, small team battles and teams with good resources will definitely not perform badly."

(End of chapter)