"What the hell?"

"For the LPL region, all four groups are the group of death?"

"I'll see...... Wow, it seems to be really, the four LPL teams don't seem to have a way to stabilize the group qualification. ”

In the G2 team training room, when the G2 coach saw the final grouping of the S8 World Championship group stage, he couldn't wait to tell Mingrui the "good news" as soon as possible.

Mingrui looked at it fixedly, and then was surprised to find that if you don't consider the hard-mouthed attributes of the LPL team, then the four LPL teams seem to have a chance to collectively go home together in the top 16!

"Team EDG is definitely going home from the group, and I can't make it to the quarterfinals of the Worlds."

"I don't really care about JDG and IG, it doesn't matter if they can qualify from the group."

"It's a bit uncomfortable if this RNG team doesn't qualify from the group, after all, I still want to complete the third clean sheet against the RNG team in the BO5 of the World Championship!"

Mingrui said quite uncomfortably, and even had a trace of nervousness in his heart, after all, if the RNG team really hadn't played the GENG team, it would be equivalent to the GENG team cutting themselves off!

As for the RNG team to win the FNC team?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The RNG team is such rubbish, even if FNC doesn't have Caps this year, but with the overall strength of FNC being more average, there should still be no problem for the FNC team to beat the RNG team.

"I hope the RNG team won't let me down, and it's better to reach the quarterfinals as the second in the group, otherwise the taunts in the air will be too embarrassing."

Thinking of this, Mingrui sincerely cheered for the RNG team.

"Well, I think so too, after all, we G2 have already played RNG, and BO5 cleaning up RNG must be much easier than cleaning up other teams."

The G2 coach also smiled confidently, and then suddenly thought of something, and wrote the name of the FW team on the "G2 team S8 group stage schedule" that had vacated the position before.

At this point, the G2 team's S8 World Championship group stage schedule has been released.

I thought that the G2 team, as the S7 World Champion, would definitely attend the opening match of the group stage of this year's S8 World Championship.

However, it may be because the LCK officials are worried that the AFS team in the same group as the G2 team is not their opponent, and the opening game will directly disgrace the LCK region, so the group stage opener is arranged to be the KT team and the C9 team in Group C.

This G2 is very "regrettable", and the official "scheming" of the heart of the LCK is really a little Sima Zhao's heart, which is well known to passers-by.

However, although they can't play the opening match, the G2 team will still make their debut on the first day of the group stage and play directly against the EDG team, which is very satisfying for the G2 team, especially Dark.

After all, it was precisely because of the "scheming" of the LCK official that they were given a chance to give the EDG team a black start on the first day of the group stage!

As for the specific schedule of the group stage, it is like this.

From October 10th to 13th, the four teams of ABCD will complete the first round of the group stage BO1 single round-robin points competition.

Unlike last year's S7 group stage, there was no rest and preparation time between the two rounds of the S8 group stage.

That is to say, after the end of the 13th, from the 14th to the 17th, the four groups will directly complete the single-day round-robin competition in the group, and directly finalize the two teams in each group.

Such a tight and intensive group stage schedule is naturally a huge test for the 16 group stage teams, so in the two days of 8th and 9th after the play-in round, all the teams continued to devote themselves to more intense and serious training.

But not everyone can go to the competition training with peace of mind, and Mingrui is one of the "unlucky ghosts".

In the last two days before the start of the group stage, in order to cooperate with the LCK official video shooting, he spent a lot of time on the shooting of the promotional video, the rehearsal of the opening ceremony, and even cooperated with the official shooting of a promotional video to watch the S8 World Championship theme song "Rise"!

Although the MV for the theme song of "Rise" was made in the image of "Dark", it shows the whole process of Dark and the G2 team going all the way through the S7 World Championship and finally winning the championship through animation.

But in Mingrui's opinion, the LCK official's "don't want to let himself train" is really obvious, and he wants to complain, but he can't find any evidence, which really makes Mingrui want to cry without tears.

But it doesn't matter, after all, Mingrui's S8 preparation training started very early, not a day or two days.

Besides, Mingrui also has the existence of the [Dark System], which can allow him to instantly obtain a large number of terrifying "training" improvements!

The last time Mingrui used the [Dark System] to "add points" to himself, it had to be traced back to the last time.

Specifically, it was before the 2018 MSI semi-finals against the RNG team.

Later, Mingrui also checked his dark value accumulation many times, but found that because of the increasing number of his fans, plus his own black fans, such as RNG fans, they are less and less afraid to start a group at themselves when they are "headwind", and only dare to yell at themselves when RNG wins the championship, so this leads to the accumulation of dark value at a much lower speed than before.

However, fortunately, after the accumulation of a whole summer tournament, Ming Rui once again accumulated enough dark value to successfully increase the [Shock] attribute to the full value of 10 points in one go.

And this means that in the next Mingrui game, whenever he and the opponent enter the battle state, the opponent has a full 10% chance of making a mistake!

After completing the bonus points, Mingrui's dark value was only a few million points left, but Mingrui did not go to the lottery again, but chose to keep it for backup.

Because for the upcoming S8 World Championship, Mingrui still has prepared a lot of "live junglers", and if there is a chance to select them, Mingrui can improve the real-time combat effectiveness of his whole heroes at any time!

With that, all the preparations for the League of Legends World Championship 2018 are complete!

And when Mingrui's eyes closed and opened, the time finally came to October 10, 2018.

The official opening day of the S8 World Championship group stage!

……

“Rise！ Rise！ ”

"Ri oooooooo......oo

Early in the morning, before Mingrui completely woke up from fatigue, Perkz's ghostly crying wolf song sounded in the hotel corridor one after another.

"Ah P, you shouldn't be an undercover agent sent to me by LPL, right?"

"As long as I am deaf so that I can't hear the sound of the game, the LPL will probably win the game, right?"

When he saw Perkz at breakfast, Mingrui complained without tears.

"Damn, what are you kidding, my song is clearly very beautiful, okay, if you don't believe me, I'll sing you two more lines......"

“Rise！ Rise！ Ri……”

"Brother, I beg you to stop singing and eat first."

"People ask for money for singing, and your singing is terrible!"

At this time, not only Mingrui couldn't stand it, but everyone in G2 couldn't stand it, and hurriedly stopped Perkz.

Caps even stuffed a slice of bread directly into Perkz's mouth, which was to block his "singing voice".

“……”

“what the fuck！”

"My singing is obviously very good, but you don't know how to appreciate it at all!"

Despite this, Perkz was not convinced, and everyone couldn't help but laugh and cry.

"When our S8 wins the championship, it's not too late for you to sing when you celebrate."

"You eat first, and I'll talk about today's arrangements."

The G2 coach said with a smile, and then talked about this afternoon's itinerary.

The opening ceremony of the S8 World Championship group stage will start at 4:30 p.m., and the teams will arrive at the competition venue at 3:30 p.m. at the latest.

However, because there was still a warm-up before the game, the team decided to leave for the training room of the stadium as soon as they finished eating, so that their pre-game training could not be interrupted.

However, before the opening ceremony of the group stage, the G2 team still needs to stop training, after all, as the S7 world champion team, they need to take the stage collectively and return the championship trophy first.

Quite simply, there was nothing to disagree with, so after breakfast, the G2 team set off for the BEXCO Convention Center in Busan, South Korea.

"Fack, is this the venue for this year's group stage? It's too small, it feels like a small concert hall, not as big as our school's lecture hall. ”

"Suddenly I miss the competition venue of last year's S7 group stage, why is the area of South Korea small, and the competition venue is still so small?"

"The stage is also very small, so it's no wonder that this year each team can only elect one representative to attend the opening ceremony, and if it were like last year, there would be no way to stand on this stage with 20 people from four teams at the same time."

After all the G2 members arrived at the venue, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them, and felt that the gap in the competition environment was really big.

"It doesn't matter what the environment is, as long as you can beat your opponent."

"You may have forgotten that in the S1 World Championship that year, the FNC team became the first World Championship champion in a place that looked like an Internet café."

The G2 coach said with a smile, and then led the players into their own training room and began the final pre-game warm-up training.

And when the time finally approached 3:30 p.m., and the S-Race championship trophy that was still shining after a year appeared in the G2 training room again, everyone immediately realized that the opening ceremony of the S8 World Championship group stage was about to begin!

……

“10，9，8，7……”

“4，3，2，1！”

Although the exhibition center is very small, it is already full.

And when the countdown number appeared on the big screen of the scene, all the audience began to count down loudly!

"Welcome to Busan International Center!"

The next moment, accompanied by the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, the roar of the well-known host of the LCK region, Brother Quan Yongjun, finally sounded in the ears of every audience on the scene and in front of the screen.

"Thank you all for the applause."

"Are you ready for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship?!"

As he walked towards the center of the stage, Brother Roar asked excitedly.

And everyone's answer was naturally the same excited "ready".

"Every year, all the big names who come to the Worlds from all over the world come with their hopes to chase their dreams."

"Their dream is to lift the Legendary Summoner Trophy!"

"It's been a long journey, and it's been a lot of tears and sweat, but in the end, only one team can make it to the top, win the World Championship and lift the World Championship trophy!"

"Now, the stage is ready, and all the teams are ready."

"Then let's start here, start from Busan, and let's fight for a place in the quarterfinals together!"

After a sonorous opening speech, an "abbreviated version" of the MV of Rise's theme song began to play on the big screen at the scene.

With the singing of "Rise", on the left side of the stage, all the members of the G2 team, who had already been ready, were led by Dark, who was holding the World Championship trophy, and walked to the center of the stage with great momentum.

"Now, let's ask the S7 World Champion G2 team, and ask Dark and his teammates to return the championship trophy!"

"At the same time, let's look back again at who have engraved their names on the championship trophy over the years!"

When Dark gently placed the championship trophy on the pedestal, and when the six members of the G2 team were divided around the trophy, the video began to play on the big screen again, accompanied by the sound of Roaring Brother.

S1, FNC Team.

S2, TPA Team.

S3, Team SKT.

S4, SSW Team.

S5, Team SKT.

S6, Team SKT.

S7, Team G2.

And when the winning shots of the seven World Championships flashed back one by one, on the stage, the G2 team players had already finished exiting, leaving only the championship trophy and Roaring Brother alone.

"See this glittering championship trophy?"

"I believe that every professional player is very yearning for him!"

"So now, let me introduce you to the 16 participating teams in the group stage of the S8 World Championship, as well as their player representatives."

"First of all, the four teams in Group A!"

Brother Growl smiled as he walked towards the wing of the stage.

And when the camera changed, the audience suddenly discovered that the four representatives of the four teams in Group A had already stood in the audience channel according to the position of the first, second, third and fourth seeds!

At the same time, Brother Roar also completed the introduction of the team representatives from back to front in the order of four, three, two, one.

"Team FW represents Swordart! Team EDG represents Meeeiko! Team AFS represents Kiiiiiin! Team G2 represents Daaaaaark! ”

Brother Roar's roaring skill is really visible at this moment, or in other words, whoever is the most popular and who is the strongest will have the louder Brother Roar.

Obviously, although the S8 World Championship is the home of the LCK region, the G2 team and Dark players, who are the S7 World Champions and already have a large number of fans around the world, are the most worthy of the admiration and admiration of League of Legends summoners around the world!

"Next up are the four teams from Group B."

"Team PVB representative Naul! Team GENG stands for Ambiiition! Team FNC represents Reeekkles! Team RNG represents Uuuuuzi! ”

In the shot, the faces of the first three representatives were full of smiles, but when it was Uzi's turn, he was frosty and pale.

This made Mingrui, who happened to be shocked by Uzi on the big screen, instantly brighten, because Uzi's expression was obviously sulking!

And when the group stage has not officially started, it is impossible for Uzi to be sulking with other teams, why is his expression so exciting......

There must be something wrong with the RNG team!

If it's true, it's a good thing for both the FNC team and the GENG team, but it's not so good for the G2 team, after all, Mingrui really wants the RNG team to make it to the quarterfinals and then die at their hands!

"Next up are the four teams from Group C."

"Team JDG representative Yagao! Team C9 represents Sneaky! Team VIT representative Jizuke! Team KT represents Scoooore! ”

"Finally, there are the four teams from Group D."

"Team SKT represents Faaaaaaaker! Team MSF representative Hans Sama! Team IG represents Roooookie! Team TL represents Doubleeeeeeelift! ”

"Now that all 16 teams are ready, let's cheer for them again!"

"I announce that the 2018 League of Legends World Championship has officially begun!"

The next moment, when Brother Roar introduced all the 16 participating teams, with his order, the S8 World Championship group stage ushered in the official opening moment!

However, the scene did not immediately enter the game state, but while Brother Roar bowed to the audience and thanked the audience, the first promotional video of this S8 group stage was once again played to the global audience.

If it was placed in previous years, the promotional video of the group stage of the World Championship would have been discussed by a large number of audiences around the world, and even because of the "cruel words" of the players in the video, it would directly trigger a war of words between fans.

But this year, a similar situation did not happen, because this promotional video of the S8 group stage tastes too "LCK".

Because the entire promotional video is all a one-man show in the LCK region, saying that the LCK has been the world champion since S3, but last year's S7 loss of the championship made the LCK region very unhappy, so since this year's S8 World Championship was held at the door of the LCK, then the LCK region will definitely regain its strength and win the championship trophy again.

As for the footage of other people in the promotional video, it was not until the last moment that Dark, Uzi, Doublelift and other regional representatives were released one after another, and they didn't say a single line, so it couldn't arouse any audience's enthusiasm for discussion at all.

It's a pity, but for the audience, it doesn't really matter if there is pre-match trash talk or not.

After all, it's still the same sentence, e-sports strength speaks, wait until the 16 teams have finished the game on the field, and then go to each other to trash talk, not only will it not be too late, but it will become more exciting!

So, in the midst of the expectations of the global audience, the group stage of the S8 World Championship has finally officially begun.

The opening match of the first day of the group stage was played first by the match between KT team and C9 team in Group C.

The KT team lived up to its mission and successfully defeated the C9 team 1-0, ushering in a good start for itself and the LCK region.

This was followed by the second match of Group C, where Team JDG played Team VIT.

This match between the fourth seed of the LPL and the third seed of the EU really attracted the attention of many LPL viewers, because they all wanted to see for themselves what the strength of the other teams in the EU region was except for the G2 team and the FNC team!

Then, the LPL audience was overjoyed and ecstatic.

Because in this game, the JDG team really "upset" defeated the VIT team and won the final victory of the game!

So much so that in an instant, the entire LPL region, especially the EDG team, burst with self-confidence.

Because what they're about to see next is a Group A battle between Team EDG and Team G2!

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