With the end of the 2019 Intercontinental Championship with the LPL region losing to the LCK region, countless LPL viewers began to look forward to the upcoming S9 World Championship, and they all wanted to see with their own eyes how bad this year's LPL region could continue to be.

It's just that what countless LPL viewers never expected was that they didn't need to wait until the start of the S9 World Championship, or even the end of the 2019 LPL Summer Season.

Because just when everyone thinks that "it is natural to repay debts" and "the wages of migrant workers must not be owed", the lawsuit between Mala Xiangguo and the RNG team ended temporarily with Mala Xiangguo losing the lawsuit!

Because according to the court's judgment, although the court admitted that the RNG club owed Mala Xiangguo's salary, because it was not a malicious arrears of wages, it ruled that RNG Club won the lawsuit and Mala Xiangguo lost the lawsuit.

And not only that, after RNG won the first instance, they immediately countersued Mala Xiangguo for "infringement of reputation rights" and other reasons, and demanded that Mala Xiangguo compensate the RNG club for economic losses of up to 50 million!

As a result, the LPL audience who learned of the verdict instantly exploded collectively, because they never thought that RNG, the "Shangrao Pizza Hut", could be so insidious and cunning.

Not only did they owe 3 million to Mala Xiangguo, but now they are even asking Mala Xiangguo to compensate them 50 million, and even directly freeze Mala Xiangguo's bank card because of this!

So much so that all of a sudden, names such as "Yin and Yang Contract" and "RNG Contract Team" were once again in the dust, so that all LPL audiences and even netizens who were not League of Legends players knew that in addition to "Nanshan Pizza Hut", there was such a master as "Shangrao Pizza Hut"!

But although all LPL viewers were sneering at the RNG team and scolding him endlessly, the RNG team after winning the lawsuit did not pay attention to the criticism from the outside world at all, but instead sent several scarves in a row, claiming that they will no longer care about things outside the game in the next games, and are ready to concentrate on the playoffs and the World Championship.

In the case that the RNG team is so "arrogant", the temporary goal of the LPL audience has become the hope that other teams can work together directly before the end of the regular season, and then block the RNG team from the threshold of the playoffs.

It's a pity that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although this year's RNG team no longer has the same dominance in the LPL league as in previous years, but they are experts in the civil war and can still complete the bloodline suppression of the vast majority of LPL teams!

So much so that on August 18, when all the matches in the 2019 LPL Summer Season regular season were over, the RNG team not only successfully advanced to the playoffs, but also completed the promotion with a good result of third place in the regular season!

At the same time, all eight teams that will advance to the 2019 LPL Summer Playoffs have also been finalized.

First place, FPX team, with a record of 14-1.

Second place, Team TES, with a record of 12-3.

Third place, RNG team, 12-3.

Fourth place, BLG team, with a record of 11-4.

Fifth place, Team EDG, with a record of 9-6.

Sixth place, Team IG, with a record of 9-6.

Seventh place, LNG team, with a record of 8-7.

8th place, SNG team, 8-7.

Although the WE team, which was once one of the three royal families, also had a regular season record of 8-7, it could only regrettably miss the playoffs because of the loss to the SNG team and the LNG team in the small game.

At the same time, because the JDG team, the runner-up in the spring tournament, did not play well in the summer tournament, only ranking tenth with a record of 6-9, so in the case of insufficient points throughout the year, the JDG team also officially announced that it would not participate in the S9 World Championship.

So this means that while the LPL region still has four S9 World Championship qualifications this year, they will all be produced among the eight playoff teams this year.

In other words, at this time, it has become the RNG team referred to by the entire LPL division, and it still retains a great chance to enter the S9 World Championship this year!

As a result, with countless LPL viewers desperately hoping that the RNG team would die quickly, the summer playoffs in various major regions around the world, as well as the competition for the S9 World Finals qualifying tournament, were collectively launched in late August.

However, the region that took the lead in firing the first shot of the playoffs was not the LEC region with the most popular viewers in the world, nor the LPL region with the largest number of viewers, but the LCK region.

On August 21st, the first match of the 2019 LCK Summer Playoffs officially kicked off between Team SKT and Team AFS.

Although the journey of the MSI runner-up SKT team in this summer tournament was not particularly smooth, and even qualifying for the playoffs was stumbling and dangerous, but in the playoffs, it was agreed to meet Dark, the big demon king of the S9 World Finals, and the king returned again!

2-0, Team SKT defeated Team AFS and successfully advanced to the second round of the LCK playoffs.

On August 22, the first round of the LPL Summer Playoffs was played between the EDG team and the SN team, and the EDG team finally defeated the SNG team 3-1 and advanced to the second round.

On August 23rd, there were two playoff matches, which were between the IG team and the LNG team in the LPL region, and the matchup between the SKT team and the SB team in the LCK region.

Among them, the SKT team once again lived up to expectations by defeating the SB team 3-0 and successfully advanced to the third round, but at the same time, it was a big surprise that the IG team lost to the LNG team with a score of 0-3 and directly stopped in the first round of the playoffs!

If it weren't for the high enough points of the spring champions, the IG team would still have a chance to play in the tryouts, otherwise this would be another ironclad proof that "the LPL is rotten"!

On August 24th, after a turbulent summer tournament, the first round of the LEC Summer Playoffs officially began, and Team RGE defeated Team SPY 3-0 to successfully advance.

On the side of the LPL division, the EDG team lost with a score of 2-3 after five rounds of fierce battles with the BLG team, stopping in the second round of the playoffs and officially ending the entire journey in 2019.

And the ending of the EDG team once again made the entire LPL a little fried, because it confirmed the trend of the EDG team "getting worse and worse", from the top eight of S7, to the top 16 of S8, and then to the failure of S9 to make it to the World Championship!

On August 25th, there are matches in all three regions today.

In the LEC division, Team S04 defeated Team VIT 3-1.

In the LCK region, SKT team 3-0 DWG team.

In the LPL division, the RNG team won 3 to 1 LNG team.

When the SKT team completed the feat of wearing three in one out, League of Legends viewers around the world sighed at the horror of Faker's great demon king, and at the same time looked forward to the SKT team finally winning the championship in one outfit and four outfits.

And when the RNG team advanced to the semifinals and locked in at least one bubble qualification, the LPL audience scolded again, thinking that this RNG team that is an expert in the civil war is afraid that it will enter the world championship again.

From August 26th to August 30th, there were no games in the three major regions, so after a short period of preparation, on August 31, the three major regions made a comeback.

In the LEC region, the G2 team defeated the S04 team 3-0 to advance to the finals.

In the LCK region, the SKT team completed the replica of the Spring Finals, defeating the GRF team with a score of 3-1, completing the feat of wearing four feats and officially winning the LCK Summer Championship and the Spring and Summer Double.

In the LPL region, the FPX team, the No. 1 team in the regular season, continued to show his strong dominance, and also took the lead in advancing to the finals with a score of 3-1.

On September 1st, the semi-finals of the LEC region were the first to start, and the FNC team defeated the RGE team with a score of 3-2 after five rounds of fierce battles, and once again met the G2 team in the summer finals.

On the side of the LPL region, when the TES team was pinned on by all LPL viewers, they failed to complete the interception of the RNG team, and finally lost to the RNG team with a score of 1-3, and could only send the RNG team to the summer finals again with countless infamy.

After five days of preparation, on September 6, the 2019 LPL Summer Finals finally officially kicked off between the FPX team and the RNG team.

Whether the new king of the FPX team ascends the throne, or the RNG team continues to complete the domination of the LPL region, all the suspense is focused on today's final encounter.

Fortunately, this time, the FPX team did not live up to the expectations of the majority of LPL audiences, and successfully defeated the RNG team with a score of 3-1, realizing the new king's accession to the throne, and finally completing a "sanction" against the RNG team.

And it's a pity that although the RNG team's Spring Tournament points are not high enough, because they won the runner-up in the Summer Tournament and became the team with the highest points in the LPL region except for the FPX team, the RNG team didn't even need to play the S9 Bubbling Tournament to successfully advance to the S9 World Championship as the second seed.

Although the majority of LPL viewers are not satisfied with this result, because they all know that once the RNG team enters the World Championship, it will become a score-giving boy in the civil war and an outsider in the civil war, but there is nothing they can do about this result.

Soon, however, the attention of LPL viewers was drawn to the upcoming LEC Summer Finals.

On September 7th, the G2 team met the FNC team again in the finals, and this time, the FNC team was unexpectedly not swept away by the G2 team, but successfully won a small game score, and successfully won the second place in the LEC Summer Tournament with a final result of 1-3.

Correspondingly, the G2 team became the champions of the LEC Summer once again and entered the S9 Worlds as the No. 1 seed.

After the 2019 World Finals trials in the next few days in each major region around the world, the list of all teams that have qualified for the S9 World Championship in each major region has also been officially announced!

LEC Division: No. 1 seed G2, No. 2 seed FNC, No. 3 seed RGE and No. 4 seed S04.

Because the G2 team won the S8 World Championship, all four teams in the LEC region did not need to play in the play-in tournament and directly qualified for the main event.

LPL Division, No. 1 Seed FPX Team, No. 2 Seed RNG Team, No. 3 Seed IG Team, No. 4 Seed TES Team.

LCK, No. 1 seed SKT, No. 2 seed GRF, No. 3 seed DWG.

LCS region, No. 1 seed TL team, No. 2 seed C9 team.

As well as JT teams and AHQ teams in the PCS region, GAM teams in the VCS region and other wild card teams.

It's understandable that the LCS region only qualified for two Worlds this year, given their poor World results in previous years.

However, the LPL region still has four qualifications, while the LCK region only has three qualifications, which is incomprehensible to LPL audiences, after all, in their opinion, this year is the most promising year for the LCK region, and it is also the most unpromising year for the LPL region.

But there is no way, because the IG team won the runner-up in the World Championship last year and the third place in MSI this year, on the other hand, the LCK region is only the runner-up in MSI this year and the semi-finals in the World Championship last year, so in the reason that "MSI gold content is less than S competition", the LPL division has become one of the only two regions with four qualifications.

With the qualification of all participating teams in the 2019 League of Legends World Championship finalized, the specific competition rules of this S9 World Championship were also announced immediately that night.

First of all, there are the specific rules of the competition system after the revision of the competition system of this year's S9 World Championship.

Because this year's S9 World Championship will adopt the Swiss round plus the knockout round, in order to make the confrontation of the entire Swiss round more intense, Riot officials simply revised this year's S9 play-in tournament format to a double-elimination format.

At that time, the fourth seed in the LPL region, the third seed in the LCK region, the second seed in the LCS region, and many teams from the wild card region will compete fiercely in the play-in stage until the final six teams can advance to the main event.

At the same time, because of the Swiss round, the most anticipated draw ceremony before the Worlds in previous years has also eliminated the "group stage draw", because only after the qualifying teams for the play-in round have been determined, Riot can officially complete the first round of the Swiss round before the start of the Swiss round.

As a result, when the draw results of the S9 World Championship Play-in Tournament were released, all the teams participating in the 2019 League of Legends World Championship collectively entered the final preparation stage of the year!

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This year's S9 Worlds was very friendly for the G2 team, as this year's Worlds were held in Europe, and even the Play-In and Swiss rounds were held in Berlin, Germany!

This gave the G2 team plenty of time to prepare, as well as the advantage of being at ease in their mentality, allowing them to prepare more tactics and routines in order to achieve the ultimate goal of winning three consecutive championships in the S competition.

In the process of preparing for the G2 team, on October 2nd, the S9 World Championship Play-in Tournament finally officially kicked off at the LEC studio in Berlin.

After a week of fierce competition, the list of six teams that were able to stand out in the double-elimination format and officially advance to the main event of the S9 World Championship was officially announced.

They are the fourth seed TES team in the LPL region, the third seed DWG team in the LCK region, the second seed C9 team in the LCK region, the first seed JT team in the PCS region, the second seed AHQ team, and the first seed GAM team in the VCS region.

With the end of the play-in tournament and the official finalization of the top 16 list of the S9 World Championship, the real curtain of this S9 World Championship means that it is officially and slowly opened!

The next step will be the link that the global League of Legends audience is most concerned about and looking forward to before the start of the S9 World Championship.

That's the draw for the first round of the Swiss round!

If the group stage format requires each team and the three teams in the same group to play two BO1s each to determine whether they can advance to the quarterfinals, then in the Swiss round format, each team may face different opponents in each round, but it is certainly a strong confrontation.

Because under the Swiss round system, only after defeating three opponents with the same record can you qualify for the S9 knockout round, that is, to become the S9 quarterfinals.

In other words, if you are lucky enough to draw a relatively weak opponent in each round of Switzerland, then a "weak team" can advance to the quarterfinals.

But if you are unlucky enough to draw a relatively strong opponent in each round, then a "strong team" may be blocked out of the quarterfinals!

Although it may sound like a lot of luck in the Swiss round, for the spectators, the format will be extremely exciting!

Therefore, after the host of the lottery site gave a brief introduction to the "Swiss round system", on the stage, the staff also immediately placed four transparent covers equipped with balls of different colors on the corresponding pillars.

At the same time, the big screen also showed the list of teams in each of the four seed pools.

No. 1 seed pool, G2 team, FPX team, SKT team, TL team.

Second seed pool, FNC, RNG, GRF, RGE.

No. 3 seed pool, S04 team, IG team, DWG team, GAM team.

The No. 4 seed pool, Team AHQ, Team JT, Team TES, Team C9.

After determining the teams from each of the four seeded pools, the host quickly announced the draw rules for the first round of the Swiss round.

First, in the first round of the Swiss round starting on October 12, 16 teams will play against each other in eight BO1 matches.

Second, the eight BO1 matchups will be drawn in a completely random manner.

Third, the drawing rules are that the No. 1 seed draws the No. 4 seed, and the No. 2 seed draws the No. 3 seed, and the principle of "avoiding the same region" in the first round of the Swiss round is adopted.

And when the global League of Legends audience learned the detailed rules of "circumvention in the same division", all of them invariably breathed a long sigh of relief.

Because in their opinion, as long as there is no civil war in the first round of the Swiss round, it is an absolute good thing for their respective regions!

So, in the anticipation of the global audience, the draw ceremony for the first round of the Swiss round officially began!

First of all, there is nothing to say about the No. 1 seed pool, after the draw of the little brother, SKT, TL, FPX and G2 were drawn one after another, and were placed in the top left position of the eight B01 matchups.

After all, as the No. 1 seed, these four teams all enjoy the right to choose sides in BO1!

Then came the most nervous moment for the four No.4 seeds, as they would soon know which tough opponent they would face in the first round of the Swiss round.

AHQ！

The first to be drawn is the second seed AHQ team in the PCS region, and as for the opponent they need to challenge, it is naturally the LCK champion SKT team.

C9！

The second place to be drawn is LCS second seed C9, who was supposed to go to fight a civil war with TL, but because of the principle of "avoiding the same division", it can only be postponed to become FPX's opponent.

This made LPL fans instantly happy, because although they didn't think that the LPL region would have a show this year, it would be good if they could enter a few more quarterfinals.

And for FPX, the C9 is an absolute soft persimmon!

JT！

But the next moment, the hearts of all LPL fans sank again.

Because with JT becoming the opponent of TL, it means that TES, the fourth seed in the LPL region, will challenge the current strongest G2 team in the world in the first round of their Swiss round! (End of chapter)