At 10 p.m. on September 23, 2019, the draw ceremony for the Play-in Tournament began.

Team Vitality midlaner Jiizuke and coach Yamato Cannon will draw lots.

LPL fans just have to watch the play.

As last year's S champion, the three seeded teams of the LPL directly advanced to the group stage.

Big Turtle, the third seed in the LCK, will also have to enter the play-in tournament, and despite the displeasure of Korean players, they must now accept the fact that the LPL is the strongest at the moment.

Of course...

Compared with paying attention to the entire LPL region, the vast majority of the sticks who regard LPL as an imaginary enemy are silently paying attention to Li Jin. Counting the humiliation suffered by the LCK at the Worlds in recent years, there is no time that has not been related to Li Jin.

After hearing that Li Jin was injured, those sticks were crazy.

In the mid-season, Li Jin returned with an injury and scared the sticks again. But now that the whole summer has passed, Li Jin has been sitting on the coaching staff, even in the summer finals.

Rumours say that the injury has worsened and he may never be able to return to the world stage.

If such news is true, LCK will probably have to open champagne to celebrate immediately.

The Godfather is terrible.

The gods on the field are even more terrifying.

Take a look at the TOP20 list of the strongest players in Riot updated with the World Championship.

The ID next to NO.1 is still "TheJin".

After not playing for such a long time, he is still firmly at the top of the world power list, which can be said to be too much merit of his past record, or the preference of Riot management for him.

Based on the feedback from players in the Global Alliance, the vast majority of players agree that this ranking is reasonable.

After the mid-season battle, everyone can use "Koi may appear at any time" to dispel those voices who defame him.

Even...

This time, when S9 was still in the warm-up stage, everyone was discussing whether IG could force God to play.

Rely on the "play" of Shy Man, Jack, Allah the Chicken, Shoe King, Princess Sapphire and others.

Local audiences in Europe are looking forward to it.

They also want to see the god of esports come to Europe.

European spinach companies also opened a handicap for when TheJin will appear, which shows the great heat.

The e-sports reporter learned about this matter from the IG uniform team, and the IG people led by Manager Su either answered "I don't know" or said that it was "tactical secrets".

On October 2, 24 alliance teams from all over the world left for Europe.

The first destination was the LEC studio in Berlin, Germany.

Until October 8.

HKA, DWG, CG, SPY, these teams from the competition area have no suspense, similar to the wild card miracle of ANX at that time, but they didn't have a chance to see it this year.

In the play-in stage, the most eye-catching player should be DWG's mid-laner Showmaker.

This is LCK's new generation of talented teenagers.

Similar to the Tigers back then, DWG is also a team that has made it all the way from Internet cafes to Worlds for their dreams.

In addition, Showmaker publicly shouted that his idol was "TheJin" senior.

He wants to be the TheJin of South Korea and lead the LCK to rebuild its glory.

The group of teenagers around Xiumei are also very good, and together with Griffin, they bring new vitality to the LCK.

Therefore, the slogan "new people for old people" has long been shouted on the inven forum.

LCK is going to have a youth storm.

however

The theme of S9, the story of S9, seems to have nothing to do with the storm of youth.

——Phoenix。

That's nirvana.

Before October 12th, Riot's designers didn't know what the ultimate meaning of "Phoenix" was, and at most they just shouted a slogan and theme.

But when the group stage officially starts at the Verti concert hall in Berlin, Germany.

This thousand-person venue was directly boiling.

The TV channel broadcast and the studios of the competition area, those commentators and hosts, all shouted excitedly.

The man who was absent for a summer actually appeared directly in the opening match of IG.

TheJin, connect again!

There was no advance announcement, no warning, and everyone was shocked by the appearance in front of them, except for the Riot backstage staff.

Li Jin sat in the jungler position of IG.

IG's first opponent in Group B was JT, and JT Jungler Hana, who was originally smiling in the player's seat, was stunned for several seconds after seeing the ID of the IG jungler position in the room.

Rest, Fofo, Live, Koala and others are the same, followed by yelling.

Is there a mistake?

They have not received any news that Li Jin is going to make a comeback.

This means that they will face directly the legendary "Poseidon Trident", which can take the Trident mode to the extreme!

Coste, the European commentator at home, was about to cry, shouting in an excited voice in the Verti concert hall, repeating "he's back"!

Kenny Smith, who likes to go against him, is also clapping desperately.

Everyone understands.

From this moment on, the S9 Worlds became different.

IG was originally the favorite team to win the championship, but now it has directly become the ultimate body, which is equivalent to telling the world that they want to kill it with the open card and play a super double spring!

Some malicious viewers hope that IG will thunder.

They didn't believe that man could still create miracles, and they didn't play a professional game for a summer, although there were mid-season miracles, but that kind of miracle must be hellish if they wanted to reproduce it!

Can TheJin still do it?

They want JT to perform a miracle and break TheJin's various records to destroy the idol he has created in the Alliance World.

But...

On this night, JT is destined to be the backdrop.

A brutal massacre was staged at the Berlin venue, Li Jin's spider was raging in the JT array, and the entire IG seemed to have installed a thruster under his drive, and the gang of Rooster Allah, Shame Man, and Ah Shui were all stimulated, and one by one they completed the high-precision reckless rhythm.

In just 19 minutes, JT was cut into chaos by IG's quick knife and cut off 20 heads.

I can't hold my head for a minute.

Li Jin watched the 10/0/7 luxury record of the whole audience, and announced the return of the king with an impeccable supergod performance.

In a short period of time, the world shook the circle.

The word "TheJin returns" rushed to the hot search in seconds with a hearty victory.

Hindsight LPL fans shouted "Nirvana"!

"This is Nirvana, Brother Koi is reborn from the fire!"

"What is reborn from the fire, this is the carp jumping over the dragon gate"

"Horror, is this the Poseidon Trident mode? JT was beaten to the ground. ”

"It turns out that Riot has already understood everything!"

Someone said: "Such an IG is terrifying!" ”

Some people also shouted arrogantly:

"What about Tydamir? What about Ruiz? Hurry up and present the awards, the jungler skin will come out early, and it is also recommended to release next year's top single skin in advance, so hurry up and let me get five. ”

Some people exclaimed: "Invincible, Brother Li is really invincible!" ”

……

The bloody storm of Group B began here, and the next MAD and GAM encountered the god of e-sports in Berlin.

Three games in a row.

The other three teams in Group B did not hold out for 20 minutes.

Three-way full explosion has become the main theme of IG opponents.

This astonishing result left the rest of the teams in a state of flux.

It wasn't until October 18 that the members of the GAM team breathed a sigh of relief.

In the final game of the group stage of Group B, IG finally replaced the jungler with "Ning" after five consecutive wins.

Everyone guessed the intention.

IG locked up the top spot in the group, and it was for the championship skin.

GAM played 28 minutes and gave IG six straight wins.

……

When the group stage was still being played in Berlin, LPL players suddenly discovered an interesting thing.

Manager Shao of the JDG team is located in France.

Not only that, but several other LPL team uniforms also rushed to Paris.

Some of the newcomers to the league were confused.

"What are you going to do in Paris now?"

"Because the S9 finals were held at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris, France. ”

The newcomers are even more confused.

"Watching the finals? It's too early to go. ”

The e-sports elders laughed: "They went to participate in the draft, they showed, and Brother Carp chosen." ”

……