RNG failed to win IG because of the league points, so this time the world is the third seed, so they are placed in Group D.

The teams in Group D are FNC, 100T, RNG, and SKT.

To be honest, this year is really the worst year for SKT to enter the World Championship.

In the past, either you didn't enter, and when you entered, they must have been No. 1 or No. 2, and they have never played a bubble match.

The problem is that this year's SKT is really a bit weak.

Lost the signature player, lost the signature coach.

The struggle for the rights of the white-skinned bosses did not finally end until the summer season, and it was completely too late to bring in reinforcements at this time.

If it weren't for Scout's exceptional performance, they wouldn't have even been able to get the No. 3 seed.

It's also thanks to the fact that South Korea's No. 3 seed doesn't have to play in the play-in tournament, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing for a team of SKT's level to play in the play-in.

RNG's performance on the first day of the group stage is still reasonable, and it still played a crushing situation when playing 100T.

However, all this took a turn for the worse on the second day of the group stage!

Although SKT is number three, it still has a very good training team.

They quickly figured out the Worlds version and soon began to parody EDG.

Move Xia and put Kaisha, absolutely don't catch it,

This is the formula they have learned to play RNG.

Kai'Sa seemed to have become a trap in the group stage, with countless teams trying to figure out how to get up the tempo.

RNG is no exception.

However, they fought very hard.

The reason for this is that the middle and upper do not have the ability to carry.

How long have you been playing as a team with Letme?

Let's not talk about whether they have the ability to carry or not.

Even if it's like Xu Yuan, if EDG puts him in the release and lets him be a tool man, he will suddenly let him go to the big core.

That Xu Yuan will also be uncomfortable for a while.

However, in today's version of the Worlds, if the middle and upper do not stand up, it means that the early and middle stages are destined to be very difficult.

RNG is definitely stronger than SKT now, but their adaptability to the version is worse than SKT!

Does Uzi want to win?

It's nonsense, he definitely thought.

In order to win the game, he couldn't count on the middle rank, so he gave up on Kai'Sa and started picking heroes like Lucian.

Because Lucian is different from other ADs, such a strong AD can find the rhythm on his own.

Uzi's current style of play is a reference to the former S7EDG, Xu Yuan's style of play in the MSI finals.

If you know that you may not be able to beat your own middle and upper levels, then you won't be able to hit the middle and upper levels.

Forcibly reverse the version and force the other side to come down!

Use strong heroes to tie the opposite rhythm to the bottom road.

This is undoubtedly the wrong way for the sword to go off, but it is also the only way for RNG to go.

That's it......

The requirements for Uzi to play are higher.

And now the version is different, in the case of the bottom lane is generally hard support, such an aggressive style of play will definitely be more dangerous than S7.

It's simple:

At that time, the reason why S7 Xu Yuan played so much was because the support could be soft support such as Lulu, and the mid-laner could also produce functional heroes.

So when he gets up, you can keep him fighting.

However, nowadays, there is no soft auxiliary at all, and the softest one is nothing more than Bron's.

The ability to protect people is not at all a level.

Because of this, Uzi, who wanted to replicate Xu Yuan's style of play, was extremely uncomfortable.

No one can protect him!

It's impossible to completely choose functional heroes in the middle and upper, and you don't have to fight at all if you choose the middle and late stages.

It was an RNG fiasco.

Even though Uzi had a very big advantage in the early stage, as long as they entered the stage of changing lines in the middle of the line, their advantage was gone.

In the face of SKT's continuous line to line, RNG is completely exhausted.

rushed to attack, but instead gave SKT a chance.

Finally, in the 33rd minute, SKT completed the comeback without danger.

"Still lost...... It's too uncomfortable, isn't it? ”

"It's okay, after all, it's the third seed, and it's okay to play like this."

"RNG, this is too inappropriate version, it's so uncomfortable!"

"Fist is really Sima, EDG is so strong that it is still EDG's version, RNG has been targeted but has never waited for its own version."

"Grinning, S7 isn't your RNG version? The problem is that you haven't knocked it before! ”

There was a lot of discussion about the barrage, and RNG fans were a little disappointed, but not much.

After all, today's RNG is not the original S8 invincible RNG.

The current RNG league has been pressed and beaten by EDG, and it has never been won.

Finally bubbling up to the tournament and taking the No. 3 seed.

But that's about it.

So they didn't feel bad about losing to SKT, after all, they didn't win many key games this year.

Besides, RNGs now have very different expectations than they did in the past.

Once they were the No. 1 seed, the audience was rightfully demanding of them.

Now it's just number three, so it can't beat ...... I can't beat it.

In a sense, EDG saved RNG's life.

Because if they really get the No. 1 seed for RNG, they will face much more condemnation in this world than they do now.

Unlike RNG's predicament, IG's World Championship played well.

Although the other four are basically newcomers except for Rookie in the middle laner, these people are not soft eggs.

The performance in the world championship is visible to the naked eye.

Unlike the original, IG at this time was assigned to KT's group in the group stage.

KT，MAD，IG，GRX。

This is the team situation of the IG group.

It should be noted that this GRX is not the name of the Dragon Fork, nor the Korean team, but the Vietnamese team.

IG faced KT on the first day of the group stage, and then quickly 27 minutes of tulle.

Next, against MAD and GRX, they also played dominantly, beating their opponents in 24 minutes and 26 minutes respectively to end the game.

It's exactly the same as EDG, and it's also a three-bar zero opening.

Countless IG fans burst into tears.

Although you can't beat EDG, it seems that you can beat other teams casually!

Our IG is saved!

"This is the complete body IG!"

"IG is awesome!"

LPL fans of other teams are also very kind.

"Excuse me?"

"IG awesome! Keep up the good work! Strive to meet the EDG finals! ”

"If IG and EDG fight a civil war in the finals in Incheon, South Korea, I can't even imagine how cool it will be!"

There are also wolf warriors among EDG fans now.

They tremble with excitement at the thought of two LPL teams fighting a civil war at the World Championship held in South Korea.

And this kind of good thing?!

IG and EDG fans are now in the Hello Me Hello stage, which naturally seems to be a bit out of place for RNG, which is extremely bumpy in the group stage.

Although it is not enough to say that "everyone is very fierce, why did you pull your crotch?" ”

But some gossip is also unavoidable.

As the group stage enters the second round, IG and EDG continue to make great progress.

EDG Needless to say, the group is full of worms.

Easily 3-0 again, with a score of six bars and zero, he took an absolute lead.

IG's side is also violent, in addition to playing KT and almost overturning, playing other teams is also a steady win.

It is also a perfect record of six bars and zero.

Only RNG, the second round is getting more and more difficult.

In the final play-off stage, it was not easy to win in the face of SKT and won the last qualifying spot.

As for the group first?

It's FNC.

Neither SKT nor RNG had beaten FNC, and the European team had beaten South Korea and China in the group.

In fact, it is normal, FNC was originally the runner-up in this World Championship, and their combat effectiveness is definitely much stronger than the current down-and-out SKT and RNG.

With the qualification of RNG, it also represents the second team of the Korean team to be eliminated in the round of 16.

The first is GenG.

The legend of C9 continues, and although they failed to beat EDG, they really pulled down a South Korean team and advanced to the quarterfinals again.

Such a group stage undoubtedly made the Korean audience look dark.

Three South Korean teams, two top 16 teams!

The only team that finished out of the line was KT second in the group.

There are many Korean viewers who have completely broken the defense:

"Why are we so weak?"

And more Korean audiences held back their anger and began to appeal:

"LCK needs to change!"

The operation that is visible to the naked eye is no longer suitable for this version, and the LCK's style of play is still rigid.

Only KT, which has a less LCK style of play, managed to qualify.

It had to make them think about it a lot.

At this time, the operation that we are proud of, is it a little outdated?

And just when the Korean audience doubted their lives, EDG's players also got the news that SKT was eliminated in the top 16.

Lee Sang-hyuk's face was calm, but there was some loss in his eyes.

"The top 16 will ......"

Although for him, the sooner SKT is eliminated, the more it proves that he is indispensable.

However, Lee Sang-hyuk at this time was not so happy.

In the final analysis, he has also played in SKT for many years, and he has an unusual affection for SKT.

Now seeing that his former club can't even enter the quarterfinals, I feel a little sad.

Happy? It's really not very happy.

Xu Yuan patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

"It's okay, it's useless for you to stay in SKT, maybe the original SKT didn't make it to the Worlds."

Lee Sang-hyuk: ......

You can't be comforted, you don't need to be comforted.

In fact, Xu Yuan really didn't say nonsense, S8's SKT really didn't enter the World Championship.

The original three Korean teams of S8 were KT, GenG, and AFS.

However, Lee Sang-hyuk is still very confident in himself, and he feels that he should not be unable to enter.

With the conclusion of the final group match, the eight teams that have made it to the knockout stage are also officially confirmed.

Group A: FW, G2

Group B: EDG, C9

Group C: IG, KT

Group D: FNC, RNG

The exciting knockout draw also began that night!

The player in charge of the draw this time is a player named Flame.

In fact, LPL audiences are no strangers to him.

Flame used to play in the LPL, at the time at LGD.

also typed out a nickname "Celestial Princess".

Although many people think that it was because of the commentary at the time, the bald dragon, it was not.

The name Celestia is mainly due to the fact that Flame received a lot of resources in the CJ team at that time, and the whole team had to fight around him, plus he was outstanding, a pure flower man.

Naturally, it got such a nickname.

It is worth mentioning that when he came to LGD, LGD's mid-laner Wei Shen also got a similar nickname "Little Princess".

Because Wei Shen's playing style is very similar to Scout, they both like to suck wild blood, and naturally they also need the tilt of team resources.

This kind of nickname sounds comic, but it's really not a compliment.

For example, Wild King Eimy.

Is he the King of the Mano?

He's a fart.

"Welcome to the 2018 League of Legends World Championship Knockout Draw Site, and now we can see that today's draw guest Flame player has arrived on stage."

"He'll be the final draw soon, so we'll see!"

Colonel Guan was smiling and emotionally stable.

There is no mourning for a moment because of the elimination of GenG, and the current Colonel Guan has long since become the shape of EDG.

"Yes, I hope EDG and IG don't draw RNG."

Miller spoke immediately.

"Either way, I don't want to draw a civil war."

"It's a bit of a pity that the first seed in the group will only be drawn to the second seed, and it would be nice if RNG was also the first in the group."

Colonel Guan said with some regret.

EDG and IG are both top in the group, while RNG is second in the group.

Once drawn together, it will not be a very happy situation for LPL.

Although RNG is not the main force of the LPL, no one wants a civil war to start in the quarterfinals.

At this time, the players were also watching the draw seriously in the lounge.

It's just that each team is in a different state.

Several people on EDG's side were very relaxed, Xu Yuan held his hands behind his head and looked at the screen indifferently.

Beside him, Lee Sang-hyuk stood straight, his eyes equally calm.

Xiao Tian sat a little closer, holding a bottle of iced tea and was doing tons and tons.

Meiko and Mingkai were muttering something, and they didn't even look at the screen.

Kkoma pushed his glasses and waited for the result.

The other teams are not as calm as EDG.

Especially RNG.

At this time, their faces were very solemn.

Once the Civil War is drawn, it is extremely bad for RNG.

Because this version is already obvious.

It's almost impossible for them to win against IG, let alone the more ferocious EDG.

Once the team is drawn, the fate of RNG is only elimination.

Now Uzi also knows that the Worlds are almost gone.

It's clear, but he will definitely not be willing until he is eliminated.

Of course, it's best to be able to meet EDG and IG later.

And what about the Korean audience?

They were praying.

In the words of the Koreans: Pray nia!

They are not afraid to play IG, KT's dominance is still there, and it is also the No. 1 seed.

As for not winning IG in the group stage......

In the group stage, the South Korean team in BO5 is trustworthy!

That's how they convinced themselves.

And to play EDG...... That's the end of it.

At least the current Korean audience really has no confidence.

EDG's dominance in the group stage is unprecedented, especially the tyranny of the two GenGs, which made many Koreans frightened.

They don't know if it's because EDG is too strong, or if GenG is too weak.

But EDG is undoubtedly the strongest of the seven remaining teams in the playoffs.

The current KT is the only seedling of their old Han family!

It's best if you can't meet EDG in the quarterfinals.

Flame, who was on the stage, had already reached into the No. 1 seed pool.

With a shy smile on his face, he stirred the ball and took out the first ball.

I opened the ball and took a look.

A smile suddenly appeared on his face.

The Korean audience in the audience was nervous.

Not good!

Flame, an LCK player who has been to the LPL, is basically hated by some Korean audiences.

Seeing him laugh, I subconsciously felt that this signing was not very good for KT.

Sure enough, with the opening of the ball in the next second, the Korean audience was all black-eyed.

On that piece of paper is the logo of the best team in the world that you know this year.

【EDG】

“EDG！ The first draw went straight to EDG! Celestia is a contestant with really good luck! ”

"Is this the former LGD player? Now that I'm back in South Korea, I'm still concerned about our LPL, shouldn't the next draw be RNG? ”

Colonel Guan's eyes lit up and joked.

The barrage suddenly became tense.

"Don't smoke RNG, don't smoke RNG, I beg you!"

"Shut up! Samsung rolls and wants to launch the dead language to take away our RNG, right? What a ruthless heart! ”

"Although it's pig offal, I really don't want to draw RNG, and my team has to meet again in the semi-finals, right?"

"Thank you, Piggy!"

“KT！ KT！ KT！ ”

"EDG will draw KT for me and send away the No. 1 seed in South Korea!"

"Toot toot! Send away the pleasure of your mother KT! ”

Flame on stage has already drawn a second group winner, which is the team in the same half as EDG.

Open it and take a look.

【FW】

Suddenly, the crooked brothers immediately wailed.

"Gan Huh!"

"Why is it drawn to the same half as EDG, Flame is really locomotive!"

"It's dead now, it's all your fault! Flame, you're really annoying! ”

"I'm going to be beaten into a wolf by the mainland again, no matter how good the league is every time, is it a success to reach the quarterfinals of the World Championship?"

LPL smiled.

"Wuhu! Not IG! ”

"It's okay, at least EDG and IG don't have to fight in the civil war before the finals, as for RNG? Casual fate, I am an EDG fan, a sanity fan. ”

"No, RNG can't just follow fate!"

The current RNG is really casual for most LPL fans.

Because I didn't expect RNG in the first place.

But RNG iron fans are uncomfortable!

There is an EDG and an IG in the upper and lower halves, even if you win the quarterfinals, you still have to play these two.

How can they not be uncomfortable?

The teams in other divisions don't know how fierce EDG and IG are, but they are clear.

The remaining two draws, naturally, are FNC and IG.

More importantly, it is the second pool of the group.

First hand, open draw!

Flame took out the ball and opened it immediately.

The yellow icon is unusually familiar.

【RNG】

The barrage was silent for a moment, and immediately exploded.

"It's over! It's all over! ”

"You really got RNG...... Guan Zeyuan, you really damn it! ”

"Sima Guan Zeyuan, Sima Guan Zeyuan, Sima Guan Zeyuan!"

"It's enough to really, this can also milk RNG!?"

Guan Zeyuan on the stage was also stupid.

No, brother, I'll just say it casually.

Are you really smoking RNG?

Although because of the avoidance selection of the same group, it is impossible for G2 and C9 to draw to the top half.

But RNG can draw FW anyway!

FW is in a similar situation to RNG, although it won the first place in the group, it was also a stumble, and RNG will not have no hope of winning.

The probability of reaching the semi-finals in this way is still very high.

But draw to EDG...... That's a real send.

Anyone who has watched the game knows that this version of RNG is even less qualified to touch porcelain EDG.

Could it be ...... Want to be in the quarterfinals again?

At this time, there was silence in the RNG lounge.

"Luck, it doesn't seem to be good."

Uzi smiled wryly.

One draw is the strongest one, which is really a bit unacceptable.

Why are we so unlucky?

For Uzi, there's nothing worse than drawing EDG.

Even if you play IG, there is a little chance.

Because although IG is also fierce, they play very aggressively, and they will also give RNG some chances.

But EDG......

It's so stable.

After getting the advantage, it will operate directly to death, and will not give RNG a chance at all.

There were several collisions in the summer season, and they were basically lost.

I've already knocked out RNG.

As a result, the world championship is now also pumping EDG......

Uzi had to wonder if this was a curse.

He stared at the screen in a daze, not saying a word.

"It's okay to be proud, you have to fight."

The seller tried to comfort Uzi.

However, Uzi originally thought that he couldn't beat the middle and upper, so he felt that it was difficult to fight.

What is the use of the comfort of closing the account at this time?

In the second draw, Flame drew G2.

Since FW is in the upper half, G2 is extended to the bottom half.

And their opponent is IG.

Maybe it's also fate, the opponent IG meets still has G2.

"Oh, IG."

G2 Jungler Lamb jankos couldn't help but put on a mask of pain.

They didn't win the first place in the group when they played Fw, and the strength shown in the IG group stage was much stronger than FW.

The lamb has always been sane.

"Nothing, Jankos, believe me, isn't it Theshy? Ha ha. ”

The top laner Wunder is very confident.

LPL's top order should be like that.

Letme is like that, and it's not like they haven't played in training matches, and Wunder has confidence and casual tulle.

And Theshy, who can't even break through Letme's defenses, is naturally not afraid.

At least that's what Wunder thinks.

It can only be said that he is also the top Puxin man in Europe.

"Wunder is right, if you don't fight, don't be afraid."

Perkz disagrees with Wunder's judgment of Theshy, but likes his self-confidence.

After all, Perkz is also a confident person.

The rest of the draw is basically clear.

The KT was drawn in the third, and the remaining C9 naturally touched the FNC.

The matches for the playoffs have been decided:

Top Half: EDG VS RNG

FW VS KT

LOWER HALF: IG VS G2

FNC VS C9

The start date of the knockout round is set on October 20.

This...... Another classic day.

The first match between EDG and RNG will be on October 20th.

After the lottery ended, some people were happy and some were worried.

On the LPL side, the audience generally believes that the first half is more intense than the second half.

The main thing is the collision of EDG and KT, which is very interesting.

KT's lineup today isn't bad.

Top laner Khan, jungler score, mid laner ucal, bottom lane group deft plus Mata.

Khan became KT's top laner after Smeb left, and now he's playing very well.

As for the bottom lane, Deft plus Mata is also a strong bottom lane group, and the experience is very experienced.

The midfield combination of Score and Ucal is not bad, and it is crazy to swim in the LCK Summer.

In the second half, in the eyes of many LPL audiences, IG's breakthrough is logical.

After all, there is not a Korean team.

Although the South Korean team pulled their hips unprecedentedly this year, the second and third seeds all got out of the round of 16.

However, many LPL viewers still feel that LCK is stronger than European and American teams.

In the past two years, EDG has beaten the European and American teams into the so-called European and American fishing competition.

Naturally, LPL audiences also don't look down on European and American teams.

Therefore, their topic is basically focused on EDG.

"Come on, EDG! Give me a dry smash KT in the semi-finals and meet them in Incheon, South Korea! ”

However, there are also RNG fans who don't give up.

"If, I mean, if RNG breaks EDG, will you support RNG?"

The attitude of the offal is simple.

"There is no if, the difference in strength is too obvious, besides, RNG really wants to do it, then it is natural to support RNG."

It has been a year since the royal miscellaneous was crushed in China, and the pig miscellaneous at this time can be described as light and light, and it is very patterned.

I used to quarrel with RNG fans, mainly because both sides were not good, and the results were all like that.

It's different now, S7EDG has won the championship, and it's still the first championship in LPL.

What if RNG does win the championship this time?

Brother, what is your first crown?

And it's not a shame to lose the civil war in the World Championships.

Even if there is a 1 in 10,000 probability, EDG is defeated by RNG.

That's a bit difficult for EDG fans to accept, but it won't break the defense.

Unanimous to the outside world!

Xu Yuan stretched, "I didn't expect that the final opponent was actually RNG." ”

To be honest, he's a little tired of playing RNG.

Is it you every time?

"Let's just say they're out of luck."

Lee Sang-hyuk couldn't help but smile at the thought of closing his account.

He now surfs more and more, and he has a little bit of an understanding of the sellers.

This player is really interesting.

"Now that you know who it is, let's start organizing tactics right away."

KKOMA is as calm as ever.

"Don't let your guard down because you think it's easy to beat them."

"What if RNG had an epiphany? It's unlikely, but it's not impossible. ”

"Keep the attitude that we play VIT or something like that in the group stage, and don't feel like you're winning."

He told him carefully, and he didn't laugh out loud because he played RNG.

A veteran coach like KKOMA knows very well that the team's strength at the World Championship stage is improving very quickly.

I may not have been able to beat it yesterday, but I can suddenly beat it today.

Although EDG has a high win rate, a high win rate does not mean that it must win.

In particular, the mentality of the players must be correct.

The expressions of the contestants instantly became a lot more serious.

KKOMA's current prestige is enough to make the players have a good attitude.

"Yes!"

Xiao Tian immediately replied.

A short but heavy training session, starting again.

Xu Yuan didn't have any intention of being lazy, and still completed every training point conscientiously.

As a former viewer, he knows all too well how critical it is now.

The closer you get to the end, the more likely you are to go wrong.

For Xu Yuan, he has maintained his training state for almost a year, so it is not so difficult to continue to work hard for a month.

Lee Sang-hyuk has played many world championships, so naturally there will be no problems in this link.

The two biggest dads in the team are training seriously.

Other players, including Xiaotian, naturally did not dare to be lazy and lazy.

This is the power of example.

On the other hand, RNG is extremely unsmooth.

During this training match, they forcibly demanded that the account be canceled and Letme take the Carry type hero. I want to cramm.

However, the effect is ...... Too bad!

Even if he gets a Carry type hero, Letme doesn't have the ability to open the gap from the lane by himself.

The situation of the account cancellation is a little better, and heroes such as the vampire Ryze are still playing well, and they can also play some effects.

But there aren't many good ones.

RNG was anxious at this time, because there was not much time left for them.

But no matter how urgent it is...... It's useless too?

On the afternoon of October 20th, the players of RNG and EDG have arrived at the home of the quarterfinals.

The race is about to begin!

(End of chapter)