The play-in and group stages were held in Jiangcheng.

This city is also the hometown of EDG's legendary jungler Ming Kai.

The play-in round starts on September 23rd!

This is a new addition to the S7 season, where the 12 seeded teams from the four regions that have qualified for the World Championship or the top teams from the Wild Card region will be divided into four groups.

Then, through the double round-robin BO1 format, the competition will be carried out in the group.

In the end, two teams from each group will advance to Round 2, and a Bo5 match will determine who will advance to the group stage.

In the LPL region, those who are promoted by the RNG teams in the qualifying round need to pass the group stage to enter the main competition.

Since there are a lot of dog fans and royal fans, the scene was full on the day of the game.

The RNG team is good at the tactical system of four guarantees and one protection, but when facing a wild card team, the players can play with their own strength to play the advantage in the laning stage.

Coupled with the understanding of the blazing incense burner system, the average time of several BO1 sessions is only 31 minutes.

This is quite rare in the stinky and long version of the current game.

Of course, BO1 is the most prone to accidents due to its peculiarities.

RNG's ability to win streaks also shows that the team is strong!

The BO5 Qualifiers will be held from September 28th to September 29th.

In the BO5 match, RNG's opponent is the Vietnamese team.

The recent momentum in the Vietnam region is relatively good, and the strength of the team is also very good.

But in the face of RNG, one of the three LPL royals, it's still a bit insufficient.

They still couldn't stop RNG from qualifying for the group stage.

"The lineup grouping is finalized!"

Group A: EDG, C9, SKT, AHQ

Group B: LZ Team, IMT Team, GAM Team, FNC Team

Group C: G2, SSG, RNG, FB

Group D: FW, MSF, TSM, GBG

The top three teams from each group stage will be finalized through a draw ceremony after the Brazilian league has ended.

Therefore, Tang Jun has long known that GBG's opponent in this round of the group stage is very weak.

"I feel like the EDG team is going to suffer, and it's hell mode when they come up to this group."

Seeing that EDG and SKT were in the same group, Wei Shen smiled a little.

Although SKT was defeated 3-0 by GBG in the Championship Hero Match, the overall strength of the team was there.

Based on all the information he has learned so far, the EDG team seems to be quite confident, and there are no training appointments before the play-in!

"Didn't they go to celebrate the team's birthday the other day?"

"It feels like they're in the quarterfinals."

"The group stage is also BO1, so it's easy to get upset."

Bad memories came flooding back to his heart, and Wei Shen thought of his unbearable years in S5.

At that time, he could be said to be even more crazy than the current EDG team.

The World Championship has not yet started, and when he broadcast live, he has already begun to ask sailors what champion skin to choose?

And then he was approaching the group stage, and he was still addicted to the heavenly sword, and he didn't want to play a few more League of Legends Rank.

"People are crazy and have their own harvest."

"There's no need to bother with them."

"Let's just fight our own."

Tang Jun also didn't expect that this space-time EDG would still be the same as before.

You know, this year's Summer Championship is not EDG, but GBG!

EDG is the stinky runner-up who was trampled on the head 3:0!

"We'll see."

For the play-in, GBG didn't pay much attention.

The reason is also very simple, because the level of games in the play-in tournament is not even as good as that of the LPL playoffs.

The main reason for watching the play-in tournament is to understand the playing style of each team in each region.

As for the details of the operation or alignment of the game, it can be basically ignored.

After some discussion, everyone started a training match with IG everyone.

Today is the last training match between GBG and Team IG before the semi-finals.

The reason why it didn't go on was very simple, because as the teams from various major regions came to Jiangcheng one after another, GBG was also able to make an appointment for a training match.

If you train with IG, the effect will definitely be there, but it definitely can't compare to training with teams from other regions in turn.

As for the exam before the exam, it is the same reason to brush the papers with different types of questions.

If you pick one side to the death, it is easy to be disrupted by a small change of the opponent's move when you really play the game!

This leads to constant mistakes and routs.

……

On the other side, everyone in the EDG club has just taken the high-speed train from Shangmo Capital to Jiangcheng.

To outsiders, Group A is the group of death.

But from EDG's point of view, it's easy to qualify in Group A.

SKT FC has had quite a few training sessions with them this summer, so the two teams know each other very well.

EDG believes that the strength of the two sides is not too different, and in the two rounds of bo1 in the group stage, the two sides are likely to play a 1:1 result.

And EDG can play a one-to-one match with SKT, wouldn't the other two teams just abuse and kill?

Therefore, the group stage is never the key, for EDG, it is how to win a Bo5 in the World Championship and successfully advance to the semi-finals!

……

"Welcome to the League of Legends World Championship."

"I'm the host, Ren Dong!"

Time flies, and the group stage officially kicked off on October 5.

"Across thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers, welcome players from all major regions and teams to Jiangcheng!"

"In this year's group stage, there are still 16 teams competing for 8 qualifying places."

"In the first round of the group stage, we will have 24 matches and there will be 6 BO1 games every day!"

The enthusiasm on the scene was unlimited.

On the first day of the tournament, there were no GBG team games, but many young people could be seen in many places in the arena holding the GBG flag and waving it desperately.

The reason for this is simple, as they are all lucky viewers who received tickets by participating in the event lottery online.

The group stage schedule was scheduled after Riot's play-in qualifiers, and tickets went on sale early.

Therefore, it is difficult for viewers who buy tickets in advance to ensure that they can see the team they want when they buy the tickets.

Fortunately, the arrangement of Riot is also relatively reasonable, the first round of the group stage lasts for 4 days, and there are teams from the LPL region every day.

Therefore, these spectators who bought tickets will not be empty.

Of course, in addition to the fans of the LPL division, there are also many foreigners at the scene.

A considerable number of them came to the scene by buying scalper tickets.

Although the exchange rate of many currencies is relatively high, because the price of scalper tickets is really exaggerated, for many ordinary foreigners, the price of tickets also makes them very painful.

But fortunately, the vast majority of foreigners who can come all the way to China to watch the game are not poor ghosts. (End of chapter)