Chapter 714: The quarterfinals are grouped together, a good start?
The phrase 'there are no weak teams in the World Championship' is mentioned every year.
But in the past, people didn’t take it seriously.
Even in last year's group stage, when the European Rabbids MSF defeated the LCK's No. 1 seed LZ once, it was still classified as LZ's poor form and MSF's opportunism.
Let me put it bluntly.
The world-class events in recent years are just the pressure from the west wind of LPL and LCK against the east wind.
Europe, North America, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are nominally members of the five major competition regions.
Actually...
There is a classic question - brother, what championship are you?
Are they really going to bring up the S1 internet cafe tournament that didn't even have any video records, or the Taipei Assassins that only had spiritual heritage left?
The British Empire was still the sun that never set!
Make sense?
If you want to be respected, you should look at your existing strength.
Europe, North America, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have been running behind every year since the S3 season, so naturally they are much lower than the others.
But.
This year is really different.
MAD defeated GEN twice, telling everyone with practical actions that there is more than one Flash Wolves in the LMS region.
The so-called "overwhelm" of C9 by GEN is actually a bit exaggerated. After all, one win and one loss cannot be considered as superiority or inferiority, but it is an indisputable fact that they qualified as the second in the group.
The Korean third seed was eliminated.
The North American third seed advanced.
Everyone has to admit that NA is greater than KR...at least temporarily.
October 15th.
The last round of Group A begins.
LCK's second seed AFs tried their best to maintain their home court dignity, defeating the anti-Korean Flash Wolves, Europe's second seed VIT, and LPL's fourth seed JDG in succession, and achieved a 3-3 score.
This is the first time for the young players of JDG to enter the World Championship, and they are a little nervous.
Although he got 2-0 at the start.
But in the following games, they only beat the provincial team once.
In this way.
Group A became a 3-3 record.
According to the regulations, all teams with the same points will be sorted according to the time they took to win. The shortest and longest times will be grouped together, and the teams in the middle will be grouped together. Each team will have a BO1 battle.
The loser is eliminated.
The winners will play another BO1 tiebreaker to determine the group ranking.
A total of three additional battles will be required.
There is a very vivid saying - four 3-3s, then have breakfast.
The commentator on the stage saw this situation.
I felt numb immediately.
You know, facing this kind of life-and-death situation, all teams will put in 120% of their energy to avoid even the slightest mistake, and it is almost impossible to end it in a short time.
really.
The game lasted until one o'clock in the morning before the qualifying team was selected.
In the first match, AFs defeated VIT.
In the second game, JDG defeated FW.
In the third game, AFs defeated JDG and completed five consecutive home wins, which injected a shot of stimulant into the awesome... awesome Korean audience.
"It would be great if JDG could just win one more game!" Abu's face was full of regret.
"They are still too young to handle the old hands ." Maokai shook his head. "In fact, in the last few games, their lineup has more or less taken advantage. Coach Hongmi is really good... But when playing, there are always various problems. Either the laning is not well matched or they are tricked in teamfights."
"RNG will be unstable tomorrow too." Abu checked the matchup table and points: "If this continues, the quarterfinals may have to fight a civil war."
"Civil war is easier to fight!" Maokai thought it was not a bad thing.
"That's right." Abu smiled and said, "What do you mean by civil war?"
As EDG achieved results in the World Championship.
It has been a long time since anyone mentioned the four half-commendation and half-derogatory titles of "Civil War Phantom God".
but.
EDG’s ability in civil wars is only stronger than before.
It is indeed much easier to kill an old friend than to fight against an unfamiliar team.
October 16th.
After a fierce fight.
RNG, which was a little confused in the first round, regained its rightful form, defeating KT, G2, and TL in succession and won first place in Group C.
KT came in second.
G2 was carried away.
TL, which has the No. 1 AD in North America and has obtained the No. 1 seed in North America, lost six games in a row and became a background board for the other three teams to show off their skills.
Big brother Doublelift once again demonstrated that no one can remember the top 16, unless... he is in the top 16 every year.
October 17th.
IG, which advocates violent aesthetics, won all the games.
FNC, which has a long history, followed closely behind.
Since then.
The top eight teams for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship have been confirmed.
The first place in the group is EDG, AFs, RNG, IG
The second place in the group is C9, JDG, KT, FNC
Three of the four LPL teams came first, one came second, and all advanced.
Two teams from LCK advanced.
Europe and North America each retain a glimmer of hope.
LMS was completely defeated and once again became a spectator sitting at home watching the show.
After the Group D match, some arrangements were made.
The quarter-final draw ceremony officially began.
This moment.
All clubs that have qualified have opened their live broadcast channels.
Pray for a weaker opponent.
In Pool 2, only KT has the strength to fight against EDG. The other teams will most likely die if they run into EDG.
The remaining 10% or 20% probability... is a very ugly death.
As for the clubs in Pool 1, even EDG does not want to clash with KT, the spoiler, in the quarterfinals.
Even though KT was suppressed by RNG in the group stage.
But the deterrent power of the four words "Galaxy Battleship", plus three world champions and one world runner-up, cannot be ignored.
The host first introduced the rule of avoiding the same group, that is, teams within a group will not appear in the same half area, and they will automatically change positions when drawn together.
The former NJWS (Nanjing White Shield) team jungler Watch was invited to the stage to draw lots.
Watch first walked to the platform where the pool 1 team was placed.
Take out the silver ball.
Unscrew to reveal team logo.
The one that appeared was...EDG!
Next.
RNG, AFs, and IG were drawn out in turn.
EDG and RNG are in the left half, AFs and IG are in the right half.
If both EDG and RNG can advance, they will fight against each other in the semifinals.
However, with four teams from the LPL region entering the quarterfinals, a civil war is inevitable and there is no need to worry about it.
And RNG is in the left half, which means KT will definitely be assigned to the right half.
This is obviously good news for EDG.
Watch walked to the platform of pool No. 2 and took out the first black ball, which contained a piece of paper with the C9 club logo printed on it.
According to the principle of avoidance.
C9 automatically switched positions and faced off against AFs, the second seed of LCK.
The second team to be picked out was FNC, the old rival that defeated EDG with a score of '4-0' in the S5 finals. They just happened to meet in the knockout round this year.
Even though this incident has long passed, the relationship between EDG and FNC has been pretty good recently.
But it still has a great show effect.
"It's good luck."
"The war of revenge is coming."
"Get it done!"
"Can you give FNC a 4-0 score?"
“…”
Barrages of comments started to appear one after another.
The third one to be pulled out was KT, who automatically switched sides to fight IG.
You don’t need to look at the last one , it must be JDG.
The grouping is determined.
The left half is EDG vs. FNC, and RNG vs. JDG.
The right half is AFs vs. C9, IG vs. KT.
