Alliance: I, the inventor of the wild area!

Chapter 300 Opening match, against KT!

With the arrival of the World Championship, the enthusiasm of the audience suddenly burned.

This is the case every year at the World Championships.

Although this year's World Championship is held in South Korea.

That doesn't affect fans cheering for the team online.

Of course, it's that time of year too.

There will be a large group of "cloud players" or "cloud viewers", or "first year fans", or "beautiful fans", and a smell of rice circles will come.

Of course, this is good news for e-sports as a whole.

The addition of new audiences has increased the popularity of League of Legends, an online game.

But for some old viewers who point and point on the Internet and watch them understand nothing, it is a kind of torture.

For example, after the pre-match League of Legends format came out.

Someone asked: "Why do you have to play three games in one day in the second round of the group stage? The players are so tired!"

Seeing such a problem, as an old audience, my heart is broken.

Because the core format of League of Legends has not changed for many years.

Perhaps some seeding mechanisms will be changed, and the form of the play-in competition will be changed, but the format of the World Championship has not changed.

In the first round of the group stage, the four groups played against each other in turn.

When it comes to the second round of the group stage, the two quarter-finals will be determined in one day.

But now that it has reached S8, some people still ask such questions.

It can only be said that these people really saw my brother coming...

However, compared to last year, this year's team did have some changes.

This is very good for the development of League of Legends.

At present, the seed teams for each division have been determined.

LPL Division: RNG, IG, RW.

LCK Division: KT, Afs, Gen.G.

LMS Division: FW, MAD, GRX.

LEC Division: FNC, VIT, G2.

LCS Division: TL, 100T, C9.

Vietnam Division: PVB.

Among them, C9, G2, GRX and RW all participated in the finalists.

Only those who break through in the finalists will be eligible to participate in the group stage.

For the play-in competition, many viewers are not willing to watch.

One is that it is not ornamental.

There were still some unique skills in the wild card division in the past, but the current wild card is too rigid, and without the bloodiness of the past, it will no longer be able to break through.

I vaguely remember that the strongest wild card team in the World Championship, ANX.

Once entered the quarterfinals of the World Championship, making history.

Now that chance is getting smaller and smaller.

Especially the addition of the play-in competition made it even less entertaining.

RW came to play the game a week earlier, although there were some training games.

But after MSI, some wild card teams are not willing to play against RW at all.

From their point of view, fighting is of no use.

There is only one reason, and it is completely unbeatable.

So after coming to South Korea, the RW players are very leisurely.

There are few training matches, but it does not mean that RW will be eliminated.

At this time, weak teams are weak no matter how they train.

At this time, a strong team is strong without training.

Strong teams may lack the touch because they don't train, but RW's play-in finals are actually no different from playing in LSPL.

There are even some LSPL teams that are stronger than wild card teams.

When this week comes, it is right to travel in advance.

……

The venue is the newly completed LCK venue "LOL Park" in Seoul, South Korea.

The "LOL Park" venue is a small but very delicate venue with 500 seats and three large screens.

The purpose of the circular auditorium design is to enhance the audience's sense of interaction.

Under the uniforms of different teams, there are miniatures of the contestants.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is this domineering dragon statue. The scene of the heroes fighting fiercely in the baron's field is full of courage.

Although the venue is small, it is also attentive.

The play-in groups will be announced soon.

RW was quickly assigned to Group A.

In Group A, everyone only had some impressions of DFM.

The Japanese team, in the middle is the Japanese ruler who has obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The rest of the teams are either from Oceania or Brazil, and many viewers have never even heard of them.

If not, there will be fewer people watching RW games.

Soon, the first day of the play-in competition came to an end.

RW won both games.

No pressure.

In the next few days, they will either be on the road to crushing, or they will be on the way to victory.

And the crushing in every round is exaggerated.

Although there won't be too many head counts, under RW's operation, they won step by step and step by step.

Soon, the results of the four qualifying groups in the play-in round were announced.

They are C9, G2, GRX and RW respectively.

After the play-in round, all the teams will gather together.

Group A: FW, AFs, PVB, G2.

Group B: RNG, Gen.G, VIT, C9.

Group C: KT, MAD, TL, RW.

Group D: FNC, 100T, IG, GRX.

Compared to this year, the group stage is basically composed of teams from the five major regions.

Except for Vietnam.

Of course, although Vietnam is not the top five competition areas.

But because of their good performance in recent years, Riot made a special case to give the No. [-] seed in their division the same treatment as the No. [-] seed in other divisions in the World Championship.

15 teams from the five competition areas plus PVB from the Vietnam competition area.

This year's strength can be said to be relatively average.

And this year's favorite to win the championship has also been confirmed before.

RNG and KT are the biggest favorites to win the championship.

IG followed suit.

The main reason is that IG lost to RNG in the summer finals.

Judging from this year, everyone thinks that RNG and KT are very likely to meet in the final.

As for RW, even though they were randomly killed in the play-in competition, the judging by the external network is that the most is the top four.

Even if the group stage is not played well, it is possible to be eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Now RW, no one believes them.

Although they are the spring champions and Msi champions.

With the end of the finals.

The group stage is finally here!
Before the game came, the RW coaching staff deliberately analyzed Group C.

The first is the KT team.

When this team was in S7, it was reduced to a joke by netizens.

But after two years of training, S8 regained its strength and entered the World Championship as the No. [-] seed.

It can be said to be one of the strongest teams in this world championship.

If you beat KT once in the group stage, then there is a high probability of entering the quarterfinals.

The current configuration of KT, compared with S7, has not changed much.

Top laner Smeb, jungler Score, mid laner PawN, bottom laner Deft, and support Mata.

The luxurious lineup occupies the dominant position of the LCK.

Everyone felt that this team could not help but go all the way to the finals, and it had a good chance of winning the final championship.

The player Smeb is familiar to old audiences.

No. 6 in the world in the S[-] World Tournament, surpassing the peak Faker in the rankings, this evaluation is quite high.

What is impressive is nothing more than the Kenan Tianlei that ROX played against G2.

And ROX is also in the semi-finals, and SKT contributed the most exciting BO5 in history, none of them.

It's just that, although ROX frequently made unique moves back then, it was still defeated in the end.

In the last game, Faker went on the road to send a belt line. Without flashing, Faker was forced to escape with a sprint.

Since then, Faker has also become the man who turned sprinting into sprinting.

It was precisely because of this wave of ROX's failure to catch people that the outcome of this game was tilted to SKT's side.

And Smeb was one of the victims at the time.

In S6, he was still at the peak, but in S8, he can only find himself in the Top 20.

The jungler Score, looking at his previous games, thinks he is a jerk.

But he is one of the few junglers in South Korea who can do things in the early stage.

And experienced, relatively stable.

For Song Ming, what he is most afraid of is not stability, but stability while being experienced.

Compared with Song Ming's operation and strength, Score is naturally incomparable.

But what I am afraid of is Score's ability to do things in the early stage.

You know, Song Ming also likes to do things in the early stage, but Song Ming's doing things often have great risks.

Once this risk is caught by an experienced jungler, it may be infinitely magnified because of this.

So when the steak coach analyzed, he reminded Song Ming emphatically.

Immediately afterwards, the fat general and Delft became more familiar.

These two were originally the meritorious veterans of EDG.

Most of the previous EDG champions have these two people.

As for Mata, he was the support of the former RNG team.

It's just that in S6, because Windtalker Zyra led to his original champion Fmvp support, he was ruined in LPL.

Later, when I returned to Korea, I also joined KT.

This team is definitely not bad in terms of command, because of the player Mata.

In terms of strength, it is definitely not bad, and they are all top players.

In terms of stability, Score is the old captain of KT.

No matter how you look at it, this team is stable.

Fans in South Korea are also full of expectations and hopes for this team.

The remaining two are European and American teams, MAD and TL.

As far as MAD is concerned, judging from their performance in the summer finals, it is not bad.

But Europe itself is more suitable for entertainment atmosphere. Compared with LPL and LCK, it is not so serious.

Especially G2, who belongs to the king of tidying over there.

As for TL, it was the LCS champion in the spring split.

During the Msi group stage, the two teams collided with each other.

But in terms of overall strength, it is not that strong.

I don't know if it's Doublelift's curse or what, as long as a DoubleLift team enters the World Championship, it will never end well.

From the perspective of Group C, this year's TL is estimated to be in the top [-] again.

As one commentator in North America tweeted, "Nobody remembers the Round of 16 teams unless they make the Round of [-] every year."

This passage is about Doublelift.

As one of the four ancient ADs, and a well-known dog blowing.

At least in terms of strength, Doublelift has no problem.

It's just that luck is a little bit worse every year.

Just like this year.

In Group C, there is KT, the No. [-] seed in the South Korean division, and RW, who tyrannized them at MSI.

It is really difficult to get out.

As far as RW is concerned, this time it is also on the basis of a stable qualifying, trying to beat KT by one round.

In this case, at least understand KT's stuff first, and if there is a team winning the championship later, it will still have one-third of the credit for it.

……

Soon, the schedule for the group stage finally came out.

In the opening match, KT played against RW.

There are countless focuses in this game.

Although RW is only the third seed of LPL, they are also the champions of the Spring Split and MSI.

And the following bubbling match also came in a series of three.

Not to mention whether there is content, first of all, there is a legendary player in the RW team, which has sparked a lot of topics.

Todie.

After a year, return to the stage of the global finals again.

Although he changed teams and his strength seemed to have declined, he left a deep impression on the audience.

Especially last year, the three major junglers of the LCK were cut three times.

An Zhangmen was beaten and retired directly.

Little Peanut also chose to transfer, but in the end he still didn't come to the World Championship.

Cuzz even turned into Icu and became a substitute, without even a chance to play.

It can be said that the three major junglers in S7 were all abolished by Song Ming.

And this year's opening game, many people also joked that Score will soon become the fourth victim.

With everyone's expectations, the first day of the first round of the group stage finally started.

"Welcome to the first day of the 2018 World Championship group stage. RW will play against KT. Hello everyone, I am a doll."

"Hi, my name is Miller."

A familiar duo appeared at the commentary booth.

After all, Doll and Miller belong to the veteran-level commentators, and it would be perfect for them to comment on the exciting opening match of the group stage.

"Okay, this opening is very exciting. RW played against KT. I think that although RW is the third seed in LPL, I don't think there is much to say about their strength. They may not lose to KT today." Begin objectively leading the conversation.

Miller frowned, adjusted his glasses, and said, "KT, many viewers of this team may not be familiar with it, but their players must be familiar to the old audience."

"Fat General and Deft are both from EDG, including Mata who was also in RNG before."

"Before we thought that the players from S7 would join a team after returning to the LCK, which would definitely cause a big accident in the LCK, but what we didn't expect was that they didn't come to the World Championship in S7." Wow folded her hands on her chest Before, seriously analyzed.

"And in S8, after two years of adjustments, they re-entered the World Championship as the No. [-] seed of the LCK. This also shows that this is still the Galaxy Battleship, but when it took off, it was a year late."

Miller nodded and continued: "If I had to look at it, the other KT's three routes are all advantages, and Score's players will not be too afraid when facing Todie. Although the two have never played against each other , but I was fortunate enough to see the two facing each other in the previous Hanbok rankings, and the rankings were actually evenly matched."

"Todie played fiercely in the early stage, but Score can use his experience to resolve the disadvantages in the early stage. This makes Todie face off, which is actually more troublesome."

"Because of what, because we know that Todie is good at the fierce offensive rhythm in the early stage. Generally, after his rhythm is up, it is difficult to stop him. After so many years, I think only Mala Xiangguo can compete with him, but Mala Xiangguo can only work together, and there are very few who can really break Todie's rhythm."

Miller's analysis is fairly thorough.

Generally, when Todie can stand up in the early stage, RW can easily win.

There are very few endings where RW is overturned.

But Score, a player in the rankings, once overturned the game with Song Ming.

So this game is not only interested in the audience, Miller also wants to know how Song Ming can perform in the face of such a difficult jungler!
(End of this chapter)