The highest glory of the alliance

Chapter 367 The first match of the group stage!
After a few days of competition for the finalists, the last two places in the group stage were determined.

One is the GMB team in the LCL division of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the other is very familiar to everyone, the FW Flash Wolves in the LMS division.

In fact, everyone has already guessed this result. The LMS competition area used to be on an equal footing with other major competition areas, but due to the continuous rise of other competition areas in recent years, coupled with the outflow of e-sports players and practitioners.

The LMS division has been unable to meet the needs of its own division, and the team's performance in the world is getting worse and worse, so the LMS division has been relegated to a wild card division after the start of the S8 season.

But as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. No matter what the LMS division is, it is still the division that won the S2 championship. There is still a big gap in strength between those real wild card divisions.

So it is not surprising that LMS can get one of the group stage tickets.

Not to mention the CIS, which is considered a branch of the LEC division, the Eastern European CIS, and its strength is naturally not comparable to those of the small divisions.

In the end, the two teams of GMB and FW entered the group stage.

It is said to be a group match, but in fact there are only six teams, so there will be no group confrontation.

The six teams are just like the regular season of the Spring Split. There is a double round-robin within the group, and the top four advance to the semi-finals.

Simple and crude.

That's right, because of the special nature of the mid-season competition, only the champions of each major region can participate, and the competition schedule is naturally very short due to the small number of participating teams.

But this also illustrates a problem. For players, the fault tolerance rate is very low, and they need to take it seriously in every next game.

Unlike the S match, whichever team is lucky enough not to meet an LCK team, the chances of entering the knockout round and semi-finals are much higher.

Now that everyone is together, if there is a slight problem in the confrontation within the group, the ranking may fall a little behind.

In addition, there will be no additional matches in the group stage. When there are teams with the same score, the order will be determined according to the relationship between victory and defeat. If one wins and one loss, the total time of the group stage will be calculated, and the team with the shortest time will be promoted.

Especially in this kind of six-team fight, it is very easy to have the same points, so RNG must ensure that they enter the top two to be considered as a stable semi-finalist.

On today's first match day, RNG will face the biggest threat of this mid-season match.

KZ team.

Less than 10 minutes before the start of the group stage, the picture on the big screen has already been cut to the commentary booth.

As the first game of the LPL, the official also moved Doll and Miller out to warm up the game in advance.

At this time, the barrage floated by one after another, discussing the next game.

"After waiting for so long, it's finally begun."

"To be honest, the play-in competition is too eye-catching. It's like feeding each other. Fortunately, the group stage has finally begun."

"What's the use in the beginning, you don't know that RNG didn't make an appointment for a training match in Europe?"

"RNG is not weak even if it doesn't play training matches."

"Still blowing? If you don't maintain your form in the training match, I guess you will lose the first game today."

"Although RNG didn't play a training match, they rank every day. Well, even if they didn't get the bottom of their opponents, they wouldn't say that, right?"

"I'm too lazy to argue with you, you'll know after the fight against KZ."

"..."

Regarding the fact that RNG did not make an appointment for the training match, it somehow spread to China. The barrage is divided into two factions at this time, one side is a die-hard fan of RNG, and the other side is not optimistic about RNG's performance in MSI.

At this time, in the backstage lounge of RNG, the five starting players were sitting together, listening to Brother Feng's arrangement for this game.

"Although we temporarily played a training match yesterday, the intensity is really far behind other teams. Don't take it lightly when you go up to play later."

Everyone nodded, and they all agreed on this point.

Brother Feng scanned around and saw that everyone had heard clearly, and then he continued: "There is one more thing I need to tell you, according to the information given by the staff, KZ has been studying for the past few days. It is estimated that it will be difficult for us to get those heroes that have been released in a while."

Originally, several people were cautious about this match, and they were still confident to win, but now they frowned after hearing Brother Feng's second sentence.

This time, because there is no appointment for the training match, RNG does not have time to practice the tactics they prepared before. Right now, they can only rely on those regular heroes to play dual-core or four guarantees, but if they are blocked by KZ on BP, then RNG can It is difficult to play.

Think about it, he didn't even play the training match, and the only thing he relied on was his three axes. If he was robbed by Ban again, wouldn't it be impossible for him to be right in the lane.

Wu Weiwei was also very troubled by this, but what he didn't expect was that at this moment, several teammates around him looked at him in unison.

What do you mean?
Before he could ask, Brother Feng had already smiled and said, "Little 9, among the five people here, only you have the deepest hero pool, so this first round depends on you."

Seeing that Brother Feng said so, how else can Wu Youliang answer, he can only pretend not to care and nod.

To be honest, he has no idea. After all, this is a team game. It is impossible for him to carry alone to win easily. It still depends on the performance of his brothers.

As long as the brothers can hold on, not to mention the advantage, as long as the advantage is [-]-[-], he is confident that he can win this game.

But the problem now is that the heroes of RANK have been studied all over the past few days, and it is difficult to find an advantage in the lane, so the pressure is all on the middle lane.

At this moment, the official staff knocked on the door, indicating that the players and coaches could go on stage to adjust the equipment.

The RNG team did not intend to delay the time. They confirmed that there is no problem with the peripherals as soon as possible, and they can leave some time for everyone to communicate.

In this way, a few people came to the player bench under the leadership of the staff. Although they are in Europe, there are still many RNG fans at the scene, most of them are overseas students, and some are domestic fan groups who flew to watch the game.

Holding a banner with "ROYAL NEVER GIVE UP" in his hand, and some directly holding up the posters of the contestants, the most interesting ones are Xiaogou and Wu's outstanding fans. One cosplayer became a VN, and the other cosplayer became an angel.

At this moment, the voice of the doll came from the domestic broadcast.

"Okay, I have said so much just now, now we can also see that the players of the two teams have entered the player seats and are debugging the equipment. BP should start soon."

"Judging from the pictures given at the scene, the expressions of the five RNG players are not as good as expected."

"It seems that the problem of not being able to make appointments for training matches has indeed had a greater impact on RNG."

Miller also nodded at this time, and said with some concern: "That's right, the other teams are now fully prepared for training, and the state is at its peak. RNG is now walking in a smear, which is very dangerous."

"To be honest, I support RNG in this game, but judging from the current situation, the situation of RNG is not optimistic."

"Look at the few people in KZ opposite, they are talking and laughing, they are very relaxed..."

(End of this chapter)