LOL: People in Taobo have a promising future

Chapter 162 161: Group stage grouping, pressure, motivation!

Although LGD was already sweating after playing in the playoffs.

But many LPL viewers still hope that LGD can break through and successfully advance to the group stage. Otherwise, the dignified fourth seed of LPL will die directly in the playoffs. Don't be laughed at by the next division for the rest of your life!

After all, before the game, the LPL audience still firmly believed that LGD was going to fry the fish in the playoffs. Who would have thought, who would have thought that LGD was the fish and was going to be bombed.

Fortunately, LGD still has a chance for redemption!

The third day of the play-in competition!

The game hasn't started yet, but the traffic is already full. Because of LGD's reverse assists, this qualifying tournament can be said to be very delicious and can be called a canteen, which directly makes overseas audiences unable to help but watch.

This also led to the overseas ratings reaching seven figures for the first time, breaking one million!
You must know that overseas live broadcast viewing is based on the actual number of viewers, so this kind of ratings can be said to be real traffic!
Therefore, the game has not yet started, and the LPL audience has already expressed that Riot should erect a monument for LGD. This wave of profits is huge!

Maybe Riot Games didn’t even expect to have an extra fourth seed for the LPL this year, but it would have such a good effect, it could be said that it was so good that it exploded!

LGD, on the verge of life and death, faced off against their old rival R5 in the first BO7 to determine a place for the next round of challenge!
Maybe it's because I've adjusted, or maybe it's because I finally woke up.

In this BO5, LGD was finally not humiliated by R7 like they were in the round robin, but directly and cleanly swept R7 three to zero and successfully qualified to challenge the No. 2 LGC in Group A.

The two BO5 games were played on the same day, so after playing R7 in the afternoon, LGD did not have time to adjust. LGD simply did not need to adjust, perhaps because the R7 state was already activated.

Just four hours later, at [-] p.m., LGD once again successfully qualified for the group stage by sweeping their opponent LGC [-]-[-].

It can be said that LGD's performance in the two knockout rounds also relieved many LPL viewers. The fourth seed in the LPL is indeed the fourth seed!
It’s just because I haven’t played in the World Championship for a long time. I was careless and was attacked by young people!
Now that I have adjusted, it will be easy to play some wild cards!

As LGD advanced to the group stage, the four teams that can advance to the group stage in the entire qualifying round were also announced. They are the first TL in Group A and the first PSG in Group B.

Plus LGD who advanced through the knockout rounds and UOL from the CIS region!

And with these four teams advancing to the group stage!

The popularity of this qualifying competition continues to rise. Of course, in addition to LGD's contribution, the other reason for this must be mentioned MAD, the shame of Europe.

This team, known as the "European Lions", as the fourth seed in this year's European division, also had a big start in the play-in like LGD.

It’s also a 1-3 start!

It also retains a chance to play BO5!
But unlike LGD's two clean BO5s that directly advanced to the group stage in the knockout round, MAD was a pure shame in foreign wars. In the first stage of the knockout, they faced SUP from the Turkish division and were sent away directly!

It also allowed many European players to break through their defenses!
It can be said that the popularity of this qualifying competition is so high. In addition to LGD's contribution, MAD must also take the greatest credit!
Anyway, for Riot Games, this qualifying round can be said to be the most talked-about time in the history of the World Championship. It may never be possible to repeat this grand occasion again.

Watch and cherish!
After the four teams in the qualifying round advanced to the group stage, the group stage draw ceremony of this World Championship also began.

On the night when the knockout round ended, the factory director, who had been away from the stage for a long time, also appeared in the camera as a lottery guest, which also attracted many cheers from the audience.

Today he represented the LPL in the group draw for this World Championship!

The first thing is to put aside the draw of the four qualifying teams!

There are a total of twelve teams, and the four No. [-] seeds are naturally the first pool.

LPL No. [-] seed, Taobo.

LCK No. [-] seed, DWG.

LEC No. 2 seed, G[-].

LCS No. [-] seed, TSM.

It can be said that the teams in the No. [-] seed pool are all familiar faces. They have met them at least in the first half of this year's world competition, so they are not strangers.

G2 and TSM, who have never met before, are even more familiar with each other.

A European king, a North American fantasy god.

Old acquaintance of LPL.

Then there’s the No. [-] seed pool.

LPL's JGD, LCK's DRX, LEC's FNC, and LCS's FLY.

In the second seed pool, there are also familiar faces, except for FLY from the North American Division. This team can be considered an older team in the North American Division, but the World Championship is the first real one, and the team players are also older per capita. Deng, who has been in the league for many years but has never made any further progress, suddenly made a breakthrough this year and directly entered the World Championship. Although he did not defeat TSM to win the championship, he also came to the World Championship stage as the second seed.

Focus on one dream, and eventually the dream will come true!
Finally, there is the third pool composed of the third seeds from the four major regions and the first seeds from other regions.

LPL's SN, LCK's GENG, LEC's RGE, and the No. [-] seed in the PCS division, MCX!

Similar to the experience of FLY in the North American Division, the MCX team is also a veteran team that has been in the PCS Division for many years, but before the PCS Division was established, they were in the LMS.

After the establishment of PCS, and after another round of major changes this year, they directly dominated PCS in the spring and summer seasons. In this summer's playoffs, they even won the finals championship with two consecutive [-]-[-] scores!
So this team still has some strength, but not much!
After the three seed pools are formed, the natural next step is to draw lots.

On the stage at this time, the director was smiling, standing in the center of the stage in a crisp suit, ready to take action at any time, and the director's camera was firmly locked.

Finally, at the host's signal, the factory director took action.

At this time, everyone in the Taobo training room was eagerly waiting.

The factory director took it from the No. [-] seed pool!
Take one of the four balls, twist it open, and slowly take out the ribbon, the red one!
"TES!!!"

the host yelled.

The factory director smiled and put the ribbon on his chest with both hands and unfolded it!

"Wow!"

Karsa shouted, "We are the first!"

"Then we are in Group A?"

369 tilted his head.

"if not."

Li Xiu rolled his eyes.

"Don't make any noise, don't make any noise, this is very important, keep reading!"

Ah Shui waved his hand and complained.

The picture on the screen is still going on.

The first one directly drew his own team, and the factory director also continued to draw in an orderly manner. The second one was DWG of the LCK, the third one was G2 of the European division, and the fourth one was TSM of the North American division.

The No. [-] seeds have been distributed, followed by the No. [-] seeds. At this time, the audience's expectations are also high.

This moment is also very nervous for the team in the second seed pool!

Because everyone wants to pick the weak persimmon!

No one wants to bite a hard nut!

Among the teams currently ranked No. [-], who is the soft persimmon and who is the hard nut?
no doubt.

Taobao, DWG!

Even G2, because of its performance in the World Championships in the past two years, is not considered weak. Therefore, for the team in the second seed pool, everyone wants to go to Group D to be weak!
Of course, there is only one exception, and that is FLY.

According to the principle of avoidance in the same division, he cannot go to Group D, so he doesn't have to think about TSM. Moreover, TSM is a soft persimmon to other teams, but not to his subordinates in the same division.

Therefore, for FLY, it seems that no matter which group you join, you will always get beaten!

The main focus of the World Championship is participation!

The director's camera focused on it, and the director once again used his cloud-detecting skills to pick out whatever he wanted!

Then unfold it under the camera!

It’s red again!The audience frowned!
"JDG!!!"

The host reads it out loud!
The LPL audience suddenly went numb!
In JDG's room, all the players were also crying!

Taobao again? !
Oh no!

According to the principle of avoidance in the same division, JDG will be postponed, so the next group is
Group B?
That opponent is DWG! ! !

Well, it was a remake of Taobo, and JDG completely cried!

[Good sign, why do you say it is a good sign! 】

[JDG is going to cry! 】

[I finally avoided Taobo because of the rules of the same division, but I didn’t expect to meet a replica of Taobo! 】

【I can’t escape anyway! 】

[It’s not a big problem, just enough for JDG to test the waters and see how valuable DWG is as the new LCK champion! 】

The barrage is also an explosion.

The factory director also continued to take action.

Second draw, yellow ribbon!
"FNC!!!"

The host yelled again.

Everyone laughed.

All the players in the FNC room cried.

Then there are two draws left, FLY and DRX.

All I can say is that it’s awesome!
The final third round.

The factory continues to work its magic.

RGE!

The first team was the European team, but also because Group A had FNC, they circumvented the principle and postponed it to Group B. This postponement almost made the pigeons cry.

What are Group B, DWG, JDG?

What does it mean that the group stage hasn’t started yet, but it’s already over!
【Laughing! 】

[What a miserable team! 】

[It feels worse than FNC! 】

[Europe's luck was sucked away by G2. 】

The barrage also felt sympathy for the tragic experience of meat pigeons, but it was still necessary to laugh.

The factory director is still making efforts in the future.

The second draw also goes straight into the soul!
GENG!

This team, which was dubbed the "Galaxy Battleship" at the beginning of this year, also came to the real Galaxy Battleship in this World Championship!
But I have to say that the appearance of GENG in Group A also makes Group A a bit more of a death group!
Because apart from the transcendent combat power of Taobo, FNC is actually not much different from GENG on the surface, at least on the surface.

Therefore, Group A gave the audience a feeling of suspense.

Then the drawing continued, and the factory director drew again, MCX!
OK, nothing to say.

Therefore, the final third seed SN also went to Group D!
Since then, the twelve teams in the three seed pools have been distributed.

Group A: TES, FNC, GENG.

Group B: DWG, JDG, RGE.

Group C: G2, FLY, MCX.

Group D: TSM, DRX, SN.

Under this formation, the four knockout teams will make up the place, based on the principle of avoidance in the same division.

LGD, the fourth seed in the LPL, can only go to Group C, which has no LPL team.

TL can only go to Group AB, which has no North American team, while PSG has to exclude Group C, and finally the unicorn UOL has to exclude Group C.

So the final three teams were drawn.

TL went to Group A.

But for TL, it doesn't matter anymore. Regardless of whether it's Group A or Group B, it's the same anyway, and he no longer has any choice.

Being beaten by someone is not a beating.

However, compared to going to Group B, TL still has a bit of a chance in Group A, because at least on the surface, the gap between FNC, GENG, and TL seems not to be big?
In the end, PSG went to Group B, while UOL was assigned to Group D!
Therefore, the final group stage format is as follows.

Group A: TES, FNC, GENG, TL
Group B: DWG, JDG, RGE, PSG.

Group C: G2, FLY, MCX, LGD.

Group D: TSM, DRX, SN, UOL.

As soon as this group came out, the situation became clear instantly, and almost all the audience reached a consensus that the AC group was a death group, and the BD group was a pure experience group.

Because there is nothing to say in Group B, DWG and JDG will definitely qualify. After all, RGE and PSG are not competitive at first glance, especially when compared with DWG and JDG.

The same is true for Group D. Although the two teams DRX and SN are not conspicuous among the strong teams in this world championship, it is obvious when they are placed in Group D.

Unless TSM explodes, there will still be two locks!
There are only two AC groups.

In Group A, because Taobo directly locked one, for the other three teams, it was equivalent to three fighting for one spot. In the eyes of the other three teams, everyone's strength was similar, so it was naturally a bloody battle!
Therefore, for the audience, Group A is also a real group of death!
The same is true for the C family.

And it may be even more intense. In addition to the similar strength of the three younger brothers below, G2 cannot achieve the same absolute dominance as Taobo.

Therefore, from the perspective of other teams, it is not three against one, but four against two!

【Wonderful, wonderful! 】

[The match between the two AC groups should be fun to watch. 】

[It’s a good-looking hook eight. It’s purely a game of pecking and abusing rookies. Taobo qualified with a stable 6-0, and the other three teams pecking each other! 】

[I don’t think so. GENG is a wealthy family after all, and it has also won the championship, so it won’t be fried! 】

[You are talking about Samsung, what does it have to do with GENG? Have you forgotten the top 8 at S[-]’s doorstep? 】

At the end of the group grouping, the barrage also swept across.

And with the end of the group grouping, everyone in Taobo also felt a sense of urgency, mainly because everyone is so optimistic about them now!

Both the audience and the officials were too optimistic about it.

For example, this time Riot Games’ official player rankings.

Among them, Jacklove and Li Xiu directly took the first and second place, then Knight was fifth, kasara was seventh, and 369 was tenth. It can be said that all five people from one team directly entered the top ten!

There is also a direct takeover of the first and second places in the bottom lane. This kind of optimism is a bit stressful!
After all, there has always been a saying in the World Championship that if you are hot, you will die!
But with such public opinion and the atmosphere, everyone in Taobo will inevitably mutter in their hearts when they are free, which will bring even greater pressure!

Of course, if pressure is turned into motivation, it will undoubtedly have a good effect on the Taobo people, and the Taobo people are also working hard to move in this direction.

Then wait for the group stage to start!
Because the group groups are over, the schedule is out, and the first game is Taobo vs. FNC!

It can be seen that the official intends to let Taobo look like him!
(End of this chapter)