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Chapter 291 Skin Release! Lottery Zone!
On June 3rd, besides focusing on the upcoming S8 Summer Split, Rift Rivals, and Asian Games, millions of League of Legends players online had another extremely important matter to attend to.

That's the EDG Silver Dragon Knight series S7 championship skins, which will be officially launched and sold on the official website!
For this championship skin release, players who purchase the complete EDG skin set will also receive a bonus collector's edition ward skin.

Before Riot Games proposed creating ward skins, they specifically asked EDG for their opinion. After an internal vote by EDG staff, nine out of ten people supported using Clearlove's "bear shrug" as the design template.

The factory manager, though outwardly displeased, was inwardly overjoyed and accepted the unanimous decision of his teammates and coach.

After the "Little Bear Spreads Hands" ward skin was released, countless LPL viewers angrily spent 500 yuan to support the Silver Dragon Knight series championship skins.

Just for Seven's incredibly cute chibi bear shrug, they deserve to get this championship commemorative skin!

On various esports forums, posts about EDG's championship skins quickly became the most popular topics.

"A set of EDG championship skins is on sale for 499 yuan, with the bear ward skin alone accounting for 498 yuan!"

"Sorry, my poor money, I really need this bear shrug skin, sob sob~!"

"The factory manager is really showing off his skills. He has a champion skin and a champion ward. He's a true winner in life!"

"This ward skin is so cool, I'm buying it!"

"..."

EDG eSports Club.

Wang Yao bought the entire Silver Dragon Knight series skins and had the final skin effects made, then looked at each one one by one.

The factory manager's Graves skin is quite cool, especially the double-barreled shotgun's basic attack effect. Every basic attack feels like it has the power of thunder, making it very impactful.

Meiko's robot is just so-so, but it has all the necessary skill effects, especially the ultimate move which releases a magnetic field, which is quite dazzling.

Scout's Syndra skin is designed with the charm of ancient Chinese paintings, and the dark orb has been changed to a blue and white color scheme, making it look unique.

Mouse's Rumble skin is a bit of a parody; when he activates his ultimate, Rumble puts on a pair of red glasses that look just like Vayne's.

Of all the Silver Dragon Knight skins, Mouse's Rumble skin is actually the most memorable.

As for Wang Yao's Draven skin, Riot's designers consulted Wang Yao's personal opinion quite a bit.

Through multiple rounds of close communication and collaboration, Wang Yao's Draven skin became the skin that took the designers the longest to complete.

Unlike Draven's original skin, this skin has been meticulously crafted in terms of impact feel and sound effects.

The smooth and substantial feel of the axe's basic attack far surpasses any other Draven skin, and the sound effects are also very satisfying, with an exceptionally good rhythm.

In addition, the designers made some changes to Draven's skin model.

When Draven catches the Q throwing axe, the axe leaves a white and blue afterimage effect, as if the player has activated kill mode.

The most subtle change is that Draven's two throwing axes are now engraved with a tiny line of characters, representing Wang Yao's in-game ID: Kshine!

Of course, the most valuable and interesting skin design has to be Draven's taunt voice lines.

Riot Games designers have recorded all of Wang Yao's classic trash talk into the skin's voice lines.

Wang Yao quietly put on his headphones and listened carefully to the voice lines of the Silver Dragon Knight Draven. He had to admit that these foreigners really knew how to create hilarious moments!

In the custom Summoner's Rift, Wang Yao tried out Draven's animations one by one.

On the screen, Draven stands with his hands on his hips, making a provocative "come on" gesture towards the front.

"If you're going to come and catch me, bring more people. I'm afraid if I'm missing one, I won't be able to get my pentakill!" Wang Yao's arrogant and sarcastic words made his Draven championship skin a hot-selling skin sought after by many AD boosting services.

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After Wang Yao tried out the Silver Dragon Knight series skins, the 2018 LPL Summer Split draw ceremony was about to begin, so he decided to watch the draw live with his teammates.

"Hopefully we'll have a better draw, and that there aren't too many strong teams in our group."

iboy said, but then he thought about it again and shook his head, saying, "Forget it, let's just have all the strong teams come together, so we can practice our lineups more during the regular season!"

The LPL playoffs are a cross-group format. There are many strong teams in the group stage, making the regular season tough, but the playoffs are much easier.

Actually, there's not much difference between playing against strong teams and playing against weak teams.

"Shouldn't we be seeing which unlucky guys will be grouped with us?" Meiko said with a smile.

"Look at this, this is what it means to have the awareness of a champion support. Big Head Fish, you should learn from this. Look at your petty attitude," Holy Gun immediately mocked.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" iboy, unfazed by the danger, immediately stood up and said, "I'm still waiting for the mid, top, and jungle 3C to carry me."

The lottery ceremony has officially begun, as shown in the broadcast footage.

The draw rules for the Summer Split are the same as those for the Spring Split. The seed pool will be allocated based on the team's performance in the previous regular season, and teams that have already selected their home city will be automatically assigned to the East or West division.

For example, RNG, which chose Beijing as its home city, and LGD, which chose Hangzhou, were directly assigned to the Eastern Conference.

OMG, Snake, and WE will be assigned to the Western Conference.

Since the promotion and relegation system was abolished after the league system was implemented, the LPL Summer Split still consists of the same 14 teams.

To join a new team, the only options are to pay an entry fee to purchase a spot or to buy a spot from a team already in the LPL.

EDG, as the Spring Split champion, was placed in the first seed pool, as was RNG, the runner-up.

As usual, EDG was assigned to the Western Conference.

Wow, we're really lucky!

OMG, Snake, and WE are all three teams that will definitely be assigned to the Western Conference. As for the strength of these three teams, well, those who know, know. Isn't this just handing points to EDG?

Originally, Snake Esports could still play well, but after top laner Flandre left and was replaced by Mouse, no matter how much Flandre tried to be flashy in the jungle, he couldn't make it work anymore. It can be said that he couldn't carry the team alone.

"They're not going to move IG to the West, are they? That would be disgusting!"

"You know what, it's really possible. Otherwise, our overall strength in the West would be too weak, not much different from the Spring Season."

However, when the final draw results came out, it was indeed quite unexpected.

There are a total of 14 teams, 7 in the East and 7 in the West.

West: EDG, IG, WE, OMG, Snake, Top, VG.

Eastern Conference: RNG, RW, JD Gaming, BLG, SNG, FPX, LGD.

Since five teams have already been decided in the East and West divisions, the other teams are basically just filling in the blanks.

Overall, the Western Conference is indeed a bit weaker, but they've specifically assigned the strongest team, IG, to it. It's clear that the organizers are planning a clash between two powerhouses!
The forced arrangement of the trident versus the silver dragon knight is indeed a mistake.

(End of this chapter)