I'm the chef in T1. The fatter Li Ge is, the stronger I am.

Chapter 161: Good Luck! Why is it a good lottery? First of all.
The departure ceremony is over.

The crowd did not stay where they were.

The visibility below the elevator is very poor. After all, this is the first time that the LPL official has held such an event, and many aspects have not yet been fully perfected.

Fortunately, at this time the audience at the scene had been called by the official staff to draw the lottery.

Only some players remained in the audience, taking pictures of their favorite players from various angles with their mobile phones as a souvenir.

No one can be sure after this year's World Championship.

Will the players of this team, which he considers to have the best lineup, "fall apart" during the transfer period and be scattered to various clubs?

On the way back to the lounge.

Mingkai put one hand on Wang Yu's shoulder and asked curiously, "Xiaoyu, what are you going to do next?"

"Me? I'll go live later to get enough time. I almost didn't have enough time last month, but luckily Shy helped me live for three days." Wang Yu smiled and asked, "Brother Mingkai, what about you? You're not going out on a date with your blind date, are you?"

end of last year.

The idea of ​​retiring came to him because of his performance in the World Championship.

When Mingkai returned home to adjust his mentality, he met his current girlfriend through a blind date introduced by his family.

The relationship between the two has progressed rapidly and they have been very close recently.

Wang Yu often sees Mingkai sharing photos of him and his girlfriend on his WeChat Moments.

Different from many professional players, Mingkai's girlfriend is completely an outsider.

"Well, since there are no games to play recently, the club should give us a few days off. I want to accompany her to Shanghai." Mingkai said this, his mouth slightly opened, and after struggling for a while, he decided to say it: "Xiaoyu, as a person who has been through it and a friend and brother, I want to advise you that work is work and life is life. If you have time, you should spend more time with your family."

"I didn't say I won't be with my family. Xianghe just sent a message saying that he will come to Shanghai the day after tomorrow. We are going to go hiking for team building. Do you want to bring your girlfriend along?"

"Well, please forgive me, an old man. You said the same thing last time. What kind of outdoor barbecue was that? What happened? We set out during the day and only had a hot meal at night."

Mingkai decisively declined Wang Yu's invitation.

The two chatted all the way until they reached the door of their club lounge.

"gone!"

"Bye-Bye!"

The World Championship schedule is not as tight as MSI.

It is the final battle of each year and the event with the highest championship content.

It didn’t just last for a month.

Even the competition venue will be changed at each stage.

The final will be held at the Kyoto Bird's Nest.

Although the World Championship is not so exaggerated that the location of the 'hosting place' can drive the 'consumption' of the entire region.

However, this year's world championship is held in China for the first time.

Many players have already started discussing itinerary planning, whether or not to go to the venue in advance to see if they can run into their favorite players and have close contact with them offline.

Compared to the previous extremely high requirement of having to go abroad to support one's own team offline.

The advantage of holding the World Championship at your doorstep is that you can take a day off, buy a plane ticket, and arrive at your destination the next day!

But even so.

Aofeng's sponsor was as generous as ever and promised Wang Yu that no matter what the result was in this world competition, as long as he was not eliminated, all the food, clothing, housing and transportation expenses along the way would be reimbursed.

In order to allow Wang Yu and the others to train with peace of mind, Ao Feng even thoughtfully sent a person who is specifically responsible for helping the players deal with daily tedious matters.

This made all the SKT players who followed them along the way, eating, drinking and having fun, very envious.

Bang even said that if he still wanted to continue playing professionally after the World Championship this year, he would definitely give priority to the LPL region.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Wolf immediately laughed at him: "Xiba, you are such a money-hungry guy, how could you possibly choose the LPL region first? The LCS region is your final destination!"

Both the qualifying round and the group stage were held at the Wuhan Sports Center.

During this period.

Players from other teams in other regions have arrived in China and headed to Wuhan one after another, staying in hotels provided by the LPL authorities.

As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do!
No matter which region you come to, you should experience the server characteristics of that region.

Before the World Championship even started, many players had already used the official accounts to enter the independent region that was officially opened to the Chinese server at the beginning of this year: Canyon of Heroes!
It is the first independent region that needs to apply and has a minimum rank requirement of Diamond II.

Fuji Jing originally wanted to build "Canyon of Heroes" into a domestic Korean server, allowing many truly strong passers-by players to compete against professional players.

When the server was just launched.

Teng Jing even paid out of his own pocket to invite many LPL team players and the so-called No. 1 XX anchor in the country to participate in the ranking competition in the Canyon of Heroes.

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As for the environment of the national server, those who understand will understand.

Less than half a month.

The top of the canyon is filled with various opening anchors and top performers from professional players.

Among them are many players who have spent money to buy the qualification to enter the Canyon of Heroes. They participate in the game with the idea of ​​improving their own strength by competing with masters.

The result is that those high-scoring passers-by who really want to get points are confused by these weirdos, so they just start to show off afterwards.

At first, Fuji Jing was able to get some order.

But later on, we couldn’t control it anymore, so we had to add an activity limit for each account.

After dealing with the account buying and selling issues, we will continue to rectify the actor issue.

But this time.

The heat of the Canyon of Heroes has long since disappeared without a trace.

Professional players return to the Korean server to maintain their competitive form.

After seeing that they could not rival the popularity of domestic professional players, the anchors of various platforms also left.

Although there are still players in the Canyon of Heroes, the overall strength level is still not as good as Ionia.

And now.

As the World Championship is about to begin.

After learning that many foreign players had started playing RANK in the Canyon of Heroes, countless domestic players also followed suit and entered the Canyon of Heroes again, hoping to gain traffic by single-killing these professional players.

As the TOP1 members of the LPL team, they naturally received official reminders and the qualifying competition will start in the Canyon of Heroes recently.

Wang Yu, who always likes to do live broadcasts to kill time, did not choose to do a live broadcast to play RANK this time.

Because many coaches can see the player's gaming habits through the first-person perspective.

The jungler position is the easiest to target.

After all, wild monsters don’t run around everywhere.

No matter how the jungler ganks, he still has to go back to the jungle to clear the jungle in the end.

Open wild route.

Jungle route.

These two pieces of information are extremely important to junglers and can even determine the direction of the entire game. As long as the enemy obtains enough of them, it will be very difficult to take effective actions in the game!

Although kkoma suggested that Wang Yu should not take Rank too seriously and just play casually to keep his touch.

But Wang Yu believes that no matter it is a competition or a rank, one must go all out without exposing one's playing style.

Just do it once in Rank and play the game with the attitude that it doesn't matter whether you win or lose.

Then
Sooner or later, this thought will arise during a game, and once this thought arises during a game, the outcome of the game is self-evident.

After enjoying this short rest period, everyone immediately plunged into the intense, boring and repetitive training phase.

At the same time, Wang Yu also fulfilled his promise and accepted the other two LPL teams that wanted to arrange a training room with TOP1.

soon.

The time comes on June 9th.

The World Championship qualifiers have officially begun.

The RNG shark was killing the entire pool, and even if it only used one or two extremely conventional lineups, it could easily defeat the opponent.

9 month 29 day.

The play-in round is over.

Next up is the group stage draw.

According to the same competition area avoidance principle.

It is impossible for the three LPL teams to be placed in the same group.

Wuhan Sports Center.

Standing on the stage was the guest contestant who was officially invited to participate in the draw ceremony: Zizi.

He has successfully lost weight and now looks quite serious in a suit.

And in the hotel.

Everyone sat on the floor, watching the images projected onto the TV via their cell phones.

"Whatever you say, the first draw is coming!" Xiao Ming, who was participating in the World Championship for the first time, seemed a little lively, with an expression of excitement and nervousness on his face. Xiye, who was also entering the World Championship for the first time, had a completely different mentality: "Did this guy wash his hands before the draw? Give us some inside information! Give us some weak teams, don't reveal too much information in the group stage!"

The number one seed does not need to participate in the draw and will directly become the [team leader].

Group A: TOP1!

Group B: ROX!

Group C: G2!

Group D: FW!

As the person in the picture slowly spread out the paper in his hand, an extremely embarrassed expression suddenly appeared on his face.

"I suddenly have a bad feeling."

As soon as Xiao Ming said this.

The others nodded.

next second.

The gesture is to turn the paper in your hand over and show it towards the camera.

The black and red team logo on the note was like a mountain pressing down on the hearts of countless LPL viewers, almost making them breathless.

【SKT! 】

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The two newcomers in the room have become obedient.

Even Duke and Imp, two veterans with the honor of world champions, didn't know what to say.

Only Wang Yu thought this was a good thing.

After all, the qualifying round is in progress.

The teams that have been confirmed to start in the group stage will contact each other privately to arrange training matches according to their seed status.

Even if TOP1 and SKT have a close relationship, it is impossible for them to arrange a training match between them at this time.

This is to prevent this situation from happening.

What if we are drawn together in the group stage?

Know the ins and outs of the situation.

Although both the first and second place in the group can advance to the quarterfinals.

But still the same sentence.

The first place is always treated better than the second place!
Because the first team in the group will definitely not face the first team in the other three groups in the quarterfinals!

finally.

Group A consists of: TOP1, SKT, AHQ, C9!

"Now it depends on how the other three groups are divided." Wang Yu rubbed his face and looked at the live broadcast screen again.

Zizi took out another ball and spread out the paper.

And an extremely embarrassed expression appeared on his face again.

The moment the audience saw the note clearly, they couldn't help but curse out the Chinese quintessence: "Fuck!"

【EDG! 】

Group B is: ROX, EDG, GAM, FNC!

Followed by.

Group C: G2, SSG, IMT, FB!

Group D: FW, MSF, TSM, RNG!

"This draw" Xiye was completely speechless.

RNG, which advanced to the group stage with a perfect record in the qualifying round, has now been assigned to a group that poses almost no threat to them. If nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely advance to the quarterfinals.

but.
TOP1 and EDG are in a miserable situation.

A team that will compete with SKT, the three-time champion team that is nominally the second seed of LCK but is actually the well-deserved number one seed of LCK!

The other one is directly facing ROX, who almost retired Mingkai last year and kept the same team this year and just won the spring and summer championships in their own region!

Not long after the drawing ceremony ended, Wang Yu's phone rang.

"Brother Yu, did you watch the draw? We are in the same group!"

"We are very close, and I was just about to send you a message when you called me."

"hey-hey."

Xiang He on the other end of the phone chuckled twice and suddenly hung up.

But Wang Yu was not surprised. Just as he was about to put away his phone, another call came in.

"Can we play a training match tonight?" Mingkai's voice was a little low.

Obviously.

The entire EDG team was watching the draw ceremony just now, otherwise they would not have called immediately after it was over.

But Mingkai’s speed in making calls is far slower than Faker’s.

"Sure, we're going to play the group stage soon anyway, what time do you plan to play tonight?"

"We're going out to eat at five and should be back around six, about this time."

"Then we'll start at half past six, is that ok?"

"OK! No problem. I'll hang up now."

Make sure no one calls you again.

Wang Yu put away his phone and prepared to take his teammates out for dinner.

Actually.

He didn't care about the lottery ceremony at all.

Because the players of the team who really want to win the championship cannot possibly count on the draw ceremony to help them.

online.

The mentality of fans of each team has changed a bit.

Although everyone has great confidence in the TOP1 team, meeting SKT in the group stage is, to put it bluntly, a bad phenomenon.

Not to mention EDG fans.

During the summer season, Mingkai's condition has recovered.

But he hasn't played any games for half a month, so maybe his touch has been gone for a long time. And now he happens to meet the No. 1 seed of LCK, which is even worse!
Only!

RNG fans are partying!
[Good Draw] The Bible was released ahead of schedule and was constantly circulated on the forum, causing dissatisfaction among fans of the other two teams.

After all, it is analyzed based on the strength of the teams in each group and the strength of the competition area.

The three teams in Group D can be said to be recognized as "experienced teams".

No one expected it.

Unfortunately, RNG participated in the World Championship as the third seed in the region and made it from the qualifying round to the group stage. Unexpectedly, they were assigned to Group D, a group that was bound to advance to the quarterfinals, thanks to their status as a qualifying player!

Maybe every team has its own fans.

After the draw ceremony, RNG’s official Weibo account updated the news immediately.

[The draw ceremony is over. I wish our LPL team can successfully advance to the quarterfinals! (Photo: The five RNG players sitting around the computer and laughing)]

It is similar to but different from RNG’s official blog.

The G2 team is also updating its status very frantically, and is so active that it seems like a fake official.

only.

The G2 team operations officer did not release any content about the draw ceremony, but instead uploaded all the pictures of him and Wang Yu having dinner outside since they came to China, and then added some text emoticons and the like.

Simultaneously.

G2 jungler Trick knelt down to Wang Yu just like he did in last year's World Championship, trying to obtain the Jungle God BUFF to help the team defeat SSG, the only team in Group C that posed a threat to them.

Wang Yu, who was already used to the abstract behavior of the G2 team, also cosplayed as Jesus and placed his hands on Trick's head as if he was really blessing him.

Five days later.

10 month 5 day.

The group stage has officially begun.

Group A: TOP1 (LPL), SKT (LCK), AHQ (LMS), C9 (qualifiers)

Group B: ROX (LCK), EDG (LPL), GAM (Wild Card), FNC (Qualifiers)

Group C: G2 (European LCS No. ), SSG (LCK), IMT (North American LCS No. ), FB (qualifiers)

Group D: FW (No. 1 in LMS), MSF (No. 2 in Europe), TSM (No. 1 in North America), RNG (qualifiers)

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