You've only been playing for half a year, and you've already reached the finals?

Chapter 65: The top five have to count points, it’s a mess

9 month 25 day.

Under the common attention of players all over the world, the qualifying round of the 2020 World Finals has officially begun.

The second seed from the Taiwan region, the third seed from North America, the fourth seeds from LPL and Europe, and the champions from all the wildcard regions gathered together to compete for the final four group stage spots!

This qualifying round has nothing to do with JDG. They directly advanced to the group stage, and the competition will not officially start until a week later.

However, in order to adapt to the environment, the JDG team has already landed in Shanghai in advance and stayed in the hotel arranged by Riot. They gathered in the hotel's training room and watched the qualifying draw ceremony in front of them.

Watching LPL legend and his cousin's former teammate Gao Xuecheng take the stage to divide the ten teams into two groups, Mingjing tilted his head and asked, "Why do we have an extra team? And why isn't there a Korean team?"

Mingjing has always heard others say that the biggest obstacle for LPL on the road to winning the championship is the South Korean team.

I haven't been able to schedule a practice match with the Korean team recently. Mingjing is planning to see how strong the Korean team is through the qualifying rounds.
Inside the team, team leader Momo thought for a moment and said, "This is a long story."

In short, the weak LMS region has not achieved decent results for a long time, so Riot downgraded its standards and placed it in the Southeast Asia region. As a result, the number of places in the Southeast Asia region increased from one to two.

But originally there were four places for LMS+Southeast Asia.

The two vacant spots were allocated by Riot to the two regions with the best performance in the past two years, namely LPL and Europe.

As for why South Korea is not in the qualifying round, it is due to practical reasons. This year, the Vietnamese region was restricted for special reasons and was unable to participate in the competition, resulting in one less team in the twelve qualifying rounds. The odd-numbered teams cannot form two groups, so Riot can only balance the number of people downwards, allowing the Korean region, which ranks third in the overall results, to receive preferential treatment, and the last seed directly advances to the group stage.

This is why there is now an extra fourth seed in LPL and Europe, and no Korean team in the qualifying round.

After the draw ceremony, Ming Jing took a special look at the qualifying matches.

The first game is between Brazilian champions INTZ and Latin American champions R7.

But after only watching for ten minutes, Ming Jing couldn't help shaking his head.

"The level of these two teams is too low, right? I feel like there's no rhythm at all and the individual mechanics aren't that strong either."

"Especially this INTZ," Ming Jing criticized by name. "Is it really at the World Championship level?"

Let’s not talk about rhythm. After all, this thing is relative. If you meet a master, it will be difficult to get the rhythm.

But the operation does not deceive.

Watching over the past few minutes, Ming Jing saw countless situations where the skills were inexplicably blocked, and even the control chain could not be connected when they were linked!
Are you serious?

I feel like if we can get five kings with more than 1500 points in the national server to fight against them, they will be able to fight!

But at this time, Ming Jing noticed that several of his teammates could no longer hold back their laughter.

"What's wrong?" Ming Jing was a little confused.

Is this funny?
"Ahem." Toothpaste said with a smile, "Don't say that in front of your cousin from now on."

Ming Jing was a little confused, so he took out his phone and looked up the team name INTZ.

In addition to Baidu Encyclopedia, the first article below is the opening thunder.

The most embarrassing foreign game in LPL history! Fans beat up their idols! The Brazilian Saint kicked EDG away!

Ming Jing suddenly understood
Why does my cousin do this kind of work every day?

But he didn't feel embarrassed. Instead, he burst into laughter. He immediately took a picture of the game and sent it to his cousin: "Kaiguo, how could you lose to a team like this back then?"

My cousin replied very quickly, but only replied with a question mark and nothing more.
But despite all the noise, Ming Jing had completely lost interest in the game.

Watching these two teams pulling each other's hair out, he almost lost his touch.
According to Redmi, the level of the qualifying round is not high, and it is mainly used to observe the trend of the version. There is nothing else interesting to see.

The only thing the first team and the wild card team have in common is meta understanding.

After all, the wildcard team has a lot of ideas and can often come up with some strange and bizarre things that can produce results.

The World Championship is a tug-of-war that lasts for more than a month. As the 22 teams continue to study the version, all kinds of strange things often emerge, so understanding the version is an indispensable part of winning the championship.

Just keep climbing the rankings.
The momentum of the people behind him seems to be quite strong recently, and Mingjing wants to keep his first place.

In the past few days, teams from major regions have arrived in Shanghai one after another, and all have started to compete for points in the Canyon of Heroes.

As we all know, the Chinese server is full of single-hero mastery players. The clash between these mastery players and top professional players has led to quite a few hilarious moments. For example, JJKING, the renowned Fiora master, used Fiora to instantly destroy four players under a tower and kill Shen, who was 2-1 down, against G2's top laner Wunder. This sparked heated discussion in Europe and the US, and the livestream's popularity skyrocketed!

Just a slice of ranking has brought such huge popularity, so you can imagine the attention brought by being the number one in the country.

Among the top players from major regions, there are many who are good at ranking up, such as the jungler and mid laner of LCK's No. 1 seed DWG, Canyon and Showmaker, who are currently the first and second in the Korean server.

JUGKING and MIDKING occupied the top two spots in the Korean server and were the most popular at the time.

The two of them even planned that after the national server was released, they would start duo-queuing as soon as possible and get the top two in the national server.

But when they logged in and opened the leaderboard, they were stunned.

2300 points in West 8?
The number one in the Korean server is only a little over 1600!
You should know that after reaching a high score, what limits the speed of gaining points is not the win rate, but the ranking time.

The World Championship only lasts for a little over a month, and most of the time has to be divided between competitions and training matches. Even if they try their best in the remaining time, they may not be able to get such a high score!
And what's with this 80% winning rate? Is this still a human being?
DK's mid and jungle were in despair.

This plan to become the number one server in China ended before it even began.
In the next few days, the schedule of the qualifying round is also advancing rapidly. According to past experience, the places in the qualifying round are generally reserved for the last seeds in the major regions. After all, teams from major regions, even if they are the last seeds, can generally achieve a dimensionality reduction effect on the wildcard regions.

But this year there was a little surprise.

The qualifying round is divided into two parts. One part is a single round-robin tournament with five teams in each group. After a single round-robin, the first place will advance directly, and the second to fourth places will enter the second part of the knockout round to compete for the second qualifying spot.

LPL's fourth seed LGD doesn't know what they're up to, and they've been defeated repeatedly, losing to PSG, UOL, R7, and tied for fourth with V3, almost getting eliminated!

This abstract record shocked countless viewers.

We have to count the points to advance from the top five to the top four, which is really confusing.

If LGD is eliminated in the qualifying round, it will become the biggest joke in the history of LPL.

Fortunately, after the crushing defeat, LGD finally woke up and defeated V3 in the extra game to enter the knockout stage. Then they swept their opponents 3-0 in a row, and finally defeated the European fourth seed MAD 3-0, successfully advancing to the group stage.

In the end, TL from the North American region, LGD from the LPL, PSG from the Southeast Asian region, and UOL from the CIS region successfully advanced.

The JDG team gathered in front of the screen to watch the group stage draw that took place immediately after the qualifying round.

This draw is really related to them.

"Oh my god!" Green Hair put his hands together and began to pray, "Please give me a good lottery, can you draw me to North America or Europe?"

I can only say that this is the disadvantage of the No. 2 seed. At the very least, they have to play against the No. 1 seed from another region. If they draw the No. 1 seed from LCK, it will be very difficult.

Although everyone is calling LCK the third league, everyone actually knows who the biggest opponent is on the road to the championship.

It can be clearly felt through the recent training matches that DWG is very tricky, much more tricky than any other team.

In the training match against DWG, their chances of winning are less than 20%!

At this time, today's guest who drew lots walked into the screen, and his standard look of a bowl-cut hairstyle and dead fish eyes caused the audience to exclaim.

It was none other than the LPL legend, cousin Mingkai.

Ming Jing watched his cousin reach into the No. 1 seed pool and allocate the No. 1 seeds from the four major regions into four groups.

Group A: DWG
Group B: TES
Group C: G2
Group D: TSM
Then my cousin reached into the second seed pool and began to assign opponents to DWG in Group A.

The rules for the group stage draw are very simple. Teams from the same division will be avoided. If you draw a team from the same division, you will automatically be postponed to the next division.

"Don't hit us, don't hit us," Green Hair continued to chant, and even joked: "Give us some strength, cousin!"

As long as you are not drawn into Group A, it is a good draw!
Ming Jing was not panicked. He just watched his cousin's actions and waited for the results to come out.

In the picture, my cousin opened the rubber ball in his hand, took out a small horizontal bar from it, and opened it to take a look at himself first.

Mingjing could clearly see that his cousin's expression changed.

Then Mingjing also had an idea in his mind.

The horizontal bar flips over, and JDG is displayed on the top!

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