LPL History

Chapter 225 Latin Dance Plans for the Long Term, Signing the Finalist Shocks Four States

[September 6th. WE.B narrowly defeated OMG 3-2, while Royal Club defeated LGD 3-1. WE.B and Royal Club advanced to the winners' bracket, while OMG and LGD entered the losers' bracket. In their match, OMG swept LGD 3-0. WE.B's team synergy clearly still has significant issues. Despite Tabe's meticulous planning, WE.B had a clear advantage in drafting and tactics, yet still lost two games. However, these synergy issues are actually not the real problem.]

September 7th. The first round of the winners' bracket saw WE.B face off against Royal Never Give Up. After my gentle criticism last night, WE.B displayed a completely new spirit today, defeating Royal Never Give Up 3-1. This means WE.B has successfully secured the second ticket to the World Championship.

On this day, the 60e (a term referring to fans of the WE.A. and WE.B.,) celebrated wildly. However, many netizens also commented that whether it's WE.A or WE.B, the one with the suffix is ​​definitely more impressive than the one without.

In the subsequent lower bracket final, OMG faced Royal Club, and OMG narrowly defeated Royal Club 3-2. OMG secured the third ticket to the World Championship, while Royal Club lost their last chance.

Seeing the puppy crying at the scene, netizens showed no sympathy. Instead, they dug up a screenshot of the puppy's Weibo post from before, where he said "It doesn't matter whether I go to the World Championship or not," implying that he really didn't need to go.

September 8th. My puppy called to confide in me and said he wanted to bathe with me again. Looking at the pitiful, vulnerable, and helpless puppy, I firmly refused him. I'm a boss now; how can I bathe with a commoner?

That evening, Ruofeng contacted me through Pei Le's connections, earnestly asking me to give him another chance, wanting the fully-formed old WE team to compete in the World Championship again, and even asked Caomei to plead on his behalf.

That stupid big-nosed idiot, why didn't he just sell his own pancakes and insist on joining the fun? But after experiencing the income from selling pancakes, the fact that he still wants to come back to the competition proves that he's not a bad person at heart.

But I'm not running a charity. With Big Nose's current skill level, wouldn't he just get wrecked by foreign teams at Worlds? I'll let Big Nose focus on selling pancakes, and I'll take good care of his teammates.

September 9th. Today is a good day to practice Latin dance, symbolizing longevity.

[September 12th. WE.B's training is progressing well; they were able to last 30 minutes against WE.A. Even without me playing, the score is about 40/60. There are still five days until the first stage of the World Championship starts, so we need to make the most of our training time. This World Championship is really stupid; they split the four groups into two sides during the group stage, with AB in Taiwan and CD in Singapore, and then the quarterfinals and finals in South Korea—they're treating us like donkeys.]

9 month 13 day.

Riot Games has announced the group stage draw for the S4 World Championship.

According to Riot Games' rules, the 16 teams participating in this World Championship will be divided into four groups to compete.

The top two teams from each of the four groups will advance to the quarterfinals.

The group stage was divided into four groups based on the number one seed from each region.

In other words, the top seeds from the four regions will not meet in the group stage.

According to the list released by Riot Games, the number one seed in Group A is the number one seed from the LPL, WE.A!

The other three teams in the same group as WE.A are NJWS, the third seed from the Korean region, LMQ, the third seed from the North American region, and FNC, the second seed from the European region.

The number one seed in Group B is SSB, the number one seed from the Korean region.

The other three teams in the same group as SSB are C9, the second seed from the North American region, and Kabum from the wildcard region!
To the dismay of LPL fans, OMG has also been placed in Group B, where they will face SSB, the number one seed from the Korean region, directly in the group stage.

Although Group B has a wildcard region, North America's C9 should not be underestimated.

For a time, netizens were filled with gloom regarding whether OMG could advance from the group stage.

The group assignments for WE.B are also not looking good.

Teams in Group C with WE.B are North America's number one seed TSM, Korea's SSW, and Europe's number three seed SK.

The group assignments immediately sparked heated discussions among netizens.

The three teams from the LPL will face three Korean teams directly in the group stage, which has generated a lot of excitement among fans.

However, this has also led many netizens to hold a pessimistic view. Among the three teams, apart from Group A, where WE.A is located, there is not much pressure for them to advance from the group stage. The opponents of WE.B and OMG in the group stage are very strong, which makes people worry about whether they can advance from the group stage.

Zhou Li didn't have many thoughts about the group stage draw.

In his view, although WE.B's group stage opponents include the formidable Samsung White, the other two teams are not too difficult for WE.B to defeat, and they can definitely secure second place in the group and advance.

Overall, the group assignments were quite interesting and fair.

LPL's number one seed will play against OGN's number three seed.

LPL's third seed will play against OGN's first seed.

Then the two second seeds started fighting each other.

However, for now, he still needs to focus on playing NJWS.

This veteran team defeated SKT in the OGN gauntlet to advance to the World Championship, preventing Faker, the champion of the previous World Championship, from even making it to the World Championship. They are truly guilty of a heinous crime!

With Riot Games announcing the group stage draw, top clubs around the world have begun to study their group stage opponents immediately.

Europe.

FNC Esports Club.

As one of the oldest and most prestigious teams in the European region, FNC once won the S1 World Championship.

However, in the subsequent S2 and S3 seasons, they did not achieve good results in the World Championship, and were therefore ridiculed by netizens for their only championship being a gift from Riot Games.

Even S1 is not recognized by netizens as having ever been held.

Perhaps to prove themselves, FNC performed exceptionally well in the spring season that year and won the league championship.

However, his form began to decline in the summer season, and he only managed to get the runner-up position before qualifying for the World Championship as the second seed.

It's worth mentioning that these FNC players can all be considered veterans.

The top laner's sister-in-law debuted in Season 1 and was a member of the runner-up team at that time.

The jungler, cyanide, is also a member of FNC's S1 championship team.

Mid laner xpeke is a legendary mid laner in Europe, famous worldwide for his Kassadin backdoor plays.

FNC was naturally already familiar with WE.A from the LPL.

After all, WE.A made a huge splash in the LPL throughout the summer split!

Within the league, from the summer regular season all the way to the finals, they never lost a single game, maintaining a terrifying winning streak.

However, when the FNC players learned that their opponent was WE.A, they didn't seem too worried; in fact, they were quite happy.

(End of this chapter)