Chapter 288 Group stage draw ceremony!
Su Mo's post about withdrawing from the top twenty players, continue to read below.
#I heard that KT was killing people indiscriminately in training matches. Is it true?
#It seems that Europe and the United States are quite strong this year. Some LPL teams were beaten by Europe and the United States in training matches.
#Who said that? The RNG training match situation was very good, Letme said it during the live broadcast.
#Have you heard that EDG has not gone to LCK yet and is still in China, while IG and RNG have already gone there.
#EDG Isn’t it inflated? If you don’t go now, others will have already started training.
Su Mo continued to read other posts and saw another interesting one, the ranking of team strength.
And it was issued by a professional e-sports organization. Of course, Su Mo didn't know these so-called professional organizations. He only knew that every time there was an international competition, they would issue some similar reports.
Su Mo clicked in and took a look.
There is a table here. On the left is the name of the team, and on the right is a numerical value, which can be regarded as combat power.
The number one ranking is EDG, with a combat power of 1653.
I don’t know how he calculated this value.
Second place KT, with a combat power of 1468.
So much difference?
This gap has exceeded 10%. It feels like the official has spent a lot of effort on poisonous milk EDG this time!
Third place, RNG, 1389
Fourth place, AFS, 1342.
Fifth place, FNC, 1326
Sixth place, IG, 1298
Su Mo feels a little baffled. IG is lower than AFS and is underestimated.
Su Mo took a look at the following comment:
Su Mo noticed that someone seemed to have not stood up yet, and felt that EDG should not be in front of KT.
This is also a strange thing.
After a while, everyone in EDG’s review was over. Abu found Subai and began to discuss tactics and routines.
In the next few days, everyone in EDG started training again, following the tactics developed by Su Mo and Abu.
As soon as the finals were about to begin, everyone in EDG got on the plane together and arrived at their destination after an hour's flight.
Leave the airport, get in the car and go to the hotel first.
In the car, Abu greeted: "By the way, I have joined a group. People from RNG and IG are in it. We can all contact and communicate together. Xiaomo, please scan the QR code to enter."
Su Mobian used his mobile phone to scan the QR code to join the group. The name of the group was 2018 Global Finals LPL.
As soon as we entered, the group became lively.
IG, Ning: "Isn't this Brother Mozi? Brother Mozi is awesome!"
RNG, UZI: "Brother Mozi has just arrived now? Where have you been so cool? I heard that you haven't trained?"
RNG, UZI me: "Brother Mozi, how should we play on the road in this version? Can you give me some advice?"
IG, Jackeylove: "Brother Mozi, leave KT to you, AFS to our IG, we will meet in the finals."
Su Mo responded in the group.
EDG, Mo: "Leave KT to IG, AFS to RNG. If GEN, I don't think they can make it to the quarterfinals, so don't worry about it. When you eliminate LCK, we EDG can pick up the slack."
Su Mo said this in the group, and the group immediately exploded!
RNG, XiaoHu: "Huh? GEN can't make it to the quarterfinals? It's impossible, is that true? Didn't they explode?"
RNG, Ming: "I think their fans will scold them to death. "
Abu: "Xiao Mo is joking, please don't mind."
Su Mo looked up and found that Abu was looking at him.
"Xiao Mo, don't talk nonsense. If this kind of thing spreads, it will definitely be on the news." Abu warned.
Su Mo smiled: "Now GEN is very good. This is not my fault."
The director smiled: "If you say that, I will help you spread it on the Internet."< br/>
Su Mo nodded repeatedly: "It's okay, I'm responsible for what I say, just go ahead and say it."
Seeing that Su Mo is so strong, everyone is a little doubtful. Is the third seed of LCK really that good?
When they arrived at the hotel, everyone in EDG got off the car and went straight to the hotel lobby.
Enter the hotel lobby and go to the front desk to complete the formalities.
The hall was quite lively. Su Mo saw two teams. They were all young people. They looked like professional players. They were carrying bags and luggage, but Su Mo didn't recognize anyone. They were probably players from the wild card competition.
The arrival of EDG people attracted the attention of others around. Su Mo heard someone whispering:
"That seems to be EDG, last year's champion, this year's MSI champion."
"Yes, Have you seen that tall handsome guy? He is last year's FMVP, Mo. "
"I feel like EDG has great hopes this year. They are also champions of MSI and Intercontinental Championships."
"I really want to take a photo with him, he won't mind."
The factory director suddenly came over: "Xiao Mo, what are you laughing at? What did you hear?"
Su Mo responded: "I heard someone saying that you are handsome, so I am very happy."
"Really?" The factory director subconsciously combed his hair.
Meiko couldn't hold back: "Do you believe what Brother Mozi said, or do you believe that I am the First Emperor of Qin?"
Abu stepped forward to complete the formalities. Su Mo looked left and right. Suddenly, a group of people came out of the elevator entrance next to them and walked towards this side.
The person walking in front was none other than a thin man, Deft! KT is currently starting ADC.
"Tianye, your old friend is here." Su Mo greeted.
"Huh?" Meiko was stunned, looked over, and saw Deft.
Deft was followed by other KT players, and they also noticed this.
After getting closer, Meiko took the initiative to go up and greet Deft, while Su Mo listened. According to Deft, they came here to greet some acquaintances, and the people from KT did not live in this hotel.
Not only KT, but the other two LCK participating teams also live in the training base. After all, it is more convenient for them to be in the same city not far away.
Su Mo glanced at lboy. Sure enough, lboy was embarrassed again and was playing with his phone crazily.
Soon, Abramovich completed the formalities, everyone in EDG said goodbye to KT, and then went directly upstairs to find their respective rooms.
Coming upstairs, Su Mo found his room, opened the door with his room card, and then started to pack his luggage.
Abu informed the group that they would gather in half an hour to explain the matter.
Su Mo sat on a chair to rest. Suddenly, his cell phone rang. When he opened it, he found the message in the group.
Luo Xin: "Brother Mo Zi, are you here? I heard on the Internet that you are already here?"
Su Mo responded: "We're here, at the hotel."
Luo Xin: "What's the room number? I'll come find you!"
Su Mo was stunned, what's going on?
Su Mo: "Why are you looking for me? Are you busy?"
Luo Xin: "I have nothing to do, so I came to play with you. Are you busy now? If there is something, forget it."
Rita: "Luo Xin, Brother Mo Zi has just arrived here. They must have other arrangements. Don't make any trouble first."
Him After half an hour, Su Mo walked out of the room to the training room. The door was open and he walked in. There were several computers inside, and Abu and the factory director were chatting.
Seeing Su Mo coming, Abu greeted: "Xiao Mo, come here, sit down."
Su Mo came over and sat down.
· Abu continued: "The factory and I are discussing the training plan, you come up with an idea."
· Su Mo responded: "Just follow what we have done before. Of course, we can play more training matches with European and American teams and learn some new routines."
· The factory director asked: "How is the jungle in this version? Which heroes are stronger."
Su Mo thought about it and replied: "It doesn't feel much different from the summer game. There aren't many changes in the jungle, at least in terms of heroes. Oh, Qinggangying can use more practice."
· Abu smiled: "Can Mingkai play Qinggang Shadow? You can't."
· The factory director rolled his eyes: "That's wrong of you, Abu, how can you undermine the confidence of your own players."
· Abu waved his hand: "My, mine, don't bother me. Mingkai.
Soon, everyone else from EDG came over. After everyone arrived, they all worked together to see how to train next.
After making a decision, Abu said: "It's getting late, we are all hungry. Let's eat something. Should we go out or buy it?"
The director of the factory responded: "It's too troublesome to go out to eat. You are not familiar with the place."
Abu said: "Then I will go out to see what delicious food there is and bring it back for you. You can start training first."
Everyone in EDG stood up and prepared to sit in front of the computer to start training.
Suddenly, there was movement at the door.
"Uzi, what are you doing here?"
"Manager Abu, do you have something to go out for? I'm here to make an appointment with you for a training match. Brother Mo Zi is here, he should be able to play."
Su Mo looked at the door and found Uzi standing at the door, talking to Abu.
During this period, EDG mainly played training matches with European, American and LCK teams. It had never played with IG or RNG. After all, they were opponents in the same division. They knew each other well and felt that there was no need to play.
UZI also noticed Su Molai, walked in, and greeted: "Brother Mo Zi, you are here too."
UZI." Su Mo greeted.
Suddenly, the factory director sitting next to Su Mo turned his chair and stared at UZI, full of vigilance.
UZI just glanced at the factory director and didn't even bother to say hello.
UZI continued: "Brother Mo Zi, are you free tonight? The trainer is going to fight."
Su Mo responded: "I can do it. You can fight if you want. It depends on how Abu arranges it."
UZI smiled: "You think it's okay, Abu will definitely not have any objections."
As soon as he said this, the factory director was unhappy: "What's the use of playing a training match with your RNG? I've tortured you for a year, including last year for two years."
UZI rolled his eyes at the factory director: "Brother Mozi and I made an appointment for a training match, and I'm not looking for you, why are you excited."
The director replied: "We have refused."
Meiko came over to be the peacemaker: "Calm down, calm down, we are comrades now."
"We can't meet each other before the quarter-finals. Let's make progress together and qualify together."
In the end, UZI chose to go to Abu and talked with Abu about the training match.
In the next few days, everyone at EDG was immersed in high-intensity training matches.
Immediately afterwards, the play-in rounds began. This time, the LPL did not need to enter the play-in rounds. Instead, the third seed GEN of the LCK needed to enter the play-in rounds.
This GEN team was killing everyone in the qualifying round and basically had no opponents.
This made everyone doubt Su Mo's judgment. After all, Su Mo said that GEN could not qualify for the group stage.
At the same time, the drawing ceremony for the group stage of the main stage began.
In the evening, everyone from EDG gathered in the training room to watch the lottery ceremony.
At this time, the host is introducing the basic rules of the lottery ceremony.
Those in the same division cannot appear in the same group.
At the same time, each group has one and only one No. 1 seed from the four major regions.
Of course, the so-called four major regions are not based on the size of the region, but based on the results of each region in the past year. Therefore, LMS replaced LCS as one of the four major regions.
After the host introduced the rules, the guests came on stage.
The factory director looked at Su Mo: "Hey, didn't they invite you to draw lots?"
Su Mo shook his head: "No, it seems that the rules have changed today. Players are no longer invited, but locals are arranged.
The guest went up and walked behind the No. 1 seed pool to start drawing lots. He took out a small ball and spread it out.
"FW!"
FW was drawn first, that is, in Group A.
The guests drew lots again and spread them out.
"EDG!"
Abu explained: "We are in Group B."
"KT!"
"FNC!"
The remaining two No. 1 seeds have also been determined.
Immediately afterwards, the guests walked behind the lottery machine with the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds next to it.
Take out a small ball and spread it out.
"AFS!"
Meiko smiled: "FW was assigned to AFS. I feel like they are going to stop in the group stage. AFS is not easy to deal with."
The factory director muttered: "I feel like if there is another strong team in this group, FW will really be hungry, and maybe it will stop at the top 16."
"TL!"
The voice of the host came, and the note in the hand of the lottery guest was the team logo of T'er L.
Meiko was stunned: "TL? They seem to be the No. 1 seed in the North American region. They are under a lot of pressure for us. The factory director shook his head: "I think it is a good thing. I would rather get the same score with Europe and the United States, rather than with the LCK team, which will easily reveal the trump card in advance."
The draw is still going on. After the second round, the third round begins.
This time, VIT was drawn into Group B.
VIT? Where did it come from? No impression. "The factory director muttered.
Abu explained: "The second seed in the LEC, their third seed is G2, and they are still in the playoffs."
The director nodded: "Oh, oh, I understand - no, G2 is the third seed in the LEC? They are still in the playoffs?"
The factory director suddenly felt something was wrong. In his impression, G2 should be ranked second among European and American teams.
Abu asked back: "Isn't that right? G2 is so good this year?"
Abu responded: "How to put it, if he comes to pull the gap, he can play well, if he says he doesn't pull the gap, he is the third seed, in short, it is difficult to evaluate."
Everyone in EDG was silent, the G2 team is indeed difficult to evaluate.
It feels like he can lose to any team, or he has a chance not to win against any team.
Immediately afterwards, RNG, as the second seed of the LPL, was drawn into Group D, the same group as FNC.
IG was drawn into Group C, and was in the same group as KT.
The fourth round consists of four teams that came up from the play-in round. Because the play-in round has not ended yet, the four places have not been determined, so they chose to use code names instead.
Just now that the qualifying rounds are over, there are teams like GEN among them, and it is still certain which team he will not be ranked into.
Abu greeted: "Now the grouping has been basically decided. Of the three opponents in our group, only the ones in the playoffs are undecided. But I still have to say, is this year's playoffs Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? There are G2, C9 and GEN. I think these three teams are all capable."
< br/> “Of course, because our team has TL, it can’t be C9. Then there are still three options. Two of them are relatively strong teams. The challenge is huge. Everyone needs to spend time and money to understand their opponents. The opponents that have been determined so far are VIT and TL. We can study TL’s word competition first.”
At this moment, Meiko suddenly said: "If, I mean, if, our group does not draw GEN, then it shouldn't be a team without LCK, then wouldn't there be no need to play the Gongba Battle?"
Abu muttered: "That's true, the Gongba Battle usually arranges local teams to compete against the popular ones. The highest, if there is no local team in our group, then it won’t be our turn.”
The director responded: “It’s just a play-in, no one can play well, it’s better to see how other teams play.”
Abu shook his head: "I'm afraid it's impossible. The group stage, especially the first round of the group stage, is basically testing and learning. We don't know much about the new version, so the playing style is more conservative and we can't see much."
Ning Tian's time has passed π, and the qualifying competition is over.
Then something embarrassing happened. Everyone in EDG stood up and watched the finals, and found that GEN was divided into Group B and EDG!
The director exclaimed:
"GEN? How come they are in a stable group with us?"
Meiko muttered: "Brother Mo Zi seemed to have said before that this GEN might stop at the top 16, is that true? Then we didn't miss it."
Su Mo responded: "Everything we missed is strength. However, our team still has a stable TL, and GEN is unstable and can beat TL, so it is very possible for them to stop at the top 16."
lbo y commented: "If GEN really stops at the top 16, I don't dare to think that their domestic public opinion will not be the same. It will probably explode! Completely explode!"
Abu greeted: "Now we have a new research goal, GEN."
"If I guess correctly, the official schedule will definitely not arrange for us and GEN to play in the opening battle. We must be prepared."
Sure enough, the next day, the schedule came out. In the first battle, EDG faced GEN!
For the next day, EDG's main focus will be on GEN to ensure nothing goes wrong.
Time has come to October, and the opening game of the group stage has begun!
At the scene of the word competition, in the EDG lounge, everyone in EDG was waiting for the word game to begin.
At this moment, the door of the lounge was pushed open, and Baolan walked in, saying hello to Abu first:
“Manager Abu.”
“Baolan,” Abu responded.
Then Baolan approached Meiko as π, and the two were talking and laughing.
The factory director then asked: "Baolan, have you played against KT? How did you feel about the training match?"
Baolan responded: "We didn't play against KT, and they didn't make a date."
The director was stunned: "No appointment? Why one?"
Baolan explained: "It's probably because we are in the same group, so I don't want to make an appointment, otherwise my tactics will be exposed."
The factory director nodded: "Oh, so that's the case, that's right."
Baolan looked at Su Mo: "Brother Mo Zi, you are starting a battle today. Are you going to give us a surprise?" "
Su Mo gave it a try: "You should know it now."
The factory director became suspicious: "You are here to help Theshy get information, Baolan."
Baolan denied: "Forget it, that arrogant guy Theshy, how could he let me do such a thing."
Suddenly, steady footsteps came from the door, and Rita and Luo Xin appeared at the door.
The two of them were dressed beautifully today. Luo Xin had a bun and a solid blue cheongsam, walking in a cute style.
Rita wore a tube top dress and took a more mature approach.
"Everyone, excuse me, can you come in?" Rita greeted.
With a smile on his face, Abu said: "Come in, you two are so beautiful."
Rita responded: "Today I have to commentate on the Chinese calligraphy competition, so be prepared and steady."
Luo Xin put his hands on his hips and asked: "Who do you think I look like in this outfit?"
The factory director spoke for the first time: "That one is called Chibi Maruko-chan, right."
"Pfft...—hahaha..." Meiko laughed like crazy.
Su Mo said: "This is called Chunli. Do you understand Chunli? She is a character in The King of Fighters."
Su Mo said: "Ah? So it's called Chunli?" Only then did the factory director react.
Rita walked up to Su Mo, stretched out her hand, pretending to have a microphone in her hand, and asked:
"Brother Mo Zi, EDG will face GEN today, are you ready?"
Su Mo replied: "Not yet, I'm ready to give up."
“Huh?” Everyone was stunned.
Abu said quickly: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he will definitely play in the last battle."
Rita continued to ask: "Then can we expect that Brother Mo will come up with new things in the industrial battle and let other teams and players learn from it? How will we play in this version?"
Su Mo said with a smile: "That's just a small test of my skills."
The factory director couldn't help but want to show off when he saw Su Mo showing off:
"We won't take out our new ones today. Understood -
However, Rita didn't seem to hear it and continued to ask Su Mo.
The factory director was embarrassed, so embarrassing! Meiko, standing next to her, laughed like crazy: "Hiroko, just pretend that you are not in the eyes of others, don't mess around."
【Get +40 torture points from the factory director. 】
After playing with Su Mo, Rita greeted: "Everyone, we are leaving first. I wish you a triumph."
Luo Xin said: "Brother Mo Zi, come on! You will win!"
The two left here.
· Baolan also stood up and said: "I'm going back to π first, Tianye, you are sure to win, you won,
· We should feel confident."
· M eiko smiled and said: "Don't worry, you won't win."
Soon, the time was almost up, and Abramovich stood up and said: "Get ready to play, come with energy, let the world see the strength of our stable LPL seed!"
"Ah!" The posture roared steadily, and people who didn't know thought he was about to transform.
Seeing other people looking over, he gestured and said, "I'll help you create the atmosphere."
At the word contest site, the auditorium was full of people, looking forward to it.
The audience held a variety of cards for each team, and the most common ones were not cheering for EDG
or KT, but the most related to Su Mo!
At the commentary box, three commentators were already in place, and the school commentator said: "Welcome to the audience friends to the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals!"
“Before the start of the final round, not all of the sixteen teams participating in the group stage will appear. The three representative teams of the LPL will be among them. Let us welcome them with the warmest applause!”