The municipal auditorium was still buzzing with people, and most of the audience did not leave, but stayed to watch the following lottery ceremony.
The North American host Riv and his partner walked to the center of the stage and raised the microphone before the hall gradually became quiet.
"After 11 days of fierce competition, sixteen teams from each division finally decided on the team that will advance to the knockout rounds," Riv's powerful voice echoed through the entire auditorium, "Let us welcome the representatives of the top teams from the four groups. !”
"They are Rox tiger, Royal Never Give Up, Invictus Gaming and SK Telecom Team 1!"
At the end, he even deliberately chanted the full name of SKT with a long tail, but this was also forced.
TSM, the last North American team in Group D, lost to EDG in the playoffs and ended up without any support in the quarterfinals. This means that all six European and American players were eliminated outside the quarterfinals.
CLG, the second seed in North America with some hope, was unexpectedly knocked down by the wild card ANX, and even the home of the North American audience was stolen.
As a world-renowned SKT, it has habitually become the adaptive home team for European and American audiences, constantly cheering and slapping the support sticks vigorously.
SKT's player representative is the only Li brother Wolf, and Rox Tiger's natural representative is Smeb, who is ranked first on the player list by Riot Games.
The two people couldn't see eye to eye at all. When they came to the stage, Chu Ge could still vaguely hear Wolf wanting Smeb to call him brother. Unfortunately, Song Jinghao also had a stubborn temper and didn't bother him at all.
The next four team representatives ranked second in the group, ANX, FW, SSG and EDG.
The audience in the audience glanced at it like this, three LPL teams, three LCK teams, and then interspersed with a crooked team, and the last one was a wild card.
The seven Asian teams made the North American audience feel a little hot in the face, compared to last year's global finals held in France.
EU is really greater than NA.
However, they also know that in FPS games, European and American teams have an absolute advantage. After all, shooting starts from childhood, and being strong is normal.
But in the field of MOBA games, Asians are far ahead.
Cuvee looks a little sad.
In the past two days, public opinion in the Korean Open has been clearing them up. As a team from the first division, they can only be ranked second in the group. It is simply an embarrassment to the LCK.
The more important thing is that there is no mythical equipment [Holy Separatist] yet, otherwise LCK fans and viewers would hate to have a wave of justice cut every minute.
Who is SSG? Not familiar!
Under the words of the two North American hosts, after the representatives of the eight teams who came to participate in the lottery ceremony arrived, the guests of the lottery also appeared one after another.
The first guest is Wildturtle, an ancient AD player from Canada. He made his debut when Reginald, the orangutan captain, was still playing mid lane for TSM.
Until this year, he was replaced by his senior brother in the starting position.
Captain Orangutan is one of the earliest professional LOL players. He started his career in Season 1. Together with the first-generation TSM members, he completely dominated the early North American League of Legends professional games. This also made TSM the world's top player. Popular Super Sentai.
They created the origins of North American cults.
Seeing Brother Yegui coming on stage with a smile on his face, Tabe in the background couldn't help but laugh.
Brother Yegui just debuted relatively early, but his career resume is actually not very impressive. However, when TSM played against LGD last year, he used a hammer to smash the Tianling Gai of Imp skateboard shoes, which made LPL audiences remember him completely.
"Fortunately, this guy was not in our group last year," the child Youshen also noticed the assistant's smile and sighed, "otherwise, these three guys with the title of Imp would have become my children."
Be reasonable.
The three teams participating in S5, the incredible level of coaching staff of LGD and IG are actually about the same. Maybe these jokes can really be transferred to IG.
"I'm not convinced!"
Zhi Zhi put down his phone and shouted quickly, "I have never been afraid of anyone in my career, and Huni is one of them. If I really encounter TSM, just watch how I deal with them and it will be over!"
"Huh!"
Baolan was a little surprised, "Liu Zhihao, why are you here? Didn't you go to the west coast with PDD and the others to watch the sunrise in reverse?"
There is really nothing to do as an emergency substitute.
He is not needed for team training. He has nothing to do with the training team every day. He might as well go looking for the beach in GTA5 with PDD and the others.
Maybe you can BABA up, down, left, and right, adjust some equipment, and become a five-star citizen.
Even on IG's promotional poster for the expedition, Zz1tai's Beijing lady's makeup photo didn't even appear, and Kid didn't even have a card.
She couldn't bear to lose face and simply used weak means to shut up Baolan, but the result was very surprising.
The seemingly more muscular posture was unable to control Wang Liuyi, who was as skinny as a monkey. He easily broke free with three strokes, five divisions and two strokes.
"Tsk!"
Bao Lan's face was full of disdain, "Brother Zhihao, it's been almost a month since you came to the United States. Why haven't your body recovered yet?"
"You boy"
His face was a little red, but he had no strength to hold him back.
"Okay, brothers," Zhu Songge smiled and waved his hand, signaling for them to quiet down, "Let's see what our opponents are like behind us. I hope there won't be a civil war!"
The draw ceremony for the top eight on the TV screen has officially begun.
Before the draw, Riv read out the rules of the draw to the TV sets and live fans to clarify the rules for grouping.
The eight teams will be divided into upper and lower halves, and they will compete in Bo5. The winner will advance to the top 4 and compete with the winner of the same half in the semi-finals.
The team with the first place in the group will not meet, but will be allocated with the team with the second place in the group.
According to the principle of avoidance in the same group, teams that qualify in the same group will not be assigned to the same half zone and will only meet again in the finals.
There are two black square tables in front of Brother Yegui. In front of the square tables are the card pool numbers of 'Pool1' and 'Pool2'. On the surface of the square table are two transparent glass tanks, with four inside. Gray ball.
Under everyone's gaze, Brother Yegui, who was wearing a blue shirt, slowly stretched his arm into the glass jar, stirred for a moment and took out a gray ball in the No. 1 card pool.
Slowly unfold the ribbon inside.
SKT!
The audience below the stage cheered again.
Then he took out the second one in the same way, twisted it open and took out the ribbon, revealing RNG's black and gold team logo.
The teams in the top half are SKT and RNG.
"It's over," Prince Ning said with astonishment on his face and patted his mouth, "The pigeon's crow's mouth really got it right. If we successfully compete in the quarterfinals, we will really fight ROX!"
Wang Cheng had a dark face and crushed the burger in his hand, as if to vent his anger, "It's okay to beat SKT, why do we have to beat ROX!"
They had many training matches with the Tigers, but the final results were not ideal. They lost more than they won, and life and death in a head-on confrontation was unpredictable.
no way.
The strength of Rox Tiger's top, jungle, and midfield players is comparable to that of IG. Even King Ning is often suppressed by Xiao Peanut, and Chu Ge is also unable to open up the situation in the top lane.
Although Kuro is slightly inferior, he was only defeated by Faker in the LCK. Rookie's current state is almost the same as him, and has not yet reached the peak state like S8.
In other words, IG's midfielder and jungler cannot open up the situation.
Baolan and Wuxx in the bottom lane couldn't take any advantage against the two veterans Xuan Ming who had many years of cooperation experience, and even the handling of team battles in the middle and late stages was slightly inferior.
What Wang Cheng said is what Tabe is thinking now.
They would rather face SKT now than face ROX.
Then IG was assigned to Group C in the lower half, while ROX was assigned to Group D.
The Yegui brother pouting on the field also took advantage of the situation and came to the No. 2 seed pool. Anyway, the North American home team was eliminated, and it had little to do with whoever advanced.
The first team drawn was EDG!
Ming Kai's face was calm, and he couldn't see any change in his mood.
Now there are only two teams left, either playing RNG or ROX, it doesn't really matter.
If he plays RNG, he will really die laughing.
In the World Championship, he was finally able to break through the curse of the quarterfinals.
And even if they are playing Rox Tiger, it is not a shame for the No. 2 seed to lose to the LCK No. 1 seed. Anyway, everything that should be lost was lost in the group stage.
The worst case scenario is that I will continue to be ridiculed by words like "Trash Mingkai, Zi Zi Ba Hua, top eight every year" and the like.
Riot China and Banana Project are now also considering creating a new god. It just so happens that he, the top eight player in the old era, should step down and take a good rest starting next year.
The smiling face of the bearded Russian brother wearing a black sweatshirt and pigtails dropped instantly, as if he wanted to take Brother Ye Turtle's hand and feed it to his pet black bear!
Although they defeated Rox in the group stage, they still felt scared when facing the double champion SKT.
Rox Tiger prefers to take the initiative to attack in the early and mid-term, playing very proactively. The advantage of doing so is undoubtedly that it will speed up the pace of the game and quickly accumulate advantages in a short period of time.
But the problem with this is also obvious.
Taking the initiative to attack also means that there will be a lower fault tolerance rate. If the opponent seizes the slightest opportunity, it is likely to lose the rhythm of controlling the situation.
When ANX defeated Rox Tiger, they used unique tricks like Ice Bird to successfully contain the Tigers' offense and win.
But SKT is different.
Like SSG, their offensive rhythm in the early stage is not intensive. They mainly rely on operations during the line change period and the middle and late stages to win the game through comebacks.
It's a pity to say.
Among the teams in major competitions around the world, SKT is definitely in a unique league when it comes to mid- to late-game comebacks and operational capabilities.
ANX would rather play IG than SKT. After all, their style is somewhat similar to the Tigers, and they can at least learn from the experience of the group stage.
At this time, he had to shake hands with Wolf in the center of the stage, but the strength was a little too strong, and the only one was Brother Li who was obviously holding his breath.
Immediately afterwards, the lottery continues, and this lottery will determine the top eight opponents for RNG.
Pulled out FW.
But the problem arises at this time. FW and RNG are in the same group. They cannot meet before the finals, so according to the rules, they will fall to the bottom half.
After escaping RNG, I met IG!
Chu Ge smiled.
50% is because he was not given a chance for civil war, and the other 50% is the respect given to the factory director for playing 4396 against Little Peanut.
The horse stepped on the flying arrow, 4396 Chu Ge felt that he could take advantage of Mingkai again, but it was a pity that there was a time limit for triggering the famous stalk.
Otherwise, the proficiency of the two heroes would not be great!
What is supposed to come will still come.
Chu Ge and Karsa walked from the left and right sides of the stage to the middle to shake hands. He could clearly feel that there was a bitter smile on Pizza's face.
When the two teams were drawn together, it was obviously FW who felt uncomfortable.
They finally drew a weak Group B, but in the quarterfinals they met the dark horse IG who had won the group stage.
It can be called an epic level of difficulty!
Then the remaining groups came out quickly, and the eliminated teams were finally confirmed.
First half: SKT vs. ANX, RNG vs. SSG
Lower half: IG vs. FW, ROX vs. EDG
Paenut was a little stunned at the back of the stage, and then laughed wildly at Kuro, "Finally I can meet my idol on the BO5 stage!"
Kuro burst out laughing.
Ever since the Brazilian jungler publicly stated in an interview that he was a fan of the factory director and then kicked him out with Lee Sin, the words "I am a fan" and "You are my idol" have become memes.
Peanut also publicly stated on Twitter that he is a fan of ClearLove, and it is really a good experience to be able to compete with idols now.
Moreover
After watching the group stage, everyone knows that EDG is in extremely bad shape now, and almost broke General Pawn's waist. It is a complete anti-version team.
Can the mid lane vampire be used?
Isn't this a game that is won solely by the player's personal strength?
The group stage is so long, and they haven't even scratched the surface of the version. How do they expect to explore the version in just a few days after the group stage and the start of the quarterfinals?
Very blue and spicy!
"Ah, this." Changmao was a little disbelieving in the LPL commentary box, "If IG's script finally wins the championship, it will have a lot of gold content!"
EDG is generally not optimistic today.
But as the LPL commentator, Changmao must speak to his team, "But if EDG can also win against ROX and fight a civil war in the semi-finals, then we will be sent to the finals!"
Su Xiaoyan was silent for a moment.
He has watched IG grow up to now. She is not too worried about facing Flash Wolf, but is worried about the subsequent games.
If IG wants to win the championship.
You have to defeat ROX, and then defeat a certain LCK team in the top half. Who arranged this script!
When Chu Ge returned to the lounge backstage.
The team members obviously looked a bit unhappy. It was obvious that they did not draw a good lottery this time.
Forget about the FW of the top eight.
But after all, he is also the No. 1 seed from the LMS division. Compared with other No. 2 teams, it is still a little difficult, but this does not mean that it cannot be played!
they want to win
Definitely consider every next opponent!
First, they double-kill SSG in the group stage, then they play Rox in the semi-finals, and finally they meet SKT in the finals, right? If he wins the championship, the gold content will tear Krdog’s mouth apart!
But the deal is already done, we can’t draw lots again!
After the lottery is over, the sixteen teams that came to San Francisco will also choose various means of transportation to return to the club. Three North American teams just gathered together a bus to go back as a team.
For the teams that advance, they will go to their next stop!
Chicago!
(End of chapter)
