After seeing the distribution of the 16 teams, Riot Games worked overtime that night to arrange the group stage schedule.
The opening match will be played by IG from Group B!
First, after all, the lck team is playing locally, and ig was last year's champion, so this grouping is normal.
October 10th came in a blink of an eye. ,
The Busan Convention and Exhibition Center in Haeundae is bustling with people, and the venue is full of people, all waiting for today’s opening game.
Although the number of fans of the Samsung team is not large, they are in their own territory after all, and ig has suppressed lck all year round.
Naturally, they have to take advantage of their home court to create a new mentality.
Li Nian sat backstage at the venue, quietly waiting for the next team's entrance ceremony.
At this moment, Vincent was like a verbose old lady, constantly wandering around the players of the three teams, explaining various times when to go on stage.
Especially ig, as last year's champions, they had a ceremony to return the trophy. As the player representative this time, Li Nian had to stand in accordance with the instructions of the staff.
Moreover, Li Nian seemed to be awake, giving Vincent the feeling that this guy was always going to cause some trouble.
At this moment, Emperor Pao Xiao on the stage has begun to torture the loudspeakers and the audience. Even through a wall, you can feel the backstage shaking.
"Welcome to the first day of the 2018 Global Finals, this is Busan, South Korea!"
His voice is not only resonant, but also very penetrating. "After the seven-day qualifying competition, we have met the elite teams from various competition regions, and we would like to thank them again for the wonderful performance they brought us."
"At the same time, I would also like to congratulate again the 16 teams that have reached the global finals. The competition will last for more than a month starting today!"
Emperor Baoxiao talked a lot, but Li Nian just thought that this guy was really noisy, and the host was really not as good as the Immortal Grip.
"Let us invite the participating teams to enter!"
"Kt from Group C!"
The two bottom lane combinations of Yangtuo and Mata are at the forefront. As the two most popular players in kt, their fans and audiences are very large.
Then as all the members of Group C appeared on the stage, other surrounding teams also left the backstage of the stage.
In the end, there were only five teammates left around Li Nian.
Chen Zebin also felt that his legs were a little shaky. After all, he had just started playing LPL and joined IG midway. But now he has become a substitute top laner, representing his team in the global finals.
Moreover, ig is still the finale among the 16 teams. Standing in the center of the other 15 teams, it will naturally become the focus of everyone's attention.
Who doesn’t feel nervous for the first time?
The Shiba Inu slapped Chen Zebin with his arm and chuckled, "Brother, what are you afraid of!"
Before Chen Zebin could answer, he heard the final sound of the two letters "ig" of "Pao Xiaodi", and the staff and Vincent were also reminding them to come on stage.
Li Nian stepped onto the stage slowly.
The other five followed closely behind him.
When ig, wearing a red uniform, walked onto the stage, its powerful aura instantly overwhelmed other teams, and a gold star under the team logo was still shining.
now......
Among the 16 teams present, only the predecessor SSW, the super ancient overlord, has the S championship title, and the others are all little Kalaba.
Now the overhead spotlights and spotlights of various colors tilted down, and a stage light shot out from the top of the stands and followed the footsteps of the ig players.
Many spectators who were watching the game suddenly discovered that Li Nian, who was walking at the front, could actually shine.
The audience cheered and screamed non-stop, and even many Korean spectators stood up to welcome last year's defending champions.
Li Nian took the summoner's trophy handed over by the staff and walked towards the eight stairs ahead one step at a time.
Below seven of the stairs are the icons of the S-League champion teams of each year, while the last ladder is dark and irrelevant, and the Summoner's Trophy stand is also placed here.
The cameraman's lens was firmly locked on the Summoner's Trophy and Li Nian's movements.
When the trophy was placed on the podium, the lights in the entire venue suddenly went dark, with only the Summoner's Trophy still shining.
Then as the lights at the back of the venue flashed, the flags of the sixteen teams hanging on the stage flashed one after another, and finally stayed on the ig and flags.
Emperor Pao Xiao took over the topic, "All teams are ready for training. The war in October has begun. Let's wait and see which team will win the Summoner's Trophy!"
The spotlights flickered again, making many contestants who walked off the stage feel dizzy.
Li Nian and four other teammates walked to today's game seat one after another, and as today's BP coach Mafa went to draw lots with Edgar to decide the right to choose the side.
Samsung’s team members also started game setup and debugging.
lpl's signal is connected to the commentary booth.
"Good evening, viewers, I am the commentator Zeyuan."
"Hello everyone, I am your friend remember, commentator remember!"
The two commentators for today's opening game are none other than Park Ze-won and Wang Lao'er, while Miller and Wawa are still on the road due to visa issues and will not be able to come over tomorrow.
"This is the scene of the global finals," Zeyuan said quickly, "What is about to begin is the ig team versus the third seed team of lck!"
"Every game in the group stage is important, especially the first three games. If we can win all or two games, it will be very beneficial to our ranking in the second round."
"It can only be said that whoever can win the first game in Group B will have the upper hand."
After all, TL and VIT in Group B are not too strong. Both Samsung and IG have the opportunity to compete for the No. 1 seed. Whoever can win the two teams in the double loop of the group stage will make the group stage much easier.
Since the schedule of the World Championship is not determined by the LPL director, everything is carried out by the Riot headquarters according to the standard schedule, so the advertising time of the two commentators this time is particularly short.
Zeyuan had to secretly learn Hua Shao's "I don't understand, but I think it's very powerful" ventriloquism to serve the fathers of the sponsors comfortably.
Remember to pick up the conversation and say, "Let's enter the BP screen of this game!"
With a sonorous sound, the bp screen appeared in front of everyone.
"In this game, ig has the priority to choose the side. They got the blue side with a higher winning rate. They disabled corejj's bull head first."
In the play-in stage.
The bull head used plays a very important role in their tactical design, and the most important thing is that corejj's bull head proficiency is very high.
In order to avoid trouble in his own bottom lane, Mafa specifically banned him first.
In today's version, since the top, middle and jungle are all offensive-oriented warrior heroes, there is no shortage of output in all lineups. On the contrary, the strong auxiliary heroes have gradually become a popular choice.
Alistar is almost perfect.
He did not hesitate to ban Rookie's Syndra.
After being strengthened in the 8.18 version, Ball Girl's numerical damage during the laning phase was ridiculously high. As a representative of two goals and one girl, coach Edgar Cui had experienced Rookie's laning intensity in the Asian Games.
In order to prevent Crown Brother from being hit in the middle, he must respect his first hand to prevent accidents.
"IG's second move was to ban Brother Crown's gangster hero Grasshopper, while geng once again blocked Galio in the mid lane."
In the last ban position of the first round, Mafa banned the withered signature Kennen. After all, top top laners including theshy could not guarantee that they would be able to take advantage of Cuvee's Kennen.
Although Kennen's priority as a top laner is not very high now, Mafa still decided to respect the hero pool of Yishou withered this little fat man.
Edgar hesitated for a long time in the last ban position.
He actually wanted to disable Rookie's Enchantress, but in that case IG's Green Steel Shadow would be released.
Leader An, who is good at controlling the map, may not be able to easily deal with Li Nian's attack. If it continues like last year, it will be completely over.
in particular.
In version 8.18, An’s best pig girl is now facing an epic weakening, which is a devastating blow to Samsung, which is good at operations.
There is no way, they are on the red side and don't have the right to choose, so they have to bite the bullet and release a certain hero.
After thinking for a moment, he finally blocked Qinggang Ying and decided to release LeBlanc.
"IG gave priority to taking out the Enchantress," Zeyuan analyzed. "It seems that they still have to work around the middle and jungle."
Xia Luo is still outside now.
If you want to take out the bottom lane combination first, then the strength of these two bottom lane heroes is pretty good.
But if this is the case.
The combination of Kai'Sa and Thresh should be given to the opponent.
Edgar hesitated for a long time and finally decided to take down Xayah and Thresh, and gave Luo to IG.
Baolan was visibly relieved when he saw the opponent's hero choice.
Recently, he has been studying and practicing Thresh diligently, but his data in ranked seems to be okay, but when it comes to training games, it is still not good.
Jack always felt like there was something wrong when he couldn't get a lantern.
Remember to continue to watch the hero selections of both sides: "IG will lock Luo down first and see if they can get the hero for Brother Nian first."
If the jungler is not selected in the first round, there is a high probability that Samsung will lock down the jungle hero in the third round. Then ig will face the choice of losing two strong jungle heroes in the second round ban position.
Mafa has a soft character. Last year, he became a well-deserved world champion coach because he listened to the players' opinions.
Now that Li Nian is still at his peak, he is naturally very obedient.
"Don't take it, I have heroes to deal with them."
Li Nian raised the corners of his mouth, his face full of confidence.
Under Jack's shouting, the third ig locked Jack's Kai'Sa.
The BP of the coaches of both sides is still being tested, and there has not been too fierce a battle.
The main thing is.
Coach Edgar is still a little confused.
He studied his old rival kkoma for a year, but in the first game of the World Championship, he directly changed to a BP coach.
Is it possible to let him hold last year's notebook and do this year's BP?
Obviously unlikely.
So coach Edgar simply followed the steps and dealt with the players directly without focusing on ig's tactical system.
"Samsung took the barrel." Zeyuan continued, "They banned Xin Zhao and Blind Sin in the last two ban positions."
"These two hands are very smart!"
Remember to nod and praise, "Now ig's mid laner is LeBlanc, but the popular hero in the current version, Yanque, can be combined with Enchantress."
The combination of midfielder and jungler is more in the form of ap+ad output.
If both the midfielder and the jungler choose a single output hero, then the opponent's midfielder only needs to produce mercury shoes or iron boots to deal with the opponent's damage.
The personality ratio is very high.
Therefore, Li Nian's Rock Bird does not need to be disabled at all, and it is impossible for ig to take it out.
IG placed the two top lane heroes Urgot and Sword Demon in the banned position, and then Samsung locked Sword Girl.
"This sword girl's hand is a bit like grabbing instead of banning," Zeyuan said with a smile. "You can also use the sword girl's swing to amplify the ter position advantage of the fifth hand."
Mafa, on the other hand, feels nothing.
He directly locked in Thain for his top laner to ensure the team's stability in the mid-to-late game.
"what would you like?"
Mafa asked Li Nian for the second time, but he did not propose a hero choice like KKoma did, but instead let the players make their own decisions.
Li Nian twisted his neck, and finally turned his head to look at Baolan during the World Championship broadcast.
"Get me a Juggernaut, please?"
"Who? Juggernaut?"
Baolan was a little surprised, "Brother Nian, don't be joking at this time! I didn't choose gems. The sword master must not be beaten to death by the hotel in the early stage!"
"Choose!"
Li Nian was certain of his choice.
Although Mafa also felt it was inappropriate, he believed in his team members.
When Master Yi's green multi-eyed helmet appears in the sapphire hero selection box and is locked.
The spectators in the surrounding stands exploded.
"Axi, you are looking down on us!"
"Juggernaut? You really think our Samsung is easy to bully, don't you?"
"I'm laughing so hard. I remember that Brother Nian used the Juggernaut when he made his debut on the World Championship stage last year. Is this celebrating something?"
The domestic barrage reached its climax one after another, and they were very puzzled by Li Nian's choice.
But now that the deal is done, we can't ask for a rematch.
Edgar's face was filled with ecstasy as he finally locked down Shen, his top lane hero, and handed the sword girl to Crown Brother.
Zeyuan looked at the lineups of both sides:
Blue square ig: top laner Sion, jungler Juggernaut, mid laner Enchantress, bottom lane Kai’Sa + Luo.
Red side: top laner Shen, jungler Wine Barrel, mid laner Dao Mei, bottom laner Xia + Thresh.
"If Leader An were in charge of the wine barrel, Brother Nian would probably be able to grow steadily," Zeyuan said worriedly, "But now we have Haru on the field, and his style is still more offensive!"
Since the second half of this summer split, Anbixin has subconsciously taken a back seat.
He can feel that he is out of his depth, and his current play style does not adapt to the current meta.
Especially after missing the second half of last year's S7 version, the current operational map control is no longer popular - exchanging jungle resources through vision to avoid head-on conflicts with the opponent in the early stage.
Wait until the middle and late stages to pick up the group.
But now the jungle is full of strong men. Qinggangying, Xin Zhao and the strong female Rock Bird have completely squeezed out the living space of the herbivorous junglers, including the prince, and other heroes.
Moreover, there is no longer only resource exchange and replacement in the wild area.
Whether it's the River Crab or the eight-minute Canyon Pioneer, Riot Force forces the team to play in a group fight, which makes it impossible for An Bixin to replace resources with peace of mind.
As long as the early experience river crab and the first purple garlic are taken down, the team will definitely be in a situation of being completely overwhelmed in the early stage.
Leader An was severely beaten in LCK this year, which caused Samsung's performance to plummet. If Edgar hadn't drawn cards in advance and got cards like Haru, Samsung might not even be able to enter the World Championship this year.
While the two commentators were chattering away, Summoner's Rift suddenly descended on the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center.
Signal sounds have filled every corner.
