TS didn't watch all the matches in the qualifiers, and only picked a few popular teams to watch, including the games of GGX.
The state of GGX has obviously not adjusted well, it is no different from the situation when they played in the summer finals, but the finalists are to select 4 teams out of 12 teams, and the strength of the wild card team this year seems to be somewhat inexhaustible Satisfactory, so GGX still successfully reached the global finals.
Today, everyone is watching the rebroadcast of the game while having dinner.
"What is GGX playing here?" Xiaoroubao ate rice cakes, "It's useless to get in in this state, I guess they won't make it to the knockout round."
"I also think that fortunately, the games are BO1 double round-robin points matches. If it's BO3 or BO5, GGX will probably overturn." Brother Hu said.
"You guys are taking it easy." Brother Yang said, "The lottery will be drawn the day after tomorrow for the group stage. How about the tension?"
Mu Wanwan took the mango that Pei Lu peeled, took a big bite, and mumbled, "I'm so nervous... the mango is so sweet."
Brother Yang: "..."
The mangoes were specially shipped from China by the sponsor's father. Although they are small in size, they are sweet, but the skin is too thin, which is very difficult to peel.
"Don't eat this after eating." Pei Lu said, "It's easy to get angry."
Mu Wanwan took another bite: "Excuse me, you just don't want to peel it off for me."
Pei Lu didn't speak, picked up another one silently, and peeled it slowly.
In fact, to be honest, for the lottery session, because the distribution method has been modified, everyone is not too nervous.
There are a total of sixteen shortlisted teams, divided into four groups, and the first-seeded teams in each theater will be divided into four groups, so they will not collide with YSP or HL.
On the day of the lottery draw, more than a dozen teams sat at the front desk of the competition venue one after another—this time the lottery ceremony was only broadcast live, with no audience.
"Who wants to go up and draw lots?" Brother Yang asked.
"I won't go." Little Roubao shook his head frantically, "I bought lottery tickets for two years before, and I never won five yuan."
Brother Hu snorted and laughed: "Fuck, then you are really unlucky bro... I won't go either, you guys forgot the big gift bag from the game last time, I didn't draw 10,000 yuan for my brother to get Long Xia skin… "
Mu Wanwan: "I won't go, every time Nuan Nuan draws a lottery, I will always get gold coins."
"Speaking of this." Mu Mu looked sideways, "The Long Xia in the small road costs fifty yuan, right?"
In the end, Pei Lu was pushed onto the stage without even saying a word.
Lin Shan was sent by MA, and Secret was sent by YSP. The players on the stage stood in a row, and Pei Lu was arranged to stand with Secret.
Secret looked at Pei Lu a few more times.
He watched the finals of the LPL Summer Games, and heard the shots that the female player fired at him from across the air. Unfortunately, due to time allocation problems when taking promotional photos, he never took time to meet the female player. Let's talk a few words.
In fact, he doesn't remember the game against TS very clearly. After all, TS was really weak at the time, not only because of coordination problems, but also with many loopholes in operation. But after watching the video of the summer game, he felt I am very interested in this team.
There was no conversation between the team members, and it was the host who was speaking.
When it was Pei Lu's turn, he stepped forward slowly, drew out the ball, and there was a big B on it—TS was assigned to Group B.
In the end, the results of the draw came out. Also in Group B were teams from Southeast Asia, North America and Japan.
TS fans can't wait to jump three feet high when they know it - except for the North American team, the remaining two teams are not very good. As long as they don't make mistakes and play steadily, their teams will surely enter the knockout round!
It's a pity that one family is happy and the other is sad. While TS fans are so happy that they can't wait to open champagne, MA and GGX are simply covered by dark clouds.
"Wow, MA and GGX are too miserable." Sitting under the stage, Xiao Roubao couldn't help but sigh after seeing the newly decided grouping list on the big screen, "GGX is fine, what did MA do wrong? Entering this death group? There is already one less ADC... "
On the grouping form, MA is in Group A, and there are three big letters on the top—YSP.
GGX is in Group D with THK and HL on their heads.
"Actually, there are only four groups." Mu Wanwan said, "In addition, the same competition area will not be in the same group... so someone is destined to face YSP and THK."
Who knew that luck was so bad that both of them just collided.
Brother Yang nodded: "The worst thing is GGX, a group can have two teams shortlisted, MA still has a chance to qualify with YSP, and GGX probably has to compete with HL, and HL has been very strong recently... You all lost in the training game Give them a hand."
"That was an accident!" Little Roubao said immediately.
Brother Hu nodded again and again: "If you hadn't been 'accidentally' caught and killed three times, we would have won."
Little Roubao: "Shut up."
Everyone in the audience was quiet, and it could be seen that they were all very nervous. Only TS was active on a daily basis, which attracted the attention of many teams.
They sat on the right side of the front of the venue, with THK on the left and MA on the right. Both teams were surprisingly quiet.
After the results of the lottery came out, the host was still talking on stage, and by the way, he dragged all the team members away, forcing them to speak for a while.
The contestants come from all over the world and speak different languages. Even interesting speeches will always seem meaningless after being translated.
Mu Wanwan crossed her legs and played with her mobile phone.
Lin Jiu and her mother sent her a message. She was too sleepy after the training match last night. She went back to her room and slept on the sofa all night without taking a shower. Now her whole body is still hurting. After taking a quick shower in the morning, I was caught to draw lots, and now I have time to reply to messages.
The herdsman was at work and couldn't reply in time, but Lin Jiumiao came back.
[Lin Jiu: Sister, buy me some Korean cosmetics, it's cheaper than domestic ones.]
[Those who play games, do not purchase on behalf of others: OK, send me the list.]
[Lin Jiu: ... I just saw your WeChat name now, forget it... You should play hard.]
[If you play the game, don’t buy it on your behalf: It’s okay, I’ll come to play instead, you sort out the list and send it to me, and I’ll buy it for you after the game, but I’m going to play in the finals, so I may not return home until later :)]
[Lin Jiu: Very confident, I like it. [picture]]
Mu Wanwan opened the list and saw that there were quite a lot of things, and it might take a long time to shop around, so she just happened to be able to drop by for a stroll.
[Lin Jiu: How about South Korea? Is it fun? Is the food good or not?]
[For those who play games, don’t buy on behalf of others: How can I have time to play... I don’t like to eat things anyway, I eat bibimbap, kimchi, and rice cakes every day, and I almost vomit. We've all been eating instant noodles recently. Do you want to come to Korea to play? I can get you a ticket to the finals.]
[Lin Jiu: No, no money. I just finished sending money to my family, and now I am destitute, and I have trouble with visas and so on.]
[For those who play games, don't buy on behalf of others: that's fine. It's okay, I'll take care of you when I go back.]
Brother Yang poked his head out: "Stop playing with your mobile phone. The director has scanned several shots here. Every time you are playing with your mobile phone, is there any treasure in your mobile phone? Worse than your boyfriend on stage." nice?"
"..." Mu Wanwan silently put away her phone.
Just as I was about to obediently listen to the interview, I felt someone pat me on the shoulder.
Sitting next to her was a small, skinny boy who looked a bit like a monkey.
"Hi!" Monkey's English is obviously not very good. He patted himself on the chest and introduced himself, "YUYI!"
Mu Wanwan recognized it instantly—the one who crazily targeted Xiao Roubao in the previous training match, the jungler YUYI of the THK team.
Although they played frequent training games during this period, they almost never played against Korean teams. Brother Yang went to make two appointments, but was pushed by the other party, so he didn't bother himself anymore, so they and THK this time It's the first time we meet face to face.
Mu Wanwan shook hands with him, then patted the little meat bun, and called out, "Bun."
Little Roubao turned his head in doubt: "What's wrong?"
"It's time for revenge."
Little Roubao: "..."
In the end, Xiaoroubao forced her to change places, and then, relying on his superb communication skills, he used the mobile phone translation software to chat with YUYI even when the language barrier and no translation were available. After returning to the hotel, go to his room to find him, and you must try the old godmother he brought all the way.
Mu Wanwan was amazed: "It's a waste of your level of communication to play e-sports. In ancient times, you would definitely be a great lobbyist."
"Thank you, thank you." Little Roubao clasped his fists.
Pei Lu was not put down by the host until the end.
It was just a simple lottery ceremony, which lasted for more than an hour.
After all the sessions were over, when Mu Wanwan got up and was about to leave, she heard a small quarrel coming from the right.
Because she was speaking in Korean, she didn't understand it very well, so she glanced over there and saw that it was the members of MA and YSP who were speaking, and the tone seemed not very friendly.
Pei Lu picked up her peripheral bag: "Let's go."
"What did they say?"
Pei Lu listened to the whole process, and his expression was not too good-looking: "The old top laner of YSP asked Park Jae-joon if it was easy to use."
Is it useful...
What does this say.
After hearing the translation, the MA team members were naturally unhappy.
Lin Shan said: "Tell them that Jae Jun and us get along very well, and our cooperation is also very good, so that they don't have to worry and play their own well."
After finishing speaking, Xiao and the others couldn't help but want to say something, but they were finally dragged away by Brother Cheng.
After getting on the car for the return trip, Xiaoroubao found out what had just happened through Xiaorou, and immediately said, "This YSP is too much, isn't it provocative?"
"It's a bit too much. But YSP is probably quite angry." Brother Yang analyzed objectively, "After all, Park Jae-joon was trained by them alone. For YSP players, he is also a comrade-in-arms, but now because of his higher The price went to another team, although the contract expired, but there will always be some discomfort in my heart, and it is normal for young and energetic people to lose their temper."
"...Okay, what you said makes sense." After listening to Xiaoroubao, he thought about it in his heart, feeling a lot, and turned around without thinking much, "Xiaolu, if someone pays a higher price, please pay a higher price." You go to another team, will you go?"
Pei Lu shook his head: "I'm not short of money."
… Right.
"excuse me."
As soon as he turned around, Mu Wanwan straightened up suddenly, and patted his seat cushion: "Baozi, ask me."
Little Roubao said: "Will you go?"
"No." Mu Wanwan said, "My boyfriend is rich."
Little Roubao: "Get lost."
**
On the first day of the group stage, everyone put on new team uniforms, which were still simple and simple. There were not as many sponsored logos as other teams. Standing in the crowd was a breath of fresh air.
In the first four days of the group stage, each team had only one BO1 match per day, with one day off, and the other three days played against the other three teams in the group.
After that, I will play three consecutive BO1 games with the teams in the group within one day. At that time, I need to formulate tactics against different teams, which can be regarded as a test.
Backstage, they met GGX and MA, and Park Jae Joon also came, standing at the end of the line looking at his phone.
Today, MA faced YSP in the first game, and GGX faced HL. They were not very optimistic. Everyone looked heavy. Although the first game was against TS, all teams came to the waiting room early.
"In the first game, show off your momentum." Lin Shan couldn't help but said when he saw them.
Xiaoroubao gave him a high-five: "Yes, you too, kill YSP."
He turned his eyes and looked at Xu Hao next to him, "First kill a wave of Secret online."
Xu Hao smiled casually: "Try your best... If you don't win this team today, just retire."
TS is playing against the Japanese team CSM today. Japan is actually not very popular in the e-sports field. In addition, the environment and level are lagging behind in various aspects. In the League of Legends, if you leave your own country, basically no one cares about it. It is very rare for CSM to qualify from the play-in round once.
"What you said, you can't look down on others, maybe you have hidden some big tricks." Brother Cheng walked over, "Okay, hurry to the lounge."
Everyone rested for a while in the waiting room, and Mu Wanwan had just finished eating a candy when a staff member came to inform him to go on stage.
When the five entered the field, there were cheers immediately in the arena, all calling their team names.
"Are we all so popular in Korea?" Little Roubao said happily, "Let me see if there are any fans of mine."
Brother Hu said: "No, don't read it."
Mu Mu adjusted the equipment calmly: "It's not because our popularity is high, but because CSM's popularity is too low."
"Well, there are many Chinese people down there." Pei Lu said, "Hit hard."
Xiao Roubao glanced to the side, and after seeing the Japanese players, he couldn't help but say, "Wow, why are all the players on their team so thin?? I'm the top three..."
Mu Wanwan nodded: "It's too scary, they're all about the same as me... Will I look fat when I go to shake hands later?"
It's all about shaking hands, Pei Lu laughed and said, "No, you are in good shape."
The voice suddenly quieted down.
Brother Yang coughed lightly: "Don't chat, it's about to start."
Many gold-medal commentators have been arranged in China to go to Korea to accompany the players. Today they are explained by two old friends—commentary A and commentary B.
Commentator A said: "I hope TS can play a beautiful first game in the LPL!"
Commentator B asked: "Don't ask me which team has a higher winning percentage today?"
Commentator A: "Don't ask any more." When commenting in China, since they are all teams from their own divisions, everyone will try to be as unbiased as possible.
Foreign competitions are different. Every country has its own commentary, and naturally they want to help their own team speak.
... Especially the commentator A is still a joke.
"TS will definitely win this round—I say play better because I hope God Wan can get four or five kills or something, and play a good start first!"
Commentator B quickly made a frightened look: "It's blown, it's blown, be humble!"
In the first game, it was impossible to say that I was not nervous.
But when the game started, Mu Wanwan's heart instantly calmed down.
Five minutes later, everyone could see it from the BP - this CSM is just here to travel, okay
Galio, Xiaopao, and Fengnv, the three heroes with a very high winning rate in the LPL competition, were all put out by CSM! !
"My God... I can't tell whether this CSM looks down on us, or really hasn't studied the LPL." In the first game, he got his ace hero Galio, and Xiao Roubao felt a little dreamy.
At the beginning of the game, Mu Wanwan steered the cannon to the river intersection next to F6, just in time to see the policewoman and toad appearing on the opposite side.
Without even thinking about it, Mu Wanwan directly lit up an icon of the TS team...to show courtesy.
The icon of the TS team is a rough black body and white border calligraphy, which is very imposing and has a Chinese charm.
As soon as the icon was displayed, the barrage in the official live broadcast room in China exploded.
[TS rush! ! The first game must be won! ! !]
[Wan God remembers what you said! Be sure to bring the trophy back! !]
[When God Lu saw the icon, his smile was so pampering... May I ask if even single dogs don't have the right to watch the game now? QAQ]
[This commentary is so full of words, if I lose this game, will I be able to swim with TS and come back?]
[Didn't you say that TS won all the LPL games? Maybe I will lose to the Japanese team in a while... Then it will be funny!]
Twenty minutes into the game, all the comments from the sunspots in the barrage had disappeared without a trace.
Because the outer towers of CSM have been pushed away at this time, the head ratio has reached a terrible 16-0, and Xiaopao has taken ten heads by himself. He has already heard the Super God prompt two or three times.
In the 22nd minute, Xiaopao defeated CSM's base and won the first group match.
When they got up to shake hands, almost everyone in the audience shouted Mu Wanwan's name. The venue for the group stage was small, and the word "Wan Shen" almost lifted the roof.
Mu Wanwan remained expressionless, muttering, "It's over, it's over, God Xiaolu, I'm bloated, I think I can hit five with a hurricane now."
"Calm down, you can't do it." Pei Lu patted her head.
When holding the ADC of the CSM team, Mu Wanwan found that the opponent's eyes were shining brightly, and he couldn't see the sadness of losing the game at all, and kept repeating: "Suguoyi! Suguoyi!"
Mu Wanwan, the black hole of language, hesitated for a moment: "...Kangsa Hamida?"