This year's World Finals, for all participating teams, strength is the most important factor, but luck is also something that cannot be easily ignored.
And for this reason, today's players of various teams and League of Legends players around the world have already had a deeper and more intuitive experience through the group stage of the finals.
Luck is so important.
On some levels, luck may even be more important than strength.
Take a look at the group stage of this year's finals...
It was when the representatives of each team came to the stage to draw lots, and among the four groups that were divided, there was a group of choice like Group C, but there was also a dead group like Group D, which was very different from Group C.
You are lucky, it is like the third seed of LPL like Hayami, even if it is just a rookie dark horse team participating in the finals for the first time, but because there are wild cards and Thunder in the group assigned to the bottom of the sixteen teams Member, then even if Hayami's strength itself is not too outstanding, he can still easily and steadily advance from Group C to the quarterfinals.
Then look at the end of the three teams, BW, Crown and Minx, who are also the rookie dark horse teams—
Not to mention that the first two teams were eliminated from the tournament, but at least if they were in the situation of changing to the fast water team, it would have been a guaranteed win if they came to Group C and wanted to advance to the qualifying.
Not to mention the Minx team, even as a rookie, their real strength is enough to compete with other top veteran teams. As a result, because they were assigned to Group D, they fell directly with a dismal record of 1 win and 5 losses and were eliminated. .
The most powerful example proves that it is naturally the No. 1 seed assassin team in the LMS division of the Taiwan server.
This is the top giants that have reached the quarter-finals and even the finals many times in the previous finals...
This year is also due to luck.
In Group D, they were directly eliminated from the field.
Therefore, it is precisely because after the six-day group stage battles and a more intuitive and in-depth understanding of the factor of "luck", the group draw for the quarter-finals has made League of Legends players around the world even more excited. Become more nervous and expectant.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Manchester City time, it was already night in domestic time.
At this time, in the official live broadcast rooms of the major domestic online live broadcast platforms, hundreds of millions of netizens in the national service are already enthusiastically discussing the topic of the quarter-final draw grouping that will be discussed later.
To be fair - in the group stage this year, the draw luck of the three teams in their LPL division is generally very good.
Fast water has the best luck.
Although the second KG met the SSK team in Group A, the other two opponents in the same group were not as strong as them, and they were able to qualify.
Although the God team seems to have the worst luck in the death group, from another perspective, God-Hand of God has the strongest overall strength among the three teams in the LPL division, so God is in Group D, at least better than the other two. It's more appropriate for a brother team to come to this kind of death group.
So…
Since the group stage luck is ideal.
I just hope that the next eight knockout rounds will continue to maintain this luck.
The bullet screens in the live broadcast room are densely filled with floating screens. Generally speaking, the attitudes and opinions of all the national server players and netizens can be extracted uniformly—
Nothing else to say.
First of all, the ideal situation is definitely that the three LPL teams in the quarter-finals group do not collide with each other.
Because if this happens, it will be internal friction.
Although this can at least ensure a place to advance to the semi-finals to some extent, but the ambitions of netizens in the national server are already more than that:
Damn, our LPL is so awesome this year, why are we so cautious and conservative
The most perfect expectation is that the three LPL players of their national service will be staggered in the quarter-finals, and then they will be able to defeat their opponents and advance to the quarter-finals!
"Damn, if this is the case, we will have three places for the top four this year!"
Some netizens of national clothes players couldn't help but glisten with excitement at this possibility.
So the eyes of more national server players started to light up immediately.
Depend on.
If so...
Awesome!
You know, just the fact that the top eight LPL in this year's finals occupies three seats is already a historical breakthrough and record for the LPL division.
And if they can really go a step further and occupy three places in the top four in the quarterfinals, it is almost equivalent to directly locking a place in the finals, even putting aside conventional mathematical logic , Is this equivalent to this year's World Championship trophy already in the possession of their LPL division
Once such an idea arises, it will immediately make the hearts of the majority of national service players fiery.
Of course, some people cautiously put forward different rebuttal views on the barrage:
"Don't think too beautiful."
"This is the quarterfinals, and none of the other teams are bad."
"And if it's true that the three LPLs happen to be grouped in a staggered way, doesn't that mean that the chance of encountering SSK will increase?"
indeed so.
If the three LPL teams are staggered in the quarter-finals, then each will have to face one of the other five teams. As for the probability of encountering the strongest team in the world... It will reach three out of five. , that is, sixty percent.
The barrage was quiet for a moment.
But immediately someone retorted:
"Don't be afraid when you meet SSK."
"This year's SSK is not like the previous years. In the group stage, we can see their state of play. In fact, it's just like that. Even KG's two games almost had a chance to win."
"Even if the top eight meet, the outcome is really not guaranteed, right?"
This reasoning was quickly supported by more people.
And so...
The emotions in people's hearts became hotter and hotter.
Because if even the most terrifying big boss in the past, the world's strongest SSK team is no longer a threat, then this year's finals, it seems that there is really nothing that can stop their progress in the LPL division. !
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The group draw ceremony for the quarter-finals was launched under such much-anticipated expectations.
Inside Milton Coliseum.
With the eager attention of countless spectators in the audience, under the guidance of the official host, the respective captains of the eight teams and clubs came to the stage to draw lots, and the results of the draws were presented clearly and unmistakably through the close-up and long-range close-ups of a dozen cameras. On the big screen of the scene and on the screen of the online live broadcast.
It has also caught the eyes of millions of players and audiences around the world.
First group.
God-Hand of God vs. MLG team.
Second Group.
Team KG vs Team Fate.
The third group.
Team SSK played against Team Season.
Fourth group.
Team Hayami vs Team Legend.
When the lottery was settled, the eight captains of the top eight teams stood side by side in front of the main stage of the gym with the results of the lottery, and the results of the battle groups behind them were displayed in a tree diagram.
The whole gym was silent.
On the front row of the auditorium, Zeng Rui's eyes couldn't help but light up:
"so… "
"It should be the most ideal situation, right?"
Lin Feng next to him touched his nose and nodded his approval:
"Um."
"Can hit."
At the same moment, the whole scene finally set off a panic and agitation.
And online, hundreds of millions of League of Legends gamers around the world are also completely boiling!
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