Chapter 239: Super abnormal captives grouped together! Captain of the European Dragonfly!
Chapter 239: Super abnormal captives grouped together! Captain of the European Dragonfly!
"Wow!! Brother Genshin, you are such a bad-mouthed person!"
One in three chance.
Obviously, among the four number one seeds, the European and American regions are definitely the less threatening opponents - if they are divided into the same half, it almost means "guaranteed admission to the semifinals."
In addition to expanding the number of participating teams, the most important change in this MSI is the "Swiss Round" competition system.
When you see this rule for the first time, you will probably be confused and feel it is extremely complicated.
To put it simply, it is actually to make each team "matched" with opponents with {same record} as much as possible, let the strong teams gradually collide and the weak teams gradually eliminated, to ensure that the competition is intense and fair.
即2-0只打2-0，1-1只打1-1，0-2只打0-2
Winners play against winners, losers play against losers.
Since there are only eight teams in the MSI Swiss round, it means that the team that reaches 2-0 first has already secured a place in the top four semi-finals, while the team that reaches 0-2 first will go home directly!
“If he’s so good at drawing, he might as well just draw from JD.com as well!” Xun complained angrily.
The reconstructed jungle environment after the MSI version update is obviously good news for the junglers of the two LPL teams. He also wants to play another game with Kanavi.
There is no regional isolation mechanism in this Swiss round, so everything is possible.
Beryl sipped on the pudding and said casually, "It's hard to say, maybe it's T1."
"I'm going to Genshin Brother, don't open your mouth yet!!"
The unnoticed No. 1 seed in the lower half has fallen, and now it’s time to draw the No. 2 seed pool, which will truly decide the confrontation situation.
Ah P stirred the second seed pool again and pulled out a black ball to determine V5's first round opponent.
All the second seed team members bent their upper bodies slightly forward.
Obviously, no one wants to enter the upper half of the group - because that means that no matter whether they win or lose in the first round, they will most likely have to fight against V5 and GEN, two favorites to win the championship!
If you lose in the first round, you will fall into the loser group. At the very least, you will have to play 1-2 more BO5 games than others, and you will also be the first to reach the 0 tolerance stage.
Ah P opened the black ball and saw the banner inside.
Once again, he showed that weird smile of "enjoying the fun without minding any trouble".
This time it seemed even more brilliant than before.
"So who is V5's first round opponent in this MSI?" the European host at the scene said in a long tone towards the banner: "It's T! One!"
"Ohhhhhhhhh The first match in the upper half is so intense! The No. 5 seed of the LPL region, V1, versus the No. seed of the LCK region, T!"
"Please invite Perkz to continue to draw the last team in the upper half."
The other three teams in Pool 2 all breathed a sigh of relief.
Also including JDG.
Although JDG naturally realized that this version was good news for them, they were not yet ready to "challenge V5" at this time.
Because the knife that cuts towards the middle is equally sharp for them!
Zuo Hand’s hero pool is not shallow, but almost all of his best heroes in the spring season have suffered heavy losses, so he must be somewhat uncomfortable at this moment.
The JDG coaching staff has been restructuring its tactics recently, but it has not yet been tested in actual combat. Having to face V5 directly in the first game is obviously not good news.
By comparison.
The mood swings of the V5 and T1 members were definitely quite dramatic.
Obviously, neither side expected that they would meet in the first game of the first round of the group stage.
But before they could react.
The appearance of the second signing pool shocked everyone again!
"JDG!! The last team in the upper half is JDG!!"
"The No. 1 seed of LCK, GEN.G, will also face the No. 2 seed from LPL!"
"And in this way, the four teams from the two divisions are gathered in the same half. Oh my God! This is so exciting!"
The European and American hosts were inexplicably excited.
Anyone in the live broadcast room who understands the rules would have realized something by now.
MSI adopts a grouping system of upper and lower half zones. The 0-1 losers of the two groups in the upper half zone will be automatically generated as opponents in the second round.
And if you remember the competition system, the team that first reaches a 0-2 record will directly achieve a double defeat and be eliminated on the spot!
this means.
The four teams are V5, T1, GEN, and JDG.
This time there will 100% be a team that will be eliminated in two rounds and go home 0-2, creating a shameful history that is no less than the level of the top 16 in the S League!
[What a perverted grouping! Is this a bit exciting?! ? ]
[You young guys are here to fight with bayonets, right? I have to give you a piece of fermented bean curd today! ]
[Turtle is a little bit afraid to think about it! Whoever loses will be blown up! 】
[It's true. V5 lost because the EDG concentration was too high, which directly triggered the old EDG's characteristic of sudden death in foreign battles. The pilot is fully responsible!
T1 lost because of his big fly. Why hasn't he retired yet? What on earth is Zhou Huo doing? Is Big O protein powder blocking his brain again? Aunt Yoshi is just a pure idiot!
GEN lost, it's just that Super Wei Dolan's little wreath is doing filial piety to LPL again! Does Waipao know who is the C?
JDG lost because 333 and Zuoshou were invisible again, and Kanpian and Chidi were fighting each other. It feels better to switch to BLG! 】
[I'm betting on T1! T1's MSI and S games are completely inversely proportional, looking forward to fermented bean curd! ]
[Anyway, V5 and GEN are unlikely, right? These two teams are in such good form in the league, it seems JDG is really in danger.]
No one has the heart to care about the European and American civil war rankings in the lower half, and all are discussing the extremely entertaining confrontation in the upper half.
Soon the results of the Swiss round of group matches came out————
Top half: V5 vs T1, GEN vs JDG
Lower half: G2 vs GG, MAD vs C9
The bearded European host made an impassioned speech: "A week of intense qualifying rounds has come to an end, and the final groupings for this Mid-Season Invitational have been announced! The Asian region and the European and American regions will be ranked in two halves and fight on their own!"
"And after two rounds of battles, the strongest players from the upper half, China and South Korea, will face off against the strongest players from the lower half, Europe and America!"
“Dear audience friends from all over the world, see you in two days!”
The result of the lottery is definitely a mixed bag of joy and sorrow.
Anyway, the players and spectators in the European and American regions must be all very happy.
When they looked at A P again at this time, they just wanted to shout to him, "Captain of European Dragonfly" is here!
This is simply a "shady" lottery luck!
The European and American regions have always been super rivals comparable to China and South Korea. Both regions regard each other as their biggest opponent - of course, this is mainly because of the obvious gap in strength between them and the other two regions.
European Riot officials are naturally very satisfied with this result.
This time, we are fighting on home soil and can see that our own region is almost guaranteed to advance to the semifinals, which is undoubtedly a great thing.
Maybe it's to highlight fairness.
European Riot, which was responsible for organizing the event, immediately did something personnel-oriented.
Taking into account the inevitable time difference impact on the players from the Chinese and Korean divisions as they have come from far away, the schedule specifically prioritizes the competition in the lower half that will start two days later.
After all, they know very well what the biggest highlight of this MSI is. Of course, they have to ensure that the "protagonists" are in the best condition!
The day after the draw.
After the opponents were confirmed, Ye Bo and his teammates went to the Olympic Park in London to rehearse the entrance and shoot a simple promotional video.
All eight teams that entered the win-lose group stage were present. When the recording was finished and they were about to leave.
The V5 players happened to meet the T1 players who had also finished filming.
Lee Sang-hyuk, the team leader, looked at Deft and then nodded.
Li Xianghe obviously didn't expect that this former classmate would return to LPL this year and even team up with that person.
Then he turned around and saw Ye Bo.
Lee Sang-hyuk, who always pays attention to his image in front of the camera, was trying to act cool and was just preparing to nod in the same way.
But I didn't expect that the other party would suddenly walk over with great strides of "social phobia"
"Hi~~ I didn't expect to meet you so soon, keep up the good work!"
"Come on. Come on."
Lee Sang-hyeok, who is truly "socially anxious", stuttered for a moment in public.
However, without the help of an offline translator, the communication between the two parties was very simple. They exchanged a few words and then left.
But teammates on both sides were obviously a little surprised.
After all, the two did not have much public communication, with the last time being a live broadcast a year ago. Their teammates didn’t know why the two looked quite familiar with each other.
The other four members of T1 just watched V5 leave.
There seemed to be endless flames of war burning in his eyes.
Compared to V5, the T1 players obviously want to defeat the opponent more - after all, there are four people in the V5 team who defeated them last year.
"Brother Xianghe! We will definitely win this time!" Keira, who didn't understand English very well, didn't know what the other party had just said, but just spoke very confidently.
"Minxi is right. Watch how I destroy their bottom lane!" Aunt Yoxi seemed very confident as well.
However, none of the three, Kamikaze, Nakano, said anything.
They naturally also studied V5's games, and the mid and jungle players were under the most pressure.
Oner is not as confident as the bottom lane duo.
Zeus, like Lee Sang-hyuk, did not look at his opponent, but focused on the person surrounded by his teammates.
Two days later.
The Swiss round officially begins.
The first G2 vs. GG European and American confrontation, the two sides already have countless ties, and the game actually produced a lot of episodes
First of all, the two sides have a closer understanding of the version.
In the first game, the mid laners of both sides unexpectedly chose the strange matchup of [Titan Mid Lane] vs. [Quisanti Mid Lane]!
This is their interpretation of this MSI version.
Considering the benefits of jungle cores in this version, it seems to be a common understanding in European and American regions that the mid laner chooses a hero with full functionality.
But what’s quite interesting is that as soon as Caps, who chose Quesanti as the mid laner, entered the game and came to the middle lane, he started flashing the [V5] team logo towards the opposite side!
What’s even more interesting is that an expression with the team logo immediately appeared above the opponent’s mid laner’s head—and it was the [T1] team logo!
Caps was laughing wildly in the live camera. Since coming to G2, he seemed to be assimilated by this lively team and became more and more abstract.
It is normal for GG's mid laner Gori to light up the T1 team logo.
Because Gori is a former T1 member, he was a trainee at SKT in 18, and is Fisher's immediate senior. Even their careers overlapped, and he went to EDG in 20 as a midfielder substitute.
The domestic live broadcast commentators all laughed when they saw this scene.
[You are all praying to the gods, right? 】
[Xiao Ma was madly taught a lesson by Master Ye in last year's S game. This year, he honestly converted to a sect. Is it not too much to ask for a god? 】
[You know what? GG's mid laner turned out to be Feifei's substitute. They are indeed related! ]
[That's it, GG is already GG~~~ The god that Xiaomao invited is the orthodox God of Quesanti. Damn, can this god play Titan? 】
Proxy Wars
[I don't understand so I ask, I didn't watch the qualifying round, what the hell is Titan mid and Stoneman top? 】
It seems like what the barrage said hit the mark.
The content of the game between the two sides is simply not on the same level!
The reason is that G2's jungler Yike is the representative player of the {jungle core} style of play in the European region. He is definitely like a fish in water in this version!
In contrast, GG's Korean jungler River was best at {herbivorous functional} jungle in the spring season. Coming to this version is like having one arm crippled!
With both sides having similar understandings of the version, G2 naturally has a huge advantage.
Coupled with the mid laner's matchup, it was as if the small hat had really succeeded in "inviting the gods", and he created an extremely huge gap in the matchup against Gori's Titan!
Under the global BP, the defects of the hero pool will only be infinitely magnified.
The GG jungler only knew one or two jungle core heroes, and he couldn't even get them. In the end, he was beaten 3-0 without any suspense.
The next day, another confrontation between Europe and the United States saw a similar situation.
The data from the play-in matches is not very valuable for reference, but by this point in the group stage, some teams that have clearly not been able to adjust to the version have already exposed their problems.
5 month 11 day.
The third day of the group stage.
In the evening of local time, the Copper Box Arena, which was once the venue for Olympic fencing and handball events, was already packed!
Compared to the many empty seats in the previous two days of competition, today all of the nearly 10,000 seats on the venue were fully occupied, and there were not even any gaps for standing tickets on the podium!
Obviously today's game is the real highlight.
The V5 members were standing in the backstage passage waiting as per the rehearsal.
"I feel nervous." Xun, who was competing in an international arena for the first time, was still muttering while listening to the deafening noise outside the curtain wall.
"There's nothing to be nervous about. This is the first time Master Ye and I are fighting each other~" Saint Spear Brother said with a smile to comfort him.
"The day before yesterday, 'Little V5' beat 'Little T1'. We have to win today no matter what!"
G2 is also a dominant force in the European division, so netizens nicknamed it the European Little V5.
The GG team has three Korean players. Because the support Huhi obtained a green card based on his many years of professional experience in the United States and does not occupy a foreign player quota, and because of the mid laner, they are nicknamed North American T1 by netizens.
Therefore, the match between G2 and GG on the first day was also jokingly called "Little V5 vs. Little T1".
"That's right, the pirated version won, and today we have to take down the legitimate version as well!"
V5 is in high spirits.
However, the T1 players in the opposing player channel were also in high spirits.
At this time, the passionate voice of the host could be heard in the corridor.
“Let’s give a warm round of applause to welcome the No. 1 seed from the LPL region! ————Victory Five!”
(End of this chapter)