Chapter 55: A valuable mid lane duel
At the global finals draw ceremony, the groupings for the finals and group stages will be decided. This is a link that all participating teams are extremely concerned about.
Because the group stage draw ceremony determines to a certain extent the fate of some teams.
Especially those teams that are in the middle of the pack, neither above nor below.
Because there is actually a huge gap in strength between major competition regions. Although before the draw, the event organizers have divided the major teams into different seed pools based on the World Championship points they have obtained in the league, but even in the same seed pool , the strength between the teams is not equal.
For example, the No. 1 seeds in some regions may not be as strong as the No. 2 or even No. 3 seeds in other regions.
If you get such a soft persimmon in the lottery, it will naturally be something to be happy about.
However, no matter what kind of good lot you get in the lottery, there is one thing that needs special attention.
That is, never open the champagne in advance.
At least the teams in the LPL division have a deep understanding of this.
Back then, during the S8 knockout draw, a certain team got a weak team and everyone burst into laughter.
As a result, this smile reached S9 directly.
Afterwards, the scene of the team laughing wildly at the lottery ceremony has become a classic scene that has been repeatedly ridiculed by netizens.
With this kind of experience, teams in the LPL region in the future will have to hold back their laughter no matter how good they get.
Time soon came to the day of the lottery ceremony, and all members of the RA team stopped training and sat in front of the screen to watch the live broadcast together.
Which group you enter in the lottery ceremony will directly affect the team's subsequent training plan.
Only after knowing which teams your opponents are can you conduct better targeted training.
Before the lottery ceremony began, Fang Jie had already guessed that RA would most likely enter the same group as LNG at the time.
Because the timeline of this world has not changed as a whole, his appearance cannot yet affect other things on the same timeline.
For example, the HLE team will not change from Group A to Group B because of their arrival in the lottery ceremony.
From a long-term perspective, only if you successfully lead RA to the top 8 can you affect the entire draw format at the top 8 draw ceremony.
Therefore, Fang Jie had already predicted RA's group situation in advance.
RA will be placed in the same group as the HLE team in the play-in stage.
Coincidentally, when Fang Jie traveled back to S11, the destiny he carried was Chovy's [Ultimate Last Strike].
In his first game in the World Championship, he faced the HLE team led by Chovy.
Fang Jie has already made plans for the qualifying stage. Since the opponents he faces at this stage are not strong, he can just take this opportunity to use his two SR fates [Extreme CS] and [ Bing Ma Yong] got the chance to evolve.
If Fang Jie's prediction is correct, once these two fates are successfully evolved, their characteristics may be considered very powerful among all SSR-level characteristics.
Therefore, even when facing the HLE team led by Chovy, Fang Jie will still choose to play with these two fates.
Thinking of this, Fang Jie couldn't help but feel a hint of expectation.
Because by then, there will be an interesting phenomenon of [Ultimate CS] vs [Ultimate CS].
Chovy is the real deal, the source of the character template designated by the system as [Extreme Last Strike].
By then, will the pirated version be unable to beat the genuine version?
Or is it that the genuine version cannot beat the pirated version?
……
Sure enough, as the lottery ceremony progressed, RA and HLE were assigned to the same group.
Then Fang Jie already knew everything about what happened next.
Although it is not difficult for Fang Jie to successfully break through the qualifying rounds, in the group stage, every game is really a tough battle.
Since FPX, EDG and RNG teams have entered the first three groups respectively, according to the avoidance principle of the same division in the group stage, RA can only enter Group D.
Waiting for RA in Group D are the three teams MAD, GEN.G and TL.
Audiences who have watched past World Championships must be familiar with these team names.
Because these three teams are all regulars in the World Championship.
Fang Jie knew that he had obviously entered the death group.
The so-called group of death does not mean that a certain team in the group is extremely powerful, but that every team in the group has almost the same strength, and everyone has the possibility of being eliminated.
In fact, this is indeed the case. With the current member configuration of RA, losing to any team in Group D is possible.
What excites Fang Jie is that every mid laner in this group can be regarded as a traditional mage representative in his or her region.
Fang Jie is looking forward to competing with these players.
TL's mid laner Jensen has been competing in the professional arena since Season 2 and can be regarded as a living fossil in the history of League of Legends e-sports.
What’s even more amazing is that since 2015, Jensen has reached the global finals for seven consecutive years and has never missed this grandest event in his career.
Since Jensen's debut, he has maintained a competitive level as a first-line mid laner in the North American league for a long time. Even if the overall level of the North American division is not very good, Fang Jie still maintains a little respect for him in his heart.
MAD's mid laner Humanoid's overall performance this season was very impressive, especially after Caps' player's decline, Humanoid has already taken up the banner of the number one mid laner in the European division.
As for Gen.G's mid laner Bdd, that's certainly not to mention.
Among the three mid laners from other teams in Group D, Bdd is the one closest to the world's top mid laners.
Of course, at the peak of his career, he even became a strong contender for the world's number one mid laner at that time.
Bdd has won the regular season MVP award three times in the LCK division, which is full of strong players. In this achievement, he has been comparable to Doinb and Rookie players in the LPL division.
Bdd also showed excellent competitive form this year, winning the third team in the LCK Spring Split and the second team in the Summer Split.
In the 2021 LCK Summer Split, the one who won the regular season first team in the mid lane position was naturally the Showmaker player of the DK team, and the second team was the BDD player who Fang Jie would meet in the group stage.
As for the third team, it is RA's biggest competitor in the qualifying stage, HLE team's mid laner Chovy.
Good guy, Fang Jie faced the mid laner of the third LCK team in the qualifying stage.
After being shortlisted for the group stage, he was able to play against LCK second team mid laner BDD.
According to this rule, if you can advance to the knockout rounds, wouldn't you have to compete with the LCK mid laner Showmaker?
What kind of anti-Korean Qixia template is this?
Not only that, in the group stage, he also had to play against the European King Humanoid and the North American King Jensen.
No matter where RA can go in the end, just looking at Fang Jie's matchup in the mid lane, it is true that the gold content has been stretched to the limit.
Fang Jie's heart suddenly surged with overwhelming pride.
Since God has given me the opportunity to play against the top mid laners in these major leagues, I will definitely show my best self on the stage of the World Championship.
These mid laners, who are all famous in the history of League of Legends e-sports, were stepped on one after another.
Please understand, many people think that the content of the previous chapter is watery, but this does not mean that the author is lazy. Instead, the author spent more time doing homework to write this chapter. Helping everyone recall the version will also be helpful for later understanding the BP ideas and lineup selection for the World Championship stage. Moreover, everyone can also see from the group RA is in that in the mid lane matchup, it must be a high-quality matchup.
(End of chapter)