This year's MSI canceled the previous wild card finalists, and this year's major competition areas such as LPL and LK also need to start from the first round.
The twelve teams from each major competition area will go through group stages and confrontations, reducing the team to the last four teams before the final knockout round will begin.
The first thing to start is naturally the lottery ceremony. After a series of lottery draws by special guests, three groups were soon born.
Group a: edg(lp), gam(vietnamese), uol(cis), pgg(oceania)
Group b: mad (Europe), psg (Southeast Asia), iw (Türkiye), png (Brazil)
Group c: dk(lck), c9(North America), inf(Latin America), dfm(Japan)
There are three groups, each group conducting a double-cycle battle, with the top two qualifying for the confrontation.
However, since there are four seed pools grading settings, the three teams in the same level, such as the edg, dk, and mad of the No. 1 seed pool, will not collide in advance, so basically the group stage is a battle between the lion and the rabbit, and the qualifiers have almost booked it.
So there is no suspense. The edg, mda, dk of the No. 1 seed pool, and the gam, psg, and c9 of the No. 2 seed pool, all of these six teams easily qualify with an almost crushing advantage.
The schedules of Group A and Group C are quite stable, and RNG and KD both qualify easily with a 6-0 advantage, and the dominance from the two divisions is still terrifying.
Mad lost a small Southeast Asian psg, 5-1.
The competition for the second place in the three groups was a bit fierce, but in the end the superiors won, and the plot below failed to appear.
The schedule quickly advanced to the second stage of the confrontation.
It was not until this time that the msi schedule finally had a highlight.
The remaining six teams will be combined into a group and then a double round of competition. Each team will play a total of ten games in the next five days, deciding the top four, and advancing to the knockout round!
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Everyone had just three days off, and on May 14, the confrontation finally started.
And the ones responsible for adding fire to the confrontation are naturally edg and dk!
The edg players are already standing in the backstage and preparing for the upcoming game.
"Chen Ye, are you nervous?"
Listening to Abu's words, Chen Ye turned his head and shrugged, "I feel okay? There are not many people in this venue."
The venue for this confrontation is the indoor gymnasium of Iceland, which can accommodate up to 15,000 people.
However, it may be because of the confrontation and Iceland itself is quite remote, so there are not many spectators and the off-court is not full.
But however, e-sports competitions are mainly online, and buying tickets offline is actually a small head, so it doesn’t matter.
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Due to the eight-hour time difference, Riot Company deliberately put the game to 2 pm, so that both the domestic and South Korea in the East Eighth District are only 10 pm, and they can still watch the game.
Time passed by bit by bit, and the moment when the road arrived at two o'clock, the lights in the venue suddenly became dark!
The Europeans in the venue started cheering and screaming at the same time, and their e-sports atmosphere has always been OK.
The male host stepped onto the stage and pulled his neck and shouted: "First of all, let us welcome together, 2015 msi champion, 2020 global finals champion, edward gaming!"
The Europeans off the field waved their glow sticks and cheered and screamed for the edg!
In e-sports, champion is everything. Edg, which won the championship as a king last year, certainly gained a large number of European fans.
"Then, it's the lck No. 1 seed, dwg kia!"
Compared with Edg, DK lost a little honor, but as the team that dominated LK, the audience immediately paid tribute to them with applause.
The lp commentator seat, doll Miller and Changmao were ready.
"Okay, the teams on both sides have already taken the stage!"
"Friends of the audience, the competition between EDG and DR is about to begin. We can see that the players on both sides have already sat on the contestants' seats. Please wait for a moment, and the competition is about to begin!"
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LK Commentary Seat, Roaring Emperor also roared loudly, "DK is on the stage!"
"The cheers from both sides are quite fierce! Come on, come on, showmaker, come on, canyon! This time, defeat edg!"
Roaring Emperor is a pure true love expression. After all, as the number one LCK mahjong, he has been very excited to see his own competition area not having a championship for three years.
Seeing that his DK is so strong now, he certainly hopes to defeat all evil edgs.
However, beside him, two special guests, Chidi and Rookie, were indifferent.
As the last champion member of LK, he wished that LK would win a championship in the future, so that his championship would be more valuable.
Of course, winning the championship is not bad, let Samsung win!
Not to mention rookie, pure body in Cao's camp and heart in Han.
He was invited to go back to Korea for holidays. Although he wanted to support DK on the surface, he actually hoped that EDG could win...
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"The confrontation adopts a double round-robin system, so the teams on both sides of the two rounds will take turns to have the right to choose sides. The one with the right to choose sides in this game is DK, and they took the initiative to choose a blue side position!"
By msi, bp finally changed slightly.
Also as a male gun master, canyon knows that this hero is not strong in this version.
What heroes are needed in the current version?
If you brush quickly, you can clear the jungle area and then fight fiercely in the early stage.
Just like the two alchemy junglers before, or the current Morgana Rambo.
So DK directly released Chen Ye's male gun, but instead sent the crocodile from the Holy Gun to the ban position.
This hero's 1.5-second stable control is so popular in the current version. Any jungler can beat the damage under this control. It is simply a lively jungler amplifier.
To take a step back, even if Chen Ye chooses a male gun, canyon has a way to deal with it.
On the other hand, Abu discussed with the team members for a while and decided to ban Rambo.
After six games in the group stage, everyone in edg has a preliminary understanding of the current version.
They now have a general idea, that is, both Chen Ye and Canyon are a little unacceptable to this version.
For junglers like Morgana Rambo, junglers still play too little, so they have not improved their proficiency and have poor performance.
Of course, this is just what the outside world thinks of them.
As the party involved, Chen Ye actually understands it very well.
It's not that they are low in proficiency.
Chen Ye has Luden and the Explosive Wand, which adds up to 30% of the hero proficiency bonus, and his proficiency after the bonus is definitely not low.
But the problem is that the function of these two junglers is that they are not as good as the conventional junglers before, and that is, they are not as good as the blind monks, men and women, guns, and leopards.
But if you choose a blind monk, a man, a leopard girl, you will be restrained by Morgana Rambo...
This is a dead cycle.
You have to steal these two heroes, but it doesn't work if you steal them.
The designer of League of Legends, using two consecutive versions of drastic moves, successfully turned the jungler into a jail position in this msi.
Perhaps, these two heroes still need to wait for development, but it depends on the creativity of the major teams.
"In the second round, DKban lost Verus. This hero is quite strong in this msi after he strengthened his growth attack power! And on the edg side, Senna will be sent to the ban position, so you won't let DK choose Senna!"
DK's bottom lane is the same as last year, which is a pure breakthrough, so they cannot get a bastard such as Senna.
"The last move dkban defeated Aphelius, edgban defeated Morgana, both sides entered the selection stage!"
Blue square first-hand, dk locks the blind monk in seconds.
This is already one of the few regular junglers that can be played in the current version.
After reducing the e-skill cd for two seconds, although the speed of brushing jungle is not fast, it is barely enough.
Edg everyone did not hesitate and directly locked in Kasha Titan and took the bottom lane combination.
On the other hand, DK took down the cannon and the bullhead again, and the choice came to EDG again.
"How do you say, do you want to choose a male gun?" Abu asked, "If you dare to fire a male gun on the other side, you must be prepared..."
"No, what are you afraid of?" Chen Ye grinned, "It's all done!"
Chen Ye had long wanted to use his skin to make a comeback, but unfortunately no one has ever played the group stage.
“Ok.”
There is nothing to say, edg directly locked the male gun for Chen Ye.
The moment the hero was locked, there were bustling cheers in the audience.
It is obvious that Chen Ye's male gun has become an iconic existence.
Although this hero is not suitable for the version after experiencing the weakening of the wind and the change in the version, Chen Ye just dares to get it!
Enter the second round of bp.
"DK has sent Clockwork and Orn to the ban position. These two heroes with male guns are the most powerful upper and middle and wild animals in the later stage. DK doesn't want you to get these two late stage heroes!"
"And edg sent Lucian and Victor to the ban position and came to the selection stage again!"
"Let's take Ryze." Abu continued to make a move, "This will drag us down in the later stage. Ryzekasha male gun is our advantage in the later stage, and we will rely on Ryze's line power to fight in the middle stage."
Edg everyone nodded, but they had no objection. This kind of bp is very reasonable.
But at this moment, dk suddenly changed.
They quickly locked in Leopard Girl and Jace!
"Ah?" The three people in the LPL commentator's seat spoke in unison, "This leopard girl...their blind monk is the mid laner!?"
The audience was also in an uproar.
The top laner of the blind monk is just a relatively non-mainstream gameplay in the ranking, but unexpectedly, DK was released directly in the first game!
Edg everyone looked at each other, while Abu frowned.
He doesn't like this feeling of being out of control.
Moreover, if the Blind Seng is really a mid-lane, then this BP will be a big deal.
Nowadays, the mid lane blind monks have the power to fight against, and pushing the line is too rude.
DK leopard female shoots male shooters, and blind monks in the middle are all absolute advantages.
With such an advantage, how can EDG be delayed to the later stage?
"Get me a stone man." Brother Saint Gun said at this moment: "I am confident that this stone man on the road will hit Jace. This one can be slutty first, and wait for the sixth level to get the money on the road."
Abu took a deep breath, "Okay, that's all I can do, let's choose this."
After saying that, the edg stone man was selected, and the lineup of both sides was determined at this moment.
Blue square dk: top lane Jace, jungle leopard girl, mid lane blind monk, bottom lane small cannon plus bullhead.
Red square edg: top single stone man, jungle male gun, mid lane Ryze, bottom lane Kashaga Titan.
"Brothers, this wave of mine." Abu finally said, "I didn't expect this thing to be hidden from the other side."
This bp is really bad.
The only one who can have an advantage in the true sense is the Stone Man on the Road.
But the problem is that the Stone Man in the early stage will also be suppressed by Jace.
In other words, the lineup of edg is completely inferior in the three games in the early stage, and the jungle area is also a disadvantageous game.
Four ways are bad!
"It's okay." Chen Ye shook his head. He was quite calm. "Let me get the male gun. I have confidence in winning any game. You can go back to the lounge and wait for good news."
"Okay." Abu smiled, "Come on, do it well, I won't say much, so as not to put pressure on you."
The coaches of both sides shook hands in the center of the field. Abu saw the proud look of Kkoma opposite, and his expression was quite serious.
He is truly a Triple Crown coach.
It's really a little knife that makes me miss it.
But, do you really think you have won this game?
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The heroes on both sides quickly loaded into the Summoner's Canyon.
In this world competition, of course, there is no previous support from fans, but LPL's broadcasting station has called out a bar chart of red and blue fighting each other, showing the support rate of both teams.
At this time, you can clearly see that the red represents dk, and the blue of edg hit a small corner, but it did not disappear.
"The approval rating of both sides is 2% to 98%, which is a very exaggerated proportion!" Miller nodded with a smile, "This is the most exaggerated one I have ever seen."
【Only 98%?】
【What is the remaining 2% ingredient?】
[Sorry, I clicked the wrong one and said the wrong one. Who is serious? Who can click the broken bdk?]
[No, I vote rationally, the lineup of DK is indeed a complete EDG lineup. Is there any problem with my DK?]
The content of the barrage is bustling, and there are even many Han Za who are directly riding their faces against the wind, hoping that their master can win.
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In the picture, the heroes of both sides have begun their own starting arrangements.
In this lineup of DK, Canyon's Leopard Girl must brush from bottom to top. This information is almost equal to the bright card, so Chen Ye is not vague and avoids brushing from top to bottom and won't play with you.
Edg's three-way laning system in the early stage are all disadvantages, and the jungler position is also disadvantages.
This is the most terrifying.
If Chen Ye still keeps his hand from bottom to top, then he will probably have to open two levels of learning W and enter Chen Ye’s wild area.
The two-level leopard girl hits the two-level male gun, and the edg bottom lane has no right to line. Chen Ye is very suspicious that he will be directly turned against the air in the lower half.
If this leopard girl is a little more fierce and goes directly to the upper half of the edg from the second tower of the edg, then Chen Ye has no choice but to let the rest of the wild monsters go.
After this simulation, Chen Ye can only eat one blue in the first round of wild monsters?
At that time, I will just hit 24 knives and 4 knives, so I will just click!
"There is no way to fight in the early stage." Chen Ye said, "Then I will just brush the other way, I will be defensive in the lower half of the area."
“Ok.”
Both sides did not make any trouble at the beginning, and each started peacefully. Nuguri's Jace directly placed his false eye on the red buff camp in Edg.
Chapter completed!