After the finalists on October 7th, the group stage grouping was completely determined that night.
The group stage officially starts, and it will take until October 10th.
The competition location was also changed from Seoul to Busan.
During this period, except for the local team of LK, the players from other participating teams basically lived in hotels officially arranged by Riot.
IG everyone is no exception.
But to be honest, over the past few days, I have been living a bit boring.
Because in the past two days, everyone has not played training matches and can only play rank every day to maintain their state.
As for the reason...
It's similar to when I was in China before.
At the beginning, when I first came to Korea, many LC and LCs competition areas, and even wild card teams, were happy to make an appointment with IG to train games.
However, after playing several games with anticipation, the more my mentality became, the more I played, and slowly, no one offered an invitation.
There is no way, the feeling of being beaten all the time, and then being seriously frustrated in self-confidence, is really uncomfortable.
More importantly, many teams sincerely feel that they can’t learn anything when they play training games with IG.
Or it is impossible to beat the laning side and will naturally collapse.
Either you are very bad at the jungle area, and then you are crossed by the tower in the bottom lane or the middle lane, and the snowball rolls and ends up rolling.
What can I learn this?
There is no new tactics and new strategies, and new systems and new ideas at all!
I can't beat the pure match and I've been suppressed. I can't feel any improvement except for making people feel like I'm a good person!
This kind of training match that only has negative effects after playing for a long time, can it be a bad thing?
Substitution!
So, slowly, no one had an appointment with IG for training matches.
As for the edg and rng in the same competition area?
Please, the two teams have been tortured enough when they were in China.
By default, I will default to the two teams that compete for the top enemy in the championship. They are even more reluctant to expose their tactics and hidden tricks in advance, so naturally they will not have any other ideas about I.
In this way, under unexpected circumstances, I rarely played a training match for two consecutive days.
Fortunately, this kind of thing has little impact on the mentality of the players.
If you don’t have a training match, just play Korean server rank and keep a stable state and feel.
After all, after so many victories, everyone has already possessed strong self-confidence.
Don't panic at all!
...
As for Zhao Yun's own words.
To be honest, when he first came to a foreign country to play competitions, this kind of experience of traveling with public funds made him somewhat excited and excited.
But after staying for a few days, I quickly calmed down.
Because Busan seems to be the same.
Apart from playing the Korean server rank with extremely low ping value, it is more comfortable to play, there are not many things that make him feel surprised.
If you have to say something, being able to hear the theme song "rise" in Times Square nearby will make him feel even more happy.
By the way, the style of ig's team uniform this year is really good-looking, and the special "popular" word on the back makes it really handsome!
In general, I am still full of expectations for this World Championship.
Then, after three days of relatively relaxed and calmness, the group stage of this S8 World Championship officially started.
On the first day of the group stage on October 10, Ir's first opponent was the Samsung team that had been renamed, geng.
The game time is scheduled at 8 pm.
This made everyone in I feel that they are about to play the game on hunger again.
Of course, although I won’t have dinner in advance, the club still prepared some fruits, bananas and other things for everyone. It’s still not a big problem to deal with it while waiting for the competition.
Before the IG game started, there was no upset result in the group match that day.
KT crushed TL, RNG also won Mad, FW Lightning Wolf also easily handled PVB.
After a few days of offseason, the continuous several exciting games on the first day of the group stage also made the audience very satisfied.
Then, at 8 o'clock in the evening, amid the anticipation of countless audiences, the focus battle on the first day of the group stage came.
ig vs gen.g!
Of course, it is said that it is a focus battle, but most of the focus is on IG.
Before this game, both domestic Chinese audiences, other European and American wild card competition areas, and even local Korean LK fans, IG's support rate had a huge advantage.
There is no way, ig's own strength and honor are one of the reasons. In addition, it can make ig's Korean audiences have higher approval ratings than gen.g, and t1's huge number of fans, which is also quite large.
The force comes.
Anyway, even as a pure passerby audience, it is quite incredible to see that the ig team in the LPL region in the World Championship held in South Korea can surpass the gen.g in the LCC region.
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In this way, under the expectations of countless audiences, the players of both teams have already sat on the competition seats, and the first group stage of IG is about to start!
Before the game started, several commentators at LK's commentators routinely expressed their views on the two teams.
There are four official commentators on lck, all of which are well-known and popular commentators on lck.
Then, they also took turns to speak.
"Ah~How to say it, although Geng performed very amazingly in the bubble match of the summer season, if his opponent is I, it really makes people feel very uneasy, Smida."
"Indeed, you have to know that's ig! Not only the last S7 champion, but also the current MSI champion. What's even more terrifying is that they continue to win consecutive games until now, and this is the case.
The opponents who are flawless in battle are so stressful no matter how you look at it!"
"More importantly, in the S7 World Championship last year, Geng was taken away by ig at the time of 3-0. Now, after a year, Geng has become weaker, while Geng has become more powerful
It was even stronger last year, and it was very uneasy no matter how you look at it."
"No matter what, it's so horrible that you won a whole year of unbeaten victory and never lose in a game, Smida!"
"If I only look at the strength on paper, I can't even think about what geng's theoretical winning point is."
"If I follow my personal opinion, I think if geng wants to win ig, ncer is the top priority. If ncer performs in the jungle, then geng will have a great chance of winning."
"So the question is, what method should be used? How can ncer play in the jungle?"
"...Well, I don't know this. To be honest, the professionalism of this design is too out of line. Let's leave it to the coaching staff of geng to consider it."
"The coaching team of so many teams has spent the whole summer season but has not been able to find effective measures. Now let Geng's coaching team solve this problem in a few days. Is it a bit too high for them?
ah."
"Ncer! When I think of this name, I can't help but feel numb. I thought his performance on S7 was perfect enough, but I didn't expect that he would be even more unsolvable after he transferred to the jungle position? How could there be such a person?
A terrifying existence!”
"No matter what, Geng is the team that represents our LK! Please give Geng more trust! I believe the young men!"
"Even if the opponent is the strongest demon ig, we always believe in geng!"
"Come on geng! Come on lck!"
“…”
For a moment, several LK commentators began to cheer for Geng for the upcoming game, which attracted the Korean audience to cheer and cheer for the cheering slogans such as ‘Geng
Of course, except for LK, the commentators from other competition areas are also doing the same thing.
However, compared to the rational and objective style of LK, the commentators' speeches were much more unrestrained in the commentary seats in the European and American competition zones.
For example, in the live broadcast room of lcs.eu, which was currently broadcasting live, three European and American commentators even put on IG's white uniform jackets on the spot, and a black guy even took a ig team logo with IG's logo printed on it.
The little flag was shaking wildly there.
"Oh~ I can see the game of the IG team I like first again, nothing is more exciting than this."
"Ask who do we think will win? Who do we support more? As everyone can see, no one thinks that I will lose? How many levels are Ncer? Level 3? Level 4? Even the incredible level 5
?”
"Please, if you really watched IG before the lpl summer game, you wouldn't have any other ideas about the result of this game. Does this IG understand that it's invincible?"
"If the jungler was ning, then geng might have a 10% chance. Ncer, I can't imagine how geng can win."
"Instead of thinking about the impossible thing, let's guess what jungler will choose, right?"
"I don't think there will be too many surprises. Let's choose one of the three Qianjue Leopard Girl Rock Birds."
"Anyway, if I were Geng coach, I would definitely send Leopard Girl to the ban position. The first time the Ncer Leopard Girl made me feel that he had turned on a plug-in."
"Hey~ Is there a possibility that all three junglers are banned?"
"Hahaha, how is it possible? What should I do if all three bans are given to the jungler? This is just the first group match. Do you think Geng will do this extreme?"
"It's over if NCER is invincible!"
"ig! God of War ig! I will always support the invincible ig!"
“…”
In the official live broadcast room of lcs, the atmosphere of the three commentators was extremely joyful, and even when they were excited, they had to say a few words to help them liven up.
At the same time, compared to the rationality and objectiveness of LK and the exaggerated work of LCS, LPL's official live broadcast room is much more serious.
On the contrary, the second route of Deyunse commentary, the program effect is more joyful and interesting.
Then, Deyunse at this time has just welcomed the addition of retired player Kid. In the camera, Xiaoxiao, Xika and Kid are making pre-match predictions for this game.
Bald man: "Who wins the anchor support? It would be funny if you can ask such a question in our live broadcast room? I'll say it again. As long as the ig is still there for a day, then our Deyunse will be unconditional.
Support ig win ok?"
Fatty: "Stop being funny, brothers, if you want to say that you have some suspense to play KT, can you all be so nervous when you fight Geng? I'll put it here. There is no road in the three ways that are the opponents of IG.
I will definitely win with my eyes closed!”
kid: "Win is definitely winning, NCER Okay, I can't wait to see the Koreans crying expressions, brothers!"
“…”
Without any concealment, Deyunse and the other three were proving their identity as iron-blooded ig fans all the time.
Then, amid the anticipation of countless audiences and commentators, the game finally started.
"Ok, bp starts, this game ig is blue square, geng is red square."
"The top three bans on ig choose bans: Kalma, Xia, and Marzaha. The two mid laners are all gangsters who love to use in bubble matches. Xia removes Xia Luo, and this ban is very clear
Then, I won’t let it get involved. I must play against me in the middle lane! I’m just going to get full of momentum!”
"Then the top three bans, Qianjue, and Yanqi... After thinking about it for a long time in the last move, they were very hesitant and confused, but in the end they still banned Levlan, two junglers and one mid laner, all of them were only
A unique bp that only appears when facing ig!
OK, there is no problem at all. At least I can see from this ban guy. Geng is under a lot of pressure. Although I can't see their expressions clearly, I already feel that coach Geng has frowned."
"What do I say about I? Classic chose Kasha. Although it was weakened a little before, I still continued to grab it. Let's help Jackeylove to ensure the strength of the bottom lane first!"
In the picture, accompanied by Sika's real-time commentary, I snatched Kasha first.
On the other side of Geng, the bottom lane combination of Varus and Thresh was quickly selected.
I chose very quickly, and it can be seen that I have prepared in advance.
Then the subsequent selection on ig is also very fast.
Second choice, Huan Ling, Luo.
Three choices, Wild Hunter, Nederi.
The speed of light of these two heroes is determined.
Suddenly, looking at the familiar hero avatar on the live broadcast screen, Deyunse and the other two shouted at the same time.
"Here is here! Leopard girl!"
"It's just confidence! If you dare to let go, I will definitely choose!"
"Damn it! With brothers, NCER LEOP girl!"
"It can be seen that Geng should have let it go on purpose, and then there is a countermeasure to target it. Ncer is fearless at all! He doesn't hesitate at all and takes it directly!"
"No problem, classic leopard girl! ncer's personal show!"
"There is there, there is, brothers, without saying much, I will announce this pure and cool game!"
"Although I haven't seen Geng's lineup yet, I unilaterally announced that I have won!"
"Lancer's Leopard Girl! Leopard Ritian! Kill and Kill!"
“…”
Regarding the leopard girl in the first three hands on IG, countless LPL audiences subconsciously had the same idea.
‘Nice! This is safe!’
However, the first thought of the audience in other foreign competition areas who did not pay attention to IG before.
"Ah? ncer, but didn't I remember he was the top laner FMVP last year?"
"Fighting the jungle leopard girl? Is there really someone using this hero to play games in the current version?"