Chapter 402 718, S7 World Championship Version Is Online

Chapter 402 On July 18, the S7 World Championship version is online

When Zhu Zhen was speaking his concluding remarks, the exciting background music was still playing.

The audience in the audience cheered even louder.

"Wairui, it's finally over!" Zhou Dian thought to himself.

At this time, Zhou Dian no longer had the exciting and majestic mood he had when he heard the speech.

Why?

Because the flashlight above my head hurts my eyes.

As soon as the words of departure were sounded, colorful flashlights began to flash on the stage.

By this time, when Zhu Zhen announced the end of the League of Legends' sixth anniversary, the players on the stage had their heads slightly lowered, almost unable to withstand the "laser" damage.

Zhou Dian, who stood in the middle of the stage, suffered the most serious "light pollution".

Where can I find a lighting engineer? This is ridiculous!

"So all the friends who came to the scene today, please leave in an orderly manner!" Zhu Zhen said at this time, "I also hope that we can leave more unforgettable memories and stories in Summoner's Rift in the future!"

"Thank you everyone!"

The audience began to leave, and the members of the third team also came off the stage, finally escaping the flash attack.

After a total of fifteen members from the three teams came off the stage, the background music suddenly changed, from exciting to brisk.

A group of long-legged girls in short skirts, each holding a folding fan, performed an inexplicable "fan dance".

Off stage.

"Let's go, stop looking, stop looking! Pack your things and go back early!" Zhou Dian said, pulling Eimy with his left hand and PYL with his right hand.

The two of them were watching the girl dancing on the stage with great interest.

"Ahem!"

"Ahem!"

Pulled by Zhou Dian, the two of them coughed twice, then reluctantly turned around and followed their teammates backstage.

But actually what Zhou Dian was thinking was: "NND, I want to see it too, but my eyes are dazzled by the flash and I can't see clearly at the moment!"

Who doesn’t like to see those long white legs?

After the expedition ceremony, the three teams returned to the backstage lounge, cleaned up briefly, and then returned to their respective hotels.

It was getting late, and according to the arrangement of the team, everyone had to rest in the Imperial City for one night and return to the team base in the Demon City tomorrow morning.

Since he had to go to the airport early the next day, Zhou Dian also took a shower early that night and lay on the bed.

Thinking about the World Championship in one month, Zhou Dian has longing, yearning, and of course endless determination.

Other regions around the world have been suppressed by the LCK region for too long.

Even at MSI in May this year, LGD defeated SKT and won the mid-season championship.

In the first intercontinental competition in July, the LPL also won the LCK.

But the S game will always be the most valuable event in League of Legends, and it cannot be compared with other games.

If a division does not win the S competition championship, it cannot dominate.

The LPL division's counterattack begins with this locally held global finals!

On September 4th, all LGD personnel who went to the Imperial Capital this time returned to the Magic Capital base.

In the evening, the LGD team base.

The club owner came to the base and first congratulated the LGD players and coaching staff.

Then he affirmed and highly praised all the team members for their efforts in winning the LPL championship this time.

Then he took everyone out to attend the celebration banquet that had been prepared.

After the celebration ceremony, LGD will give the team members a week off to have a good rest.

A week later, they gathered again and began to prepare for this S7 global finals.

There is less than a month left before the S7 Global Finals begins.

To be more precise, there are only less than twenty days left.

In this global finals, Riot Games officially added a qualifying tournament for the first time, instead of starting directly from the group stage of the main event.

The first round of the qualifying round will start on September 23.

Different from previous global finals, the final 16 teams started from the group stage.

The global finals are up to this point, although the summer games and S7 qualifying matches in each major region have been completed.

However, only 12 teams have been confirmed to participate in the main stage of the S7 World Championship.

The previous global finals consisted of the first, second, and third seeds from the four major regions, the first and second seeds from the LMS region, a total of fourteen teams, plus two wild card teams, to participate in the global finals. 16 teams.

The champions of each wild card division will compete for spots in the two global finals before the start of the S competition.

This year, in order to increase the number of competitions and give more opportunities to the wild card division, Riot Games has established a new play-in tournament.

In addition to the LCK division, the third seeds from the other four major divisions, the LPL division, the European division, the North American division, and the Tiwan division, must participate in the play-in rounds.

The reason why the third seed in the LCK division does not need to participate in the qualifying rounds is mainly because the LCK division has been the undisputed first division in the past few years, and some preferential treatment is normal.

The third seeds from the other four major regions, plus 8 wild card teams, a total of 12 teams will participate in the qualifying rounds to determine four main draw spots.

At this time, among the 12 teams that have been confirmed to participate in the S7 Global Finals, there are three LCK teams and a total of 8 teams from the other four major regions No. 1 and 2, which adds up to 11 teams.

There is also a GAM team from the Vietnam Division.

At this year's MSI Mid-Season Championship, GAM impressed audiences around the world with its outstanding performance in the MSI Qualifiers, and also won the spot for the Vietnam Division to advance to the Global Finals.

In fact, in recent years, the strength of the wildcard division has gradually improved significantly.

In the S6 Global Finals, the ANX team, composed of Maozi brothers, defeated CLG and G2, two teams from the old European and American divisions, to advance from the group stage.

It became the first wildcard team in history to advance from the group stage in the Global Finals.

Moreover, in the two rounds of the group stage, the Maozi team also won a game against the then new LCK champion and the No. 1 seed of the LCK division, ROX team.

That battle lasted 67 minutes, and the long-haired auxiliary of the ANX team also made the world know him with a gem.

In the end, at the end of the group stage, the records of ANX and ROX were both 4-2, and they needed to go through extra games to decide the first place in the group.

In the extra game, ANX lost to ROX and ranked second in the group.

Although ANX lost to H2K from North America in the knockout round and stopped in the quarterfinals, they gave themselves the title of "strongest wildcard".

Honorable defeat!

At this year's Mid-Season Championship, the Vietnamese also left a deep impression on the global audience.

Especially their jungler, Levi, nicknamed "Captain of the Army".

Of course, the reputation of Vietnamese junglers was made famous by the Vietnamese foreign aid sofm of the Snake team as early as 2016.

In addition to their performance, what impressed people more was that they used a keyboard and mouse worth less than two-digit RMB in the Mid-Season Championship.

In fact, as early as the S3 period, the WE team lost to the Saigon Jokers from Vietnam in the main competition.

Vietnamese players are still a bit good!

The third seeds of the four major regions and eight wildcard teams, these 12 teams decide four places in the main competition.

Generally speaking, people would think that the four third seeds of the four major regions can easily get these four places.

But there are the amazing performances of ANX and GAM in the past.

Many viewers are also looking forward to this year's qualifiers, where a wildcard team will break through and enter the main competition of the S7 World Finals.

If a wildcard team makes it to the qualifiers, then there must be a third seed from the four major regions that will fall in the qualifiers.

Of course, viewers without LPL will worry that WE will not make it to the qualifiers.

With WE's strength, it is easy to break through the qualifiers.

Even if WE loses a small game in the qualifiers, it is estimated that they will be criticized.

After the LGD team went on vacation, Zhou Dian did not go out to play, he still stayed in the team base.

On the second day of the summer championship celebration banquet, Zhou Dian started solo training.

That night, the Korean server began maintenance and update the new version.

After this maintenance, the Korean server will come to version 7.18, which is the version that will be used in the S7 World Finals.

Look at the correct version in 16-9-1 book-1 bar!

As for the Chinese server, it will be several days later.

Zhou Dian has already seen some changes made in the new version on the relevant website in advance.

In version 7.18, there are some changes related to the heroes in his hero pool.

Among them, the passive movement speed bonus of Fiora has been increased, and the movement speed bonus of the R skill has returned, which is a good enhancement.

Then again, the hero Fiora has been secretly strengthened little by little for several consecutive versions.

This is good news for Zhou Dian.

Then the damage of the twin fangs (E) of the snake girl has been weakened.

Other heroes such as Gnar, Prince, and Lucian have also suffered some small weakening.

Among them, the shield value of Prince's Golden Aegis (W) has been weakened, and he can basically not survive in the top lane and has completely become a jungler.

In the future, LGD will release Prince first, and the top and jungle swing will not work.

In some other aspects, the changes are also very small.

After all, it is a world championship version, and Riot dare not make some major changes.

Zhou Dian noticed that there was a hero that had not changed for a long time, but in this World Championship version, there was a change.

That was Lee Sin.

In version 7.18, Lee Sin's W skill's shield value was improved.

There is such a type of hero in League of Legends. Because of the excellent skill mechanism, a little bit of strengthening can greatly improve its appearance rate and win rate.

For this type of hero, designers are often extremely cautious in strengthening, but when weakening them, they are ruthless and drastic.

Lee Sin obviously belongs to this type of hero.

Regardless of whether the version is suitable or not, the hero Lee Sin can be seen in the World Championship every year.

With the ultimate move, Lee Sin has the ability to change his fate.

When Zhou Dian saw that the shield value of Lee Sin's W skill was strengthened, he immediately thought of something.

After today's version update, I'm afraid that there will be a lot of Lee Sin in the high-level segments.

Due to the recent emergence of "walking A monsters", which are rampant in the high-ranking segments of the Korean server, and various types of two-on-five with supports, people have a new understanding of the upper limit of the censer.

Recently, there are more and more soft supports in the high-ranking segments, and fewer and fewer hard supports are almost extinct.

Therefore, it is quite appropriate for Lee Sin to produce a censer in the middle and late stages.

It just so happens that Lee Sin, a hero, is particularly strong when he has one or two pieces of equipment when his economy is similar to that of the opponent, and the more equipment he has, the worse he is.

In the late game, nothing works, and you just have to rely on the ultimate kick.

In this case, it is better to release a censer.

It just so happens that in version 7.18, the price of Knight's Oath has also been reduced.

When the Knight's Oath and the censer are released together, it will be quite good to be the second auxiliary!

As for the Chinese server, it will update the 7.18 world championship version on September 13.

The S7 World Finals Qualifiers will start on September 23.

After the Chinese server is updated to version 7.18, the teams that need to play in the qualifiers will also come to China one after another.

At that time, the players of these teams will play in the Canyon of Heroes with super accounts.

The Canyon of Heroes will also be lively.

Zhou Dian plans to get familiar with the world championship version in the Korean server in the next few days, and when the Chinese server is updated to 7.18, he will also play in the Canyon of Heroes.

After all, it has been a long time since I played in the Chinese server. Sometimes playing in the Chinese server and bumping into the masters of various specialties is still quite interesting.

However, Zhou Dian estimated that in October, the month when the S7 group stage officially started, LPL and LCK players should still spend a lot of time playing Korean servers, and will not spend all their ranking time on the top of the canyon.

In addition to the difference in game rhythm between the Chinese server and the Korean server.

Another reason must be because of a major feature of the Chinese server - actors.

Although because of this local world game, Penguin officials threatened to crack down on actors in the top of the canyon during the world game.

But the problem of actors has a long history and deep roots in the Chinese server.

It is not so easy to clean up.

Sometimes, you can't tell whether they are actors or really bad!

They are all Oscar winners.

Before the Chinese server updates the 7.18 world game version, there is another thing to pay attention to.

That is the group draw ceremony for the S7 World Finals qualifiers and group stage.

On the evening of September 12, the draw ceremony for the S7 World Finals qualifiers and group stage will begin.

Just today, LGD's short one-week vacation ended, and all LGD players have returned to the team base.

In the LGD base training room, Zhou Dian and his teammates did not play ranked games at this time, but watched the draw ceremony with the coaching staff.

The draw ceremony will not take too long, and whether or not to train for a while will not affect anything.

Everyone is still looking forward to the group stage of their own team, hoping to be assigned to an easier group.

The broadcast of the draw ceremony on the LPL side was hosted by Ren Dong, and the people from Riot Games actually hosted the draw on the spot.

The first thing to start is the draw for the qualifying round.

The 12 teams in the qualifying round will be divided into four groups, with three teams in each group.

The three teams will play a BO1 round-robin match within the group. After four games, the top two teams in the group will advance to the next round.

Then the eight teams that advance will play a BO5 match according to the arrangement of the first and second teams in the group.

The four winning teams will advance to the main stage of the S7 World Finals and participate in the group stage.

"After introducing the schedule and format of the play-in round and group stage, I believe that everyone is looking forward to this year's play-in round." Ren Dong said.

"Today, the two draw guests are also very familiar to everyone, AmazingJ from IM and Rookie from IG!"