Chapter 403 S7 Group Stage Draw, We Are Playing Against the Elite!

It is an old tradition that the players from the region where the global finals are held will draw lots for the S game.

The host should still give face.

As soon as Ren Dong finished speaking, the camera turned and two people came up from the stage.

AJ and Rookie both wore white shirts and black pants today.

After all, they are attending such formal occasions facing the global audience. Even many professional players who usually don't care about their appearance will dress themselves up more formally.

As soon as the two came on stage, they greeted the audience and took a photo with their arms around each other's shoulders.

When the two stood together, AJ was obviously more than a circle thicker than Rookie.

Judging from the visual, it would take two Rookies together to have the body size of AJ.

Rookie tucked the hem of his shirt into his pants, but AJ couldn't get in with his big belly, so he just let it hang down.

"So today, the two of you dressed up to attend the draw ceremony of our S7 global finals." Ren Dong said.

"The next draw today will also determine the fate of some teams in the play-in stage!"

The two draw guests walked to the draw pool and stood still.

The four teams in Pool 1 were shown on the big screen.

They are the third seeds of the four major regions - WE, FNC, C9 and HKA.

Since the 12 teams in the play-in stage come from twelve different regions around the world.

So the group draw for the play-in stage will not involve avoiding these things in the same region, so the group draw cannot be simpler.

Just draw the four teams in Pool 1 into the four groups ABCD respectively.

Then draw the teams in Pools 2 and 3 into the four groups in order.

The camera turned to AJ, who was standing in front of Pool 1.

AJ came up and rubbed his hands like a fly, rubbing his hands together violently for a few times.

Then he stretched his right hand into the transparent draw pool, stirred the four silver-white balls in it for a few times, and took out a ball.

"Let's see, who will be the first one to be determined as the No. 1 seed in today's qualifying round?"

Accompanied by the voice of the commentator, AJ unscrewed the ball in his hand and took out the paper roll inside.

Then he faced the camera and unfolded it towards the audience.

"Team WE~"

AJ was lucky and drew his own LPL team first.

So, WE fell into Group A of the qualifying round.

On the big screen behind the stage, some clips of WE's game scenes in the S7 qualifiers began to play, accompanied by a simple introduction to the team.

This introduction is in English, after all, the draw ceremony is for global audiences.

Each subsequent team that was drawn also had some game scenes and introductions of the team.

"That's right, WE is standing on the stage of the world competition again after more than a thousand days, and we are also looking forward to WE's performance!" Ren Dong said loudly.

"Look at AJ's hand, the No. 1 seed in the qualifying round who will enter the next group is..."

As AJ drew out the remaining balls in Pool 1 one by one.

C9 from the North American region fell to Group B.

FNC from the European region fell to Group C.

These two teams are also veteran teams in the European and American regions.

The last one left, HKA, automatically fell to Group D.

HKA is the third seed of the LMS region in this global finals.

In the LMS region, the world championship quota in recent years has been occupied by AHQ and Flash Wolves.

The strength of these two teams is far better than other teams in the Taiwan region, and other teams had no chance to enter the world championship before.

After Riot officially added the qualifying round to the S game this year, the LMS region not only has two regular season quotas unchanged, but also has one more quota for the qualifying round.

The HKA team that got the third quota in the LMS region is actually a team from Hong Kong. The team's coach is Tabe, who once played as a support in Royal Club.

But in fact, some people have always felt that with the overall strength of the LMS region, getting three world championship quotas is a bit too much, and it is recommended to cut one quota.

However, at this year's MSI, the performance of the North American region was very poor.

As a result, the No. 1 seed of the North American region could not enter the No. 1 seed pool of the S game group draw at this year's World Finals.

There are fewer voices to reduce the number of LMS region places.

After all, the North American region is the hometown of Riot Games, and Riot Games cannot reduce the number of North American regions.

If you don't reduce the number of North American regions, why do you reduce the number of LMS regions!

Of course, whether it is the North American region or the LMS region, if their respective No. 3 seeds can't even make it to the play-in round, then the strength of these two regions is really not good.

After the four teams in Pool 1 were placed in four groups, the remaining eight teams were all from the wildcard region.

Rookie took two steps forward and stood in front of Pool 2.

From Pool 2, the first team to be drawn was GMB.

GMB team was placed in Group A, in the same group as WE.

GMB team is from the CIS region, and its players are basically Da Mao and Er Mao.

The ANX team, which qualified from the group stage of the S6 World Championship and was called the "strongest wild card", is from the CIS region.

The GMB team, which is now in the same group as WE, was formerly the legendary team M5.

In the entire S2 season, the M5 team dominated most of the League of Legends events.

In the S2 World Championship, IG was eliminated in the quarterfinals, but unfortunately, they lost to the final S2 champion TPA in the semifinals.

Diamondprox, the jungler of M5 at the time, is still the main jungler of GMB at this time, and can be called a living fossil player of the League of Legends.

Rookie continued to draw lots.

ONE, YG, and FB in Pool 2 fell into the three groups of BCD respectively.

Among these three teams, the most well-known is naturally FB.

FB's full name is 1907 Fenerbahçe, which is an e-sports team under the Turkish Fenerbahçe Football Club.

Stars such as Kuyt and Van Persie have played for the Turkish Super League powerhouse Fenerbahçe.

After the second pool was drawn, Rookie returned to his chair and sat down, and AJ continued to draw the third pool.

The four teams in Pool 3, LYN, DW, KLG, and RPG, fell into the four groups of ABCD respectively.

Of course, among the four teams in Pool 3, the only one that LPL viewers care about is the RPG team.

This is naturally not because of the flirty team name RPG.

It is because the RPG team comes from the LJL division.

The LJL division is also commonly known as the book division, so the people in the RPG team are naturally all Li people who have a good life.

When AJ first drew the LYN team in Pool 3, Zhou Dian and many LPL viewers shouted that it was a pity.

Everyone wanted to see AJ draw the RPG team from the book division into Group A, together with WE.

It's a pity that we can't see CN people beating JP people for the time being.

However, it's not completely hopeless. Now the LPL audience hopes that the RPG team will be stronger these days and get the second place in Group D to advance to the next round.

In that case, WE still has a chance to draw them in the knockout round of the qualifying round.

On the LPL broadcast side, after a lengthy analysis of the match situation in the qualifying round by Ren Dong and the two commentary guests,

The arrangement of the S7 group stage draw at the draw site has also been completed.

Next is the highlight of tonight's draw ceremony.

"So, what we are looking forward to next is the group stage draw!"

Before Ren Dong finished speaking, the screen cut back to the draw site.

AJ still drew first.

"Then today's heavyweight part begins. First, AJ comes up to draw the No. 1 seed."

"The No. 1 seed pool includes Longzhu, LGD, G2 and Flash Wolves."

AJ reached into the transparent lottery pool and stirred it for a few rounds, then picked up a black ball.

When the play-in draw was previously, a silver-white ball was used, but now it has been replaced with a black ball.

Twist open the ball and take out the paper roll inside.

There is no wrong version in the 16-9-1 book-1 bar!

AJ opened the paper roll in his hand towards the camera.

"Wow, AJ is a good B. He always draws our LPL team first!" PYL said with a smile in the LGD base training room.

In the LPL broadcast room, Ren Dong said: "LGD, like WE just now, went directly to the first position of the group, Group A."

"Then let's continue to pay attention to the draw of the group stage. Now the atmosphere is getting more and more tense!"

Continue to draw lots.

AJ picked up another black ball and opened it. The paper roll inside said - [Z7]

What is [Z7]?

Everyone was stunned.

AJ on the stage smiled awkwardly and quickly turned the paper in his hand over. It said [LZ].

The number one seed from the LCK region, Longzhu team fell into Group B.

Ren Dong smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter if it's upside down. You can see it if you look carefully!"

Some shots of Longzhu in the finals of this year's LCK Summer Split began to play on the big screen.

Longzhu was only the 7th in the LCK in the spring season, and finally defeated SKT to win the championship in the summer season. Its progress can be described as a leap forward.

The last scene stayed on the shot of Pray holding the LCK championship trophy.

This is the style of the LCK championship trophy. It doesn't look exactly like the Champions League trophy, the Big Ear Cup, but it's at least close to the same.

As expected of a Korean country, they even steal the design of a trophy.

The third No. 1 seed drawn is G2, a well-known European team.

In 2016 and 2017, G2 won four consecutive European league titles, dominating the European region.

However, in last year's S6 World Championship, G2, as the No. 1 seed in the European region, was eliminated at the bottom of the group.

European and American teams have always been mysterious and unpredictable. They feel uncomfortable without doing something.

The No. 1 seed from the European region, G2, fell into Group C.

The last remaining No. 1 seed from the LMS region, Flash Wolves, fell into Group D.

The draw for Pool 1 was quite easy, without any involvement, and the four No. 1 seeds were simply placed in four groups.

The next draw, Pool 2, is the most exciting part of the S game group draw.

There are eight teams in Pool 2.

Five of them are the second seeds from the five major regions, as well as TSM, the first seed from the North American region, SSG, the third seed from the LCK region, and GAM from the Vietnam region.

There are eight teams in total. Following the principle of avoiding groups from the same region, four teams are drawn to four groups.

Rookie walked to the front of Pool 2 and stood still, holding his chest with his left hand, and stretched out his right hand nervously.

In the training room of LGD base.

The coaching staff members were all staring at Rookie's right hand nervously.

The first team that Rookie drew from Pool 2 will fall into Group A, with LGD.

"Rou Ji, please help, Rou Ji, we don't mind drawing a Vietnamese team!" Wei Shen shouted at the screen.

PYL also smiled and said: "Except for the two LCK teams, any of the other five teams will do, we are not picky."

PYL's joke actually reflects the thoughts of most people in LPL to a certain extent.

LCK has won the championship of the four consecutive S3456 World Finals. In recent years, LPL has won fewer games and lost more games against LCK in BO5.

Even though LGD just defeated SKT and won the MSI championship at this year's MSI.

But MSI and S game are completely different things.

In 2015, EDG also defeated SKT to win the MSI, but what about the subsequent S5 World Championship?

It was a complete mess!

At this time, LPL, from the teams to the audience, it is impossible to say that they are not afraid of LCK at all.

At this time, Rookie had already picked up a black ball from the second pool and was about to spin it.

Eimy turned around and patted PYL on the shoulder, saying: "Hey, what are you afraid of!"

"I don't even look down on this three-star, Rouji, draw us a three-time champion SKT for fun, I play elite!"

As he was talking, Eimy suddenly found that the training room had become quiet, and the whole atmosphere was wrong.

Teammates and head coach Dgc turned their heads and looked at Eimy with a strange look.

"What? Draw RNG? Draw again!" Eimy said with a smile.

Then he turned around and saw that Rookie was holding a yellow note with [SKT] written on it.

Rookie on the stage had a very painful smile on his face. He also felt that his first draw seemed a bit unlucky.

At this time, the live broadcast rooms of the draw ceremony on various platforms, the originally tepid barrage, suddenly exploded.

[Wow, what a tough draw! ]

[Danger! ]

[Brothers, I'm a little nervous! ]

[Are you afraid of the hook? Didn't beat SKT in MSI this year? The same in the S game! ]

[No, you know nothing, SKT in the S game is different! ]

[Don't panic, there are two places in a group! ]

[Rouji, Rouji, you probably didn't wash your hands before going on stage! ]

[SKT? Tuji, LGD, beat SKT hard! ]

[Ah, do LGD players know they are so brave! ]

[.]

At this time in the LGD training room.

"Damn, Dange, you are really a jinx!" Wei Shen shouted.

PYL pushed away Eimy's right hand that was on his shoulder, and said in a serious tone: "Go away, don't touch me, you are poisonous!"

At this time, Zhou Dian shrugged, smiled slightly, and spread his hands.

"SKT is SKT, there is nothing to be afraid of, we are fighting against the elite!"