Chapter 406: The First Mainstream Team to Fail in the Qualifying Round

However, Zhou Dian's view is a little different from Dgc.

Dgc's point of view is naturally reasonable, but the problem with WE's opening match today is not here.

In Zhou Dian's view, the problem lies in WE paying too much attention to its opponents.

In terms of personal strength, the guys from WE are far stronger than the players from the wild card team. Just pick a few heroes with strong laning strength and crush them all the way.

After the opening match, the next match was against LYN, WE’s opponent just now.

After taking out Syndra in the WE game, LYN, the mid laner, took out Jayce.

LYN defeated GMB easily, with a direct defeat in the middle.

This wild card mid laner does seem to have something.

I don’t know if this game inspired WE. In the next game when WE played GMB, facing Bingniao, Xiye also directly took out the mid laner Jace.

The scene was a bit brutal, Xiye killed directly through the middle.

In just over 20 minutes, WE won the game.

Jayce's output is three times that of Icebird.

WE's two games ended on the first day of the qualifying round. WE won both games, and there was no overturn in the LPL.

There will be three BO1 games in Group B on the same day.

The C9 team from the North American Division lost two games and won two games.

Judging from the content of the first day of the qualifying rounds, the strength gap between the teams in the wild card division and the mainstream division is quite obvious.

If nothing else, the four third seeds from the four major regions should easily win the first place in the four groups.

Then they successfully advanced to the group stage in the second round of the qualifying round.

After the qualifying rounds begin, there is another point that must be mentioned.

It has been less than half a month since the World Championship version - version 7.18 was launched. In the pub game, a hero who was very powerful before has become invincible.

That's Calista.

During this period, many teams also played a small number of training matches with each other.

Judging from the data feedback from all aspects, the strength of the skateboard hero is too high.

It doesn't matter what kind of support you pair it with, you win if you put it out.

If before version 7.18, you might lose the game if you got skateboard shoes, but now you really can’t lose if you get skateboard shoes!

In today's six BO1 games in the qualifying round, the red side has undoubtedly banned all skateboard shoes.

Even the two teams WE and C9, who are far inferior to their wild card teams, banned skateboard shoes in the first round of BP when they were on the red side.

In League of Legends, the strength of the heroes is always greater than the strength of the players.

If you feel that the player strength is higher, it may only be that the strength of those versions of the heroes is not high enough and the values ​​​​are not high enough.

Therefore, the hero of skateboard shoes is basically invisible in this world championship.

Why do you say it is basic!

Because there are always some stubborn kids in this world.

For example, in the S5 World Championship that year, LGD released Tetsuo.

On the second day of the S7 World Championship qualifying round, Tietouwa appeared.

All viewers have also seen the power of skateboard shoes in this version.

In the second game of the second match day of the qualifying round, C9 faced the wild card team DW.

DW on the red side did not ban skateboard shoes, and C9 directly grabbed the skateboard shoes on the first floor of the blue side.

Then, not only did C9 win the game in about 20 minutes, but they also scored five kills in Skateboards.

On the second day of the competition, there was a pentakill in the S7 World Championship.

On the second match day of the qualifying round, the first three games of Group B were played.

After these three games, C9 easily won all 4 games and advanced to the second round of the playoffs with the first record in Group B.

And in the match against the DW team, the women's AD-Sneaky also used skate shoes to score a five-kill.

It's a pity that he is currently traveling abroad to play games, so it is not convenient for him to play COS.

If he gets five kills in the LCS league, he will definitely post a few women's COS photos to celebrate after the game.

After the group stage of Group B, there are three remaining games in Group A where WE is located.

Since Group B played an extra match to determine the second place in the group, it was almost dark when we arrived at the Group A match.

After three games in Group A, WE also won all four games and advanced to the second round of the qualifying rounds as the first in Group A.

The second place in Group A is LYN with two wins and two losses.

As for the GMB team, formerly known as M5, among the eight wild card teams, this wild card team may be the most familiar to LPL audiences. They lost four times in a row in the qualifying group stage. Their trip to the global finals That's the end of it.

The group stages of the qualifying rounds A and B were quickly completed within two days.

The time has come to September 25th, and there are still ten days before the start of the group stage of the global finals.

Most of the foreign teams that can directly participate in the group stage have not come yet.

However, Dgc has heard that two European and American teams have already arrived in Jiangcheng.

Considering the problem of "long-sparing battle formation" that was previously concluded, Dgc immediately ran to contact the two European and American teams that had arrived in Jiangcheng.

I want to see if I can arrange a training match or something to experience the creativity of "European and American artists".

The answer was of course "NO!"

Other team leaders said that we came to Jiangcheng so many days in advance just to have a few days of fun.

As for training and so on, let’s talk about it after we’ve had enough fun!

I can only say that European and American teams know how to have fun playing games.

And today is also the third day of the play-in tournament.

However, WE's group stage has ended. Since there are no LPL teams participating, Zhou Dian is too lazy to watch the game today based on the level of the play-in tournament.

I'll just read the news and look through the battle report to get a feel for it.

Zhou Dian is a person who likes to pay attention to and study his opponents.

In the LGD team, apart from the coaching staff, he should be the one who has watched the most games.

Maybe in the eyes of many fans, the hard power of these teams that have made it out of the play-in tournament is quite limited.

No matter which team is finally assigned to Group A where LGD is, it should not pose a big threat to LGD.

However, in Zhou Dian's opinion, all teams that can participate in the World Championship should not be underestimated.

Especially in BO1 games, these European and American wildcard teams often play some strange heroes.

If you are not careful, it is easy to capsize in the gutter.

There is no room for error in BO1.

In today's play-in tournament, the first three games of Group C were played.

FNC from the European region easily won two games.

Next are the three games of Group D.

In fact, the play-in matches lasted for three days, and the results of all the games were basically in line with the pre-match predictions of the mainstream group.

But today, something unexpected finally happened in Group D.

The play-in matches have a total of 4 groups and 12 teams, and each group has a third-seeded team from the mainstream region.

In Group D is the HKA team from the LMS region.

In all the previous play-in matches, the third-seeded team from the mainstream region in Group ABC has never lost a game.

Although this HKA team is a team from the LMS region.

But it is not a team from Taiwan, but a team from Hong Kong.

For LPL viewers, the most well-known person in this team is their head coach.

Their head coach is Tabe, who is the first support of Uzi's career and the former support of Royal Club.

After Tabe retired, he quickly switched to the coaching position.

In the past few years, he has also been in the coaching circles of LPL and LSPL, but he has not made any name for himself.

This year, he chose to return to his hometown Xianggang and led a team to play in the LMS League. Unexpectedly, he also got the third seed of this year's LMS region.

If you want to choose the one with the highest probability of failure in the qualifying round from the four third seeds of the four major regions in the qualifying round.

Most people may choose the HKA team from Xianggang.

After the three group matches of Group C, the group D match started.

The first game was HKA against the RPG team from Liben.

Xiaorizi, an RPG team with a full-time lineup, seemed to be a little weak in combat power.

They were directly beaten by HKA, and their base was flattened in 25 minutes, and they were almost shut out.

The next game was HKA against the 1907 Fenerbahce (FB) team from the Turkish region.

The Turkish region is actually a bit higher than the general wildcard region.

There is no wrong version in the one-6-9 one-book one-bar!

Because there are many Korean players in this division.

For example, KaKao, the former jungle king, went to Turkey to make money after leaving IG.

Crash, the jungler of the FB team participating in the play-in round, is a Korean player.

Just when most people were optimistic about HKA as usual.

After a 50-minute battle, FB from Turkey defeated HKA.

This was the first defeat of a mainstream division team in the play-in round.

Then FB easily defeated Liben's RPG team.

The third day of the play-in round was over.

That night, in the PTT forum of the underworld in Taiwan, many Taiwanese viewers expressed gloating about HKA's loss to FB today.

Of course, even these people did not think that HKA would not be able to qualify from the play-in round group.

It's just that they are looking forward to HKA eventually advancing to the next round as the second in the group.

In the second round of the BO5 elimination match, the rule is that the first in the group draws the second in the group.

In this way, HKA will definitely be drawn against one of the three teams, WE, C9, and FNC, in the second round of the knockout round of the play-in tournament.

Although these three teams are the third seeds in their respective regions, they are also veteran teams with obvious strength.

If HKA is drawn against any of these three teams, the result will most likely be a failure.

What?

Didn’t you say HKA is also in the LMS region?

We are all in the same region, and we are all family members. Why do Taiwanese fans like to see HKA embarrassed?

I can only say that some Taiwanese fans think so.

You are all from the countryside in the HKA team. Who are you from the same family?

If HKA really didn’t make it out of the play-in tournament, of course we would laugh at you!

September 26th, the last day of the group stage of the play-in tournament.

Today, the three games of Group D will be played first.

At the beginning, the RPG team lost two games in a row, ending their journey to the world championship with four consecutive losses, and can go back to Liben.

In the third game, HKA defeated FB after another 50-minute hard battle.

In this way, the group stage results of both teams are 3-1.

With the same win-loss record, an extra game is needed to determine who is the first in the group.

In the tiebreaker, Crash, the Korean player of FB team, played Nidalee in the opposite version and turned into Xiaodai, and beat HKA.

He also beat HKA to the second place in the group.

It is clear that HKA finally advanced to the second round of the qualifying round.

But at this time in the backstage lounge, Tabe, the head coach of HKA, had a solemn face.

In the second round, HKA will play a BO5 with one of the three teams, WE, C9, and FNC.

No matter who he plays, he has no idea.

On the main stage, after defeating five HKA players in the tiebreaker, the five players on the FB field hugged each other excitedly, which was even more exciting than when they won the league championship.

Because they knew that after getting the first place in the group and avoiding WE, C9, and FNC, they would most likely advance to the main stage of the S7 World Championship.

For the teams in the wildcard region, being able to participate in the main competition of the global finals and play in front of the global audience is their biggest wish.

They have no greater extravagance.

Then came the last three group matches of Group C.

Surprisingly, FNC also lost in the last match of Group C.

In this way, HKA is not the only mainstream team that lost in the group stage of the play-in round.

Although FNC lost the last match.

But the 3-1 record still ensured that they advanced to the second round of the play-in round as the first in Group C.

Then, the draw for the second round of the knockout match began immediately.

Under Tabe's nervous eyes, HKA drew FNC, which had just lost a BO1.

The BO5 match between the two teams will be the afternoon of the day after tomorrow.

Seeing FNC drawn, Tabe was slightly relieved.

After all, FNC did not win all the games in the group stage and lost to the wildcard team.

It should not be as difficult to play as WE and C9.

It can only be said that Tabe is a little confused, or he comforted himself.

In fact, most of the audience can see it more clearly than Tabe.

As early as a few hours ago, when HKA finally only got the second place in Group D, netizens in major LOL related forums had already begun to laugh at these rural Hong Kong people in advance.

No matter which of the three teams WE, C9, and FNC were drawn, in the eyes of netizens, HKA could pack up and prepare to go home in advance.

Playing BO5 is not like playing BO1, experience is very important.

In addition to being veteran teams, the players in these three teams have been fighting in the arena for many years.

Each team also has one or two, two or three famous players.

Not the CJB type, but players with real strength.

To be honest, the hard power is quite different.

After a day of rest, on September 28, the second round of the qualifying match started.

Two BO5 games were arranged today.

The first game was C9 vs. LYN.

Sure enough, when it comes to BO5, it is the time to truly test the strength of a team.

In the group match BO1 a few days ago, the LYN team, which caused a lot of trouble to WE, faced C9 in the BO5, but the overall performance was not good enough.

Except for the first game that caused a lot of trouble to C9, C9 easily won the next two games in more than 20 minutes.

Especially in the second game, LYN on the red side prepared a trick, confident that it could beat Skateboard Shoes, and actually released Skateboard Shoes.

And C9 also directly selected Skateboard Shoes, and then Skateboard Shoes killed the opponent.

During the entire qualifying period.

When the AD players of other teams could not play a Skateboard Shoe.

C9's female AD had already got two Skateboard Shoes, which was simply a killing.

In the end, C9 easily defeated LYN 3-0.

The third seed C9 team in the North American division became the first qualifying team to make it out of the qualifying and advance to the main stage of the S7 World Championship.

According to the principle of avoiding the same division, in the four groups of the main competition stage, C9 will fall into Group A where LGD is located, or Group C where RNG is located.