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Jankos continued to think of ideas, he wanted to break through the GRF duo.

But he was counter-ambushed by Tarzan again, and was killed along with his support.

The factory manager smiled helplessly and said, "To be honest, if it wasn't the S game, this would feel like a script."

"Jankos was controlled by Tarzan. He went to whatever lane he was told to go. This game feels like he has gone too far."

The subsequent game turned into a game of "Eagle Catches Chicken". Tarzan was the eagle, chasing Jankos all the way and knocking Jankos unconscious. It was a one-sided crushing victory.

Su Mo glanced at the factory director. The factory director seemed quite relaxed just now, but now his face was solemn, as if facing a great enemy!
I guess he really felt the pressure from Tarzan.

Soon, the game ended. In a one-sided victory, GRF defeated G2 and took first place in Group A.

The director also gave Perkz a special close-up.

Perkz stood up, forced a smile, his face flushed and sweaty.

Meiko joked: "A-P has suffered a lot. He was beaten badly by GRF in these two games. Hahaha, he must be feeling very uncomfortable now."

Abu said: "Now that we have watched the game, the good news is that GRF is very strong, but they are first in the group and we won't meet them in the quarterfinals. The bad news is that we may still meet them later, so we need to be careful."

EDG resumed training.

A strange thing happened. Su Mo soon received a message from Perkz:
"We came in second on purpose today. We still have a lot of tactics to come up with."

Seeing this, Su Mo didn't know how to respond.

You are being too hard-mouthed.

The next day, the second match day of the second round of group matches, Group B!
Su Mo continued to let Ray play in the top lane, and finally he easily won three consecutive victories, ending the group stage with a record of six bars and zero.

When Su Mo came back home in the evening and read the reviews online, he found that they were not as optimistic as he had imagined:
"Something's wrong. Something feels wrong! EDG has been playing against a bunch of idiots and has lowered their level."

"Look at Group A yesterday. GRF is getting better and better. I'm panicking now."

"Can EDG win against GRF now? It's hard to say."

"I feel like there isn't a decent opponent in this group, which is not a good thing for EDG."

This kind of worry is quite normal, as EDG’s current strength is actually unknown.

It is hard to say how strong they are without a strong team to test them.

The next day, the third match day of the second round of the group stage, all Group C matches had to be played.

Group C was more tense. FNC beat T1, T1 beat FPX, and FPX beat FNC. The three teams are now in a state of greedy snakes, while CG was abandoned and couldn't beat anyone.

In the end, T1 defeated FNC and FPX in the second round, maintaining its first place in the group, while FPX defeated FNC in an extra game, passed the test with difficulty, and finished second in the group.

The last match day of the group stage, Group D matches.

The EDG members gathered together again to watch the game.

Before the game started, people in the group started chatting.

IG, Ning: "We will take revenge today. We will definitely be the first in Group D."

EDG, Mo: "I also hope you guys are first in the group, so we won't meet in the quarterfinals."

IG, Ning: "Hahaha, Brother Mozi, are you so afraid of us?"

IG, Baolan: "Ning Mazi, can you please stop talking?"

EDG, Clearlove9: "Xiaomo just doesn't want to fight a civil war, don't think too much about it."

FPX, Doinb: "Believe in IG!"

Soon, players from both teams came on the field.

Meiko commented: "Don't you think DWG and IG are somewhat similar? In terms of play style and style."

"Even their uniforms are a bit similar. There must be some bond between the two teams."

The factory manager laughed: "Bond? I didn't see that, there are grudges."

Entering the BP, in this game IG took out Clockwork in the middle lane, Syndra in the bottom lane, and Jayce in the top lane.

On the FPX side, the top laner is Vladimir, the mid laner is Akali, and the ADC is Kaisa.

Abu analyzed: "Mage bottom lane seems to be very popular now."

Su Mo replied: "It's not that mages are popular in the bottom lane, it's that ADCs are not very good now. Except for Kaisa and Xayah, other ADCs are basically ineffective."

"So we can only choose to put heroes from other positions in the bottom lane."

Entering the game screen, IG played a routine at level 1, and the auxiliary Titan came to the top lane to help ambush and help Jayce get the first blood.

Meiko cheered, "Baolan did a great job! There's a trick for that."

"Jayce got the first blood. How to fight against Vladimir in the top lane?"

Iboy added: "Also, Jayce has Kleptomancy and Vampire doesn't, so the economic gap between them will widen quickly."

Less than seven minutes into the game, the director showed both teams their economic panels, and the gap in the top lane was already over a thousand!

The factory manager sighed: "This is too exaggerated. The economic gap between the two teams is more than 1,000 in more than six minutes. How can we play this game? The opponent has a big item, but we still have a small item."

Su Mo explained: "This is the benefit of Tapi and the omen of theft."

At this time, Theshy's Jayce was pulling the opponent's vampire in front of the defensive tower. The vampire seemed anxious and used his ultimate to attack.

Su Mo commented: "Not enough damage, give it away."

Sure enough, the vampire was almost killed by Jayce.

Meiko muttered, "This one should be a sure win, the economic gap in the top lane is so huge."

Abu nodded: "It should be stable. Jace is too far ahead. It has exceeded the limit of the vampire's ability to withstand pressure."

However, just when everyone thought that the game was over, a chaotic fight broke out between the mid, top and jungle players of both teams in the top lane.

Originally, IG wanted to kill Vampire by crossing the tower, but Vampire had a blood pool, and Lee Sin was lurking behind him, so he was held back. Showmaker's Akali rushed over with her ultimate and a set of combos, all smoothly!

Akali killed her way from her own top lane tower to the bottom of the opposing tower and completed a triple kill!

Everyone in EDG was stunned!

Meiko exclaimed: "This is a human operation... so smooth? Look at his damage calculation and skill release, it's really too smooth. If there is any small mistake, this wave will not be able to kill three people."

Iboy sighed: "I don't know who is better between Showmaker and Chovy. I thought it was Chovy before, but now I feel that Showmaker seems to be more comprehensive."

The game continued. While the top lane was blossoming, Kaisa in the bottom lane also got a kill. DWG almost collapsed at the beginning, but now had the advantage.

Immediately afterwards, Ning Wang ganked the bottom lane. Baolan got anxious and flashed Q the minions, but the opponent took the opportunity to kill him. Canyon rushed over again and he was alone again.

The factory manager was dumbfounded: "No, they had such a big advantage in the early stage, how could they destroy themselves like this?"

"Hurry up and operate it well, don't mess around, this one already has it."

Su Mo smiled and said, "If they don't mess around, is it still IG? This team is just like this, there's nothing we can do about it."

"IG is getting more and more anxious now, and it feels like they are going to go far."

As soon as Su Mo finished speaking, Ning Wang became anxious again. He forced a gank on the top lane, but was counter-ambushed by Canyon and killed.

The two sides began to huddle together and exchange heads.

Su Mo analyzed: "It feels like it's a good thing for IG to stick together. Have you noticed that if they play with their brains or support, IG will easily run into problems, but if they stick together and operate together, they won't be afraid of DWG."

Meiko agreed: "Indeed, it feels like they are missing a brain? Generally speaking, the jungler and the support are the main commanders of the team... Ning Wang and Bao Lan..."

Meiko seemed to have discovered something, but he didn't say it directly.

Abu used his eyes to remind him not to talk nonsense.

DWG started looking for opportunities to attack the big dragon, and then a quite comedic scene appeared.

DWG was chased by IG when they were fighting for the Baron. After IG won the team fight, they took over the Baron, but it was snatched away by Canyon.

Then DWG's players TPed over and continued the team fight, and in the end it ended up being four for five, and DWG narrowly won.

Although they were only one kill short, DWG had the Baron and the kill was harvested by the double C.

Su Mo made a judgment: "This round is over. Both sides seem to have problems with command."

Baolan laughed and said: "No wonder I always felt that IG and DWG were very similar. Now I know how they are similar. DWG is also confusing sometimes. They give opportunities for no apparent reason."

Su Mo continued: "So in the secondary league and LCK, DWG has always been unable to beat GRF, because GRF's command is calmer and makes fewer mistakes."

Soon, both sides continued to group in the middle lane, and IG pushed forward aggressively, although DWG still had a dragon seed.

But IG doesn't seem to care.

The factory manager frowned, "Really, I find it difficult to evaluate these two teams. Logically, the opponent has a dragon ball now, so IG's troops must be at a disadvantage. They should drag it out and wait for the dragon buff to disappear." "But IG insisted on forcing the attack, just like DWG forced the dragon just now. It feels very strange. I don't know what they are thinking."

As the factory manager was speaking, the lost Theshy was found by DWG's top and jungle and was killed instantly in the side jungle area.

Moreover, when other IG members came to support, they were stuck in a very awkward position and were wiped out instantly!

DWG won the team battle and ended the game in one wave.

"Ah?" Everyone in EDG was filled with question marks.

Judging from the operation and laning, both sides are experts.

In the past, we had some back and forth battles, with both sides winning and losing.

The way this game ended was too abstract.

"This..." Everyone in EDG looked at each other, only Su Mo remained calm:

“IG is like this.”

So Group D was also finished, DWG ranked first and IG ranked second.

In this way, the group stage was over and the EDG players were eating snacks while waiting.

There will be a lottery ceremony soon.

During the interview stage, the person being interviewed was Showmaker, whose Akali got six bars and zero, and won the MVP.

The factory manager commented: "This Showmaker is better than I thought. His proficiency in Akali seems to be very high?"

Su Mo responded: "In LCK, at least the top two."

The factory manager looked at Su Mo and asked, "Compared with you?"

Su Mo looked at Scout: "Shouldn't I compete with Scout?"

Scout was stunned: "Huh? What's going on?"

The factory manager asked: "What do you think of Showmaker's Akali? Is it as strong as yours?"

Scout hesitated after hearing this, and finally said, "I don't know, I've never fought him."

The factory manager was shocked! Scout's reaction at least shows that the strength of both sides is very close, so it is difficult for Scout to evaluate.

Scout is a double-champion mid laner, while the opposing Showmaker is just a rookie who is playing in the S game for the first time.

A moment later, the drawing ceremony began.

The host came on stage and began to announce the rules of the draw.

The current group leaders are GRF, EDG, T1, and DWG.

The second place in the groups are: G2, SPY, FPX, and IG.

The factory manager analyzed: "It's not good. The three LCK teams are all first in their groups, and we are the only one left."

Meiko sighed: "Not good enough, FPX and IG, we are now being focused on by other teams."

The first place team in the group will match the second place team in the group.

Teams from the same group will not meet in the quarterfinals.

The rules are simple.

The guest who drew lots came on stage.

Meiko began to pray: "I hope it's not G2, I hope it's not G2."

Su Mo teased: "Not really, didn't we beat G2 before?"

Meiko explained: "G2 is such a weird team."

"EDG!"

The first group leader drawn is EDG!

Place it to the left of the first BO5, and so on.

"T1!"

"DWG!"

"GRF!"

The order of the first place in the four group matches is determined, and then the draw for the second place in the four groups will begin.

Everyone in EDG fell silent and stared at the guests' actions.

The guest drew out a small ball and spread it out.

"G2!"

"Puff!" Meiko spat out a mouthful of blood.
“It’s really G2!”

Meiko couldn't believe her eyes.

Su Mo comforted him, "It's okay, it's not a big problem."

At this moment, the phone beeped. Su Mo picked it up and saw that it was a message from Perkz:
"Mo, I will eliminate you myself. Don't blame me. It's your bad luck."

Perkz even posted a selfie, making a neck-wiping gesture.

If it was sent by someone else, Su Mo would feel provoked.

But when it was posted by Perkz, he just thought it was funny.

"SPY!"

T1 vs. SPY!

The factory manager was unhappy: "The best player was taken by T1? No, can you exchange one with us?"

Su Mo replied: "It can't be changed. SPY is in our group. Even if we draw it, it will be counted for the next one."

"IG!"

The third BO5, GRF vs. IG!

"FPX."

The last one is naturally DWG vs. FPX.

In this way, the schedule for the quarterfinals has been determined:
EDG vs. G2
T1 vs. SPY
Griffin vs. IG
DWG vs FPX
EDG is responsible for taking the lead and will play in the first BO5.

Abu reminded: "Now the group results are out, the opponent has been determined, G2, we have played against them many times, including the MSI before, so we should be relatively familiar with them."

"But we can't let our guard down. We need to work hard!"

So the EDG players started training, while in the group, the FPX and IG players were already discussing.

FPX, Doinb: "IG, give me some information, how to beat DWG? They seem so strong."

IG, Ning: "That's it. I feel it's easier to beat than GRF."

FPX, Crisp: “It’s hard to say.”

FPX, Tian: "Their jungler is pretty good, but GRF's jungler also has something. Their styles are different. One is good at operations, and the other is good at brains."

IG, Ning: "We are all rookies. Let's defeat GRF first, and then go find DWG."

FPX, Lwx: "Hey! This is not right, are you assuming that we will lose?"

Su Mo did not participate in the discussion. After all, relatively speaking, the opponent's strength was not that strong.

A few days passed quickly and the quarterfinals are here!

The EDG team set out from the hotel and arrived at the competition venue. After getting off the car, the EDG team was about to go in.

As a result, a group of people walked out of the venue.

The leader was a white man with a very receding hairline.

G2's starting ADC, Perkz!

"Brother Mozi, you are finally here, Brother Mozi!" Perkz was very excited to see Su Mo.

"You're not waiting in there on purpose for us to arrive," Su Mo asked.

Perkz admitted generously: "Yes, I just want to communicate with you." (End of this chapter)