LOL: I've already been transferred to the manager, but you just came to the system

Just after Lin Shuyang's post-match interview ended, the second agenda item after today's knockout round followed.

The draw ceremony for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship.

"Hello, everyone!"

Backstage, we greeted the WE members who were also at the sports center.

When Lin Shuyang entered the room, Xiye rushed forward impatiently, "Okay, okay, you went to the world competition without saying a word. What did you say before? I can't play anymore..."

"Go away, go away. How can you talk to your master like that?" Mika kicked Su Wangzai.

"Hehe, Lao Lin is in great shape. Isn't it good to be back to the top?"

"Brother Yang!"

"Brother Yang!"

"Yangguo..."

Jiang Chenglu, who was the last one to come, scratched his head embarrassedly. He was still not used to such crowded occasions.

"Sit down, everyone." Lin Shuyang didn't ask them how they got to TES's backstage. Anyway, the relationship between the two companies was there, and they often visited each other's rest area during LPL games.

If you can't find someone near the game, go to the other team's room and prepare to catch the lost person.

"Where are RNG and the others?"

Lin Shuyang looked around. When he just came back, there was also a North American team in the next room, but no one from RNG was there.

Jiuwuqi replied, "It seems that he went to accept the pre-match video."

"It's time to start. Let's watch the lottery ceremony and stop chatting."

Missing, who was squatting next to the computer screen in advance, reminded everyone.

Wow!

There was a swish sound and all the team members stood up and came forward.

Lin Shuyang did not try to squeeze forward, as he was sitting in a position where he could just see the large screen on the side of the scene through the transparent glass.

This is still the warm-up stage for the draw ceremony, which is to play the highlights of the sixteen teams that enter the group stage.

"Okay, welcome to the Chinese live broadcast of the 2017 World Championship group stage draw ceremony. Hello everyone, I'm Ren Dong." After the edited team highlights were played, two Riot Games hosts stood on the big stage of the Wuhan Sports Center, and the camera of the live broadcast room seen by the LPL audience turned to the studio where Ren Dong was.

"Hello everyone, I'm Li Chun!"

"Hello everyone, I'm Eleven!"

The two people next to Ren Dong are LOL game balancer Li Chun and the official new commentator Eleven.

As the person in charge of controlling the situation, after briefly introducing the two guests beside him, Ren Dong began to introduce the rules of the draw.

First of all, the composition of the sixteen teams in the group stage. Among them, LCK, as the championship region of four consecutive global finals, has three teams that have direct access to the group stage. The rest are the top two teams from LPL, Europe, North America, and LMS, the number one seed from Southeast Asia that performed well in MSI and won a single spot, and the four teams that got the final ticket in the knockout rounds of the qualifiers.

The rules of the competition are the same as those of the qualifying rounds, which are both double-round BO1 points matches, and the top two teams will directly advance to the quarterfinals. The basic principle is that teams from the same division will avoid each other in the group stage, that is, before the quarterfinals, teams from the same division will not meet.

……

"It seems like the guest drawer today is AJ again. Oh, Rookie is here too."

"It seems that we have to draw the four teams for the play-in round first."

"Yeah, that's right. I just hope we don't get drawn into the groups with LZ and SKT."

"Stupid, if we don't play against Korean teams in the group stage, it will be even harder to beat them in the knockout stage."

While the contestants were thinking, AJ's big fat face appeared in front of the camera.

He scratched the fiberglass with his right hand twice and picked up one of the balls.

The camera is locked on AJ's hands.

"Orange is not our team."

None of the three LPL teams’ logos are orange.

Sure enough, after the draw strip was unfolded, the words FNC appeared on the big screen.

FNC——Group A!
Before TES could discuss more grouping ideas, the next second AJ took out the black and gold lottery strip from the second sphere.

"TES?"

"We are Group B!"

"I hope that Lao Song will show some mercy next time and give us some normal teams."

AJ is responsible for the team allocation for the qualifying round, while Rouji is responsible for deciding the remaining twelve teams in the group stage.

Soon the remaining two teams were determined, C9 in Group C and FB in Group D! Perhaps because he was afraid that his luck was too bad, rookie kept his eyes closed while turning the draw ball, not daring to look inside.

The first team to be drawn from the second seed pool was AHQ from the LMS region.

In other words, AHQ fell into Group A.

Seeing this draw, the audience in the LMS region had a solemn look on their faces. Although they were not grouped against the strongest TES team in the qualifiers, FNC, a team that has been around the top eight in the World Championships for many years, still gave them a headache.

[I don’t understand what you are afraid of. EDG didn’t come to participate in the competition this year. ]

[It seems so! ]

There are also LMS players who don't care. As long as a certain team that has always been in the quarterfinals does not enter the World Championship, and they often ask them to borrow points when they don't have enough points in the group stage, then entering the quarterfinals of the World Championship should not be a big problem.

"The second team is GAM. Great! We are assigned to the Vietnam region again!"

Lin Shuyang originally thought that he would not be too upset by the established group draw, but when he saw Song Yi Jin's chubby little hand turning over the name of the GAM team, he couldn't help but complain.

Depend on!
Do you have to be so metaphysical?
EDG and AHQ, RNG and SKT, even if they are now in charge of TES, will they still love and hate each other with their Vietnamese brothers to the end?

Topsports’ magical grouping—amazing!
……

The groups were revealed one after another and the final results were announced on the big screen.

Group A: WE, SKT, AHQ, FNC!

Group B: LZ, IMT, GAM, TES!

Group C: G2, RNG, SSG, C9!

Group D: FW, TSM, MSF, FB!

When the four teams were assigned, the expressions of the audiences in each major competition area varied, some were happy and some were sad.

First of all, Group D was criticized by the audience as a fight between noobs. The four teams were so excited that they all laughed out loud under the camera of the draw ceremony.

There is no strong team!

There aren't any strong teams!

Among them, the TSM brothers were the most excited.

Top eight!

Quarterfinals, is our dream of quarterfinals finally coming true?

Apart from FW's strength, looking at the other two teams, MSF, the second seed in the European region, easily won.

FB?

Oh, the wildcard team from the CIS region is already very strong to be able to enter the group stage.

The more brazenly TSM smiles, the deeper the pain of AHQ fans.

Your mom has stinky hands for thousands of years.

Can you put teams like SKT and WE in the same team?

The champion and runner-up of the mid-season tournament are in the same group, what a mess!

Compared with the reaction of audiences from other regions, fans from the LPL region did not react much to this grouping, which can be considered a neither good nor bad draw.

There are South Korean teams in all three teams’ groups, but none of them look like they will not make it out of the group.

If we talk about a team that is a bit difficult, it would have to be TES. One is the champion team of this year's LCK Summer Games, LZ, and the other is the second seed IMT in North America. Even the final wildcard team is a tough guy like GAM.

Many TES fans are a little frustrated.

"Is our TES's journey to the World Championship coming to an end here?"

"Hey, a startup team made it to the World Championship in its first year, and won all the way through the play-in rounds. This is about as good as it gets for the third seed."

"I had bad luck in the grouping this year. I will just play my best and try again next year."

"So, the headmaster just came out to get beaten, but with your luck in drawing lots, how come you always get epic difficulty every year?"

#TES club owner#
#Master Guang’s incredible luck! #
#How to break the grouping of the difficulty level of Hell Year after Year. #
No one could have imagined that a post in an e-sports forum complaining about the TES boss' incredible luck during the group stage draw that night would become a hot topic.

Xiye: "Thank you, Brother Yang, for not killing me!"

957: "(Laughing and crying) Brother Yang, I really don't want to laugh, but I really can't help it."

Missing: “I didn’t believe it when I was in LSPL, but now I do.”

Pei Le (sent out a big red envelope): "Keep the red envelope. I'll give you another one to compensate you if you make it to the quarterfinals."

Lin Shuyang: ...(End of this chapter)