LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 250: Lin Ruo, did you step on dog shit? Such good luck.

After finishing the interview, Lin Ruo went back to his room, picked up his schoolbag, and prepared to go back to Shanghai directly.

More and more media outlets are gathering outside, and if each of them interviews him, who can stand it?

He is a professional League of Legends player, not a so-called real Go player, and needs to rely on these interviews in the Go world to gain fame.

What's more, if you don't leave now, some people who claim to be masters of Go will come and ask to be your disciples.

It doesn't matter what mountain gate or Taoist temple you join if you are self-taught. Lin Ruo only likes to tell others that he is accepting disciples, and forget about other things.

I went to the front desk to return the room card, didn't stay any longer, and took a taxi away.

The receptionist stared at Lin Ruo as he left without looking back, with emotion in her eyes.

"He actually won the championship. What a handsome and capable man."

...

On the return high-speed train, Lin Ruo soon received warm greetings from the club manager Bu.

[You must be back at the club by 22 PM at the latest. You are not allowed to stay out all night, and you are not allowed to go out drinking with anyone and come back drunk. Your holiday ends the day after tomorrow, and you are not allowed to delay anything further.]

Maybe because he is only 17 years old, Abu pays special attention to discipline issues.

It may also be that they are afraid that the young boy like the beach boy will go out and do improper things at a young age, which will affect his condition and even damage the reputation of the club.

All in all, that's it.

But Lin Ruoke didn't have these ideas. He only had one idea: to pretend when necessary.

If you win the championship and don’t show off to gain recognition, then you’re crazy, right?
After taking a photo, Lin Ruo immediately uploaded the award certificate to his Weibo, and did not forget to change his profile to add the title of 2017 Menglily Cup Amateur Competition National Champion.

EDG, Ling:

"I accidentally won the national championship in an amateur competition. Just checking it out."

【Why don't you try to install it again? 】

[Bullying a teenager is nothing compared to a skill. I, Jiangnan Peng Yuyan, will not recognize this championship unless you go home tonight and immediately start a live broadcast.]

[Yes, start the live broadcast quickly, the chicken soup is here and he said he will send you the 100 big swords he owes you.]

I'm already at the high-speed rail station, preparing to intercept Lin Gou offline. If I don't start a live stream tonight, don't even think about leaving.

As expected, the comment section is full of abstract weirdos.

It never goes out of style for fans to follow the main character.

Rita: Awesome! I'll call you Go Master from now on.

Guan Zeyuan: Master Lin, please focus on your next World Championship game. The group stage draw will begin soon.

Fortunately, Guan Zeyuan reminded him, otherwise Lin Ruo would have almost forgotten that today was the draw ceremony for the qualifying round and group stage.

It’s good to be close. When Lin Ruo returned to the club, it was just after 20 o’clock.

Teammates including coach Nofe and Abdu were sitting together watching the draw.

With a "kids, I'm back" to interrupt the atmosphere, Lin Ruo sat back on the gaming chair he hadn't seen for a long time, started the live broadcast and joined in watching.

Ai Loli was very surprised: "Brother Lin, you're back so early. I thought you were going to get drunk with the organizers' bosses."

Abu felt very relieved.

Apart from liking to play other games, this kid always strictly abides by the rules when it comes to serious disciplinary issues.

"Yes, I'm still waiting for the boss to introduce his lovely daughter to me." Lin Ruo jokingly leaned back in the chair, holding a bottle of AD calcium milk in his mouth.

Soon, the draw ceremony began unknowingly in the LPL official live broadcast room.

The big screen quickly flashed through the images of teams from each region securing spots in the global finals.

The camera then switched to LPL's official studio in Shanghai.

After the host Ren Dong introduced the rules of the lottery in standard Mandarin, the formal lottery session began.

The guests responsible for the draw are Rookie from IG and the ancient handsome man AJ from IM.

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

Except for LCK, which won the world championship last year and does not have to participate in the qualifying round, the third seeds of the other four regions will enter Pool 1 of the qualifying round without exception, and form four groups with the remaining wildcard regions.

To determine the four teams to participate in the group stage.

The strength gap between such a group is too great, and it is easy to be judged as just going through the motions.

After all, if the teams from the five major regions can be eliminated by wildcards.

Wild cards are no longer called wild cards.

However, Lin Ruo remembered that the third seed HKA from the LMS region seemed to have been eliminated by the wildcard zone in the end.

Well, maybe LMS should not be counted among the top five leagues. After all, apart from FW, which has been performing poorly in major competitions for many years, the others are not worthy of being included.

[You're wasting time, you can't even recognize any of these wild cards.]

If WE loses to a wildcard team, they can go home.

【Let’s start the group stage draw soon. 】

The people watching the live broadcast were also getting impatient. The draw would take at least 10 minutes, and after it was over, they had to watch several hosts analyze it for another 6 minutes.

The water duration has reached its extreme.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Ruo, who was playing with his phone, came back to his senses after hearing A Guang's prayers.

"The group stage has begun. Pray for us to get a good draw."

"No, last year's World Championship draw was probably the best in history. I have no idea what the result will be, so let's go with something a little more challenging." Lin Ruo said with a smile.

The factory manager felt hurt again.

Lin Ruo's words reminded him of the game last year when he was beaten by the Brazilian Saint Monk.

Qualifying as the second in the non-Korean group is indeed a shameful thing, and they deserve to be criticized.

"Then let's have a challenging signing. With Brother Lin leading me, I'm not afraid of anyone." A Guang changed his words at the speed of light.

The group stage draw is divided into three seeding pools.

The champion teams of the four major regions lead the first pool. As for why the four major regions, it is because the North American region, which performed poorly in the Mid-Season Invitational, was expelled from the queue, so the North American champion TSM was forced to mix with the runner-up of their own region, IMT, in the second seed pool.

Add to that the second and third seeds SKT and SSG from the LCK region, as well as the Vietnamese powerhouse GAM, which performed well in the Mid-Season Invitational and earned a direct spot in the group stage.

Pool No. 2 has a total of eight teams, which will be drawn into each group in pairs, while the principle of avoiding the same competition area will be implemented.

At this time, the rules for group team coexistence were not as strictly divided by levels as later.

In other words, there is a phenomenon where the second seeds of two regions enter individual groups together.

For example, in Group A of S7 EDG, SKT and AHQ are both the second seed teams in their respective regions, but that does not affect them being squeezed together.

So when AJ took out the first stick from the transparent glass jar.

Lin Ruo focused slightly.

If it follows the rules of the previous life, EDG will undoubtedly be the first to be drawn and directly enter Group A.

As it turned out, it was indeed EDG.

However, the subsequent developments exceeded Lin Ruo's imagination.

The next one to come on stage and start drawing was Rookie.

The four top seeds were quickly divided into their respective groups. There was nothing special to pay attention to. What the audience really cared about were the teams that entered these groups later.

AJ continued to appear on the stage, came to pool No. 2, and casually drew out a red lottery ticket.

Lin Ruo was stunned for a moment.

The red sign represents the team from the LEC European region, not the so-called SKT, which means that fate has changed partially.

"MSF, the Little Rabbit Team, they will enter Group A with EDG." Ren Dong said in an orderly manner in the studio.

"Wow, I hope we won't be able to draw the Korean team again." Tian Ye smiled bitterly.

He still wants to play against the Korean team.

As soon as he finished speaking, SSG was pulled out by Rookie in the second round.

Since Group B was led by LZ, SSG automatically entered the G2 group of Group C through group avoidance.

Then SKT also came out.

On the big screen, also due to the avoidance principle, SKT appeared in Group D led by FW.

"Oh my god, we really won't be able to meet the Korean team." A Guang spread his hands. He was just talking casually, but he didn't expect that his dream would come true.

Abu sighed and said, "Everyone, please be 100% focused. We must not let our guard down this time."

Last year, we were also in the non-Korean group, and it was obvious how bad our performance was.

Abramovich doesn't want to repeat the same mistake.

[Same story as last year, EDG's luck is just too good. Did Lin Ruo just come back and step on Nice's shit?]

[I seriously suspect that Guodian has bribed the authorities. Hehehe, I'm reporting this on behalf of the other teams who have suffered so much.]

Regardless of anything else, we can't qualify as a pathetic runner-up this time, or we'll be blacklisted for the rest of our lives.

[With Lin Shen here, there's no way this will go well.]

[Do you really not know that I, Lin Shen, am bullying the weak king, or are you pretending not to know?]

[Actually, with EDG's current strength, they don't need such a good draw. They can definitely qualify based on their ability. I just want to see them play against the Korean team.]

[Similarly, a better draw would have been better for the other two LPL teams to increase their chances of qualifying. This draw is really bad.]

[Yes, RNG and WE will definitely face the Korean team. What if they advance to the quarterfinals as runners-up in their group and face EDG?]

The audience in the live broadcast room were obviously a little disappointed with the draw. What they needed was EDG to play with momentum at the start of the home game to boost morale.

Instead of the non-Korean group bullying the weak.

But it doesn’t matter much. We can only say that the other two LPL teams are in trouble.

Fortunately, the team drawn next was not RNG, but the second seed IMT from the North American region, which automatically entered the remaining Group B to face the bullying of the LCK invincible team LZ.

After the second round of draws, there are four more teams in Pool 2 and the grouping is still ongoing.

The first team to be drawn, AHQ, joins Group A.

GAM then entered Group B.

RNG was the third to appear and was ranked in Group C with SSG and G2.

With the last team TSM automatically going to Group D, the group stage groups are officially finalized, excluding the four teams that have not yet advanced to the qualifying round.

Group A: EDG, MSF, AHQ.

Group B: LZ, IMT, GAM.

Group C: G2, SSG, RNG.

Group D: FW, SKT, TSM.

Once the drawing ceremony was over, the focus of the audience's discussion was naturally the strength rating of each group.

The hotly discussed forums are listed very quickly.

Groups AB are directly listed as groups without suspense. EDG and LZ will undoubtedly be invincible in the same group, so as to achieve the goal of easily qualifying.

As for the real group of death, it has to fall on Group C where RNG is.

Of course, the audience does not think that SSG will not get first place in the group, but compared with other groups, the risk of SSG getting first place is much higher.

At the moment, it is unclear who is stronger between G2 and RNG, so the competition in Group is bound to be more intense.

As for Group D, if WE joins later, it will obviously become another group of death.

At this moment, 60E fans are all praying online for the team to qualify and enter Group B.

Although there is LZ in Group B, which is more terrifying than SKT, the other two unknown teams are obviously inferior to the two teams in Group D.

Therefore, if WE can join Group B, the probability of qualifying will be greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)