What is a wandering mid laner?

Although wild card teams participated in the World Championship every year before, the sample size was too small to convince them.

Moreover, the earth-shattering Russian wild card ANX single-handedly broke through the siege of G2 and CLG in the World Championship last year and entered the knockout round, which gave the wild card competition area great confidence.

Russian wild card ANX = quarterfinals, LPL second seed EDG = quarterfinals, Russian wild card = LPL second seed.

Look, the equations are listed out at once, which makes sense.

A Russian wild card is similar in strength to the No. 3 seed in the LPL division who won the S game. So it is only natural for me to abuse the No. [-] seed in the North American division who has never won the S game, right?

But the dream is beautiful, but the reality is extremely cruel.

The No. 9 seeds in C3, FNC, and SSG's three respective divisions were completely fried fish in the play-in stage. They were like tigers descending from the mountain, and they broke the self-confidence that had just been established in the wild card division.

The defeats followed one after another, and the five major competition areas didn't hold back at all, and they beat each other to death.

Heavy pressure is attached to the back of every wild card team. Their goal has changed from breaking through to the main match stage to winning their first victory. It is acceptable to tear a piece of meat from the five major regions as a trophy for returning home.

Training, training, or endless training, the wild card division that wanted to fight for their lives successfully shared the pressure with other teams in the hotel.

On the evening of September 9th, Lin Ran and his teammates went downstairs for dinner as usual, when a burly Russian old man with a fierce face suddenly burst into tears, which shocked all the contestants present.

After Lin Ran learned about it, he realized that the Russian team had already bid farewell to the World Championship ahead of schedule with 0 wins and 3 losses at the bottom of the group.

Not surprisingly, he would already be on the plane back to Moscow by this time tomorrow.

It took him only 10 days to come to Wuhan, and the speed of elimination was so fast that it was too late for people to react. It sounded the alarm for everyone.

The overwhelming pressure made many people feel unbalanced.

In the early morning of the next day, Lin Ran and Meiko, who were going to have breakfast, unexpectedly met the Dragon Ball team in the restaurant.

Lin Ran also glanced at the time strangely.

That's not right, most professional players tend to sleep late and wake up late, Lin Ran is a weird one, and Meiko didn't sleep because he stayed up all night yesterday, so he planned to go back to catch up on sleep after breakfast.

Except for seeing the LCK team come to have breakfast in the early morning of the second day after they settled in Wuhan, Lin Ran didn't see anyone at all in other mornings.

What's the situation today?

Lin Ran was puzzled, and nodded his greetings to his dad Grella who raised his head and looked at him.

He noticed that Gerila's expression was a bit sad, and there were rare dark circles under his eyes; the mouse king praying beside him was even more worried, his frowning brows looked like a hill, and he was no longer cheerful as before.

The whole Dragon Ball table was very negative, Lin Ran became even more curious.

What happened?It can't be the ghost of those dicks on IG, right?

Before he could figure it out, Dragon Ball's substitute top laner Rascal walked past here with a tray in his hands.

The 1.9-meter-tall Shu Wang is really tall and burly, the chair can't hold him, and his elbows are forced to stick out of the table.

As Rascal passed by, his waist accidentally touched the Shu King's elbow. The porridge from the dinner plate spilled on himself first, and then flowed down the team uniform into the Mouse King's bowl.

According to Yi Lin Ran, both of them were at fault in this matter, and it's over after apologizing to each other.

But Pray, who was already depressed, found a punching bag.

"Axi..." Shu Wang jiligulu's tone was up and down, as if he was singing Rap, a bit of Jin Gong's native tongue, and the speed of his speech was so fast that Lin Ran could only understand the previous swearword.

But it doesn't matter, he has Korean master Meiko by his side.

"What are they talking about?"

The gossiping meiko has long been transformed into a black cat sheriff - her ears stand up like antennae.

"It roughly means... Are you blind? Hurry up and get another bowl for brother."

Lin Ran glanced at meiko contemptuously. He didn't expect meiko to be a master of abbreviations. Just now, Shu Wang rapped for half a minute. How could it be just these two sentences?

But the meaning should be like this. As the younger brother in the team, Rascal is far behind Shu King in terms of achievements and age.

Rascal, who was deeply influenced by Korean culture of superiority and inferiority, didn't care about his clothes, so he could only nod and bow and go back to scoop up another bowl of porridge.

Shu Wang took a sip and amplified his voice again.

"Aren't you brainy? You don't even know that brother needs to add sugar to his porridge? Don't you take brother seriously?"

Lin Ran knew that brother (heong) was a unique culture of elders and children in Korea, but he didn't expect such bullying.

The Dragon Ball people at the side took it for granted, watching Rascal respectfully bow and apologize with porridge stains all over his body, and obediently went to add sugar to the porridge bowl.

"It's normal, the culture in their circle is like this," Meiko explained to Lin Ran in a low voice, "Rat King is still pretty good, usually he and Gerila Khan take good care of newcomers, probably because they encountered something bad today It's over."

Lin Ran nodded, and then realized something was wrong.

Are you a Dragon Ball player?How do you understand so well?

Meiko was right. After a while, Shu Wang realized that his reaction just now had gone too far, so he hurriedly went to Rascal to ask for help.

Although the tone was amiable, Rascal didn't even dare to look at his old senior directly, and the two of them felt awkward when they communicated.

The episode didn't make Lin Ran relax, but made him more nervous.

With the end of each training match, Lin Ran even felt that the oppressive and dull air exuded the smell of rust, and the strong smell of blood permeated, irritating his nasal cavity.

"Is your nose okay?" Guo Hao asked with concern, holding a pack of cotton balls in his hand.

Lin Ran came to his senses, he was bleeding from the nose, no wonder there was a smell of blood.

He raised his neck and put his head flat on the chair pillow, took the cotton ball to clean his nose, and his voice became muffled after the nose was blocked, "It's nothing serious, I guess I've gotten a little angry these two days."

"Don't put too much pressure on yourself," Guo Hao said duplicity, trying to appease the players, "It's not the first time to play in the World Championship."

"I know, but the meaning of this year's World Championship is different. Not to mention winning the championship, at least you have to enter the Bird's Nest." Lin Ran stopped the nosebleed, sat up straight, opened the custom and continued to practice the middle lane with the broiler.

……

On the evening of September 9, Su Cheng, wearing a loose-fitting white sweater and black trousers, carried a silver suitcase and walked out of Wuhan Tianhe International Airport along the crowd.

From a distance, she saw Guo Hao and two YM staff members waiting by the side of the road, and immediately walked forward.

"Is everyone okay?" She put the suitcase in the trunk and asked with concern.

"From the players to the coach, the strings are getting tighter and tighter," Guo Hao sighed softly, "I didn't expect that they would be under more pressure in the second year of the World Championship than last year."

Manager YM also has dark circles under his eyes now, and looks in a bad state of mind, as if he was taken over by Kandi.

Su Cheng knew it in her heart. An hour later, she successfully arrived at the Peninsula Hotel, carrying her suitcase to the YM training room on the 7th floor.

When she opened the door, she saw seven team members sitting on their chairs, facing the center of the room and staring at the curtain. No one noticed her.

The curtain is playing the last match of the play-in competition, which will determine the last place to enter the main competition stage.

The e-sports team invested by Turkish football giant Fenerbahçe is facing the Brazilian wild card ONE.

"HKA lost today?" Su Cheng asked.

"It's a terrible loss. I won three to zero, I really can't." Jack answered subconsciously, and then he heard that the voice was wrong, and he turned his head away.

"Orange..." Shiba Inu's words came to his lips, remembering the military fist that the girl had slammed on him the day he left Shanghai, he immediately changed his words and put on a smile, "Sister Su, you are here."

Su Cheng greeted several team members, and sat down next to Lin Ran, "I know HKA is pretty good, but I didn't expect them to have this level."

During the 6-day qualifying competition, traitors appeared in the five major regions.

The third seed HKA in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Unfortunately, the team coached by Tabe was assigned to 1907 Fenerbahce, who is known as the strongest wild card in this year's finalists.

As soon as we met, HKA's underpants were ripped off by the Turks, and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen from a beating.

Anyone can see that the LMS division is already at sunset. Except for AHQ and Flash Wolves, they can't even find another team that can show their strength.

HKA finally ranked second in the finalist group, and faced the leader of another group, FNC, in the last BO5 of the main match stage.

European Gao Xuecheng has never been merciless, and caps, who was known as a genius in his rookie season, led the team to sweep HKA 3:0, making them engraved on the pillar of shame in history-the first team in the five major regions that failed to break through the play-in competition clan.

YM watched the live broadcast today not to witness this history, but to see the situation of the draw after the finalists.

A glass basin containing 4 round black balls was placed on the scene again, and this year's move to Snake was the guest of honor for this draw ceremony.

Wearing a black suit, he looks slimmer than before. Like Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong, his weight loss effect is very good.

"The four teams FNC, C9, SSG and 1907 Fenerbahce who broke through from the qualifying round will be divided into the four main match groups of ABCD..."

Amid the applause from the audience, Zizhi pulled out the first black ball, which will determine the last member of Group A where YM is.

The black ball opens to reveal light blue confetti.

SSG!

Some audience members sighed with regret, and showed helplessness when they unfolded the colored paper.

Despite being only the third seed in the LCK, this is undoubtedly the strongest team in the play-in tournament.

A huge Samsung blue and white shield emerged on the big screen behind him, and with a loud noise, it was pressed down and embedded at the bottom of Group A!

In the Samsung lounge downstairs at YM, Crown clenched her fists violently, and her nails, which had been trimmed to an extremely short length, still pierced into her palms.

Coach Edgar pursed his lips tightly, and all the three-star members next to him had condensed eyes and high fighting spirit.

They must avenge the revenge of last year's quarter-finals!

Four black balls were drawn, and the group stage of the S7 Global Finals was completely determined!

Group A: YM, TSM, GAM (No. [-] seed in Vietnam), SSG

Group B: LZ, IMT, RNG, FNC

Group C: G2, AHQ, WE, C9

Group D: FW, MSF, SKT, FB (1907 Fenerbahce)

"Everyone, let's start preparing," Bai Yueyue clapped his hands, "Let's take one step at a time and set a small goal first."

"Earn a hundred million?" Jack joked.

"The first place in the group stage qualified," Bai Yueya ignored Shiba Inu, "One year's hard work depends on the next month. I hope everyone can seize this opportunity."

"Now I will announce the roster for this World Championship..." White Crescent pulled out a piece of A4 paper from his file bag.

Lin Weixiang, Liu Qingsong, and Prophet tensed their bodies. Among the five positions of YM, there are subs in the bottom lane duo. Judging from the participation in the training match, Jack is the designated starting ADC, unless he is allergic to seafood. There is no need to worry about the starting position at all.

There was no suspense in the three unsubstitute positions in the upper field. When it was the turn of the bottom duo, White Crescent paused before continuing.

"Jack in the bottom lane; assist Liu Qingsong, substitute Lin Weixiang, and urgently substitute Prophet."

The seer's body curled back, and his feet on the cushion drew even tighter.

He participated in two training games the day before yesterday, and Luo's performance was very poor. He seemed to be unable to practice well no matter what this agile team start hero.

He has really worked hard, so what is the so-called heavenly reward?

Lin Weixiang wanted to laugh when he learned that he was in the sixth man.

Although he is naive, he can also understand the mood of the prophet beside him, and it is obviously inappropriate to laugh out loud at this time.

There was a short and awkward silence in the training room.

Lin Ran turned around and started the qualifying match at the top of the canyon.

Su Cheng took out his notebook from his bag and went to White Crescent and Doom for a meeting. They discussed for an hour about their opponents in the group stage and the version of the world competition before they came to a final plan.

Su Cheng's current job task is very clear - to pull out the video and data of the finalist match of Samsung, the biggest imaginary opponent in the YM group stage, and try to find valuable information.

But it took a while to download the video, and Su Cheng didn't bother Lin Ran who was playing hand speed games while queuing up, instead, he huddled in his chair and watched the news on his mobile phone.

Unexpectedly, this time, I really discovered a big news.

After the S7 Global Finals quota was settled, Riot officially announced the annual TOP20 World Championship players.

Su Cheng glanced at the headline - YM's first five members are all on the list except Crisp, who is still inexperienced!

She glanced at Liu Qingsong, who had just secured the starting position and was earnestly asking Xianglu Ruanfu Di Shenbaolan for life-saving skills in team battles, and continued to scroll down to read the list.

The difference from last year is that this time the four of YM ranked extremely high on the list.

As usual, the goalkeeper position of TOP20 is assigned to the big brother by North American commentators. This is also a routine program every year. After all, there are not many strong players in North America.

The next reverse order is Lightning Wolves assisted Snake, G2 shooter zevn, Samsung jungler Anmen and Jin Gong.

No. 16 is the lowest among YM's players on the list. Jack is ranked No. 13, and Uzi and Samsung's top laner Cuvee slightly overwhelm him.

Starting from the account cancellation of No.10, the front is full of famous players in global competitions.

Wolf ranked ninth, and the sixth, seventh and eighth places were taken by the Dragon Ball team. The performance of the two elders Xuanming and the mid laner BDD this summer is beyond reproach.

No.5 is the top dog, and the official comment is very pertinent: As a rhythm-type jungler who stood out in the global finals last year, he is still in a better state than his competitor Peanut this year. Tian still relies on his keen sense of the situation to become a team rhythm engine.