What is a wandering mid laner?

Everyone held their breath.

The fate of the eight teams in the knockout round will be decided soon!

Chapter 626: The Knockout Tournament Begins!

With a smile on his face, Watch opened the first black ball in his hand, revealing the green ribbon inside.

Unfold it, and the black and gold icon will appear on it.

"The first team in the upper half is RNG!" Zeyuan informed the audience about the result of the lottery draw, and at the same time explained the rules, "In this way, according to the rule that the qualifying teams in the same group will not meet before the final, the second place in Group B, G2 Will definitely go to the lower half!"

The guests kept moving and put their palms into the glass basin again.

"Because the results of the division are drawn first, there are three black balls with the team logo ribbons of other group leaders in the basin..." I remember explaining, "Anyway, our three teams are the first in the group, which means that we must be the first in the group." There are two teams going to meet in the same district."

"I hope to see the civil war in our LPL division in the semi-finals." Zeyuan sent his best wishes.

Watch opened the second ball, with a brighter smile on his face, showing the content in the dazzling white ribbon to the audience.

"YM..." I remembered hissing, "In that case, the two teams in the upper half must be RNG and YM!"

Li Yuanhao, who was standing beside Lin Ran, cursed in a low voice in Chinese, his face was extremely pale.

Obviously, no team wants to face the monster YM before the finals.

Broiler and Mr. Dai, who represented KT to participate in the lottery ceremony, looked at each other with ease.

They were assigned to the bottom half.

Although they both think that they are powerful opponents, a collision between the two will definitely lead to a big battle.

That's much better than meeting YM.

Watch then unwrapped the ribbon with the IG and KT team logos on it.

In the panel displayed on the large screen at the scene, the four groups are first in a corner.

The four teams that are second in the group will be drawn immediately, which will directly determine the result of the matchup in the top 8 knockout rounds.

Not only the audience, but even several representatives of the players on the field were very nervous.

Lin Ran still looked like Wu Suowei, with a calm expression.

It doesn't matter to him who is second in these groups.

Watch came to the glass basin containing the other four black balls, put his hand in it, took out one of them after a while, and opened it to show the audience.

The unique black knight logo appeared in front of everyone.

"G2!" Ze Yuan said loudly, "This triggers the evasion principle, and they will come to the lower half."

"The opponent is... the IG team!"

Seeing the G2 team logo appearing under IG on the top eight division panel, Ah P showed a free and easy smile.

Except for RNG, the first three groups, they have little chance of winning against anyone, and IG looks like the weakest one.

For G2, this is also a good signing.

The broiler with a smile full of collagen walked down the steps, and Ah P came to the summoner's trophy in the center of the stage. After a friendly handshake, he went to the backstage.

"Then who will RNG's opponent be?" Zeyuan was still wondering in the live broadcast room.

Watch has revealed the answer.

The logo of the little bee represents the VIT team!

Since KT, which belongs to the same group C as Little Bee, is located in the lower half, the principle of evasion is not triggered, and the VIT icon is closely connected with RNG!

Although Li Yuanhao didn't think this lottery was particularly good, it wasn't bad either.

In the second place of several groups, FNC is naturally the strongest, TL is recognized as the weakest, and VIT can be said to be in the middle.

He left the stage hand in hand with the mid laner Jiizuke of Little Bee.

Now there are only four players left on the field, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that, in fact, at this point, the opponents in the division have all been determined.

Caps also realized something, with a serious expression on his hips.

The watch paused for a moment, then pulled out another black ball and took it apart to reveal the team logo inside.

TL.

"The evasion principle is triggered again. TL and YM are in the same group, so they avoided the upper half. They will start a contest with KT!"

Then the rest of Lin Ran and Xiao Mao will have a home.

The quarter-finals are now out.

Upper half: RNG vs. VIT, YM vs. FNC.

Bottom half: IG vs. G2, KT vs. TL.

The Korean audience in the stands couldn't control their excitement and kept making restless noises.

In the Korean streaming room of Mouse Channel, fans were also chattering non-stop.

[So handsome brother Meng, the quarterfinals will play Liquid, the semifinals will play IG, isn't KT going to the finals? 】

[Good sign, why is it called a good sign? 】

[Sure enough, there is a lottery luck bonus in the local battle. KT fights all the way up, and they are facing the weakest opponents, right? 】

【In this way, the decisive battle in Incheon will start between KT and YM. 】

[What if, I mean, what if the FNC quarterfinals smashed YM to pieces? 】

The Korean audience laughed.

From the group stage to the quarter-finals, KT's road to promotion is smooth sailing. Liquid seems to be a competition. Although they won GEN, KT is the No. [-] seed in the LCK League of the Republic of Korea.

Lin Ran also shook hands with the little cap who was a head shorter than him, and walked off the stage like his elder brother leading his younger brother.

The representative players of several other teams were still waiting in the backstage common room. Ah P put on a shy face and wanted to take a photo with Xiaomao and Lin Ran.

"Come, come, the world's strongest mid laner is going to take a photo together!" Perkz put his arm around Broiler's shoulders, not knowing why the two of them became so close in such a short period of time.

Caps looked at perkz's optimistic face and became depressed first.

He can guess the true thoughts in Ah P's heart.

As the third seed in the European division, G2 will be considered a success if they reach the top eight in the World Championship this year.

Now it is undoubtedly a successful person.

Even if they lose to IG, they will not feel resentment, and European audiences are even less likely to criticize G2.

But the FNC where Caps is located is different.

As the spring and summer double champions of the competition area, the European audience has high hopes for this veteran e-sports giant, thinking that they can break into the semi-finals, and even stand on a higher place, recasting the glory of winning the S1 Internet Cafe Competition.

This is hope, but also an invisible shackle.

With such a high demand, Caps is obviously very dissatisfied with the result of the lottery.

He originally planned to have a touch with RNG. FNC internally believes that this is the weakest group first, and they hope to overthrow it.

But if you play YM...

Xiaocap feels that his team's prospects for this year's World Championship are bleak.

It's also FNC's own fault. If they had won the game against AFs earlier, they might have won the top spot in the group.

The second place in the group is passive here, just relying on the lottery to distribute weak opponents to oneself, which is basically unrealistic, and there is a high probability of hitting strong teams all the way in the knockout round.

But the contagious power of Ah P's smile is too strong, passing on the optimism to Xiaomao.

If you win YM first, then beat RNG, and finally beat KT or IG...

Wouldn't that sweep all the strong teams in China and South Korea?

The gold content is ridiculously high!

There is still a dream, what if it comes true?

Caps gave a Mr. Bean-like smile.

Lin Ran who was next to him was terrified by this face-changing at the speed of light, and couldn't figure out what was going on with the little cap.

"Look at the camera!" Ah P hugged Lin Ran's shoulders, motioning him to concentrate.

The four people made classic thumbs-up gestures towards the camera, and their movements were uniform, which looked quite funny.

As soon as Lin Ran finished taking a photo, the VIT mid laner came running over, and the senior brother and the others also wanted to join in the fun.

In the end, it turned into a group photo of eight contestant representatives.

Lin Ran thought that the commemorative group photo event could come to an end here.

But when he returned to the hotel by bus, he realized that he was too naive.

Wave after wave of professional players knocked on the door of YM's training room, hoping to exchange team uniforms with Lin Ran and take a photo.

Lin Ran brought a total of four short-sleeved uniforms when he came out this time, except for the one he was wearing, the rest were all given away.

Fortunately, Guo Hao had already prepared for it. When he came to Busan, he brought a suitcase, which was specially used to store the players' uniforms and spare peripherals.

Players from various clubs swarmed over, and Lin Ran's thumbs-up gesture remained unchanged. He became a ruthless group photo machine, and his hands were almost numb.

Previously, it was due to preparations for the competition, the atmosphere was inevitably dull and tense, and no one had the extra energy to find Lin Ran.

Now that the group stage is officially over, the eight eliminated teams will leave in the next two days. They finally made time to take photos with the top professional players they admired, and leave good memories of their trip to the World Championship.

It took more than half an hour for Lin Ran and Guo Hao to send this group of enthusiastic players away, but there were various styles of other club uniforms piled up on the suitcase.

"FNC, TL, KT, AFs, G2..." Guo Hao took stock of each item, and by the way helped Lin Ran sort it out, and finally found that there were signed short-sleeved short sleeves signed by players from [-] clubs, "Good guy, brother Ran, you put them away." Where are the dragon balls gathered here?"

"Counting the one that was exchanged by Head An, all 15 clubs have uniforms." Lin Ran drank half a glass of water to moisten his smoldering throat.

Normally, teams in the same competition area rarely engage in the process of exchanging team uniforms, but just now Uzi and TheShy came over to join in the fun and gave Lin Ran two pieces.

"It's really a celebrity." Lin Weixiang felt like he had just taken a bite of lemon.

As a substitute, he naturally doesn't get much attention, and things like changing uniforms are hardly up to Big Eyebrow.

"I'm a star with a hammer," Lin Ran rubbed his cheeks, "my face almost freezes from laughing."

The training room finally quieted down.

Gouba worked diligently on FNC's group stage data performance, and wanted to provide some help for YM's next knockout stage.

Redmi is more straightforward. He took out the opponent's six group games and replayed them one by one, trying to catch the insider.

In his opinion, if FNC can become the second place in Group D without even having a rematch, it proves that there must be something wrong with the team.

After Homme searched like this, he really found a loophole.

After a night's rest, the YM players gathered for a pre-match meeting.

The schedule of this year's World Championship is very tight.

After finishing the group stage on the 17th, the eight-to-four knockout round will begin on October 10th.

And every afternoon and night, a BO5 will be played, and the semi-finals will be competed in two days.

There is not much time left for the eight teams to study their opponents.

Hongmi didn't fix those bells and whistles, and started talking straight to the point.

"Before studying FNC's weaknesses, we need to know what kind of team the opponent is."

He listed the data directly.

"The summer split of LCS.EU is not included in the scope of investigation. After all, there are still a lot of changes in the version. Let's take a look at the performance of the FNC group stage." Redmi gestured on the screen with a laser pointer, "In the first 15 minutes, Their mid-field affinity rate is very high, a full 21%, while the bottom lane has the lowest affinity rate, only 7%, and the top lane is slightly higher, but it is less than 10%.”

"Obviously, FNC is a team that relies on the mid-jungle to play the early rhythm. The jungler broxah will hardly go to the bottom lane to initiate Gank. His tactical thinking is very clear, that is to help caps open the situation."

Xiaomai is now FNC's big daddy player, and the importance of the mid laner in the current version is self-evident. How can the jungler not help his absolute core?

"In the mid-term, FNC likes to liberate Hailisan and keep roaming... It is worth mentioning that this kind of liberation is a little passive. It does not mean that the jungler comes down to push the tower and then takes advantage of the situation to help the support out of the line. After switching lanes, assist Ou Cheng to go to other places to roam and support."

"At this time, the rhythm of FNC has been transformed into a linkage between wild and auxiliary teams. The two start points set up vision in the wild area, creating space for the development of double C."

Redmi continued, "In addition, FNC's two top laners are relatively stable. The difference is that in the mid-term, Soaz is used to playing blue-collar heroes and acting with the rest of the team, but he doesn't play many games; The first bwipo likes to run alone to lead the line, and most of them use characters suitable for single belting."

"The overall tactical style is also more biased towards operations," he emphasized here, wanting to attract the attention of the rest of the team, "They don't like fighting in the early stage like IG, but they are used to changing lanes and eye positions. The control is delayed until the middle and late stages, and the double Cs of Ou Cheng and caps will take over the game."