Mingkai, if you're this cowardly, you should just go home and raise pigs.

The group stage of S7 concluded with EDG defeating SKT.

After the quarterfinals draw, it was already 9 p.m.

In addition, they had to go to the Guangzhou Stadium with the tournament organizers the next day. After the draw, the EDG team returned to their hotel to rest early.

The tournament organizers have announced the schedule. The first match of the quarterfinals is RNG vs. FNC, and the second match is WE vs. SKT.

The third match is LZ vs MSF, and EDG, the flagship team of the LPL, is naturally placed last.

After all, Group A, where EDG is located, is still having matches on the last day of the group stage, so EDG needs to have enough time to rest.

Today is October 15th, and RNG will start their match on October 19th. With tomorrow's schedule and the filming of promotional videos, RNG has no rest time at all.

The next day, after getting up around noon, the entire EDG team traveled to Guangzhou. They finally arrived at the hotel arranged by the tournament organizers in Guangzhou in the evening.

The temperature in Guangzhou is significantly lower than in Wuhan. Everyone was shivering after getting off the bus without any preparation.

The venue for the competition in Guangzhou is a large complex of buildings, with many, many buildings.

If all the venues are combined, they can accommodate a total of 6 people to watch the game together.

The quarterfinals will be held in the main stadium, which can accommodate about 3 people, 1 more than the stadium in Jiangcheng.

Upon arriving in Guangzhou, RNG immediately arranged a practice match with LZ.

WE, on the other hand, scheduled a practice match with SSG.

Their primary target was actually EDG, but EDG had just finished their match yesterday and hadn't even had time to review it yet, so they planned to let the players review and rest today, which is why they didn't accept any scrims.

SKT and EDG are in the same situation, and the other teams can be paired up.

On October 17th, after everyone got up at noon, they cooperated with the event team to carry out filming tasks, and then played training matches after returning to the hotel in the evening.

After lunch, Nofe came in and said to everyone, "We have a Bo5 scrim with RNG today, and a scrim with WE tomorrow!"

"Again, are we playing against RNG?" Iboy couldn't help but ask.

Every time they scrim against RNG, he was the one who suffered the most as the AD carry facing off against Uzi.

"We are in the upper half of the bracket, and our next opponent is SSG, so we definitely can't schedule scrims!"

Furthermore, both LZ and MSF could potentially be our opponents in the semifinals, so it's unlikely they'll schedule scrims with us.

Abu said, "So we can only arrange practice matches with teams from the lower bracket."

We just finished the group stage with SKT, so they probably won't schedule scrims with us.

So there are only three teams left that I can schedule scrims with. If you guys are willing, I can arrange a match with FNC!

"Never mind, never mind!" Iboy was stunned when he heard this explanation since it was his first time participating in the World Championship. After a long while, he said, "Then let's play against RNG and WE."

Are you kidding me? If we don't play these two teams, are we really going to play FNC?

FNC isn't a particularly strong team this year.

Only teams that get crushed in scrims and need to regain their confidence will seek out FNC for scrims.

After all, these European and American teams are best at using unconventional techniques.

The problem is that even if you use some unconventional techniques, you still need to operate them.

Different cutting-edge technology systems have completely different operational logics.

For example, EDG used a composition featuring Hecarim, Galio, and Camille for engage, as well as Nocturne, Twitch, and Orianna...

Do you think other teams wouldn't know about these messy systems?

Of course I know!

Even if you know it, you can't use it.

Every system requires a completely different operational logic. Without a lot of practical experience, even the coaching team will find it difficult to find the corresponding operational logic.

This will undoubtedly increase the workload of the coaching staff significantly.

In comparison, it's better to directly study the version and follow the version updates.

After all, there is plenty of data to refer to when following the version updates; you just need to analyze the data to find out where things weren't done well.

But if the high-tech tactics fail, there's no data to reference!

This is why few teams are willing to pull out so many strategies like EDG.

These European and American teams are unlikely to reveal their secret strategies during scrims, so scrimming with them is purely for maintaining your form.

While waiting for the RNG players to enter the room and start the practice match, Zhou Hanyang was already analyzing their next opponent in the quarterfinals—SSG!

Looking back at all the S-series tournaments, from the ancient S3 to S14, there have been a total of 11 World Championships.

It can be said that understanding the version of the World Championship is basically a gradual and iterative process.

However, two teams defied this rule.

One is SSG, the champion team of S7, and the other is T1, the champion team of S13!

They all have one thing in common: even when following the mainstream version's understanding, they are completely unable to defeat their opponents.

In the end, they had no choice but to find another way to develop their own playing style.

If other teams progress from A to B, then from B to C... and finally from G back to A!

This iterative process helps improve one's understanding of different versions.

So both SSG and T1 directly iterated from B to F!

This completely bewildered the other teams that were still slowly making their way.

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