Chapter 521 What are you laughing at?
The people currently appear on the screen are several commentators from Europe: Vedius, whose popularity has always been high, has rich experience, Larson from Nordic, FNC home commentator, and Henry, another giant in the European League giant G2 home commentator.
The three of them sat neatly together for the lottery ceremony that was about to begin.
Including them, all the people in the world who are concerned about this year's World Championship are extremely curious about the next draw results: what kind of group can the team they support be arranged?
The draw in the first paragraph is for the finalists before the start of the main competition.
Compared with the subsequent group draw, this section can only be regarded as an appetizer. Although there is a certain interest, everyone's attention is still focused on the highlights of the future. Most of the situations in the finalists are still in a state of being unknown.
Although the attention is much different than the group stage, the draw for the finalists is gradually starting under the process.
The finalists are proceeding in an orderly manner. The two most popular teams, South Korea's DWG and Europe's Snake team, are both the strongest and most prestigious teams in this finalists. If nothing unexpected happens, these two teams are the most likely to advance to the group stage.
The grouping of these two teams was quickly confirmed.
The Snake Team and the Big Turtle are in the B and D groups respectively. As the favorites in their respective groups, there is no reason not to advance.
In addition, there is a team that is considered a popular CG.
This team from North America, the players in the team have their former Fnc top laners, performed well in S5, and eliminated the EDG, which had the factory manager at the time, Fat and Mr. Dai, who played very eye-catchingly in the match, and Zhu Rang, who replaced SKT's first-generation lower lane in the spring season, is a powerful current North American first-line AD player named Sun Ge".
In general, the third seeds in the three major European, American and Korean competition areas are the biggest favorites in their respective groups in the finals. Because China won the championship in the World Championship last year, there is no need to make the finalists this year.
CG, DWG and Snake Team, these three teams can be basically confirmed to advance. As for more candidates, it is unknown.
The finalists are just the beginning of everything. What is really worth looking forward to is the draw of the group stage main game that will start now.
“Jiizuke has started drawing lots.”
Among the various discussions of many commentators, this game, which had the result of the finalists draw, gradually began to occupy the mainstream of discussion, rather than the previous casual chat.
Everyone has a scale for the priorities of current affairs. When the result occurs, we naturally have to put aside the hot topics we talked about before and shift the focus to the current important matters.
All the focus at this time is on the VIT genius mid laner who is constantly spinning in the lottery pool with both hands.
The first step in drawing lots is to disrupt the order. Under the repeated disturbances of jiizuke, the order of draw balls placed in a transparent box is completely disrupted, eliminating the possibility of many hidden operations.
Because everyone has a share in the lottery ceremony, all the players from the two teams gather in the current training room.
From Grab to Kim Jong-soo, from Xia Yan to Niu Guorui... the members of the two teams gathered together, observing and privately predicting the lottery ceremony displayed on the screen.
"White team logo...IG?"
After a glance, I saw a white tone revealed in the label in jiizuke's hand, which made the group of people gathered in front of the same computer screen involuntarily hold their breath and began to look forward to the subsequent answer.
While guessing and waiting, as one of the members of the G2 training base, Niu Guorui also found Xia Yan, who was sitting next to him, and tentatively said in English with half-baked and strong South Korean accent: "Axe player, how do you feel when you are playing against the TS player?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the field immediately focused on Xia Yan.
Although Xia Yan gained the upper hand in the mid-season competition, Ts is still a world-class top laner, but it is no longer the top throne.
Faced with so much gaze, Xia Yan did not feel much pressure, but gave his own answer openly.
"Well..." Xia Yan touched his chin, frowned as if he was trying hard to recall the details of his confrontation with Ts in the mid-season match: "He has a strong laning ability, but looking at the mid-season performance alone, I, and our team's performance is better. Ah, the result is coming!"
After expressing his feelings, Xia Yan quickly spoke up to disrupt the atmosphere without waiting for others to recall, and brought the topic back to normal: "First Group!"
I saw a familiar team logo appearing in the direction of Xia Yan's finger. This team logo is so familiar that everyone is with each other day and night: the color is white, and there is a scar on the left eye. This is clearly the team logo of G2, his own team.
Unexpectedly, this time it happened that I was going to draw my own team in the first draw.
After experiencing the initial emotion, the lottery ceremony was still underway.
The order of draws is horizontal, that is, first draw the first seed team, then the second seed team, and so on.
G2, as the host, was assigned to the first group, that is, Group A; and the next three first seeds are also proceeding in an orderly manner.
FPX, SKT and TL, the strongest teams in the three divisions appeared in the group of the first seed team in turn, and the draw soon entered the second stage.
During the urgent waiting time, Jiizuke, a genius mid laner who was responsible for drawing lots, quickly carried out a series of necessary processes for drawing lots, and then put an end to the expectations of the people present.
In the second seed team in the first group, a bright red team badge appeared - Griffin.
Griffin is a well-deserved strong team in the South Korean competition area. The four positions in the middle and jungle are all world-class, especially the jungler Taishan, who has dominated the top ranks of the Korean server for a long time and is recognized as the world's top jungler.
SKT was beaten to second place in spring and summer. Griffin, who has firmly held the second place in ten thousand years, is still a strong opponent, and no one can deny this.
But now drawing this strong opponent did not make the G2 players sitting together feel difficult, but instead laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at?"
Chapter completed!