Chapter 276 [Seven? Sword Master!]

Author: Xiao Fei Guang

Chapter 276 [Seven? Sword Master!]

After seeing the distribution of the 16 teams, Riot Games worked overtime that night to arrange the group stage schedule.

In the opening match, IG from Group B will face off against Gen.G!

First, after all, the LCK team competes locally, and IG was last year’s champion, so this grouping is normal.

October 10th arrived in the blink of an eye.

The Busan Convention and Exhibition Center in Haeundae is bustling with people, and the venue is full of people, all waiting for today's opening game.

Although the number of fans of the Samsung team is not large, they are on their own territory after all, and IG has suppressed the LCK all year long.

Naturally, they have to take advantage of their home court and create a new mentality.

Li Nian sat backstage at the venue, quietly waiting for the next team's entrance ceremony.

At this moment, Vincent was like a verbose old lady, constantly wandering around the players of the three teams, explaining various times when to go on stage.

Especially IG, as last year's champions, they had a ceremony to return the trophy. As the player representative this time, Li Nian had to stand in accordance with the instructions of the staff.

Moreover, Li Nian seemed to be awake, giving Vincent the feeling that this guy was always going to cause some trouble.

At this moment, the roaring emperor on the stage has begun to torture the speakers and the audience. Even through a wall, you can feel the backstage shaking.

"Welcome to the first day of the 2018 Global Finals, this is Busan, South Korea!"

His voice is not only resonant, but also very penetrating. "After the seven-day qualifying competition, we have met the elite teams from various competition regions, and we would like to thank them again for the wonderful performance they brought us."

"At the same time, I would also like to congratulate again the 16 teams that have reached the global finals. The competition will last for more than a month starting today!"

The Roaring Emperor talked a lot, but Li Nian just thought that this guy was really noisy, and the host was really not as good as the Grasp of Immortality.

"Let's invite the participating teams to enter!"

"KT from Group C!"

The two bottom lane combinations of Yangtuo and Mata are at the forefront. As the two most popular players in KT, their fans and audiences are huge.

Then, as all the members of Group C appeared on the stage, other surrounding teams also left the backstage of the stage.

In the end, there were only five teammates left around Li Nian.

Chen Zebin also felt that his legs were a little shaky. After all, he had just started playing LPL and joined IG midway, but now he has become a substitute top laner, representing his team in the global finals.

Moreover, IG is still the finale among the 16 teams. Standing in the center of the other 15 teams, it will naturally become the focus of everyone's attention.

Who doesn't feel nervous for the first time?

The Shiba Inu slapped Chen Zebin with his arm and chuckled, "Brother, what are you afraid of!"

Before Chen Zebin could answer, he heard the final sound of the two letters IG of Roaring Emperor, and the staff and Vincent were also reminding them to come on stage.

Li Nian slowly stepped onto the stage.

The other five people followed closely behind him.

When IG, wearing a red uniform, walked onto the stage, its powerful aura instantly overwhelmed other teams, and then a gold star under the team logo was still shining.

now

Among the 16 teams present, only FNC, the super ancient overlord SSW, the predecessor of Gen.G, has the S championship title, and the others are all little Kalaba.

Now the overhead spotlights and spotlights of various colors tilted down, and a stage light shot out from the top of the stands and followed the footsteps of the IG players.

Many spectators who were watching the competition suddenly discovered that Li Nian, who was walking at the front, could actually shine.

The audience cheered and screamed non-stop, and even many Korean spectators stood up to welcome last year's defending champions.

Li Nian took the summoner's trophy handed over by the staff and walked towards the eight stairs ahead one step at a time.

Below seven of the ladders are the icons of the S tournament champion teams of each year, while the last ladder is dim and irrelevant, and the Summoner's Trophy stand is also placed here.

The cameraman's lens was firmly locked on the Summoner's Trophy and Li Nian's movements.

When the trophy was placed on the podium, the lights in the entire venue suddenly went dark, and only the Summoner's Trophy was still shining.

Then as the lights at the back of the venue flashed, the flags of the sixteen teams hanging on the stage flashed one after another, and finally stayed on the flags of IG and Gen.G.

The Roaring Emperor took over the topic, "All teams are ready for training. The war in October has begun. Let's wait and see which team will win the Summoner's Trophy!"

The spotlights flickered again, making many contestants who walked off the stage feel dizzy.

Li Nian and four other teammates walked to today's game table one after another, and as today's BP coach Mafa went to draw lots with Edgar to decide the right to choose the side.

Samsung team members also started game setup and debugging.

The LPL signal is connected to the commentary booth.

"Good evening, viewers, I am the commentator Zeyuan."

"Hello everyone, I am your friend Remember, commentator Remember!"

The two commentators for today's opening match are none other than Park Ze-won and Wang Lao-er, while Miller and Wat are still on the road due to visa issues and will not be able to come over tomorrow.

"This is the scene of the global finals," Zeyuan said quickly, "What is about to begin is the IG team versus the LCK's third seed team Gen.G!"

"Every game in the group stage is very important, especially the first three games in the first half. If we can win all or two games, it will be very beneficial to our ranking in the second round."

"It can only be said that whoever can win the first game in Group B will have the upper hand."

After all, TL and VIT in Group B are not too strong. Both Samsung and IG have the opportunity to compete for the No. 1 seed. Whoever can win the two teams in the double round-robin group stage will make the group stage much easier.

Since the schedule of the World Championship is not determined by the LPL director, everything is carried out by the Riot headquarters according to the standard schedule, so the commercial break time of the two commentators this time is particularly short.

Zeyuan had to secretly learn Hua Shao's "I don't understand, but I think it's very powerful" ventriloquism to serve the fathers of the sponsors comfortably.

Remember to pick up the conversation and say, "Let's enter the BP screen of this game!"

With a sonorous sound, the BP screen appeared in front of everyone.

"In this game, IG has the priority to choose sides. They got the blue side with a higher winning rate. They disabled CoreJJ's Bull Head first."

In the play-in stage.

The Bull Head used by Gen.G plays a very important role in their tactical design, and the most important thing is that CoreJJ's Bull Head is very proficient.

In order to avoid trouble in his own bottom lane, Mafa specifically banned him first.

In today's version, since the top, middle and jungle are all offensive-oriented warrior heroes, there is no shortage of output in all lineups. On the contrary, strong auxiliary heroes have gradually become a popular choice.

Alistar is almost perfect.

Gen.G did not hesitate to ban Rookie's Syndra.

After being strengthened in the 8.18 version, Ball Girl's numerical damage during the laning period was ridiculously high. As a representative of two goals and one girl, coach Edgar Cui had experienced Rookie's laning intensity in the Asian Games.

In order to prevent Crown Brother from being blown away in the middle, he must respect his skill to prevent accidents.

"IG's second move was to ban Brother Crown's gangster hero Grasshopper, while GenG once again blocked the mid laner Galio."

In the last ban position of the first round, Mafa banned the withered signature Kennen. After all, top top laners including theshy could not guarantee that they would be able to take advantage of Cuvee's Kennen.

Although Kennen's priority as a top laner is not very high now, Mafa still decided to respect the hero pool of this little fat guy.

Edgar hesitated for a long time in the last ban position.

He actually wanted to ban Rookie's Enchantress, but in that case IG's Green Steel Shadow would be released.

Leader An, who is good at controlling the map, may not be able to easily deal with Li Nian's attack. If it continues like last year, it will be completely over.

in particular.

In version 8.18, Mr. An’s best pig girl is now facing an epic weakening, which is a devastating blow to Samsung, which is good at operations.

There is no way, the red side does not have the right to choose, they have to bite the bullet and release a certain hero.

After thinking for a moment, he finally blocked Qinggang Ying and decided to release LeBlanc.

"IG gave priority to taking out the Enchantress," Zeyuan analyzed. "It seems that they still have to work around the middle and jungle."

Xia Luo is still outside now.

If we want to take out the bot lane combination first, then the strength of these two bot lane heroes is pretty good.

But if this is the case.

The combination of Kai'Sa and Thresh should be given to the opponent.

Edgar hesitated for a long time and finally decided to take down Xayah and Thresh, and released Luo to IG.

Baolan was obviously relieved when he saw the opponent's hero selection.

Recently, he has been studying hard and practicing Thresh, but his data in the rankings seems to be okay, but in the training games, it is still not good enough.

Jack always felt like there was something wrong with the lantern.

Remember to continue to look at the hero selections of both sides: "IG will lock down Luo first and see if they will get the hero for Brother Nian first."

If you don't choose a jungler in the first round, there is a high probability that Samsung will lock the jungler hero in the third round. Then IG will face the choice of losing two strong jungler heroes in the second round ban position.
To be continued...