LoL: I really didn’t mess up!

Of course, Faker had also heard about the news that ilex had reached the top of the StarCraft Korean server for several months, but he had never watched ilex's StarCraft game and didn't know what level the opponent was.

Of course, for Faker, the news that ilex has reached the top of StarCraft Korean Server will shock him a little, but not much.

StarCraft is South Korea's national game. Faker has been influenced by it since he was a child. Of course, he plays this game often, and his level is not low.

Even if he doesn't play much, he can still have a strength of 4,000 to 5,000 points in the interstellar just by relying on his own talent.

If he can study carefully, he believes that he can also reach the top level.

Faker adjusted his glasses and chose to watch quietly in Chen Dongqing's live broadcast room.

But watching it, Faker couldn't help being shocked, and then couldn't help but rub his eyes.

The speed of switching screens is so fast. Many times you just switch to another screen and press a shortcut key and then switch away again. It doesn’t even take half a second. It makes people dizzy.

Immediately afterwards, Faker saw a wave of spearmen scattered by Chen Dongqing in the encounter.

"Ah!" Faker couldn't help shouting in surprise, "What is this?"

"Ah? What's wrong? Xianghe." Next to him, Bang, who was drying noodles, turned his head and glanced at Faker's screen.

In the picture, a wave of human troops advanced and had already entered the Zerg base.

At this time, the human operator seemed to be possessed by the interstellar god, and his hand speed was extremely fast. He operated in a wave of three lines, skillfully clearing the carpet, spreading the troops, and advancing steadily!

Waiting until the three groups of troops converged and were about to push the opponent flatly, the opponent Zerg finally knocked out GG and chose to surrender.

Bang couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked: "Who is this person? Why are humans so powerful?"

Faker pointed to the camera in the lower right corner of the screen.

In the camera, a handsome face is showing a sunny smile

Bang was in shock, and the chopsticks holding the hot dry noodles in his right hand slowly slipped off and fell into his lap.

"Ah Xiba!" Bang stood up, quickly picked up a tissue and wiped it, then glared and said: "ilex, is his star really so scary?"

What’s more, what’s even more shocking is what’s behind

After finishing playing StarCraft, Chen Dongqing directly pressed ALT+TAB to switch clients, and then switched out the DOTA2 client.

At this time, on the DOTA2 client, the qualifying time is displayed as eighteen minutes, which is exactly the length of the interstellar game just now.

And coincidentally, at the moment of switching over, the DOTA2 ranking confirmation box also popped up!

Chen Dongqing clicked to confirm, then cut out the LOL client and canceled the LOL ranking status.

Faker:?

What does it mean?

Is this how this guy got to the top of the server?

SKT and Double C were silent for a long time, and then looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.

After a while, Bang finally said: "Actually, this may not be a bad thing for us."

"Huh?" Faker asked confused: "What do you mean?"

Bang said: "There are only eight days left before the World Championship, but he is still broadcasting and even playing other games. He has not adjusted himself to a competitive state at all, has he?"

When Faker heard this, he felt it made sense.

The points increase on the three servers at the same time is strong. But it is indeed not the state to compete in the World Championship!

"Besides, whether QG is strong or not, we have to try it in a training match to know." Bang said with a smile: "They will come to Wuhan tomorrow, get ready, Xianghe."

"Yeah." Faker nodded, looking serious.

Since losing to QG twice last year, he has always regarded this team as an imaginary enemy.

Speaking of which, they haven't played against QG for a year.

The next day, September 27th.

The three LPL teams set off from Shanghai together and flew directly to Wuhan.

I have to say that the home team’s game experience is great.

The flight arrived in just a few hours, and there was no jet lag. Compared to European and American teams, they had two days more preparation time.

The plane soon landed at Tianhe Airport. Chen Dongqing walked out of the airport through the corridor and immediately felt the power of Wuhan.

As one of the well-known stove cities, even though it is already late September, the heat is still quite explosive.

While waiting for the bus at the waiting area, Chen Dongqing could feel a layer of fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

But fortunately, before waiting long, the bus from Riot drove over and picked up everyone in QG.

After holding it in for a long time, Chen Dongqing finally started up his mobile phone and connected to the Internet.

The plane they took didn't have in-flight WIFI, and he didn't download the video on his phone, so he almost choked to death.

At this time, the bus had slowly stopped in front of the hotel.

Everyone at QG packed their bags and checked in, and soon sat in the training room.

The training room this time was as before, it was transformed from a conference room. Ten computers were arranged on three sides of the conference room, and a white screen was placed on the last side to be used as a ceiling-mounted projector in the middle to project images.

Chen Dongqing stood at the window of the conference room and looked at the Yangtze River flowing slowly not far away. He couldn't help but sigh, "The scenery is quite good."

"What scenery are you looking at? We're here for a meeting!" Banbazi urged from the side: "There will be a training match after the meeting!"

"Oh, here it comes." Chen Dongqing quickly turned around and watched Banbazi fiddle with his machine for a while, and then skillfully projected the PPT saved in his USB flash drive.

This meeting was also very simple, regarding updates for this World Championship.

This update actually came out before, but the meeting was not held directly on that day because individual understanding is always limited. Banbazi did not think he could fully interpret the version, so he hoped to collect some data first.

The data, of course, refers to the training game data of QG and EDG, as well as the data of the finals that have come to an end.

Banbazi sat in front of his computer, holding a red laser pointer in his hand, and said: "You should have seen this version update, but in order to ensure memory, I will briefly introduce it first."

As he spoke, Banbazi clicked the mouse to turn the PPT page.

Next, there are various version updates, but there are not many worth mentioning.

This is not difficult to understand. The current version situation is a satisfactory work that took Riot half a year to finally create. Of course, they do not dare to suddenly make any big update and ruin these six months of hard work.

The most classic one, the incense burner has not even been weakened this time, it is still the pinnacle version.

With this incense burner, the core of the version will always be the bottom lane, and the top lane will never look up.

In order to cater to this tank version, Riot Games even released a tank hero Ornn, just to make the majority of tank players feel comfortable playing.

And Riot felt that this was not enough. They wanted to make the top lane more pure, so they cut down all the top lane heroes such as Gnar and Snake, which can suppress tanks, and highlighted one to protect the tanks, so that they can play comfortably. .

Chen Dongqing couldn't help but sneer when he saw these updates.

He clearly remembered that the piece of equipment, the incense burner, had been hacked before the World Championships.

Although the chopped incense burner is still strong, a World Championship version has been constructed.

But at least the fist did something. They also felt that the incense burner was too exaggerated, so they had to put some restrictions on it.

But now it's better, the incense burner remains intact, and I don't even have any shame!

His face is simply disgusting!

Fortunately, Fist still tried to be cautious and did not let Ornn enter this World Championship. Otherwise, he would probably have to study how to break through those bastard Ornn top laners.

"Generally speaking, there are not many changes in the two versions of 7.17 and 7.18." Banbazi quickly went through the updates first, and then said: "Although I pointed out some noteworthy changes before, except for Ryze, these The big changes don't seem to have much impact on the game."

The noteworthy changes Banbazi refers to are the enhancements to the Tsar, Emerald God, and Sun Girl.

The damage of the Tsar's third-level ultimate move has been significantly increased, improving the carry ability in the later stage, while the Cuishen has increased the damage of the shield skill.

The Japanese girl is more terrifying, directly increasing the passive damage, and greatly reducing the cooldown of the early Q skill.

These changes may not be as exaggerated as the epic enhancement of the dog head, but Banbazi believes that these changes are in line with the tone of the current incense burner version.

Needless to say, Cuishen and Tsar, one has a shield, and the other is a big core for basic attacks in the later stage.

As for the Japanese girl, although she doesn't have shields and breasts, she specializes in shields and breasts, so she should have magical effects.

So during this week, Banbazi used these heroes to carry out special training.

But after practicing for so long, judging from the data in the finals, the effects of these changes are quite average.

The Tsar did appear in the play-in rounds, but his winning rate was between 50 and 50.

Cuishen is even worse, with a winning rate of only 33.3%

As for Japanese girls, they didn’t appear at all.

There is only one Ryze, and after increasing the AP bonus, the effect is quite good, and its priority in the World Championship has been significantly improved.

Such dismal data made Banbazi wonder whether their team's efforts were in the wrong direction?

Banbazi then called up the data of heroes with higher winning rates and higher selection rates in the playoffs, and said: "These heroes will be the core of our training in the past week, and everything will be based on adapting to the version."

Chen Dongqing took a closer look and saw that the heroes with the highest winning rate and appearance rate were still the same.

The big tree in the upper unit, Gnar, the prince in the jungle position, Pig Girl, Galio in the middle unit, the cannon in the bottom lane, Verus, Lulu and Feng Nu in the support position.

What? Where are the skateboard shoes, you ask?

Let's put it this way, Skate Shoes only played once on the second day of the qualifying round, and was selected by the Latin American team LYN. Then this wild card ADC, relying on the strength of Skate Shoes and Peak Incense Burner, directly scored a pentakill!

After this incident, the priority of skateboard shoes was infinitely higher, and it has not been removed from the red ban position until now.

It can only be said to be terrifying.

According to Chen Dongqing’s experience, there is a high probability that this skate shoe will not be released by other teams throughout the World Championships.

"What are you afraid of?" At this time, Xiangguo said carelessly from the side: "I told you, the color pen team that entered the finals can't understand the game! They know Jβ's LOL! They can also influence our QG's Judgment? If we think we are strong, then we are strong!"

Banbazi shook his head at this time and said with a smile: "Don't look down on other teams too much. Maybe the champion will be born among them?"

"It doesn't matter, I believe in myself!" Xiang Guo waved his hand and said, "Tame as you like!"

"Whether we can abuse him or not, we won't know until the training match starts." Banbazi smiled and said, "Okay, let's get ready for the training match."

Only then did Chen Dongqing ask: "Which team is in the training match?"

Banbazi smiled slightly: "Play KT first, then SKT, five games each, and eat after the game."

Chen Dongqing raised an eyebrow: "The first and second seeds of LCK? Is it so easy to make an appointment?"

"Why do we need to make appointments?" Banbazi said proudly: "As soon as we got off the plane today, countless teams came to us to make appointments for training matches. I just picked the two strongest ones."

This is the gold content of the defending champion. Everyone wants to verify the strength of their team by confronting QG.

Faced with such a strong enemy, everyone in QG was no longer hesitant and quickly entered the state of training matches.

And it was during these few days that the qualifying rounds finally came to an end.

It has to be said that although both games were held in Wuhan, the attention of the qualifying rounds was much less than that of the group stage.

But of course, there is nothing we can do.

The wild card teams that can enter the finals are all champions of their respective divisions. In other words, they are all geniuses who have been promoted to the top of the lower realm and then ascended to the upper realm.

But no matter what, these geniuses reached the upper realm, where they were directly suppressed by third-rate players.

Even if they are the third seed in the major competition, slaughtering these wild card teams is like slaughtering chickens and dogs.

Even Samsung, which has always had a slow pace, faced these teams and was stunned to play an offense as smooth as QG, with the average game time being less than thirty minutes.

Of course, it's not absolute.

For example, all the Dou Emperor bloodline was contributed to the LMS division of the patriarch Flash Wolf. Their third seed HKA was outstanding and had a back-and-forth match with the wild card team.

In the end, HKA struggled to qualify as second in the group in the qualifying group stage, but directly encountered FNC in the knockout stage.

There was no suspense, FNC made an easy move and won the game 3-0, qualifying for the finals.

At the same time, there are C9 and SSG. These two serious teams in the competition area have lived up to expectations and both advanced easily.

The last promotion spot was taken by Turkish brother FB. They defeated Brazil's second seed ONE three to two and successfully advanced to the top 16.

At the moment of winning the game, the Turkish guys were very excited. The five of them hugged each other and jumped around, having a lot of fun.

When the LPL still regards the top 16 results as a shame, some teams are proud of reaching the top 16.

This is the difference between the wild card and the big competition.

After the qualifying round ends, the drawing ceremony begins immediately.

This time, LGD star Hirano Aya took the stage, put his hand into the prize pool, and slowly stirred it.

This wave is very critical. Everyone in QG did not make any noise and watched quietly.

Because there is already a TSM in their team, and according to the rules, they cannot have a North American team, so the logic here is to choose one of FNC, SSG, and FB.

As long as it's not SSG

As soon as she finished speaking, Hirano Aya slowly unfolded the banner in her hand.

The green background with white characters is SSG!

Everyone in QG collectively rolled their eyes.

What is this?

Of course, they are actually okay.

Drawing three stars would make them feel a bit unlucky at most, but they wouldn't feel that it was very dangerous.

On the contrary, Samsung’s reaction was greater

Seeing that their team was drawn out first, all the three-star generals couldn't help but howl!

QG, TSM, GAM.

These are the champions of their respective divisions, and they are all in the upper bound division!

Is it appropriate for them to break in as a third seed?

Not long after, Hirano Aya drew the remaining three balls in sequence. He drew FNC into Group B, C9 into Group C, and FB into Group D.

At this point, the quota for the sixteen teams in the group stage has finally been determined.

Group A: QG, GAM, TSM, SSG

Group B: SKT, EDG, IMT, FNC

Group C: G2, AHQ, KT, C9

Group D: FW, MSF, FPX, FB

Sorry, I'm a little late today. I'll post the typos first and then correct them~