Chapter 1069 Group Stage Ends

Three days into the group stage, KT finished the first round of the group stage with a record of 3-0.

The seeded teams of the other two groups, LEC champion MAD and LPL champion RNG, also lived up to expectations and finished the first round with a perfect record.

Since there were only three teams in Group A, RNG needed to play four BO1s with two opponents each, and their record reached 4-0.

The next three days were the qualifying battles. In the Group A competition that took place first on May 9, RNG once again easily swept two opponents in a row and advanced to the confrontation stage with an 8-0 group stage record.

In fact, in Group A, everyone thought that UOL could cause some trouble to RNG at the beginning. In last year's qualifying round, UOL and Lao Gandie played back and forth, and they should still have strength.

The UOL players also expressed their ambition to compete with RNG in the interview. After the withdrawal of the Vietnam Division, they have already regarded the qualification as a bag, and even a little inflated to wrestle with RNG.

After all, PGG, another team in the same group, is clearly a loser. Before the MSI started, the outside world had already regarded them as the weakest of the 11 teams in Iceland.

Oceania teams have always been notoriously weak. At the end of last year, Riot announced the disbandment of the OPL region, but would reserve one year's World Championship quota for Oceania teams.

PGG also became the team that represented Oceania to participate in MSI for the last time.

After next year, even if there are still LOL professional teams in Oceania, they can only participate in leagues in other regions, just like the current Taiwanese teams can only participate in the Southeast Asian League.

Such a team should not have any impact on UOL, after all, Unicorn is recognized as one of the strongest wildcard teams.

But no one expected that the CIS boss who came to Iceland this year would be vulnerable to RNG, and they even lost to PGG in the tiebreaker.

PGG successfully grabbed the second qualifying spot in Group A.

Oceania audiences were excited, while European audiences were sad.

UOL is actually very popular in Europe, and even the new LEC champion MAD is inferior to the cheers it received on the European forum.

The unique style and home-based operation mode made this team have fans everywhere before the European league began.

Before 2018, UOL was the most popular team in Europe except FNC, although they had no achievements.

Maybe in the eyes of many European audiences, this is a team that is more pure than the former ROX, although the strength of the two is very different.

The establishment of UOL originated from a few young people who wanted to play together. Hilisan and Viciciach, who have now made a name for themselves in LEC, are both veterans of this team.

Hilisan's game style of thinking of ideas was developed during the UOL period.

In order to save money, the team's logistics were all handled by the coach's family, and even the coach's girlfriend became a substitute for the team, so that there was no need to spend extra salary to find an extra substitute.

At that time, the league stipulated that each team must have two substitutes. The other substitute of UOL was Hilisan's twin brother, also for the purpose of saving money.

In 2017, they competed with G2 for the LCS EU championship. The finals were all pink, and the whole place was full of cheers for the unicorn. G2, which had already become famous, was embarrassed to not receive support in Europe.

Although this team with a unique style was excluded from the LEC due to its refusal to allow foreign capital to join, they still have many fans in Europe, even though they are in the CIS region.

Unlike the domestic secondary leagues, which are almost ignored and have become a holy place for fake matches, Europe has a strong club culture, and the atmosphere of some regional leagues and secondary leagues is actually very hot. Many teams have more sponsors than LEC teams.

The just-concluded European Masters finals even set several ratings records. French President Macron sent congratulations to the winning KC team.

So it is understandable that UOL is still so popular in Europe today. In addition to Spanish audiences, many European audiences even think that UOL is more like their home team than MAD.

Of course, this is also the cruelty of e-sports.

If you are eliminated, you are eliminated.

The trophy is not awarded to whoever has more fans.

In the qualifying match of Group B on May 10, although MAD lost to the Turkish team IW in an upset at the beginning, the European upstart still held its ground and finally emerged as the top of the group with a record of 5-1.

The other qualifying spot in Group B was won by PSG. The Hong Kong provincial team did not lose the chain except for being double-killed by MAD, and squeezed into the confrontation stage with a score of 4-2.

In fact, the level of PSG is the strength that the teams of the top five leagues should have.

Although they can't beat LCK and LPL, LMS teams used to have an overwhelming advantage when facing the wildcard zone, unlike North American teams who always like to create show effects.

On May 11, in the third day of the qualifying match of Group C, KT was still strong, and won three more wins like cutting melons and vegetables, and entered the next stage with a record of 6-0.

The other spot in Group C was finally won by C9.

North America was in a tough situation in the first round. If INF hadn't had problems in the mid-game, C9 would have almost started with three consecutive losses. However, the North American teams had something to say in the second round.

In addition to being beaten by KT, C9 finally showed the strength it should have in the four major leagues. A P, who had opened up his Ren and Du meridians, finally stood up and led the team to defeat INF and DFM in succession, and qualified with a record of 3-3.

So far, the six teams in the confrontation stage have been determined.

RNG, PGG, MAD, PSG, KT, C9.

Just looking at the list, the audience may feel that there are not many surprises. Except for PGG, the rest are the five strongest teams on paper.

Only those who have watched the game will know how thrilling the road to promotion for some teams is.

I'm talking about you! C9.

After the group stage, the data of each team also attracted attention.

The data of KT and RNG can be said to stand out. At the team level, they are obviously ahead of the other four teams. MAD's data fell a lot because of losing a game.

Among them, KT's overall KDA is higher, and the average resource control rate is also better.

RNG's average time is shorter and the average bloodiness is higher.

Despite the different opponents, fans still enthusiastically started to compare the Void, insisting on finding out who was better.

In terms of personal data, Lin Cheng's KDA of over 40 made everyone exclaim outrageous.

Lin Cheng died twice in six games, and his kills and assists added up to over 80, which resulted in such a terrifying KDA data.

GALA, who ranked second, had a KDA of only 12.1.

Moreover, Lin Cheng was a top laner, and he almost always charged forward in every fight. Such an outrageous KDA data should not appear on a top laner.

Some people even went to the live broadcast room to ask the factory manager if he taught Lin Cheng the skills to brush KDA.

The factory manager was furious on the spot.

"Block those who brush Clear Run for me!"

"How many years has it been?"

"How many people have come to black me year after year?"

"It's just a change of soup but not medicine."