Chapter 1909: Topical Grouping
Since GAM will represent the country in the Southeast Asian Games, the Vietnamese team participating in MSI this year is the spring season runner-up SGB.
The predecessor of SGB Saigon Buffalo is the PVB that participated in MSI in 2019.
After two years of absence from the World Championship, this team will start the World Championship journey again, which is also a reincarnation for the VCS region.
Cuzz: "Wow! We will play against the Vietnamese team in the group stage. I wonder if they are strong?"
"They are not strong, but the teams in the Vietnamese region are very brave. We can't be careless when the time comes."
Rookie played against PVB, the predecessor of SGB, in 2019. The style of this region is indeed impressive.
Lin Cheng punched and slammed his palm, looking confident.
"Don't worry! Anyway, we won't be captured by Vietnam."
The live draw really brought the show effect to the fullest. When the second second seed PCS was drawn, the cheers from the North American audience were even more deafening.
PG, which means that the North American champion EG will be grouped with G2.
European and American losers are classic and don't like each other. Although the outside world believes that Europe is obviously stronger than North America, in the eyes of North American audiences, Europe is also a bunch of losers.
Just now on the LCS finals stage, the host shouted that North America is very strong this year.
EG fell into the loser group early in this year's LCS spring playoffs, but they went all the way from the loser group to win the championship with only one small loss, and the strength they showed completely conquered the North American audience.
What?
You said that EG's one-on-four record was because the LCS was too weak?
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Anyway, it must be stronger than G2, the stumbling European loser.
NA is better than EU!
The opportunity has come.
This year's LCS will shock the world.
"Fuck! This group of North American audiences is too much, 23333"
"Europe and the United States are really happy, the grouping is the same as winning the championship"
"Classic losers look down on each other"
"RNG and PSG are grouped together again, Overheard 2, right? 》
《Don't let your BP be overheard again this time》
PSG actually performed very well in the mid-season game in Iceland last year, squeezing out the North American light C9 and breaking into the semi-finals.
However, due to the wiretapping dispute with RNG at the Iceland game, LPL audiences and Taiwanese audiences once quarreled with each other last year.
The competition venue in Iceland was very small at that time, and the distance between the two sides' competition seats was close. If you don't wear headphones properly, you can even hear the BP discussion of the other side.
Coincidentally, RNG encountered PSG in the second round of BP, and the other side banned whatever they wanted to choose, so the RNG players speculated that the other side eavesdropped.
Both sides can actually hear each other, and it is hard to say whether PSG did it on purpose.
But LPL audiences don't get along with Taiwanese audiences, so the rhythm suddenly picked up.
At this time, the Taiwanese audience who were watching the draw were already clamoring to beat RNG.
And the LPL audience also threatened to beat the provincial team.
In this way, the first two rounds of draws were actually very topical.
Group A: KT, the heyday of the dynasty, ushered in the legendary strongest wild card VCS to return after two and a half years.
Group B: Overheard 2 is on stage.
Group C: The most promising year for classic North America, a battle between the bloodlines of European and American teams.
Soon, the subsequent draw results were all released.
Group A: KT, SGB, AEZ (LLA Latin America), DFM (LJL Japan)
Group B: RNG, PSG, IW (TCL Turkey), RED (CBLOL Brazil)
Group C: G2, EG, ORD (LCO Oceania)
The current MSI has cancelled the qualifying round. Everyone knows that the third and fourth seeds in each group are basically here to make up the numbers and are basically not competitive.
Of course, with the development of League of Legends to this day, everyone has seen many examples of wildcard counterattacks.
Take LPL for example. Since Mr. Mingkai led EDG to start in S6, almost every year in the world competition, LPL teams have lost to wildcards.
It can only be said that Qijiang's influence on LPL is still continuing.
In the afternoon, Lin Cheng and his teammates set off for Suwon, where they were invited to throw the first pitch for KT Wizards.
This time, the opponent was SSG Login, formerly SK Dragons.
That was one of the protagonists of the game where Lin Cheng and Han Shuyan caught the baseball with their bare hands.
Last year, Shinsegae Group spent more than 130 billion won to acquire SK Dragons and renamed it SSG Login.
Although the salaries of top e-sports players have exceeded those of Korean professional baseball players, there is obviously still a certain gap in the value of the club. Among all LCK teams, only the two giants of the news agency and GEN·G have a market value that exceeds the average of Korean professional baseball clubs.
In fact, this is normal. After all, compared with traditional sports, the e-sports industry still has great limitations.
Generally, if an Asian e-sports club wants to sell for 800 million yuan, it is estimated that only the poor RNG dares to ask.
The withdrawal of SK Dragons means that there will be no more telecom wars in the Korean professional baseball arena from this year.
In a sense, it is also a pity.
Shinsegae Group and KT have close business dealings. This match is the first time the two teams have met, and it can be regarded as the beginning of a new history.
To welcome the new opponent, KT, who plays at home, will invite guests to kick off the match as usual.
It just so happens that the brother clubs in the e-sports sector have nothing to do, so they decisively come to help.
As the representative of the opening pitch, Lin Cheng once again threw a pitch at a speed of 150 km/h.
The audience was so excited that the host joked on the spot and asked if Lin Cheng could be borrowed to play in the offseason.
It was shocking enough, but no one regarded Lin Cheng as a monster.
Because Lin Cheng was not the only one whose opening pitch was outrageous.
In addition to playing baseball when she was a child, Japanese actress Inamura Ami could throw a ball at a speed of 105 kilometers without professional training.
You should know that the speed of amateur female baseball players is generally above 40 or 50 kilometers per hour, and most professional players are just over 100 kilometers per hour.
Compared with male players, Lin Cheng's throwing speed of 150 is considered the main pitcher level of professional teams. In terms of conversion, it is not much more exaggerated than Inamura Ami.
There are also many high school students in Koshien who can throw at this speed, so Lin Cheng's opening pitch seems outrageous, but it is actually barely reasonable.
Because of his magnificent opening pitch, Lin Cheng won the applause of the whole audience.
However, the time of embarrassment soon came.
There is a break after each inning in baseball games, and KT players cheer with the cheerleaders.
During the live disco, Lin Cheng's dance highlights the uncoordinated limbs.
Of course, he himself will not admit it.
It's all because the cheerleader dancing next to him is too eye-catching, and the pair of headlights make him unable to concentrate at all.
Although it feels technological, it's not for Lin Cheng to comment on his experience.
It's really good-looking.
It's normal to be distracted.
However, netizens are all haters.
Before the baseball game was over, Lin Cheng's enchanting and abstract dance swept the Internet and successfully landed on NAVER's hot search.
It's all teasing!
Even Cheng Za was embarrassed to say that he danced beautifully.
While Lin Cheng was concentrating on watching the game, Ji Shengxi deliberately showed him the comments on his mobile phone, stabbing Lin Cheng in the heart.
"Tsk tsk! The News Agency Dance King! This nickname is quite domineering."
Lin Cheng curled his lips and whispered in Chi Shengxi's ear: "Normally, I actually prefer the title of Bao Wang."
Chi Shengxi: "·····"