Back to S3 with the LOL e-sports manager system

Chapter 248 The Teams from Other Divisions Are Announced
When the three S3 places were determined in the LPL competition area, other competition areas also successively confirmed the participating teams representing their respective competition areas.

After the Shanghai All-Star Game, OGN South Korea, which is known as being able to keep pace with the LPL, will finally be represented by two teams, NaJin Sword and SK Telecom T1, in S3.

SK Telecom T1 beat KT Rolster Bullets to win the OGN Summer Championship. Their mid laner Faker even played a shocking double-robbery battle, which made many LOLers all over the world think that they should be the most powerful champion of S3 competitor.

And NaJin Sword entered S3 because it was actually carried by SKT, and it is also the seed team of OGN, but because of its poor performance in the summer split, it is not favored by the outside world!

In the European Division, three places will be won by Fnatic, LD, and Gambit.

And because of the unsatisfactory performance of the European Division in S2, all three of their teams need to play in the group stage.

In North America, the three representative teams are C9, TSM, and VL, and their seed team is C9.

In the Southeast Asia Division, two representative teams were selected, namely GAB Orange Bear and MSK.

The last international wild card team is GG.EU.

These 11 teams, together with the three LPL teams, together with 14 teams, will participate in the S3 Global Finals.

From September 9th to September 10th, within a short period of three days, the LPL competition area, after completing the various visa procedures for the three participating teams, sent Royal Family, OMG, and WE to the plane.

The original space-time visa issue did not arise.

After the three teams reached the soaked chicken, they began to actively prepare for the S3 group stage.

Only the Royal Team didn't seem to be in a hurry, because they didn't need to participate in the group stage, they just needed to go directly to the quarterfinals.

After arriving in the city where the competition was held, with the completion of the drawing and grouping ceremony, the grouping of the 10 teams that needed to participate in the group was also revealed.

The teams that were assigned to Group A included strong teams like OMG, SKT, and TSM, as well as LD, GG.EU, a total of five teams.

After seeing this grouping situation, Group A was immediately called the group of death.

Because in the eyes of many people, SKT is sure to get a qualifying spot in a group.

And the remaining qualifying spot, no matter which team it is, is not so easy to get.

After all, OMG is an existence in the LPL division that can play BO5 with LPL seeded teams, and its strength cannot be ignored at all!

And TSM has always been the overlord in North America, but because of this time in S3, C9 came from behind and snatched away the seed team.

LD is also a team in the European division, which can compete with the old strong team Fnatic.

Even the wild card team GG.EU is not an ordinary wild card team at all.

Different from the death group of Group A, although Group B has such strong teams as Fnatic, WE and Southeast Asian Orange Bears, it seems that except for WE, the voices of other teams during this period are not very high.

After all, even if Fnatic won the S1 world championship, the gold content of this honor is actually not too high.

The other teams, on the other hand, have not achieved any outstanding results at all.

For Group B, many people think that WE should win the group first with a record of victory and then qualify.

If another spot appears, there is a high probability that it will be Fnatic!
After knowing all the teams participating in the S3 competition, most players who are looking forward to S3 are more interested in the S3 schedule.

通过拳头公司发布的公告，玩家们知道，S3全球冠军赛小组赛将于东八区时间9月16日至9月22日展开。

The group stage is a BO1 two-round points competition system, which means that each team in each group needs to play against each other twice, with a total of eight games.

After the final eight rounds, the top two teams in each group will advance to the quarter-finals. They will draw lots with the four seeded teams to determine their opponents in the quarter-finals.

The knockout round is from September 9th to September 24th.

Through the encounters and duels between the seeded teams and the promoted teams in the knockout round of the quarterfinals, the top four teams of S3 will be determined to enter the semi-finals!

According to the announcement, the quarter-final knockout matches will be a BO3 format, that is, best of three games.

In addition, the quarter-finals are direct knockouts, there is no loser's bracket, and each team only has one BO3 chance.

Although the information has been guessed before, when the WE players really confirmed the news of the schedule, they were a little bit less interested.

"Coach, no! Now in our LPL division and OGN, the playoffs have already adopted the BO5 format, and S3 still uses BO3!"

"If that's the case, then I dare say that the teams in other regions may not be our opponents in the LPL and OGN at all!"

Hearing Ruofeng's complaint, Sun Kai smiled and did not refute.

that's the truth.

Let's not talk about S3, which has not started yet, let's talk about the original time and space where Sun Kai was.

In S3, when there were only four teams participating in the LPL playoffs, there were already eight teams on OGN!And when the BO3 competition system was used in the knockout stage of the LPL playoffs, OGN had already started to use the BO5 competition system.

This kind of competition system with a huge difference in intensity has also made the gap between the strength of the LPL team and the strength of the OGN team wider and wider.

By the time LPL finally paid attention to the B05 competition system, the original LPL team in Time and Space no longer knew how many BO5s they had lost to OGN in international competitions.

Therefore, in the original time and space, in the 2015 MSI finals of the EDG team, after defeating SKT in BO5, EDG could become the hope of the LPL audience in S5.

It's a pity that in S5, the LPL team still failed to live up to expectations, and the best results will be the top eight.

As we all know, although they are all the same competition, BO1, BO3 and BO5 are all different.

The victory of the BO1 game is likely to have a lot of luck in it.

But BO3, especially BO5, will test the true strength of a team.

This kind of strength includes the coach's BP level, the player's on-the-spot adaptability, the player's disadvantaged ability to resist pressure, etc.!
Teams that have played BO5, especially teams that often play BO5, naturally have an advantage over teams that have never played BO5, or teams that rarely play BO5.

That's why Ruofeng made the previous remarks.

"Now what we want to think about is not the knockout format, but the group stage that is just around the corner!"

"I plan to rotate Ruofeng and Xiye in the group stage. This will allow Xiye to get training from the competition, and also make the opponents unsure of the hero pools of Xiye and Ruofeng!"

After Sun Kai finished his proposal, he looked at Xiye and Ruofeng.

"No problem! I can't wait to play against the mid laners from other regions now! I was always in the LPL before, and our team didn't encounter any strong opponents, which made me feel a bit unchallenged!" Xiye smiled. road.

"It's okay for me! But I'm worried that if I'm not in good condition, the team will lose the game, even in the group stage..."

Before Ruofeng finished speaking, Sun Kai, who knew what he was going to say, interrupted Ruofeng directly: "Have confidence in yourself and your teammates! Don't think about this before the game! We What we need to think about before the game is whether we can win the group stage!"

With Sun Kai's reminder, Ruofeng also stopped the thought in his heart.

Now everything is waiting for the start of the group stage to see how strong the teams in other divisions are!

(End of this chapter)