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With the end of the finalists' knockout round on October 5, the League of Legends S12 Global Finals will officially enter the group stage. The four teams that were shortlisted for promotion are: FNC, DRX, EG, and RNG. According to the principle of evasion in the same competition area, FNC enters Group A, EG enters Group B, DRX enters Group C, and RNG enters Group D. The group stage adopts the bo1 double round-robin system, and each team will play 2 games with the teams in the same group. In addition, the top 2 teams in each group are eligible to advance to the next round (knockout stage). Note: The 2022 League of Legends Global Finals group stage will start at 5:00 Beijing time on October 8. This article will predict the qualifying form in the group stage. Can JDG, TES, EDG, and RNG, which represent the LPL competition, compete in the World Championship, join hands to qualify and advance? Let’s take a look together!
Group A: C9, T1, EDG, FNC
AA After the S12 group lottery ceremony, Group A is a recognized "death group" by the outside world. Among them, C9 is the light of North America. This year is the ninth time that C9 has participated in the Global Finals since its founding in 2013. Although the results of C9 in previous World Championships are average, the magical thing is that C9 can break through the siege after entering the Death Group in almost every World Championship. Will this magical record continue this year? Let's wait and see! T1, EDG and FNC that entered the finals have both won the World Finals Championship: FNC is the S1 champion; T1 predecessor SKT is the S3, S5, and S6 champion; EDG is the S11 champion.
Although we often say that the LPL and LCK in the four major competition areas are stronger than lcs and LEC. However, because the European and American competition areas played Bo1 in the regular season in the spring and summer, some black technology lineups often have unexpected results. Therefore, there are often upsets in the group stages of the World Championship every year. At present, the outside world is generally optimistic about T1 and EDG in Group A qualifying. On October 8, EDG will make its first group stage appearance with T1. This is also the first head-on conversation between the LPL and LCK areas in the S12 group stage, and it is not to be missed.
Referring to the performance of the four teams in the summer season, C9 was the only one in the North American LCS region and swept the opponent 3:0 in the finals; although T1's performance in the summer season is not as impressive as in the spring season, its overall strength is also a unique position in the LK region; EDG did not play as a world champion in the summer season, and because of the few points in the spring season, the road to advance to the world season is also bumpy; FNC's summer season performance is average, but the finalists showed a good competitive state. It is worth mentioning that FNC, T1, and C9 have all caused EDG torture in the World Championship. Given that European and American regions often make efforts in the second round of the group stage, if EDG wants to qualify successfully in the group stage, it must try its best to ensure that every game in the first round of the group stage is not allowed to be lost. Looking forward to EDG's debut on October 8!
B Group: JDG, G2, DK, EG
From JDG's perspective, from the hard strength of Group B's opponents, DK is undoubtedly the most direct competitor to JD.com's group qualifying. EG, who advanced from the shortlisted competition, is likely to be a team that runs with him, and is expected to become the "power bank" of the other three teams in Group B. This year's msi mid-season championship game EG lost to G2 0-6, and this is still the case with Danny. What’s more, after EG defeated MAD and was assigned to Group B, G2 promoted it: salute to MAD and gave us two games that won directly in the group stage. When it comes to doing the job, you have to look at G2!
G2 This summer's playoff performance was average, and he lost to RGE 0:3 in the final. Perhaps the middle and wild combination is older and has unstable state. But G2 should not be underestimated. Once they are allowed to find a sense of bo1, it is hard to say. DK welcomed Nuguri back in this summer, but because the coach likes to do single rotation, it feels that the prospects of the DK World Championship are a bit confusing. If DK can fix the starting lineup in the World Championship, the strength of the mid-stone in this team will still be among the best. In addition, the current World Championship version is a bit more skewed towards the jungle core, canyon is ecstatic. Note: At 10:00 Beijing time on October 9, JDG will play against DK.
JDG As the champion of the LPL summer season, coupled with the blessing of coach Redmi, it is not difficult to qualify from Group B.I don’t know if you have noticed that the upper, middle and wild strength of Group B is the most intense among the 4 groups. Most of the jdg summer seasons focus on top, middle and jungle play, and Kanavi is even more amazing in playing the jungle core. When this year's World Championship version tends to play with upper, middle and wild cores, JDG is undoubtedly in a good way. Let me tell you an interesting metaphysics. Since S9, the championships in the S competition have been from the No. 1 seed in Group B, and the No. 1 seed in Group B this time is JDG. Do you know it!
C group: RGE, TES, GAM, DRX
This group should be no suspense if you play bo5, TES will definitely qualify. There is a certain suspense in the group stage Bo1. What is currently more worried about is the upper and middle roads of TES. knighttml2 has always been criticized as a "soft-foot shrimp in the competition". The wayward hero pool is shallow, and is afraid that TES that plays BO1 will fail. Judging from the opponents in the same group, DRX won all the finalists and advanced, and the competitive state and version understanding are quite good. In addition, it defeated RNG with its first-hand big tree system. I'm more looking forward to how to break the LCK big tree system (LCK teams are all practicing big trees in a rank).
GAM is the No. 1 seed in the Vietnam VCS region. Since the Vietnam region has missed the World Championship many times, to be honest, the outside world cannot spy on the true strength of GAM. The most familiar player in this gam lineup is Vietnam's No. 1 Levi. Compared with GAM, I am personally optimistic about RGE. As the summer champion of this year's European Lec Division, RGE crushed G2 in the final. The No. 1 seed in the European competition area still needs to be respected. After all, the group stage is bo1, and they are also good at this competition system.
Recently, Korean anchors analyzed the group stage. When talking about the promotion of Group C (RGE, TES, GAM, DRX), Korean anchors said: "TES is a hard bone, the upper limit is particularly high, Tian is not a good person. JKL's Carry ability is completely the first, and JKL with the upper limit of the explosion is unstoppable." The final prediction of Group C promotion is given: TES first, RGE second, and DRX may be eliminated because of the jungler. Coincidentally, the latest LPL English streaming commentary is also optimistic that the TES group will qualify first and win the championship!
D group: GEN, CFO, 100T, RNG
D group is the group with the least suspense in the outside world. Needless to say, GEN 100% occupies one qualifying place. As the No. 1 seed of LCK, GEN is definitely the biggest competitor in the LPL region this year. GEN's double C: Chovy is currently recognized by foreign media as the strongest mid laner; the bottom lane ruler has a very impressive state in the summer season. When the S12 was not drawn yet, GEN was the biggest favorite to win the championship. I'm more looking forward to the performance of RNG vs GEN in the group stage. Note: On October 8, Beijing time, RNG will play against GEN for its first appearance in the group stage.
CFO is the No. 1 seed in the PCS competition area, and most players may not be familiar with this team. It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with it. You can treat the CFO as a PSG, and you are basically a team that runs with the team. The 100T is the No. 2 seed in the North American LCS region. This team still maintains the original team of last season. The starting lineup includes the familiar Ssumday, Closer, and huhi players. In the S11 World Championship, the 100t upset defeat of EDG left a deep impression on the LPL audience. By the way, the 100T team previously released the S12 draw reaction, and the whole team was ecstatic and opened champagne in advance to celebrate!
Although the RNG, who advanced from the finalists, was optimistic about qualifying from Group D, the former top-select Letme, when analyzing the situation of RNG qualifying, mentioned that the situation of rng this year gradually reminded him of the time he drew G2 that year, saying that this was not a good lottery. Indeed, the RNG promotion path was not very smooth, and the players' status, version understanding, and team battle operation were all problems. I feel that every step I have taken since the summer game has been very difficult, and I am really overturning the mountains. This year is also the eighth time that RNG has entered the World Championship in the history of the eighth time. It has been the runner-up in the previous seven best record (including RYL and SHR), three quarter-finals, and the worst result is eliminated in the group stage.
I think the reason why RNG is not good in the summer season is mainly because of the changes in versions and the improvement of hero durability. Version changes are directly related to the choice of BP and system. When watching RNG's finalists, you will always feel that BP is very loose, the lineup is not three-dimensional or even deformed.This may be related to the team's orientation and it takes time to explore and adapt. The team battle style of the rng in the spring season is to focus on fire and quickly cause the opponent to lose his team, and then fight more and win the team battle. Now the hero's durability has increased, and there is no way to instantly cause the team loss, or to lose more skills, which directly leads to RNG's need to change its team-playing ideas, which has a great impact. So now RNG not only chooses a strange smell in the lineup, but also has many loopholes in the team fight.
Summary: In fact, the competition system of group stage bo1 is easy to reverse the strong team, such as S11's FPX. If you don’t consider the upset situation in the group stage, I personally think that the four teams in the LPL region: JDG, TES, EDG, and RNG have great hopes to qualify together to advance to the quarterfinals. But there is a "civil war" that is strong. Finally, do you think JDG, TES, EDG and RNG can work together to qualify in the group stage? Everyone is welcome to leave a message in the comment area for discussion and exchange!
