The finalists and group draw ceremony for the 2022 Global Finals were held on September 12, Beijing time, among which the three teams GEN, CFO, and 100T were assigned to Group D. Interestingly, if the fourth seed RNG of LPL successfully advances to the group stage from the finalists, then according to the principle of "avoidance in the same competition area", he will only enter Group D, and he will encounter the "Sanxia" team for the fourth time.
2014 Global Finals Finals landed in Seoul, South Korea. That year, the SHR royal team in the LPL region met with the "Samsung White" SSW in the South Korea region to the finals. In the end, SSW defeated SHR led by Uzi 3-1 to win the championship. Perhaps neither team expected that the fateful chains firmly tied the two sides - the new royal team renamed RNG in 2016 and the reorganized SSG reunited in Group D of the S6 group stage, and the same group also included TSM and "European Snake" SPY. LCK No. 3 seed SSG only lost to TSM in one game, qualifying for the first time in the group 5-1, while LPL No. 2 seed RNG was beaten by SSG and qualifying for the second time in the group 3-3. In the end, RNG lost to SKTh in the quarterfinals 1-3, and SSG made it to the finals, losing 2-3 to SKT to win the runner-up.
2017 Global Finals were launched in China for the first time. Although RNG became the background board for EDG to win the second and third in the summer finals of the LPL that year, EDG stopped in the group stage in a surprise, and the second seed RNG took on the banner of representing LPL: in the group C group, he lost only one game to G2 in the group stage. , 1907 Fenerbahce and "old enemy" SSG, who doubled the Turkish TCL division, were shameless before the group stage in S6, and qualified as the first in the group stage of 5-1. He eliminated FNC 3-1 in the quarterfinals and then played against SKT in the semi-finals. At that time, the LCK team's performance in BO5 was still stable. In the end, RNG defeated SKT and failed to win the semi-finals after five games. SSG defeated WE 3-1 and finally swept SKT 3-0 in the final to win the S7 championship.
2018 SSG changed its name to GEN in the summer season and won the third seed of LCK. On the other hand, RNG is in the limelight, winning the three championships of LPL Spring and Summer Tournament and MSI. As the No. 1 seed of LPL, he aimed at the S8 World Championship, with GEN, VIT, and C9 points in Group B in the group stage, and after the S7 group stage, he doubled GEN and qualified for the first place in the group stage with C9. GEN's condition is surprising, and it is completely different from the S7 team when he won the championship. He only won one game in C9 and stopped the group stage with a surprise 1-5. At the same time, this is also the second Korean team in the history of S matches to miss the quarterfinals. The first team is SamSung Ozone in the S3 World Championship, and SSO is also the first "SamSung" team to appear in the S match. RNG lost to the third-seeded European European seed G2 in the quarterfinals on October 20, losing the chance to win the Grand Slam of the same year.
Now the draw results of the S12 group stage have been released. A, B and C have LPL teams. Therefore, according to the principle of "avoidance in the same area" in the group stage of the group stage, if RNG successfully advances from the finalists, he can only enter Group D. At that time, it will be the fourth "same frame" of RNG and the "Sanxia" team in the group stage of the S game. However, the "same frame" in the World Championship is generally full of gunpowder - according to the "script" of the two teams in the first three times, there will always be one side killed by the other side. This year, GEN is the champion of the LCK summer season, but RNG is only the fourth seed of LPL. I wonder if GEN can revenge and kill RNG, or can RNG bring different "program effects"?
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