Chapter 362: Opening match!

"Looking at it this way, the probability of us playing T1, GEN, and HLE in the second round is very high..."

Everyone frowned at the draw results.

Playing DK, everyone must be confident, and it is not considered "opening champagne" to assume that they will win the first round first.

And according to this matchup distribution, the first-round opponents of the top three LCK seeds are all the weakest, not only difficult to force out anything, but also highly likely to draw V5 in a safe draw.

Whether it is to understand the opponent first or to play the opponent's tactical reserves first, it is a blood profit.

"Actually, this might be a good thing."

Ye Bo suddenly said from the side: "If we can meet strong teams in advance, our plan can also be prepared to be executed in advance, not necessarily waiting until the quarterfinals."

"But if that's the case, we might have to... in the first game tomorrow."

Everyone returned to the hotel and had a meeting.

Then they returned to their rooms to rest, preparing for tomorrow's opening match debut.

When Ye Bo sat alone in the room, he was still deliberating and thinking.

This plan is actually an idea he put forward very early, and finally made up his mind after the Asian Games ended.

Although the result of the Asian Games was a gold medal that could be called perfect, the problems exposed in the process were clearly not few—if those problems were ignored, once they broke out in a key game, the consequences might be unimaginable!

Ye Bo didn't want to experience the fourth game of the Asian Games again, the feeling of discovering problems on the spot and being unable to solve them, and only being able to bite the bullet and fight back.

So although there will inevitably be risks.

But that is indeed the only way he can find in a short time.

In the blink of an eye, it is October 19th.

Seoul KBS Arena, 16 teams gathered together.

The Swiss round is a BO1 for the first two rounds, and every team has to play today, with a total of eight games to be played, which is also why the backstage today is exceptionally lively.

Languages of various countries are mixed together in the air and noisy.

Ye Bo just finished taking photos with the excited Adam, watching the other party run away like a treasure.

Turning his head, he saw the four teams of LCK walking in from the door in a group.

Lee Sang-hyeok, who is always walking in the front, seemed to notice Ye Bo in the crowd at a glance—and Ye Bo also saw the other party's gaze, and the two nodded to each other, which was considered a greeting.

However, the expressions of the few people behind who were still talking and laughing just now changed instantly when they saw his face... especially the few who returned from the Asian Games!

Clearly standing on their home court, they suddenly felt a sense of inexplicable "restraint" standing here!

Only Zeka and Kingen behind HLE were waving to the bottom lane duo, and Viper behind Samsung was also greeting Ye Bo and Flandre.

Viper actually wanted to bring everyone to do the landlord's friendship for a long time, but because both sides are the No. 1 seeds of their respective regions, and they are also the biggest competitors on the surface, it is likely that there will be a battle later.

If it was photographed that there was any offline interaction before the game, it would be difficult to avoid rhythm, so he could only press it for the time being.

The on-site staff walked in to urge.

And the members of the two teams that were about to fight today also came to the backstage passage to prepare for their debut.

ShowMaker also looked at Ye Bo meaningfully first, then interacted with BeryL behind him, and squeezed his eyes crazily with his old brother.

"Little Show, are you ready to be beaten by us today?"

BeryL, who switched the voice input method, joked, and deliberately hung on Ye Bo's shoulder: "Hey Master Ye, give me face today, hit harder, Show is very resistant to beating~~~"

He also said this part in Korean.

Ye Bo actually couldn't understand it at all!

"Humph, you'd better not be beaten by our little support! He is very strong!" ShowMaker pretended not to hear the second half, and replied to his Delight without showing weakness.

The noisy volume of the front court came.

The Roaring Emperor's voice was also transmitted into the backstage through the loudspeaker.

"After four days of play-in competition, today we have finally arrived at the Swiss round of the World Championship!"

"The war of October is burning, let us wait and see which eight teams can break through!"

"Please invite the players from both sides to the stage!"

The two teams walked out of the tunnel together and appeared.

DK sits on the home court advantage and immediately won a considerable amount of cheering from the scene, and a gold star on the team logo on the chest is shining, also reminding everyone that this is a team that has once stepped on the peak.

But when another group of people walked up, although there was no gold star shining on the team uniform—the "oppressive feeling" that inexplicably brought to everyone was rushing towards them.

As if the cheering sound of the scene became smaller for a while!

The spotlights flashed and reflected, and the members of the two teams signaled to the audience and walked to the player seats.

The live stream camera also quickly jumped to the commentary booth.

"Good evening, viewers, I am the commentator Guan Zeyuan!"

"Hello everyone, I am the commentator Jide!"

Two familiar faces appeared on the screen.

Guan Zeyuan said loudly, "The opening match that is about to take place is the LPL region's No. 1 seed V5, against the LCK region's No. 4 seed DK!"

Jide also immediately took the conversation: "Although DK is only the No. 4 seed, after all, the first two rounds of the Swiss round are BO1, everyone knows that the accident of BO1 is very large, and players from both sides may take out unexpected things, we must not take it lightly!"

Guan Zeyuan also nodded: "Yes, you will be eliminated if you lose three games in the Swiss round, it can be said that every game is crucial, and the first game is the key move that determines the draw!"

"Then without further ado, let's enter the BP link of the opening match!"

Unlike the domestic ones that have a series of Du Du protection advertising pre-play, the World Championship basically executes time strictly according to the schedule.

Accompanied by a crisp sound of clang.

The BP panel has already appeared in the live stream screen!

The first round of the Swiss round adopts the rule of "high seed team" priority to choose sides, V5 as the No. 1 seed team won the right to choose sides, and naturally chose the blue side, which has a greater advantage in BO1.

"V5 first banned Rumble and Jax, while DK is Seeing Akali and Neeko, two fixed ban slots..."

Guan Zeyuan's words were slightly hesitant: "This choice of V5 is a bit unexpected, because according to the experience of the play-in stage, the top lane is actually very difficult to burn out, especially since this is BO1."

Currently, there are four "absolutely strong" priority heroes in the top lane.

Renekton, Aatrox, Rumble, Jax.

And besides these four absolute strengths, there are secondary choices such as Gwen, Gnar, Jayce, Kennen, K'Sante, etc.

This is also the reason why the top lane is strong in the current version—heroes simply can't be burned out!

Compared to the other four positions, at most there are 2-3 heroes that must be banned, the top lane can easily choose strong heroes at least in the first two games!

"Perhaps V5 wants to take one each, now there are still Renekton and Aatrox left, they first banned Blitzcrank!"

Guan Zeyuan continued to explain to the audience: "The purpose of this Blitzcrank is very obvious, V5 should want to play a double shooter combination!"

"DK's new support Delight likes to use Blitzcrank to play double shooters in LCK, which can be said to be one of the most distinct means among the four teams in LCK."

Blitzcrank is definitely not "restraining" double shooters.

It looks like it's a very simple hook and death.

But the problem is that the difficulty of wanting to hook people in the professional arena must be at least tripled, and once the hook is empty, you have to be blocked by the double shooter's gun barrel into the nostrils for more than ten seconds, which can be said to be a huge disadvantage in laning!

So this is a solution with great risk and extreme confidence, not universal.

First round of bans—

V5: Rumble, Jax, Blitzcrank

DK: Seeing Akali, Neeko, Sylas

"DK's last hand is to ban Sylas, let's see what V5 wants to take"

"Yone!?"

"Oh V5 just brightened it, and finally chose to grab Jarvan IV, the version T0 jungler, no problem, anyway, the top lane hero pool is enough!"

Jarvan IV has been confirmed in the play-in stage to be the undisputed new T0 jungler in the current environment and version.

The reason is also very simple. ===== CHAPTER 363 =====