Chapter 367

The T1 crowd who finished the last match interview walked into the backstage.

Zeus, who had just stated on stage that he was "just learned that move," looked at Ye Bo, who was sitting in the center of the backstage and surrounded by many foreign players, before entering the door.

Although using that move was indeed used on the spot naturally————but at least choosing Yone, he was indeed a bit "deliberate."

He couldn't say why either.

Perhaps he wanted to prove himself, perhaps he had always regarded that person as his "opponent," or perhaps as a target to chase.

Ye Bo didn't notice the gaze next to him, using a Chinese-Western combined language to barely conduct social interaction, and didn't stop until the second round of draws was about to begin.

The second round draw guest Bang walked onto the stage and looked at the host.

The live stream screen also showed the grouping results of the second round of matches.

【1-0 Match Pool】

V5, WBG, G2, GEN

T1, HLE, FNC, JDG

【0-1 Match Pool】

DK, NRG, BDS, GAM

TL, C9, MAD, LNG

"Turtle, our number one pool is full of experts!" Xun couldn't help but sigh: "Our LPL seems to be all in the number one pool..."

"Hey hey, pay attention to quality." Shengqiang Ge poked the other party with his elbow.

Only after Xun finished speaking did he suddenly realize something, and caught a glimpse of the LNG player seats not far from the seat with his peripheral vision.

He happened to meet the LNG crowd who were looking over angrily as if they heard what he was saying.

After all, in the first round of the Swiss stage, all LPL teams won, and only one team lost.

It really is "whoever loses is embarrassed"!

The only good thing is that LNG is not the number one seed, at least they lost in the civil war, not to some unknown North American number four seed that will disband after the World Championship, so it's not that shameful~

The center of the venue, which had been prepared for a long time, had already placed the "brocade bag table" for the draw, but it seemed to be a bit different from the first round of draws.

"Why did it change from drawing balls to drawing bags?" Xun asked again in confusion.

The 【Ball Pool】 that was most common in previous years became a brocade bag table. Teams with various points were "shuffled" by the host and placed on the table, and then drawn by the draw guest.

In the past, when drawing black balls, the guests would turn around in the pool a few times, but at this time, the brocade bag table just turned its head, and waited for the host to finish placing it before turning back.

On the stage, Bang had already started to choose the brocade bag, circled his palm on the table twice, and grabbed one of the brocade bags.

Unfolding it was the GEN icon.

"Is it GEN..." Ye Bo looked at the opponent's avatar coming out, and his brain had already started thinking about something.

Unfortunately, when the black ball was uncovered, the HLE avatar appeared.

"They went to the civil war!" BeryL said somewhat regretfully on the side: "Sigh, it seems like we won't be able to fight Jianyou and Star-Hoon in the Swiss stage."

Deft on the side also showed a look of regret.

After all, GEN's "civil war attribute" is well known, and it is still somewhat difficult for Hanwha to defeat the opponent.

And V5's goal is naturally to qualify directly with a 3-0 in the three Swiss stage matches, playing the fewest matches to expose the fewest tactics————this goal also means that there is a high probability of not drawing a 1-1 team.

Bang continued the draw.

Clearly, after the two LCK teams drew the civil war at the very beginning, the pressure of the draw was instantly much smaller.

Following closely, WBG had great luck again, being drawn by G2, which looked like the least pressure among the remaining teams.

Gala, Wei, and Liu Qingsong were all clearly happy. Xiaohu also wanted to laugh at first, but habitually glanced at TheShy who was stuck on the left side, and only dared to laugh loudly after seeing the other party also laughing.

"Then the next third group matchup is FNC, and their opponent..." Park Ji-sun watched Bang draw from the remaining three bags, dragging out the tail sound.

The members of the V5, JDG, and T1 teams remaining backstage were also holding their breath and staring at the screen.

And the unfolded team flag was a red font somewhat similar to the three teams————it's just a pity that it was three letters.

"FNC's opponent is the number two seed JDG from the LPL region!"

There was an uproar backstage.

The uproar was naturally not about this matchup, but about the naturally formed matchup that remained at the end.

However, the draw segment on the stage without suspense continued.

Bang grabbed one from the last two bags.

The flag label poured out of it was exactly T1!

"Okay! The final matchup result is T1 vs V5! And T1 will have the priority to choose the side!" The host announced the result loudly.

"This is a result similar to the World Championship grouping last year! T1 and V5, this pair of old rivals, meet again in the group stage, and this time in the brand-new Swiss stage competition, whether it is revenge or history repeating itself, let us wait and see!"

"Next is the draw result of the second group of 0-1 teams..."

The subsequent draw results continued.

But the barrage clearly had no intention to watch and started a fierce discussion.

【No? Why does T1 have the priority to choose the side? What kind of B rule is this!】

【Don't forget where this is. I think these two people on the stage must have discussed it under the covers!】

【Stop with the conspiracy theories. If they really rigged the draw, could they draw their own civil war? Wouldn't they have to draw JDG or WBG for V5?】

【You don't understand. If you draw that for V5, can you beat anything out of them? It's just that they have to take turns in a wheel war to consume V5's tactics! Anyway, there is great fault tolerance if they lose————the civil war is to protect one GEN to go in and continue to consume, look, they even specially gave GEN the priority to choose the side!】

【This is really not a conspiracy theory. Mainly because Korea was beaten like this this year, and they were kicked to a bronze medal in the Asian Games. If you say they didn't do anything, I really don't believe it. Even if they didn't want to do it originally, they have to do it now!】

【Fun fact: In the first round of the Swiss stage, the blue side had an 8-match 100% win rate, not losing a single match!】

【Holy crap, Xu Ge!! Xu Ge seems to be dying!!】

It is worth mentioning that in this Swiss stage, except for the first round, the subsequent 2-5 side-selection rules are: "Whoever is drawn first has the priority to choose the side."

Regarding this rule, it was also a rule that all players were temporarily informed of the "change" by LCK officials after arriving at the competition venue.

And the World Championship rules originally released by Riot were actually: coin toss (or other equivalent methods).

As a result, the LCK organizers not only canceled the "ball drawing" method, but also abandoned the simple and crude tradition of flipping a coin, choosing the "other equivalent methods" in the brackets behind...

The gold content of the priority to choose the side is not necessarily that important in the global BP system————but in the Swiss stage BO1 and BO3 system, it is absolutely crucial!

It is not an exaggeration to say that occupying the right time and place at the beginning!

However, after the draw results of the lower half were released, attention also had a direction to shift.

【Swiss Stage Second Round】 Matchup Results:

(The team with the name in front has the "priority to choose the side")

GEN vs HLE, G2 vs WBG, FNC vs JDG, T1 vs V5

DK vs LNG, NRG vs MAD, BDS vs C9, TL vs GAM

There were people happy and sad in the big backstage of the players.

And as the inevitable focus battle V5 and T1, the faces of the two teams couldn't see anything, they just looked at each other from afar.

It's as if both sides were prepared for this matchup result, only surprises.

Anyway, the most worried must be DK.

ShowMaker collapsed on the chair with a lifeless face, and didn't expect that he could draw the only LPL team in the 0-1 pool again...

As for the draw positions of WBG and JDG, there is naturally no need to say more.

After all, with the luxurious lineups of these two teams————there really won't be anyone who can't beat European and American teams, right?

The team members who had been fighting for a day set off back to the hotel to rest, preparing to fight the matches that would continue to be played tomorrow.

The Swiss stage was played from 1 PM to 10 PM. Because they had to watch the matches of potential opponents, the V5 members who played the opening match were also a bit mentally exhausted at this time, and they all took a nap in the car one after another.