Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LPL played the final match of the group stage yesterday, with TES facing LGD, and the two teams competed for the last qualifying spot, and TES swept to beat LGD with a score of 3-0.
After the end of the game, the LPL site also held a draw ceremony, and the quarterfinals were also announced.
After the end of the LPL group stage, eight teams will advance to the knockout stage, of which the four teams that top the group will advance to the upper bracket, they are AL team in Group A, JDG team in Group B, TT team in Group C and NIP team in Group D, and the four teams will start from the upper bracket.
The final matchup was JDG vs. TT and AL vs. NIP, and these four teams have a chance to repechage the first division, and if they lose, they still have a chance to come back from the lower bracket.
The second team in the group starts directly from the lower bracket, which means they only have one chance to lose a BO5 and are eliminated, these four teams are TES in Group A, WBG in Group B, BLG in Group C and IG in Group D.
The final matchup was IG vs. TES and BLG vs. WBG.
The IG team that everyone is concerned about can be said to have been drawn in this round of the draw, because from the performance of the four teams in the group stage, TES is undoubtedly worse than WBG and BLG, so in the case of drawing TES, IG is the most likely to advance.
Of course, drawing IG is also a good sign for TES, because from the perspective of TES, IG is a relative strength deviation among the other three teams in the lower bracket, of course, this is an analysis given by past experience, the state of the team is constantly fluctuating, and maybe the team that is not favored in the quarterfinals can usher in a wave of outbreaks.
Let's continue to analyze the matchups in the quarter-finals, which are a double-elimination format, with the four teams in the upper bracket taking the lead to determine a team that advances to the finals, while the teams in the lower bracket are constantly playing upwards, eliminating one team and then facing the team that has lost from the upper bracket, and then the teams are eliminated to determine the team that advances to the finals.
This means that the teams in the upper bracket will need to win three consecutive BO5 games if they want to win the title, while the teams in the lower bracket, which are the four teams that are second in the group, will need to win five consecutive BO5 games if they want to win the title.
According to the rules, the distribution of the half-zones is such that the winner between BLG and WBG will face the loser between JDG and TT, while the winner between TES and IG will face the loser between NIP and AL.
Judging from the matchup, Doinb's NIP will face a huge test, and BLG will need to challenge the achievement of winning the championship in one outfit and five.
Personally, I think that the biggest charm of this year's first stage of the game is that under the overall BP, the outcome of BO5 is difficult to predict, because there are more variables affecting the game, the impact of the team's hard power on the outcome of the game is shrinking, the tactical arrangement before the game, and the combination of different heroes and different systems, which are very important, and the pressure on the coaching staff is obviously greater.
In terms of the performance of the major teams in the group stage, I personally think that the strongest team at present may be AL, so we say that Doinb is indeed difficult to play in the face of AL, JDG against TT may be relatively close, TT's advantage is that the momentum is fierce enough, the team's run-in degree is high, JDG's advantage is that there are star players in the team, and it is more reliable in key situations.
In the lower bracket, TES and IG are basically five or five, TES is obviously in the wrong state this year, IG often fights some chaotic battles, and both teams have unstable factors.
In this duel between BLG and WBG, WBG is more auspicious than lucky, BLG will inevitably quickly adjust its state after losing a game, and go all out to face WBG, WBG wants to defeat such BLG It is very difficult, and it is necessary to make more fuss about BP and pre-game layout, and strive to play some unexpected effects.