Stop contacting LPL, we are so unfamiliar!

Chapter 290 Swiss round of S match, MSI double defeat?In order to prevent G2 from winning three consecutive championships, the competition system has been changed?

It’s better not to contact LPL, we are really not familiar with each other!
A few days later, when Mingrui updated his scarf again, and the content was so explosive, countless LPL fans felt that the faith in their hearts collapsed instantly, and their hearts collapsed instantly!

Because for them, although Dark has indeed won two consecutive S championships after leaving the LPL competition, it does prove that the LPL competition two years ago was blind and did not realize the true strength of Dark's players and made a Very big bad decision.

However, in the past two years, Dark player has repeatedly provoked, ridiculed, and even insulted the LPL competition. Countless LPL fans have become deeply disgusted with Dark. They believe that no matter how strong he is, the LPL competition will never be able to control him. I bought back such a "thorn in my flesh".

Furthermore, even today, there are still countless LPL fans who firmly believe that even if there is no Dark in the LPL division, they can definitely win the S World Championship one day, because last year's semi-finals and this year's runner-up result shows that LPL has been improving. The best proof.

But just when LPL fans firmly believe that as long as the LPL team works hard and trains well in 2019, they will definitely be able to defeat Dark and defeat the G2 team. With the sudden release of Dark's "we are not familiar with" scarf, LPL Only then did fans realize that their LPL backyard was on fire!
While LPL fans still didn't give up, the owners and managers of the LPL teams were the first to give up their resistance to Dark, and even thought about buying Dark directly from the G2 team, and then compete for the S9 world championship!
To put it mildly, isn’t this tantamount to acknowledging a thief as his father and seeking skin from a tiger? !
So, when Mingrui's scarf was released, countless LPL fans went crazy on the spot.

"Damn, I was still thinking that as long as the LPL worked harder next year, they would be able to win the world championship. But when I looked back, my home team surrendered first! How disgusting!"

"Every single one of the teams that appear in these screenshots, I will be their fan next year! You are a bunch of cheap people who have been fighting Dark for two years, and now they are seeking glory from the seller? Damn it, you are so cheap. Why didn’t you buy Faker back before?”

"It's okay for novice teams like LGD, OMG, and V5 to want to buy Dark. I didn't expect that the IG team that just won the world runner-up would also want to buy Dark back! Why, surrender if you can't beat it? I was originally against IG There was some goodwill towards the team, but now it’s all gone!”

"Brothers, don't rush to scold him. I'm just asking if there is a possibility that these teams just randomly sent Dark an invitation email. In fact, they didn't really want to buy him back to the LPL. They were just doing it. Just show off and disturb Dark."

"It's really possible to say that. After all, I don't believe that the owners and managers of LPL teams would be so disgusting and would risk the world to buy a traitor back!"

"If I were the owner of an LPL team, I would definitely buy Dark, and then I would kill him next to the water fountain after buying it! As long as Dark can't play, I don't think how can he be arrogant? As long as there is no Dark, LPL The world championship will definitely be within reach!"

"Ahem, don't say that. Our LPL itself has the strength to win the championship. There is no need for any conspiracy. Besides, I have heard from the gossip that in order to prevent the G2 team from winning three consecutive championships, Riot Games officials are preparing to modify the 2019 The competition formats for the [-] MSI and S games have been announced, but I don’t know what they are yet.”

"Anyway, to put it simply, the G2 team is now the villain in the eyes of professional League of Legends teams around the world. No one wants to see the G2 team win three consecutive championships and become the number one team in history!"

"So everyone, just watch. In next year's S9 World Championship, even if the world champion is not from our LPL division, there is absolutely no way it will continue to be the G2 team!"

In the comment area of ​​G2.Dark and major super chat forums, countless LPL fans are discussing the "self-humiliating" actions of major LPL teams.

However, although their discussions were lively, they did not produce any effective results in the end. After all, Dark himself had personally emphasized that he asked the LPL team not to contact him again, so it was impossible for Dark to join the LPL team. The thing that LPL fans are most worried about will not be possible.

Moreover, just after Dark released this scarf, due to the pressure of public opinion, several LPL "regional thieves" teams he named also issued various statements one after another.

Some teams said that the email received by Dark was actually sent by a temporary employee on a sudden whim, and did not represent the team's own decision.

Some teams said that they had never sent an email to Dark at all, and that all the contents in the screenshots were forged by Dark himself.

Some teams even said that Dark's move was actually just to stimulate internal conflicts in the LPL division, in order to undermine the LPL team's confidence in competing for the S9 world championship!
Each team's "rumor-refuting" statement has different methods and contents, but one thing is very consistent.

That is, almost all LPL teams, including the RNG team, EDG team and WE team that were not named, took this opportunity to make bold statements and solemn expressions.

During the one-month winter transfer period from November 11th to December 20th, they will do their best to recruit and strengthen the team in order to form the best team before the arrival of the 12 professional league. Strong team.

After a whole year of training, the players of the team will be better adjusted and the overall strength will become stronger, and then they can compete for the final S9 World Championship!
In a nutshell, it is still the same sentence, that is, although the LPL division has been destroyed by Dark players and the G2 team for two years, they still never give up.

He also vowed to defeat the G9 team in next year's S2 World Championship and win the first world championship in the LPL division. At the same time, he would prevent the G2 team from winning three consecutive world championships and take revenge!
At first, when he saw the LPL teams collectively making such bold words, Mingrui's reaction was dismissive and very contemptuous. After all, this was the third consecutive year that he had heard LPL teams say similar things.

However, as time passed, Mingrui realized that something seemed not quite right.

Because not only was the LPL division making harsh remarks to the G2 team during this winter transfer period, but the LCK division next door to the LPL division also took the opportunity to make harsh remarks.

After all, their LCK division has not won the world championship for two consecutive years, so the S9 World Championship will definitely make the G2 team feel the fear from the LCK division again!
Forget it, the LPL and LCK divisions made harsh words. Unexpectedly, several teams in the NA division and even the EU division, led by the FNC team, also took this opportunity to make harsh remarks, saying that they would definitely defeat G2 head-on in next year's competition. team and became the S9 world champion.

So for a while, the G2 team seemed to have become the biggest villain in the world, and Dark himself became the villain among villains, the king of villains!

And just when Mingrui was wondering why these regions and teams took the wrong medicine at the same time and became so rampant at the same time, an internal message from the G2 team immediately solved Mingrui's doubts. .

That is, the "gossip" in the previous netizen's comment actually became a reality this time!
In the upcoming 2019 League of Legends international professional events, whether it is the MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational in the middle of the year or the S9 Global Finals at the end of the year, the competition formats of both events will undergo major adjustments!

"Haha, in order to prevent our G2 team from winning three consecutive world championships and six consecutive international championships, Riot officials are so crazy that they directly modify the competition system?"

"If there is no LPL official involvement in this, I won't believe it!"

"Okay, okay, you can't buy me back to the LPL, so you're just going to get angry, right?"

"First you just used rumors to refute the rumors, and now you want Riot to officially modify the format of the international competition?"

"Does the LPL really think that as long as the competition system is modified, they will have a chance to win the MSI championship and the S championship?"

"Haha, ugly people often cause mischief, and trash and trash cause a lot of trouble!"

"Even if the competition system is modified in 2019, I will never let you win any championship!"

Mingrui sneered again and again and said loudly, and then he began to formally check the internal information.

To briefly summarize, the MSI format in 2019 has become a double-elimination format, while the S9 World Championship format has become a Swiss round format.

What is a double-elimination format?

That is, every team participating in the MSI Mid-Season Invitational will no longer be directly eliminated after losing once in the knockout stage like the previous MSI. Instead, it will become "two lives" and need to lose two consecutive knockout rounds. Will be officially out.

For example, if the 2018 MSI adopts a double-elimination format, then after the RNG team is eliminated by the G2 team, they will not go home directly, but will enter the loser group and compete with other losers. The players will have a decisive battle. Once they win again, they are likely to get a second chance to challenge the G2 team and complete the final counterattack. "Double-elimination format? Interesting."

"The champions produced under this format are indeed unlikely to have any moisture."

"But in other words, some people think that our G2 team's two consecutive MSI championships were won by luck. Do they think that as long as they get a second chance to play against us, they will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory?"

"And it seems unsafe to send only one team from each region to MSI. Are you planning to send two teams next year?"

After briefly understanding the rules of the double-elimination format, Mingrui saw another piece of information about the qualifications of the 2019 MSI participating teams.

That is, in the 2019 MSI, the champion and runner-up of the spring split of each division will have the opportunity to participate in MSI!
Among them, because the G2 team won the S8 world championship, the second seed in the EU division can directly advance to the MSI main stage. As for the second seed in other divisions, they need to start from the play-in stage.

"This rule is good, because then I can beat two LPL teams in one MSI!"

Mingrui chuckled softly. Although the overall competition intensity of MSI under the new competition system will definitely be much stronger than before, what he likes to do most is to give them a fatal blow again when they feel "hopeful" in the LPL competition. The attack once again made the entire LPL division completely despair!

In addition to the double-elimination format MSI, the S9 World Championship, which is about to adopt the Swiss round format, is also a better format for the LPL and other competition regions to compete for the world championship.

What is a Swiss wheel?
To put it simply, all 16 teams participating in the main stage of the World Championship will not continue to use the previous 4x4 group stage grouping model, but will all participate from the first day of the main stage of the World Championship. Draw lots and enter the battle mode!
At the same time, in each round of the Swiss round, each team will and will only compete with teams with the same record until 8 teams with three wins are competed, and then become the top eight teams in the traditional sense.

The knockout format at the beginning of the quarter-finals is exactly the same as in previous years. There is nothing much to say. What is worth mentioning is the format that turns the "group stage" into the "Swiss round".

Because the core of his competition system is actually similar to the double-elimination competition system. They want to compete with each other through strong confrontation to compete for the eight strongest teams in the world!

And in order to avoid an "upset" situation, whenever a team is about to win three games and advance, or is about to lose three games and be eliminated, the final game will change from BO1 to BO3.

举个例子，假如0-0战绩的G2战队在瑞士轮第一轮战胜了RNG战队，那么他们就需要在瑞士轮第二轮的比赛当中去和同为1-0战绩的IG战队比赛。

拿到2-0的战绩之后，G2战队就需要继续和一支同为2-0战绩的SKT战队进行一场B03的争夺，以争取第一个八强席位的资格。

In other words, as long as the G2 team can continue to be invincible in the S9 World Championship, they only need to play 4 small games to become the top eight teams in S9, while the previous competition system required 6 games.

Of course, if they are weak enough but can just reach the top eight threshold, then their schedule will be relatively long. They need to lose two BO1s first, and then win three BO0s with a score of 2-3. Victory, so that we can advance to the quarterfinals with three wins of 3-3.

All in all, whether it is the double-elimination format of MSI or the Swiss round format of S, what Riot officials want to do is to minimize the impact of the word "luck" in order to compete for a real world champion!
And this means that it will be a little more difficult for the G2 team to win the S9 world championship and complete the unprecedented three consecutive championships in the history of League of Legends than normal.

Why is it only so big?
Because in Mingrui's view, the real strong ones are not afraid of any fancy competition system!

Regardless of whether teams in other divisions may benefit from these two new competition systems, next year's MSI championship and S9 championship will still belong only to the G2 team!

"Brothers, come on, although next year's competition system will be a little more complicated, our G2 team will definitely be able to win three consecutive world championships, and then let the G2 team's dynasty become a true legend!"

After thoroughly understanding the new competition formats of the two international events in 2019, Mingrui sent a message to encourage everyone in the group chat.

Although the time in Berlin should be around ten o'clock at night, the teammates responded immediately, saying that they would go all out in the new year's battle and create glory together with Dark. !
And just when the G2 players took this opportunity to chat about what they had seen and heard during the offseason, an overseas phone call from Carlos, the owner of the G2 team, suddenly came to Mingrui's mobile phone.

"Boss, why are you calling me suddenly? Is there something fishy about this new competition system?"

Mingrui asked very puzzledly. After all, under normal circumstances, Carlos would definitely not call him. At most, he would send a message.

"No, no, the competition system is officially formulated by Riot Games, there are no problems."

"I'm calling you this time because I want to tell you two things."

"The first thing is about the reinforcement of our G2 team. Although we won the S8 world championship, I believe you have also seen that when Wunder faced Theshy in the finals, the gap in strength was still too big. .”

"Coupled with the fact that you have been offered a sky-high contract by the LPL team in the past two days, I was wondering if I should take the initiative to contact this Theshy and see if I can buy him from the IG team."

"If this is the case, our G2 team will definitely be invincible!"

The boss, Carlos, said in a serious tone. Although his tone was light, there was no hint of joking.

This made Mingrui suddenly shocked. He never expected that boss Carlos would have the idea of ​​buying Theshy to the G2 team!
If fans in the LPL region, especially fans of the IG team, find out about this, they may be so anxious that they cry. After all, Theshy may be the only chance for the IG team to defeat the G2 team next year!
If this was bought backhand by the G2 team, wouldn't it be equivalent to being directly stolen? !

"Carlos, you really dare to think... I don't think there is much hope. After all, the IG team is not stupid. They know who is the leader in the team."

"Besides, although Theshy is strong, I think that's it. If we meet IG again next year, and let Wunder play hard, we can still properly defeat their IG team."

"But you can try, what if?"

Mingrui chuckled and said to Carlos, but he didn't think he would succeed, especially after he once again mocked the entire LPL region.

"Forget it, actually I don't think there is much hope. I just said it casually, but I will continue to work hard to strengthen the top lane position."

"The second thing is that you were nominated for the Best E-Sports Player Award at the 2018 TGA Awards Ceremony. Not only you, our G2 team was also nominated for the Best E-Sports Team, and in my opinion There is a high probability that we will win the prize.”

"So, you need to prepare a flight to Los Angeles, the lighthouse country, as soon as possible. The awards ceremony will officially start on December 12th. You can go there by December 6th at the latest. It should be fine, right?"

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