Group draw s 10 ceremony
Although LPL has won the world championship for two consecutive years, it is also the most promising division, but at present, the strength of other divisions is not weak. Even when the LPL SN team and LEC FNC team played a training match two days ago, the promising SN team was defeated by FNC team! Therefore, the strength of this World Cup opponent should not be underestimated!
Then let's sort out and compare the most favorable lottery in LPL first! By default, all teams entering the finals will qualify, that is, MAD, LGD and TL will advance from the finals. Because there has never been a large-scale team being upset in the final before, and the round robin system of the final has systematically avoided the possibility of a strong team being upset.
Let's look at the group stage after the finalists. There are two prerequisites for grouping in the group stage. Each division 1 seed will not meet in advance, and teams in the same division will not meet in the group stage. Simply put, the four teams of LPL will be divided into four groups, and LEC will do the same.
Only from the playoff performance, the top non-LPL teams in this S-match include the following teams: DWG, G2, DRX, GEN, FNC, RGE, and FLY, so it is unrealistic and too restrictive to want all four LPL teams to enter the quarterfinals. Then the best grouping situation this time is that the three teams have a high probability of entering the knockout stage!
TES, the first seed team, is relatively easy, and the remaining FNC, Roots and the final finalists all have a certain strength gap with them. As long as they don't make mistakes, it is basically a stable thing to advance to the knockout stage.
The second seed JDG is very strong and can compete with the first seed in other divisions, so the best situation here is to be in a group with DWG, and then draw lots to decide the MCX team and the final team. Although JDG may not get the first place, it should be no problem to enter the top two.
No.3 seed SN is a little worse, because their paper strength is weaker than the other two 1 seed teams, and they also lost to FNC team in the previous training match, so their goal is to keep the second place, and it is best to rank among the weaker teams in each sub-pool, so the best grouping is SN, TSM, RGE and a finalist team.
In this way, LGD will undoubtedly enter the death group, and G2, DRX and LCS No.2 seed trapeze are all their opponents! However, at the expense of LGD, this way can bring the other three teams the greatest possibility of advancing to the knockout stage. At present, because the teams in other divisions are much stronger, it is basically unrealistic to think that all four teams will enter the knockout stage, so this is also the most favorable grouping method for LPL that can be arranged at present.
Do you agree with this lottery? Do you think there will be a better distribution method?