10 month 5 day.

First, the TW team in Group B will play against GAM.

It has to be said that although GAM lost the first game, their performance got better and better in subsequent games, and they made it all the way from the loser group to the finals.

After five games, there was a clear gap in strength between the two teams.

To be honest, the jungler of GAM is the soul figure in Vietnam. In a sense, his status in Vietnam is higher than Sofm's.

The captain was responsible for countless victories over the strong.

If it weren't for the fact that Captain Levi had no intention of staying in LPL, of course, he wouldn't have achieved anything in LPL.

It’s just that there are very few players who can directly change the style of a region like Sofm.

When Sofm first entered the LPL, he stunned everyone. Sofm memorized the refresh times of all the wild monsters on the map.

In terms of counter-jungle, the first season taught all junglers a lesson, causing everyone to be on guard and forced to keep track of time.

Over the past few seasons, all junglers in LPL have been learning the version from Sofm.

But Bingzhang is still very persistent in the development of Vietnamese e-sports. He wants their region to get better and better.

They had invited Sofm to return to Vietnam several times to form a team and make a push.

It’s a pity that due to complicated reasons, the two of them could never be together.

One is that Sofm doesn’t have much confidence in playing mid lane. It’s okay in the Vietnam region, but he will definitely be exposed in the World Championship.

The second reason is that very few players from the Southeast Asian region leave the LPL after becoming famous.

The treatment conditions and environment on both sides are not at the same level.

Just like what Taiwanese player Doggo said.

I would rather play in the LPL minor league than go back.
What's more, what level is Sofm in LPL? He is a T0 jungler and has a high salary every year. There is no comparison.

If Sofm hadn't ruined his reputation in WBG last year, he wouldn't have returned to China.

Of course, Sofm can definitely stay in LPL, but there is no place for him in the strong teams.

Look at Aangle and Huanfeng, they have already jumped out of the ranks of first-line players.

Sofm is proud, and it would be better for him not to go to a team that can't enter the world championship.

Although I have never been there when I was in the Snake team, it is different now. I have touched the floor of the finals.

It is hard to endure darkness after seeing the dawn.

It’s a pity for Levi that Sofm returned to Vietnam and chose not to fight.

After GAM defeated TW 3:1, it successfully became the first team to advance to the Swiss round.

Following closely, the French team BDS, which made it through the qualifying round, will face the veteran team PSG.

PSG has two players who have played in LPL, one is the mid laner Maple and the other is the jungler Junjia.

It’s a pity that neither of them made a name for themselves. Maple was once given the title of Bay Tiger by netizens, and it’s even more of a pity for Junjia.

When he was in EDG, the management wanted to train him vigorously and gave him many opportunities, but unfortunately Junjia didn't seize them.

The biggest blow came in a BO5 in the playoffs against EDG. Junjia lost two games in the first two games, but Jiejie came on and helped the team come back from - to -.

Perhaps from this moment on, Junjia knew that he was still not good enough.
In the first two games, PSG showed their superb level and took the lead 2:0.

There was a significant gap in the matchups between the three lanes.

As expected, as a regular participant in the World Championship, the foundation is still there.

But in the third game, when BDS top laner Adam locked Olaf with a smile on his face, something was wrong.

But everyone has a preconceived impression of this player: he is a mess in laning phases and gets beaten every time.

Although Olaf was defeated in the laning phase, he stood out in the team fight and used Ragnarok to help his teammates win back the game.

Offstage, Adam suddenly realized something.

Go to the TM version, I don’t know those things, so I just play what I can do.

I am the version.

In the fourth game, he locked Garen in seconds and spent the entire game wandering around, getting solo kills and performing well in team fights. He would kill anyone with his Q.

After two consecutive sentences, the local fans of BDS were excited, turtle, King Garen!
In the fifth game, the second God-King appeared, and Luo Shou fought against Gnar.

In this matchup, Brother Bin said that Gary had no pressure, as he could control the line in the early stages and it would get easier to play as the game progressed.

But judging from the game content, PSG's top laner should have been knocked unconscious.

In the laning phase, he was suppressed by Luo and killed alone.

PSG has completely lost its morale after playing BO5 until now.

bin: "A to W to outer circle scrape to A to E to A, a cut, a bit smooth"

This solo kill made everyone in the base laugh.

For professional players, Luo Shou is a completely stupid hero. He can be killed so easily. The top laner of PSG can be said to be a bit exaggerated.

"Could it be that he has a phobia of Luoshou?"

"Hard to say."

In this Bo5, BDS came back from - down to win.

Xia Sen was deeply moved when he saw them hugging each other after their victory.

Perhaps this is the charm of e-sports, never give up until the last moment.

At this point, the qualifying round has come to a successful conclusion. The two teams that advanced are the veteran Vietnamese powerhouse GAM, my brother’s lifelong enemy.

BDS, the rising star team of the French division.

That night, many viewers around the world who were closely following the S13 World Championship stayed in front of their screens.

Tonight is the draw ceremony for the Swiss round.

Xia Sen and the others were also watching.

There are a total of 16 teams in the Swiss round, divided into four tiers based on the seeded seats in each region.

Teams from the same echelon and the same division will not be drawn together in the first round due to the avoidance principle.

Furthermore, the opponents of the first echelon must be teams from the fourth echelon, which makes it easier for strong teams to score points in the first round.

The first tier is naturally BLG, Gen.G, G2 and NRG from North America.

The second tier is the second seed in each region, and so on.

The guest of the draw is old acquaintance Mata.

The draw first determines the order of the teams in the first echelon, and then the opponents are drawn from the teams in the fourth echelon.

"Brother Mata, draw well. Let's warm up our hands by hitting a weak spot first." Xun was annoyed.

In this way, everyone's expressions kept changing, and when they saw their opponents, they showed a gratified smile.

"Okay, fight BDS, bin÷ is blessed."

"Wow, Mata is awesome! Not bad at the start."

After seeing his opponent, Xun's pupils shone and he felt comfortable.

"Hahaha, should we ban Garen and Luo Shou? I remember bin÷ also has a phobia of Luo Shou." Xun couldn't hold back his laughter.

There is naturally no pressure in playing BDS, but he just wants to see the top laner do something fancy for Bin.

"Don't yell, Garen Luo's hands are useless."

"Good good."

Looking at everyone, Xia Sen felt a lot more relaxed, at least judging from the game content of BDS today.

Xia Sen felt that beating them was not stressful and was quite simple.

BDS still has considerable problems in its operations.

Several of my turns were much slower, resulting in the loss of some initiative, which is a fatal weakness.

As for the top order?

Xia Sen felt that it didn't matter if he banned Garen.

Respect it, kid.

The draw for the first round is as follows.

Gen.G (LCK): GAM (VCS)

NRG (LCS): WBG (LPL)

G2 (LEC): DK (LCK)

BLG (LPL): BDS (LDLC)

T1 (LCK): TL (LCS)

C9 (LCS): MAD (LEC)

JDG (LPL): KT (LCK)

FNC (LEC): LNG (LPL)

Along with the drawing ceremony, the outside world was also bustling.

"I feel like the only one with suspense is JDG. It's hard to say about the match against KT." "BLG and LNG should have no pressure. It's hard to say about WBG, after all, their opponent is the North American champion."

"Brother Shy, just hit as hard as you can."

"To be honest, the first round is really not important. The beginning of the second round is the watershed."

"Hey, WBG, don't let North America step on your face."

“It’s better to be careful about LNG losing to FNC.”

"How is that possible? This is a bit funny."

"What do you say about BLG? Adam plays bin, turtle, I can already imagine the scene."

"Don't ban Garen if you dare, haha!"

For domestic people, most people think this visa is pretty good.

But the Swiss round is always full of uncertainties, and the second round may not be so optimistic.

Day two.

9 month 16 number.

BLG took a flight to Seoul.

The official Weibo account posted a picture with the caption, "Go S League!"

The fans below have been waiting for a long time.

"Come on, fight hard."

"It's more convenient to train in Korea, let's go for it!"

"The No. 1 seed must show their strength and break the curse this year."

"First, let's win all the games and qualify."

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Xia Sen sat on the plane, fastened his seat belt and looked out the window.

"This is everyone's first time going to Korea. I wonder if there is anything special." Xun said as he sat next to them.

"It's okay. We'll just go between the hotel and the venue."

In fact, for a game like this in South Korea, a better way for the club is to rent a base.

For example, JDG rented a place from Gen.G because they had acquaintances, WBG rented a place from DRX, and LNG is even richer and has its own base in Seoul.

However, because BLG's players returned relatively late, and the team was made up of only Chinese players with no Korean aid, after a meeting, they decided that the hotel did not matter.

It won’t delay training, so what’s there to be afraid of?

"So fine."

Xun was just about to say that he was a little bored, but when he saw Xia Sen like this, he suddenly felt that he was no longer a poet.

Wake up, what are you doing here?
Train hard to win the championship, damn!
Xun immediately changed the topic.

"13.19 feels similar to the playoffs, with only some nerfs to popular heroes, which doesn't seem to be a big deal."

“Also, new heroes have come out, but they can’t be used in the World Championship.”

"what?"

"Belia or something, I've played it on the Korean server a few times, the error tolerance is too low, even if it can be used, it will be hard to see it in the competition."

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With a blockage in the cochlea, the plane took off.

The two stopped talking and rested on the headrests on the plane.

After leaving the airport, everyone checked into a hotel arranged by the authorities.

Xun saw Xia Sen put down his luggage and walked into the computer room, and asked, "Why don't you take a rest first?"

"No, an hour's time difference doesn't matter."

Xia Sen waved his hand. There was still a lot of time left in the day and it would be a pity to waste it.

It’s just that Xia Sen’s way of currying made the others feel awkward.

"Forget it, I'd better go take a rest. I can't compete with him." On shook his head and went back to the room.

On that day, Xia Sen was in surprisingly good shape. With eight consecutive wins, he was only 200 points away from topping the Korean server.

The ID Xia Sen is already quite well-known in the Korean server, and it’s great to see him in such great shape now.

The South Korean media can no longer sit still.

Wrote an article titled "The mid laner who slaughtered the server on his first day."

Someone complained below: "It's too fierce. Look at his opponents, they are all top players. Look at the heroes he used, there was not a single repeated one in the eight games. I used to watch Bighan's OB, but I've never seen anything like this."

"No wonder others can win gold medals. They have been training so hard since arriving in Seoul. Look at Chovy. He only played two games today. Haha."

"Why are you saying this? What if Gen.G is just playing a scrimmages?"

"I'm now doubting whether he can reach No. 1 on the Korean server before the tournament starts."

"There are still a few days left, and the chances are great."

BLG has been training a lot these past two days, but Xia Sen has not slacked off on Rank.

In the entire Korean anchor circle.

Everyone who has met Xia Sen praises him. Although Bighand was also very strong in the Korean server before, it is obvious that he plays very casually.

But in the past few days, Bighand seems to be possessed by a god or demon. No matter who faces him, the result is basically explosion.

It’s great to be a teammate, but when you are an opponent you can only curse.

hotel.

Training room.

BLG has finished the training match and the main competition will start tomorrow. Compared with previous years' group system where they had to play several games a day, the advantage of this competition system is that they only have to play one BO1.

The downside is that it's not easy to warm up quickly.

“How many more to the top?”

Xun asked, Xia Sen's training volume these days is scary, he plays about ten Rank games a day, plus the queue time, he has to play Rank for about 10 hours a day. It's really that he only practices ranking every day except sleeping.

But Xia Sen said several times that he had to train like this. The pressure of the world competition was high and he needed to rank like crazy to relieve the pressure.

"We're still a few games away. We'll play three games tonight. If we don't lose a single game, we'll be on top."

Xia Sen sat back in front of the computer.

Xun opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

This is really burning yourself.

But League of Legends is not a one-person game. Everyone feels guilty when they see Xia Sen doing this, but they can't do what Xia Sen did.

They can only comfort themselves that everyone has different training habits, so just follow their own.

"Bighand is going to be on top, it just depends on whether he will fight tonight."

"I don't think you're going to play anymore. You have a match tomorrow, why don't you take a break?"

"We are only three games away from a clean win. It won't delay anything."

"Here I am, the OB system shows I'm on, I'm really going to reach the top tonight!"

"Turtle, that's too annoying."

Tabe has long been accustomed to Xia Sen's self-discipline.

These days, Xia Sen's condition is really perfect. As of today, he can't even arrange a training match.

Those teams said that they will have a competition tomorrow, so they need to find their confidence.

Here Xia Sen is striving to be number one in the Korean server.

The other teams have already started preparing for tomorrow's game.

"I'm in great shape this year, and I have great hope against WBG tomorrow!" Although NRG mid laner Palafox is playing in an S game for the first time, he has a calm mentality.

Xiaohu? Palafox doesn't feel much pressure. The impression Xiaohu left on them in the World Championship was just average. They have a saying in the North American and European regions.

When you face Xiaohu in the World Championship, congratulations, you have the MVP.

As the King of France in North America, Palafox will also have to carry on the will of his predecessors tomorrow.

But having said that, Palafox is definitely under some pressure. After all, Xiaohu has won so many honors over the years. What if he doesn't perform well this year?
"This year, we will definitely not be the runner-up team anymore, man."

"Yes, into the finals!"

After 2 hours.

Xia Sen sat in front of the computer and breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, in the outside world.

The news that bighand reached the top of the Korean server the night before the competition spread all over the world.

(End of this chapter)