The Global Finals took four years to return to Europe. For LPL, the last experience of the Europa expedition was a scar that was difficult to heal in the hearts of every LPL fan witness.

In early 2015, LPL rose rapidly with the recruitment boom, and won the mid-season championship, and was in the limelight. However, the unexpectedly painful defeat in the World Championship cast an unforgettable shadow on the short-term glorious LPL division.

Since then, it has taken three years to settle down and now we are back in Europe again.

This time, the LPL will start again as the defending champion.

After a long promotional video, the official live broadcast finally entered the screen.

"Hello everyone! I am Divot!"

"Hello everyone! I'm a big fish!"

"Hello everyone! I am the Taoist priest!"

Three commentaries are the host of this live broadcast!

"Long time no see, I'm very happy. Today we will broadcast the lottery ceremony in Europe in the live broadcast room of the Magic City." Dayu said.

"The competition will start in more than a week!" The Taoist priest didn't remember exactly what time the competition would start.

"October 2nd, it started on October 2nd!" Divort remembered it clearly because it was the second day of National Day.

"Everyone probably is too hungry and thirsty, after all, there has been no competition for a long time." said the Taoist priest.

Diwo smiled and said, "I haven't watched the game for a long time, and the meal is no longer delicious!"

Diwo also played a joke. In the past, professional players made mistakes during competitions, and the barrage would be "Food!", so there was a joke about watching the game.

Dayu: "It doesn't matter, our big meal is about to begin. Tonight, at 10 o'clock in the future, we will start drawing lots in Europe."

Diwo: "The competition system reform started in the past two years is still the same this year. We will first enter the finals, and then the group stage."

Taoist Master: "If you are shortlisted, this time we are not LPL, but you can check it out. At the beginning of the past two years, I also paid attention to the finalists at that time. I thought that even if I came, it would be a background board. But I paid attention to the finalists this year and found that there were quite a lot of good teams.

So this year's appetizers are also worth seeing."

The Taoist priest said this to ensure the viewing rate of the finalists.

Because the finalists are all the so-called "wild card invitational tournaments" that were previously called, and some teams were playing with, and they were like passers-by qualifying matches.

Another thing is that there is no LPL team in these games, so there will be very few domestic audiences to pay attention to.

However, this year's finalists can be watched.

Although the number of competition areas has increased, the strength has improved after two years of development due to the signings of each competition area.

Moreover, in addition to the LPL region's reasons for winning the championship last year, there is an additional group stage place this year.

There are only two places in the other major competition areas, but due to the competition areas, they will have an additional place to enter the competition.

For example, in the LCK area, P1 and GRE directly advance to the group stage, and whether they play or not, they are the top 16.

But their third team, DWT, needs to score from the finalists.

Only by entering the finalists can they enter the group stage and the difficulty will increase again.

Of course, this is even more a test for weaker competition areas.

After all, although the teams in these major competition areas only get a shortlist, their strength is still much stronger than those in weaker competition areas.

In other words, it is the difficulty of hell. If you happen to break through to the group stage, you may face them with the eighteenth level of hell.

If there is any wild card team that can reach the finals from the finals, then their team will be given.

At least the capital that is so eye-catching around the world will not miss this opportunity. It is definitely good to invest a lot of money in them.

But it doesn't need to say how difficult this is.

"Yes, this version of this year is more suitable for some teams that fight in the early stage. For example, in the VCS region, I feel that they have a good chance of entering the main competition." Dayu said.

In fact, in the eyes of the audience, just watching the finalists is just like watching the exhibition competition.

Another thing is to watch the third seed in the strong competition area to crush the children's happiness.

For those who are strong teams like LCK's DWT and LCS's CG teams, these strong teams trained from a complete e-sports society, to play a miscellaneous army, it is definitely a big blow.

To put it bluntly, the audience just went to watch the strong team abuse the food.

However, the VCS competition area in Dayu's mouth is an exception.

Because Vietnamese teams can often make some strong teams fail, many strong teams faced teams in the VCS division’s last year.

Moreover, their attitude in VCS competition area also allowed the audience to see the feeling in the ranking game. The audience felt friendly, so naturally they felt that the game looked more interesting.

Don’t tell me any tactics, don’t tell me any operations, they only have three words to do when playing games!

Just watch the game, the audience will be excited.

This year, the overall strength of the teams in these competition areas has been further improved, largely because major capitals have seen the rise of global markets and have entered these blank markets.

Although these regions are not strong enough, they are not even ranked in the World Championship.

But the price is that their domestic market is blank. As long as there is room for development and capital entering the market, they can get the first share of the pie.

If you are not strong enough, don’t be afraid. Just learn LPL and introduce foreign aid.

So this year, you can see some familiar faces in these wild card competition areas.

These familiar players may be old professional players in the Hong Kong and Macao competition areas, or may be players in the LCK competition areas, or even LPL competition areas.

Anyway, as long as you have a certain level of strength, you will have the opportunity to be invited by them to play a profession.

These changes actually promote the evolution of LOL to global events.

Dayu: "Before the lottery start, let's watch a video. Many viewers actually don't understand the competition system of the global finals so much. After watching the following video, everyone should be able to understand it."

After Dayu finished speaking, the live broadcast screen entered the competition video.

The 24 teams will compete in three stages of the Global Finals, first in the finals stage, then in the group stage, and finally in the knockout stage.

The finalists will be held in Berlin, and twelve teams will participate in the finalists.

These twelve teams are the No. 1 seed teams from: Brazil, Japan, Southeast Asia, Oceania and the CIS.

The second seed of Vietnam.

and the No. 3 seed team from North America, Europe, South Korea and LMS.

The above twelve teams will be divided into four groups to play a double-cycle single-game winning match. The top two teams in each group will be randomly paired to perform a BO5 knockout match.
Chapter completed!