Two hundred and ninety-eight: as promised
[Ti7 is coming as scheduled, and the Key Arena is booming again!]
[Ti7 Team Tour, China Division]
[DOTA2: The highest prize in the history of e-sports, the Ti7 prize pool exceeds 24,787,916 US dollars! 】
【Team Liquid: We will be invincible this year!】
[Ti6 championship ring is launched, but no one has crowned the belated crown]
[DOTA2’s number of viewers has dominated the rankings for several months in a row, will Ti7 reach its highest peak? 】
[Ti7 book prediction activity starts, how many can you guess? 】
[TI7 easter egg is back, who will be this year’s new hero? 】
Weibo, news, forums, Min communities, Tieba... all major news sections are occupied by forward-looking news about the International Invitational Tournament. The huge prize money has attracted a lot of attention to DOTA2.
Ti is finally here!
As major teams arrive in Seattle one after another, SPS, LFY, IG, VG, LGD, Newbee, and EHOME will represent the Chinese division. There are a total of eighteen teams, and the Chinese Legion has seven seats, which shows its strength.
Key Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Everything will start from here.
The world's top DOTA2 professional players gather here, they are from Singapore, Malaysia, China, Russia, the United States, Sweden, Jordan, Ukraine, Philippines, South Korea, etc. This is a grand gathering of players from all over the world.
And just tomorrow, the golden autumn of August, the 7th International Invitational Tournament is about to begin.
There are two groups, each with nine teams. Each team will play two games against the remaining teams in the group. The top four in each group advance to the winner's bracket of the main event. The 5th-8th place in each group advance to the loser's bracket of the main event.
The bottom team in each group will be eliminated.
The group stage will be held at a hotel arranged by the event organizer. After the group stage, there will be the main game, when all professional players will enter the key arena, the holy land of DOTA2.
Xiao Se and the rest of his SPS teammates settled into the officially designated team hotel. Basically, all team members arrived.
After registration in the hotel is completed, the media will come to coordinate the team members to take makeup photos and promotional videos. Then each team will send candidates to the group draw, and the draw results will be released within twelve hours.
After settling into the hotel, SPS immediately arranged the training equipment and venue, and completed the last round of training matches with Newbee in the afternoon of the same day. The result was a 1:1 draw.
Neither side is very serious. After all, the group stage will start tomorrow. Even brothers from the same school must pay attention to tactics on the playing field and cannot reveal too much at the beginning. This is often the case later in the training match. The line collapses immediately after 20 minutes.
Knocking GG is also common.
Xiao Se was undoubtedly the person who suffered the most in the past few weeks. After receiving the news that Bai Yu was safe, his mood relaxed a little, and now he was more excited and inexplicably uneasy.
The source of this uneasiness is Liquid.
The number of times SPS and Liquid trained was not too much, and the winning and losing rounds were evenly matched. However, in the few rounds where Xiao Se faced off against Miracle Brother, he could clearly feel that he was improving, from the old deer at the beginning to the later ones.
TA, even NEC, which has a very low appearance rate, can produce good results.
Progress is not terrible, but progress at this level is the real monster.
This Jordanian "giant" has no idea what role he plays in Xiao Se's heart. And Xiao Se himself knows very well who his opponent is. In his memory, it is this epic team that won the TI7 loser group with one tie and seven wins.
The original cast.
"The lot has been drawn, the lot has been drawn, who is going?" Xiao Kai, the team leader, shouted as he entered the door.
"I'll go." Xiao Se volunteered.
"You have to draw a good lottery to choose a brother," Xi Xie said with a smile.
"No problem." He gestured OK.
The lottery site was crowded with staff, and the lottery personnel sent by each major team were basically team leaders or coaches.
Xiao Se represented SPS and came out in the third draw. He was selected into Group B in one draw.
The fourth person to draw lots was OG's team leader Li Keren. She had no reaction when she passed by Xiao Se.
"OG, Group B."
When Li Keren walked off the stage, his eyes met with Xiao Se's.
"Good luck to you," she said softly.
"You too." Xiao Se said.
The final results and the group list of the 7th International Invitational Tournament are as follows:
Group A includes: EG, Liquid, Secret, LGD, EHOME, TNatic, VG, iG
Group B includes: SPS, VP, OG, Newbee, Cloud9, Exe, HellRaisers, LFY, TB
The group stage will be a BO2 points round-robin match. The two teams with the lowest points will be directly eliminated, and the remaining 16 teams will enter a double-elimination tournament to determine the overall champion.
Strangely enough, when he saw the grouping position of SPS, Xiao Se suddenly felt relieved. Just like many important moments in life, you will be nervous and uneasy in advance, but when you are really in it, everything becomes
So simple.
Ti7, the second international invitational tournament of Xiaose, has begun.
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"Oh hoo - Seattle, we're here!" Gu Nan walked in the square, her whole body showing excitement and no sign of illness at all.
Xiao Yitong, Bai Yu, Wen Yaqing, Gu Nan, Bai Ruohai, and the Shiba Inu Xiaoxiao who was consigned through special means.
Almost all of Xiao Se’s family and friends came.
"When can we go find Xiao Se?" Gu Nan asked.
"The team hotel will not let people in casually, and so many of us will put more pressure on them. We will go to the main stadium when the main game starts, and we will look for him then." Bai Yu thought very thoughtfully.
Gu Nan nodded. At this time, Bai Ruohai put his hands behind his back and looked up at the scenery of Seattle. There was a story in his eyes.
"By the way, Grandpa Bai, are you still interested in e-sports?"
"I'm old, and the clinic has been busy lately. Come out and see the world. Well, Laomei's place is really good. But now, ours is not bad either." Bai Ruohai smiled slightly.
When he thought of Bai Ruohai's background as a military doctor, Gu Nan wisely stopped asking any more questions.
"Are there many countries participating in that international invitational tournament?" Bai Ruohai asked rhetorically.
Gu Nan explained: "Although this is an international invitational tournament, many teams are not of the same nationality and basically compete on behalf of their own divisions. For example, Xiao Se's team has a Malay Chinese, but it can still be regarded as a Chinese team."
"Come on, come on, Xiao Se sent me a message, exclusive inside information, the front line of the group, let me see, Group A -" Gu Nan let out various sighs while looking at the group screenshots sent by Xiao Se.
"Group A feels like they are not weak at all."
"Damn it, SPS is in the same group as OG again."
"There are too many point-giving boys in Group B."
"Four games are played at the same time, each group is BO2, one day... so many games in one day?"
"What's the SPS schedule?" Bai Yu asked.
"Let me see..." Gu Nan slid down, "In the first round of Group B, SPS played against Newbee. In the second round of Group B, there was no one. On the first day, Group A played three rounds, and on the second day, Group B played three rounds.
It means there is only one SPS show tomorrow. Tsk, it’s not enough.”
Ti7, SPS team group stage schedule:
Day 1: SPS VS Newbee
Day 2: SPS VS TB, SPS VS LFY, SPS VS X
Day 3: SPS VS C9, SPS VS OG
Chapter completed!