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"YM intends to defend the title this year, and work hard for his third Summoner Trophy!"
The lights above the stage flickered endlessly, and finally focused on all the players!
"Dear Summoners, the teams representing the LPL Division for S8 have assembled. They will go to South Korea in October to compete for this glory for themselves, for the team, and for the division!"
The audience in the stands shouted the names of the teams they supported, and the voice of shouting YM quickly suppressed the other two teams, lingering in the stadium!
"RNG, IG, and YM will carry the belief and strength of millions of viewers in the entire competition area," Ren Dong said passionately, "Let us wait and see and prepare for the upcoming global finals!"
The dry ice around the stage gushed out, and the sound resounded through the audience! !
Chapter 614: The Global Finals Draw Ceremony!
"Stop shouting, can't I start the live broadcast today?"
Lin Ran leaned on the engineering chair in an extremely comfortable posture, watching the chat channel of the live broadcast room on the monitor beside him.
Now the barrage is densely packed, all with the same content-warm reminder to the anchor, there are still 7 days before the end of this month, and your live broadcast will last 44 hours.
Lin Ran made some calculations, and the team planned to go to South Korea on September 9th to start training.
In other words, he has 4 days left to broadcast live.
If you want to get the full salary of the live broadcast contract, you need to broadcast 11 hours a day.
Shark me!
Lin Ran wanted to cry but had no tears.
Seeing his expression, Su Cheng who was sitting next to him laughed.
"Look at my computer." She poked her boyfriend in the waist.
"What's wrong?" Lin Ran turned off the sound of the live broadcast, and looked over.
At this time, the rhythm of the barrage finally changed, and question marks were raised one after another, and some people accused him of not treating the audience as brothers.
Lin Ran ignored these things and saw the TOEFL score on Su Cheng's computer.
"29+30+25+26...110, it's ok!" Lin Ran was very happy for her, "It's my first test, and I think it's pretty good."
Su Cheng smiled smugly, and did not forget to be modest, "I'm fine. I just checked my phone and found that there is a boss at the same level who got 112 in the first exam."
"But this time it's a once-and-for-all, and I don't need to do any devil training to stare at the TOEFL materials every day." She was relieved.
Taking the TOEFL score of 120 as an example, Su Cheng will not be blocked when applying to most schools in the United States with this score, so she can rest assured and prepare for other overseas affairs.
"Let's go out to celebrate tonight," Lin Ran turned on the live broadcast microphone and said to the audience, "I have something to report to everyone..."
He only said that he would go out to celebrate, and the barrage response was very violent.
【Yes, completely giving up belongs to yes】
[Still going out to play?Is that the 44 hours owed? 】
[Open, open, open! 】
[Others drink a lot of wine at the beginning of the month, and drink water at the end of the month. Brother Ran is fine, and he doesn't broadcast it at the end of the month, so he will show it to the end]
[Is this not good?Water friends don’t have to stay up late, and anchors can rest. Isn’t this a win-win situation? 】
"There is a lottery ceremony tonight, don't you want to watch it?" Su Cheng asked with a smile.
"What time is it?" Lin Ran didn't bother to search, and asked the audience directly.
After swiping through a few bullet screens, he knew the general situation, "Then I should be back before eight o'clock in the evening, let's watch the lottery together then."
"Look at this...'I believe you? You will definitely be a dove when the time comes', Lin Ran, is your image in the hearts of the audience now like this?" Su Cheng still did not forget to tear down the stage for her boyfriend.
Lin Ran felt that he had been slandered, and immediately started to argue, "Don't say anything else, the promise is solid, okay?"
Hearing what he said, the audience immediately became interested.
You must know that at this time in previous years, most of the players were in the team's training room, and whether or not they played the video about the players' reactions during the lottery draw all depended on the mood of the team.
Fortunately, because the summer split ended too late, YM has not closed the team for training yet, and they can still watch Lin Ran broadcast live to watch the lottery.
Lin Ran gave up his plan to make up for the live broadcast, and took Su Cheng to a Huaiyang restaurant next to the Bund in Puxi.
It is said to be Huaiyang cuisine, but it is actually a fusion of Chinese and Western cuisines, from the ingredients to the production methods. There is also Canadian lobster fried rice cakes. It is really an old fusion.
The two of them went early, and it was not until seven o'clock in the evening after eating.
Under the night, Shanghai has already turned on the nightlife mode. The Oriental Pearl Tower on the other side of the Huangpu River is shining brightly. At the end of September, the cool evening wind blows on their faces, and it also mixes with the humidity of the river.
Su Cheng became interested, and dragged her boyfriend along the river bank for a quarter of an hour, her face was a little stiff, before returning to the car.
Drive back to Tongji Beiyuan, 5 minutes away from the lottery ceremony.
"You go up first, I'll go to the supermarket outside the neighborhood to buy some things like fruit, bread, and drinks." Su Cheng put both hands in his coat pockets, got out of the car and jumped around twice.
Her boyfriend was going to South Korea before the National Day holiday, and she couldn't follow her, so she had to reserve some supplies for herself.
Lin Ran told her not to buy too much, so he ran all the way into the lobby and took the elevator back home.
Just in time to arrive at the computer desk in the study at the last moment before eight o'clock.
He quickly turned on the live broadcast, "Crying?"
"The anchor said it before, the promise is very solid!" Lin Ran boasted to the audience who rushed in, "How about it, can I hang up?"
【? ? ? 】
[Really step on the spot, don't you want to broadcast more than 1 minute? 】
[There's no way it's going to be like this, old lazy dog, please, Sister Li]
[Hurry up, hurry up and watch the lottery! 】
Lin Ran turned on the live broadcast of the game on the Fighting Shark platform, flipped through his phone, and happened to see several other teammates discussing their luck for this year's signing in the WeChat group.
He typed in the group chat and asked: [How about we all start a live broadcast and even watch the lottery? 】
Yuki Judai: [Wairi, brother Ran, where did you learn the trick of mixing time? 】
After Jack typed this line, he also sent a Shiba Inu expression pack.
In the whole YM team, only he and Lin Ran had a personal appointment, and they signed the platform separately.
According to the contract, if Lin Ran and others can broadcast for a full time each month, they will get full salary, and if they are not satisfied with the broadcast, their basic salary will be deducted.
Different from other anchors' contracts where the full basic salary will be deducted if the live broadcast time is less than one hour per month, YM double C's current achievements and popularity are here, so it naturally has bargaining power.
They made plans for the length of broadcasting dissatisfaction one step in advance, and changed the deduction of basic salary into a ladder system.
For example, if there is a 10% lack of time each month, 20% of the basic salary will be deducted. Generally speaking, the more broadcasts, the less the deductions will be.
So Lin Ran and Jack saw that this month was too long to make up, and they also wanted to broadcast it for as long as possible. After all, who would have trouble with money?
The two hit it off immediately, and watched the lottery together when Shiba Inu started broadcasting, and other YM teammates also wanted to join in the fun.
After connecting to the microphone, the draw ceremony has already begun, and the group rules of the global finals are being played.
"In the play-in stage, the top-ranked teams from Brazil, CIS, Japan, Latin America North, Latin America South, Oceania, Turkey and Southeast Asia will face off against the No. [-] seeds from South Korea, Europe, North America and LMS Confrontation..."
Liu Qingsong didn't understand, "Then RNG doesn't need to play in the finals? Why?"
"It was like this last year. WE didn't make it to the finals. Liu Qingsong, did you get your head squeezed by the door?" Xiao Guan said unceremoniously, "Or are you a fish with only 7 seconds of memory?"
"Go away." Liu Qingsong cursed with a smile, recalling the reason.
In the past two years, YM has performed well in major international competitions and has repeatedly won championships, accumulating a lot of points for the LPL division, so that its third seed does not have to participate in the finalists.
This is also a special case among the five major regions in the world.
"Hey, if this is the case, RNG will get 1/3 of the credit for the final results, right?" Shiba Inu asked in the voice with a shy face.
"I think it's good to play in the play-in round." Xiao's unique weak voice came to Lin Ran's ears through the earphones, "You can adapt to the next version in advance. If you play the group stage directly after coming up, you may not get used to it. Look. People will panic if they don’t know the version.”
"It's like this." Lin Ran also agreed with his teammates. "After all, the training match and the competition are still different. If you don't play a few real games, it's hard to feel what the focus of the version is."
After a few people chatted, the introduction of the rules of the play-in competition was over.
The 12 teams will be divided into four groups, and each group is guaranteed to be the No. 3 seed in one of the five major divisions + the champion team of two wild card divisions.
The competition system is a BO1 double-loop, and each group competes for two places, and then through the form of the first in the group VS the second in the other groups, 4 BO5 games will be played, and the final winner will advance to the main match stage.
Lin Ran didn't read the specific rules of this part.
Anyway, brothers from YM and LPL do not need to participate.
"I am back!"
Lin Ran heard Su Cheng's cheerful and lively voice coming from the entrance, and hurriedly took off his earphones to greet him.
"I bought some blueberry-flavored yogurt." Su Cheng untied the big plastic bag, took out two boxes of yogurt and handed it to her boyfriend, "You put it in the study first, and we can drink it directly later."
"I thought the newly planted grapes were pretty good, so I bought two catties." She took out all the purchased food, turned around and put it in the kitchen, "There are also fresh milk and bread, and tomorrow's breakfast should be ready. "
When the two returned to the study, the guests who drew lots had already appeared.
Big Princess Flame.
"Sister Cheng, look at the handsome guy!" Jack knew that Su Cheng was sitting next to him, so he teased him aloud.
"I see, I see," Su Cheng replied lightly, "The handsome guy is sitting next to me."
Everyone in the voice laughed together, and Shiba Inu felt that he had been stabbed heavily in the heart when he heard this.
I was very upset in my heart, but I couldn't find any reason to refute.
In terms of skin, Lin Ran is similar to the eldest princess. Even if the aesthetic standards vary from person to person, Shiba Inu himself can't say against his will that his family is ugly.
In the end, C9 in the North American Division, G2 in the European Division, GEN.G in the Korean Division, and G-REX in the LMS Division were divided into four groups.
"I think which wild card can pick G-REX, the probability of qualifying will be much higher." Lin Ran looked at the group situation.
After all, only one team will be eliminated in the group stage of the play-in round, so it doesn't matter if it is tied with the LCK. When it's BO5, it will be a LMS team in the next group, it's really a smile.
After all, the gold content in the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan divisions is really not high, there is not enough fresh blood, and many people follow Karsa to go to LPL, so there are no newcomers at all; the core meritorious members such as ziv and Ximen Yeshuo in the league are getting older, and they even local There is no way to achieve dominance in the league, let alone play in the World Championship.
The level of the leagues in Vietnam and Brazil has improved by leaps and bounds, and there are signs of replacing LMS as the fifth division.
"I heard that everyone is clamoring to take back the LMS seed quota," Jin Gong, who has returned to his hometown in South Korea, is still sharing the news he has received, "If you take back two, one of the places will be given to last year's global The championship division of the finals, and the other place will compete with Brazil and Vietnam divisions."
"If we can get four places, it will be much easier for everyone to enter the World Championship." Jack was quite happy when he heard this.
Netizens in the live broadcast room were also very excited.
If there are really four places in the LPL competition area in the future, then the dream of all four teams entering the quarterfinals can be realized!
"Thinking too much." Seeing the excitement of the barrage, Lin Ran poured cold water on it without hesitation, "Even if the seed quota is to be confiscated, it will be next year. I don't know if S9 will have an LMS division. .”
He has a close relationship with Casa and can get first-hand information about the LMS from the Wolf King.
Now the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan competition areas are ready to run away, that is, in the past two years, the league will be reorganized after the run away, and the future path is still unknown.
After the draw for the play-in competition ended, the screen changed, and the rule introduction session came again.
"In the main competition stage, 12 new teams will be added, three representative teams from the LPL division, two representative teams from South Korea, Europe, North America, and LMS, as well as Vietnam, which won this seat through its outstanding performance in the mid-season competition. The first team..."
Regarding the rules of the group stage of the main match, Lin Ran is also very familiar with it.
After all, he also played in the past two years.
To put it simply, one is to avoid the same competition area. The three representative teams of the LPL will be divided into different groups and will not meet before the knockout round.
The second is the seed seat.
This is different from seed sorting in the traditional sense.
Take RNG as an example. They are the No. 2 seed in the LPL division, but after participating in the World Championship, they will be assigned to the No. [-] seed pool.
Among them, the No. 1 seed pool is the summer champion of LMS, LCS.EU, LCK and LPL, which is the No. [-] seed of the four divisions.
In the North American Division, due to their performance in the mid-season championship game, they were eliminated from the No. 1 seed pool, and their summer champion Team Liquid will be assigned to the No. 2 seed pool.
The four teams that advance to the play-in round will automatically enter the third seed pool.
In this way, there are 4 seed pools in the first seed pool, 8 seed pools in the second seed pool, and 4 seed pools in the third seed pool.
The four groups will be evenly distributed, and each group will have 1 team from Pool 2, 1 teams from Pool [-], and [-] team from Pool [-].
Now the director also gave the team situation in the seed pool.
Pool [-]: YM, KT, FNC, FW.