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In the S9 season, the competition system of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational is very simple.

It is divided into three stages: the play-in round, the group stage, and the knockout round.

Among them, the three major regions of LPL, LEC, and LCK do not need to participate in the play-in round and directly advance to the group stage.

The remaining ten wildcard regions will fight in the "play-in round".

The two teams that finally made it out of the play-in round entered the next round of the "group stage".

The EDG club has begun to study several well-known teams in the MSI Mid-Season Tournament.

They are the G2 team from the LEC (Europe) region and the WDG team from the LCK (South Korea).

As for the players, they are still conducting high-intensity training as usual.

Every day is fully scheduled. In the play-in round, if there is a game, EDG will organize the players to watch the game collectively.

After all, among these ten wildcard teams, two teams will eventually break through and enter the group stage.

In other words, the ten teams here are all potential opponents, but their threat is slightly less than that of the other two major regions.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the qualifying round came to the end.

In the EDG club, the training base, and the viewing room, everyone was watching the battle in the OB perspective with relish.

"The LJL division is pretty good this year. This DFM team is quite good. It looks like they will definitely have a place in the group stage."

meiko stroked his chin and said with interest: "Xiao Rizi is very strong this year."

"Haha, the LJL division is really strong this year. It looks like there is a 95% chance that they will enter the group stage."

Qi Jiang, who was sitting next to meiko, smiled and said, "They can enter the group stage, which should be considered a record for the division."

Chen Dong on the other side smiled and echoed: "South Korea was the first to develop the e-sports industry in Asia, and we followed closely. Xiao Rizi probably also felt the development trend of the information age and invested heavily."

"Esports will definitely be the general trend in the future, and the influence of traditional sports among young people is rapidly weakening."

"No problem. Then this year's Asian Games will be worth watching..."

Qi Jiang said with a smile.

The LJL division, the "division of the country of cherry blossoms", has been established for a long time, but it has almost no presence.

In world-class events, at most, they can only make a splash in the qualifying stage.

They belong to the type of players who focus on participation.

However, in the qualifying stage of this year's MSI, the performance of the LJL region was particularly eye-catching. So far, they have only lost one game.

"Arrange for analysis." Qijiang reminded Chen Dong.

"I understand. I have analyzed all the game videos of this DFM team. They are invincible in the LJL region... They are an opponent worthy of attention."

"Especially the mid-lane player of this team is named Uesugi Ryuye, who is known as the Sakura Mage King in the LJL region. The mid-lane mage has a win rate of more than 90%, and his laning level is very high! All data can be ranked in the top 10 of the global mid-lane data rankings."

"Of course, everyone knows what level LJL is. However, in the S9 season, the promotion effect of LOL in the Sakura Country is very good. It is said that the number of players has exceeded that of South Korea."

Chen Dong is worthy of being the chief data analyst of EDG, and he has a very sufficient grasp of information.

Hearing him say this, several EDG players were a little surprised.

"Chief Chen, according to your description, won't the LJL region soon become the fourth largest region?"

369 seemed very shocked.

Because in his cognition, the single-player games in Sakura Country are well developed, and the world's top game manufacturers such as Sony and Nintendo are all from Sakura.

In such a soil, online games, especially e-sports, do not have the soil to grow at all.

"Not necessarily. A large player base does not mean a strong league. Our country has the largest population in the world. What level do you think the national football team is?"

Chen Dong explained with a smile.

Then everyone started to discuss this topic.

Lu Ziang did not participate.

He just watched the game screen quietly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

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Soon, the qualifying round ended.

The teams that finally entered the group stage were:

LJL region, DFM team.

LT team from LCS region.

And the FW team in the LMS region.

So far, in the S9 season, the MSI Mid-Season Invitational, 6 teams have been formed in the group stage:

LPL (Huaxia) - EDG team.

LCK (South Korea) - DWG.

LEC (Europe) - G2.

LCS (North America) - TL.

LMS - FW.

LJL - DFM.

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The EDG team had already completed all the procedures for going abroad at the end of the qualifying round.

Then, they took an international flight to the venue of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational: Incheon, South Korea.

This year's MSI event, the group stage will be held in the Incheon Gymnasium.

The knockout stage will be held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

It can be said that this year's MSI Invitational is very important.

Last year's S8 World Finals finals were not held in Seoul, but in Busan. There seems to be a lot of meaning in it.

When the venue of the game was announced, it caused quite a stir on the South Korean Internet:

"Last year, LPL won the championship in Busan. This year, we will win in Seoul, and collect some interest first!"

"DWG will win, Xu Xiu will win, LCK is invincible."

"Isn't EDG the so-called internal battle phantom god and the foreign battle F5 team? I don't think they can even enter the knockout stage."

"Hahaha, although the LPL team won the championship last year, the IG team had two of its own people, which means that their championship content is only 60% at most."

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Since it is a competition, then confrontation is inevitable. There are keyboard warriors everywhere in the world, and South Korea is no exception.

SKT team was also criticized for not winning the championship this year.

The EDG team arrived in Incheon three days in advance, and the hotel they stayed in was not far from the Incheon Gymnasium.

This is not the first time Lu Ziang has come to South Korea, but 369 and Xiaotian are not quite used to this new environment.

Fortunately, EDG's logistics work is very good. Even in a foreign country, you can still eat authentic Chinese food.

The time difference between South Korea and China is only one hour, which has no effect on work and rest. After installing the equipment, the group began high-intensity daily training in the hotel where they stayed.

As the old saying goes, if you don't sing for three days, your mouth will be stiff, and if you don't beat iron for three days, your hands will be stiff.

This is even more true for professional players. If you want to maintain a good competitive state, you can't relax at all.

The war is imminent.

Everyone knows the expectations and hopes they carry, and they really can't be careless at all.

LOL e-sports fans from all over the world also rushed to Incheon.

Among them is Bo Chuxia, but this time she didn't come alone.

Two roommates also came with her, just as a way to relax before the college entrance examination, of course, this is for academic masters.

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