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all the games in the qualifying stage of the s14 global finals ended yesterday. after the last qualifying team was born, the swiss round draw ceremony that everyone was looking forward to was quickly held.

in the final draw results, the first round of the china-south korea battle was confirmed, with tes facing t1 and wbg facing gen.

s14 first round draw, two battles between china and south korea

the s competition has introduced new rules of the swiss round since last year. the rules of the swiss round require 16 teams to decide their opponents through different rounds of draws. the team that finally wins three games in the swiss round advances to the quarterfinals. the team that loses three games will be eliminated.

because of the introduction of multiple rounds of draws, the swiss round is more exciting than the previous group matches. in the swiss round, you can see the strong dialogue in advance, and you can also see some dramatic draws and matchups.

the lottery rules of this year’s swiss round are to avoid the division in the first round, then the teams in pool 1 will play in pool 4, and the teams in pool 2 will play in pool 3. the point that everyone is most looking forward to here is the gap between pool 2 and pool 3. matchup, because under this lottery rule, there will inevitably be two china-south korea matchups in the first round, because the teams in the third pool are all chinese and korean teams.

the teams in the second pool in the china-korea division are tes and gen. these two teams must fight a china-korea war.

as a result, yesterday's draw results were announced. tes's opponent in the first round will be t1, while gen's opponent in the first round will be wbg. this draw result also aroused heated discussion among the audience.

faker got the worst draw, wbg became the unlucky guy

let’s first talk about the lottery situation of the four teams after the two china-south korea battles were announced. to analyze the lottery, we must focus on the teams in the third pool, because the teams in the third pool do not necessarily have to play against china and south korea. in the big battle, there are european and american teams in the second pool, so for t1, dk, lng and wbg in the third pool, the best result is to draw the european and american teams.

especially at the beginning of the world series, in fact, no one wants to play strong teams in advance, because it requires an adaptation process. for strong teams, it is best to play weak teams first, and then slowly increase the number of games. difficulty.

from this perspective, faker actually drew the worst lottery, because in the second pool, the strongest opponent t1 could draw was tes. of course, this is based on everyone's general understanding of the strength of the division. many lpl viewers said that it was not a good draw for tes to draw faker in the first round. the reason was more because t1's performance and resume in past world competitions were too good.

but in this specific context this year, tes's draw of t1 cannot be considered a bad draw. after all, tes has to play a korean team. it depends on whether they play dk or t1, and gen, another team in the lpl division, completely reduced to unlucky guy.

if you meet gen in the first round, your chances of winning are slightly higher.

you must know that in last year's global finals, the wbg team could be said to be full of luck. it was evaluated by the audience as the luck champion of s13. maybe it was because of its good luck last year. this year wbg entered the world championship again and faced the challenge in the first round. a nightmare scenario, directly facing gen, the biggest favorite to win the championship.

if we go by last year's draw, it would be normal for wbg to draw european and american teams, but this year they obviously had bad luck in the first round.

personally, i think the first round of wbg can be said to be unlucky, but there is also a good aspect, that is, when the world series has just started, wbg has a slightly greater chance of winning if it goes to play gen, because the outcome between the teams at this time is it depends more on the understanding of the version and who comes up with a stronger system.

for example, if wbg and gen are played with similar understanding of later versions, wbg's chance of winning may be only 10-20%, but if they are played at the beginning of the game, wbg's chance of winning may be 20-30%.

among the other two lpl teams, blg faced mdk in the first round. it is not a good draw but it is not much different for blg. it is appropriate to prepare well to avoid overturning. it is appropriate to play the third seed in europe. for lng, it should be the four lpl teams. the luckiest one was playing north american tl.