As time progresses, the League of Legends LPL League 2022 Spring Season has come to an end two days ago, in which RNG3-2 refused to let the two chase three beat TES to win the spring championship, which is also the fourth spring championship and the fifth league championship in the history of the RNG team. After the spring games, due to the late end of the LPL schedule, it was actually not much longer than the start of the MSI. This time, RNG will participate in the mid-season championship in an online situation, while the spring championship teams in other divisions need to go to South Korea to participate in the competition, which can be said to be the greatest understanding and tolerance given by the official under the premise of respecting the epidemic control in the mainland.
Just yesterday, MSI has officially announced the results of the group stage, the MSI group stage will be divided into three groups, the teams in Group A are: T1, VCS team (did not finish the spring game), AZE, DFM, Group B teams are: RNG, PSG, IW, RED, Group C's teams are: G2, LCS team (did not finish the spring game), ORD. Next, let's introduce the three groups separately.
The first is group A where LCK spring champion T1 is located, this year's T1 has played absolute dominance in LCK, and has become a strong contender for the MSI championship without exception. And T1 was also very lucky in this draw, and the three opponents in the same group were all from the wild card division. The stronger division is the VCS, although it is not known which team is playing, but this division has not participated in the World Series for two years due to the epidemic. The DFM team from Japan had a good performance last year but there is still a big gap with the teams in the four major divisions, and the possibility of these two teams trying to shake T1's dominance in Group A is too small, let alone AZE from the Latin American division, so it is almost a foregone conclusion that T1 will advance to the top of the group.
In terms of B, RNG's three opponents are PSG in Southeast Asia, IW in the Turkish League and RED in Brazil. RED and IW are theoretically the weakest in Group B, red although last year reached the world tournament but the final ranking did not have any bright play, and IW is a new army that was only established in the Turkish league in 2019 and has not played the world series so far. Although these two opponents are weaker, the strength of the PSG in the Southeast Asian Division may be the strongest team in the three groups except for the three teams of T1, RNG and G2, although it is classified in the Southeast Asian Division, but in fact, this team has been established in Hong Kong, this team has repeatedly entered the World Series, and has performed very well in both the S10 and S11 World Championships, because the group stage adopts the BO1 format, so PSG is not without the possibility of defeating RNG. Although G2 in Group C faces teams from the North American division, there are only 3 teams in the group, and the competitive pressure is much less. So overall, compared to the other two first seed teams, the result of the draw was not ideal. However, as long as RNG takes every opponent seriously, it is easier to advance to the top of the group.