In the blink of an eye, it was the afternoon of September 9. At 20:00 London time, the draw ceremony of this FACEIT Major, the so-called major competition, officially began.

The team pool of major this time is divided into five levels. The A level is the top four majors in the previous session, namely Cloud9, FaZe, NaVi and MIBR.

When these four teams reached the London Major, they could be said that only FaZe and NaVi still had the strength of the legendary group. The strength of the other two teams can be said to have experienced a significant decline this year, especially the last champion C9, who have replaced two players. Although the people they have received have some names in the past, such as STYKO and Golden, to be honest, these two people were also kicked out by their previous teams, because of the reason.

Therefore, the current world ranking of this C9 has reached 20th place, and it can be said to be a complete first and second-tier team.

The situation of MIBR will be slightly better. They experienced a trough after the New Year and changed many people within the team. Except for the Brazilian trio Coldzera, Fallen and Fer have not changed, the other two are always changing.

Now, their lineup is a Brazilian trio plus Stewie2K and tarik. The addition of these two former major champions has indeed restored the strength of this MIBR, but the Brazilians and Americans are definitely unable to integrate together. Behind the seemingly rising results, there are actually some contradictions that have accumulated.

These are some situations in A gear, and in fact, the situation in B gear is similar to A gear.

There are also four teams in B, namely 5-8 of the previous major, mousesports, fnatistrike and G2.

Among these four teams, only MOUZ has the ability to continue to enter the legendary group. The other three teams, fnatic, replaced two people. Although the results are not bad, they are always stuck at the middle level, and there is no past explosive type to win the championship, and there are very few rounds of games.

G2 also reorganized and combined after the internal strife, but the French were only a few of them. After so many years of fighting, everyone knew whose strength. The real French chosen ones will not officially join the professional team until this major. Unfortunately, this team is not G2.

The remaining Winstrike team, which completed the legendary experience of entering the legendary group from the qualifiers at the major at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, like most CIS dark horses, they fell rapidly after winning the club's most glorious moment.

They are currently only ranked 46th in the world. It can be said that if they are allowed to play minor now, they will not be able to make a pre-selected place.

To sum up, in the first eight years of the last session, those who can have enough strength to win a legendary group quota are actually FaZe and NaVi, and the rest include MIBR and MOUZ, which are not stable.

So, this gives the other eight teams that have played from the just-concluded qualifiers to achieve their ambitions.

From the third level, all teams were from the MAJOR qualifiers, and there were only two teams in the C level, that is, teams A and Tianlu who qualified with a 3-0 record in the Swiss round of the qualifiers.

There is no need to say much about Team A. Although they started from the qualifiers, there is no doubt that they are the biggest favorites to win this major.

Since Katowitz at the beginning of the year, they have won more than ten championships in various competitions and have won eight consecutive championships in offline competitions.

The whole world has been studying them for more than half a year, but there is still no good way to stop the Danish team from continuing to look down on the world. The reason is that this A team plays ext level. They will use the various props and advantages in the game to create enough space for themselves to counter the gun, and even reduce the enemy before countering the gun.

Tianlu has also fought with Team A several times, only won one map, and all the others were beaten up.

In addition to the invincible A team, Tianlu is also a team that came out of the trough. They were quite glorious in the first half of the year, ranking the highest in the world and ranked fourth in the world, but they failed to make the knockout round in Cologne, and the content of the game was very ugly.

However, after Cologne, they spent nearly two months to readjust their mentality and took out their best condition on the major.

The remaining six teams that played from the qualifiers were naturally divided into D and E levels, but their strength should not be underestimated. After all, they were played from the qualifiers, and at least they were definitely better than these teams that did not play in competitive state.

After the team pool was separated, the lottery ceremony officially began.

First, the A-level team will only encounter E-level and a D-level team in the first round. Finally, C9 meets Vega, MIBR meets BIG, FaZe meets NIP, and NaVi is assigned to liquid.

In general, in these matches, only NaVi and liquid, some of them were seen. The two teams had similar strengths and had some connections.

The remaining eight teams will be together. Tianlu is very lucky, mainly taking advantage of the first pre-select qualifier. They drew Winstrike, the weakest team in this major.

“NICE!”

After learning about this result, Tianlu's team members smiled. It was not like a team next door, but they really felt that Winstrike had no chance to play with them.

CSGO is such a game where strength and weakness are clear. Maybe the 20th team in the world and the 2nd team in the world can win a few games if they play 10 games, but the 43rd team in the world and the 7th team in the world can be said to have no chance.

In general, the last four groups of battles are basically matches of the off-market, because the 5-8th place in the last legendary group was indeed a bit awkward at this time.

HellRaisers face G2, atic, and Team A, against MOUZ.

Poor Rat, originally ranked fourth in the world and was also the team of the last legendary group, but in the first round of this major competition, he directly encountered the big devil Astralis.

"Brothers, this draw is indeed a big advantage for us, but we cannot take it lightly. After all, this is a major! We must ensure that the game we can win is 100%, and we must not let the mentality of losing affect our goals!"

After the lottery results came out, the team leader gave the players a sobering dose in time. Indeed, this is the biggest stage for majO and also the most stressful game.

Once you are turned around or defeated by weak defeat in major, the negative mentality caused by failure is likely to cause the entire team to collapse to the end.

Therefore, in the past few days before the official start of the competition, what Tianlu needs to do is to stabilize his mentality.

Their goal has never changed, that is, to become the first Asian team to enter the legendary group and become a real legend!
Chapter completed!