With this new tournament format, how should the teams choose their pick order? The teams worried, and the players were also concerned as well. Everyone was vigorously researching and discussing such topics. Using the previous group arena strategy of placing the ace players at the end to hold the bottom line was too conservative and quite undesirable with the new rules.
However, directly placing these ace players at the front of the lineup also seemed excessive. In the competitive scene, 1v3 sweeps happened too rarely. The remarkable displays often seen in the group arena matches usually consisted of a two-player up-and-down.
**TL Note: Ye Xiu used 引导 the first time and later corrected it to 主导. While both can mean lead, 引导 usually refers to guiding through tactics and strategy (i.e. Zhang Xinjie), while 主导 has the more aggressive and dominant connotation of directly leading troops into battle (i.e. Han Wenqing). --Veriquity