Chapter 100 I have been playing in the World Championship finals since I was 17 years old. What about you?
From the semi-finals to the finals, there is a gap of 7 days.
But for the EDG players, this week's training was even more intensive than any other day!
For a whole week, play a BO7 training match every afternoon and evening!
Reviewing the game immediately after the game, while it is still hot, is naturally the best. Li Mufan could feel that his abilities were improving.
Sure enough, high pressure + strong training opponents + tight training schedule + post-game review, this is the correct formula to improve your strength in a short period of time!
But Abramovich also understands the principle of "too much is too little" and promised them that no matter whether they win or lose in the final, they will have a two-and-a-half-day holiday after the final.
"Dude, I'm really exhausted!" Jack slumped back in the chair, his hands hanging down the armrests of the chair.
"You don't understand, AD is really too tired!"
The factory director held up his hands and said with a smile: "Isn't this possible? I'm afraid you don't know that the guys from SKT on the opposite side train 4 BO7s every day, and the amount of training is twice as much as ours!"
Jack's eyes widened when he heard this, and he shouted feebly in a hoarse voice: "Four BO7s? That means in addition to playing two against us, they have to play two more every day?! This is really the amount of training that a person can complete. ! ”
After playing the LCK finals and LPL semi-finals on the same day, KT took a very uncomfortable vacation, and SKT also agreed to EDG's training invitation. After all, being able to reach the LPL finals, no matter in terms of strength, is still one-half In terms of odds, SKT will have to face up to EDG when entering MSI.
The factory director shrugged: "Who knows? Otherwise, why do you think they come here at three o'clock every afternoon? They have already finished two rounds in the morning!
And they didn't just start doing this now. From the opening day of the spring split, they have been playing 4 BO3 training matches every day except for game days. In the playoffs, they will probably increase their ranking! ”
Jack clicked his tongue and said: "No, no, if you put this amount of training on me for a month, I will be useless! Can they last for half a year?"
"Otherwise, why do you think they can achieve 3:0 KT? I think SKT has reached the peak of strength now, the only strength it can block!"
"But training people like this will break down, right?" Jack rubbed his chin and said: "Although the training matches are a little easier than the main matches, and each round is much shorter, who can withstand it without rest?"
"We're not that perverted anyway!" The factory director shook his head and said no more.
Li Mufan did not participate in the chat this time. He was sitting next to Scout, watching him and faker typing while Scout would translate the conversation for him in Chinese.
Scout, as the substitute mid laner bought from SKT, has a relationship with Faker as a junior and senior, but Faker is more easy-going, and the two chat more like friends.
Now they are discussing the issue of mid laner Galio.
In the past few days, EDG has done a lot of internal discussions and experiments on RNG's Galio, Prince, and Rambo systems.
RNG used this routine in the semifinals. As the team participating in this MSI, SKT has naturally been studying it in advance.
However, SKT did not use it themselves, but watched EDG practice, and they kept making moves to crack it.
It is worth mentioning that this lineup is indeed very strong, but compared with the previous heroes such as Niutou in S4, Captain Tetsuo in S5, Leopard Girl in S6, etc., it is still far behind.
In many cases, the tactics SKT used to deal with it have not been effective, and EDG was close to collapse just relying on their personal strength.
However, this also allowed Li Mufan, the coaching staff and others to realize another solution.
At present, they have summarized several solutions to the problem.
Using grabs instead of bans is easy to understand, but it also requires you to be familiar with this lineup. This is why EDG has been practicing more recently.
Ban removal, this is even simpler and more crude. The premise is that for all the moves RNG makes, EDG cannot have more than 3 heroes who cannot bear the consequences of releasing them, otherwise the first round of bans will not be enough!
Finally, there is a solution. This solution can be said to be the most critical one, because it does not have the restrictions of the first two. As long as the players don't make mistakes and produce results, they can make the opponent unable to exert their strength!
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye it was two days before the game. Both EDG and RNG flew to Nanjing to prepare for the game.
The finals are not like the previous schedule where you can play the game immediately. The finals not only require rehearsing the opening ceremony in advance, but also recording pre-match promotional videos, trash talk and other aspects, which is extremely cumbersome.
On April 27, both teams came to the host venue for filming.
The Nanjing Olympic Sports Center is composed of five major venues including a stadium, a gymnasium, and an aquarium. For this LPL event, only the gymnasium was officially rented, with a construction area of 60,000 square meters and 13,000 auditorium seats!
Li Mufan stood in the middle of the venue and looked around. The seats were now empty. There would be more than 10,000 spectators in two days!
He could imagine how enthusiastic cheers would surge around when the winner was decided in the final!
This was Jack's first time participating in the LPL, and it was also Li Mufan's first time reaching the finals. At this time, the two of them looked at the Silver Dragon Cup that had been placed in the middle of the rehearsal stage, with greed and desire in their eyes!
First, the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the day was completed, and then came the trash talk session.
I have to say that the factory director is really boring, and his ability to talk trash is second to none in LPL!
The scene was filled with laughter, and the RNG people were racking their brains, trying to defeat the director in trash talk.
The LPL environment at this time was pretty good. Although the players were scolded, not many people would call the police for trash talk.
Jack had no experience in this area when he first arrived, but he was very talented in this area, and his face turned red after he talked a lot.
After this session was filmed, the on-site staff took them out to shoot a promotional video. Li Mufan, who has attracted countless fans in the spring competition, became the protagonist of the team.
On the evening of the next day, on the eve of the finals, EDG and SKT played their last BO7 training match.
[SKT_huni: Come on for the final! 】
In the custom room dialog box, SKT's top laner Huni sent a word of encouragement.
Huni and Li Mufan had a feud, but after a week of training between the two parties, Li Mufan found that the fat boy was quite a good person in real life.
Before every training match, he would take out a few words of loose Chinese he had learned to communicate with EDG, which made people wonder whether Huni was planning to follow his seniors Ma Datou, Duke and others to develop in the LPL next year.
Sometimes when Li Mufan and the others don't play well, Huni will explain a few words of his own opinion, but this kind of more complex communication can only be carried out through translation software.
Li Mufan replied "thank you", and after it was over, it was coach Nofe's review time.
Today ended very early, leaving them free time in the evening. They could play ranked, find someone to practice one-on-one, or watch game videos.
Li Mufan chose to play two Korean servers to maintain his feel.
As for watching videos to learn, it is difficult for top laners to improve if they do this. Maybe junglers and supports will be better.
As usual, the computer was turned off at ten o'clock. Li Mufan got up and went to wash up. When he returned to the room, he found that he didn't have his phone, so he went back to the training hall.
At this time, the training hall was already dark, with only one seat still shining brightly. Li Mufan walked closer and saw that it was Ai Luoli.
Even though everyone else in the hall has gone back to rest, Ai Luoli is still sitting upright here, staring at the screen with a meticulous expression, and typing extremely seriously.
"Don't stay up too late today. Go to bed early. We have to go there tomorrow." Li Mufan brought him a glass of water.
"Brother Fan?" Ai Luoli turned around and said, "I know, I'll go to bed later, you go first."
Ai Luoli experienced a few days of depression after being pushed out of the starting lineup by the factory director, but then she started to train hard again.
Sometimes she would take him along with her in team training matches. Overall, Ai Luoli still felt a sense of participation. She worked so hard in ranking and training because she wanted to not hold the team back when she had the chance to debut again.
As a professional player, who doesn’t want to stand on the stage and prove himself?
Near noon on the second day, members of both EDG and RNG teams took cars to the competition location.
People come and go at the entrance of the Olympic Sports Center. It is open to tourists all year round. Visitors are allowed to exercise or play in swimming pools and other places during their free time.
Entering the stadium, the staff were already setting up the venue. The entrance to the venue was divided into two sides. The staff of the two teams were each responsible for one side. With the assistance of the organizer, they received the spectators and distributed support items.
Then they watched the rehearsal and then went back to the lounge to play two customized hot hands.
By the time the staff came over to help them finish their makeup, it was not long before they officially went on stage.
The corridor outside became lively, and the audience was basically seated. The seats were packed enough to tell that there were many fans of both teams.
"A little hungry! I wish I had eaten more in the morning." Jack sighed, rubbing his stomach.
"You stuffed eight big meat buns this morning and that's not enough?" Li Mufan was shocked: "That's the amount the factory director and I put together!"
"But these past five or six hours have been digested long ago!" Jack glanced at the food on the table with a painful look on his face. It was either chocolate, Snickers, bananas, or Red Bull. After thinking about it, he picked up a piece of the official prepared food. Poro biscuits, they look good after all.
"Don't eat too much, be careful when you start popping." The factory director gave him a sideways glance.
Members of the coaching staff such as nofe and Maokai also took the trouble to emphasize to them the precautions for the game.
When the staff came to announce the start, Jack was relieved, "Send them a three-to-zero game! Get off work early and eat early!"
They walked along the passage and prepared to go on stage under the prompts of the host Ren Dong. Abu went backstage from the other side to play a coin toss game with the RNG leader. This would determine the side selection for the first game, and the following. The loser chooses a side.
When the players took the stage, the big screen above the venue began to play the trash talk session recorded before the game.
Li Mufan's handsome face was the first to appear: "When I first heard about letme, everyone said he was the best Qinggang Shadow in LPL. It didn't make sense. I beat him with Qinggang Shadow. Recently I heard that he is very good at it. Rambo, but I think he’s a bit bad at it! I’ll teach him Rambo as a hero in the finals!”
In the regular season, Li Mufan's Qinggang Shadow Tower killed Xiangguo with one E and two stuns. At that time, RNG also called for a timeout to submit a bug. Unexpectedly, it was a hero mechanism, which made a big joke.
"The fan operation is indeed very strong." Letme sat on the chair and smiled: "But League of Legends is a game for five people, and my teamwork ability is even better!"
"Hello, last year's Spring Split runner-up! I heard that you are studying MSI opponents again. It's a pity that I have to waste your time again." As soon as Xiangguo came up, he imitated the director and spread his hands: "This year's Spring Split champion , I want to order it!”
Everything in the picture showed that the factory director did not care at all when Xiang Guo dug up his dark history last year, and said calmly: "Want to win the championship? But you haven't even passed the level of loving Lolita. You want to challenge me, you are too So tender!”
"If you win the championship just to go to MSI and win the semi-finals, then I think the championship trophy should be given to EDG!"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd was in an uproar!
Xiangguo wanted to use last year's Spring Split final results to blackmail the factory director, but the factory director counterattacked. The results of the MSI semi-finals are definitely a past that Xiangguo doesn't want to recall.
When it was Scout's turn, he was a lot more reserved, but the stain pushed the scene to another climax.
He was facing Jack, with a bright smile on his 200-pound face: "I reached the finals of the S competition when I was 17 years old. What about you?"
Jack scratched his head: "You asked too early. You'd better wait and see me finish the finals first to see if you can say it again!"
[6666 Brother Shuizi is confident! 】
[The factory is still cool, you can’t beat the fragrant pot! 】
[Liu Shui's finals, iron-clad pigs and dogs, why are they the two teams in every finals? 】
As soon as the trash talk session ended, the director cut out a promotional video, and the editing team used hand-drawn animation to draw several looks for each of the ten starting players of EDG and RNG, which was quite innovative.
"Dear Summoners who came to our site and are watching in front of the screen! Good afternoon, everyone!" Ren Dong held the microphone and regained control of the stage: "After a whole spring of hard work and hard work, in the end only two teams were able to stand on our side. The final stage! ”
"They are EDG! and RNG! Let us welcome them to the stage with the warmest applause!"
Ren Dong took the trouble to introduce the members of the two teams to everyone, but everyone was too familiar with EDG and RNG, so there was some confusion when introducing new players such as Li Mufan and Jack.
“The 2017 LPL Spring Finals is about to begin, let’s look forward to the exciting performances of both teams!”
The bright spotlights on the stage were extinguished, leaving only a few colored lights next to the contestants' seats for illumination. The director took advantage of this opportunity and cut the screen to the commentary box.
"Hello everyone, I am Changmao!"
Ever since Changmao's commentary skills began to be frequently criticized by the audience, he immediately switched arenas and became a frequent guest in the commentary box.
Today, in addition to Changmao, we also invited two people who have deep connections with EDG and RNG as guest commentators, EDG's former assistant Curly, and 50-50 who once partnered with Royal Double C with Dirt.
As the director successively released the data comparison of the two teams' players and teams, the 6V6 session started in the commentary box, with Curly Hair and Wuwukai respectively boasting about their teams.
"The data of EDG's top laner is much higher than that of the opponent's Letme. The average points output and average pressure per game are far ahead!"
As soon as Curly said this, Wuwukai immediately changed the topic and started to fight back.
"But from the perspective of the core bottom lane of this version, UZI completely suppressed the newcomer Jack Dancing! In the final analysis, the alliance will still have to compete with the output capabilities of both ADs in the later stages. I think RNG may have a better chance of winning today!"< br>
Then Wuwukai played another wave of emotional cards: "We in LPL are very likely to win the championship in the all-China class. Today, RNG is standing here. I feel that there is a kind of destiny guidance. I hope that I can finally watch it today." Go to the all-China class and win the championship!”
The fans belonging to RNG in the field suddenly screamed, and the shouts instantly overwhelmed the other side.
Curly Hair is usually introverted, and he can't defeat the other party when facing a 50-50 opponent. Fortunately, at this moment, following the reminder from the director behind him, Chang Mao, who was in charge of the field, waved his arm, and the scene switched to the commentary box.
"Thank you everyone in the commentary box for your analysis of the game! Hello everyone, I am the commentator remember!"
In this heavyweight final event, I remembered that I got one of the opportunities to play due to my excellent performance in the commentary in the first half of the year.
His partner is another emerging commentator, Guan Zeyuan.
"The performance of these two teams in the semi-finals can be said to be quite exciting!" Guan Zeyuan said: "On one side, EDG won three consecutive sets cleanly; on the other side, RNG was unstoppable from one to three!"
"The difference between the two teams is that EDG exposed a lot of problems in the bottom lane in the third round. If they fail to adjust in time, they will definitely be beaten hard by RNG! After RNG lost to WE in the first round, the next three rounds were all He used a relatively novel routine and looks very well prepared for the playoffs!”
Guan Zeyuan is somewhat partial to RNG. After all, after last year's World Championship, Director did not play in the first two-thirds of the spring schedule. Now the number of fans seems to be overwhelmed by stains.
I remember that he had some personal relationship with EDG. He thought about it and analyzed it: "We have just seen the pre-match data of the two teams. EDG's top lane and RNG's bottom lane are the core of their respective teams. The final may also depend on these two players. How's your performance?
However, when EDG has problems in the bottom lane, the top and middle lanes can complete the comeback with their strong personal abilities; but the top, middle and jungle combination that RNG has been trying recently, I wonder if it will directly misfire in the face of EDG's top, middle and jungle. I think this is also a point that needs attention! ”
The two of them each said different things, but they were all justified.
A few minutes later, remember to hold on to the headset on the right side and say solemnly: "The players on both sides are ready, let's enter the BP session of the first game together!"
This chapter is too complicated to write. The second chapter will probably have to wait until late at night to be released. I want to say sorry to everyone and rush to finish the manuscript.
(End of chapter)