Chapter 120 Opening Battle!
At noon on May 11th, Rio Olympic Stadium
At this time, domestic time has reached 2 o'clock in the morning!
Countless viewers are either sitting in front of the computer screen or lying in bed holding up their mobile phones
The countdown in the center of the screen is coming to an end.
Contrary to the domestic audience enjoying the quiet late night, tens of thousands of spectators are now shouting in unison in the competition venue!
three! two! one!
All the stage lights went out instantly, and then a little light opened in the center. A black woman held drumsticks in both hands and kept beating the drum head with a special rhythm.
After a few beats, the lights were turned on again, and dozens of men joined the drumbeat formation in front of them.
Without any BGM accompaniment, the dull and majestic drum beats with a brisk rhythm hit the hearts of all the audience wave after wave!
The drumbeat is getting faster and faster——
Faster and faster!
Li Mufan stood behind the curtain leading to the front court and felt that the blood in his body was boiling with the sound of the drums!
The moment the drum beat reached the top, all the stage searchlights came in together with the exciting BGM, bringing the rhythm of the scene to a climax!
At the same time, the Brazilian host’s rich and resonant voice sounded!
"This is the 2015MSI finals scene"
The live broadcast screen suddenly changed. The '2015MSI' gold label was enlarged from the middle of the screen and then shattered, and then entered the final scene of the Baron team battle between EDG and SKT in the fifth game!
The factory director used Widow to capture the Baron, and then crushed SKT in the team battle!
Faker took off his glasses to hide his face and cried bitterly, while on the other side was the EDG five-man team cheering!
"EDG was crowned king in the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational!"
The screen changes again;
‘Welcome to 2016MSI! ! ’
I still remember the familiar Taiwanese accent: "We congratulate RNG! Defeating their opponent SKT in the 2016 MSI group stage"
But the next scene that was cut out was SKT defeating the CLG team in the finals.
"Congratulations to SKT! They won the championship of this year's MSI. They also successfully won the Grand Slam of Riot Games!" As the home commentator in Shanghai, I remember being full of helplessness when announcing the championship.
Then comes 2017!
Although the Brazilian team at home has been eliminated, Riot Games still included it in the opening ceremony.
The flags of the six teams in the main competition were flying, and the smoke and flames of war were rising.
At the end of the promotional video, SKT led by faker collided with EDG led by the factory director!
Flames were blazing in the middle, and the audience in the two competition areas cheered!
There is no doubt that the two teams that each won an MSI championship will be the biggest highlight of this year's game!
However, after watching the promotional video, G2 boss Carlos shouted on Twitter that it was unfair!
Why do EDG and SKT occupy so much space, and there are even big posters of the two teams at the end?
It looks exactly like the finals promotional video!
Isn’t our G2 one of the three teams like EDG and SKT that can participate in the main draw without entering the playoffs?
But what’s funny is that there weren’t a few European viewers who spoke for him under this crying tweet.
On the contrary, everyone is still angrily criticizing G2's poor performance of failing to qualify 2-8 in the MSI group stage last year.
Soon the official staff of Riot Games also came over to explain that it turned out that the last big posters of EDG and SKT were not the current members of the two teams, but the lineups when they won the 15th and 16th MSI!
This makes sense. If you, G2, also want a big poster display, then fine, go win the championship!
Carlos made a big mistake, and fans of TSM in North America took the opportunity to rush over and humiliate him wildly.
Now the Europeans finally united their front and began to quarrel with the North American audience on Twitter.
"First of all, let us welcome the champions of the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational and the 2017 LPL Spring Split - EDG!!"
Li Mufan rubbed his numb legs and stepped onto the stage.
The host handed over G2, GAM, TSM, and FW in sequence. When these five teams all stood in formation on the stage, the lights on the stage changed again.
Then focus on the exact center!
"Finally, let us welcome the 2015 Global Finals Champions! The 2016 Mid-Season Invitational Champions! The 2016 Global Finals Champions - SKT!!"
boom!
The moment everyone from SKT appeared, the scene suddenly erupted into earth-shaking shouts and cheers!
Originally, the audience was still wondering. Players had to stand at the entrance of the aisle in advance when they came on stage, which was directly connected to the auditorium, but the audience just couldn't find SKT's position.
Ganqing is already standing on the stage!
The five members of SKT were arranged in an arrow shape, with Faker naturally standing at the top, holding the MSI championship trophy in both hands with a solemn expression.
"Handsome! I will be the one standing in that position next year!" Li Mufan clicked his tongue out of reach of the stage lights.
"Young man, you don't know the heights of the world." Jack shook his head pretending to be mature.
After the director used the camera to take a 360° circle around Faker, the opening ceremony finally came to an end.
"Welcome to Brazil!" The host suddenly raised his voice: "The top teams from six different regions will fight to the death in the next five days! In the end, only four teams can advance to our mid-season tournament. Let’s wait and see who will stay in the next round! ”
As the host finished speaking, the director quickly switched the big screen and live broadcast to the on-location promotional video they shot before the game.
"It doesn't have to be great, as long as it's the same as last year, it's enough." Faker turned his back to the camera, with the wide sea in front of him.
He turned around and fiddled with his hair that was blown by the sea breeze twice and then said: "Some people have been comparing SKT with previous championship teams, but I want to say that we have won three consecutive world championships!"
"SKT has reached the top of League of Legends and left all teams far behind!"
The factory director lived up to his reputation as the king of gossip. He picked out Faker's ears from the side and said, "It's windy on the shore. What did you say?"
The director turned to the camera and said sternly: "Actually, we had studied SKT last year, and we were absolutely sure to beat them! Unfortunately, we couldn't do it. But this year we came to MSI again, and to be honest, EDG still maintains the I have won the championship since entering MSI, and I will prove in this MSI who is the king of MSI!”
The other EDG guys next to me were not in the camera, they were all suppressing laughter.
Faker scratched the back of his head when he saw this scene, his expression was a little dumbfounded, and the domineering aura he had just established disappeared instantly.
He thought that he only needed to say his own words for this pre-game promotional video, but who knew that the factory director had just interacted with him.
Faker, who can't understand Chinese, naturally won't know. In fact, although the factory director is interacting, what he said has nothing to do with what Faker just said, because the factory director doesn't understand Korean either.
Riot provided SKT with a trilingual translator, and EDG also brought two members of its own translation team, but they were filming at the time and there was no communication between the two parties.
Maybe Riot’s publicity department staff also thought this shot was interesting, so they released it without any editing.
Li Mufan looked at the picture on the big screen above his head and immediately thought of the scene when he was filming. This time he finally laughed out loud without any scruples.
At this time, the domestic audience could not stop laughing. Many people living in university dormitories could only cover their mouths to hold back their words and twisted into a ball on the bed in order not to disturb their roommates.
【Laughing to death! The factory director can really run for the king of e-sports gossip】
[Did the director of 6666 really spend all his time studying SKT last year? 】
[He really dares to say it, he went to one MSI and achieved a winning record]
[Why didn’t the factory prove who is the number one jungler this time? 】
[No, no, no, that’s a real slap in the face! No matter how thick-skinned the factory is, it can't be arrogant in front of Little Peanut, but with Fan Huang, I think we can fight as a team! 】
[I admit that Brother Li is the best in the league in terms of operation, but the number one in terms of gossip must be from our factory! 】
Just when everyone's attention was focused on the eye-catching chat session, the on-site staff was already arranging for each team to exit in an orderly manner and go to their team lounges to wait for their games to begin.
EDG and TSM are staying, and their first round matchup will be the opening match of this group stage!
"You were nervous playing LPL. Are you not nervous anymore at MSI?" When Li Mufan walked to his seat, he noticed that Jack looked natural and walked briskly, and was in a very relaxed state.
"Tch, just a scumbag for the playoffs!" Jack whistled: "Brother Fan, do you know about their jungle affairs?"
Li Mufan raised his eyebrows. As long as he is a player who entered the game early, no one knows the nickname of TSM jungler Svenskeren's "Race Knight".
As early as during the S4 game, I changed my ID to a Taiwanese server that was insulting to China, and even typed on the public screen to ask Taiwanese players if their IDs were good. It was simply arrogant to the extreme!
He was immediately reported and banned, and the team SK was eliminated along with it. I don’t know if he is just stupid or arrogant.
"My friend was pushing him like crazy, but I didn't expect that today I would have the opportunity to step on him in front of him!" Jack rubbed his hands with a fierce look.
Li Mufan also became rarely serious. This kind of scum really needs to be educated!
As the two warring parties in the opening match, the equipment had been placed on the seats and debugged before the opening ceremony. Therefore, with the end of the opening ceremony, the scene quickly entered the next round - the main competition!
As soon as the BP screen appeared, the scene once again set off a wave of cheers!
"Hello everyone, I am the commentator Miller! The first day of the MSI group stage will be explained by myself, Qi Huan, and Su Xiaoyan!" Miller appeared on the domestic live broadcast in a formal suit.
This time, it was rare that he did not partner with the doll.
In fact, this time it is because of the tight schedule - there are six games every day in the five match days of the group stage, and there are two EDG games; secondly, because the game time is set from 2 am to 8 am domestic time, which is quite Hades.
Under such circumstances, Tengjing can't let the commentators stay up late every day, nor can they let all the second-rate commentators for a certain day's game, so disrupting a few ace commentator combinations and re-ordering them has become Tengjing's only option.
"In today's opening game, the pressure on EDG should not be very high. In the TSM team, only the double C of Bjergsen + wildturtle is a little famous." After a brief self-introduction, Su Xiaoyan said according to herself Pre-match data collection begins with analysis.
After saying this, she suddenly opened her mouth and said in surprise: "Oh! That's wrong, their jungler is also quite famous, but it's all negative news!"
"EDG may be going to die in the first game, let's torture them first to find out the touch!" Hallucination came to the international competition and did not serve as the home commentator, so his rhetoric suddenly became bold!
"Well, it's no problem. EDG is definitely much stronger than their North American brothers in terms of physical strength. It just depends on whether they want to win the opening game steadily, or whether they want to win the opening game quickly or quickly to build momentum!" Miller As the main commentator in charge of the field, he needs to be more restrained, and he proposed two possible solutions for EDG.
"Okay! The BP on both sides has begun. TSM is on the blue side in the first round and takes the lead in banning Enchantress!"
The choice of TSM coach parth is completely within nofe's control.
"They still choose the same style of play as they did in the playoffs, ensuring the development of Bilson in the middle!"
King Bilson is well-known. Everyone knows that he is good at playing core heroes, such as Syndra, Ryze, etc. In the spring split of LCS.NA, he even selected the Tsar in three games and the King in five games. Clockwork!
These heroes are usually rare to see in the LPL. The reason is that their power period is too late, which is not at all suitable for the current game environment that emphasizes the confrontation between the middle and jungle in the early and mid-term.
But the Dharma King is the Dharma King. If you choose a hero against the version, you can still achieve a nearly full winning rate, which is enough to prove his power!
In this case, nofe couldn't make it easy for him, and sent Syndra to the ban position with a backhand.
TSM then banned the first-hand Rek'Sai. This hero's early gank rhythm was very fierce, which did not conform to their BP idea of choosing a growth-oriented hero in the middle. At the same time, it also gave the factory director enough respect.
"EDG blocked Kennen for the second time. This move should be due to the qualifying matches in the past few days."
As we all know, even heroes who appear to be unaffected by version changes may cause earth-shaking changes in the game environment.
The environment on the road in league games cannot be separated from three words.
ecological chain.
Kennen has not received an update in the past half year. However, because the common heroes on the road such as Qinggangying, Titan, Dashu, Shen, etc. have all experienced a round of nerfs, the heroes that have not been nerfed are actually enhanced in disguise.
But that wasn't enough for him to dominate the game.
Until the MSI finals, the beast GAM team from Vietnam, top laner Stark once again took out AD Kennen to deal with the opponent's top laner Jayce.
The combination of Destruction, Hurricane + Ice Hammer has transformed Kennen from a squishy burst AP assassin into a half-tank, sustained AD output that can resist and attack!
Paired with armor shoes, in the mid-term, when Jace sees Kenan, it can be said that as long as there is no tower behind him, he will die if he is hit by A!
I have to mention the dilapidated minor revision here. (Guide the Way Chapter 78)
Jack said before that after the revision, the broken attack power is increased, the attack speed is decreased, and the passive damage is increased; generally speaking, it is strengthened for heroes with built-in attack speed!
At that time, he only thought about weapons and Juggernaut, but he ignored that Kennen's E skill also has attack speed, which is even higher than the attack speed bonus of Juggernaut and weapons!
Therefore, Kennen became the ultimate beneficiary of the top lane position - Kennen originally had many excellent characteristics such as single lane, quick lane clearing, and team battles that can supplement output. This made Kennen immediately increase in strength once his strength increased. The unit suddenly emerges!
EDG has gone through several attempts in training matches. The current thinking is that the red team must be banned unless they want to engage in scientific research in the main game.
Miller continued to recount the BP of both sides: "TSM eliminated Qinggang Shadow in the last ban of the first round. It seemed that they were frightened by Fan's performance in the LPL playoffs. Qinggang Shadow is now in the playoffs. The ban rate fell below single digits”
EDG then pressed down Ryze. This kind of hero who can develop team fights and roam around to grab edges is very suitable for Bilson's current role in TSM.
"In this way, TSM actually has no heroes to grab." Miller crossed his arms: "The male gun is currently the hero with the highest priority in the jungle, but svenskeren's male gun proficiency is really low!"
After Peanut's two performance-level male gun shows, the male gun has basically become the darling of the jungle in competitions and training matches. As long as SKT's ideas are followed, the strength of the male gun is greatly guaranteed.
But the male gun is a hero with a very distinctive style!
The combination of these three attributes, mid-to-long-range output, reloading mechanism, and wild core positioning, is destined to not every jungler be able to adapt to the hero Male Gun.
And svenskeren is one of them.
He is a player with a wide range of offense and is good at charging fighters such as Blind Sin and Olaf. The male gun directly hits his attribute blind spot.
In the finals, TSM faced GAM for the first time, and the TSM coach wanted to use the game as a substitute for training.
You know, although TSM has to play in the playoffs, it only has to play in the knockout rounds, and GAM has played step by step from the group stage of the play-ins.
In other words, GAM is a lower team than TSM in Riot's rating.
It’s no wonder that the TSM coach wanted to do scientific research the first time he faced GAM.
As a result, this male gun almost caused an accident!
Such a wild core hero managed to score an ugly record of 4-8 in the hands of svenskeren, while the soldier commander Levi who faced him used Mantis to score 9-1!
Then the TSM coach gave him three consecutive Blind Sin games to help svenskeren regain his form. In the end, TSM played a two-match three-match series to advance to the main game.
With this kind of performance, do you expect TSM to win another men's game in the opening game?
Totally impossible!
The fact is indeed as Miller expected. Not only did TSM not take the male gun, but they didn't grab any of the three lanes and the jungler with strong heroes. Instead, they first took out Lulu as an auxiliary!
"Huh?" Nofe just wanted to laugh!
The opportunity given to you by the blue side is useless!
When EDG meets TSM in the next round, nofe on the blue side can demonstrate to the opponent what blue side BP is!
But now it’s better to finish the opening game first.
Nofe thought for a moment and chose the combination of Ice + Blind Sin.
You can only play as a blind monk. Coincidentally, the director of the factory has also become a little confident recently, and grabbing the agent is equivalent to getting four bans!
"TSM got the poodle and EZ on second hand?" Su Xiaoyan blinked her eyes with a cute expression.
"What does this mean? Why not take Varus? And even if you have to take EZ, there is no need to take it in the third hand, right? No team will choose to ban this hero!"
The more knowledgeable audience at the scene were already whispering and discussing TSM's poor BP performance.
"Is there another possibility that they are scared?" Miller laughed twice: "We have seen the suppressive power of the ice bottom lane; in team battles, there is [Magic Crystal Arrow] plus the blind monk. Brother Fan is also good at cutting back rows with round kicks, so Brother Yegui has to use EZ. This hero is not afraid of being cut, and it can be regarded as his signature!”
"As for why they don't take the heroes in the middle and top lanes, let's just say, they don't dare to take it first!"
Faced with TSM's very conservative BP strategy in the opening game, EDG had to dare to take more and directly take out Jess in the third hand!
There was a burst of cheers at the scene. Jace was considered a star hero in the World Series. No matter who dared to show it, he would be praised by the audience!
Parth's face froze. He didn't expect EDG to be so decisive. In his opinion, a hero like Jace could only play secondhand. Taking Jace first would be too easy to be countered, which was an extremely unwise move.
In the second round of BP, both sides began to target bans.
EDG continues to restrict Bilson's hero pool. You can kill all the snake girls and czars. Don't mess with these weird things!
As for the clockwork, that's really unnecessary. How confident do you have to be to hold Jace's clockwork?
But TSM has some difficulties. Although Li Mufan's hero pool is not very deep, compared to a player like Huni who can pick out seventeen or eight top lane heroes in a random season, Li Mufan's hero pool of less than ten is slightly thin. .
But the important thing is to be proficient!
There are not many heroes, all of them have unique skills!
After thinking about it, Coach Parth could only choose one Titan and one vampire.
In his opinion, these two heroes are the most difficult to accept. In Li Mufan's hands, one has an explosive rhythm in the early stage, while the other dominates the battlefield in the mid-to-late stage.
The camera showed the players' seats, and Li Mufan, who was being targeted, had a prominent expression, which is an understatement.
Targeting brother?
That's really the wrong thing to do!
This BP will be written in a little more detail, because the content of the pre-game analysis has been moved into it, and it will not be analyzed like this for every game. The main purpose is to first pave the way for everyone to understand the overall MSI version trend, otherwise the BP changes will appear a bit abrupt.
(End of chapter)