Chapter 172 Jess is the number one in Korean server! The first leopard girl! First Riven!
June 1st is the day when the LPL Summer Split draws groups and arranges the schedule.
The managers of the first and second place teams in the spring playoffs, RNG and EDG, are responsible for taking the stage to draw.
But this day also happens to be the first broadcast day for EDG to officially join the Zhanqi platform!
As a major event in the circle, basically everyone in the LPL e-sports circle has heard about it.
The official management of LPL thought about it, and there are only a few people who watch this lottery live broadcast. After all, the popularity of the regular season is already low, so there are even fewer people watching the lottery, which is more boring than the regular season.
Will it still be popular after being sidelined by EDG's premiere?
Although the popularity is not very important, if you do it well, you are guaranteed to be able to allocate more funds.
These managers are all front-line managers transferred from the headquarters of Painxun. They have rich market experience and they came up with a solution after a little thought.
I opened the live broadcast rights of the lottery so that people from EDG can broadcast it. In this way, aren’t EDG’s viewers also my viewers?
The more Tengjing's young leaders thought about it, the more they felt that this plan was feasible, and it could also help EDG people attract a wave of viewers who like to read official news. It was a win-win situation!
Am I really a genius?
During the rehearsal in the afternoon, the young leader came to the scene and directly approached Abu and discussed the matter with him, and the latter readily agreed.
Although the live broadcast lottery process may slightly affect the popularity of the live broadcast, after all, many people are not interested in it, but it only lasts for less than an hour at best, and the impact will not be great.
But it can give Tengjing a face.
Abramovich knows very well that in this society everything is based on relationships. If EDG had not always had a good relationship with Teng Jing, he would not have been able to get Jack on the court easily.
Both sides had their own thoughts and laughed tacitly.
"Wai Wai Wai Wai? Brothers, can you hear me?" Li Mufan put on his headphones and tried the microphone.
"Today's live broadcast is the first show, thank you all for coming to support me!" Li Mufan saw a series of '111' and 'hear' on the barrage, and started to take the next step.
"We have a mission tonight. Let's promote the LPL Summer Split draw first! After watching the draw ceremony, let's play a few games of Top of the Canyon."
It’s no fun to be unable to queue in the Korean server. Since tonight is the first live broadcast of the new platform, Li Mufan simply doesn’t rush to train anymore. It’s good to play in the canyon.
[Fan Huang is really strong. When I close my eyes at night, I can think of Sword Lady in the third scene and Lucian in the fourth scene. They are almost immortals! 】
[Don’t mention it anymore, now in the game, Lucian, the top laner teammate, is caught as a dog, and he has to slide up and click twice]
[Just say that the top laner on the opposite side is Lucian. Are you happy? 】
[I feel like the current LPL looks better. Last year and the first half of this year, playing was so boring! It starts in forty minutes! 】
[This league has to give an award to the Emperor. Whoever is not the Emperor watches the regular season? You can fall asleep just by looking at it]
The barrage started chatting on its own, and I have to say that after he achieved results in the competition, his live broadcast popularity skyrocketed.
Originally a small anchor with tens of thousands of hits, now he has millions of hits as soon as he starts broadcasting!
"Come on, come on, it's on!" Li Mufan just opened the LPL official live broadcast on the other side and found that the lottery rules were already being introduced.
There are basically no changes from before. According to the final ranking of the spring playoffs, teams ranked 1 and 2 are divided into the first seed pool, 3-6 teams are divided into the second seed pool, 7-10 teams are divided into the third seed pool, and finally the bottom team The two teams are in the fourth seed pool.
Abu and Shirahoshi will draw lots from each seed pool in sequence and be placed in groups A and B in order.
EDG and RNG will undoubtedly be separated.
Comments expressed pity.
After RNG officially announced that Kourou would join, many old viewers expressed their desire to see Kourou play on behalf of RNG and EDG in a battle!
After playing in the LPLS7 spring playoff finals, EDG and RNG have met in the finals for three consecutive seasons!
What does it mean to be on the wrong road?
In the three games, EDG had a slight advantage with two wins and one loss, but RNG's strength should not be underestimated.
In addition, there are rumors that the two teams are not getting along with each other. It is understandable that the two teams will attract a lot of attention after the transfer.
Abramovich drew RNG first, which meant that RNG would go to Group A and EDG would be assigned to Group B.
【What a pity! There will only be one round of round robin play between different groups. I don’t know if I can see Tong Yang play when he plays EDG]
[What’s good? It’s not that they haven’t been released in the spring, they are still the first starter! He didn't seize the opportunity and was suppressed by Emperor Fan! 】
[One thing to say, I don’t think Tong Yang is as good as S5. RNG’s signings look quite funny. If they can’t beat EDG’s top laner, they just buy him as a substitute. Isn’t this a joke? If the substitute is better than the starter, is he still called a substitute? 】
The drawing of lots was still going on, and Abu twisted open the second small ball he drew and unfolded the note inside.
The bright red team logo pops up on the paper, it’s WE!
Abu suddenly looked happy!
Although they double defeated WE in the spring split, it is obvious that the entire WE team is getting better and better, and the running-in with the new coach is getting closer and closer.
In addition, although WE failed to reach the finals in the playoffs, they still narrowly lost to RNG and crushed fourth-place OMG in the third-place match. There is no problem in ranking among the top three in the LPL.
By drawing WE to RNG, EDG can sit back and watch the battle. First, watch these two teams fight to the death in Group A!
At the same time, it can also ensure EDG's dominance in Group B, which is another win-win!
Abu made a helpless expression on Bai Xing, who was standing on the other side of the stage, and said that this lottery is not about me being able to draw whatever I want. The key is luck!
Bai Xing drew NB with his next move and was assigned to Group B.
NB is a team that cannot be called weak. After all, it defeated IG in three straight games in the spring playoffs, but it cannot be said that it is strong.
After discovering that statelessness is really old and his performance is truly "stateless", they also introduced new mid laner Coco in the summer.
Paired with lwx and crisp, a pair of quite stable bottom laners, the future of both C positions is promising!
Abramovich looked relaxed. Now the remaining number two seed pool is OMG, which is a little tricky, but it is still within control.
He took out his third lottery ball, which said JDG JD Team.
This team was renamed after JD Group acquired the QG team in LPL not long ago.
As the top two e-commerce platforms in China, JD.com has always been outperformed by Moubao.
After EDG won the mid-season championship, the head of a department at JD.com quickly noticed the emerging industry of e-sports.
The traffic of EDG on various video platforms was booming, which made him see business opportunities; not to mention that JD.com focuses on home appliances and digital products, and has a considerable overlap with the audience of e-sports!
Originally, the person in charge asked for instructions from his superiors to find EDG as an endorsement. This is also the way most capital chooses to enter the e-sports industry. However, he did not expect that the boss above him would be more courageous and directly allocate ten times the budget to him. , let him buy a team in full and change its name to JD.com!
What endorsement? Is there a high reputation for directly running a team?
And the boss also said that if you want to buy one, you should buy one with good strength, and don’t buy a team that is at the bottom and have negative effects.
The person in charge quickly conducted a round of market research, then sent legal personnel to contact the bosses behind each target team, and finally targeted the QG team.
QG's performance in the Spring Split was not bad. They fell before the semi-finals. The only players who could hold them back were RNG, WE, OMG and EDG, which fully met their selection criteria.
So JD.com began to enter the market with a large amount of capital!
Although there are basically no changes in the personnel, their failure in the spring split was mainly due to the fact that the starting personnel has not been fixed.
If they are allowed to adjust a best five-man team, maybe they can really hit the semi-finals of the summer split!
And once you reach the semifinals, it means you have one foot in the world championships!
JD.com has already set its sights on the most valuable events in its first season.
Drawing two difficult teams to RNG in a row made Abu smile all over his face.
There is no doubt that OMG was placed in Group B with EDG, but Abramovich is not particularly worried about this team that was swept by his own team 3-0 in the playoffs.
As Abu's fourth team entered Group A, Bai Xing also reached into the transparent lottery box and took out the fourth ball.
Black characters on a white background, two semicircles forming a Tai Chi pattern, this is where Abu found Li Mufan and Jack.
IG team!
Abu suddenly stopped laughing.
Everyone sees IG's determination to achieve results. They signed Duke in the spring, Ning and theshy in the summer, and also helped iboy register for the LPL.
"Ouch!" Li Mufan hissed: "Why did you pull IG over here!"
【What's going on? Isn’t IG pretty bad in spring? Buy a Duke to live in for your retirement, and be worth a round trip in the playoffs? 】
[Is there anything special about IG’s signings this summer? Is there anyone who is interested in talking about it? 】
If Duke's champion top laner is well-known, many viewers have never heard of these three players in the summer. At most, they feel that Ning is somewhat similar to RNG's newly recruited auxiliary mingID this year.
Li Mufan glanced at the barrage and began to explain without waiting for Brother Dong to type: "iboy was transferred from our EDG youth training. You can understand that he is the number one AD in the youth training. He defeated Jack in the offline finals!" < br>
Jack himself was wearing headphones and still wrangling with friends in the background. EDG was broadcasting the lottery ceremony, so Jack was not immune. At this time, he was talking about how he went to Nest to kill everyone when he was still on IG.
But he didn't expect that Li Mufan was trying to undermine him and bring out the past about his loss to iboy in offline competitions.
Everyone doesn't know iboy, but when it comes to beating Jack, you can immediately understand the strength of this iboy!
"Actually, I don't need to introduce you to theshy. Brothers who like to watch Korean high-level live broadcasts and watch various hero show operation highlights must know him!" Li Mufan took a deep breath: "I will give him a few nicknames. We will understand.”
"Jace is the best in Korean servers! Leopard is the best in Korean servers! Riven is the best in Korean servers!"
The barrage has been covered with question marks all over the screen!
Audiences who had not known theshy before were frantically asking questions about whether it was true or not. Li Mufan said lightly: "Speaking of which, during the Chinese New Year, when I was playing ranked games to gain points, I didn't dare to compete with him online. In the end, I relied on My teammates’ advantages lead me to victory!”
The Gnar he played in that game couldn't overpower theshy's Riven even though he had the advantage in hand length. If it weren't for theshy's teammates, namely LGD's Wild King and Dharma King, Jack wouldn't have been able to reach the first place in the canyon at that time!
Everyone knows Li Mufan's strength. He was the FMVP top laner in the mid-season and defeated Huni four times in the lane!
Many viewers were immediately impressed by Li Mufan's operations and regarded him as the number one top laner, but now Li Mufan says that even he doesn't dare to compete with theshy for operations?
What kind of weird operation is this?
【I don’t believe it! Fanhuang must be humble first, and then blow up the competition. This way he will appear to be very powerful. If you want to be strong, suppress it first. This is what the elementary school teacher taught you]
[Don’t believe it, I watched Jack’s OB in that qualifying match, and it was really theshy who was on the losing side with a crazy C and a drag of four, and his performance was better than that of Mortal Emperor! 】
【What the hell? Real or fake? What is IG planning to do by buying so many talented people? 】
[Fanhuang Fanhuang, tell me about the following Ning, what is his background? 】
Li Mufan let out a sigh of relief. As the saying goes, the greater the honor, the greater the pressure. Now with his outstanding performance in MSI, he increasingly feels that there will be an invisible pressure on him when facing some powerful top laners. On oneself.
Some fear of making mistakes and failure emerged.
He shook his head and then answered the barrage question: "Ning, I don't know whether to say it is stronger or weaker than the first two. First, I want to introduce to you YM, a team from the secondary league!"
[I know this, the champion of the secondary league, and then at the beginning of the month, he was beaten three to zero by the old godfather who was at the bottom of the LPL in the elevator game! 】
"A brother introduced me here, it's YM!" Li Mufan said with a smile: "YM can't really beat LGD, but in the secondary league they control Thunder and Lightning, and Ning used to play the AD position, and RNG's current support Ming was originally Partner.”
"Both positions can produce good effects, and you can see that his gaming talent is definitely very strong!"
"And YM lost, but it doesn't mean everyone lost. In fact, Ning was not at all inferior in the jungle against the Wild King!
Everyone also knows that the strong lines and jungle areas can also be stronger. Now that he is replaced with strong teammates from the three lines of IG, I am still very optimistic about Ning's performance! ”
After some introduction, everyone basically understood the current situation of IG. Monster-level newcomers have come in from both the upper and lower lanes. In addition, Broiler, an old man who has always been on the top mid laner level in LPL, leads the team. IG in the summer It's indeed scary!
After chatting for a while, the lottery went to the next round. First, Abramovich drew the IM team to Group A, and then Bai Xing backhandedly drew Suning to Group B.
Suning, like JD.com, is a new team that just entered the LPL a few days ago and is backed by the e-commerce platform Suning.
What’s interesting is that the markets of Suning and JD.com are very overlapping, both are digital home appliances, and the competition between the two is very fierce.
Now JD.com has just entered the market, and Suning is following closely behind. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the capital under the water has begun a war without gunpowder.
"Look, the mid laner of the Suning team is the mid laner of the YM team I just mentioned!" Li Mufan pointed to the team's makeup photo on the screen and introduced: "He is quite ruthless in the secondary league, and he is also a weird operator! Then I was taught three times by Gao Dewei, and I don’t know if I have recovered now.”
Li Mufan also thought at the beginning, you can't even beat the old godfather who is at the bottom of the LPL, isn't it just to give points even if you are promoted to the LPL?
But he didn't think so after watching the game video in fast forward.
In the promotion and relegation match, Gao Dewei dreamed of returning to his S5 "Wutian" state. His state was terrifying! Coupled with the dual nature of the Wild King and the Dharma King, one of them must be stunned, and this is how YM was knocked unconscious.
If you really want to say it, the old godfather at that time even had a high level in the playoffs!
But he only needs to understand these things himself, and he doesn't bother to tell others about his strength. He can just wait until the summer season starts to test it in actual combat!
In the end, the sixth member of Group A is the Godfather who successfully avoided relegation, while the last member of Group B is the DAN team, which defeated the VG team in the promotion and relegation match and successfully promoted to the LPL!
Since then, two groups A and B have been grouped, and three teams are absent from the spring split, namely VG and GT, which failed to be promoted and relegated, and QG, which was acquired and renamed.
Now the new groups are as follows:
Group A: RNG, WE, JDG, snake, IM, LGD;
Group B: EDG, NB, OMG, IG, SN, DAN.
[I discovered that after EDG won the championship, there was a lot of movement in the LPL! 】
Two major e-commerce platforms have settled in; the top teams in the Spring Split also have a lot of company logos on their uniforms; there are also strong signings from several teams!
【That's for sure! This year's S competition is held in the country. What a big piece of traffic cake this is! Now that we see the hope of LPL winning the championship, who doesn’t want to get a piece of the pie? 】
[I feel like LPL is going to take off this year! 】
The dust of the lottery ceremony has settled. After a month and a half of rest, the LPL is about to resume the war!
"Okay, brothers! The draw is over, let's go for the summer split!"
"Let's play a few games of Top of the Canyon next. If you don't score for two months, you will lose it."
Li Mufan turned off the broadcast and opened the client to invite Jack into the room. The two had already agreed to have a group rehearsal tonight.
"What's going on, Brother Fan?" Jack asked as soon as he came in: "Did you just say bad things behind your brother's back?!" (End of Chapter)