Chapter 141 [Why do you think they don’t like barking? 】
Riot's iconic fist appeared on the screen, and the 100-person symphony orchestra above the stage sang "Ignite," the theme song of this year's World Championship.
"The music produced by Riot Games sounds great," Chu Ge, who was standing in the waiting aisle, opened the curtain and looked outside. "The feeling of a live instrument ensemble is more comfortable than listening to headphones."
"I've already said it all," Rookie hummed, "Riot is a music company that was delayed by games, and Blizzard is a movie company that was delayed by games."
Chu Ge nodded slowly.
Riot Games’ theme song every year is very nice, and it fits perfectly with the theme of that year’s global finals.
As the melody played, a holographic projection of the Hex box and key appeared in the center of the stage.
The next moment!
The box is opened and the light blooms!
The entire center stage of the municipal auditorium was shrouded in a halo, forming a barrier-like wall of light, and suddenly the League of Legends universe appeared as if summoned from the void.
It forms two worlds with the entire venue.
After the performance, the screen also played S1's Fnc, S2's TPA, S3's SKT, S4's SSW and S5's SKT. The five-year final winning scenes flashed in sequence.
The Wolf Club combination holds the Summoner Championship Trophy and places it at the front.
Last year's world champion returned the trophy, which was newly added in 2016, and Riot Games only performed a simple ceremony.
At this moment, the drawn-out voice of a North American host RIV with a beard and short white hair appeared on the screen.
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
"Welcome to the 2016 League of Legends World Championship!"
“This is San Francisco, and we will start the first step of this hot summer in this municipal auditorium. In the next month, we will witness the blood and passion of the e-sports world. Let us witness this audio-visual event together. Feast!”
"Next, let me invite the 2014 and 2015 global finals champions, .SSG and SKT from the LCK team!"
The lights above the stage converge in the center of the stage.
Head coaches and players from Samsung and SKT made appearances one after another.
In fact, Riot Games’ original intention was to invite the world championship clubs from S1 to S5 to appear in sequence. Unfortunately, the European and American Glory FNC failed to live up to expectations and failed to enter the world championship.
The Assassination Star Club of S2 was disbanded and became the Dou Di Bloodline distributed among the LMS teams. In the end, only two clubs, Samsung and SKT, appeared on the stage.
There are not many fans of the Samsung Club, and the North American audience is also very perfunctory. The cheers and cheers came to an abrupt end after a few cheers.
However, the five members of SKT appeared in front of everyone, instantly causing the North American audience to cheer like a tsunami of passionate cheers, forming a pitiful thick barrier with Samsung.
Not the home court, but better than the home court!
After several seasons of strong performance, SKT has attracted a lot of fans in all major competition regions. The strong mentality of European and American audiences is vividly displayed at this time.
Especially Faker!
His popularity is at the top level all over the world. In the era when he was proud of killing Faker alone, any mid laner who could kill him alone in a game was a top achievement.
It is worth leaving a mark on your career resume.
Especially Xiaohu.
There is definitely something to be said for being able to stand out under the influence of two super mid laners, Wu Tian and Fozu, and become a domestic mid laner that LPL fans have high hopes for.
In addition to leading the team to defeat EDG in RNG and win the spring championship, he also had his own enchantress jump over the tower to kill Faker's Czar at MSI.
This is the second time for LPL fans to celebrate after three years.
The last time was back in S3, when he was known as the dark force who used Syndra to kill Faker alone. However, at that time, most people didn't realize how strong Faker was.
It can only be said that from the perspective of later generations, Cool was really regarded as the world's number one shockwave figure at that time.
When the host introduced him, Lee Sang Hyuk, the second youngster in S5's Tactical Rolling, had already sealed his heart with cement and turned it into a rare emotion after experiencing "bitter wine goes into his throat and his heart hurts. You are Eun Jung and you are a disaster." Mars.
It's a pity that Ma Datou did not appear under his gaze, otherwise Faker would have gone crazy in this year's World Championship.
After introducing Wolf who looked like a 'very 6+1', the host once again said loudly, "Next, a warm welcome to RoxTiger, the No. 1 seed from the LCK division!"
The host's high-pitched voice kept shouting the names of other teams.
"Let's welcome the No. 1 seed from the 2016 LPL Summer Split, Invictus Gaming!"
The IG panda-colored team logo is displayed on the big screen!
Under the illumination of the live lights, Chu Ge stood at the front of the team and led his teammates to the center of the stage.
The reaction of the audience was very dull. Although it was not a library, it was even more impressive than Samsung's previous ones. If it weren't for the majority of international students and Chinese, there were also many tourists who came to help and cheer. I guess IG Really suffered a waterloo today.
Chu Ge didn't pay much attention.
They are not well-known themselves, as can be seen from the rankings on Riot's North American website. In addition, they are not treated as home games, which is actually considered normal.
But the other teammates obviously couldn't keep it on their faces.
Everyone was gritting their teeth and gearing up, as if they were ready to fight with the audience below in the next second.
"Why do you think they don't like to bark?"
Wang Cheng came close to Gao Zhenning and whispered.
"We are not famous."
"No, no, no, it's because they naturally don't like to bark!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the host's magical voice echoed throughout the audience again.
"TSM!"
"TSM!"
"TSM!"
The cheers in the municipal auditorium were deafening, even two degrees higher than the previous wave of SKT's momentum. Even the two host teams CLG and C9 did not enjoy this kind of treatment.
There is no way, the charm of the North American cult, with the blessing of the home court, is like a hundred thousand year old soul ring, it is extremely powerful.
As the host and the No. 1 seed in Group D, many well-known figures in North American forums have recently revealed that TSM tortured all teams except this group in the training match, including ROX and SKT.
Many North Americans and viewers have high hopes for North America's cult.
After the opening ceremony, the opening game of the global finals officially started.
The official deliberately brought Europe's No. 1 seed G2 and North America's No. 2 seed CLG to the stage. Both are almost home teams.
The two teams can also be regarded as a grudge match.
CLG had already sanctioned G2 during MSI. With Riot's constant momentum for this "European and American War", the audience at the scene was already excited.
Although the EU and NA divisions are always fighting internally, fans still know how to take advantage of their home court in international events such as the Global Finals. G2-8 defeated the Magic City!
As European upstarts, they have not yet inherited the spirit of their optimistic families, and the living DNA in their bodies has not yet emerged.
For LPL viewers, G2 is still one of the European and American players, and few even know the names of their players.
In this game, CLG probably had the home court advantage, crushing G2 throughout the game, ending the game in 33 minutes, and winning the opening ceremony of S6.
It can only be said that the host region will look for soft persimmons, which made a good start for the North American region and excited the nearly 7,000 spectators at the scene.
"It's coming, it's coming! The Tigers' debut in the World Championship!" Wang Cheng, who was sitting in the lounge watching the game, shouted excitedly, "Let's see if the Russian Bears can pull out the tiger's teeth!"
On the first day of the game, A, C, and D will play first, and the schedule of Group B is scheduled for tomorrow.
After participating in the opening ceremony, IG's training team stayed in the waiting room, waiting for the 10 teams in front to finish playing before it was their turn to play against C9.
At this time, the second game was also between ANX and ROX in Group A.
As a fighting nation, there is nothing to say about their offline combat effectiveness, but in e-sports, they belong to the wild card competition. Forums in the five major competition areas said that Mao Zi is more like a companion for the exam.
"Still pulling teeth?" Gao Zhenning said disdainfully, "Just look at the results of the wild card competition in the past two years. If he can beat ROX, I will wash your socks for a month!"
"You don't want to die, you are so serious?" Chu Ge exclaimed.
The strength of the wild card division is improving year by year, and Riot Games continues to invest resources in development, and its strength has become stronger and stronger in the past two years.
Although there is still a lot of gap with the strong teams, and the World Championships are the background every year, I can't stand them and dare to fight!
As a time traveler, Chu Ge knows a lot about the overturning of strong teams in the main competition area.
Just like being beaten into Vietnamese fermented bean curd and being beaten into the main team
Facing the LCK's ROX, which mainly focused on early and mid-term advantages, ANX was fully fired. They even had the rhythm point in their hands in the early stage, and Gao Zhenning was so anxious that he almost regretted it.
It's not that he can't play.
But the bet is too big!
Wang Cheng's foot odor is well known in the base.
According to the group of ladies in the operation department who can talk about catching the moon in the nine days at the top, and catching turtles in the five oceans at the bottom, they retell the story.
Wang Cheng invited the girl to eat high-end Japanese food.
The two of them were in a private box.
Halfway through the meal, the girl asked why the salmon smelled fishy, and she kept talking about it for a long time
The case was finally solved and the two broke up on bad terms.
Although it was finally confirmed that the story was purely false, it still failed to stop the public from talking about it, and Wangcheng's Yuzu became famous in one battle.
No one cares about how many bowls of noodles you have eaten, and no one cares about the final result.
"Brother, give me a chance."
Gao Zhenning's face drooped.
As a result, as soon as I turned around, I saw Smeb's Rambo roasting the four ANX players in the jungle. The opponent failed to kill Rambo after a wave of damage, and the other four ROX players came to kill them in a wave.
"Can you speak louder?" Ning Wang inherited a wave of classic Sichuan opera face changes, "I'm just asking you how the Tigers lost!"
ROX won the Baron and used the bonus of the Baron BUFF to advance to the high ground of ANX, killing the game in 29 minutes and winning the team's first victory.
After the match of Group A, it was the turn of Group D.
TSM vs. SKT.
It’s not that the organizers specifically arranged the third match between the two teams, but it’s just that Group D cannot be missed.
Playing against INTZ in the wild card division, on the first day, one of their own No. 1 seeds was allowed to bully others, and it was easy for them to be scolded by people from all major divisions.
EDG is a well-known LPL team. If TSM loses as the host competition area and is embarrassed, it will naturally not be considered. The organizers of the event will simply arrange the two super popular teams on the first day of the competition. together.
Even if they do lose, North American fans won’t blame North American Cult.
After all, the opponent is SKT!
It has to be said that SKT's influence is even greater than TSM's, which has home court advantage.
Let alone a kill between the two teams, any disturbance on the field by TSM would be warmly cheered by the audience, which highlighted the absurdity.
"The home field advantage," Chu Ge said with emotion, "Next year the World Championship will be held in China, we will probably be able to enjoy this kind of treatment. If the finals are selected in the Bird's Nest, our two LPL teams will have a civil war. That will be great. ! ”
The venue for the 2017 event has been confirmed to be in China, but the specific venue has not yet been officially announced. It will not be officially announced until February next year.
For Chu Ge.
In the previous life, two Korean teams fought a civil war in the Bird's Nest, which deeply hurt the hearts of LPL fans and audiences.
After S5 failed to make it to the World Championships in one year, everyone can continue to reassure themselves that next year will be the most promising year again. Even if S6 loses, everyone can grit their teeth and get through it, but S7 really cannot afford to lose.
To put it bluntly, losing the game this year almost ruined the LPL. Even after five or six years, many old players are still upset.
"I don't care if I can go to the Bird's Nest," Song Yijin chuckled. "Can the five of us still play games together next year? I quite like this team now!"
Prince Ning hugged the broiler carelessly and said nonchalantly, "What are you talking about? The five of us should at least win the home championship together. You think so, pigeon!"
Chu Ge raised the corner of his mouth and looked at his teammates with a smile, listening to the overwhelming cheers from the audience at the scene and in front of the TV.
It has to be said that although TSM is known as the king of training matches, they were still firing on all cylinders in this game against SKT.
The French king Bilson in the middle withstood the waves of SKT's attacks, so that the game still did not widen the economic gap at 30 minutes.
"No," Bao Lan was a little confused, "Why does it feel like the Renaissance has begun in North America this year? It's so fierce that it's a bit outrageous."
"Why do I feel that SKT is not adapting to the version?" Wang Boqin hit the nail on the head. "The midfielder and TSM were fighting against each other, and Faker in the middle failed to take advantage. They completely lost their previous dominance."
"The main reason is that Bengi wants to invade, and there is no one to protect Faker in the middle. TSM's tactics are very simple, and they use Bilson's moves to catch everything." Mafa also pointed out the situation of both sides.
They have had training matches with SKT and TSM, and regular data collection makes it easy for IG's training team to make judgments.
But no one paid much attention to it.
Although TSM performed very well, they did not spend any time exploring the version. They relied on their original play style and accumulated good form and confidence in training matches.
In this way, when other teams start to explore the version, they can be the first to win the first round.
But the disadvantages of this approach are also obvious. In the second round, when other teams figured out their version of the answer, they began to languish.
Especially in the second round, each group will play three games in one day, and there is no time to adjust even if they react.
Say something very true.
The outcome of the training match is indeed not very important, but in the professional arena if you don't even perform well in the training match, it will be really late.
(End of chapter)