Chapter 170 [Isolated? ! 】
New York is located in the eastern United States, about 1,273 kilometers away from Chicago. It was already three and a half hours after everyone landed at JFK International Airport.
There are a total of 3 airports in New York, but the other two airports are a little far away from Manhattan. Riot Games also bought the nearest airport for convenience.
It's now late October. Although the temperature in New York is not as cold as Chicago, Chu Ge still puts on his spring game uniform.
As for Vincent's request to wear the LPL team uniform, the IG players ignored him throughout the whole process. Everyone still needs to have some dignity when going out.
As far as conquest is concerned, even the clothing designer is probably unwilling to admit that this is his work.
Riot arranged a minibus to pick them up this time. Each of the four teams had a dedicated bus to pick them up from the hotel, which is only 500 meters away from Madison Square Garden.
"This is a big investment!" Zhu Songsong's words were filled with satisfaction, "This place is specially designed for NBA away teams to live in."
Everyone knew little about basketball, but the closer they got to the hotel, the denser the buildings and slogans on the road became.
"It is indeed a place known as the Holy Land of Basketball!" Chu Ge put down his mobile phone and looked out through the car window. There were countless young people wearing the jerseys of the home team, the Knicks.
Compared to the small venue of 4,000 people in the Chicago Theater, Riot Games put a lot of effort into the semifinals.
Madison Square Garden is the real landmark building, and it is the first place for those who come to New York to check in. After all, it is not only a holy place for basketball, but also a holy place for the history of boxing and music.
The venue is large enough to accommodate 20,000 people!
"This is all normal," Vincent approached him with a very brisk tone, "When you win this semi-final, I will take you to the Riot headquarters. That is the holy place for us e-sports people!"
"Not only are we going, we are also going with the trophy," Chu Ge said enthused, "Go and talk to the designer face to face about our championship skin!"
Even though I came here, I always had to bring something back. If it wasn't a flowerpot, Chu Ge would rather put the Summoner's Trophy in his exhibition cabinet.
On the first day when the IG training team arrived at the hotel, they did not start a training match. Instead, they went for a walk around the venue under the organization of Riot Games, and then cooperated to shoot promotional videos and record personal VCRs between various games.
Everything is in order.
However, that night, all members of IG encountered a problem. SKT was unwilling to schedule a training match with them, and Rox, their opponent in the semifinals, would definitely not confront them before the game. After all, it would be detrimental to both sides.
The only thing IG can choose is SSG.
But here comes the problem. IG and Rox have similar offensive styles, and SSG and their two teams have similar training results.
The most critical issue is.
SKT's defensive counterattack tactical ideas are completely different from IG and Rox, which leads to SSG and the training of the two teams may not reach the ideal situation.
In the end, SSG was forced to choose its own team in this division, and IG's training match in the semifinals was completely ruined!
Chu Ge sat on the gaming chair with his brows furrowed.
For a professional team, not having a training match means that the gun is out of bullets. Even if they played well in the past, the player's condition is likely to decline during this week.
It's equal to say.
IG was not only surrounded by three LCK teams during the game, but was even completely isolated in the training matches.
Zhu Songge pushed open the door to the training room with a sad face and sat down on the sofa. Under the eager eyes of the team members, he slowly spread his hands and sighed, "I contacted the domestic teams, except for RNG and RNG." Except for EDG, everyone else is on holiday.”
"RNG wouldn't be able to play even if they didn't have a holiday. Looper returned to China and packed his luggage and returned to South Korea. Now there are no starting support and top laners, and the game can't even start."
"As for the EDG players and coaching staff's failure in the World Championship, they are still busy dealing with public opinion in China and have no time to help us train."
As soon as he finished speaking, the team members were completely stunned.
There are still 4 days until the start of the game. If they can't make an appointment with the team to play, it means that they will have to spend every day in the US server to play Rank.
Ranking can help the players maintain a certain feel, but they are about to face the world's top LCK No. 1 seed, and their strength level is even higher than them.
This wave of blow has made IG's already not wealthy family even worse.
"There is really nothing we can do," Wang Boxin suppressed his anger and said with stern eyes, "Let's go find Coach Nofe and arrange a training match for two days!"
"I tried, but they were unwilling."
Zhu Songge spread his hands with a sad look on his face, "In the past few days, you can only play Rank, and then for training, I will let Zhi Zi and Xiao Zi lead a few members of the second team."
"The difference in strength is too big," King Ning opened his eyes wide, and he seemed a little impatient with his grumpy temper. "To put it bluntly, this guy can't even reach the level of LSPL. Isn't this a cruel killing?"
Gao Zhenning's words are not alarmist.
In this year's relegation match, even the bottom-ranked LGD were able to kill the LSPL teams, let alone IG, a strong team that reached the semi-finals of the global finals.
Rather than increasing unnecessary confidence in this way, it is better to open customization to hone tactical methods. Maybe everyone can play a little more liberally.
"Fucking stick!"
Prince Ning cursed loudly, "At the critical moment, you really don't have any shame. Only you can do something like cutting off the Internet for eight hours in the dark!"
In the end, the team unanimously decided that it is better to rely on others than to rely on oneself, and all training matches were replaced with custom games. The entire IG team held their breath and prepared to vent out to Rox in the semi-finals!
After practicing in isolation for three days, EDG finally finished handling the matters at hand and started a training match with IG crazily.
Even the daily Ranking has turned into a review of training matches. Mingkai even called to complain and asked Chu Ge what they had been through these past few days.
"Let's not talk about whether we can win the championship," Chu Ge expressed his opinion, "After all, it is our first time to enter the World Championship. It would be great if we can win the championship. Even if we cannot win this championship, we must try our best. ”
"I don't know whether I will succeed in reaching the semi-finals, but now I want to trample all the LCK teams under my feet, a group of losers with no sportsmanship!"
Mingkai couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, "Why do I feel like you're picking on me? But you're right, LCK should be educated, come on!"
"Training match, continue!"
After saying "continue", Mingkai himself was a little stunned. They played a training match with IG, and their condition was even better than that of the World Championship.
This made Chu Ge puzzled.
Is it possible that EDG's old tradition is to recognize the bed?
After the training match on the last day, Zhu Songge forcibly pulled the players, whose eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, out to eat, and asked Vincent to lock the door to the training match directly.
He was afraid that if he continued, his body would lose strength before the team members started fighting.
But there was a competition tomorrow, and Zhu Songge did not choose to eat big fish or meat. Originally, Chen Zi proposed to eat Haidilao, but Wang Cheng rejected it.
Beef noodles in Haidilao,
Go back to the hotel and pack another Xiaoyang Shengjian, right?
What about stacking debuffs?
Chu Ge breathed a sigh of relief.
Before the food was served, he took out two drops of eye drops to relieve fatigue, and then took out his mobile phone to read domestic news.
Under the high pressure these days, Chu Ge was thinking about how to defeat RoxTiger even when he went to the toilet. He didn't even think about playing with his mobile phone.
Now that he is free, Chu Ge must calm down his emotions, otherwise the tense string will be broken, and even if he has a system, he will not be able to deal with the status problem!
IG is now the only one in the LPL. The post bar is full of various rating posts and prediction posts, but overall, they all think IG will win.
Except for a few posts by Gui Tian Han Za, most of the bad-mouthing posts were deleted by the bar staff.
[You really don’t need to watch the game between SKT and SSG. This guy is a wild card player in the top eight and the semifinals in the LCK. If it weren’t for his fist using a transparent glass tank, I would have suspected something shady. 】
[The most disgusting thing is that the styles of the two teams IG and Rox are relatively similar. They will definitely play in darkness. When the time comes, all the cards will be revealed, and SKT will win the championship. 】
[I really want to fast forward to tomorrow. I can’t watch the game. I feel like ants are crawling all over my body. Su Geng can’t sleep at night! 】
[Is it still dark? I don’t really think that IG can beat RoxTiger. I guess like his two brothers, they were both eliminated at 3:1]
[The core point of the battle between IG and Rox is still in the upper jungle. I feel that Kuro’s mid lane laning strength is still slightly inferior to that of Broiler. 】
After reading the post with the most comments, the dishes from the Chinese restaurant were also served one after another. Chu Ge took a bite of the sweet and sour pork, and almost died of the sweetness. He quickly took two mouthfuls of rice to calm down his shock.
He finally understood the meaning of doing as the Romans do.
Authentic Chinese food is not something most locals in North America are used to eating, so it is basically localized and improved to suit their tastes.
In fact, I can understand
Even the special delicacies of various provinces in China will be modified to adapt to local tastes after leaving the province, let alone the United States on the other side of the ocean.
Chu Ge continued to flip through and post. At this time, he wanted to look for technical posts by folk masters. What if he could find something useful?
An article titled "Rational Discussion!" If IG wants to defeat RoxTiger, it must first solve these three problems, otherwise it will most likely stop in the top four! 》
[First analyze the performance of RoxTiger World Championship.
Although they advanced to the quarterfinals with 5 wins and 1 loss in the group stage, we know very well that the loss to ANX was purely due to the physical strength of the Russians. Until the 70 minutes of the game, the players were basically The game is played based on instinct, and skills and tactics simply don’t exist.
First confirm the ingredients, I am an iron pig.
A rational analysis shows that EDG took turns playing sick in the top and jungle in the quarterfinals, not to mention playing the Tigers' trump card. I even think Kuro took out the Dragon King to test the lineup.
After all, in the 6.15 version, Dragon King, cards and Teleporting Ice Girl were the mainstream. Today's version of the magic core mid laner prefers the play style of Earthbound Spirit.
The Dragon King is strong in support, but in terms of numerical value, it is still slightly inferior to teleportation mages such as Clockwork and Syndra, and it does not meet the situation of the version.
Looking at Rox's games this year, we can all see Coach Nofa's coaching ability through the Tigers' game data. They basically will not make such mistakes.
Of course, the reason why Kuro is called Han Hu is not ruled out.
In a sense, he is indeed the same type of person as Midhu - he has limited laning ability, cannot gain a laning advantage through his own operations, and provides feedback through support to make his teammates comfortable.
However, there is still a clear gap between the two!
This is also the first point that bloggers should analyze]
See here.
Chu Ge suddenly felt that this post was interesting. Judging from the previous analysis, this was definitely the last professional e-sports analysis article.
When he saw the poster, he suddenly realized.
Isn’t this the future e-sports blogger Yin Tian CLNG?
Patiently, Chu Ge continued reading:
[The biggest difference between Kuro and Xiaohu is that he is a player who prefers to sacrifice his own development to help his teammates. Therefore, why Rox has not defeated SKT until now is largely due to Han Hu making Faker too comfortable playing in the mid lane. .
The advantage of Rookie is to gain advantage by playing strong laning, so that he rarely actively links up with the jungler. Instead, King Ning is the initiator of the rhythm.
In fact, this is very detrimental to IG!
After all, the premise of a strong laning match is that the opponent wants to play with you online. However, according to Kuro's data, he often loses the line and helps the jungler or the top laner. This means that IG's two-line advantage will be reduced to One!
The second point that I need to pay attention to is the little peanut.
Be sure not to let Peanut get Nidalee!
I can say that clearly.
As long as IG dares to let Nidalee go, they will lose!
Peanut's strength ultimately lies in Kuro's feedback to him, and his ability to bring out wild core heroes such as Leopard Girl and Male Gun, replacing the mid laner as the second core output point.
Even if IG is on the blue side, they can't win Leopard Girl!
Ning Wang transitioned to the jungle less than half a year ago. It can be clearly seen that he prefers jungle heroes who can help his teammates set the pace. This is a style of play that he established in the early stages of his career.
The resources in Summoner's Rift are only enough to support 2.5 C.
The reason why Dow can C is that he can always get a single kill advantage from the opponent's top laner and develop himself, so we often see situations where the 3C output is full.
And want to achieve this situation.
This means that IG's two strong lanes must push the lane aggressively to gain a matchup advantage, and Nidalee cannot sacrifice her own development to help her teammates counter squat. She is a hero who needs resources.
Prince Ning does not fit the character of this hero.
The third point is that Dow, who is trusted by Dog Son fans, is likely to misfire after meeting Smeb and not meet everyone's expected expectations.
To put it simply, except for IG's hero advantage of Kled, Smeb can do any other hero, and the proficiency of the two is not much different, so it is difficult to gain an advantage online. 】
The core analysis of the article is very in-depth.
There is not much difference from the self-evaluation of the IG coaching staff. They are also actively solving the problem during this period, but as the game is approaching, they still can't find a solution.
The only advantage they can rely on is that they hope to use black technology to win the game on the red side, so that they can hope to win. Otherwise, we will really stop at the top four!
(End of chapter)