Chapter 167 Chapter 166: The upcoming opening ceremony!
"Does it take a long flight?"
Xiao Duan nervously asked Gu Xing beside him, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the seat belt in front of him.
Gu Xing thought for a moment and replied in the affirmative.
It was truly half a day.
Twelve hours later, they will reach San Francisco on the other side of the ocean.
"This is my first time going abroad..." Duan Deliang's excitement was mixed with a bit of uneasiness.
"What a coincidence, so am I," Gu Xing also looked forward to it. "I heard that I'm going to be jet-lagged. How do you feel?"
"That feeling is quite unpleasant," Tian Ye, as someone who has been there, imparts his experience to them. "If the World Championships were not held in the United States, I would never want to experience it again."
Meiko traveled to the United States during the mid-season last year. Apart from the joy of winning the championship, what impressed him most was the painful feeling of jet lag.
The schedule for that tournament was extremely tight. It took a 12-hour flight to get there. After two days of delay, we would play for four consecutive days and finish the group stage to the finals!
I was so jet lagged in the field that my brain almost turned to mush from behind, and I still have lingering fears.
"Hello, brothers!" Xiaohu's familiar drake voice sounded, and he appeared behind Gu Xing wearing a peaked cap, "Is the training match okay?"
Other RNG players filed in. The fat general in the back row struggled to get up and greeted his old teammates Looper and Mata.
"It's okay," Gu Xing answered ambiguously, "It's almost the same as the previous summer games."
Since VG was still in the Shanghai market before, the teams that were scheduled to compete were all from the LPL and LCK divisions, and occasionally the Flash Wolves from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan came to join in the fun.
Only SKT in the same group has not played in training games, and the other teams often have appointments.
Gu Xing feels that the changes to the World Championship version will not have a great impact on VG.
At least using the strong teams in East Asia as the reference group, that’s how it feels.
VG and the Tigers played a total of four training matches, and overall the results were evenly matched.
50-50 open.
You know, this is the new champion of the LCK Summer Split, and being able to do so is enough to prove the strength of VG!
Gu Xing always felt that this trip to the United States would not be as miserable as last year's World Championship.
He believed that when the dark night came to an end, there would always be some light of hope.
"Then you are pretty good," Xiaohu sighed and laughed at himself, "Our situation is not that optimistic."
RNG is still debating whether to keep Lu Uzi or continue to link up with junglers, and there is no clear conclusion from the discussion.
Even the training matches were distracted by this, and the effect was very average.
Gu Xing was helpless and could only offer a few words of comfort.
Before the flight took off, he sat in his seat and looked through his phone.
When his family and girlfriend learned that VG was leaving for the United States today, they gave him a lot of precautions.
Gu Xing agreed to report that he was safe when he arrived in San Francisco, and went to meet the Seven Wolves of Ionia for a while before looking through social media.
VG posted several Weibo posts today.
There are pictures of the training team leaving the base, as well as a group photo of all members at the airport surrounding the VG team flag.
In addition, there is a edited video of the players watching the draw ceremony.
Gu Xing clicked on it to fast forward the playback, mainly to observe himself and other teammates from another perspective.
It has to be said that Zhu Xiaolong, who is usually known for his maturity and stability, howled in despair when he saw the death team, was indeed very effective in the show.
At the bottom of Weibo, some netizens posted similar videos of other teams, including the performance of SKT players when they witnessed the draw results.
Gu Xing was very interested and wanted to see the reaction of the double champion.
At the beginning of the video, when the team for the No. 1 pool was being drawn, the SKT members had calm expressions.
Only Wolf in the screen is asking his teammates, and Chinese subtitles are displayed below, "Which team do you want to go to?"
Bang answered without hesitation, "Flash Wolf is in Group C..."
He stated his reasons, "I was very unwilling to be defeated by the Flash Wolves in the MSI group stage this year. If we meet again this time, there is a reason why I have to win."
Flash Wolf is now dubbed the ‘Anti-Korean Hero’ by many viewers.
They often defeated the Korean team in the BO1 group stage, and their winning rate was extremely high.
Bang is obviously very confident in the overall strength of himself and his team, and he must take revenge!
Wolf Li Zaiwan muttered in a low voice, "I would like to draw VG, which has Brother Zhixun... It's a pity that LGD didn't come to the World Championship, otherwise they could still meet Brother Qinghuan."
2015 was a turning point in his career.
In the mid-season finals, in five fierce games with EDG, Wolf died 25 times.
At that time, he was criticized by netizens as SKT's breakthrough. Later, he worked hard and had a wonderful performance in the World Championship.
Li Zaiwan misses the time when everyone worked hard to improve for the same goal. Naturally, he also misses his old S5 teammates such as Hou Ye and Marin.
When Smile drew SKT into Group A, Wolf's fat body was jumping up and down with excitement.
"Brother Zhixun, I'm coming!"
He didn't seem to care at all about the strength gap between the teams in Pool 1.
After a comeback in the group stage of this year's mid-season tournament, Lee Jae-wan believes that SKT is currently the strongest team in the world.
Even though they were beaten by KT in the LCK summer semifinals, it didn't dampen Wolf's confidence.
KT, you can't even enter the global finals, you are just a younger brother among younger brothers!
The World Championship is where LCK takes the cake.
The non-Korean division was not included in their list of contenders for the championship at all.
Blank is quite simple, with bright eyes, which are even more conspicuous under his dark skin. "Brother Zhixun and brother Sungbin, wow, they are both old-timers..."
VG’s double C’s all debuted in S2.
In South Korea, a country where seniority is extremely serious, the seniority of Marquis and Imp is higher than that of Lee Sang Hyuk!
Although Goo Sungbin has criticized many people in Korea and is very unpopular.
But the rules should still be followed.
"There is also the Virtue player," Xiao Hei smiled with extremely white teeth, "I want to get close to him. I heard that he has a very easy to get along with."
Blank had previously learned about Gu Xing from his old friend Mala Xiangguo.
There weren't many training matches where the two faced each other head-on, but Xiao Hei had seen Gu Xing's strength and admired him very much.
Kkoma's expression was calm and he was also not worried about his group draw.
In his opinion, the ones who should be afraid are the teams drawn into the same group as SKT.
"I heard that Sang Hyuk and Virtue have a good relationship?" Kkoma looked at Li Sang Hyuk.
Gu Xing saw Faker in the video and thought about it for a moment before commenting on him, "...it's okay. After all, we haven't met in person. We just got along better in the qualifying matches."
Wolf was still thinking in disappointment, "But if I'm in the same group as VG, doesn't it mean I won't be able to meet EDG?"
He is also ready to have a try with EDG.
One is to avenge the mid-season defeat that year.
The two teams have met before in the group stage of the S5 World Championship, and SKT, which was at its peak, double defeated EDG, but Wolf was not satisfied!
We beat us once in the finals, only to win two BO1s. If this was written off, Li Zaiwan would always feel angry.
At least one more double kill in the group stage!
Second, there is Scout in EDG.
As a junior boy, he is the favorite of the SKT team, and several of his older brothers are very close to him.
It would be great if we could meet and teach Scout a lesson on the field!
"Before Rucan left, he blocked the toilet in the dormitory with takeaway rice cakes. It's really yours!" Wolf gritted his teeth thinking of this, "Do you think it's safe to go to LPL?"
"When we meet, I will not let you have any juice!"
SKT is very popular in China. As the double champions, they are definitely the team from the outer division that LPL audiences are most familiar with.
This video about the lottery ceremony also has thousands of comments.
Gu Xing browsed briefly, wanting to see what good things the highly praised netizens could do.
[@EDG Esports Club, come in and see the good things you do alone at home]
[Faker actually has a good relationship with Virtue? 】
[I just watched the live broadcast replay of Faker and Xiao Gu’s friend on the Internet. Is it possible that these two have some secrets that are not known to the public? 】
[It’s normal. Now I wonder if there are any professional players who have a bad relationship with Xiao Gu...]
Gu Xing heard the captain's announcement and honestly turned off his cell phone and put it away.
Sitting by the window, he took another look at Hongqiao Airport outside the window.
I don’t know how long I can stay in the United States this time.
Although it is unrealistic, Gu Xing hopes that VG’s return ticket can be scheduled for a certain day in November.
The longer you stay, the further the team goes in the global finals!
He asked the flight attendant for a thin blanket, put it on Gu Xing, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
During the 12 hours of the flight, like everyone else, he was in a light sleep for a long time. When he was awake, he only went to the bathroom and eat.
It was okay for Gu Xing, who was trying to travel across the country for the first time. He took a couple of nights to catch up on his sleep, and he was almost on the other side of the ocean.
For the fat general in the back row, he suffered inhuman pain.
His lower back was seriously injured.
Usually at the club, there are doctor consultations and medication care, so I can barely survive.
Nowadays, on airplanes, the chairs are very uncomfortable and I can’t get up frequently to move around and relax.
You can hold on for the first half of the flight, but Pawn really can't stand it later and uses practical actions to demonstrate what tossing and turning in the physical sense is.
Gu Xing turned around and saw that Pawn was almost wearing a mask of pain. He handed over the thin blanket and motioned for him to cushion his waist.
"Tell me a lot." The fat general looked at him gratefully.
Although it doesn't do much, it's better than nothing.
To put it bluntly, Pawn's Chinese is not as good as Gu Shengbin's.
Gu Xing turned these words around in his mind twice before he figured out what the other party meant. He waved his hands with a gentle and clear smile, put on his headphones and listened to Jay Chou.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the plane finally arrived in San Francisco on the West Coast.
When he landed, Gu Xing could still see through the window the Golden Gate Bridge, which had been bombed countless times in the movie.
After a slight turbulence, the plane officially landed.
Passengers in the cabin received permission, took off their seat belts and stood up to leave.
Gu Xing's first reaction when he got up was to move his body quickly.
"Remember to follow me closely after getting off the plane, and don't wander around," Jin Wenhe told the team members in turn, "I'm not familiar with this place, and it will be very troublesome if I get lost."
Gu Xing stamped his feet one last time before following the team leader out of the cabin.
The sun is shining brightly in San Francisco, and the thin clouds can't block the bright light, which shines directly on the face.
In mid-September, the local temperature is only around 20 degrees, which is quite comfortable.
The VG training department got their luggage and gathered together as a group.
"Let me introduce to you first, this is Vincent from Riot China," Jin Wenhe introduced the staff around him to everyone, "During our stay in the United States, he will be responsible for connecting with Riot for us, and he will also negotiate the interview arrangements. ”
Vincent looks to be in his mid-twenties, full of vigor and vitality.
"Hello everyone, I'm in a hurry before boarding the plane and I don't have time to say hello to everyone." He extended his hand to shake hands with members of the VG training department. "If you have any questions during this time in the United States, just contact me or Team Leader Jin directly."
Vincent glanced at the schedule, "We don't have any activities these two days. Starting from the 20th, there will be video interviews and promotional video shooting organized by Riot Games. During the rest of the time, everyone will train normally."
He led everyone onto the bus with the fist logo on it.
"Check into a hotel next to the municipal auditorium where the group stage will be held. It's about a few hundred meters away. We will try our best to reduce unnecessary troubles for the teams in each competition area..." Vincent explained the situation to them.
The bus is very spacious and can accommodate a team.
As soon as Gu Xing and his family were safe, he heard Imp start to mutter provocative words to Mata who had just gotten into the car, and the two started to fight.
The vehicle drove slowly on a street that was completely unfamiliar to Gu Xing, and soon it finally arrived at its destination, Wyndham Trademark Collection Hotel.
"The training base set up by Riot Games is inside the hotel. I will take you up to have a look after completing the formalities."
After hearing this, Gu Xing finally felt relieved.
He was also worried about going to an Internet cafe to train like he did in the Guangzhou finals.
At present, it seems that there will no longer be an organizer like the Banana Project in the future.
Leading the VG players upstairs, Vincent was still explaining, "Rist has reserved the three floors of the hotel for 16 teams. It will be filled up in the next two days. If there are any players you want to get to know, you can set up a relationship with them." , taking photos and exchanging team uniforms are allowed..."
The elevator stopped at the 7th floor. Vincent turned right and entered the corridor, took out his room card and swiped it.
"Inside is the training room. Please try the computer and network first. If you have any questions, please ask and we will solve them."
The training room temporarily converted from a hotel room is definitely not as spacious as the one at the Mount Good Hope base.
There are 10 computers placed on a long L-shaped table, plus chairs and a tactical whiteboard, taking up most of the room.
But fortunately, everything is available.
Judging from Hongmi's expression, he knew that the layout of the training room was exactly what he wanted.
Gu Xing took the peripherals from the team leader and connected the data cable to make sure there were no defects.
The 24-inch monitor model is also the same as that used in normal events.
"Rist has distributed super accounts in the US server to players. You guys first...forget it, everyone can go catch up on jet lag and catch up on sleep. I will contact the above and give you the hidden allocation of the account."
Not long after Vincent started working, it was his first time to participate in the preparation and docking of the World Championship, and he seemed a bit green and immature.
The contestants picked their computers and connected the peripherals. After traveling for more than ten hours, they hurriedly said goodbye and hurried to their rooms.
This time Ding Ran was still attending classes at Fudan University, and Gu Xing could not enjoy the luxurious treatment of a single room.
Jack shared a room with him.
The two of them ignored the small talk and fell into a deep sleep after washing.
When Gu Xing woke up again, the sky in San Francisco was completely dark.
On the single bed next to him, Yu Wenbo retracted his entire body into the quilt, leaving only a very eye-catching head.
Gu Xing rubbed his sleepy eyes and felt that he was almost adjusted. He put on his shoes and tiptoed to the training room.
Vincent, who joined the group chat of the VG training department, sent them a message a few hours ago. The hidden score of the super account has been modified, and the heroes and skins are all ready and can be used normally.
Gu Xing sat down and wanted to adjust the damping. When he reached out and touched it, he realized that his Herman Miller was still at the base of Mount Good Hope.
For this trip to the United States, I can only make do with a gaming chair.
Looking at the US server account with a garbled ID, he went to the mall to buy a name change card.
A nickname immediately popped up in his mind. Gu Xing typed it in on the keyboard. When he saw that no one was using it, he smiled with satisfaction.
……
The World Championship is getting closer.
League of Legends fans around the world are in a state of boredom with no games to watch.
Netizens can only look for news on social media every day to understand the preparations of various teams.
Or go to the live broadcast platform to watch the anchor responsible for the OB of the US server and try to catch professional players.
Not long after, batches of high-scoring accounts sprung up all over the US server!
[Little Peanut’s ID has been revealed. The US server master with a 70% winning rate is really just killing people randomly? 】
[Deft and Imp are really in hot shape. One of them has 439 points and the other has 463 points. They will become the king early tomorrow morning...]
[Where is Xiao Gu’s account? It’s been how many days and I still haven’t pulled it out】
[PatrickStar1210 must be his. I clicked in from Imp’s ‘yiqunlanzi’ account and found that the ranking time of this account is consistent with other people in VG! 】
[Pai Daxing’s scoring speed is very fast, the king is 663 points, Xiao Gu seems to be the highest ranked among the super accounts, the king is 77]
[What does the ID mean, Patrick Star 1210... December 10th is Xiao Gu’s birthday? 】
Netizens are confused about the meaning of the ID of the suspected Gu Xing account.
At first I thought it was his birthday, but then I checked the player information released by Riot Games and found that Gu Xing was born on November 1st, which didn’t match up at all!
His current popularity in domestic forums cannot keep up with that of Pig Dog, and he is also a second-tier star player. Netizens have nothing to do, and there are several hot posts discussing the numerical suffix of Gu Xing's ID.
There were different opinions. Some people speculated that it was the birthday of a parent or other close friend, while others speculated that a teammate in a certain round suffered too much damage and Gu Xing was worried about it.
More people guessed that someone had registered the American server's Big Star ID, and Gu Xing just casually typed a string of numbers on the keyboard as a suffix.
"What do these numbers mean?"
On the other side of the world from San Francisco, in the evening in the capital, the summer heat has gone far away. Gu Pan, wearing an off-white sweater, held Shen Guanshan's arm and walked on campus, asking unclearly.
Shen Guanshan was holding a mobile phone in his other hand and was making a video call with his boyfriend.
Since Gu Xing arrived in the United States, the two had changed their original contact time due to the time difference.
Now there is only one video chat every day, which is fixed at three o'clock in the morning in San Francisco time, which is six o'clock in the evening in China.
At this time, Gu Xing had just finished training for the day, and Shen Guanshan was also on his way to the cafeteria. The two of them were able to take some time to chat.
"Gu Pan, you haven't figured it out yet?" Gu Xing laughed out loud when he heard that his sister was still very curious about the number of his ID, "To be honest, you don't know whether you know it or not, and I didn't intend to show it to you. ”
Gu Pan wanted to pull his brother out of the phone screen and beat him up.
She knew that the numbers 1210 were not the birthday of any member of the family, and had nothing to do with Shen Guanshan, who was born in early 1998.
Gu Pan couldn't figure it out, but seeing Gu Xing's enigmatic appearance aroused her thirst for knowledge and insisted on getting to the bottom of it.
Turning his head, he saw Shen Guanshan's affectionate eyes looking at the screen of his mobile phone. He seemed to have already understood the meaning of the numbers. Gu Pan was puzzled and had to change the topic.
"Have you seen the video that G2 posted two days ago?" She was filled with indignation, "Isn't it too much?"
As the World Championship approaches, not only netizens are busy, but also the operating staff of major clubs have nothing to do.
If we just post some pictures of the players every day, it really won't reflect their abilities.
G2 club begins to reorganize.
Its program effect has always been good.
In a video, a man wearing a G2 team uniform tore up the C9, SKT and VG team uniforms with scissors, and said harsh words at the screen.
"Is it EU>NA, or EU>NA? You claim to be free, and I feel that Europe is also quite free. I never understood the difference between the two... It wasn't until I met C9 that I suddenly realized that you were giving it for free. )!”
After G2 mocked C9, they pointed the finger at SKT again, "The Korean league that dominates the world? It's just Europe that is asleep. This year's sleeping EU will wake up and let SKT understand the gold content of the league's double championship!"
In the end, I didn’t let VG go either.
"We will tear the LPL teams to pieces like OG and FNC did last year, and the methods will be even more brutal, because FNC is just a clown worth mentioning in our eyes!"
In three sentences, all the teams in the four major regions except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were offended. I have to say that G2's ability to talk is really powerful.
The video was released and G2’s official tweet was almost exploded!
"I think it's okay," Gu Xing chuckled, "Anyway, we will play G2 in the first game, and then we will try our best to win the game and beat the opponent in the face."
His stance on pregame trash talk and grooming is clear.
Just play to your heart's content, don't lose and be unable to play anymore.
"Tomorrow's game, remember to play well..." Shen Guanshan encouraged her boyfriend before hanging up the video.
Turning around, Gu Pan's eyes showed curiosity, and he obviously still wanted to understand the meaning of the numerical suffix.
"My birthday is 0109, his birthday is 1101, and the total is 1210," Shen Guanshan couldn't help her, "and it's also a set of affinity numbers."
"If the sum of all divisors of two positive integers is equal to each other, it is generally believed that the relationship between the numbers that meet the requirements is relatively close... 1210 and 1184 are a pair of affinity numbers."
Shen Guanshan realized what his boyfriend meant when he saw this ID a few days ago, and followed Gu Xing to add the suffix 1184 to the national server ID.
Gu Pan opened his mouth slightly.
She racked her brains but didn't expect this answer.
"How old are you two?" Gu Pan blurted out, "Are you childish?"
Shen Guanshan was too lazy to pay attention to her, "You can't help it if you don't understand..."
Affinity numbers were a concept that she and Gu Xing had mentioned when they were children in a math tutoring class. Gu Pan had never been there at all and thought it was childish.
The two people in love felt just right.
After Gu Xing hung up the video and brushed his teeth, he was about to lie down on the bed. The lights were turned off, but he remembered a skill to clear the wild.
He lifted the quilt and ran to the training room again.
When he stepped into the door of the room, he saw Brother Long being beaten by Hanlabong.
Although Allen Chu has been working very hard recently, Jace is a hero that cannot be mastered in just a few days.
What's more, the opponent is a brother with unique skills, Jace, whose proficiency has reached the level of proficiency!
"How is it?" Gu Xing asked, standing behind Brother Long.
"It's okay, I'm quite satisfied with myself," Zhu Xiaolong exhaled, "I don't need to practice to his level, as long as it's enough."
Despite the ultra-high latency, he went to Hanbok to do special training on the road with Hanlabong. The results so far are very good, at least the progress can be seen with the naked eye.
"That's it, let me try to see if clearing the jungle can be faster..." Gu Xing turned on the computer again and opened customization to try to optimize and improve.
After repeating it twice to confirm that the method was OK, I returned to the room to rest.
By the time he fell asleep, it was already dawn in San Francisco.
September 29th, the 2016 Global Finals will officially open today!
6200 small chapters today, 9.28W/27W
The World Championship starts tomorrow.
(End of chapter)