Chapter 495 Chapter 495: TOP20!
As the last syllable of the theme song fell, the MV officially ended.
Mr. Gu breathed a sigh of relief.
Overall, Riot maintains its usual high level.
The MV is highly integrated with the theme song, and the theme is clear and consistent.
The legend never dies.
The ups and downs of the two SKT mid laners were completely opposite.
Easyhoon won two games in a row in the S5 semi-finals to help the team get the match point, but sadly bowed out amidst the deafening chants of "Faker" in the audience.
Lee Sang Hyuk was so proud that he won several championship trophies one after another. However, he failed in the most critical global finals and lost to Lee Ji Hoon's VG, missing out on a great opportunity for the triple crown.
Whenever one party is triumphant, the other party will be lonely and unwilling, forming a sharp contrast.
But they will not give up easily. After falling to the bottom, they still work hard to climb to the top. They rely on their undying high morale!
It is precisely because of this that the two of them can create legends and become the only two double-S champion mid laners in the history of League of Legends!
Just like what Riot said at the beginning of the MV: There is no end to the perfection of skills, and the names of those who work hard will be engraved in history.
Gu Xing is quite satisfied with the arrangement of his scenes in the MV.
Although he is the assistant of the Marquis, he is only the number three character in terms of appearance rate.
But the portions are generous.
All the transitions throughout the plot are completed by him.
First, he helped Hou Ye rise from the embarrassment of defeat, and then gave the opponent a fierce dragon tail in the peak showdown with Lee Sang Hyuk, assisting Lee Ji Hoon to complete the winning blow.
Finally, after Mr. Hou retired and left the game, he guarded the Summoner's Trophy alone. It can be said that the cards are full!
Gu Xing flipped through the comments section below the MV.
In just a few hours, the number of replies approached the 100,000 mark!
Gu Xing sighed and sighed.
This year's World Championship is held in the country, and the traffic advantage has gradually emerged.
Coupled with the high-quality MV and theme song, it is reasonable for the comment area to be extremely popular.
[Isn’t this animation effect and the theme song a perfect match? The song is really good! 】
[Is there anyone out there who can explain the Easter eggs in a video? I feel like the MV is full of details]
[Counting first, the Tigers won the LCK summer finals. The scene where the captain turned on R is a reflection of Smeb’s cannon barrage when he snatched the two drops of blood dragon from KT’s hands; the snake girl turned the rock tiger into stone and stared at it, which corresponds to the last game between VG and ROX in the S game. The Marquis R flashes...】
[Let me add it! In the peak showdown between MV Yellow Chicken and Ryze, Brother Xing kicked Li Sang Hyuk away, which corresponded to the blind monk's fatal kicks in the S6 finals. I still remember Brother Xing's kick over the tower, and even Faker's figure was gone. He was kicked in the face of the Marquis without seeing it! 】
[To be honest, the Ryze Yellow Chicken shadow during the decisive battle between Faker and Hou Ye is really handsome, one facing the other with his back, which is exactly the same as the S5 champion skin]
[The last scene of the MV is quite interesting, hinting that Brother Xing, the dragon slayer, will eventually become an evil dragon? 】
[The only flaw is that Brother Xing is not the male protagonist]
[There is a saying that one scene is already enough. After all, the S7 MV tells the story of winning the championship last year. Brother Xing only played for half a season in total. It makes no sense to be the first male lead. If he can win the championship this year, then the MV will be decided next year. It's him! 】
"Master Hou, have you seen this year's MV?" Gu Xing turned to ask Li Zhixun, who was sitting next to him.
Easyhoon shook his head.
Gu Xing handed over the phone.
Seeing that Mr. Hou had a complicated expression when watching the MV, and his eyes seemed to be filled with a little nostalgia, he couldn't help but ask, "How do you evaluate it?"
Li Zhixun was silent for a long time, "To be honest, I have given up my obsession."
He had always been obsessed with the unfair treatment he had received, so that he had been holding back his energy last year, thinking about venting it out when facing SKT one day.
But the moment he defeated SKT's dominance at Staples Center and won his second Summoner's Trophy, the obsession lingering in Li Zhixun's heart quietly dissipated!
This is also the reason why Easyhoon quickly retired from the professional arena.
Relieved that he could not find another goal in the professional arena, he planned to bring his talent to the coaching position to pursue freshness.
Of course, it is difficult to say that the current decision to retire and transform as a coach is very correct.
"But I was really happy when I was working with you." Li Zhixun said seriously.
The feeling of rising from despair and chasing the top was something he would never forget.
In just half a year, Li Zhixun was able to transform from a mid laner in the second round of the LPL playoffs with no hope of winning the championship to a double S tournament champion!
At that time, I was making progress almost every day, and I could see the growth of myself and the team.
In Li Zhixun's view, it's like sprinting all the way from the middle and lower reaches to the top of the list in his school career as a teenager!
Simply incredible!
Looking back on it, Mr. Hou still thinks it was an extremely dreamy journey.
Kuro sat in the back row, keeping his eyes on Gu Xing.
Hearing what the Marquis said, he quickly nodded in agreement.
"Me too!"
Li Ruixing patted the old man on the shoulder with a happy look on his face, "It's really fun to be with Sales Gu!"
The Marquis was speechless for a moment.
At this time, the bus slowly stopped at the Peninsula United Investment Hotel.
"It's already very late, everyone, hurry up," Jin Yibo commanded. "The three teams participating in the S competition will stay on the 7th floor, and the training group will stay on the 5th floor!"
The two teams cannot live together.
After all, the three representative teams were directly invited by Riot Games and live in the same living area as the participating teams from other regions. As for the LPL sparring team, Tencent reimbursed hotel expenses out of its own pocket.
A group of people pushed their suitcases into the hotel lobby.
Gu Xing was discussing room allocation with his teammates when he suddenly heard someone calling him in broken Chinese.
"Shu Gu!" A short man with some Mediterranean tendencies rushed up to him and hugged him, his face almost bursting into laughter, "I miss you so much!"
G2 had apparently just arrived in Wuhan and were squeezing in at the front desk to check in, when they happened to meet the LPL team.
Gu Xing's waist was tightly held by the other party, and he could hardly breathe.
"Luka's fitness effect is very good." He praised helplessly.
"That's natural," Ah P said proudly, bending his arms to show off his muscles, "We in the European Division have nothing but a lot of free time!"
If we want to rank the hard work of e-sports players in the five major regions, North America is undoubtedly the last one. They are unwilling to work for eight hours a day and have two weekends off.
In Europe, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the working hours are about 10 hours a day, with one day off a week.
As for the LPL and LCK, how can you sleep at your age without training for 14 hours a day?
Holidays all depend on fate. If you don’t have a suitable opportunity or the team is in average shape recently, you have to continue to work overtime and train!
Ah P learned about the intensity of LPL training from Gu Shengbin, and now he can still show off a few words in front of Gu Xing.
"You can come here if you think it's good," Perkz finally said, "The work here is easy, and we have plenty of time to keep fit and extend your career. If you play in the lpl for two and a half years, you can play in Europe for at least five years. The overall salary is definitely not low! ”
He never gave up the idea of recruiting Gu Xing.
It has to be said that even if Perkz is not a professional player, he is still a good headhunter.
After playing four games last year, he picked the new G2 team by word of mouth. During the transfer period every year, he would even hold a 'perkz pool party' to invite players he thought were strong players to discuss the transfer period.
"And we have a lot of fun here," Ah P said with a mischievous smile, "imp and I just went to Big Bird to visit the bar two days ago. If you come, we can come together!"
"Is Big Bird Zhuanzhuan a toy of gods and demons?" Gu Xing asked the question for no apparent reason.
Perkz smiled mysteriously.
Before he could speak slowly, Kuro was very alert, "Li Zai Gan God Demon?"
Li Ruixing immediately covered Gu Xing's retreat like an old hen protecting its chicks, "Perkz, don't try to play dirty tricks, the transfer period is still early!"
"Besides, it's absolutely impossible for Gu Gu to find you, so just give up!"
Jankos on the side was also aggrieved.
What does it mean?
Eating from the bowl and looking at the pot?
I am a spare tire when co-writing!
"Brother, what is it about me that dissatisfies you?" he muttered, looking very resentful.
Perkz smiled awkwardly, pretending that what just happened didn't happen.
"Oh, my old friend, close the account!" He turned to Li Yuanhao and stretched out his arms with a bright smile on his face, "I miss you so much!"
Xiaohu chuckled and said, "Don't get involved. Just watch how I beat you to pieces in the group stage in two days and you'll be done!"
Perkz shook his head, "Come on then, my sword is already hungry..."
"I heard that your enchantress is very powerful, but I think she's not bad at all. How about giving it a try in the group stage?"
Gu Xing had no time to care about them. After getting the room card, he quickly went to the room to take a shower and then had a good sleep to recharge his batteries and prepare for the subsequent training.
When he got up the next day, he opened the curtains and realized how good the conditions of the hotel booked by Fist were.
Peninsula United Hotel is backed by Houguan Lake.
The room on the 7th floor where Gu Xing was located was high enough, and the entire lake could be seen by opening the curtains.
The scenery looks delicate and refined against the backdrop of emerald green vegetation.
The Yangtze River not far away no longer roars restlessly in the summer. It was gentle in early autumn and is now flowing quietly, wrapping the giant ship on the riverside with gentle waves.
The first ray of sunshine in the morning was not diluted by the thin clouds, but shone straight on the river, causing golden waves.
"The needle won't poke me," Gu Xing sighed, "I live by the lake and the needle won't poke me..."
He feels that the scenery of Peninsula United Hotel is similar to the Ningbo mansion he purchased.
The surrounding waterscape is particularly eye-catching.
Thinking that he could enjoy such scenery every day in the future, Gu Xing felt very happy.
After washing up, go to the training room at the end of the corridor.
As usual, Riot has booked several conference rooms and transformed them into training rooms for the teams to use.
Gu Xing was not surprised that some members of the sparring group had never participated in an international competition. He felt extremely novel about this and looked around to satisfy his curiosity.
Jin Yibo quickly urged the members to get into their positions and organized each team to practice in pairs according to the intercontinental competition model.
Since the three LPL teams belong to different groups, there is no need to hide their clumsiness at the moment. If we want to fight a civil war, we have to wait until at least the quarterfinals. Before that, the most important thing is to communicate with each other!
The training content in the afternoon of the first day was mainly about catching strong heroes in the version.
Combining the data feedback from the recent qualifying matches and the performance during the sparring period, each coaching staff slowly explored and discovered the characters suitable for the 7.18 version in the arena environment.
Riot Games' two consecutive small patches before the World Championship version were mainly technical adjustments and did not significantly weaken the enhanced characters. As a result, there were no large-scale changes to the strong heroes on the field.
It's nothing more than a change in the priority of strength and weakness.
In one afternoon, the 30-person team arranged all the powerful heroes in the early version.
It went extremely smoothly. During dinner, everyone gathered in the training room and laughed happily, reviewing the battle videos and arresting war criminals in each game.
"Mingkai, what are you doing with your ultimate move?" Gu Xing held celery between his hands and joked with a smile, "Don't let go of F6, and don't let go of the high ground, just keep it and go home to raise the cub!"
Gui Jiao Qi retorted, "Do you think you're playing well? You've been researching and developing a new jungler all afternoon, but you haven't seen any effects at all. Team fights are a mess. How many times have you died suddenly? I don't know. Thought you were possessed by Jack Dirty Dancing!”
Yu Wenbo was eating braised pork. When he heard this, he raised his head with an innocent face and expressed his inner indignation in a crooked tone, "Baibei, you want to drag me in too?"
Jin Wenhe pulled out his cell phone and shouted in surprise:
"Hey, Riot has ranked the top 20 players today?"
Song Jinghao had very sharp ears and came close to his team leader, "Let me be healthy!"
Gu Xing was very interested in this news. When he unlocked his phone, he found that Kangba was already discussing the results of this year's top 20 players in full swing.
The selection scope is limited to players from teams participating in the World Championship.
From 20th to 15th, it belongs to the captain of the weak team and the starter of the strong team.
Big brother Bilson, the North American duo, and Caps, a rising star in the league, serve as goalkeepers to witness the gold content of the selection.
"Jack, you are 17th!" Duan Deliang reminded.
"I saw it!" Yu Wenbo said angrily, "Fists look down on people, right? Why are you so far behind?"
He thought about it for a moment and knew that the other four starting teammates must be ranked higher than himself!
What do you mean, you clearly indicate my position as the younger brother in the team, right?
If VG wins the championship, wouldn’t I become the fifth champion?
"There's nothing you can do," Gu Xing comforted, "Who restricted your playing style?"
Playing an ADC as the secondary core, even if Jack regained some reputation with a few unsolvable output performances after the emergence of the incense burner system, it was still not good in the eyes of the judges.
"That's right," Able immediately hit the target, "If you play like Uzi, you can definitely improve a few levels!"
Uzi is full of questions.
This has nothing to do with me!
However, Dai Zhichun is right about one thing. Leaf-type players are generally not rated highly by Riot Games.
Kuro ranked 12th and Duan Deliang ranked 11th. The two closely guarded the top ten.
[Of course we know that kuro plays a lubricating role for VG, but to be fair, he is just a little follower behind the jungler. The small anti-armor in the LPL summer finals is enough to prove his position in this team-just like the Tigers back then. It's the same as the team, but it's just intensified. I think this style of play is very abnormal and will definitely not win the world championship! The history of ROX last year has proved the correctness of my statement, let's see what happens this year! 】
LCK English stream commentator PapaSmithy gave comments.
"Gan!" Li Ruixing said sweetly, "What's wrong with labor and management just liking to be jungle followers!"
"Is this guy a loser?" He was indignant. "I only like the French core mid laner and don't look down on me at all!"
"Then you'll slap him in the face!" Smeb said angrily, "Why can't I win the championship if I'm just a dog in the jungle?"
Duan Deliang is very satisfied with his ranking.
He is the best in support, so what else does he need a bike for?
Gu Xing then looked down. The 10th place was Dragon Ball mid laner BDD. At the 9th place, he found Ah P. Further up the ranking were jankos and imp.
G2 double C junglers appeared together,
The sixth place is bang.
As a legendary shooter, Bae Jun-sik deserves his ranking.
In this LCK summer finals, he relied on his terrifying and unsolvable strength to help the team win the championship!
The fifth place starts with one threshold.
Little Peanut's delicate face came into view.
No surprises.
The fourth is Dragon Ball top laner Khan.
Only the last three were left.
"Ho ho ho, bro, your ranking is high?" Song Jinghao said sarcastically.
Then he saw his final makeup photo.
Smeb suddenly changed his face at the speed of light.
By elimination alone, he could know the identities of the top two.
There is an enemy above you!
"Second, second!" Song Jinghao clenched his fists, "Lee Sang Hyuk, you are definitely second!"
Gu Xing swiped his fingers.
The SKT icon appears.
"Handsome!" Song Jinghao's face turned red with excitement.
So what if you, Lee Sang Hyuk, are on top of my head?
Someone can cure you!
Gu Xing scrolled to the end of the post and saw his own photo.
I’m working overtime and there are few updates.
Blg won?
(End of chapter)