Chapter 168 MSI opens! A Grand Slam that some people can never win in their lifetime is just the beginning for me!
"Play RNG in the opening game?"
"Haha, Ness!"
"It seems that Riot officials also know that I have been waiting for this day for more than half a year, so they want to give me a chance to massacre RNG immediately!"
When he learned about the official schedule of the MSI group stage, Mingrui's face suddenly showed an ecstatic smile.
And not just Mingrui, all the members of the G2 team have been waiting for this day for a long time!
"Are we finally going to face RNG again?"
"Last year I lost to RNG and Xiaohu in the S7 quarterfinals. I felt uncomfortable for a long time, so in this year's MSI, I must complete my revenge and prove to the world the true strength of my Caps!"
Caps grinned and said, as the most talented mid laner in Europe, after the FNC team was eliminated by the RNG team in the semi-finals last year, he received a lot of criticism in Europe.
At that time, many European fans felt that Caps was the Uzi of Europe. He only knew how to brag and could not prove his true strength at all!
Even if he won the EU Spring Championship with the G2 team, it was believed that he won the championship by holding Dark's lap.
Therefore, Caps' goal in this MSI is very simple, that is to defeat all MSI mid laners and prove his strength to the world!
"I have been waiting for this day for a long time."
"Because after transforming into an adc, except for Rekkles, I haven't encountered many decent opponents!"
"This time, I finally have the opportunity to compete with Uzi, the world's number one adc. To be honest, I can't wait!"
"Let's just say, if I beat Uzi, will I be the new No. 1 adc in the world?"
Perkz also said cheerfully and expectantly, but he knew in his heart that the title of "the world's best adc" is not so easy to take away from Uzi. After all, although Uzi does not have a world championship, he has two solo championships. Champion!
In addition to Caps and Perkz, Wunder and Hylissang are also fully mentally prepared for the upcoming MSI.
Because the three players in the middle and lower jungle of the G2 team are obviously stronger than last year, if the G2 team fails to defend the MSI championship, it will only mean that the two of them are worse than their predecessors.
Naturally, Wunder and Hylissang don't want to be cast aside by the whole of Europe!
Therefore, in this MSI, even if they risk their lives, the two of them must perform at 200% of themselves!
No matter what, the G2 team’s dynasty cannot be ended by themselves!
So, with all G2 members filled with confidence to win, May 10th slowly arrived.
Although the 10th is not a competition day, all players of the six MSI participating teams are very busy, because this is the only rest day between the end of the qualifying round and the start of the group stage, so all teams must cooperate with Riot officials Complete all video shoots in one day.
During the video shooting process, Mingrui naturally had the opportunity to meet the five members of the S7RNG team many times, as well as the newly added jungler Karsa.
However, during the entire filming process, there was no conflict between the two parties.
Because RNG, the guys who shouted slogans loudly on the Internet, after seeing Mingrui again, they were all like a mouse meeting a cat.
Not to mention continuing to let him and the G2 team wait for death in front of Mingrui, they didn't even dare to do such a simple action as "looking at each other"!
"Haha, LPL teams are indeed as fierce as tigers in internal battles and as timid as dogs in external battles."
Mingrui sneered, and then quickly cooperated with the officials to complete the video shooting.
Because the time of this MSI is relatively tight, the qualifying rounds will be completed on the 9th, the video will be filmed on the 10th, and the group stage will start at 11am local time in Berlin and 5pm China time on the 11th.
Therefore, the night after the video shooting was completed, Riot Games officials immediately completed the production of the trailer for the first day of the 2018 MSI group stage and released it immediately.
After the LPL official quickly added Chinese subtitles to the trailer, at 8 o'clock in the morning on May 11th, Chinese time, all LPL viewers directly saw the entire content of the trailer!
As always, the beginning of this promotional video is still the iconic scenery and architecture of Berlin, Germany.
Then, as the video flashed, Dark, the well-deserved representative player of the G2 team, appeared in the camera!
"The Grand Slam may be a dream that cannot be realized in a lifetime for all professional League of Legends teams. After all, it is very difficult for some people and some teams to even win a world championship."
"But in the past 2017, it only took our G2 team one year to easily achieve a goal that is difficult for others to achieve in their lifetime."
"But the Grand Slam is actually just the beginning for the G2 team!"
"I said last year that the era for the SKT team and the LCK division is over, and the next era is for our G2 team and the EU division!"
"So the new dynasty will be officially established starting from the 2018 MSI champion!"
In the camera, Dark stands tall and proud.
His eyes were full of domineering power, as if he were the only one in the world!
Compared with Dark's domineering power, the subsequent team representatives who appeared were much weaker in power.
The first is the representative who transferred to the TL team, the bottom lane player Doublelift.
"I think my next task is to sweep away the decline of the past few years and show my strength in the international arena."
"I know that the performance of the North American team in the Global Finals and my results in the Global Finals were not ideal, but this MSI, I want to break this situation and completely smash this shame!"
Then there is the new face of MSI this year, the representative of the EVS team from the Vietnam Division, mid laner Warzone.
"I hope that the EVS team can win all the victories in the group stage, and I want to beat the other mid lane positions to the ground!"
Next is the FW team, an old face from the PCS division. The overseas representative is the auxiliary player Swordart.
"Although the LMS division has been disbanded, our Flash Wolves team is still there, and the strength of everyone in the team has improved compared to last year."
"So this time MSI wants to show everyone a more stable and powerful Flash Wolves team!"
Immediately afterwards, there is the team that all LPL viewers want to see most, RNG!
But the representative is not Uzi, because he has never been to MSI, so he sent Mala Xiangguo as the representative.
“The last time I came to MSI was in 2016, and it’s been two years now.”
"So we have two goals this time. One is to make up for the regrets of the year, and the other is to represent the LPL region and regain the MSI championship trophy after three years!"
The last one to appear is the KZ team from the LCK division, whose representative is the support player Gorilla.
"Pray and I have been playing games for a long time, but we have never won any championship in international competitions."
"During the global finals, we reached the finals in Germany, and this MSI also started in Germany, so this time we want to get good results and win the MSI championship!"
Because the group stage promotional video is not a trash talk clip, each team only has a few seconds to speak.
After all the representatives of the six teams finished speaking, and as the six people took turns making winning gestures, a golden MSI championship trophy was frozen at the end of the video.
It also indicates that the 2018 MSI group stage is about to officially start!
However, before the official start of the group stage, League of Legends summoners around the world were discussing the trailer with great enthusiasm.
Because what the Dark player said was so crazy!
Although this time, he did not criticize a certain competition region, a certain team, or a certain player by name.
But the majority of netizens couldn’t help but join in the fun!
LPL fans naturally think that Dark's remarks are mocking the RNG team, especially the player Uzi. After all, it did take him six years to win a championship, and it was only the league championship.
LCK fans believe that Dark's remarks are mocking the SKT team and player Faker!
Because although the SKT team won the MSI championship and the S6 world championship consecutively in the S6 season, the SKT team did not achieve consistency in the LCK league that year. Therefore, compared with the G2 team's "Grand Slam", the SKT team's " "Grand Slam" is actually a fake Grand Slam because it was not completed within one year!
Therefore, with just a short speech, Dark succeeded in irritating both competition regions at the same time, and also succeeded in enjoying the pleasure of "double Dark Points experience" in an instant.
For those Dark players and fans of the G2 team, these cruel words released by Dark are really exciting!
"Domineering! You are so crazy when you have strength!"
"The goal I accomplished easily may be the dream you will never realize in your life!"
"Don't accept it? Let me hold it in if you don't accept it!" "The G2 dynasty is about to be established. Whether it is LPL or LCK, let us G2 wait to die!"
G2 fans make no secret of their support and expectations for the G2 team.
Although on the Chinese Internet, they are scolded as "G-bastards" and "dak filial sons" by the vast number of LPL fans and LCK fans, but in their view, they are just pigs and dogs and Koreans. Blah blah blah, it's just incompetence and rage.
No matter how dissatisfied they are with the G2 team, the establishment of the G2 dynasty is already unstoppable!
So, amid the high expectations of the global League of Legends summoners, the first day of the group stage of the 2018 MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational has finally arrived!
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May 11, 2018, 11:00 am Berlin time, 17:00 pm Imperial time.
Because all six participating teams in the MSI group stage will all appear on the first day, after a short but exciting opening ceremony performance, the official did not arrange for all six teams to appear on the stage, but adopted the game of "who competes" Who debuted the model.
So, amidst the extremely excited shouts of the host, the opening match of this year's MSI group stage was played against both sides, accompanied by the applause and shouts of the audience!
The first one to appear is the G2 team playing at home!
Top laner Wunder, jungler Dark, mid laner Caps, bottom laner Perkz, and assist Hylissang!
Next up was the LPL division champion RNG team.
Top laner Letme, jungler Mlxg, mid laner Xiaohu, bottom laner Uzi, and assistant Ming.
"Let us welcome the G2 team and the RNG team again. Now, I announce that the 2018 MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational group stage competition has officially begun!"
The next moment, as the host's extremely enthusiastic voice sounded, the entire audience fell into collective excitement again, and immediately demonstrated the home advantage of hundreds of millions of points to the audience around the world.
"G2! Let'sgoG2!"
"G2! Let'sgoG2!"
"G2! Let'sgoG2!"
In the European LCS studio, the audience cheered for the G2 team loudly.
But it was obvious that the directors in the LPL official live broadcast room couldn't hear this at all, so they immediately switched the live broadcast signal back to the LPL official studio.
The next moment, the three commentators from the first half of the first day of the MSI group stage immediately appeared on the screens of all LPL viewers.
"Okay!"
"Welcome all Summoners on site and in front of the screen to watch our 2018 MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational Group Stage matches on time!"
"Hello everyone, I am today's commentary doll!"
"Hello everyone, I'm Miller!"
"Hello everyone, I am Changmao!"
Because it is the MSI opener, and the RNG team is participating in the opener, the LPL official directly arranged these three most important commentators, which shows how much the LPL official expects and values this year's RNG team!
"The upcoming opening match is between our RNG team in the LPL division and the G2 team in the EU division."
"I believe this game is of great concern and expectation to audiences around the world, because the two teams are not only the top teams in the world, but they also had a close relationship in last year's S7 World Championship."
The doll naturally got to the point, and as he spoke, he gritted his teeth.
Because in the S7 semifinals last year, the RNG team was eliminated by the G2 team 0-3, which was a huge shame for the entire LPL division!
This year's RNG team vows to take revenge on G2!
"The conflict between the two teams is still relatively deep, so I believe that the smell of gunpowder in this opening game will be very strong. However, in my opinion, our RNG team's winning rate is not low, and it can even be said to be a high probability. Win this opening game.”
Immediately afterwards, Miller made a bold statement, as to why he is so confident? The reason is very simple, that is, although the G2 team's lineup has been greatly strengthened this year, the level of lineup integration is still not high enough.
"I believe many viewers who have been following the EU competition since this spring know that although the G2 team once again won the EU championship, throughout the spring, the G2 team had a very difficult journey and the running-in speed was very slow."
"Although the G2 team finally won the spring championship and seems to have completed the run-in, in my opinion, this is just because the other teams in the EU division are not strong enough and did not put enough pressure on the G2 team."
"When facing the RNG team that we have been working with for a full year and a half, the G2 team must still have big problems in terms of coordination."
"Especially G2 team's top laner Wunder and support player Hylissang. Both of them have no experience in any competition, so they will definitely become a breakthrough for the G2 team!"
"As we all know, the barrel effect is that no matter how strong the three players in the bottom, middle and jungle of the G2 team are, if the G2 team has shortcomings, it is unlikely that the G2 team will go far in this MSI."
Miller vowed to analyze the weaknesses of the G2 team in a serious manner. Although the game has not yet started, he has already determined that the RNG team can easily win the opening game of this MSI!
As G Zao's commentator, Changmao, was naturally very unhappy to hear Miller's analysis.
"I think it will be more difficult for the RNG team to win against the G2 team."
"Although the G2 team's lineup is indeed not well-integrated, the personal strength of the G2 team players is strong enough."
"Especially the mid-jungle combination of Dark and Caps, which is actually better than last year's mid-jungle combination of Dark and Perkz!"
"Last year's DP combination has shown the world their terrifying intensity, so this year's DC combination will definitely make all other teams even more desperate!"
"If it's the top lane, I think it's a 50-50 split. The only thing I need to worry about is the bottom lane. After all, Ah P only switched to the ad position this year. This is the first time he will play against Uzi as an adc. I don't know if he can play in the lane. Resist Uzi’s pressure.”
"As for the team battle, I am not too worried about Ah P. After all, in the EU competition, Ah P has successfully proved his positioning and output ability in team battles!"
Changmao said categorically that although he did not clearly state the winning rate of the G2 team, based on his analysis, the audience could clearly hear that he thought the winning rate of the G2 team was higher, even very high!
"There is nothing wrong with your analysis."
"But who loses and wins in the opening match depends on the on-the-spot performance and game status of the players on both sides."
"In terms of state, I think the RNG team will definitely be better. After all, after the current Uzi player won the first league championship in his career, he has long been exhausted and wants to win consecutive championships in one go. Win more championships!”
"So, without further ado, the players from both teams have completed all preparations before the game, so now, let's get into the drafting of the opening game of this MSI!"
After the conclusion that Wawa seemed to be neutral, but was actually very biased towards the RNG team, the opening match between the G2 team and the RNG team finally attracted global attention and officially entered the BP stage of the group stage BO1!
In this round, the RNG team on the blue side and the G2 team on the red side!
Leopard girl! Troll! Male gun!
As soon as the RNG team came up, the first three bans were all aimed at jungler Dark's hero pool. The cowardice was beyond words!
Especially Leopard Girl's ability to ban people made Dark laugh directly.
Because the current 8.8 version used by MSI is not actually the AP jungle version, but the version of warrior jungler and tank jungler. The RNG team banned the Leopard Girl jungler because of the pressure of its own "championship skin" !
Although the champion skin will not be officially put on the shelves until July, it is obvious that the RNG team no longer has any courage to face Dark's Leopard Girl!
Kasha! EZ! Olaf!
The first three bans of the G2 team targeted two Uzi's hero pools, as well as Olaf's jungler, one of the answers in the current version.
Then, it was the RNG team's turn to grab people on the first floor.
The RNG team obviously wanted to take this opportunity to prove something, so without any hesitation, they directly locked in Luo, the auxiliary hero!
This did surprise Dark, but he quickly sneered.
"Haha, after half a year, you two have finally learned how to practice Xialuo, right?"
"But is it useful?"
"Garbage, no matter what time, can only be garbage!"
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