Chapter 164 The Intercontinental Championship begins
“Hello, Dalian, welcome all summoner friends to gather together to watch the 2018 Intercontinental Championship Asia Competition.”
“Hello everyone, I am the host Ren Building! "
"This July, in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian, twelve teams from three divisions gather together. Let us welcome the team representatives to the stage."
"First of all, represent the LCK. SKT!”
"Welcome Faker!"
As the host Ren Dong spoke, Feike's figure slowly appeared.
"Next, I would like to invite someone from the LMS region..."
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"Next, I would like to invite the RNG team that represents the LPL region, and I would like to invite UZI!"< br>
After hearing the familiar name, the scene suddenly erupted into huge cheers.
"Please represent the EDG team in the LPL division, please invite Clearlove7!"
The appearance of the prestigious pigs and dogs on the same stage is something worth crying for fans.
Especially in the summer games, the factory director never played once.
Although his fans deceive themselves and say that the director is the secret weapon.
But you can see it just by looking at the number of appearances he has played. How can there be such a secret weapon?
RNG's Spicy Hot Pot has only played very few times, but when he does, he is always able to turn the tide. This is the real secret weapon.
As for the factory director...even if he doesn't want to admit it, it is inevitable that heroes will grow old.
For e-sports players, he is already very old and has no advantage over young players.
For fans, they know very well that watching Director’s games is one less game, so they cherish them very much.
It's just that the factory director rarely broadcasts live broadcasts. Basically, except for playing games, it is difficult to see him.
He didn’t play in the summer split. After the spring finals, I haven’t seen him for a long time.
It is of course a very happy thing to see him appear on the stage at this time.
“Next is the IG team that represents the LPL division. Their representatives are the FMVP holders of last year’s global finals. Simple!”
Twelve representatives from twelve teams gathered together Get together.
KZ, SKT, KT, AFS of LCK.
RNG, IG, EDG, RW of LPL.
LMS’s FW, M17, MAD, GRX.
After introducing the twelve teams, the next step is for all the players to appear.
Only when the LMS players came on stage, there were only a few voices from the audience present.
I was really disgusted last year.
The LPL won the championship, but the audience was almost gone. There was no respect at all. It was a shame and was sent to a foreign country.
The player comments on the external network are like two countries.
The opening ceremony of the intercontinental competition was between RNG and FW.
That is Casa’s old club.
Before the game started, everyone felt that RNG could easily win this game.
After all, the strength shown by RNG this year has been terrifying.
Having just won the MSI championship, everyone naturally felt that they could win.
This is not the crazy confidence of the domestic audience, but everyone at home and abroad feels so.
In this game, RNG banned Swain, Sword Girl, Pig Girl, Morgana, and Noshou!
I chose Green Steel Shadow, Galio, Tam, Kai'Sa, and Mundo!
The FWban dropped Luo, Zoe, Rock Bird, Ashe, and EZ!
Chosen Vampire, Scorpion, Pike, Tetsuo, and Captain!
(The version is updated and can be used in the World Championship. The domestic league version is generally later than next door.)
RNG chose a traditional lineup that favors AD output, while FW chose a The lineup favors a mid-term lineup with dragon and rhythm.
Looking at the choices of both sides, at the beginning, a group of LPL players felt that RNG could easily end the game.
After all, UZI’s Kai’Sa has been released.
At the beginning of the game, RNG chose a line-changing lineup, but the opponent was obviously prepared for it. Three people took the lead and chose to take the lead in knocking down the bottom tower.
In the mid-term, FW took advantage of its lineup to keep rolling the snowball and accumulate Xiaolong's advantage.
Although Qinggangying found opportunities to start groups many times, targeting the opponent's captain, but with little success.
As time goes by, FW's lineup clearly has an advantage in head-on battles.
After annihilating many people, FW ended the game in one wave.
FW, successfully won the first game of the Intercontinental Tournament.
After the game ended, the audience at the scene and online were immediately dumbfounded.
No one thought that RNG would lose.
The initial expectations were too high, but the results were even more unacceptable.
At this time, the expression on the LCK side was also very subtle.
In the beginning, they naturally regarded RNG as their strong rival.
After all, RNG defeated them strongly last year and won the finals championship.
When I was at MSI, I stepped on them and won the championship.
But I didn't expect that I would lose to FW in the opening match.
Without any time to think, IG’s people came directly onto the stage.
This time, they were facing off against the M17.
M17 banned Draven, Ashe, Zoe, Jace, and Enchantress!
Choose Pig Girl, Swain, Bull Head, Ice Bird, and Nuo Shou!
IG banned Qinggangying, Nightmare, Rock Bird, Yasuo, and Sword Girl!
Chosen Sword Demon, Barrel, Ryze, Lucian and Ganami.
IG has chosen a traditional shooter lineup, while M17 has chosen a lineup that favors close combat.
At the beginning of the game, the new version of Sword Demon completely suppressed Nuo Shou on the top lane. After the wine barrel helped GANK once, Sword Demon took off completely. After Brother Shai's Sword Demon got up, he was completely unreasonable.
Although in the mid-term, there was a wave of small groups in the river, IG lost two people and was at a disadvantage, but the Sword Demon took down the first blood tower on the top lane.
In the mid-term, Ryze circled back and cooperated with his teammates to kill two opponents and win the baron.
Faced with the huge equipment gap, IG easily defeated the opponent and won this game.
IG, successfully won this game.
Hai Ge, who has recovered from his injury and returned to the competition, is still very powerful.
Especially the newly revised Sword Demon, in his hands, it is as if it was tailor-made.
Brother Shai came back and did some simple paddling.
Don’t say it, this feeling is very good.
The combination of Namei and Lucian directly destroyed the opponent's bottom lane, which was very unreasonable.
The gap in personal hard power is so huge that the other party has no way to resist.
In the end, the sword demon who descended from the gods and struck four strikes successfully won the MVP.
Jian Jian did not win the Pike that he longed for.
He knew very well that if he took it out now, he would have no chance to get it later.
Of course this is not what he wants to see.
Then EDG easily won AFS, and junior Zoe took off.
The Xia team RW met KT and suffered a disastrous defeat.
The LPL, which is vaguely known as the first division, actually got a two-bar-two on the first day of the game, which is naturally unacceptable to many people.
The Xia team's failure was expected, but RNG's failure was really unacceptable.
On that day, there was quite a rhythm.
The LCK, which had three bars and one record on the first day, had the last laugh.
On the second day, the four LPL teams immediately exploded and won four consecutive victories.
With a record of six bars and two, he directly entered the finals.
Yes, after two days of knockout rounds, the LPL side directly advanced to the finals in first place.
The other two divisions will play in the semi-finals on the third day, tomorrow, July 7, and a BO5 will be used to decide the other roster of the finals.
One thing to mention here is that in the intercontinental competition, the semi-finals and the finals, every team has to play. Only in the fifth round can you assign teams at will.
On July 7th, the LPL side took a break.
Some people go to watch the game. Some people also went shopping in Dalian.
Of course, there are also those who stay in the hotel to continue training.
Since I have a holiday, I simply went out to play and relax.
Since May, he has been training and competing, and he really doesn’t have much time for leisure.
As a waiter, Auntie is obviously very busy and has no time to spend with Jian Jian.
But I simply made an appointment with Sister Zhou and treated her like a mute bride who couldn't say a word.
All that was left was a groan and a roll of the eyes.
I already knew how simple the result would be, so naturally I didn’t care about this day’s game.
The strength gap between the two sides is too big.
In the end, the LCK went straight to 3-0, winning the LMS neatly and advancing to the finals.
The strength gap between the two sides was so big that it ended without even allowing all four LCK teams to play.
This result is not surprising.
In the intercontinental competition itself, the LMS is actually just studying with the prince, and the real main players are the other two.
It would be strange if the LCK was defeated.
As a coastal city, Jian Jian ate a lot of seafood and abalone here.
Abalone is delicious.
It’s plump, juicy and wonderful.
Sister Zhou ate seafood with Jian Jian. In the end, she was full. She had no choice but not to waste it. In line with the idea of keeping the wealth from going to outsiders, she directly called for support and called all her good sisters over. .
Simplicity doesn't matter.
Who should I eat with instead of eating?
Just don't waste it.
After eating the seafood, he returned to the hotel with satisfaction. All I can say is that the seafood here in Dalian is really good.
After his attributes were solidified, he had a huge appetite. It was commendable that he could eat enough at once.
After returning to the hotel, since there were no training matches, they basically trained by themselves, or played ranked games to maintain their feel.
I simply played ranked until 12 o'clock and had a winning streak, without feeling too much.
Ever since his attributes have improved and he has been guided by the dotted line, he is like a ghost in the rankings.
As long as you don't meet a particularly outrageous teammate, or have an actor play him, it's basically difficult to lose.
He is not stupid in the rankings. Of course he will not get support if he gets higher points.
When you are at a disadvantage, the support is really helpless, and the initiative is not in your hands at all.
I simply want to take everything into my own hands.
So the midfielder is the easiest to win.
Now there is a sentence.
You can't win even if it's easy. How versatile are you?
Basically, as long as they are not too far apart and their teammates are normal, even if there is a strength gap between the two sides and there is simplicity, they basically cannot lose.
The simplicity at this time is to truly control the thunder and lightning in the King's Bureau.
No matter the Chinese server or the Korean server.
The canyon has been turbulent these days.
With the start of the intercontinental competition, these professional players from other competition regions have entered the canyon, and naturally there are a number of more masters in the high-end game.
But these people are also sanctioned when they encounter Jianyang.
As strong as Feike, he was easily suppressed during the duel in the middle.
The laning is simple and it is no match.
But he went for a walk and came back with a few heads and assists.
Or go into the jungle area, catch the jungler to death, and face to face, Feike will find that he can't beat this person.
It’s so magical.
In order to enhance the efficiency of gaining points, you can basically play one number to the top 100, then change the number and continue playing.
After ranking high, it is difficult to queue up people, so it is better to change the number and start playing from diamond again.
So many people find that the current kings are very difficult to get into, and the previous kings have been squeezed out.
In fact, it was just a simple trumpet that went up, and then pushed them down.
After the strength is improved, the game can be ended quickly, which slightly increases the efficiency of simply gaining points.
But that's about it.
Human energy is limited. After all, simple people can only control one number. He is full of energy, the time he can play every day can be extended, and the efficiency can be increased, but other than that, there is nothing else.
This day is just a normal day. Everyone is busy with their own things, and then rest according to their own biological clocks.
The simple biological clock is different from other people on IG.
Other people basically end the game at two or three o'clock, or train, and then play games for a while, maybe four or five o'clock.
Will get up in the afternoon.
Simple means basically starting to rest around twelve o'clock.
However, although the schedule is different, it doesn’t actually affect anything.
Training matches are usually played during prime time from afternoon to evening.
I didn’t say that we were still playing training matches at 11 or 12 o’clock.
When we are not playing training matches, everyone basically plays by themselves.
So the simple routine is different from theirs, and it doesn’t affect anything.
Every day when they are still sleeping soundly, Jian Jian is already up early, doing morning exercises, washing up and then doing basic training, and then playing ranked games.
The schedule is full.
I am not like other people who basically sit in front of the computer all day long.
Even during the intercontinental competition, Jian Jian did not change this habit of his.
On April 8, he was already up at five o'clock in the morning.
There is no club gym or various fitness equipment. I simply got up and ran for a while, then returned to the hotel, took a shower, and turned on the computer for basic training.
Even though his attributes have been solidified, he still conducts various trainings every day to maintain his feel and muscle memory.
What was just strange was that when he was doing various trainings, he could feel that he was getting stronger because of the solidification of his attributes.
Logically speaking, I obviously feel that I have become stronger, so my attributes should be improved.
But the attributes have never been improved, only by increasing points.
Simple I don’t know what the principle is.
I guess you can understand this only after all your attributes reach 60.
It’s just that he has some scruples.
I worry about what will happen when I reach sixty.
He is performing so well now, and to a large extent, he still mainly relies on the dotted line, so he can only put it aside for the time being.
Since you can feel the improvement in strength, it is not that important whether the attributes have improved or not.
Because of this, he has been doing basic training.
This is not a wasted effort, but a real improvement.
Busy and busy, time passes quickly.
Jian Jian had already eaten and drank enough, and had a five-game winning streak with the trumpet. At this time, Ah Shui and the others started playing Haqie.
"Is there anything to eat? I'm starving!"
Ah Shui, with blurred eyes, saw Jian Jian standing alone in the queue and approached him.
“This guy, as soon as he hits the rankings, he becomes as fierce as anything.”
"Dad, you are not strong in the game? When did I fail to beat you?"
Jian Jian did not look back and concentrated on the operation.
“Comfortable!”
On the screen, it ended with Nuoshou’s five kills.
The five consecutive guillotine chops are the same as Pike's five consecutive chops, both are very comfortable.
After five kills, he quickly leveled the opponent's base and saw Ah Shui holding a bag of snacks and eating Kabaka.
"If you eat snacks on an empty stomach, you won't be afraid of getting stomach problems."
He simply rolled his eyes.
"Bring it here, dad is doing this for your own good!"
As he said that, he snatched the snack directly from A Shui and ate it himself without ceremony.
"You guys, you are not afraid, so what should I be afraid of?"
Ah Shui doesn't care.
"Hey, you little rookie, how can you compare with daddy? Just daddy's abs are enough for you to practice for several years!"
A simple expression of contempt for a king.
"You..."
He took another bag of snacks and just tore them open. Upon hearing this, Ah Shui suddenly felt that they didn't taste good anymore.
Simply this figure is really beyond his comparison.
“Also, when I eat snacks, it’s because I’ve eaten. It’s not like you’re on an empty stomach?”
“What can I do if I don’t eat snacks to fill my stomach?”
Ah Shui was helpless.
"You think everyone is like you!"
Speaking of this, Ah Shui was filled with envy.
In order to maintain their reflexes, they didn't dare to eat at all during the game, or they didn't dare to be too late. They just took some snacks, chocolates and the like to cushion their stomachs.
I dare to eat only after the game is over.
Simple does not have this problem at all. It is time to eat and it is not affected at all.
I think back then, the five members of WE were hungry all day and played ten hours of games.
There was an eight-hour pause in the middle.
For professional players, reaction is very important.
So even if they are hungry, they must keep their reactions in the most sensitive state.
After Ah Shui got up, others got up one after another.
Clean up, eat some bread, snacks or something to pad your stomach, it's considered a meal.
Take a short rest, turn on the computer, train a bit, warm up your hands, and then basically head to the venue.
Jian Jian disagrees with their choice, but there is nothing they can do about it.
In order to achieve results, sometimes some sacrifices are unavoidable.
Just like training, sitting in front of the computer for more than ten hours a day, over time, it is easy to develop occupational diseases.
Like a puppy's hand injury, it's something you've been through for a long time.
But if you want to pursue your dreams on this road, then this is inevitable.
Of course there is nothing simple to say about this.
E-sports, strength speaks for itself.
Others only see their glamor on stage, but they don’t see the hard work and sweat behind them at all.
This is true in any industry.
If you want to be prominent in front of others, you have to suffer behind the scenes.
How can anyone do nothing and receive flowers and applause?
(End of this chapter)