Su Cheng's resume was sent to Hanyi's mailbox.

Han Yi had also seen Su Cheng during the last celebration, but he was sure that he didn't know the news of the application from Lin Ran.

He could see that Lin Ran didn't want to find a relationship to stuff people into the team, so naturally he would not relax the difficulty of the interview assessment.

But Su Cheng's learning ability is too strong, and Lin Ran taught her from time to time before, so her current level is not much higher than those third-rate data analysts who can only order takeout.

Her excellent big-picture vision can grasp the effective information in the summoner's canyon in a very short period of time, and in terms of analytical ability, she is already the best level among assistant analysts.

In the past few days, there was no way to find a better choice for the salary and position offered by the YM management, so they decisively signed Su Cheng.

Part-time 300 a day, no requirement to sit on duty, which means that Su Cheng can work from home, and the time is relatively free, but every afternoon he has to watch the team's training match OB and find problem statistics.

A few days later, Lin Ran's teammates returned to the team one after another, and Ning was the first to rush back to the base, sitting down without resting, and directly turning on the computer to score points.

Ning was not quite right during this time, he played very diligently in the ranking, and the Hanbok score was also hovering before and after the king goalkeeper.

However, it is understandable if you think about it carefully, after all, the participants of YM have been determined, and the five starters Ganin have one substitute, and if he plays a weak team, he is likely to play.

His performance at that time will determine the amount of contract he signs in the winter transfer window.

Lin Ran was playing Enchantress on the live broadcast, and JKL, who rushed back to the base, slapped him on the back.

Lin Ran looked back and saw that JKL was not only his face, but his entire body was widened, as if he had gone home to make up a maniac armor.

"Jack, are you going home to inflate?" He was very surprised.

The barrage also noticed that JKL's figure was a lot wider and gave him a merciless mockery.

"Braised pork, it's definitely fat," JKL sat down to turn on the computer, "but I'm going to lose weight when I go to Korea, and I'm not used to eating there." ”

On September 1st, the LCK bubble tournament finally began.

Samsung announced to the world that they are the true kings of the bubble tournament, beating the African team 3-1, and Cuvee took out two more sets to defeat KT 3-2 to secure the No. 3 seed.

KT veteran captain score hate the field.

On September 4, the three teams of LPL going to S6 gathered at the airport to prepare for a secret training camp in Seoul for nearly three weeks.

"You go over there and pay attention, if you can't get used to Korean food, order Chinese takeout, don't lose yourself," Su Cheng came to see him off, "When you go to the United States at the end of September, the weather will already be cold, remember to add an extra coat......

"You've got all your clothes, right?" She glanced at Lin Ran nervously.

"Don't worry," Lin Ran smiled and stretched out his hand to scrape the tip of Su Cheng's slightly upturned nose, "Study hard, and don't forget that you are still a student when you are busy with part-time jobs." ”

"I should be studying my sophomore year next month......," Su Cheng relieved him, "I'm just moving my original entertainment time to a part-time job now, and it's out of the way." ”

Lin Ran turned around and saw that Hanyi was already leading the team members into the security check, and just as she was about to hug Su Cheng goodbye, she stuffed a bag of things into her arms.

"What?" He asked, wondering.

"Wrist guard, I saw that your wrist was a little swollen that day, remember to bring it when you play training matches," Su Cheng lowered his head and pushed him forward, "Go ahead, go ahead." ”

"Why don't you hug it?" Lin Ran asked.

"Think beautiful!" Su Cheng blushed slightly and whispered.

Lin Ran carried his bag and joined his teammates, he turned around and passed the security check step by step, and stepped onto the covered bridge.

Su Cheng's tall figure gradually disappeared from the edge of vision.

After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, Lin Ran and his teammates successfully arrived at Incheon International Airport in South Korea, and then took a bus to Seoul.

Lin Ran found out that there were not only three teams from LPL that arrived in South Korea in the same batch, but also several teams from Europe, America and Bend.

Europeans and Americans are tall and big, but Lin Ran still found the black-haired figure in the crowd.

Like Lee! Ryu, Esports Wang Yuelun!

After a year, he came for revenge again.

After discussion, the three teams of the LPL decided to live together in an apartment hotel, with a gym, swimming pool, and training room.

Lin Ran found that he was quite accustomed to Korean food, after all, the taste of rice with some kimchi and meat was not much worse, but it was a little monotonous.

"Hanbok has been updated with the version of the World Finals today, so hurry up and get familiar with it." After a day of rest, Han Yi gathered the team again.

"Tell the coaching staff as soon as we find any new routines and strong heroes in the rankings," he rubbed his temples, "we need to get used to this version as soon as possible." ”

In the 6.18 World Championship version, a number of heroes who made a big splash in the Summer Tournament were brutally weakened, the Q skill of the rock sparrow no longer caused extra damage to creeps, the cooldown time of E [Blood Tide] in the early stage of the vampire was also improved, and the captain, Ash and other heroes could not escape the sword......

YM must find a strong hero in the shortest possible time, and formulate a reasonable team strategy based on the characteristics of the hero.

The World Finals lasted for a month, and there were nearly 60 days between the announcement of the version and the end of the finals.

The coaches, analysts, and players of 16 outstanding teams from all over the world studied only this one version in 60 days, so to speak, and it is not only the individual strength of the players themselves, but also the level of the coaching team.

The level of the coaching staff is absolutely world-class for the team that can go to the end.

However, YM played a week-long training match with the team that also came to South Korea for training, and the results were very average.

They can't seem to find the right way to open the version.

Another round of defeat.

Lin Ran watched TSM destroy them in 22 minutes, and then rushed to capture the big dragon, the ratio of people to heads in the upper right corner was 10:22, and YM had a huge disadvantage.

【GG】

Lin Ran typed on the public screen. Then exit the game and slump in the chair.

"Shi Senming, what's the matter with you?" Coach Han Yi tried to suppress his anger, but his voice still raised a few points.

"My ......" Xiao Ming hurriedly apologized, scratching his hair with some annoyance.

In this game, he used Karma, and was caught by the opponent's jungler in a wave of running in the lane period, and the opportunity to kill alone to send away the early rhythm; In the middle of the period, a wave of support was sent with Xiaotian, and a fire dragon was lost; In the later stage, the blind vision was opened, and it was directly killed by the fire.

"The rhythm is not right, brother cute." JKL sighed.

On the whiteboard in the training room, the results of the latest week's training matches of YM are recorded, and the red marker represents failure, leaving several strokes on the whiteboard.

It's not ideal, and the winning rate can reach 60%.

In the training room, Han Yi and Brother Hao and the others were silent.

"Take a break, if you continue to fight like this, you won't improve, we have to sum up our experience." Su Cheng, who witnessed the whole training match in Shanghai, said softly.

"This EDG and TSM are too fierce!" Xiao Tian was a little puzzled, "The two of them have a close to 9 percent win rate in the training match, and they put us and the Tiger team on the ground to hammer, isn't this locking the finals?" ”

Han Yi didn't say a word, his brows were tightly locked, he almost wanted to scold just now.

"You don't have to feel sorry for yourself, aren't we practicing a new lineup? A few defeats are inevitable. Brother Hao hurriedly stood up to ease the atmosphere.

"But EDG and TSM can crush us with the summer version of the heroes, and our new lineup is useless?"

Xiao Tian complained, leaning back on the gaming chair and taking a sip of water.

"Why don't we play two sets tomorrow with the old lineup?" Brother Hao tried to communicate with the coaching staff.

As a manager, he attaches more importance to the mentality of his players than his records.

"I think you can try it......" Xiao Tian said on the side.

"No way!"

Han Yi bluntly vetoed.

"Keep fighting like this, you will get used to losing and losing." Han Yi's tone is irrefutable.

"Using the old lineup now is hurting you, what's the use of training and playing cool? You'll know what it's like to play! ”

"Why is a version a version? Those who don't follow the version are all dead on the way! Han Yi was extremely stern, "Are you aiming for the top eight?" Are you satisfied with only one quarter-final? ”

"Then we don't need our coaching staff! You team members are on stage on their own, who can't fight with their personal ability? Isn't it easy to get a quarter-finalist? ”

The main analyst around him looked at his nose and nose, and his nose looked at his heart, and he was quite silent.

He is in his thirties, a real e-sports old man, and he planned to go back to his hometown to get married on a blind date last year, but he was fooled by Fat Dudu to play another season.

Brother Hao saw Han Yi with a straight face, and hurriedly pulled him away and went outside to talk.

"Hurry up and rest!" He said before leaving.

The door was closed, and the remaining six team members looked at each other, but no one spoke.

Several teammates left the training room and went back to their respective rooms.

I don't know who kicked the metal trash can at the door, making a sharp noise.

Lin Ran sighed, then picked up his phone and followed Su Cheng's video.

"They're all gone?" Su Cheng's voice was very soft, and Lin Ran could faintly hear her soft breathing.

"Hmm." Lin Ran rubbed his temples, "If we continue to fight like this, our mentality will collapse." ”

Su Cheng was wearing a home dress, her long hair was on her shoulders, and the pen in her hand kept turning.

"I'm just a part-time assistant analyst, so I can't interfere too much, you have to calm your teammates as the captain," Su Cheng sighed, "Except for SKT, who hasn't played a training match with us, we are currently the team with the most practice lineup." ”

"To be honest, it's okay to have a 6 percent win rate," Su Cheng relieved Lin Ran, "The other teams have more or less continued the BP and playing style of the summer game, and the system is much more mature than ours." ”

"Mainly...... Our previous training matches in the spring and summer tournaments were very smooth," Lin Ran hesitated, "There are very few teams that have been able to beat us in the BO5 training tournaments before. ”

"At present, the version changes are mainly focused on the three positions of Uenosuke, Xiao Ming is difficult to adapt, he has always liked to accompany Xiao Tian and you to do things last season, and now he has changed his style, and it is normal for the lower road to expose problems."

Su Cheng flipped through the data in his notebook.

"You pay more attention to the mentality of your teammates in the past two days, and there is only one week left before the start of the game after you go to the United States," Su Cheng suggested, "At that time, you still have to adjust to the jet lag and give interviews, which is very busy." ”

"I understand." Lin Ran nodded.

"I'm going to take a shower, you can deal with this matter quickly, see you tomorrow morning." Su Cheng waved his hand, said goodbye to Lin Ran, and turned off the video.

Lin Ran said to do it, and knocked on Xiao Ming's door after taking a shower.

"What's wrong, Brother Ran?" Xiao Ming opened the door and asked, judging from his expression, he was in a very low mood.

The team booked a double room, and JKL was also sitting in it at this time eating Korean-style jajangmyeon, and it seemed that he had a good appetite, and when he saw Lin Ran coming, he quickly stood up and moved a chair for him.

"You have also seen the results of this week's training match, which is not very good," Lin Ran sat on the chair, trying to calm his voice, "You guys are ...... down"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Ming interrupted Lin Ran, "I know, the problem is on me, even Xiao Tian and Jack are uncomfortable." ”

With that, he sank his head and pretended to be a quail.

"That's right, the problem is on you," Lin Ran said, "Have you ever wondered why?" ”

Xiao Ming didn't answer, Lin Ran continued.

"Because of the version problem,The wandering hero with rhythm can't be selected.,But you still like to do linkage with Xiaotian with soft assistance.,Tomorrow when the data comes out, you can carefully count how many times you died on the way to support.,How many waves of rhythm you sent.,You haven't changed your style of play this week.。

Seeing that Xiao Ming was about to speak, he continued, "You haven't understood what this version of the finals requires you to do? ”

"Lai line, play against the line to suppress, you don't need to help Nakano lay the rhythm, I will help Xiaotian get the wild area, and then the two of us will frequently go to the lower lane to support, whoever can control the right to eat Xiaolong in the lower route will have the advantage in the early stage."

Lin Ran dissected his understanding of the new version layer by layer, "This is a Nakano linkage version, you just need to protect the vision of the dragon pit, and wait for me and Xiaotian to go down the road." ”

"Tomorrow's training match, you don't take the initiative to leave the lower road unless necessary, Xiaotian and I will take the initiative to get closer to you." Lin Ran said.

"But I ......," Xiao Ming hesitated.

Lin Ran made a straight face, "If you take the initiative to leave JKL once tomorrow if you don't have to, I'll tell the management and let Hanyi give you a review for an hour." ”

Xiao Ming shuddered, recalled today's extremely strict Han Yi, and hurriedly agreed.

Lin Ran went back to his room and talked to Xiao Tian again.

He's going to turn all these people around. Yiyun Chinese

Why do some teams have the flavor of 4 guarantees and 1 no matter what lineup they play?

Because hero traits are hero traits, and player styles are player styles.

The team style of play is a combination of the lineup selected on the spot and the player's style, such as 4 to 1, which can be understood from the perspective of hero selection and the style of the player.

Some people give him Akali Angel to mix, obviously it is a dual-core lineup that can play into a 4-guarantee 1 system, who is to blame?

The player is such a style, you give him Angel Akali, can he C, no.

In the early morning of September 11, Korean time, the United States on the other side of the ocean opened the draw ceremony for the global finals, which also announced the official start of S6.

Lin Ran, who has always gone to bed early, was also dragged by his teammates to stay up late, it happened to be Saturday, Su Cheng didn't have class, and simply turned on the video to watch today's lottery with everyone.

Due to the famous 2-8 of this year's MSI European team G2, the European region was stripped of the No. 1 seed spot in S6.

There are 4 No. 1 seeds left in the five major regions to form the No. 1 seed pool: ROX, YM, TSM, FW.

There is a No. 1 seed in each group, and they will not meet in the group stage, and there will be a principle of avoiding teams from the same region.

There are 8 teams in the second seed pool: SKT, SSG, G2, H2K, AHQ, CLG, RNG, EDG.

Intz and ANX, who emerged from the Wild Card Zone, and the No. 3 seeds C9 and the European Snake from Europe and the United States were placed in the No. 3 seed pool.

This year's draw ceremony was as usual to invite several professional players from ancient times, and Smile from WE was also invited to be a guest.

Captain Jack, a good friend of faker from the LCK, was in charge of the draw for the No. 1 seed pool.

The YM crowd was still relaxed at this point, after all, the four No. 1 seed pools did not meet, and the key to the draw was the other three opponents in the group.

The LCK Tigers were placed in Group A, with LMS's Lightning Wolves in Group B, YM in Group C, and Civil War Phantom TSM in Group D.

"We're going to draw lots for the quarterfinals, and now there's no difference between the upper and lower halves." Brother Hao saw JKL there and counted his opponents with his fingers, and popularized his knowledge.

The strength of the opponents in the No. 2 seed pool should not be underestimated, and everyone in the YM training room finally tensed their nerves and stared at the sealed ball in the hands of the draw guests.

G2 was assigned to Group A.

Next Sign...... The guests pulled out the team's color bars and unfolded them to face the camera with a smile on their faces.

Yellow-red wings! It's last year's defending champion SKT!

Group B!

YM everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, the Tigers are not in Group B, otherwise they will avoid the same division, and SKT will be assigned to us, and the group stage will be more difficult." JKL showed his trademark Shiba Inu smile.

Next ball, YM are about to see their first group opponents!

After smiling and unfurling the team logo, Ning clenched his fists tightly and let out cheers.

"If you don't slip a fork, you will always drop God!"

The team logo on his hand is AHQ from the LMS division!

This team is known as the curved version of EDG, and all positions are castrated versions, and they are the weaker second-seeded pool team.

"Good smile, this hand is easy to sign!" YM everyone rejoices.

After several twists and turns, YM welcomed their second group stage opponent - H2K led by Yue Lun.

"Sign up, sign up!" Brother Hao is as excited as the players, no one wants to meet a three-consecutive LCK team, as long as it is in the non-Korean group, YM has a high probability of competing for the first place in the group!

"It's nice to have no EDG and TSM." Xiao Tian lay there on his back with some satisfaction, he was almost broken by the two kings of training last week.

The final draw in Group C is INTZ from the Wild Card Zone.

At this moment, not only the YM training room, but also the domestic spectators who are staying up late to watch the lottery are also happy.

"One thing to say, there's nothing wrong with signing on YM, right?"

"Indeed, it is not a big problem to keep a group first."

"If you don't get the first place in the group, it is recommended to swim back from the United States, and I will be black for the rest of my life."

"EDG and RNG are difficult, there won't be only one top 8 this year, right?"

The draw ceremony officially ended with the following results:

Group A: ROX (Tigers), G2, CLG, ANX (CIS Wildcard)

Group B: FW (Lightning Wolf), SKT, EDG, C9

Group C: YM, AHQ, H2K, INTZ (Brazilian Wild Card)

Group D: TSM, RNG, SSG, SPY (European snake)

After winning the draw, the YM players walked with the wind, while the other two brother teams, EDG and RNG, were full of bitterness, and their opponents were quite strong, and the qualifying situation was not optimistic.

People are in good spirits at happy events, and YM suddenly opened his mind in the next two weeks, and Xiao Ming began to force himself to rely on the bottom lane to protect JKL and no longer wander blindly.

YM quickly switched from the previous Nakanosuke linkage to the Nakano team, Lin Ran frequently took out the advantage heroes who could eat the line power, and then accompanied Xiaotian to reverse the opponent's field area, and controlled Xiaolong's four packs and two to dismantle the lower road and a tower, and then it was the familiar snowball rhythm.

Their training match win rate has been rising, and the YM management has finally breathed a sigh of relief and started to try more hero options for the players.

Jin Gong began to practice Kenan, Rambo, and Jace, the former being a popular version, and the latter two could be used to swing with Lin Ran.

The player's hero Chi Shen has the advantage of leaving a lot of room for the coaching staff to play BP, and Hanyi can give the players a lineup that suits them.

During the training camp in Korea, Riot released the TOP20 special of the World Finals.

Among the two brother teams in the LPL, Uzi, mata, looper, factory director, and deft are among them.

In YM, Lin Ran, JKL and Xiaotian were honorably on the list.

JKL is ranked slightly lower, at 13th, behind Uzi, and the official comment is that "too aggressive play and too low battle loss ratio, high output and damage resistance ratio make him unique among the ADC players in the 16 teams, JKL may not be the strongest, but it is always the most special one." ”

Xiao Tian is ranked 7th, and Riot is not shy about it, "The strong early field invasion and excellent rhythm control make it hard to believe that this is a player who has debuted less than a year ago, but his early attack is too dependent on the help of the middle, and it is still unknown whether Tian can stand up in the case of a dumb fire in the middle." ”

Lin Ran ranked fourth, "YM is undoubtedly the offensive core, and the perfect hero pool allows him to seamlessly switch between suppressing the opposing mid laner and supporting the wild area, which is the biggest contributor to leading the new YM to win the regular season championship." ”

There are three others in front of him, Deft, Faker, and SMEB.

"Why should I be fourth?" Lin Ran wanted to cry without tears, and Xiao Ming and Jin Gong on the side laughed haha.

Since 2014, Riot has produced this special feature of the top 20 players every year before the World Finals, and because of its deep poisoned milk skills, it is nicknamed the poisoned milk list by netizens.

The professional players who have been milked include Nami Beef Noodles, Ah Zhen who quickly became a fish in the Emperor, the first midlaner of the reverse Q Tangmen, and Pilsen with 4 eyes in TSM......

Now it's Lin Ran's turn.

Ever since he saw this news, he always felt a faint chill in his back, as if he had been lowered.

There are not a few viewers in China who believe in this poisonous milk list, they look at the 8 LPL players in the top 20, and they always feel that this year is over, and next year will be the most promising year.

On September 23, they rushed to San Francisco, USA, with the rest of the team.

A week later, the S6 group stage will be played at the Bill Graham Municipal Auditorium.

As soon as everyone got off the plane, they rushed to shoot the fist promotional video, and after a busy day, Lin Ran fell asleep the moment he dipped his hotel pillow.

He slept for eleven hours, and when he woke up again, it was dark outside, Lin Ran knew that shaking his head, he had to reverse the jet lag as soon as possible, and there was not much time left.

The management of YM did not dare to take the players out to eat any strange foreign food during this time, and ordered McDonald's burgers every day - this is the most acceptable food for them.

The intimate Brother Hao first went to a nearby American restaurant to "test the drug", and immediately started brushing his teeth when he came back.

"That's too sweet, isn't it? The Yankees are going to kill us! He said angrily with toothpaste foam in his mouth.

The two LPL teams next door can't do anything, they rely on McDonald's every day like YM, and several Korean aides even go to the LCK competition next door to borrow kimchi to eat.

The management of YM believes that they have done their best, and in order to let the players adapt to the jet lag, they have specially reduced the amount of training, and they have tried to take care of everyone's tastes with food.

But I never expected JKL to fall.

Jet lag, water and soil conditions, and the temperature difference between day and night, JKL caught a cold two days before the game. "Jack, your body is too brittle, aren't you?" Lin Ran frowned, "Go back to China to strengthen your workout, and run with me every day." ”

", it's impossible to run, it's impossible to run in this life." JKL paled.

The management had no other way to give JKL cold medicine and have to play.

At 10:30 a.m. Beijing time on September 30, YM's first game against the wild card intz was also the first game of S6 in the LPL region.

This is one of the best opponents in the group, and JKL can try to mix it up.

This game time is quite friendly to domestic audiences, and you can get up to watch the game with a normal schedule.

Su Cheng finished his homework, sent it to the teacher's mailbox, then threw the tablet on the bed, curled up into a ball wrapped in the quilt, and opened the live broadcast room of the event.

The five of YM were already sitting in the player's seat to adjust their peripherals, Su Cheng's eyes were fixed on Lin Ran in the middle, he was laughing with JKL on the side, and he could see that he was in a good mood.

"JKL's face is not right, huh? Sick? ”

There are careful barrages that noticed this, and then many viewers also found that JKL's face was a little pale, and he covered his mouth and coughed from time to time, but the habit of shaking his legs has not changed.

Su Cheng naturally knew about JKL's condition, she pursed her lips, and made a wish in her heart that YM would win the first battle.

Today's commentary is remember and Zeyuan, and the two of them are obviously very optimistic about YM.

"Playing a wild card today, there should be no pressure on YM," remember to speak first, "Our LPL No. 1 seed strives for a good start!" Cheer up the next team of brothers! ”

"That's right, there shouldn't be much pressure against the wild card, after all, the difference in strength is here," Zemoto said as a matter of course, "The question is what kind of version understanding YM will show." ”

"After all, we also watched the first two group games, and there are still differences in the understanding of the versions of each team," remember to answer, "but there are a few points that can be determined, Jace, Sindra and Ember are definitely the popular heroes of the version, and the three heroes in the first two games were either banned or robbed." ”

"Let's mess up with Jack this time, and you'll be done with the four C's." Lin Ran grabbed the warm baby in his hand, and poured Red Bull into his mouth with the other hand.

The Red Bull in Europe and the United States is still strong, and it is refreshing to take a bite.

"Then I'll lie down brothers, get me a tool man." JKL's tone was a little weak, shaking the mouse.

With the permission of the on-site referee, the BP part of the game officially began!

YM has officially started their S6 journey!

"Team Intz chose the blue side and banned Jace, Rambo, and the Blind Monk," he remembered, hissing softly, "There's something in this wild-card area." ”

"Banning Jace and Rambo, two heroes who can swing in the middle and upper in YM, and then blocking the blind monk who performed best in the summer tournament in Xiaotian, this BP did quite well." Remember to praise it.

"YM blocked Sivir, Karma and the excavator, well......" Ze Yuan Yu Sai, he was still a master of skills and idioms at this time, and his understanding of the game was limited, so he couldn't understand YM's BP.

"intz must have snatched the embers, YM this is ......" he could only explain.

"Ember? It's starting to swell! ”

"YM researched this in a month? Ember? Yours is there. ”

"Look down on wild cards, after all, the LPL summer champion, hehe."

As INTZ picked Ember, the coach behind them frowned.

YM seconds lock Olaf and Sindra.

Han Yi showed a smug smile, and even the five members of the YM team laughed, Xiao Ming's smile was especially ghostly.

"Laughing?"

"Ghost, don't you treat the other side as a human being like this?"

The World Finals version has just played two group games, and the audience doesn't know what heroes are strong, so they can only explore through their own experience, and they don't understand YM's BP ideas.

In the end, INTZ chose a lineup of Nar, Centaurs, Victor, Ember, and Tam, while YM was Kenan, Olaf, Sindra, Ice, and Nami.

"Hopefully YM can win this victory, which is very important for the confidence of our entire region!" Remember to speak.

The game loads, Lin Ran buys equipment and walks out of the spring, and the cheers of the audience welcome his debut at the World Finals!