Lin Ran originally thought that the LPL team was full of top masters, and he didn't know how high his strength was compared to him and Xiaotian, but from the relegation match to this MSI opener, it didn't seem right.

Although the LPL team is more than one notch stronger than LSPL, it is not invincible.

Snake and QG are also teams that have been promoted from the minor league to the LPL, and the two teams have remained very competitive without changing team members.

Snake is in the middle of the league, while QG is even stronger, having finished second in the LPL Summer Tournament last year, and is likely to go further this spring if it were not for the escalation of internal conflicts.

Lin Ran watched the game from God's perspective and found that the vision layout and personal ability of the LPL team were not perfect, and they would make many low-level mistakes.

QG and Snake can break through in the LPL, which makes Lin Ran more confident.

After all, YM is also the only team in this year's LSPL, with 33 games of unbroken highlands, showing extraordinary dominance, plus his defeated EDE also entered the LPL, and YM's results will not be too bad.

The YM crowd watched the first day of MSI's competition, and when they heard the tsunami cheers of faker when they appeared on the stage, they were thrilled and imagined that one day they would be rewarded for their hard work, and they would be sought after by everyone.

Even Ning has been much more diligent in ranking training these days, at least starting to practice the new hero Ember that was released three months ago.

In the MSI group stage, RNG won the group with a record of 8-2, but in the semi-finals, it was still defeated by the last World Tree Champion SKT to the semi-finals.

At this point, the LPL has finally recognized the gap between itself and the world's top regions, and last year's MSI championship was like a dream, and it was fleeting before you were immersed in it.

After the game, mata, an RNG assistant and SSW champion meritorious member, pointed the finger at the then AD position, and bluntly said in an interview that if AD is replaced, RNG will definitely not stop at the MSI semi-finals.

The RNG management did not hesitate to bring in AD Uzi, the runner-up of S3S4, in a big way, and strive to make a breakthrough in this year's World Finals.

This is also arguably the hottest news of the mid-season transfer period.

After the MSI ended, the mid-season version of Riot arrived.

Heroes such as Vampire, Malzaha, and Snake Lady have been reworked, while equipment such as Tears of the Goddess and Lost Chapters have been changed, and two new pieces of equipment have been added, the Hextech Belt and GLP-800.

The jungle has ushered in a bigger change, the four elemental dragons of water, earth, fire, and wind have replaced the original small dragons, and only three of them will appear in each match, and killing four elemental dragons will provide players with more powerful attributes.

After 35 minutes, the Ancient Dragon is entrenched in the Dragon's Pit, and killing it will provide the player with more powerful combat abilities.

The changes to the dragon increase the presence of the second half of the game in disguise, making the lane change tactics more risky.

Riot officials are also fed up with the common line changes on the field, and one by one they develop into a 30-minute group out of the mountain, the professional players feel troublesome, and the audience is also sleepy when they look at it.

The emphasis on alignment and the gore of the match are the goals of Riot's recent changes.

On the other hand, YM has seen a sharp increase in spending after entering the LPL, with starters, analysts, artists, coaches, managers, assistants, operations, and chefs......

The team's salary expenses are now hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, plus miscellaneous expenses such as rent, Fat Dudu has almost thrown out all the money earned from live broadcasts in the past two years, and there are only some investment projects left in hand that cannot be realized for the time being.

The capital chain is about to break, and Fat Dudu can't sit still, and he is desperate to seek external financial support.

Lin Ran has also heard about this in the base these days, but he can't help much, although the family has a lot of spare money, but it is obviously not the same size as a team like LPL, which often injects tens of millions of funds.

YM's introduction of investment did not come to an end until the start of the summer season, and Fat Dudu asked the owner of his IG team, who used to play professionally, to pull in the investment of a domestic sports goods retailer, and the arrival of the owner finally relieved Fat Dudu's financial pressure.

In mid-May, Lin Ran and Xiaotian were invited to shoot a promotional video for the LPL Summer Tournament, but they didn't appear much, after all, they were just newcomers who had just entered the LPL League.

Lin Ran mixed up with a close-up shot with his unforgettable handsome face, he took off the hood of the black hoodie, and the corners of his lips raised slightly in front of the camera, revealing a disdainful smile.

Before the start of the summer season, this promotional video was first put on the Internet, although most people were attracted by the wet temptation of EDG's jungler Ghost Foot Seven, but a group of viewers still noticed Lin Ran.

After all, there are very few people who can raise the average appearance of the players in the promotional video by a notch.

"Who is this? LPL also invited male models to make promotional videos? ”

"If you look so handsome, if you don't act and become a star, what kind of e-sports do you play?"

Many viewers don't know Lin Ran, they haven't watched Fat Dudu's live broadcast, and they don't know the progress of LSPL's game.

"This is Ranbao, the middle laner of the Fat Dudu team, and his strength is very strong."

"One thing to say, the level of ranbao is really high, and it is not a big problem to fight Xiaohu."

"Can you fight to win Xiaohu? MSI killed faker alone this year. ”

"The current newcomers are all invited to promote the water army before becoming famous? I'm really going to laugh to death, don't be relegated after being educated in the LPL for a summer. ”

"There was a JKL before, which was even more excessive than this ran, and it was blown before it was played, it was simply a water army AD, and I am afraid that I won't even be able to play LPL when the time comes."

JKL, who is also a high-scoring passerby, also competed with Lin Ran for the first place in the national uniform last year, and the electric king who specializes in Delevingne is trembling.

Last month, YM just established the youth team, Lin Ran recommended the teenager to Fat Dudu, and Fat Dudu went to Huanggang in person, and it was only after grinding and hard foaming that JKL gave up the idea of going to his old club IG and came to the YM base with himself.

Now one of the two is called the middle single of the water army, and the other is called the AD of the water army, but there is an inexplicable fate.

On May 26th, the LPL Summer Tournament began, and YM, as a new force that has been in the limelight recently, was officially arranged by the LPL at 7 p.m. on the first day of the opening day against the veteran powerhouse WE.

The night before the game, after the coach explained the tactics, the manager Hao Ge stood up to cheer for the players.

"There's no need to be scared tomorrow, it's WE that can't afford to lose! They finished third in the spring tournament and we are just a new team coming out of LSPL, so it's normal to lose! ”

"Don't think that we will continue to win all the time, LPL is different from the minor league, be prepared for defeat, calm down and play to show your strength!"

At noon the next day, Lin Ran and his teammates took a bus to the competition venue, the Hongqiao Performing Arts Center.

I have to say that there is a difference between the LPL's competition venues and minor leagues.

Two LED signs were erected on either side of the security tunnel to show highlights and promotional videos, and next to each of the LED signs was a model of the red and blue defense towers in the Summoner's Rift.

Walking further inside is the team support area, where there are two BO3s a day, and the event team will prepare four teams in advance to support them, and the audience can receive the gifts by themselves.

After passing by the Dalongkeng model, Lin Ran finally saw the competition stage.

There are hundreds of seats, each with an embroidered pattern of the LPL, and spotlights on the walls around it with the flags of the 12 participating teams.