Chapter 652: LPL's Last "Fig Leaf"? (4800)
The video of the promotional video of LPL's participation in the S competition, not surprisingly, used the version sung by Li Xiufeng and Rocky, and it was recorded in one afternoon.
By the time they set off this weekend, the post-production of the film is estimated to be almost processed, and it is estimated that all major video websites at home and abroad will play it simultaneously.
Li Xiufeng is quite excited to think about it, although he has filmed a lot of promotional videos, but it is really the first time to sing like this, and it is inevitable that he has some expectations.
It's a pity that the S game is coming soon.
Three days before departure, not only KG, but also the other three teams in the LPL began to reduce their daily training.
At the same time, I also adjust my body clock, try to sleep during the day and move at night.
Because on the other side of the ocean, day and night are reversed, and they can be regarded as adapting to jet lag in advance.
Three days later, on September 23rd.
The three LPL teams, the players, plus the coach and translator, almost 20 people prepared their bags and prepared to compete in Berlin, Germany, and the organizers generously chartered the whole flight.
The distance of this flight is too long, and the journey is inevitably a little long.
On the plane, Ah Shui and the others were idle and bored, all holding local travel brochures and learning a few words of local language to greet people, in case of emergency.
Li Xiufeng didn't follow the grunt.
When he took the college entrance examination, he didn't do well in liberal arts, but his oral expression skills were okay, and he was still holding the book "The Wind Rises on Wall Street" in his hand at this time.
Eleven hours later, the plane successfully arrived at the airport in Berlin, Germany, and landed.
The group got off the plane and settled into a hotel in the center of Berlin under the official arrangement of Riot.
As the most valuable event in the league, the S match attracts the attention of more than a billion people every year, and the official Riot will naturally not be stingy, and the hotel is a five-star luxury hotel.
Not only that, but each team also rented an additional conference room, equipped with state-of-the-art computers, to serve as a makeshift training room for the players in Berlin
When I arrived at the hotel and checked in at the front desk, a European team came from behind, which was actually the J2 team that MSI had handed over.
Walking in the front is the Danish guy Wunder oily head, who looks a little handsome, but when he saw Li Xiufeng, his face was slightly pale.
I have to say that there is really a bad relationship between Wunder and Li Xiufeng.
It was he who hammered Li Xiufeng into the center of the earth in last year's S competition, and was avenged by Li Xiufeng in MSI.
The two of them were shortlisted again in this year's S competition, but they didn't expect to meet as soon as they arrived at the hotel.
“Hello!” Li Xiufeng tilted his head and smiled.
Wunder was stunned, reacted, and said in unfamiliar Chinese, "Mud trench." ”
"You've got a new batch of teammates."
Wunder continued with a smile, "Let's go for the group stage, and hopefully we can all qualify this time. ”
That's a bit disgusting.
It's clear, the rain has stopped, and you think you're okay again?
Li Xiufeng pondered that these Europeans really didn't remember what they were eating, and when MSI lost, the boss of J2 sent several tweets, so annoyed that he didn't want to.
Unexpectedly, as soon as it came to the S game, J2 came out again.
This time, J2 may see KG have a big change, the former champion mid-laner Doub has been replaced by the now unknown left hand, and the Korean wild king Clid has also thrown himself into the arms of SKT, and his speech is actually a bit of a "big villain".
Li Xiufeng smiled, still in English, "Come on, I hope we can see you again then." ”
The two teams met and checked in separately.
After checking into the hotel, the European team was fine, the game was in Germany, and there was basically no time difference.
Li Xiufeng and they are different, although they have already adjusted their schedules in advance when they were in China.
But after coming to Berlin, Germany, everyone was still sleepy, so they suspended their training that day and rested first.
The body is the capital of the game.
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Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning, Li Xiufeng got up and washed up, then got up and went down the stairs.
The three teams in the LPL region all live on the seventh floor of the hotel, and the five-star hotel has a small restaurant on each floor, and Li Xiufeng met BMG's Uz1 as soon as he went out in the morning.
"Got up so early, Brother Feng?" When the puppy saw Li Xiufeng, a smile appeared on his fat face.
"You're also early, let's go to dinner together?" Li Xiufeng invited.
The puppy smiled and shook his head, "No, no, I've already eaten, and I'm going to go to our team's temporary training room to try the machine, and I didn't have time to try it last night." ”
After saying hello, the puppy went to the training room.
Li Xiufeng glanced at the time and found that it was only seven o'clock in the morning, and even if he came to Berlin, even if he was jet lag, the guys in the team would not get up until eight or nine o'clock.
And the puppy has already eaten breakfast...
Looking at the back of the little fat man, Li Xiufeng vaguely remembered that he was brought into S6 as a mascot when he was a substitute in BMG last year, and the little fat man seemed to get up early every day.
He really wants to be tough.
Li Xiufeng shook his head, his lips squirmed, and he said "good luck" silently.
Spells and this kind of thing.
There's always a day to break, isn't it?
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In this S Series Global Finals, the three teams of LPL were divided into Group A, Group C and Group D by lottery, and KG sat in Group D.
Before the quarterfinals, teams from the same region will not meet.
The draw was held live on the third day after the departure ceremony, which maintained fairness and impartiality, and also let the fans of the major teams know for the first time.
As the No. 1 seed in this LPL, the KG team can be said to be a bit weak in the group stage.
A team from a Wild Card Division.
The other two are MAD, the third seed in the LMS division and AFS, the third seed in the LCK division.
As soon as the results of this lottery came out, everyone on the Internet couldn't help but sigh about KG's good luck.
After all, there are wild cards and two No. 3 seeds to base up, not to mention the strength of KG itself, even if it is a short man who pulls out a general, it must be not a big problem for KG to qualify.
Of course, there are also some people who secretly think about it.
If KG can't get out of the line after drawing such a "natural selection group", then I'm afraid it will really come back from swimming on the other side of the ocean...
In addition to KG, the team drawn by AG is decent, two European and American teams, and one LMS team, but they have not encountered the Korean team that everyone regards as tigers.
As for BMG, this time it smacks of the "group of death".
Because they are in Group C with last year's S champion and triple crown winner SKT, the other two teams are the first and second seeds of the European and American teams.
After the three teams drew lots, to be honest, the pressure on KG was still relatively large.
Not from the pressure of the group stage, but from the psychological pressure, which is especially evident in the people of Xiao Yu and Left Hand.
The teams in the LPL region have performed more than satisfactory in the S competition over the years.
It's fine if everyone can hold hands and pull across together, but if only one of them is left, it will be uncomfortable.
At that time, any performance of everyone in the competition will be infinitely magnified on the stage, and Li Xiufeng's example last year can be vividly placed in front of him.
Does Li Xiufeng have a pot?
Perhaps, but the league was a team game, and he was just a victim of the general trend.
If they come again this year and change to their left hand, then it is difficult to say whether they have the luck of Li Xiufeng's comeback.
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After a few simple adjustments, the rest of the KG team spent the next week mostly training and watching videos from teams from other regions, as well as tactical discussions.
A week later, on October 1, the first battle of this year's S-Series finally kicked off.
The first is the Play-In Tournament, where wildcard teams from Oceania and Latin America, as well as Vietnam, compete for the final two spots in the group stage.
After three days of competition, the winners and losers of the eight wildcard teams were quickly decided, with Brazil's INTZ and Japan's DFM being the finalists.
KG's wild card opponent in the group stage is the DFM of the Japanese team.
As soon as the play-in tournament ended, before the group stage officially began, Riot announced a "poisoned milk list", that is, the global TOP10 professional players released during the S competition every year.
Among the top 10 professional players of Riot, there are three people on the list in the LPL division, Li Xiufeng is ranked second, Theshine is ranked fourth, and Puppy is ranked seventh.
Not surprisingly, the top of the Top10 list was once again dominated by the man in the middle of South Korea's SKT.
The honor of the Triple Crown really makes everyone unconsciously a head shorter.
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"I'm not convinced! Brother Feng is the MSI champion on the list, right? Fist's ranking is a bit disgusting, so I have to be the second brother. ”
In KG's temporary training room, Xiao Wu immediately shouted under the guise of a subsequent.
He said that the words were very heavy at the end, and he obviously liked to make some embarrassing sounds for Li Xiufeng.
This is the art of language.
Li Xiufeng didn't pay attention to Xiao Yan, just smiled and said, "That's okay, the number one on this list is toxic, I heard that few of the people on the list have made it to the semi-finals in the past few years, and some of them died directly on the way." ”
The honest child's left hand turned pale when he heard this, and he muttered, "Huh? Brother Feng is second, isn't our team..."
"Don't listen to your Brother Feng's nonsense."
The head of the Long Sect clapped his hands with a smile, "Poisonous milk is not poisonous milk, in the final analysis, it is just eight words, the skills are not as good as others, you are willing to bow to the wind, you just open up and fight." ”
Ah Shui continued, "Yes, yes, this kind of thing is too metaphysical. ”
"We have to believe in science." LQS nodded solemnly.
"On the first day of the group stage the day after tomorrow, our opponent seems to be DFM."
Speaking of the competition, everyone got serious.
DFM is a team from Japan that has been in the LJL's regular season for the first place in the regular season and won the inaugural LJL title this summer.
Although the e-sports of the island country has crossed a bit, this team is also the leader of the island country.
Coupled with some sensitive reasons, KG is bound to not lose in the first battle of this S match.
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On October 7, at the Mercedes-Benz Center in Berlin, Germany, this year's S-Series group competition was held here.
All three LPL teams have a B01 match today, with BMG still playing the opening match on the first day of the tournament against the South Korean team SKT from the LCK.
It can be said that the beginning is all eyes on it.
The audience in the LPL was very nervous, not knowing that BMG, which lost in the quarterfinals last year, finally defeated RW in the third-place battle this year and got the last ticket.
Whether it will make a comeback or whether it will continue to pull along, no one knows.
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At 3 p.m., the audience entered.
The host commentary from LPL is also in place in the broadcast area specially opened up for LPL in the venue.
The first to come out of the stage was a European and American band, which sang the theme song "Rise" of this year's S competition, and the MV of the theme song was also played on the big screen.
This is, of course, the official shooting music video of Riot.
The promotional video of the three teams officially produced by LPL was also launched on major video playback websites at home and abroad a few days ago, and the singing of Li Xiufeng and Rocky received unexpected praise.
Of course, the main thing is that Li Xiufeng has brought too many surprises.
Originally, after opening the video and seeing that the singers were two professional players, many people silently lowered the volume, and some even muted directly.
But video sites generally have barrages.
Those who turned down the volume and muted the voice, watched and watched, and were attracted by the barrage.
Curiously, they tried to turn up the volume, and the expressions on their faces gradually changed from stunned to shocked.
Is this sure it's not the original song?
Thanks to the excellent feedback brought by the video, Li Xiufeng's task completion rate is also as high as 90%.
In addition to the 500 points invested when buying skills in the early stage, he also prostituted 200 points for nothing.
Flattered!
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Before the start of the game, a wave of power statistics was launched in the live broadcast room of the LPL, although SKT, the triple crown winner, is famous all over the world.
But BMG is a local team, and it is the darling of countless media last year, plus Uz1, which represents the unique purity of countless people's youth.
Many LPL viewers are still willing to give BMG another chance this year, wanting to see BMG defeat the archrival South Korean team SKT in the opening game of the first match day and get off to a good start for the LPL region.
At this time, BMG unsurprisingly leads SKT with a whopping 81% support.
Countless people in China stayed up all night to watch the first opening game of today's group stage.
At half past four in the afternoon, after the pre-game adjustment, the game between the two sides officially began.
BMG specially re-took a set of makeup photos for this World Championship, and on the big screens on both sides of the stage, several guys looked very energetic.
After entering BP, this one has a more wild lineup on both sides.
SKT's top laner Khan got the sword queen, the jungler Clid chose the leopard girl, and the middle lane Faker came with a more bizarre hand of Olaf.
Buddha fights for a stick of incense, people fight for a breath, and BMG does not lose momentum at all this time.
They singled Orn, played the jungler blind, Xiaohu in the middle made the first move out of the Enchantress, and Uz1 in the bottom lane also took out the classic combination of his skateboarding shoes and bull head.
It's a pity that momentum is momentum, and the result of the game will not be affected by momentum.
The two sides fought fiercely in the early stage of this game, and ten head kills broke out in fifteen points, and the two sides fought back and forth with each other.
But after 25 minutes, the balance of the situation gradually tilted in SKT's favor, and BMG tried several times to save the day, but without success.
Just after the last 30 minutes, SKT took BMG with a wave of attacks, and South Korea's LCK won its first win in the opening match of this year's Worlds.
Boom!
The barrage in the live broadcast room of the event on major platforms exploded, and all the keyboard warriors on the Internet attacked!
In fact, some of them are not keyboard warriors, they are purely game-loving LPL viewers.
Because if you want to say that you BMG is not the opponent of the Triple Crown, then forget it.
Last year's quarterfinals lost to the champions.
There's no shame in that.
The problem is that you just fought back and forth, which made countless people tense their minds, and made everyone's hearts rise slowly, and suddenly fall.
Then you can't take it anymore.
For a time, all kinds of trolls and malicious rhythmic water armies on the Internet were frantically output.
Li Xiufeng also watched the game, and from his point of view, BMG had a chance to win this game, but unfortunately they were not able to seize that fleeting opportunity.
Or conversely, SKT is as strong as ever at this year's Worlds.
Especially after the little fat man Clid joined, SKT felt like a tiger with wings.
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There are a total of six matches today, all three teams in the LPL have matches, and after the opening match, AG will play against the TL team in the LCS region.
Both teams are esports giants in their respective regions, and AG has a much higher demand for this match than TL in the world.
There is no other reason, because AG's opponent in the quarterfinals of last year's S competition was TL.
At that time, they took TL directly 3-0, and the one who won was called a neat one.
In the group stage, there is only BO1 in each group of matchups, so it stands to reason that AG should not have much problem winning TL today.
What is unexpected is that the third match between AG and TL was an upset.
TL avoided the middle and upper force points of AG, grasped the trapped, and finally continued to involve the erosion of resources.
In the end, with the advantage of a little bit of accumulated resources, in about twenty-eight minutes of the game time, a sudden wave of team battles took away AG.
In an instant, the three LPL teams lost two pairs in the first season, and only the KG team, which was scheduled for the last match match on the first day against the DFM team, remained.
DFM is a well-known Japanese team, and if it loses, it goes without saying that it will be wiped out.
Tonight, the people of the three teams of the LPL are estimated to practice swimming in advance in the saliva of the domestic audience.
And even if you win, it's not a glorious thing.
In the eyes of viewers in other regions. Oh, it turns out that LPL can only play wild card teams.
It's funny enough.
Gee...
This Nima is uncomfortable.
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