Chapter 114: The Battle for the First Rank [Big Chapter]
CAG, also known as Chang'an Esports Club.
Founded in 1999 in Anxi, the club is one of the first esports clubs in China.
The club was not very famous at first, until 05, when team member Li Hua won the WCG world championship.
This is the first world championship in the history of Chinese esports.
But that's not the real pinnacle of Chang'an Esports Club.
In 2007, Chang'an E-Sports' player Zero won the World Championship of StarCraft as a Protoss at WCG.
The identity used to cause the championship is the Protoss, so since then, fans in the esports circle have called him Zero God.
Counting, he can also be regarded as the originator of various gods in the e-sports circle since then.
Since the founding of WCG in the millennium, South Korea has never been defeated in StarCraft, and they have dominated from 00 to 07.
But it was in this year that Zero God shattered the myth of the undefeated Korean interstellar.
Although after 07 years, South Korea once again regained the title of the interstellar in their hands.
But no matter what, this year, the champion of the interstellar belongs to China.
From the beginning of the Millennium WCG to the end of the 11th WCG, Korea won a total of 10 championships.
And the only time I lost it was to the Chinese player, 0 from CAG.
Li Hua, Zero God, is the only two superstars in the flood period of Chinese e-sports.
They are all from this esports club called Chang'an.
In 03, esports officially became the 99th sport in China, but the Chinese Esports League, abbreviated (ACE), was only really established in 12 years, a decade later than South Korea's KeSpa.
KeSpa is the abbreviation of the Korean Professional Esports Association, which is an organization established in South Korea to manage e-sports, responsible for more than 20 e-sports, including (StarCraft), (StarCraft2), (DOTA2), (LeagueofLegends) and many other games.
Some people may not know about KeSpa, but some people must have heard of the two TV stations owned by KeSPA.
They are OGN and MBC.
Even though the Korean League of Legends Pro League has been changed from OGN to LCK, South Korea still hosts the KeSpa Cup every year.
The corresponding (ACE) to South Korea's KeSpa is the China E-sports League.
As the hottest e-sports professional league in China today, the LPL is a member of almost all clubs (ACE).
And the secretary general of this alliance is the current owner of Chang'an E-sports Club - Li Hua.
The current Chang'an E-sports Club is managed by Li Hua and Lingshen together.
The original owner had already sold the team to them back in '09.
In those years, the domestic e-sports industry was severely suppressed, coupled with the fact that there was no new fire and suitable for professional games, many e-sports teams were forced to disband in those years, if it weren't for Li Hua and Lingshen taking over Chang'an, Chang'an would have been disbanded in 09.
Therefore, when LOL was tested in the national server, many e-sports clubs in China noticed the career prospects of this game, so e-sports clubs such as CAG were also impatient to set up LOL branches at the first time.
At that time, the national server had not even been officially launched, but there were already games about League of Legends on WCG.
In the first two years of the LOL Professional League, CAG was undoubtedly the hottest team at that time.
At the same time, CAG was also the best team in those years.
But since the establishment of LPL in 13 years, a large number of capital tycoons have entered the LPL after seeing the prospect of LPL, CAG, a club played by several former professional players, because of insufficient capital, could not recruit star players, so it gradually declined.
In this case, it is difficult for non-capital esports clubs within the league to survive in the LPL.
If the funds are not enough, it will be difficult for the team to achieve results, and if the team does not have results, it will fall to the LSPL.
As a result, many team owners at the time packaged and sold their clubs to the bigwigs.
CAG, on the other hand, is the only non-capital esports team in the league that has persevered.
And it turns out that Li Hua's persistence is meaningful, with the sharp rise in LPL traffic in the past two years and the second entry of capital, many businesses that cannot participate in LPL with teams have participated in the form of team cooperation, such as this year's CAG, there are as many as a dozen companies sponsored.
Because of this, Chang'an, whose funds have been perfected this year, directly kicked all of last year's five starters and two substitutes at the beginning of this year.
CAG, from the players to the team leader to the coach, implemented a bottom-up reform.
This year's League of Legends division is also managed by Li Hua himself.
Li Hua handed over all the other branches to Zero God, and he will personally manage and lead this team this year.
This year, CAG has only one goal, to make it to the S10!
Since S3, CAG has never touched the floor of the LPL finals, so Li Hua knows that this year is the only chance for CAG to enter the World Championship, because after this year, the World Championship is not in China, and CAG will not have so many big brands to sponsor it.
The reason why those sponsors spend so much money to sponsor CAG this year is that CAG can enter the World Championship this year and appear on the stage of S10 with their brand.
The reason why it was buried in the previous years was because there was not enough money.
CAG, which regrouped after enough money, didn't do very well this spring, barely making the playoffs, but it was much better than it was in previous years when they couldn't make the playoffs.
In this year's summer competition, after the successful run-in, CAG has passed all the way and has not tasted defeat so far.
In the current points rankings, CAG has surpassed Blue Ocean and TE and ranked first.
Just yesterday, CAG easily crushed TE with a 2-0 record.
If CAG can beat the blue ocean again today, then CAG in the summer will be a strong contender for the World Championship.
Many people say that CAG has always been a pseudo-strong team, but after successive victories over TE and Blue Ocean, is this still a pseudo-strong team?
In the LPL of the summer season, after many teams changed blood and ran in for a season in the spring, they began to show their fangs.
CAG is the first one.
Su Yu and the others arrived in Anxi at half past four, and after arriving, they rushed directly to CAG's home stadium.
Because this game can be regarded as a battle for the top spot in the summer season, the official temporarily asked the players on both sides to shoot an advertisement.
The so-called advertisement is just a few sentences inserted in the pre-game.
These words tend to be filmed a little more, and then interspersed according to the situation in the arena.
After all, the situation on the field is unpredictable, maybe two games are over, maybe three games have to be played.
Blue Ocean and CAG are also undefeated, and the reason why they are now ranked second is because of the relationship of one less game than CAG.
This game is a key match to determine who will be in first place for the time being, and if Blue Ocean wins CAG, then Blue Ocean will be the real number one.
Because as long as Blue Ocean wins CAG, then the score will be pulled away from CAG and TE.
In addition, in the next few games, the opponents faced by Blue Ocean are not strong, and Blue Ocean can maintain the first place for at least half a month.
The temporary first is also an honor.
For the blue ocean, which has been running with people for the past few years, they still very much hope to beat CAG in this crucial game.
For this reason, when the game was about to start at seven o'clock, Xu Qing also rushed over from Shangling.
When Xu Qing personally supervised the battle in the backstage of the blue ocean, Li Hua also appeared in the backstage of CAG.
In the battle for the top spot, whoever wins will be able to ensure that the top position will be firmly held in the next half month.
And for both teams, as long as they win each other, they will undoubtedly be a little more confident in the playoffs later.
Both teams are teams that have not made it to the World Championships, but this year's summer season has started so well, and it is natural that they want to continue this good start, even if they can't always be first, but one more win will definitely be more beneficial for the playoffs later.
At 7:03 p.m. on June 22, the first game of the Blue Ocean vs. Chang'an officially began.
The first Chang'an is on the blue side, and the blue ocean is on the red side.
Chang'an is a team that focuses on the middle and upper fields, and Li Hua also knows that the upper field is the position that determines the direction of the team in these versions, so when it comes to transferring, he basically spends money on the middle and upper fields, and obviously, judging from the results of these games in the summer season, Li Hua's selection is in place.
The three positions of Chang'an Nakamino and Ueno are very well run in place in the summer game, and even TE's Uenakano was abused by them.
Among these three positions, Chang'an's mid-laner Savior is undoubtedly the key to it.
Nakakamino is the key to these versions, and Nakakamino is the most critical point among them.
savior is the absolute heart of this new CAG.
This person is known as Chang'an's second jungler, which means that this person is an extremely good wanderer.
Whether it's up and down or in the wild, as long as he finds an opportunity, he will find an opportunity to go to support.
savior turned out to be SKA's substitute midlaner, that is, Xiushan's substitute, and was discovered and trained by SKA to replace Xiushan. Fish fish
This person is only 17 years old this year, and he previously spent three years at SKA as a trainee.
savior hit the first place in hanbok at the age of 14, and at that time, whether it was China or South Korea, someone sent him an invitation, and finally this person entered the SKA as a trainee, and the reason why he went to the SKA was because his idol Xiushan was in this team.
After savior reached the age of 17 and was able to compete on the stage, Li Hua loaned savior to SKA for a year with a lot of money.
Because of Xiushan, savior couldn't start in SKA, plus Chang'an gave a lot of loan fees, and went to CAG to go directly to the field to experience a year in the LPL, SKA finally agreed to this decision, so savior represented CAG on the LPL stage at the beginning of this year.
This person is not only a strong supporter, he is also extremely powerful in playing a single line, when he first came to CAG, he was famous for his online single kill and suppression, although CAG's ranking in the spring game is not very high, but savior killed all the LPL midlaners in this year's spring game, and he is also the single kill king and regular season MVP of this year's spring game, basically the games won by CAG in the spring game are all his C.
But League of Legends is not a one-person game, just one-person C, it's useless.
At the beginning of CAG, the results were not good.
In the second half of the spring season, in order to win, Savior began to change his style, and he began to change from playing a single line to a wandering predominantly.
And because of its exquisite technology and strong operation, it can often link the three positions of the upper and lower fields with its own strength, and bring them all up.
Because of this, with the support of savior, CAG made the playoffs in the spring.
Before the game, Su Yu did the most work to study Savior.
The mid laner, as the most important position in the game League of Legends, can be roughly divided into two categories.
One is the pure line flow, this kind of mid-laner is to rely on his personal talent and strength, play a big advantage on the single line, and then lead the team to victory, this kind of person, rarely go to the line to support, because the game will lose the experience, so most of the time will rely on the line.
This kind of player is all a player with very strong line strength.
There are very few such people, and most of them are the core of the team.
For example, SKA's Xiushan, TE's Brother Hope, and Su Yu's Chenfeng of their team, these are all these.
They are all known for their ferocious matching, and those who can reach this level are all top-notch mid-laners.
The other is the main wandering support, which is a lot, because if your strength is not up to the same as those in front of you, you can play an advantage directly on the line, then you must find a way to cooperate with your teammates to open the situation from other roads, otherwise, you can only wait for losing.
And the position of the middle lane, because it can be linked with the upper and lower nosuke, happens to be suitable for support.
Therefore, when many people can't bargain online, they start to go down the road or on the road or in the wild area to find opportunities.
And Savior undoubtedly belongs to the third type, he can not only break you online, but also support up and down to help teammates.
This kind of person is undoubtedly born for the position of mid-laner.
And this is exactly the case, in his previous life, after savior came to China to play for a year, after returning to South Korea, after the contract expired, he did not renew his contract with SKA, when he was 14 years old and just played professionally, it was because his idol was in SKA, so he went to SKA.
But after a few years on the bench and a year as a starter at CAG, he naturally didn't want to stay in the SKA as a substitute.
Everyone understands that in SKA, even if Xiushan's state declines, as long as he does not retire, it will be difficult for him to have a chance to play.
In 2022, savior, whose contract with SKA expired, returned to China again.
That was the year that LPL won the championship of the S competition for the first time.
And the medium unit at that time, as well as the FMVP, was him.
Just like the meaning of his ID, LPL at that time called him a savior!
He is also the most famous and highest-paid player in the post-LPL era after Qishen.
In fact, long before this person came to LPL, his highlight operation on Hanbok had already appeared on the highlights of major video websites.
Even in the eyes of many viewers in major forums, Savior's strength has long surpassed Xiushan.
In fact, Blue Ocean has also played a training match with CAG, but the record is not very good, and it can even be said that he was abused by CAG very badly.
One of the most critical points is that the morning breeze in the middle lane cannot watch Savior on the line.
Savior's midfield linkage, or middle and lower, middle and upper linkage, all beat Su Yu and them very hard.
To be honest, in the three-way training match with CAG a week ago, Su Yu had an advantage in the bottom lane.
Li Hua spent all the money on the middle field, their lower lane combination is not strong, if there is no third party involved, Su Yu can directly blow up the two people on the opposite side online, but I am afraid that the opposite side will catch it, because Su Yu is too deep in the line, savior will catch it infinitely, and one will be accurate.
And the most perverted thing about this person is that ordinary people will definitely lose experience when they play wandering support, but as a result, this person will not lose a little experience at all when he goes to support his teammates, so Savior's wandering is definitely the best in the world.
He can ensure that he does not lose troops and experience when he wanders GANK, which not only has his own judgment of the situation, but also has a very terrifying suppression of the line, only the terrifying ability to line can ensure that he can push the line of troops before he wanders.
In this way, even if the roaming support is not successful, it will not lose many troops.
After the start of the first game of BP, Chang'an's top three moved out of Ezreal, Leopard Girl, and Troll.
And Blue Ocean has removed the cards, Galio, Orn.
Su Yu Ezreal doesn't need to talk about it, basically every team in this version will move when they encounter them.
And the leopard girl and the troll are moving to the sky, and each of them knows who the two biggest C's in the blue ocean are.
Let's not talk about who is the first core of the blue ocean between Su Yu and Qi Tian, but the two strongest points in the blue ocean must be the two of them.
Qi Tian is an extremely ferocious jungler, and he also really likes to go to online gank.
The three most used jungler heroes in the summer tournament are the Leopard Girl, the Male Gun, and the Troll.
These are also the three strongest heroes in his version.
If it weren't for Su Yu's Ezreal who really couldn't put it, CAG would definitely move the male gun to him too.
And the blue ocean is for CAG's mid laner to move,For savior, who is extremely good at playing support and wandering,Cards,Galio The two heroes must not be put to him.,Whether it's a training match or a game,,Basically never lost when he got these two heroes.。
His ability to find opportunities and bring rhythm is too strong.
After that, the first floor of CAG selected people directly selected the bear Volibel.
The reworked bear is very perverted, and it is extremely suitable for junglers to keep up with the order, so it went straight to the stage after the ban was lifted.
The first and second floors of the blue ocean directly locked the position of Nakano, the male gun and Sindra.
These two heroes are decided by Qi Tian and Morrowind, and the selection of these two heroes has already indicated that this is going to play the rhythm of the midfield with CAG.
The cards that are good at roaming support and Galio are gone, and they feel that even if Savior can support again, it will be useless when he can't get support for roaming heroes, not to mention that Morrowind chose this version of Sindra, who is extremely strong against the lane, just to press him to death in the middle lane.
As long as the savior is pressed in the middle and there is no sound, then the CAG will naturally fail directly.
This is the wishful thinking of Blue Ocean, and it is also the tactic of Blue Ocean to fight CAG formulated a day in advance.
After choosing the male gun and Sindra on the first and second floors of the blue ocean, the second and third hand buildings of CAG directly chose the snake girl and the crocodile.
The snake female crocodile, like the spider crocodile, is an extremely strong combination of Compo.
Crocodile Halo, Snake Girl Hinterland, or Snake Woman Hinterland, Crocodile Halo, is a strong combination of skills that will be charged to death no matter who eats it first.
As soon as CAG, the crocodile snake girl, appeared, it was clear that she was going to have a hard time with the blue ocean's Kaminakano.
The third hand of the blue ocean directly chose the monkey for the boat on the list.
In this way, Uenakano, who was destined to fight fiercely in the early and middle stages of the two sides, was selected.
In the second round of moving, the first three hands of the blue ocean did not come out of AD, and CAG began to move Su Yu's heroes frantically.
Ice shooter, Calista, the two major ADs that can be used in this version have all been moved by Su Yu.
To be honest, the top three hands of Blue Ocean did not help Su Yu choose people first, which is exactly what CAG wants to see.
CAG only removed Su Yu's Ezreal in the first round of moves, and they were really afraid that Su Yu would choose an ice shooter in the first three hands.
For Su Yu's Calista, they are really not particularly afraid, anyway, no matter what line they choose on the next road, it is difficult to compete with Su Yu, so even if it is given to Su Yu Calista, they are afraid that the reason why Su Yu chooses the ice shooter is that they are afraid of Su Yu's big move.
When Su Yu used cold ice before, his unmissable move left a deep impression on many teams.
CAG is not afraid of Su Yu using ice to press the knife in the lower lane, they are afraid that Su Yu's ultimate move will shoot from the bottom lane to the middle lane, affecting the rhythm of savior.
If Savior's rhythm is interrupted and he is killed by Morrowind in the middle lane because of Su Yu's arrow, then it will really be over.
So after the second round of moves began, CAG directly moved Su Yu's ice shooter in seconds, and then made up a hand of Calista.
And the last two moves of the blue ocean are Morgana and Hammerstone, both of which are auxiliaries.
In the second round of selection, as the blue ocean of the red side, Su Yu helped the little potato choose the bull's head.
The blue CAG, the fourth and fifth, locked Ephelius and Karma respectively.
The fifth hand of the blue ocean belonged to Su Yu's counter position, and the little potato helped Su Yu lock up Lucian in the exclamation of everyone.
Lucian, AD Lucian, a hero who has been absent from AD for a long time, appears again!
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