Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Pro Tournament Begins
I don't know for some reason, when Du Zonglin usually goes back to school, the west gate closest to his dormitory building is actually closed by construction, and there is no way, this time he had to take a detour to enter from the north gate of the school, that is, the main gate.
The familiar fountains, the familiar two straight roads, and the familiar green paths, Du Zonglin remembered the situation when he met Lin Wanqing when he first entered school.
In the blink of an eye, I didn't expect that so much time had passed, and it really made people sigh, time flies.
The moment he drove the car into the school gate, Du Zonglin immediately sent a message to Lin Wanqing. Du Zonglin asked her where she was now and what she was doing, and it happened that the other party said that she was borrowing books from the library now. Du Zonglin thought that he happened to be very close to her, so he decided to pick her up directly and go to dinner.
The two of them came to the student cafeteria located in District 1, ordered something casually, and sat down to eat.
The so-called Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and when he comes back this time, Du Zonglin looks at Lin Wanqing as if he is more moving than before.
"What do you keep looking at me, haven't you seen enough?" Lin Wanqing said angrily. She found that since the two of them sat face to face just now, Du Zonglin had been staring at herself like a fool.
"Of course I can't see enough, how can I see enough." Du Zonglin said with a smile.
Hearing him say this, Lin Wanqing was a little embarrassed. Could it be that when he goes home, he becomes so good at sweet talking?
During the small talk, Lin Wanqing asked what he did when he went home. Du Zonglin also truthfully reported his itinerary in the past few days to her one by one.
Originally, Lin Wanqing was still surprised, but he didn't expect that he would get the support of his parents so smoothly and support him to pursue a career, and then a message reminder suddenly came from his mobile phone.
"What is this?" Du Zonglin asked curiously while eating.
After Lin Wanqing looked at his mobile phone, he replied: "It's the event reminder I subscribed to, and today seems to be the start day of the professional league." ”
"Race day? Did I hear me right? "Now, the surprised person has become Du Zonglin." I've never heard that you're so interested in the professional leagues. ”
Lin Wan's innocent little face was flushed again, and she only heard her hesitantly say, "I...... I love the house and the ...... Can't you ......"
In fact, her subtext is: In case one day in the future, you also appear on the field, then I can only watch you through the screen.
But a girl's delicate mind, how can a rough man like Du Zonglin understand? At this time, he couldn't stop snickering, happy for what Lin Wanqing said just now.
Lin Wanqing suddenly changed her words and said, "Today, isn't it the day of Xiaoyi's debut? ”
After Lin Wanqing's reminder, Du Zonglin patted his head, yes, I said that I felt like something was wrong just now, and it turned out that I forgot about it.
How could you forget about such a big event as having your cousin playing on the first race day?
Damn it! Damn it!
Du Zonglin hurriedly turned on the mobile phone that he put aside during the meal, and prepared to open the live broadcast platform to watch the game.
"No, just look at this." At this time, I saw Lin Wanqing slowly take out a tablet computer from her backpack, and after calling up the game screen, she put it in front of Du Zonglin.
At this time, there are still about two minutes before the official game starts.
"Qingqing...... How can I ......" Du Zonglin wanted to say: "How did I find out that I love you so much". But after thinking about it, it seemed too early to say this, so the words came to his lips and forcibly swallowed them back.
"What do you want to say?" Lin Wanqing asked curiously.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......," Du Zonglin said shyly.
"What the hell...... Lin Wanqing rolled her eyes, and then sat next to Du Zonglin with her bag. This way, two people can watch the game together.
Traditionally, the League of Legends professional league in China has two seasons a year, with the first season starting in March and lasting in June, followed by a one-month break. The one-month period from mid-August to mid-September is the World Championships, which are held once a year. Then, from the beginning of November to February of the following year, the second season is held.
As for the format of the professional competition, it adopts the method of playing every Saturday, resting on Friday, and playing twice a day. In other words, spectators can watch the game almost every day of the week except Friday.
Today, the league as a whole has developed very well. This year's tournament features 18 teams, two more teams than last year, and one more place in the Series S Global Championships.
Due to the expansion and influence of the S-Series Global Championship from this year, the four groups of 16 teams that qualified for the main tournament have been expanded to the current 8 groups and 32 teams.
From the top two in each group to advance to the quarterfinals, to now, only the first place in each group advances.
Times are changing, the league is changing, and everyone is looking for better and better.
As the opening match of the new season, the tournament organizers will painstakingly arrange two fateful duels every year. And today's two matches, the first is the old powerhouse ING team VS last season's champion team K team, and the second game is the new army IS team that has just joined the league this season against the UK team, which is also a new army.
On the one hand, there is a contest of strength between old opponents, and on the other hand, there is a technical contest between newcomers, which is indeed full of expectations.
According to the league's regulations, each team will send a player to post a new season goal statement on their behalf at the start of the new season every year. This is also an old traditional project of the Alliance.
In fact, in all seriousness, the fall season that starts in November is considered the first season, and the season that starts in March should be considered the second season. The final standings of Season 2 will determine whether or not a player's team qualifies for the Global Championship starting in August.
Because of this, at the beginning of each autumn season, the team that finished first in the league last season will return the championship trophy, which symbolizes the first honor.
On the live broadcast screen, each of the eighteen teams sent a representative to complete the goal of the new season, and according to the process, the captain of the K team, Qiao Wei, a player with an ID of K.Key, took the stage to return the trophy.
Finally, these pre-match warm-up sessions were over, and all the members of the other teams withdrew to the sidelines to watch the game, except for the four participating teams today.
"Are you going to start?" Lin Wanqing saw that the people on the stage had withdrawn, so she asked Du Zonglin.
Du Zonglin nodded and said, "Well, yes." ”
At this point, the voices of the live presenters in the screen gradually disappeared, replaced by the voices of the game commentators sitting in the studio.
"HELLO IS WATCHING TODAY'S GAME ON THE SPOT AND IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN, I AM THE COMMENTATOR OF TODAY'S GAME."
"Hello everyone, I'm the commentator for today's game, joking."
After the two commentators briefly introduced themselves, and in the following period of preparation for the players, the two of them began to read and talk about their old jobs, as well as conduct a simple pre-match analysis.
Lao Kai and Joke, as the two oldest celebrity commentators in the domestic commentary industry, can already be said to be the two well-known commentators. And the audience is also used to the Spring Festival Gala every year, and they are used to the opening game being narrated by the two of them.
And for this classic pairing, many viewers who like them also give their group a nickname, called the "joking" combination.
The reason for this nickname is that they are very close to each other based on their names, and secondly, because their commentary style is very humorous and funny, as if they are joking with the audience.
After the familiar opening remarks, it finally ushered in the highlight of the day - the battle between Team ING and Team K!
This tournament uses the game after the 7.9 update, and the biggest change in this version is the change in the experience points of the jungle. Jungler heroes can no longer quickly reach level 6 by directly farming as before, and the level protection mechanism is gone.
Originally, farming would give you extra XP compensation when you were behind in jungle level, but with this update, this backward protection clause is a thing of the past.
It can be said that this version of the jungler hero has not had a better time than before. If they want to play at the same level as before, they will need to weigh the relationship between the farm and the online gank.