Riding a donkey to catch the market, there was a horse rider in front, and when he looked back at the cart man, he was less than the top and more than the bottom.

That's how people at AHQ are feeling right now.

They knew that there was a gap between their strength and that of the lightning wolf.

At the same time, it is also clear that there are basically no weak teams that can enter the World Championship.

Does a wild card have to be weak?

Not necessarily.

For the Extracard Division, they may be a little behind the other teams in terms of development time, and their strength is a little worse.

But at Worlds, for the vast majority of teams, strength is not everything.

The teams that emerged from the wild cards basically maintained a crushing posture when dealing with other teams in the country.

Rushing into the World Championship with this mentality of "no one can play", and in a situation where the perception of the strength of other teams is somewhat vague, they are very likely to play 12% with strong self-confidence.

In the world competition, strength is the first, and mentality is the second.

Undoubtedly.

AHQ is in a good state of mind right now.

Compared to the lightning wolf, their grouping is really much stronger.

At least...... There is a chance to make it to the quarterfinals.

There's no choice for this kind of thing in the first place, but they still want Riot to change the format and put the LMS and wild cards in the same group.

But they can only go to sleep well, and they have everything in their dreams.

……

"The grouping is okay."

Seeing that the lottery results were over, the hearts of the Sac people also fell.

They don't want to meet SKT directly in the group.

Because in the face of SKT, it is difficult to defeat the opponent without exposing some tactics of pressing the bottom of the box.

Just like at MSI, Sac at that time prepared a full service for SKT.

But after all this time, those tactics may not still work.

"It's okay, although Samsung is not weak, but on paper it looks weaker than SKT and ROX, after all, it is the third seed."

Li Mu yawned and rubbed his stomach: "I'm a little hungry, let's eat first, and then wait for the schedule." ”

"I've already ordered takeout, brother? N, call me Brother Pot and I'll give you a little bit. ”

The incense pot squeezed his eyes with a smile.

"Brother Pot."

Shi Senming leaned up: "What's the point?" ”

"Garlic crayfish."

The incense pot lowered his voice and leaned into Shi Senming's ear: "Add spicy." ”

Under the supervision of Brother Feng, the incense pot no longer dares to be so presumptuous.

can only secretly use a little means to satisfy his body and mind.

"It just so happened that I also ordered a spicy fragrant pot and partnered with me."

Shi Senming said with a smile.

The two hit it off.

The cooking aunt at the base hasn't come back from vacation yet.

The problem of eating can only be solved by yourself.

"You eat yours, and I eat mine."

Li Mu got up and stretched, he hadn't eaten the food made by Xiao Nizi for a long time, and he had thought about it for a long time.

There is no shortage of vegetables in the kitchen of the SAC base, and Li Xin should be almost tinkering with the time.

The children of poor families are in charge of the family at an early age.

Even Li Mu has two brushes, let alone Li Xin.

A moment later.

A scent wafted in.

The team members who had not yet arrived swallowed their saliva one after another.

"I'll go to the bathroom."

After Shi Senming finished speaking, he sneaked out of the training room.

"I'll go and see if the takeaway has arrived."

The incense pot rubbed his mouth without a trace, and quietly slipped out of the training room.

Half an hour later.

There was a mess at the table.

Everyone in SAC was burping, and when they saw that Li Xin was about to step forward to clean up the table, they hurriedly rushed to help clean it up one by one.

"Go and rest, I'm tired after sitting in the car for so long."

Li Mu stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch Li Xin's face, but the latter wrinkled his nose to dodge.

"Brother of so many people, I'm not a child anymore."

"Hey, when I grew up, I knew I was shy."

Li Mu Yile rubbed Li Xin's head with his backhand: "Go quickly." ”

Li Xin didn't insist anymore, the bus came all the way, for her, who had never been far away, it was quite fresh at the time, but now she feels tired.

……

"I said uncle...... Uh, Lao Li, your sister's cooking is too delicious, just be a cooking lady, I raised my hands in agreement. ”

Shi Senming said with a smirk.

"Fuck off, my sister is here to study, Jiaotong University to find out."

At the point of promotion, Li Mu's face inevitably showed a trace of self-satisfaction and pride, and it felt as if he had been admitted.

"Jiaotong University? Damn, it's amazing. ”

Brother Feng gave a thumbs up.

He really didn't know before this, he only knew that Li Xin came to go to school, but he didn't know which school it was.

……

As everyone returned to the team, the atmosphere in the team gradually became tense.

Some of the old tactics that Sac had mastered were honed, and new tactics were being worked on all the time.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mu has been in charge of participating in the training match recently.

Gogoing only occasionally plays a dozen training matches, and uses more popular heroes.

The players can feel that Gogoing's strength does not seem to continue to decline, and it has also improved a little, although it is not much, but it is indeed there.

Except for Brother Feng, the rest of the team members only knew that Gogoing had recently received special training from Li Mu and practiced some sassy things, but it was not yet known what it was.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to set out on the expedition.

Li Xin still lives in the club for the time being, and when the school starts, the people left behind at the base will send her to the school.

After arranging these things, Li Mu can be regarded as relieved and devoted himself to the pre-game preparation of the S competition.

As for the schedule......

It's already out.

The opening ceremony will be held at 7 o'clock on the morning of September 30, Beijing time.

Then the first game began at half past seven.

As a team in Group A, the first game will usher in the highlight of the world's attention, Sac vs. SSG.

Sac arrived in San Francisco early in mid-to-late September and stayed at a hotel near Bill Graham's Municipal Auditorium.

From the window of the hotel, you can see the staff who are decorating the hall with LOL elements.

Li Mu stood in front of the window of the room and drank it all with a cup of oolong tea.

S5, the situation in Europe is similar.

At that time, the hotel also had a view of the venue.

It's just that in the end, it left regrets.

Now I have walked through a familiar scene again.

Li Mu...... vowed to rewrite this ending.

"No matter who stands in the way, it won't change the final outcome."

Li Mu slowly exhaled.

On the eve of the start of the World Championship.

Teams from each region began to compete with each other.

I want to find some strong teams to make appointments when I play training matches.

This is the norm.

Moreover, teams from different groups will go to the training match, and the teams in the same group will be involved in the competition in the group, so there will basically be no invitation to the same group.

Sac won the MSI championship and also won the LPL spring and summer championships, and in this year's EPSN World Team Rankings, Sac ranked second.

Second only to ROX in first place.

And there's a list that's more interesting.

This list is about the players.

Twenty players will be selected from all the teams participating in the Worlds.

It's a routine poisoned milk that Fist does every year.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that.

The top of this year's list of poisoned milk is Li Mu.

Even Li Mu himself was surprised when he heard the news.

Lined up behind him is the faker.

After that, the top ten players were basically swept by LCK and LPL.

On the European and American side, only one person has entered it.

That's Big Brother.

Pilsen came in eleventh place.

Among the players on SAC's side, the incense pot ranked higher, in twelfth place.

The Chinese players in the top ten queues, in addition to Li Mu, also include RNG's uzi and EDG team Ming Kai.

Also in the top 20 are Team Sac's Shi Senming and smlz.

It can be said that in addition to the left hand and gogoing who did not make the list, Sac actually has four people on the list.

Although Shi Senming and SMLZ are ranked 18th and 19th respectively, being recognized worldwide is enough to prove the strength of these two.

From the beginning of the occasional collapse and unstable state, to now the Sac bottom lane has become a rather hardcore point.

Whoever underestimates them must be weighed carefully.

In such a slightly tense atmosphere, the first day of the group stage of the World Championship finally arrived.

On that day, 16 teams, including Sac, stood at the entrance of the passage near the venue.

From here, everyone can see the black and oppressive audience and the exciting atmosphere.

Especially at the moment when the countdown sounds.

Accompanied by the sound of the audience counting the seconds, Li Mu let out a breath, which soothed the slightly stiff body a little.

In the opening ceremony of S5, he did not participate in it because he was only an emergency substitute.

But this time, he felt it in the true sense of the word.

zero！

The shouts of the audience rang out.

The lights in the stadium dimmed suddenly.

Only a faint flash could faintly reveal the orchestra in the very center of the stage.

And when the music plays, the brilliant lights suddenly begin to build a blueprint for a corner of the Summoner's Rift!

The misty light and shadow reflect the shape of the defense tower, and the mighty swordsman stands in place with shields and heavy swords, which looks quite mysterious under the projection of light and shadow.

The sound effects at the scene were also quite explosive.

There was the sound of ice arrows flying through the air.

There is also the evil laugh that Anne let out when she throws the bear.

The sound of the robot's hook and claw rubbing.

And the somewhat suppressed cry of Demacia.

Everything tugs at the heartstrings of the players.

"Riot Music still has something."

Listening to the theme song of the S6 World Finals, Xiangguo sighed slightly.

Li Mu smiled.

He was tempted to say that you haven't listened to the S7 theme song yet.

If you listen to S7, you will find that the rest of the theme song will be overshadowed in front of it.

Of course, this is Li Mu's personal sense, and it does not represent everything.

There were no awkward dances on the scene this year.

This has been well received by the audience.

Li Mu thought about it carefully......

It seems that only LPL will engage in some bells and whistles.

Look at other people's bands playing, it's really OK.

When the theme song ends, there is a short promotional video for each team.

Li Mu saw the moment when Sac successfully won the summer tournament.

Riot captured the moments of glory of all the teams and broadcast them on the big screen to players around the world.

Show the charm of LOL to more people.

After that, stay for the team tour of each team.

In order.

The three LCK teams that won the championship in the last S Tournament took the lead on stage.

After that came the LPL team.

And then there is NA.

EU。

And so on.

When all the teams stood on the stage, accompanied by a burst of English hustle and bustle that Li Mu couldn't fully understand, the World Championship officially opened!

Under the guidance of the referees, the SAC group and several people from the SSG had already gone to debug the machine.

The coaches of both sides also stood on the stage at this time, and the coaches did not dare to let their guard down at the moment before the game began.

"There's nothing to say when playing Samsung, our own style has restrained them, what you need to pay attention to is some small routines of Samsung in the early stage, especially the point of the head of Jungler, he is a bit like the director of the factory in South Korea, all of them belong to the type of scheming, and the operation is not his strength."

Brother Feng chattered endlessly.

Samsung's standard lineup for the S6 season has been carried over to S7 without any changes.

Upper single withering.

Jungler Ann is in charge.

Brother Crown.

ADC ruler emperor.

Assist in picking JJ.

The overall strength is very strong.

Especially the wither, it is definitely the top three in the top list of the LCK, but the strength is a little unstable, when it is strong, it is invincible, and when it is weak, it fascinates its teammates.

In terms of lane strength, Brother Feng is not too worried.

His only concern was on Ann's side.

"It's okay, Brother Feng, we haven't lost in the early stage under Lao Li's command, it doesn't matter what little routine the other party has, let's just do it."

The incense pot is relaxed on the surface, but in fact, it is also secretly vigilant.

He didn't know that Ann was the key Mr. of SSG.

As long as the early rhythm of Ann Boss is limited, then the probability of SSG losing is very high.

"In short, calm down, don't be nervous, just follow the usual training matches, Xiao Ming and the old thief grab a little more hand warmers, so as to avoid cold hands affecting the operation at that time."

Brother Feng knows who in the team will have a weak mentality.

Ma Ge is cold on the surface, but he is relatively slow to heat up in the World Championships, and is even prone to make some low-level mistakes in the laning period.

When people are nervous, they tend to have cold hands.

The impact on operations is not insignificant.

At the same time, there are countless eyes in the domestic e-sports circle who are paying attention to and looking forward to the arrival of this game.

There are three people in charge of today's commentators.

They are Changmao, Su Xiaoyan and Wuwukai.

When the camera cuts to them, they say hello to the audience.

Hello everyone, I'm Longhair.

"I'm Su Xiaoyan."

"I'm white."

It's still the standard S3 hairstyle, but it's a little shorter.

When he was invited to participate in the commentary seat, Wu Wukai agreed without the slightest hesitation.

He won't let go of this opportunity to make a name for himself.

"Now, now that White is here today, what do you think about this upcoming first bout as a former pro?"

Long Hair directly aimed the problem at the five-five open.

Wuwu straightened his hair and coughed lightly: "There must be a little bit of opinion, I often watch LPL games, especially in the finals, Sac's performance surprised me, it's a thief...... You know the fierce kind. ”

Subconsciously, he wanted to come up with his famous sayings, but at the last moment, he noticed the occasion, and he coughed lightly and changed his words in an instant.

"Grandpa is watching from above."

Li Mu inadvertently glanced at a familiar figure on the comment table above, and muttered a little stunned.

"What?"

Shi Senming turned his head to look.

"Nothing."

Li Mu smiled.

After all, it is still early for the cool time of the old man.