At the end of November, it was early winter.

Over the past month, in addition to the major clubs led by EDG frantically signing Korean aid, the most striking big news is that the LPL announced the expansion of the army, increasing the number of participating teams from the original 8 to 12, and held a pre-season selection tournament at the beginning of this month, where YG and EA, which were at the bottom of the league last season, competed with four LSPL teams for the four new places.

It should be pointed out that among the four LSPL teams, there is no RD.

As the champions and runners-up of the 2014 LSPL Summer Tournament, RD and SNAKE directly received LPL tickets for next season and did not need to participate in this preseason.

After the pre-season, it's the Demacia Cup.

With the end of the holiday and the return of all the players, RT returned to training and began to prepare for the game.

In the past month, in addition to making up for the live broadcast time, Lin Mu's main focus was on youth training, and he successfully completed the transfer of nearly 20 players in just one month, with a total transaction amount of 10 million.

Now that the words have been released, Lin Mu naturally will no longer hide his secrets, except for the five starters of the second team, most of the other potential players have been traded to other clubs.

In Lin Mu's words, many of these young people already have the ability to take charge of themselves, and it is a waste of time to continue to stay in the youth training.

coincided with the expansion of the LPL, and many teams were in urgent need of fresh blood, and Lin Mu happened to make a lot of money by selling youth players to return the funds.

It's December, and after a more than a month of offseason, RT has confirmed the offline debut schedule after S4 wins the championship.

【2014 Demacia Cup Finals & Annual Awards Ceremony】

Date: December 8-13

Different from the previous German Cup, this year's Demacia Cup has been significantly improved in the professional competition system, and at the same time, the positioning is clearer, aiming to deepen the exchange and collision between LPL and LSPL teams.

According to the format, except for the four semi-finals of the Spring Tournament, RT, EDG, E and OMG, which will advance to the top 8, the other four LPL teams will start from the first round together with all LSPL teams.

It is worth mentioning that the second team RD with Xiaohu Xiangguo as the core performed well in this German Cup, successfully broke through with its tenacious performance, and met with the first team to the quarterfinals.

The match was held at the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center in Shenzhen, and on the first match day, RT was the last player to play in the finale and advance to the semi-finals 2-0.

It is a pity that the second team RD lost 1/2 in the quarterfinals to OMG, who won the semi-finals at the World Championship a month ago, and failed to continue the miracle.

Facts have proved that the level gap between LSPL and LPL is not the same, including RD, no team can stage the drama of giant killers,

The final four finalists are the four seeded teams of RT, OMG, E and EDG.

In the semi-finals, the first to play were EDG and E, the old enemies.

In this battle, the two sides can be said to have tried their best, and the game was difficult to solve, and they were stunned to play all the games of BO5, and the winner was not decided until the fifth game, which caused many viewers who were waiting for RT to appear in front of the screen to be quite unhappy, and they complained on the barrage.

In the end, it was EDG, who had been baptized in the World Championship, who won the first ticket to the finals.

It is worth mentioning that both teams used Korean aid players in this competition, on one side is the former three-star blue jungler Spirit, nicknamed "Pink Monster", and on the other side is also the former three-star club DEFT and PAN.

In the words of netizens, in addition to the double champion RT in this Demacia Cup, the biggest fun is to count Korean aid.

According to the current news collection and collation, of the 12 teams in the next LPL, 8 teams have been confirmed to be recruited, and the remaining teams, except for RT, have all reported news of contact with Korean players without exception.

And the next semi-finals are one of the few teams that have not yet been touched by Korean aid.

RTvsOMG

Like RT, after returning home from the semi-finals in S4, OMG still maintains its original lineup.

In this battle, RT took the lead with a fast-break lineup, but suffered some small setbacks in the second game, and was pulled back by OMG, but that's all, in the third game, RT came up with a set of panacea lineup with clear front and back rows, played steadily, won the team battle in the late stage, and took the lead in getting the match point, which attracted the audience to scream and cheer all over the place.

In the next fourth game, the mentality of the OMG crowd was already a little unbalanced, especially in the lower lane, and it was directly threaded in less than 10 minutes, allowing UZI to win a super record in this game.

The next day, the finals began.

RTvsEDG

Before the official start of the game, a pre-match recorded interview between the two sides was shown on the big screen, which is the so-called trash talk.

Of course, it's trash talk, except for Ming Kai's sentence "Xiao Qi will be raised by me", everyone else is quite cautious, especially the two new Korean aid DEFT and PAN, in the face of RT who just defeated themselves in the World Championship, these two people have a modest attitude, and they consider themselves learners, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are cautious.

This is completely different from the previous life, when the Korean aid came to China on a large scale, OGN had dominated the world championship for two consecutive years, in fact, not only the LPL, the Korean aid went to any other league is a superior attitude, they look at the local league team from a bird's eye down, just like NBA players come to the CBA, and players from the five major leagues come to the Chinese Super League......

In addition, there is a very important point, which is also a more practical point, that is, the signing fee of all Korean aid to China this time is far less than that of the previous life.

Taking the DADE signed by E as an example, as the most valuable Korean aid, E gave him a signing fee of only 150,000 US dollars, that is, less than 1 million yuan, which was more than 1/3 lower than the 250,000 US dollars in his previous life.

The value of Korean players is declining, while Chinese players are steadily rising.

Thanks to RT winning two consecutive S championships, the commercial value of the entire LPL has increased a lot, and not only in China, but also to foreign platforms, taking the Demacia Cup final as an example, the number of viewers on the mouse platform has exceeded 100,000 in one fell swoop, second only to the World Championship and the LCS League.

There is no need for media announcements and fans to advocate that after winning two consecutive championships, the LPL has naturally become recognized as the world's number one league.

What's more worth mentioning is that after the end of S4, Mouse Station and Africa Channel almost simultaneously threw an olive branch to Lin Mu, the world's hottest e-sports player, hoping to buy out his live broadcast rights outside Chinese mainland.

To open up the international market, the opportunity that countless domestic singers and actors dreamed of took the initiative to send to Lin Mu.

The reason why he has not agreed for a long time is because the current live broadcast of Lin Mu and Douyu has not ended, whether it is at home or abroad, the copyright is in the hands of Douyu.

Although he is the major shareholder of Douyu, even Lin Mu cannot violate the spirit of the contract and create a precedent for such a negative atmosphere in the e-sports circle.

The good news is that the end of this contract is not far away.

The one-year contract, which came into effect on January 1, 2014, is now mid-December, and half a month will be a piece of waste paper.

2015, a new season, is coming.