Chapter 606: The Brazilian Audience Is Like This
Except for being visited by local fan Mayumi on the first day, the entire EDG team lived a two-point life from the hotel room to the training room for five days from the end of the MSI group stage to the start of the knockout round.
Not only EDG, but even if the four teams in the semi-finals are the European team G2 with the lowest training intensity, these days are also high-intensity battles.
The four teams in the semi-finals were grouped, with EDG and G2 in the top half of the group, and SKT in second place in the same group as FW.
Therefore, in order to avoid being studied by the same team, the training objects at this time basically choose the team next door, and at the same time, because EDG and SKT regard each other as the opponents of the finals, the result is that EDG only plays training matches with FW, while G2 only trains with SKT.
Mixia's side has a high win rate against FW, and it will inevitably leak a lot of systems prepared for the finals, but Karsa is destined to be the one who will come to the LPL in the future, and improving the strength of the FW is actually equivalent to contributing to the LPL in disguise.
The situation of the opposite G2 and SKT training matches can only be understood through online messages.
For example, Summertime saw a tweet from G2 midlaner Perkz, claiming that he felt very relaxed and felt that the faker training match did not put pressure on him at all.
SKT officials sent out pictures of the players training seriously, aiming for the championship.
The players are basically closed, so the most enjoyable thing in the past few days is the commentary host of the publicly-funded tourism in each competition area.
Summergate's Twitter account is concerned about the people involved in the competition, among which the most tweeted is Yanmar sjokz, which is a beach and a hotel pool, but fortunately, Summer's resistance as a girl is strong enough, so she was not affected by these dazzling photos.
And the factory director doesn't even have a foreign app in his mobile phone, so it won't be affected.
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It's May 20th.
At noon, Meixia sent a message to her sister Rissa, who was far away in China, to prepare for departure, and the other party came back with a yellow soybean smile and Chinese cheers.
Packing up her keyboard and mouse, she followed her teammates out the door.
The hotel residence is a long distance from the stadium, board the bus provided by Fist, after more than ten minutes of driving, it actually began to jam again, looking out of the window, the road is not very spacious is full of cars and vans, and the traffic is constantly passing through people with oil paint on their faces.
Fortunately, the modern stadium is far away, so you don't have to worry about being late for the game.
"It's so crowded! Is this usually the case here in Brazil? "The order mouse has a feeling.
"It seems like they're all going to the game, and I saw a lot of people holding our EDG flags." Summer's eyes are sharp-eyed, and she finds a lot of elements of League of Legends matches in the crowd.
As a reminder, everyone noticed that there were bronzed muscles Cos Ezreal, aunt Cos Lux who looked in her thirties, and people with standard oil paint on their foreheads and G2 and EDG flags.
"It really looks like it's going in the direction of the gymnasium!" "There are so many viewers that there are far more than 50,000 people." ”
"I'm super? Is League of Legends so hot here in Brazil? It doesn't take a few decades, a year or two, and you really have the opportunity to play at the Maracanã Football Stadium!! The director was also surprised.
Head coach Abu didn't expect so many people either, but he was able to force it out with the information he got from the Riot organizers.
"It's all calm, Brazilians are like this, the game may not necessarily play well, but the enthusiasm for watching e-sports games is definitely the highest in the world, playing CS games in the past few years, this is also one of the hottest areas in the world, and today this situation is shouting? Next week, the MSI Finals Riot will invite Bailey to present the championship award, and the popularity will only be better when the time comes, do you still want to call in the car......"
"I'm super, the king of the ball, Pele!" The director of the factory is hot, he is an amateur fan, and this kind of amateur cloud fan will always have a more fanatical mentality for football legends than senior fans.
Just like the League of Legends esports cloud audience, many of them will follow the wind to praise faker or uzi because they have read and heard the video articles of the marketing account.
In the afterglow of the setting sun in the afternoon, the bus finally drove slowly into the venue.
The reinforced concrete Santos Olympic Stadium in Nilton, at this time all the lights are turned off and quietly paused in front of you, from the outside it looks like a factory that has been shut down, not delicate but very rough, which is completely different from the exquisite stadiums in Tokyo and even China that Mixia has seen.
It is a Colosseum purely prepared for competition!
Sign autographs for avid spectators stuck behind protective railings, pass through the organizer's security check, and have the team staff put on makeup and enter the lounge to wait.
Listen to the click, and a string of lights shine overhead around the ceiling of the prototype stand, illuminating the stage of the central lawn made of metal panels.
The noisy noises of the scene merged and gathered into a unified cheer, which soared into the sky.
The semi-finals were like a football match, and there was no opening dance performance like the first game of the group stage, and Summer's side was quickly notified by the staff to prepare for the game.
The group reached the entrance of the stadium through a narrow tunnel illuminated by side LED lights.
Looking up, it was a completely different experience from the domestic finals and even last year's World Championships.
The surrounding three spectator seats were densely packed with people, because of the long distance, and it was the first time to enter the venue without a rehearsal, and the shock of suddenly facing so many spectators was far greater than last year's World Championship finals.
"I'm dropping a turtle??" Mouse couldn't help but sigh, "This 50,000-person football stadium is so spectacular, I feel that the Staples scene at the Lakers' home stadium last year was not as big as this!" ”
"Of course, last year's 20,000-person indoor stadium at the Staples Center, this is an outdoor soccer field for 50,000 people! Can the size of a basketball court be compared to a football field? "Look at the ......"
The coach just wanted everyone to learn to manage their emotions like a calm Sakura girl.
But how could Summernet not be thrilled by this huge venue!
"Wow, that's big! Coach senior! Factory director senior! She stepped on the soles of her feet and tried to smell the grass, "It's amazing that EDG was able to win on such a huge stage!" Be sure to make the whole audience cheer for our victory! ”
Well, even Mika was impressed by the venue, and Abu had no reason to force the players to keep their minds calm.
Abu had no choice but to change his words, "Ahem, learn Mika, don't just feel that the venue is big, we have to think about winning the championship from beginning to end!" ”
At this time, the host of the venue made a high-spirited opening broadcast in Portuguese.
"Let's welcome both players to the stage!!"
"On the left is the G2 team from Europe, and on the right is the EDG team from China!!
Two spotlights point to the stage.
Both teams take the stage!
Mixia glanced at the other side twice, and Perkz, who burned the bun, smiled and waved her hands to the audience, and she immediately waved her hands to the audience.
Just like in a football match, there are no pauses in the rhythm and both sides have their respective equipment commissioned.
The first semi-final of the MSI Mid-Season Championship has officially begun!
(End of chapter)