Put on an elegant black suit, comb your hair to look like an adult, put on a burgundy tie, and straighten your cuffs in front of the mirror.

Xu Ruoguang is ready to go.

Brother Kkoma will accompany him to attend today, and at this time, he is also wearing a handsome suit, and he is standing at the door waiting.

And it's not just kkoma, but also Canyon and viper.

They are all members of today's Freshman Challenge.

That's right, even if Canyon won the S8 World Championship, he is still an out-and-out newcomer.

The moment he saw Xu Ruoguang, his eyes lit up and he clapped his hands.

"Not bad."

Xu Ruoguang smiled restrainedly,

"Brother is also very handsome today."

"After all, I'm married, and she has to dress me up, alas."

Although he was sighing, the smile on KKOMA never disappeared.

"Let's go, brother."

The four of them hop into the UR Club car and head to the venue of the Freshman Challenge.

The Freshman Challenge, an event that has never been held by the LCK before.

On the one hand, many teams at that time hid the newcomers they valued, and it was impossible to release them to play this kind of exhibition match.

On the other hand, the previous LCK president did not have this idea either.

But the current chairman Lee Min-hyuk is different after all, and he has the decisiveness and control that the previous president did not have.

Caught the idea that LCK teams wanted to occupy the popular time slot of the broadcast and drain traffic, and directly created the Freshman Challenge.

Unlike the Freshman Challenge in each major region in the future, this LCK's Freshman Challenge can be described as extremely serious.

On the one hand, it represents interests, and on the other hand, this freshman challenge will directly determine the ownership of the most potential newcomer king of S9 this year.

The major teams also did not hesitate to send their own baby rookie players according to the positions assigned by the competition committee.

The players on both sides are undoubtedly luxurious in the eyes of future generations.

The first is the Emporer team led by Xu Ruoguang.

Top laner, player from KZ, rascal.

This player is still relatively unknown now, but he has become a player who everyone has to call Brother after seeing him.

Speaking of which, Brother Zi, this player is really a bit of a mildew.

At the age of 16, my brother played professionally for the first time and added a team called YW, but three days later, YW was directly disbanded, and all the members left the team, which was also difficult.

What if you don't have a team?

At that time, no one wanted anyone in the LPL and LCK was worried, he gritted his teeth and was ruthless.

You don't want me to be, Lao Tzu Xiba goes to LJL [Japan Division].

Joined a team called [RascalJester], but returned to Korea after two months, but in honor of the beginning of this not-so-good career, the ID of the brother, rescal, came about.

After returning to South Korea, although after Khan was bought by SKT, Brother Zige became the starting list faster, but there was another very unlucky thing in the summer game.

In March of last year's spring tournament, he was banned until July last year because he hid at the suicide of former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.

Now it is really a newcomer, and it is a real natural choice.

Jungler, a newcomer from KT, pyosik, was originally a player who debuted early in the S8LCK internal talent tryout.

I also played in last year's spring game.,But the performance is not very easy to say.,Although the rhythm is good.,But as a key punishment for the jungler, I often can't win.,As a result, I was directly sent down by KT after the summer game of S8 last year.,As a result, it played very well after the development league.。

So this year's S9, KT is ready to give him another chance.

Mid laner, a newcomer from the LCK's dark horse team GRF, a mid laner who has already shown potential just after his debut last year, chovy.

AD, newcomer AD from SKT, Gumayusi.

This is a rookie AD who just joined SKT a few days after S8 played, but because his brother is a famous professional player, and his own talent is really good, so even if he only joined for a long time, he still got SKT's attention and let him go to the rookie challenge.

Support, a support newcomer from the Samsung team, Life.

The...... Forget it, there is no need to introduce it at birth.

And Faker, as an opponent, is also not to be underestimated.

Top laner, a rookie on behalf of AFS, kiin.

This player actually debuted in EEW, which is not strictly his first year.

But because EEW is too rubbish, S7 was directly relegated to South Korea's development league after playing, resulting in a sense that Kiin's S8 in AFS is only the first year, and it barely meets the standard of newcomers.

Jungler, a newcomer from UR, Canyon.

Although it is said that the world champion jungler was just released last year, Canyon is indeed a real rookie jungler in the LCK, and he has only been playing for a year when he is full.

…… And then go straight to the championship.

In the middle of the list, naturally it can't be Xu Xiu.

If Xu Xiu and Canyon play Nakano in this kind of freshman challenge, then others really don't want to play, this pair of Nakano is now one of the top midfields in the world, and even one of them can be removed.

The mid laner is a rookie mid laner from the KT team, Ucal.

KT has a high regard for Ucal, joining KT in 2017 before he was 17 years old, and when he reached 17, KT immediately put him on the roster as a substitute for Pawn.

In S8 last year, Ucal did cash in on some talent, playing well during the period when Pawn had to be treated for an injury.

AD, of course, is the newcomer AD, viper, who represents UR.

GRF was one of the four kings of last year.

After all, five of the Four Heavenly Kings are common sense.

LCK officials also have to take into account the situation of GRF, and the other position that happens to be assigned to UR is AD, so UR sent viper, which can be regarded as helping GRF occupy a spot.

As for the final support, it is naturally SKT's newcomer small assistant, Effort.

The captain of the aircraft team, who has now moved to SKT, is on the road.

The line-ups of both sides are as follows:

Team Xu Ruoguang: Top laner Rascal

Jungler pyosik

Mid laner chovy

ADGumayusi

Auxiliary Life

Team Faker: Top laner Kiin

Jungler Canyon

Mid laner Ucal

ADViper

Auxiliary Effor

The lineups on both sides are actually very good lineups.

From the perspective of future generations, except for the two assistants, who may not be particularly eye-catching, the other players are basically first-class and upward, and there are many top-level players.

That's what LCK is right now.

Although S6 and S7 were defeated by K1 and IP led by Xu Ruoguang, LCK has never been willing to fail, and each club's youth training has been very successful, and has been committed to discovering new talented players.

And now, this group of players who are still a little immature have also stood on the stage of the S9 Freshman Challenge.

It shouldn't be far off before some of them enter the arena before they officially compete.

"It's huge."

This is the first impression of Xu Ruoguang who came to the scene.

The venue for the Freshman Challenge is the vase Seoul Art Venue in Seoul, which is much larger than the previous competition venues, almost the same size as the LPL venues.

This is not ironic, you must know that in all the divisions, the LPL venue has always been the largest one, like what LCKLEC, and then the venue is generally not large.

Chairman Lee Min-hyuk, who was coordinating at the scene, naturally saw the UR group who came to the scene and walked over with a smile.

"Ruoguang, I'm still very handsome today."

The opening is a compliment, and this president seems to be very approachable.

"You look handsome, too, Chairman Lee."

Xu Ruoguang nodded slightly and thanked him,

"Thank you for the statement you made earlier to protect me."

In the finals, Xu Ruoguang stepped on a wave of Tengjing's face.

After the game, the LCK official took the initiative to turn his back on the pot and directed the pressure of public opinion to them.

This is indeed worthy of Xu Ruoguang's gratitude.

"That's as it should be, if you want to trust us in the LCK, we naturally have to protect players like you."

Lee smiled and waved his hand, indicating that there was no need to mention it.

"As far as I know, Ruoguang, don't you really like this kind of activity?"

He was a little curious,

"Why are you willing to come over this time?"

"I wanted to see what kind of opponents I was going to be in the future, so I came here, Chairman Lee, how do you feel about the new players?"

Xu Ruoguang asked rhetorically.

"It's not bad, they are a group of very energetic children, and you will definitely look forward to them after watching them."

Lee Min-hyuk smiled and nodded,

"I won't bother you, the players are in the room over there, you can join them, Sanghyuk has been here for a while, and he has been talking about why you haven't come yet."

Xu Ruoguang smiled dumbly and nodded.

Led by the staff, they came to a room outside.

Xu Ruoguang knocked lightly on the door, and the voice inside the door was quiet, and then a somewhat immature young man's voice came.

"Come in."

Xu Ruoguang pushed open the door, and what caught his eye was some familiar and unfamiliar players.

After all, a player like Chovy, he already knows him.

He looked at it slightly, and couldn't help but be a little amazed.

Because many of the players look very small and small, almost old enough to be on the field.

But a player of this age is already the main force that the club has high hopes for competing for the broadcast stage of the league.

It shows that the club is very confident in their performance.

Is this the new generation of LCK?

And as Xu Ruoguang appeared in front of the players in the room, many players couldn't help but let out an "oh hoo".

Gumayusi is one of them.

He had known Xu Ruoguang since a long time ago.

In other words, as long as the players who are willing to embark on the road of professionalism, no matter which region they are in, it is impossible not to know Xu Ruoguang now.

Although I have long heard that this player is very handsome, Gumayusi really didn't expect that the picture on the Internet is not a high P, on the contrary, it is a bit realistic!

Such a senior, I really want to be good friends with him.

Although Gumayusi is a bit arrogant, how can he be there when facing Xu Ruoguang?

At this moment, it is also a happy opening,

"Emporer-senpai, you're here."

"Well, because Brother Kkoma can't get up a little bit, so he came a little late, so you didn't wait too long, right?"

Xu Ruoguang smiled, and without hesitation, he threw the pot to KKOMA who twitched the corners of his mouth.

"No, no, we've just arrived."

Rascal waved his hand in a hurry, looking very respectful.

He is not an arrogant player, because the early stage of his career did not go well, Rascal is actually a person who has a lot of respect for his seniors and takes care of his juniors.

This is a person who once knelt down in front of the audience who was still watching himself after the so-called bullying incident on Chinese New Year's Eve after Samsung's so-called bullying incident, and he knew how to be grateful very much.

In fact, Samsung's bullying incident was completely pit by the devil's clip, and the little fat man who looked bullied also said that the one who bullied him the most was actually the ruler emperor and the auxiliary life, on the contrary, Rascal helped him a lot.

Even if he asked the little fat man to go to training, he followed the little fat man to train until four o'clock.

At best, you say he's a bit harsh, and he's a role model.

"Don't be so respectful, the future LCK arena is mine and yours, but after all, ...... It's still mine. ”

Xu Ruoguang is a serious way.

"Yes, yes...... Yes? ”

Rascal froze.

Then I saw Xu Ruoguang laughing, and then I realized that I was being ridiculed, and I was embarrassed to touch my head.

The originally somewhat rusty atmosphere was instantly relieved a lot.

The kkoma next to him looked calm, but Viper was dumbfounded.

A player like Brother Guang can really eat at any time.

Xu Ruoguang walked into the crowd very much and found the old acquaintance.

"Alas, Sang-hyuk."

He sighed.

Gumayusi, who was on the side, was a little confused, but Lee Sang-hyuk sneered.

"Don't sigh like a fool all day long, as soon as you open your mouth, you just sigh back and forth, it's a little too stupid."

"Hehe, pinch damn, are you too aggressive?"

Xu Ruoguang smacked his tongue.

"I laughed, you can't stand this?"

Lee Sang-hyuk continued to sneer.

"Le, it's good that your arena strength is as hard as your mouth."

Xu Ruoguang didn't talk about anything else, and started attacking directly.

"Beng, in a hurry?"

Lee Sang-hyuk sneered at each other, and his mouth was the six arts of a gentleman.

"Then I'm in a hurry, how honest that Sanghyuk used to be, and you're too abstract now."

Xu Ruoguang was a little embarrassed.

If Chairman Lee knew that he had brought Lee Sang-hyuk to where he is now, I am afraid that the LCK's career would be over [sad]

"Laughing, didn't you let me play with the stickers at the time? I'm now level 13 in my grandson's bar, which is higher than you, so I want to know it. ”

Lee Sang-hyuk has his back hand, revealing his master's demeanor.

"Cow's."

Xu Ruoguang gave a thumbs up.

You're really awesome, Lee Sang-hyuk, Sun Bar level 13, ghost.

Gumayusi on the sidelines with a blank face: ......

Why do they speak Korean, but I don't understand it at all?

Xu Ruoguang was too lazy to talk to Lee Sang-hyuk, he knew that Lee Sang-hyuk, who was rejected by him last time, was a little anxious.

His gaze fell on the somewhat immature teenager behind Lee Sang-hyuk.

"SKT's academy players?"

"Ah, pay attention to the words, it's our SKT, and it has nothing to do with you."

Lee Sang-hyuk sat on the sofa and replied lazily.

Xu Ruoguang ignored it, and looked at Gumayusi with a smile,

"How are you doing at SKT?"

"Well, it's not bad, Brother Emporer."

Gumayusi couldn't figure out what he meant, and replied cautiously.

"It's okay, I heard that SKT, which you just joined, tell you a gossip about Lee Sang-hyuk, don't tell anyone else."

"Huh?"

Gumayusi .JPG stunned

Gossip about Brother Sanghyuk?

Or is it the kind that can't be told to anyone else?

Gumayusi was undoubtedly curious.

In this moment, he thought of many things.

Brother Xiang He has already fallen in love, → Brother Xiang He has been secretly married→ Brother Xiang He already has children→ Brother Xiang He has a career, Brother Xiang He has a career→, Brother Xiang He has divorced, → Brother Xiang He has a terminal illness that cannot be said, → will start next month.

Lee Sang-hyuk probably couldn't have imagined that in just a few seconds, his whole life had been properly arranged by Gumayusi, and he even planned to sit at the child's table when the banquet was opened.

At this time, Lee Sang-hyuk was already laughing, "How can you have it?" I've only been at SKT for one season in total, you know the. ”

Xu Ruoguang smiled and told Gumayusi.

"Let me tell you, when I was working professionally in SKT, there was a toilet vandal in SKT, and the two toilets in the base at that time were all blocked by him, so that wolf almost had no place to go to the toilet at that time, and the toilet was full of rice cakes, which must have been thrown in by Lee Sang-hyuk who wanted to eat it secretly and was afraid of being discovered."

Gumayusi was shocked.

And this kind of thing?!

Lee Sang-hyuk couldn't bear it anymore, "That's definitely not me, I told you, and it was found out to be scout later, why don't you believe it?" ”

"Impossible, Scout sleeps in the same room with me, how can I not know that he eats?"

"Is it possible that he was eating alone?"

Lee Sang-hyuk sneered.

"Huh?"

Xu Ruoguang fell into deep thought.

Xiba Li Xiaocan, you didn't really want to eat alone at that time, did you?

Xu Ruoguang, who had made up his mind to wait for time to ask, left here and went to prepare to chat with the other young players in his team.

Looking at his back, Gumayusi said with some emotion.

"Brother Sanghyuk, you have a good relationship with Emporer."

Lee Sang-hyuk was like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, and he was shocked at the time.

"How can I have a good relationship with him!"

"But just when we were chatting, the smile I saw on your face was already the most in the past three days."

Gumayusi said with a smile.

"Brother, you're actually very good friends, aren't you?"

Lee Sang-hyuk: ......

"The observation is very keen, if you can't scan the opposite line eye on the line in the next game, every time you miss one, after returning to SKT, you will train for an extra hour today."

He said faintly.

Gumayusi's face changed, "Ani, brother! ”

At this time, Xu Ruoguang had already walked in front of Rascal and Pyosik.

These two, one is the top laner in his team, and the other is the jungler in his team.

Xu Ruoguang thought back to some of the information about today's players that he had read before leaving, and looked at Rascal's gaze and couldn't help but soften a little.

This buddy, too, is too unlucky.

"You're Rascal, aren't you?"

"Ne, Brother Emporer."

Rascal subconsciously wanted to bow, and then was supported by Xu Ruoguang.

"I'm Chinese, so there's no need to be so respectful."

Xu Ruoguang waved his hand,

"You have to take this opportunity today and do well, Rascal."

His expression was a lot more serious.

"I've read your resume, and it's not easy to get to where you are today, you know? A good professional player will not be defeated by difficulties forever, even if he fails many times, he will get up. ”

"I'm sure you have that quality too."

"Inside!"

Rascal had heard that Emporer was a very crazy player.

It stands to reason that such players are generally more arrogant.

But when it comes to contact, he gives Rascal a very good feeling.

Such earnest persuasion has never been spoken to Rascal in his limited career.

He was a little moved, his eyes turned red, and he raised his hand to wipe it.

And the pyosik standing next to him was obviously a little unable to empathize.

He debuted a year earlier than the original timeline, because of the internal talent selection competition held by S8LCK last year in order to welcome Xu Ruoguang's arrival.

As a person who was struggling with whether to be a Qianjue anchor or a professional, he immediately received an invitation from KT in the LCK.

It's a pity that the results of the first year of the teenager P's career are not very ideal, because he often loses the dragon and is sent down, and it is not until now that S9 is taken seriously.

The debut was a genius jungler, and the first year was generally fine, and I was not given a KTV by KT, and now I am re-valued.

How could he empathize with a player like Rascal who was forced to rack his brains for a chance to play in all major regions?

But Rascal rubbed his eyes, obviously very moved.

Pyosik thinks it's a little bad for him to stand next to him stupidly.

Thinking of this, he immediately raised a hand in front of his eyes, the smile on the corner of his mouth had not dissipated, and he secretly looked at Xu Ruoguang.

Xu Ruoguang: ......

Does this B think I can't find out what he's doing?

"Don't pretend to be Pyosik, there's no need."

He said angrily.

It's really amazing, you can also pretend to be this thing?

Pyosik immediately lowered his hand and looked at him with an embarrassed smile.

After a few words of persuasion and a few words of persuasion with Pyosik, and chatting with Pyosik about his experience in the development league, Xu Ruoguang walked in front of the mid-laner and the assistant.

AD is Gumayusi, whom he has just met.

Chovy's height is really tall, Xu Ruoguang's height of 183 is already standing out in the LCK, but the current Chovy is about the same height as him.

[In fact, Chovy will grow later, and it will reach 187 in 2022, Ha people. 】

As the opponent of last year's summer competition, Chovy still has a deep impression of Xu Ruoguang.

The two talked for a while, Xu Ruoguang chatted with the auxiliary life next to him, and waited for the start of the freshman challenge together.

As the time reached the scheduled point in time, the smiling Quan Yongjun walked onto the stage.

"Welcome to the scene of the 2019 LCK Freshman Challenge, I am today's host, Quan Yongjun!"

"Today, under the leadership of Emporer and Faker, 10 outstanding rookies will have two very serious rounds."

He said earnestly.

"Then let me introduce you to today's game process."

"First of all, the ten players on both sides will play a solo matchup in the corresponding position by catching pairs of twos."

"The rule of victory is two bloods, or the last one can be left in the shrinking range of the abyss that accompanies the wailing."

"Until the final SOLO king of the day is decided."

"In the second round, the two sides will have a BP under the leadership of their respective coaches, Coach Xu and Coach Li, and have a very serious round of BO3."

He paused, waited for the cheers from the crowd to subside for a moment, and continued.

"And the third round is the most high-profile, the Coach SOLO Competition!"

"Best of three games, Emporer, against Faker!"

As soon as these words came out, the cheers in the audience went crazy again.

It's the same with barrage.

"West Eight, Emporer fights Faker? I have to watch it now! ”

"Faker fighting!"

"Lord Emporer is invincible! Ruthlessly educate the SKT! ”

"SKT, what's wrong with you?"

"Are you from Xiba trying to ruin Korean esports?"

“Faker？ It's okay, I'm Emporer! ”

After waiting for the scene to be quiet again, Quan Yongjun smiled and waved his hand.

"Then let's have the two coaches and their players on the stage!"