The training room is as quiet as a chicken.

The manager's words made it difficult for the players to accept for a while.

- Even if you don't win the MSI championship, you can't win the game with the system that the team is best at.

The reason is simple.

Riot will go all out against the MSI winning team system.

And on this basis, to finally confirm the tone and version of the answer in the general direction of the Summer Championship and even the World Championship.

If

IG relied on the 'four words' written by Chun-Li to win the mid-season championship, so even if he could make it to the World Championship.

In the end, he couldn't make it to the finals.

Originally

I've been studying MSI opponents for almost two weeks, but I'm actually doing the wrong thing?

Li Nian thought about the coach's plan.

Whether it is S7's SKT, S8's RNG, or S9's G2, they have won the championship of major competitions.

The result?

As soon as the summer tournament began, the fist sword swung down, not only cutting off your Rendu second vein, but also taking away your ring grandfather.

While the players were pondering, KKOMA left the coach's table and walked to the tactical blackboard.

"MSI will implement version 8.8, this version."

"It's still going to be the bottom-way version!"

"The operating version was strangled in the cradle by Riot as early as the spring game, and the only choice we have is the style of play of our spring opponents!"

Li Nian nodded.

S8's RNG is indeed unique among the 14 teams participating in the MSI, and they also happen to eat the current version.

Stealing school allies?

Li Nian was excited when he thought about it.

Dead friends, immortal poor friends.

The rest is for Uzi to have a headache.

"KKOMA is in the next big step!"

Li Nian was shocked, and remembered the purpose of Leehom's crazy overtime research on RNG's Kaisha tactical system in the Spring Finals.

It turned out to be a double shot!

It's worthy of an old fox, and they're already studying the opponents of the S competition.

By the time we finished analyzing the tactical ideas and requirements, it was already close to 12 o'clock in the morning.

The players not only did not lose, but became more and more excited.

Especially Jack.

"Dude, too, is the tactical core?" He took a sip of hot and sour noodles, and the heat bubbled up the chopsticks to the computer, "Brother Nian, remember to be a dog for me on the next road." ”

He patted Bao Lan sitting beside him again, "Xiaobao, in the future, buddy will be the male you will protect with your life." ”

Bao Lan waved his hand and shook off his claws, patting the team uniform with disgust, "It's better than anything if you don't die violently." ”

"Someone else Uzi is playing peek-a-boo, you're playing snake!"

Before Shiba Inu could refute, Li Nian interjected, "Don't bet on the flash of your career, you have to keep this flash." ”

Jack snorted twice.

"Okay, both of you begged me, so be it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jack felt like he had two packs on his head, and he had become a real and double ponytail Chun-Li.

After eating supper, do exercise.

Li Nian returned to the dormitory and played with his mobile phone.

At this time, public opinion on IG on the Internet was thriving.

After S7 won the championship, LPL's audience confidence has gradually built, and at least now, they are already in the world's No. 1 division.

Look through the resistance

The top one is certainly a favorite to see, 'How do you evaluate the possible performance of IG in MSI?' ’

"MSI just depends on LPL and LCK, and the other divisions are here to accompany the whole race."

"Predict a wave and end the game 3:0."

"Hehe, you should be kz paper paste? My R Emperor's strength has soared, and he has exploded and killed lck, even Guan Zeyuan once said that with IG's current strength, at most he will be open to kz five or five. ”

"How many?"

"Don't spend anymore! five five open！ ”

Next, there was an endless scolding battle, and in order to purify his eyes, Li Nian hurriedly retreated.

No more tactical situations.

Maybe it's really true, but now in just ten days, I have to change my tactical thinking and playing style, and I really have to be in a hurry.

Well, though, kkoma is very thoughtful.

Fill their training schedule.

Still.

Both the RNG and EDG teams are on vacation, and they will both go to Paris by then.

The winning teams from Japan and Vietnam, which are closer to them, will participate in the play-in tournaments, and these wild card regions have already arrived in Berlin to start preparing for the tournament when IG took a vacation two days ago.

The delay between the two places is too high, and it is impossible to make an appointment for a training match.

Then Coach Leehom relied on his own ability to play training matches with SKT and KZ.

However, KZ was a little resistant to this covenant.

Because they all see each other as the biggest rivals in this mid-season championship, and frequent training matches will expose their skills and tactics, giving the opposing coaching staff room to study and play.

As a result, everyone either tacitly uses the outdated lineup and old tactics of the playoffs, or they practice some troublesome swing lineups, or they don't drag out all their hole cards.

And

They even began to suspect that IG was deliberately messing around at training matches.

All 10 games lost!

The team members were all aggrieved and did not dare to speak out.

They all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Threatened, when we are released, we will kill you all upside down!

Under such repeated torture, the group embarked on a journey to Berlin, Germany.

The group left a group photo of the team flag unfurled at Pudong International Airport, boarded the plane, and began an extraordinary flight of more than ten hours.

I sat for more than ten hours in a row.

The group was exhausted, let alone going to the tour to check in, and even asked them to drag a suitcase to feel that it was filled with lead.

"Have you arrived?"

Song Xiuyan's soft voice came from the other end of the phone, "There was a fashion show recently, wait for the game to go shopping with me." ”

"Victoria's Secret? If so, I'll go, or you just ask Yu Shuang to accompany you. ”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line.

"Hey, hey, hey"

"Actually, you want to see it, I can."

Li Nian raised his eyebrows, and quickly replied, "You are stirring up the fire, Song Xiuyan!" Be serious, go when you have time! ”

"yes."

Hearing the cheers on the phone, Li Nian pursed his lips.

In fact

It doesn't seem bad to agree with her 'yes'!

The next afternoon.

In the training room built by Fist, IG held its first plenary meeting since arriving in Berlin.

"There are a total of six teams in the main stage of this mid-season."

The play-in round in Berlin is over, and the MSI group stage is about to begin.

"Among them, IG, KZ, TL and FNC are guaranteed to be sent to the main competition, and the rest are the LMS champion Lightning Wolf and the EVS team in the Vietnam division who were successful in the play-in stage."

The result was no different from the 2017 Mid-Season Tournament, with the five regions plus the Vietnam Division, the strongest of the wild cards, forming the entire team in the main stage.

'6 teams play a double round robin BO1, each team plays 10 group games, and the last four teams with the best record advance to the knockout stage.'

Although it is not the first time for Leehom to participate in the mid-season championship, the players are all MSI's first brothers.

"It's worth noting that this year's MSI has changed the rules!" KKOMA cleared his throat, "The team that finishes first in the group stage will have the right to choose their opponents in the knockout round, and they can confidently pick their opponents in third and fourth place. ”

Shiba Inu asked, "What's the meaning of this, three or four of them are cannon fodder, and their strength is indeed 8 Taixing." ”

Li Nian shook his head.

"Actually, it's to avoid what happened in 2016."

The MSI held in Shanghai by S6 had a schedule that Riot least wanted to see.

At that time, the host RNG, who had just won the spring championship, won 8 wins and 2 losses in the group stage, leading the group first.

The rules weren't so humane back then.

The fixed group is first and fourth, and the group is second and third.

After all, in the vast majority of cases, fourth place in the group is considered the weaker side.

But 2016 is an exception.

What year the fourth place in the group was SKT!

Peak 96line!

The result is obvious, the SKT state that entered the knockout round has improved rapidly, and the RNG is just a small stubborn rock in front of them, and they don't know that they have crushed the RNG when they hit it.

After the semi-finals, the RNG was eliminated, the host failed to go further, and the highlight of the Sino-Korean showdown was pressed in front, and the ratings of the final were naturally not guaranteed.

Li Nian didn't say it well, whether the operation of the fist was a beaver.

After all, IG and SKT, who finished first and second in the MSI group stage of S9, lost to G2, who were fourth and third, respectively, and the final became the only LCS civil war between S2 and S11.

If you can't beat it, you can't rely on the competition system.

Kkoma thought the same thing, he reached out and looked at the whiteboard, "We and KZ are in the first echelon, there is no doubt about that."

"The rest are the three teams of Lightning Wolves, FNC and TL," KKOMA analyzed the situation for the players, "and the outstanding performance of FNC in this region is also worthy of our attention." ”

No one disputes this.

During the training camp, the players had already watched the spring finals in Europe and South Korea several times.

FNC has been quite strong this spring.

With a 14-4 regular season record, he ranked first in the league, and in the finals, he swept G2 like eating Snickers.

According to the competitiveness of the previous divisions, Europe is the third division after China and South Korea, and it is much stronger than North America and LMS.

"All we have to do is get used to our new style of play, even if we lose."

KKOMA glanced at the players, "The task is very simple, finishing in the top four is considered a victory!" ”

Theshy rubbed his hands.

In the entire team, the biggest change is him.

Like the previous Sword Queen, Jace, and a group of offensive top laners, all of them must be abandoned to the clouds, and they must choose a tank that can open a group.

In the end, it was lived

TheRang's appearance.

May 11, the start day of the MSI group stage.

The weather in Berlin is much colder than in Shanghai, and these days it has been cloudy and cloudy without sunshine, Li Nian sometimes leaves the hotel to find something to eat, and his fingers are numb from the cold wind.

Today, in order to keep warm, a group of people have put on the MSI conquest prepared for this year's Tengjing on the top of their short-sleeved sweatshirts.

When they arrived at the LCS EU studio in a bus sprayed with a unique IG logo arranged by the government.

There were many spectators waiting in line to check in for tickets to enter, and when they saw the IG players wearing uniforms getting off the bus, they took out their mobile phones to prepare for filming, and at the same time there were bursts of cheers in their mouths.

When the six IG players got off the bus, the MSI conquest they wore to keep out the cold dazzled the German audience.

The classic red and white base, the sleeve tube is also embroidered with a traditional Chinese moire pattern, and the LPL race logo is placed on the back, and the logo is surrounded by a golden dragon.

The outfit was quite eye-catching in the exotic city of Berlin, and the onlookers reacted strongly to it.

Li Nian and his teammates passed through the case under the escort of security and confirmed that everyone was not carrying contraband before they were allowed to pass.

A narrow corridor leads to the team lounge backstage, with a history of European glory on the walls on either side.

Walk quickly through the aisle and into the lounge.

The team members finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Nian hurried to find Vincent and asked him where there was a vending machine to buy a few cans of Coke for his teammates.

When they returned to the lounge, the staff had already arranged for each team to prepare for the opening ceremony.

The audience at the scene had already waved their cheering sticks and began to spontaneously shout the countdown, and the restless voice and undisguised excitement poured into Li Nian's ears through the walls.

"Three, two, one!"

There was an explosion of cheers, and the sound of fist signs shattering glass was heard.

Li Nian's heart shook suddenly, and he took a deep breath and tried to calm the excitement that had spread from the bottom of his heart.

This sound effect also kicked off his and IG's journey in this mid-season competition.

The promotional video for this year's mid-season championship was first played, and Berlin's major landmarks appeared in front of everyone.

The camera ends up on the Brandenburg Gate.

Then Oucheng's angular handsome face appeared in the center of the screen.

The popular local contestant made the audience more and more restless, and fans chanted Marin and cheered for him!

"This is the seventh year of my career," says Ou Cheng in the promotional video, "and I've never led a team to the final of a world tournament before. ”

"But thinking is the only chance I have in this life," Ou Cheng said in a resolute tone, "a new FNC, a new European hope." ”

"I will tell the LPL and the LCK with practical actions that you have ruled this stage long enough, and now is the time for a European revival!"

There was cheering in the audience, and even in the chat channel in the live broadcast room of the Mouse Channel, many Europeans expressed their expectations with various expressions.

Regardless of whether Ou Cheng's sentence can be realized in the end, he understands that public opinion is true in this regard.

Aftershock stood in the background, looking at Ou Cheng's handsome face, he had long lost his worldly desires.

Her heart is now on her roommate.

The camera switched to the senior brother who went out with the team this year, he had a tendon and an inverted triangle figure, and he had been exercising recently, and the pectoralis major muscle was very full of the liquid team uniform.

This may have something to do with his recent mishaps.

"My mission here this time is simple. Win the championship and let you taste my punching bag! ”

There was peace in the domestic barrage live broadcast room.

"Death declaration application to fight!"

"Laugh at me! With a punching bag big fist, can North America qualify for the World Championship once without relying on C9? ”

"What's the matter, C9 isn't a team NA, is it? The U.S. Air Force will be on your doorstep in no time. ”

I have to say that the name of the C9 gold owner is loud enough, and as soon as the US Air Force makes a move, there is only an expression left in the chat channel of the entire live broadcast room.

In the studio, the big screen is still playing.

Maple appears in the center of the camera with his hands on his chest.

"We, the lightning wolves, will use our strength today to prove that we are not fish to be slaughtered."

The next Vietnamese team also came over to speak harshly, but their faces looked relatively sluggish, and there was no aggression in their words.

Little Peanut's delicate face appeared, and like last year's World Championships, the audience at the scene sounded the screams of many female fans.

"This year, I am still the well-deserved wild king of LCK, and now, the junglers all over the world will not be able to defend their own wild areas!"

Little Peanut changed his restraint and said cruel words wildly.

I almost read out Li Nian's ID card.

The editor deliberately left the speech of the first division to the end, and Li Nian naturally became a well-deserved appearance.

"I'm really not good at this kind of trash talk," Li Nian on the screen became more and more lazy, as if he was forced to work overtime, "I don't want to say it." ”

"The display cabinet at home is empty, I'll buy some decorations and go back and have a look."

The laughter at the scene was a trip, and even sjokz couldn't hold back.

"Brother Zuizi, you're starting again, aren't you?"

"The MSI Championship Trophy is an ornament!"

"Starch fans are furious, I'm just such a championship trophy, and you actually say it's an ornament?"

"Understood, this sentence can still be said in the s race!"

This is the end of the promotional video.

Since SKT, the winner of last year's MSI, was unable to participate in the competition, there was no link for last year's champion team to return the trophy.

The other teams left the stage and returned to the break room.

Only the IG and the host FNC of the opening game remained.

Tomorrow will resume more and more.

These two days have been in a bad state.

(End of chapter)