Chapter 332: World Championship Departure Ceremony
The microphone quickly passed in front of JKL, and Ren Dong continued to ask: "What do you want to say about JKL players, when you first played professionally, you won the MSI championship, and now you have won the summer championship, and you have now become the first ADC player to win the highest honor just after entering the LPL, what do you want to say about this?" ”
"It's mainly my teammates who bring it well." JKL said modestly.
"When I was in S7, I saw Shuai Shen win his first World Championship, so in S8, I want to win his second World Championship with him, and now it's not far from our goal."
After saying this, the audience at the scene exclaimed.
When a fighter says that his goal is a world champion, the audience always has very high expectations.
And sometimes, because of these words, more fans will be absorbed.
For example, in the current comment area, there are many CPs of the handsome combination.
Soon after, with a burst of cheers, the microphone was handed to Handsome.
Liu Shuai took the microphone, and before the host could ask a question, the audience at the scene had already responded with applause and screams.
This process lasted a full thirty seconds before it stopped.
Ren Dong saw that the audience at the scene was tired, and hurriedly picked up: "The last contestant to interview, handsome!" From the debut of the S7 Summer Tournament to now, a total of two years, you have won the FMVP, MSI and FMVP of the S competition, and you have won the highest honors in all LPL competitions. ”
Ren Dong's question can be regarded as poking Liu Shuai's throat.
This is also a problem that many professional players face after winning the championship.
After winning the championship, most professional players rely on their past honors, and treat LOL as a job to make money, and they can continue to maintain their character if they play better, and it doesn't matter if they play poorly, as long as they have money to earn.
After all, the gimmick of the champion team is the capital used to make money, and the value is very high.
As long as the state is not in serious decline, you can always find a job.
And the problem is now in front of Liu Shuai, Liu Shuai almost did not hesitate: "I can say that I love LOL 100% now, because my goal is not only a world champion at the moment, as long as my state can maintain the current state, I will continue to fight." ”
The meaning of Liu Shuai's expression is already obvious.
If his form is not satisfactory in the rest of the race, he may directly consider the idea of retiring.
And Liu Shuai's answer also attracted countless fans, making the audience's impression of him better and better.
"I used to think that handsome was playing around when he first came on the court, and at that time I had a bad impression of him, saying that my goal was to win the championship, and I thought he was very arrogant at the time, but now it seems that the clown is me."
"Hahaha is the same, after all, he is a newcomer, the interview is too arrogant, and it really doesn't attract joy, but now that I look at it, people did have strength at that time, so they said such things."
"Come on, handsome, I hope you can have honor beyond faker, and then go to retire."
"Four crowns? It's too difficult, I think faker has become a god with three crowns, and it's really difficult to win three crowns, but now IG is on the verge of two crowns, and there is also a chance. ”
“……”
Soon after asking Killua and the coach, IG's championship interview also ended smoothly.
At this moment, Weibo is hotly searched, and the entry of IG winning the championship directly hit the first.
Now most of the popularity of League of Legends has to rely on IG.
Even IG doesn't have to go out of his way to market, because the fact that he won the championship is already worth everyone's attention.
That night, IG also had a big meal under the kindness of the principal.
And with the end of the LPL's summer season, the seeded teams from other regions are still competing fiercely.
The LCK division is the LPL division that pays the most attention.
Their summer duel is already over.
KT defeated GRF 3-2, and Mai Ge in the final was like crazy, and all kinds of riots continued, successfully messing up GRF.
With GRF losing to KT, AFS was overjoyed, as it was certain from the standings that AFS would advance to the finals as the No. 2 seed in the highest standings.
And now, GRF is preparing for the bubble race.
At four o'clock in the afternoon on September 12th, the first round of the bubble match SKT vs. Geng, the two teams in the top four last year ushered in a fateful showdown, which means that one of these two teams will inevitably not enter the finals.
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In the first game of BO5, Bang's Kaisha was like a savior, and SKT fans who saw this scene instantly burst into tears.
Not to mention anything else, although Bang was guilty last year and is also committing a crime in this year's spring game, Bang in the summer playoffs does have the taste of the return of the king.
In this first game, Kai'Sa seemed to see their determination to enter the World Championship.
However, the prototype was soon revealed in the second game.
If Kerry doesn't get up on the lower road of Bang, the whole team will become smelly.
SKT also gave Faker a hero like Lulu who couldn't Kairy, and Xiao Hei in the wild area was even more against the sky, and it didn't matter if there was no sound in the whole game, the most important thing was that he was still sending it away.
This game quickly brought Geng back.
Ruler and Crown's Carey made Geng quickly adjust to his state.
In the third game of BO5, SKT bloomed in the middle and bottom, and after Faker got the knife girl, he cut off Brother Crown's big eyes.
Although it is said that Brother Guan's phobia has disappeared, there is no way to avoid this kind of heroic restraint in the game.
Similarly, Bang, who was on the lower road, got a hero like Han Bing to stabilize the ruler, and in this game, SKT got another point.
In the fourth game of BO5, this game was very anxious.
There are no ultimate war criminals on both teams, and even Xiao Hei is playing well, although he grabbed a few heads from Faker, but it doesn't hurt, after all, Xiao Hei is taking an AD jungler like Qianjue, and taking the head can play a greater role.
However, this is to blame that after Xiao Hei got Qianjue, the later operation was very fascinating.
After a wave of team battles, all of them are saving their lives, and no one is going to output.
3-0 Qianjue, playing like an invisible person.
In addition, the Untara on the road has been given in vain, resulting in SKT not being able to win the game.
On the contrary, in the late stage, GENG's wave of operation directly took away SKT and successfully pulled the score back to 2-2.
In the last game of BO5, SKT still had a bit of an advantage in the early stage, and Faker even got a new version of Akali, which was the first player in LCK to come up with a revised hero.
And faker also helped the upper and lower lanes to establish certain advantages under the first two waves of wandering.
However, the advantages are not obvious.
The advantage of taking it is not as much as that of blank.
This blank was not just stealth, he got lost three times in a row in the jungle and top lane, and sent it to the captain of Cuvee.
Geng also seized this point and frantically attacked the breakthrough of blank, and sure enough, the game was easily won.
In the end, GENG defeated SKT 3-2 and advanced to the second round of the bubble match.
At 4 p.m. on September 14, GENG defeated GRF 3-2.
Poor GRF, a team that obviously has signs of godhood in the regular season, but the two BO5s in the playoffs were directly knocked out of the prototype.
After losing to Geng, they completely lost their qualification for the World Championship.
This team with Tarzan + Chovy's top midfielder and a viper in the bottom lane has been a tough hit in the first season of LCK.
At the same time, this also shows that LCK has not yet reached the era of replacing the old with the new.
Their rulers are still the old kt and geng.
At 4 p.m. on September 16th, GENG defeated KZ 3-0!
This season, the overall atmosphere of KZ is not very good.
Although the jungler has been changed from cuzz to small peanut, it stands to reason that this team has been strengthened, but the atmosphere inside KZ is a bit dull, and at this time it is no longer a matter of team strength, and losing to GUNG is a certain thing.
In fact, during the matchup between GENG and GRF, the audience was discussing the fact that these two teams would advance to the World Championship, and no one thought that KZ would enter the World Championship at all.
With GENG's victory, three World Championship spots in the LCK have been decided, with the No. 1 seed KT, the No. 2 seed AFS, and the No. 3 seed Gneg.
At the same time, it was also today, in the S8 qualifying match on the LPL side, EDG defeated RW 3-2, and Haro's kick in the middle was determined and directly kicked RW out of the World Championship.
RW's team, in terms of staffing, has absolutely no problems.
However, there were some problems with the run-in, which led to the team having to stop at the World Championship this year.
And I heard the management of the Heroes team say that the goal of RW this year is to enter the World Championship, and they don't care about the results of the World Championship, as long as they enter the World Championship, then next year they will give all the players in RW a salary increase and a contract.
On the contrary, if you can't make it to the World Championships, either the players will leave the team or their salaries will be reduced.
So, next season's RW is also doomed to disband.
The three LPL world championship places were also confirmed this afternoon.
No. 1 seed IG, No. 2 seed RNG, No. 3 seed EDG.
It's exactly the same as last year's lineup.
And after EDG finished playing RW, IG and RNG players also came to the scene.
Liu Shuai was in the locker room, changing into his travel clothes.
I have to say that this year's conquest is the best-looking dress in recent years.
The style adopts a long windbreaker version, and with a hat, although it seems to be a bit of a middle two atmosphere, but it is handsome, and it also reveals a kind of youthful spirit that is not afraid of the sky, and only comes for the champion.
The overall color is skewed to black.
It's aesthetically pleasing.
Compared with the black of the S7 and the Chinese red of the S6, both the style and the quality of the clothing are much better.
Liu Shuai himself is very tall, and such a long windbreaker style is naturally very suitable for him.
At the scene, Liu Shuai also met Shi Senming and Tian Ye in front of the stage.
"Congratulations, Tian Ye, you are in the World Championship, you can't invite us to dinner?" Liu Shuai opened his mouth to mention food.
Tian Ye laughed a few times, and then said, "Are you embarrassed, you're all champion assistants, do you still need us this meal?" ”
"That's it." Shi Senming seconded beside him.
"How do you say, is there a team you'd like to meet at this year's Worlds?" Liu Shuai changed the subject.
Tian Ye said: "It's a pity that SKT didn't come, I wanted to touch SKT." ”
"Where's Shi Senming?"
"I ...... As long as we don't meet you in advance, we should go a little further in the World Championship, the goal of this year's World Championship is the top four, and reaching the top four will be considered a success! ”
Liu Shuai was a little familiar when he heard this, Shi Senming, are you possessed by your left hand?
"That's right, it's a success to get to the quarterfinals." After all, EDG was in the top 16 last year, and the No. 3 seed this year, in fact, it can't ask too much.
The conversation between the three ended quickly.
Then the live broadcast screen, the departure ceremony officially began.
The first to play was the EDG team that had just finished the game.
Ray, Haro, Seiko and the sub Clearlove.
The six contestants stood on the left side of the stage, and as the background music sounded, the expressions of each contestant gradually became serious and dignified.
After EDG's appearance, it's RNG's turn.
Letme, Karsa, Xiaohu, Uzi, Ming, substitute MLXG.
RNG's team members stood on the right side of the stage, the camera swept over the faces of each player, judging from the complexion, the haze that RNG had lost the game before had disappeared, and now RNG was going to set off to a higher stage.
After the two teams finished playing, the background music was everything, and "Open Heaven" sounded.
As the red curtain opened, LPL No. 1 seed IG appeared in the center of the stage!
Theshy, Ning, Rookie, Jackeylove, subs Killua.
The moment the six contestants appeared, it caused a wave of comments on the barrage.
Especially those fan girls who like handsome's appearance, they are even more fascinated by the scene in front of them.
"This year's conquest is really handsome, and the handsome people are even more handsome!"
"Wow wow! handsome's real good-looking professional players, you can directly become idols when you retire in the future! ”
"So handsome, so like, mom loves you handsome!"
"Why is the comment area full of male mothers/doubts"
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The LPL's departure ceremony soon came to an end.
The rest of the season was a boring one for the audience.
At the same time, the LPL team also ushered in a short vacation.
After all, there is still more than a month to go until the Worlds.
During this period, training every day is not very helpful to the players, so it is better to give the players a vacation and rest for a few days to prepare for the World Championships.
During this period, the list of major regions also came out quickly.
The LEC was very strong, starting with the playoffs, beating MSF 3-1 and SO4 respectively to win the summer championship in the LEC division.
The second seed VIT, which is treated similarly to AFS in the LCK region, also lost to the final in S04, and the highest point ranking became the little bee.
The third seed, G2, is like deliberately losing the first round in the playoffs, and then the bubble game starts to kill all sides.
He defeated MSF 3-2 and then SO4 3-1 to qualify for Worlds as the third seed.
And on the day of the promotion, Perkz sent an email to Liu Shuai on the same day.
also asked Liu Shuai if he had watched his game.
In the LCS region, the three World Championship teams are TL, 100T and C9.
LMS Division, Evergreen FW, as well as the second seed MAD and the third seed GRX.
It's just that the second and third seeds in the LMS division are now going to play in the play-in.
In addition to the teams in the group stage, there are also a number of wild card divisions that participate in the play-in rounds.
GPL ASC (Thailand), OPL DW (Oceania), LLLN INF (Latin America), LCL GMB (CIS), TCL SUP (Turkey), (Brazil), CLS KLG (Latin America) and LJL DFM (Japan).
And due to Vietnam's excellent performance in recent years, their No. 1 seed PVB will advance to the group stage as the No. 2 seed pool.
All the teams are ready to go, and the eyes of the audience are on the 2018 World Finals!