This year's mid-season championship is located in the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, also known as the "Sea Crown".

Located on the Qiantan plot of Yaolong Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, it is a comprehensive sports complex with a large scale, and its main stadium can accommodate 15,000 people.

QG and his party arrived at the venue early in the morning, and the opening ceremony began at 1:30, and all six teams needed to appear.

All the way to the backstage of the game, the QG team members still routinely sent the equipment up for inspection, and then entered the dressing room.

By the time they came out of the dressing room, the opening ceremony was about to begin.

"Come on, come on, wait at the passageway." At this time, the staff of the Banana Project appeared and informed the QG team members to prepare for the stage.

Standing at the entrance of the passage, Chen Dongqing glanced up and observed the situation of the venue.

I have to say that the specifications of a world event like MSI are still a little higher than that of the Spring Finals.

Even if it is also a venue with 15,000 people, this time the venue layout is obviously more careful.

Before the spring duel, the three sides of the stage were opened, and the fourth screen was enlarged.

This time, all four sides of the audience are open, and the screen is changed to a funnel screen hanging on the top of the venue, so that the viewing experience may be slightly worse, but it can accommodate more spectators and the whole audience can be seated.

At this time, the opening ceremony has begun.

The audience began to sound a passionate national style tune, and at the same time, four Peking Opera drums appeared on both sides of the stage, and four big men began to beat hard.

At the same time, there are also several dancers carrying one-person-high brushes, and when the tip of the pen is on the ground, an ink-style brush mark spreads on the stage floor.

This effect is a demonstration of the ground screen technology. The ground screen technology that integrates software and hardware to turn the stage into a part of the performance effect is a new attempt in this competition.

For example, at the beginning of the competition, the corresponding colors of the opposing competition area will be displayed in proportion to the entire stage area according to the support rate of global social media, and the logo of the winning competition area will also be displayed in the center of the stage.

When the wonderful shots such as "One Blood", "Team Annihilation", "Killing the Dragon", killing the Great Dragon, and killing multiple in the game occur, the ink will also fly away on the ground screen, instantly focusing the attention of all the audience.

Amid the excitement of the drums, the funnel screen on the top of the stadium also began to play the corresponding picture.

The picture played is quite epic, and in the darkness and haze, several shadows that exude mist flash, their images are different, and they are not of the same species.

These shadows are the six teams participating in the competition.

The organizer of this year's MSI is still the Banana Project, and this time the planning is quite second-class, giving each team a nickname and designing a corresponding image.

For example, the first one to appear is an image of a samurai who exudes blue light and holds a long sword in his hand.

This is the corresponding image of CLG - "Resolute and Unyielding Samurai"

Immediately afterwards, the scene began to play the picture of CLG's victory, and at the same time, CLG's players also appeared!

The audience immediately gave enthusiastic applause, including many Chinese audiences.

When the first team took the stage, the screen changed again.

This time, it was yellow as the main color, and the image of an archer appeared.

This is the image of the SUP in the Turkish division - "Giant Killer".

Immediately afterwards, the Lightning Wolves of the LMS Division and the G2 of the European Division also took the stage in turn, and their images were "Cheetahs in Raid" and "Tenacious Wolves" respectively.

That's right, the lightning wolf is a cheetah, and G2 is a pack of wolves, so it can only be said that the organizers have a bad brain.

After the four teams took the stage, it finally came to the main event!

At the top of the stage, a white light flashed, and a golden-headed and white-feathered divine phoenix soared through the lens, showing the demeanor of a king!

The image of the king, of course, can only come from the 2015 World Finals champion, SKT.

Their nickname is - "The King of the Sky".

At this time, SKT everyone took the stage, and the audience immediately broke out into a lot of cheers, as a two-time champion team, they have a considerable number of fans around the world!

Finally, there is the host of this competition.

A giant dragon with a dark red body and a fierce face appeared in the picture, spewing raging flames towards the screen.

This is, of course, the image of the host LPL - "The Feared Divine Dragon", an image of an oriental dragon hovering in the sky, exuding a red mist all over his body, which can be understood as a red version of the image of the divine dragon in the Dragon Ball anime.

In the final picture, the dragon and the phoenix soar in the sky, seemingly rivals!

In the end, the six images in turn turned into six colors of mist, blending together in the picture, and finally formed the logo of this year's MSI.

This time, there was the biggest applause and all the spectators cheered for their champion QG team!

【Wuhu! QG is on stage! 】

[Handsome, handsome! ] I have to say, looking at it in such a circle, Brother Shu's appearance is really unique! 】

[Haha, it's still black in this regard]

[QG, come on!] Bring the champion back! 】

[No, no one really thinks QG can win SKT, right?] 】

[Why can't you win, didn't you win last year?] 】

At this time, the live broadcast room was very noisy, and I have to say that as last year's champion team, SKT's penetration into the country is quite good.

Even a considerable part of the audience in the audience and in the live broadcast room are Faker fans, and they do not support QG, they want to see SKT win the first MSI championship in team history.

After the avatars of both sides were displayed in turn, all six teams also took the stage, and the opening ceremony ended!

Immediately afterward, the players from the two teams of QG and CLG on both sides of the stage stayed, and the players from the other four teams left the arena.

The first game is about to start!

"Okay, welcome to the 2016 Mid-Season Championship Match! I'm a host doll! ”

The picture and sound of the commentary cut into the scene, and at this time, you can see that there are three people sitting in the commentary seat.

Sitting on the right hand side of the doll was a relatively unfamiliar commentator, who said in a crooked voice: "Hello everyone, I'm the commentator Remember!" ”

I remember being a tactical analyst for the Lightning Wolves team, and after leaving his job, he served as an LMS commentator.

This year, he joined the LPL commentary camp for a bigger stage.

In fact, he has been coming to LPL for a while, but he has been working as a commentator on the LCK, which can be regarded as a probationary period.

Now that the probationary period is over, I remember that I was also successfully promoted to the front-line host and sat next to the doll.

On the left hand side of the doll is the special guest of this time, EDG coach, Abu.

A former professional team analyst and a professional team coach, I have to say that this commentary lineup is quite good.

After Abu also greeted the audience, the three of them immediately analyzed the situation of the game.

"Actually, I don't think CLG's strength is particularly strong, of course, this is only relative to our QG"

Abu was talking eloquently in the commentary seat at this time: "Their signature is Nakano's linkage wandering system, which is actually somewhat similar to QG. ”

"It is worth noting that CLG's top laner Darshan is also a top laner with a fairly stable game style, and is known as the No. 1 top laner in North America, and I think the collision between this player and our ilex will be a highlight of this game."

"At the same time, the dragon king of CLG's mid-laner is also a point that needs attention."

Abu opened his mouth and said a lot of the characteristics and shortcomings of CLG, and the other two commentators were stunned.

Did you really analyze MSI's opponents in advance?

Immediately afterwards, the three of them chatted again, and then immediately after, the BP screen cut in.

"Okay, BP has begun! Let's see the hero choices on both sides! ”

"We can see that in this game, QG occupies the position of the blue side, the first hand bans Qianjue, and CLG places the red side, and the second hand holds down the Titan!"

The red and blue sides of the group stage are not particular, after all, it is a double round-robin system, each team has to play twice, and one person once for the blue side.

After talking about the first round of BP, the doll said with a smile: "You can see from the camera that our players are actually quite relaxed. ”

"Actually, that's normal." Abu added: "You can see from the style of play that the QG players have always been quite confident, and their individual strength is also very strong, so there is no need to think about the mentality at all. ”

"The only question that needs to be considered now is how they are running in with the new version, in fact, this version still has a lot of changes."

Immediately afterward, Abu talked to the two about some of the details of this version.

As he spoke, the ban position of the two sides had been completed.

QGban Bobby and Bud, while CLG holds Rambo and Jace down.

Abu raised his eyebrows slightly after seeing this BP: "Oh? QG doesn't have ban Ike and Dragon King, but CLG doesn't have ban Kenji either! ”

The doll could understand and said: "After all, it is the opening game, and the two teams may have formed a tacit understanding, and they both want to show their strongest side." ”

"Oh, the big brother in North America is so face-saving?" Player Xi Chen Dongqing smiled: "The sword girls have been released, and they haven't been cut enough by my sword girls in the training match?" ”

"It can only be said that the other side is fair." Xiangguo also smiled on the side: "We didn't ban them Dragon King." ”

CLG mid-laner huhi's Dragon King has a hand, and he is the first batch of players to use Dragon King to play games, a pure and unique brother.

In the playoffs in North America, huhi's dragon kings are generally banned, but today QG did not choose to ban.

The overall strength of the CLG team is not strong, they just want to see how effective their team is in playing the Dragon King, and it can be regarded as a trial and error, after all, they can afford to lose in the group stage now.

As for why the other side doesn't ban Jian Ji, he can only say that the big brothers in North America are indeed optimistic.

"If you don't ban, then choose!" Chen Dongqing was not polite, and said: "Bobby is gone, my sword is invincible!" ”

“OK。” Banbazi thought for a moment and said, "If the opposite side chooses the Dragon King next, then the opposite side must be the one who takes the initiative to attack, or we try to play a defensive counterattack?" ”

"No problem!" QG everyone nodded.

This kind of group stage against a weak team is for trial and error!

There is no doubt that QG locked the sword queen on the first floor, and immediately after, CLG took out Ike and the Dragon King in his back hand, and both sides got their own unique skills.

Soon, the BP wind direction of the two sides was determined, CLG mainly attacked, and QG gave up the offensive system they were best at and focused on one-handed defense.

Blue QG: Top Single Sword Ji, Jungler Excavator, Middle Single Victor, Bottom Wheel Mom and Bull Head.

Red CLG: Top laner Ike, jungler gun, mid laner Dragon King, bottom lane policewoman Gabulon.

(End of chapter)