[PS: It is recommended to watch this chapter with BGM, and BGM (2018 Global Finals Theme Song!) ）】

October 7th.

The 2018 World Finals Play-in Tournament came to an end in Busan.

The end of the play-in round also heralds the official start of the group stage.

This is also the most watched S race race every year!

After a week of fierce battles, the four promotion places for the S8 play-in tournament have also been determined.

They are:

The third seed in the LCK region: GEN (changed the name of the Samsung team).

Third seed in the European Union zone: G2.

North NA Zone 3rd seed: C9.

Finally, the third seed in the LMS Bay Division: GRX.

The four strong teams that will advance to the play-in tournament will be determined.

This year's S8 grandest carnival feast, the quota has also been decided.

The world's 16 top teams are divided into four groups.

They are:

Group A: FW, GRX, PVB, G2.

Group B: FNC, RNG, GEN, VIT.

Group C: EDG, AFS, TL, MAD.

Group D: KT, 100T, C9, IG!

Among the four major groups, the three LPL teams were divided into three groups: B, C, and D.

Among them, the most high-profile EDG was placed in Group C.

This group is also the focus group that has already attracted a lot of attention before the game starts.

In addition to EDG, the team that everyone is most looking forward to and familiar with, among the remaining three teams, TL and MAD are not discussed.

MAD is a pure scorer, and TL is a new strong team in North America after the name change this year, with veteran player Damu in the team.

It's quite a bit of strength.

But compared to the other two teams in Group C, these two big brothers seem humble and weak.

EDG。

AFS。

Let's start with EDG.

The champion of the last S7 Global Finals, there is a world-renowned superstar like Xu Cheng in the team.

Not only is it very popular in China, but even overseas, it also has a good popularity.

It can be said that after a year of development and change.

EDG has long gone from the original "it's uncomfortable to go to any group" to "which group I go to, which group is the group of death"!

Clearly, Group C is the first group of deaths this year.

Not only does it have EDG, the defending champion of the last S competition.

There is also AFS, a rising star in the LCK region.

AFS, Team Africa.

S8's African team is the most glorious year since the establishment of the team.

In S8, where SKT failed to even enter the S race, KT went forward bravely, and finally stopped pulling his hips, and got a position that matched his strength-

No. 1 seed in the LCK region!

KT dominates, but AFS is not far behind.

As a team that was previously unknown, it was slightly worse than KT to advance to the World Finals as the second seed in a region like the LCK.

I have to say, the AFS is really strong.

No one dares to underestimate their strength.

Group C has EDG and AFS, which is basically a situation where two immortals fight.

When the other two little brothers saw it, they could only tremble.

Even as the outside audience ridiculed-

I want to die!

Except for Group C, the other groups are also very dramatic in terms of effect and strength.

For example, RNG in Group B and Samsung that has been renamed.

During the S7 period, RNG was in the same group as Samsung, and it once double-killed Samsung in the group stage.

Unexpectedly, S8, the two teams met again.

It's just like a happy enemy, you can't get rid of it.

The two teams with deep grievances are about to stage a classic drama of whether Samsung succeeds in revenge or RNG continues to be Samsung's father.

The group assigned to the last team in the LPL region.

Group D.

This group is also relatively dead.

The main thing is that KT is in this group, which dooms the other three teams in the group to a sad end.

At least... That's what audiences around the world think.

And the biggest attraction of this S competition is not only the grouping of the group at this stage.

At home and even abroad, South Korea, the most discussed and hottest are actually the two teams that have not met in the group stage.

is also the top seed in the world's strongest first and second divisions at present-

EDG、KT！

What is the relationship between EDG and KT?

In layman's terms, the two teams can be described as the relationship between the father and the son.

Of course...

On S8 this year, who is the son and who is the father depends on the specific victory or defeat of the two teams, and who can win against each other.

At present, the probability of EDG becoming a father is as high as 99%.

And since the end of the S6 World Finals, 7 sauce has kicked out in horror.

The two big dads in the team, alpaca and fat, left the team angrily.

Among them, the alpaca was interviewed in public and told the reason why he left EDG:

"Being in this team doesn't give me any hope of winning the championship."

There is no hope of winning the championship...

It is conceivable that S6's kick really kicked Mr. Dai out of defense.

And because of this, it has triggered a large number of sprays from fans on both sides.

Mr. Dai and Fat are the double Cs of EDG's second-generation purpose.

The two can be said to have single-handedly established EDG's past glory, and I dare not say that all champions have their share of credit.

At least, the two account for more than fifty percent of the credit.

was even ridiculed for being fat, and his waist was broken by the factory director.

So the director of the factory looked for a thicker waist again... Ahem... It's Xu Cheng.

Now, two years have passed.

S6 also became S8 in the blink of an eye.

The KT of the S7 is known as a galactic battleship, and it is unmatched.

In the end, he made a kick in the bubble match of the S game, and the chess was one move short.

angrily smashed the keyboard on the spot, and failed to participate in the classic S7, which can be called the most in the history of the league.

As early as the S7 period, everyone has been looking forward to the reunion of KT and EDG's S race.

After all... To put it mildly, KT is a team that broke away from EDG!

Plus Mata, the big daddy of the former RNG, is half of the master of the current EDG first Jungle Incense Pot...

KT has become a Korean team with the deepest ties to the LPL region.

The three heroes of LPL are not called for nothing.

Everyone began to look forward to the showdown between the two from that time.

Although I have encountered it once in the continental competition, the S competition is the S competition, the largest stage in the world, and it is not comparable to the continental competition.

Everyone wants to see who was in the EDG team before...

Meet in the international competition, old friends in the past, and now enemies of life and death.

Father-son bureau? Friends and relatives bureau? Grievance Bureau?

Or is Xu Cheng an EDG traitor?

All kinds of old stalks have erupted uncontrollably when KT and EDG advanced to the 2018 World Finals at the same time!

On a global scale, there has been a wave of "nostalgia".

[This year's group is good-looking! 】

[No, no, no, I think the semi-finals might be better!] 】

[Buy and leave, buy KT and EDG can meet in the S8 finals, bet on this side, otherwise, bet on this side ......! ] 】

[Turtle turtle, Mr. Dai, long time no see! ] 】

[Tears! Ancient EDG and the current EDG have finally officially met! 】

[It's a pity, EDG and KT are both No. 1 seeds, and they can't meet in the group stage!] The director of the factory has also been half retired. 】

[The quarterfinals are enough, I hope the two teams can meet in the semifinals, or the finals... I can't wait to see the Buddha stab an EDG traitor...]

[Xu Zhangmen cleaned the portal for the second time! ] 】

Clean up the portal, new and old EDG, the duel between two generations of giants.

Although the factory director has retired, his two big dads have met!

Fat dad and Buddha dad, two Xu dads, which one is stronger?

All of this, as the S8 race approaches, has made countless viewers and fans enthusiastic.

Without the official pre-game publicity, the popularity of the two teams skyrocketed at a rapid speed!

The S8 Global Finals are also gradually starting to warm up.

And with the passage of time, the atmosphere and popularity of watching the game have become more and more explosive.

After all, it has been developing for a whole year, and with the foundation of S7, S8's global finals occupy a natural advantage.

The heat and attention, and the gold content, have all been filled!

And in this anticipation.

October 9th.

The day before the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Championships.

The official has finally released the annual S competition, what everyone pays the most attention to and wants to see the most-

2018 World Finals Theme Song MV!

The MV of the theme song every year is indeed the most anticipated link when everyone approaches the S competition.

It is also a well-heard and explosive theme song every year, which renders an indelible legend for the S competition.

The theme song of S2 is the most familiar "BO5 Battle Song" to all audiences today, even passers-by who don't play LOL or watch the game.

S7, the legend never goes out, corresponding to the rise of the new king of EDG, and the collapse of the SKT building, the red-clothed Faker looked back with tears in his eyes, staring at the trophy.

S3、S4、S5、S6…

There are also many theme songs, all of which are classics among classics.

The degree of singing and quality are all on the top!

And this theme song, called "RISE", is no exception!

This theme song, which is almost no less than the S legend that never goes out, will become the most classic and most widely sung song after S7.

Play with your feet and make music with your heart.

It's you, Fist!

It was noon that day.

Countless people were full of anticipation and excitedly clicked on the MV of this theme released on the official Weibo.

Even EDG and the other fifteen powerful clubs that have advanced to the World Finals are no exception.

One by one, I clicked on this long-awaited MV for the first time.

Click on the video.

What catches your eye is a desert with no people.

Yellow sand covered the sky, and hurricanes raged.

In the desert, despair and dead silence are the main colors here.

"Ya-ya-ya-ya-yah......!"

The crow's dry and hoarse voice rang out.

Boom.

A beautiful leather boot caught everyone's eye.

The camera moves up.

A slender figure wearing a white cloak, lined with close-fitting white armor, and draped in a moon-white cloak appeared.

Her right hand is diagonally holding a signature elegant rapier.

The blade of the sword is sharp, and the silver-white blade reflects the outline of the desert red sun.

On her left hand, there seems to be some kind of mark...

The entire face of the figure was shrouded in a cloak, and she could not be seen.

But on her chest, there is a classic black team logo -

EDG。

In the center below the EDG cartoon logo, there is also a shining star.

This is...

A mark of an S race champion!

The crows are still noisy, and the yellow sand is still raging.

The white-clothed swordsman in armor seemed to have been seriously injured, and he gasped violently.

Stepping on, he continued to walk ahead.

The camera zooms out.

With the swordsman as the center, pull higher and higher.

And as the camera left the swordsman, the scene around the swordsman was gradually exposed to everyone's eyes.

A corpse that had long since fallen to its death.

The white bones were stacked, and the blood flowed like a river, dyeing the yellow desert into blood red.

These corpses have different shapes and movements.

The only thing you can see is the clothes on their bodies, shining signs one by one.

C9、AHQ、TSM、G2……

Without exception, all of them are one of the 16 strongest teams in the S7 World Finals!

It's just that these people...

Now they're all defeated and dead.

The white clothes in the armor simply ignored these opponents who had fallen.

She stepped forward, and the entire sky was painted blood red.

It was as if no one could stop her progress.

"Ahh

Suddenly.

A clear voice rang out.

Jace, who looks like Khan at eight points, appears in the footage of the road.

Brother Han fired a super version of the cannon, and without warning, it slammed into the scarred swordsman!

It's like suddenly plucking a string.

BGM is gradually excited, and it has come to the first climax!

Jian Ji, who originally seemed to have lost her strength, moved like a rabbit, and at the moment when Jace Canon bombarded out, she spread her wings like a roc and jumped up in an instant!

Coming to Jace, the light flickering.

The golden Buddha lotus is born!

Bang bang bang ...

Like the most elegant swordsman in the world.

Like the most ruthless killer in the world.

Khan was powerless to fight back in the face of a series of attacks like a storm of Kenji!

A suffocating figure, a blade sharp enough to pierce everything in the world.

The sword is like a dragon, and it goes out to sea and toss!

The swordsman had already flown into the air, and a breeze blew between his body and tumble.

A beautiful, flawless, heroic face was revealed.

This is a familiar face, but very unfamiliar.

Kenhime?

No, maybe this is a combination of Xu Cheng and Jian Ji!

Everyone can see from this half of the side face that the side face of Jian Ji at this moment is so similar to Xu Cheng!

Boom!

Kenji flew behind Jace and continued to walk forward without looking back.

Jace, who was standing, had fallen to his knees.

The camera pans down.

Kenhime's left sleeve robe was lifted.

It was a Vajra Buddha, a tattoo of the Buddha's radiance......

The passionate and enthusiastic BGM reverberates.

The white armor floated to the ground, and Jace behind him had already turned into a corpse.

She didn't stay, let alone stay where she was.

Instead, the pace is unwavering and continues to move forward.

The endless desert seems to have finally come to an end.

Here, a figure who had already stood quietly stared at the sword girl not far away.

The figure is also shrouded in shadows.

Dressed in a pitch-black robe, he held the prince's unique Fang Tian painting halberd.

Kenhime never stopped, and finally stopped.

The two looked at each other silently.

A strong wind suddenly struck from afar.

Smack.

The figure under the black robe showed its face.

Wearing a pair of glasses, his face is calm and arrogant-

The soul of the three-star team, Ann is in charge!

“RISE！ RISE！ ”

The vanishing BMG suddenly rang out.

It's like a switch.

An Zhangmen suddenly stepped on the ground under his feet, and between the cracks of the rubble, the whole person was already like a spear, as if EQ, pointing directly at the sword Ji opposite!

The prince holds a halberd, and the gun is like a dragon!

Jian Ji's eyes froze, and the thin sword in his hand was raised high, and he also rose into the air.

Tough face-to-face shock!!

Boom!

It's like the earth shaking the mountains and colliding.

In an instant, the white sword light flashed.

Kenhime and the prince exchanged positions again.

In the silence of the desert.

Kenji stopped for a long time, and finally stepped out of her footsteps, without looking back, and continued to step forward.

Boom.

The arrogance on the face of the head of An behind him was still hanging, but the person had already fallen to the ground.

Samsung, pawn!!

When I saw this, with RISE, RISE's passionate BGM, the blood and adrenaline in everyone's body were already burning and boiling!

The world's biggest powers have been defeated.

LZ and Samsung also fell.

That...

Who else?

No one?

In the shot, after thousands of difficulties and dangers, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Jian Ji finally walked out of this desert, which symbolizes death and desolation.

It's just that...

At the end of the desert, there is a bare cliff.

Across the cliff is a mountain that rises to the extreme.

Below, it's like an abyss of hell.

Impasse!

This turned out to be a dead end!?

Someone's eyes widened, and the emotions in their hearts were changing with the predicament that Kenhime encountered.

The sword girl in front of her also seemed stunned.

She fell silent, even more confused.

Don't... Is it all in vain?

“RISE！ RISE！ ”

The passionate and high-pitched BGM sounded again!

Kenhime's eyes burst with unprecedented brilliance.

Stepping up, the ground cracked, and the whole person instantly jumped off the cliff like a roc...

No, instead of jumping off a cliff, I flew straight across the cliff!

Even though there are thorns in front of me, my heart will not regret the beginning!

Kenhime is attached to the cliff face on the opposite side!

She is like a warrior who climbs from the bottom to the top of the mountain.

Step by step, climb up!

During the period, there were storms, thunder and lightning.

The gods were angry at this arrogant and daring sword girl.

A mortal, how dare you climb the peak?!

It's just that...

No amount of difficulties and obstacles could stop Jian Ji's determination to keep climbing upward.

The cliffs are so steep that they are not even touchable by human beings.

The moonlight white robe on Jian Ji's body had already been torn apart by the wind.

The smooth and flawless face was also scarred by the stones.

But she...

Finally climbed to the top of the mountain!

Suddenly, everything around me changed.

Quiet, tranquil.

Birds sing and flowers are fragrant, warblers sing and swallows dance.

There are fish swimming, goats and elk galloping.

Below the top of the mountain and above the top of the mountain are two completely different worlds.

Jian Ji was covered in scars, staring blankly at everything in front of her, as if she had lost her mind.

Well?

With a dull gaze, Jian Ji's gaze fell not far away, the throne that seemed to come from above the Nine Heavens, and there was a dark supreme aura all around.

A throne of dry bones.

A throne without one.

This throne...

Be......

The camera rotates very naturally.

A pair of muddy feet fell into the eyes of everyone.

Move your feet.

The figure holds the scroll in both hands, studying the contents intently and earnestly.

The camera slowly moves up.

The crowd saw the iconic giant scroll behind the figure.

And...

That classic red jersey with three shiny letters on the shoulders -

SKT！

Below, there is a star that is the same as the EDG uniform.

The difference is that EDG has only one uniform, but this figure has three stars!

Finally, the camera freezes on the side face of the figure, not moving.

Jian Ji's pupils shrank suddenly.

The figure seemed to sense something, and turned its head sharply to look at Kenhime.

The iconic black-rimmed glasses, 90 percent resembling Brother Lee's Ruiz, paused for less than a second.

Burst out!

“RISE！ RISE！！ ”

A head of black hair suddenly exploded.

The final Armagedemon is here!

Jian Ji is like a warrior who is not afraid of death, and like a humble and insignificant, one of the billions of god-killers who are vulnerable to attack.

The demon king is expressionless, and he responds to the battle brazenly!

Magic and sword light are whistling, darkness and light are colliding.

The wind raged, as if tearing the world apart.

The sword girl became stronger and stronger, and the demon king's face did not move, and finally showed a look of surprise.

A familiar white sword light appeared.

The light of a moment is eternity!

The battlefield, which was originally explosive, suddenly returned to light and quiet.

It's over.

The Demon King is gone.

There is only one sword queen left who has already reached the final throne.

The scarred sword had long since been broken, and she dragged her tired body, as if she wanted to sit on the throne.

But at this very moment.

As if feeling something, she suddenly stopped moving, raised her eyebrows, and looked under the mountain top behind her—

Where.

TMS's Pilsen, C9's Women's Clothing Boss, G2's Ah P, Puppy, Ann Zhangmen, FW's Snake Snake......

Countless giants and star players who have advanced to the World Finals this year.

All gathered at the foot of the mountain.

The eyes are full of unprecedented madness and heat, admiration and yearning.

Look at the throne on top of the mountain!

Kenhime met the gaze of these people.

Bang...

The BGM falls.

The image disappears.

2018 World Finals Theme Song MV.

It is also the most classic and legendary scene in the history of the S game.

And so it goes!

Demon King Throne, who is qualified to sit on it?!

It's all up to today!

【I'm super!! 】

[I'm super...! 】

【it!】 This MV...]

[I'm Nima! I'm blown up! 】

【Burning !! 】

[Ahh Buddha!! Tainyima is handsome!! So handsome that I have no friends! 】

【Demon King Throne!!】 Buddha other people for me!! Win the S8 championship!! 】

Everyone has been looking forward to this year's theme song MV for a long time.

The number of people who watched the MV was also very large.

At this moment, after watching this MV, there is only indescribable shock and excitement left in everyone's hearts!

The blood is burning all over the body, and the adrenaline is surging!

Tainyima is handsome!

It's really handsome.

The quality of the MV was better than expected.

It's pretty obvious.

This is a journey with Xu Cheng (Jian Ji) as the protagonist.

In just a few minutes, a once little-known little person has been vividly interpreted step by step through the thorns and thorns and stepping on the bones of the inspirational history of the gods!

A sword swings the crowd.

Kill LZ, destroy SSG, destroy SKT...

Over that mountain, Kenji finally crossed the highest mountain.

He saw the ultimate god and defeated him.

became the only man in history who succeeded in killing gods.

The Warrior killed the dragon, but is he now another dragon?

The answer is unclear.

But one thing is for sure.

In the end, Kenji still didn't make it to that throne.

That supreme throne that all professional players in the world can only look up to and dream of, Jian Ji is still one step behind after all.

Behind him, countless pursuers had gathered.

They want to surpass the sword her, defeat the sword her, and sit on the throne themselves.

Can it be done?

S8 race, wait and see!

I have to say that this year's MV production of Riot is indeed a bit of a dimensionality reduction blow.

The ultimate move, which has been held back for so long, is not only a good MV animation, but also a perfect integration of the personal images of the players and their respective signature heroes, and at the same time, it also expands the perspective of the players.

At the same time, the quality of this year's theme song "RISE" is also first-class.

It can be expected that this song and this MV will become the most boiling fire before the start of the S8 main game!

And there is no need for any rendering or foreshadowing.

As soon as this MV came out.

S8's tense and exciting duel has already jumped on the paper.

Let countless audiences have unprecedented expectations for this year's S8!

【Let's start on the horse!】 I want to see the Buddha defend the double crown! 】

[It's a pity, Brother Li failed to advance this year, otherwise he defeated Brother Li twice in a row, and no one could deny that the Buddha surpassed Brother Li, right? ] 】

[Ahh Although, it's better not to recruit black. 】

[I don't care about anything else, I just want to know, how can I be Xu Cheng's woman! ] 】

[Woo woo, crying, I also want to be a woman of the Buddha! ] The Buddha is so handsome! 】

[Just this MV, this from the beginning to the end, all-round treatment of the protagonist without dead ends, the Buddha is the son of the fist, it is a stone hammer, right? ] 】

[Pro-son? I'm afraid it's a father! 】

[No kidding, whether it is the idea or the quality, this year's theme song and MV crush any previous session! ] It's also the theme song of S7 that can be compared.,MV is complete.。 】

【Tulle! 】

S8's theme song and MV kill everything!

This is not an exaggeration at all.

An hour after the MV was released, it directly appeared on Weibo, Zhihu, and Station B's hot search/hot list, and became the hottest topic on the homepage of Hupu.

In terms of quality and popularity, S8 has indeed achieved the explosion of previous S races!

The heat has exploded.

The official doesn't need to continue to promote, and everyone knows the news that the S8 main race is about to open.

And the appearance of this blockbuster theme song and MV has indeed directly pulled the expectations of the global audience to the fullest.

Now everyone is waiting.

Wait for the day of S8's opening!

[Why is it not the next day!] How long will it take! 】

[I can't wait, let's start quickly, okay!] 】

Under this public opinion.

Billions of people are looking forward to it.

October 10th has finally arrived.

this day.

The 2018 World Finals will officially begin!

Inside the official hotel in Busan.

EDG everyone got up for breakfast with the other two LPL teams, and got on the official bus with a little apprehension and excitement.

Head straight to the BEXCO Stadium in Busan.

Busan BEXCO.

Also known as Busan Convention and Exhibition Center.

It is one of the largest international venues in Korea.

It has hosted many top sports leagues such as the World Cup.

It has been selected as one of the top ten convention and exhibition centers in the world.

There is no doubt that this will be the grand stage that will be the most concerned and eye-catching for the global audience in the next half month.

It is also the absolute field where countless top players and world giants gallop and fight.

This year's S Tournament was held in South Korea.

And in South Korea.

The development of the e-sports industry can be said to be more formal and huge than that in China.

So everywhere they passed, Xu Cheng and others saw all the promotional slogans about the S8 World Finals.

It's the kind of support that even landmarks are cheering for the Korean team and S8!

This scene, to say an exaggeration, is even comparable to the scale of the day of the S7 finals!

It also made Xu Cheng and others feel a little heavy in their hearts while they were excited.

"It's worthy of being a native of South Korea, this level of support, love love." The incense pot said a little sourly.

"Fortunately, South Korea itself has a small population, and the development of e-sports is indeed much earlier, so it is normal to have support of this scale."

Meiko can see it.

Others see things about the same as him.

Anyway, though.

South Korea's online and offline promotion of S8 has indeed brought a lot of pressure to everyone.

This kind of experience of participating in the S competition in other countries is actually a bit of a smashing of the field.

For example, Ah P's famous sentence "I want to turn tonight's Wuhan into a library".

At that time, Ah P was sprayed by the Chinese audience for a long time because of this sentence.

It is also a matter of course that people in South Korea support the South Korean team so much.

Thinking about S7, the overwhelming battle in the LPL division, I don't blame South Korea for this.

And the teams and players, after losing the home advantage, have a certain sense of gap in their hearts.

South Korea is not bad, after all, it is all Asian, and the time difference is only an hour.

changed to Europe and the United States, and these people in the LPL division had to have another "jet lag".

"Come on, as long as we reach the finals in Korea, I believe ...... When the time comes, a lot of spectators will fly over to support us. ”

Xu Cheng remembered the experience of this year-

"Isn't it more challenging and meaningful to turn South Korea's home stadium into our home stadium?"

(End of chapter)