"It's finally here!"

After getting off the plane and taking a big breath of fresh air, Chu Ge slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

There is no direct flight from Pudong Airport to San Francisco, so they need to transfer in HK and fly for nearly 17 hours, and it is already more than 11 o'clock in the local noon when they land.

The time difference was about 15 hours apart.

By the time IG arrived in San Francisco, there were still 14 days left until September 30 for them to adjust.

"Take the luggage, and then everyone will go through the relevant procedures for entry."

The three teams, together with the LPL official commentary team, took the same plane to San Francisco in order to coordinate the hotel they stayed in.

For IG, it was their first time in the United States, and the rest of the players, except for Rookie and the coaching staff, who had overseas experience, were the first time they had smelled the smell of gunpowder outside.

The 2016 MSI was held in Shanghai, and RNG, which represented the LPL region at that time, did not go abroad, and Wang Cheng is now very excited to arrive in a foreign country.

Changing into the phone card issued to his hand by the Riot team, Wang Cheng immediately turned on the video and called home.

In the strange eyes of the people around him, he raised his mobile phone and shouted, "Mom, look, this place is full of foreigners." ”

As soon as the words came out, the face of the carol was full of black lines.

Hurriedly stopped his death.

Free America, guns every day.

If you are targeted and encountered, it is a trivial matter to encounter a 'zero yuan purchase', and if you are targeted and killed by a male gun who has just debuted, it will be a little difficult to overcome.

Chu Ge wasn't too interested.

The old terminal at San Francisco International Airport doesn't look special, and it may even be so old that it looks a little broken.

After filling out the application form and completing the formalities, you can go to get your luggage, and along the way, the official commentary came to Chu Ge from time to time to chat and leave WeChat for each other.

I have to say that the banana plan has made a lot of money this time.

The lineup of the commentary team is very luxurious.

Basically, the LPL commentary team has been brought to the World Championship, in addition to Baron Nas, PYL, Miss Miss, Smile and White Crescent, providing commentary on the event for domestic audiences.

This is not half of the LPL, it is basically the S6 World Finals, and the cost of the period is borne by the Banana Project.

If this plane is whitewashed, the official event of the LPL will basically be wiped out.

Regardless of the fact that the incidence of aviation accidents is the lowest among all means of transportation, there is basically no chance of survival if there is an accident.

But it's understandable.

The purpose of the Banana Project is to release promotional videos and group photos of the players and commentators on the official LPL departure ceremony, and to create a big battle to attract the attention of all players.

Engage in large flows.

By the time everything was done, it had already been an hour later, Chu Ge's legs were almost weak, and he finally got on the bus with the Riot logo printed on it and went to the hotel.

The three teams were in one group, and the commentators were on another bus.

The staff in charge of receiving the players is Riot China's Vincent.

Chu Ge's impression of him still comes from the 2017 AllStar Solo finals, where he mistranslated Uzi's words as a translator, leading to ambiguity that Uzi was mocking Pilsen.

Although the subsequent apology was made, the Reddit forum in North America at that time still caused a relatively large controversy.

However, Vincent's main job is to be a staff member in charge of Riot China's player management, and the translator was just a temporary arrest of Zhuangding, similar to the situation of the Vietnamese translator who killed Brother Shuizi alone.

However, at this time, many players in China don't know him very well, and only the coaching staff of EDG and IG, who went to France last year, have a little intersection with him.

He is well-known to the public, and it can be traced back to 2017 when the two heroes of Charlotte appeared, and Vincent and his girlfriend served as the archetypal representatives of these two heroes.

Besides.

It was in 2018 that King Ning posted a dynamic message on Weibo of 'getting married if you win the championship', and Vincent also posted a similar news.

But Gao Zhenning is also happy.

But Vinson is real, and after winning the championship, they took their makeup photos on a small island in Hawaii.

"Hello friends," Vincent took the initiative to greet the three teams on the bus, "During this time, I will be fully responsible for everyone's daily activities, I will directly contact your manager, of course, you can contact me at any time if you have any needs." ”

With that, he pulled out his phone.

"Let's enter 4396 to join the group," Vincent raised the mobile phone in his hand, "I will post the schedule during the game in the group, and everyone will arrange the time in advance." ”

Damn?!

Chu Ge burst out laughing.

"What are you going to do when you join the group?" Ming Kai frowned.

"Nothing, nothing!"

Chu Ge couldn't help but smile. Picked up his phone and entered 4396 into the official group chat of the World Finals in front of his friends.

"You little!"

Ming Kai rolled his eyes, looked at the daily arrangement, and took the initiative to remind, "The past few days have been relatively leisurely, you should pay attention to reversing the jet lag, otherwise the state is not good, and the hat of the civil war phantom god will really be buckled on your IG head." ”

Chu Ge was stunned.

I immediately remembered that this was what he said to Ming Kai in the summer finals, but I didn't expect my friend to remember it.

"Okay, Brother Mingkai."

The factory director shook his head helplessly, he had nothing to do with Chu Ge, even if the two were not on the same team, but the friendship over the years was real.

As a person who has come over.

Ming Kai also specially taught Chu Ge how to reverse jet lag.

Adapting to the environment is the first hurdle to play in a foreign country, and once you can't adapt to it, it is easy to adapt to the water and soil, and the body is extremely easy to get sick.

The group stage was held at the Bill Graham Municipal Auditorium in San Francisco, and the Riot Hotel was nearby, not far away.

Since teams from other competition regions would come to the hotel in advance, when Chu Ge and the others arrived at the hotel, the team's training room had already been arranged.

The icons of the participating teams are hung at the door of each team, and IG and the other two teams are training next to each other, so that they can visit the door at any time to exchange tactics for training matches.

Although the makeshift training room is not as comfortable as the team base, it is much better than looking for a private room in an Internet café.

Compared to the amateur performance of the Banana Project in China, Riot's professional performance is much better.

At least the teams didn't have to go outside to find an Internet café for training on their own, and the business of Wanyu Internet Cafe has not yet expanded to San Francisco!

And Internet cafes in the United States are not as ubiquitous as they are in the country.

Chu Ge is still in the same room as King Ning.

The two quickly packed up their things and ran to the hotel restaurant to take a look, only to find that the door was closed.

"Do you want takeout?"

As soon as Gao Zhenning took out his mobile phone, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and sighed, "Forget it, with the speed of food delivery here, it is estimated that I will starve to death when it is delivered to the hotel." ”

Chu Ge spread out his hands, "Let's go eat outside, I see a McDonald's nearby, just eat some fast food and make do with it." ”

"I don't have any cash with me, let's go back to my room first."

Compared with the convenient and fast payment method of mobile phones in China, the United States is actually more willing to use credit cards or cash payments.

When the carol was in the hotel lobby, each person was given $1,000 in cash for the contestants to carry with them in case of emergency.

As a result, the two walked to the lobby and suddenly realized something.

The place to eat was found, and the money was available, but with their English level, it was estimated that they had to use body language to make others understand when ordering a meal.

You can't order a chicken leg burger, you have to learn to crow chickens, right?

However, Chu Ge's luck was good.

I met an international student who liked LPL and recognized them and took the initiative to help translate to solve the situation of their language barrier.

Chu Ge asked in IG's training group.

A group of people shouted that they were hungry and told them to pack up and go back.

As a result, King Ning and Chu Ge returned to the training room with hamburgers and fried chicken, which did not let this group of lazy people starve to death.

Chu Ge pulled up his mobile phone while eating, browsing the domestic e-sports forums to see what exciting news there had been in the past two days.

When he saw the poisoned milk list, he was not calm.

Ranked seventh?

Connotation buddy sword pointing at S7?

The people in the post bar are even more noisy.

[I'm laughing to death, the top three are all Koreans, and only the director of the LPL can show his hand, right? ] 】

[Uzi is ranked behind Bang, do you understand the game? ] 】

[Didn't any of them enter the LMS division? Is it because my wolf king Kasa is not enough C, or is my Ximen's little fishman unable to lift a knife? 】

[Dow ranked seventh? Just in the LPL League, the blue-collar top list was killed, and it was really not allowed to be educated by the LCK's top list in the World Championship? 】

[Is there still a dog barking in the qualifying scene between Dow and Smeb some time ago?] What do you say on this list, the first place is Smeb, official certification, can those Dow ÷ not pretend to be dead and match me? 】

[Smeb is your father, isn't he?] LPL has finally appeared in such a super single as Dow, can trolls go to the toilet and plug the stinky mouth? 】

[Laughing to death? The poisoned milk list also made Han Za jump his face, just look at whether this World Championship is enough milk for the fist, or your filial piety is strong]

The scolding war has hardly stopped, and if the post is blocked, another article will be opened to continue the battle, and Chu Ge has seen a lot of titles that lead to the war.

He laughed and clicked in, cried and clicked out.

It can only be said.

Good looking is good looking, that is, every 5cm consumes a horse.

Turning off the domestic forum, Chu Ge took a piece of chicken leg again and took a bite, frowning as soon as he took a bite.

The taste is not quite like the domestic one. And it's a little too oily, if it weren't for the oversized cup of Coke to relieve the greasy, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat it at all.

One more glance at the Riot Team rankings.

The top three are ROX, SKT and EDG, while IG, the No. 1 seed in the LPL, is ranked fifth, and TSM, the king of training matches, is ranked higher than them.

Chu Ge was not only not angry, but silently praised it.

It can only be said that in addition to the poisoned milk, the fist is really a war dog.

Who doesn't know that IG won the LPL Summer Championship with a crushing score of 3:0, and the champion ranked behind the runner-up, which is simply a big joke in the world.

But Chu Ge can also understand.

IG's fame is too small, not even as good as last year's LGD, at least they still have S4's champion Imp in the team.

And on the other hand, IG.

Even the influence of Rookie's chicken Allah's name only exists in the league, and the other four are not too famous.

"Pigeon, have you looked at the Riot team rankings?"

Rookie patted his teammates on the shoulder, "How do you feel that our No. 1 seed is so aggrieved, and the game has not even started to be labeled as the weakest in the LPL." ”

"It's okay," Chu Ge chuckled, "If the esports competition can win the game by relying on these rankings, LGD won the championship last year." ”

"The champion is played, and it can only be said that the capitalists will play with public opinion."

If Gao Zhenning were to ask this question, Chu Ge would laugh at him for not being able to afford it.

Ning Wang is definitely the kind of player with a big heart, and the bigger the stage, the better his performance.

But Song Yijin is not.

As a person with future memories, Chu Ge knew very well that Song Yijin's mentality was not as good as he imagined.

Otherwise, there would not have been two consecutive cases of forgetting to buy equipment when going out, and having problems with the broiler mentality in the fifth game of BO5.

"Do you believe that I am Qin Shi Huang, or do you believe in the list of fists?"

In Song Yijin's puzzled eyes, Gao Zhenning leaned over and grinned, "Then I must believe that you are Qin Shi Huang, and you don't even look at the list of fists." ”

IG's poor performance in last year's World Championships, coupled with Tabe's exposure of tactics last year despite the obstacles of European and American commentary, also made the outside world generally not optimistic about IG.

After all, in Riot's list comments, IG is still described as a dark horse, not as a strong team.

From 2014 to 2016, in the past three years, the official LPL league couldn't even play with the promotion of its own region, let alone the same overseas publicity as Shit.

The nearby LCK divisions are only willing to make training appointments with the LPL head teams and are unwilling to know more, let alone the European and American divisions on the other side of the ocean.

Even if they knew, would they like it?

FNC is the champion of the S1 Internet Cafe League.

The overseas publicity of the LCK division is in place, and the European and American audiences have been trained to watch the games in the LCK region, and the players who play well can go to the LCS for retirement.

Even if you form an all-Korean class, you have fans.

The LPL official still has a long way to go, at least he has to win a championship first, and let Europe and the United States take a look at the Internet café league after all.

Although the domestic forums are very controversial about the players, in the team's leaderboard, except for Krdog, it is basically the same to the outside world.

[This fist is pure to lead the dog]

[The fists are all ranked, IG can't return the trophy to EDG?]

What about the brain? They've all been bullied to the head, brothers, did anyone rush the fist with me? 】

[Then I have to tell the story of my daddy's attack on the BG website when I was in 01]

[I am fortunate to be one of those 80,000 people!] Say, do you want to hang the IG team logo on Riot's official website]

[Brothers, calm down! Don't be impulsive, it's not too late to wait for LPL to win the championship this year]

[It's just a poisoned milk list, Rox and SKT will be poisoned by their fists this year]

King Ning explained what Qin Shi Huang meant for a long time, and the broiler finally understood, and bit off the chicken wings in his hand, "Then I also believe that you are Qin Shi Huang." ”

After eating, the members of IG's training team endured their sleepiness and continued to train.

According to the domestic time, it is equivalent to saying that they are still working all night, even if they are sleepy, they can't sleep, and they must adjust their schedules.

(End of chapter)