Postscript (1): LCK's most promising year
League of Legends is rich in trolls.
According to incomplete statistics, players who have never cursed when playing League of Legends account for one or three percent of the total number of League of Legends.
And among all League of Legends players, the Korean stick has the strongest attack power in the world.
Inven Forum.
After Team EDE defeated the only seeded SSW team in the OGN region, the Inven forum exploded.
Nicknames for SSW team members and verbal abuse of SSW team members' family members are the least slight.
Make portraits of SSW team members, mail dead rats, and even extreme fans directly poison the members of SSW team.
The five members of Samsung White are under great pressure, and the members of Samsung Blue who are eliminated in advance of Samsung White are under even greater pressure, and the top single A brother of Samsung Blue, Acorn player will even be attacked by fanatical fans after the second team of Samsung White was defeated by the EDE team, and he decisively chose to retire.
The S4 World Finals are not over yet, and Acorn, the top laner of Samsung's first team, announced his retirement on Twitter and ended his career.
Two days after Acorn announced his retirement, when the EDG team and the EDE team competed for the championship, Samsung Blue's assistant, Samsung Blue's oldest Heart, also announced his retirement after suffering from fan offline gank.
So on October 21, 2014, with the retirement of Acorn and Auxiliary Heart, Samsung Blue was officially disbanded.
Riot will not allow two clubs next season, and after disbanding the first team SSB, the Samsung club did not keep the second team, but simply disbanded the second team.
Samsung Shizi, after being a string of two by the EDE team, was completely disbanded, and Samsung Shizi completely became history.
"A bunch of waste at Samsung, the OGN division is full of waste, and all the pros are waste!!"
In the Inven forum, posts abusing Samsung pros are everywhere, and in this group of posts, there is one post that stands out.
"Good news for Smecta, good news for Smecta, next year is the most promising year for our OGN division!"
The post was sent by a fist uncle's party.
"The good news for everyone is that Riot has just made an announcement that the OGN region will be officially renamed the LCK region, and the All-Star Game will become a completely entertainment event.
Next year, Riot will add a new mid-season event, MSI.
The MIS champion will bring an additional place to the respective division, which means that the region that wins the MSI championship can have four places. ”
The owner of the post revealed Riot's announcement on the Internet, and a group of Korean LOL players posted angrily:
"Xiba, what's the use of the quota? Give us OGN: Oh no, what about giving us four spots in the LCK, can we beat EDG? ”
"Four? You think too much, it's four places in the LPL region, not four places in our LCK region! ”
"Assi, my suggestion is to give up the game LOL, it's better to play Sword Spirit!!"
"The garbage three-star team, the garbage SKT team, the garbage NJW team, the garbage team that was defeated by EDG, even if they are given places, what's the use, to be embarrassed?"
The player frantically scolded the post, and the landlord who published this post continued to break the news:
"Ah Yixi, rush yarn, I heard that Riot is preparing to introduce a rule for EDG, which seems to be a salary cap to learn from the NBA.
Do you know how much those people are worth after the EDE team is disbanded?
I heard that the SKT team is willing to spend 1.8 billion to buy Uzi for EDE.
If you want me to say, as long as Riot can introduce a salary cap, the EDG team will definitely be disbanded! ”
Uncle Riot broke the news about what he knew, and the Korean LOL player who ate melons was shocked when he saw the news.
"Salary cap? If there is a salary cap, EDG is definitely going to be disbanded! ”
"Euro sucks, SKT is willing to spend 1.8 billion (10 million) to buy Uzi? Are willing to spend so much, why not buy Lushen? Does Feiko ration Terre Shoes? ”
"I can't buy Lu Shen, I can buy Kreel's spicy dance, or EDE's top order 957!"
"The salary cap is praised, hurry up and limit EDG, otherwise even if a club can't have two teams, it can't prevent EDG from winning the championship!"
The revelations of the uncle's party made fans in the LCK division find the possibility of defeating EDG, and just when they were frantically discussing the truth of this matter, on November 18, 2014, the LPL division officially made an announcement.
League of Legends Pro League (LPL) restrictions on professional player salaries and transfer rules:
(1): Starting from the S4 season (the same below), each club will set up a salary cap, and the salary cap will be capped at 20 million, and the excess part will be subject to luxury tax.
(2): If the following principles are met, a part of the salary may not be included in the salary cap.
(1): Players trained by the club, debuted in the club, or promoted from the second team of the club.
(2): The founding veteran of the club, who has participated in more than 50% of all the club's matches in the club.
③:.....
...
EDG Club.
After seeing the latest rules and regulations of the LPL, Edzhu was angry and laughed.
Good guys, the group of dogs in LPL, in order to introduce capital and prevent the EDG team from winning consecutive championships, actually introduced a salary cap.
"It's clearly for us!"
Lu Yiming is not surprised, the official LPL event is a group of things that see money, and the introduction of capital and the sale of LPL seats are their common operations.
"This is going to dismantle our EDG!"
Edzhu has a headache, the number of viewers in the S4 season finals is more than 6 million more than the S3 season, and now League of Legends has become the hottest game in the world, and there is no one.
The game exploded, and even the value of professional players skyrocketed, and at the end of the S3 season, other clubs offered Lu Yiming an offer, which was about 1 million a month.
This year's price directly added a 0 to the back, of which the domestic IG quoted Lu Yiming at 12 million, and the foreign SKT1 team quoted Lu Yiming with 2.6 billion won.
Money, not a problem.
Nothing that can be solved with money is a problem.
But the problem is that the official LPL division directly made a salary cap, and it is also a salary cap of 20 million.
Ed Zhu originally planned to open 15 million for Lu Yiming, 12 million for Ming Kai, and 8 million to 10 million for others.
It's good now, according to the salary cap rules of the LPL division, the current EDG, he can only keep two people.
"This group is better than all of them!"
Edzhu scolded angrily, even if Lu Yiming and Ming Kai have some of their salaries not included in the salary cap, but with the current player salaries of the EDG team, after he Edzhu leaves Lu Yiming and Ming Kai, there is no salary space.
Now EDG, there are only two options.
Either leave Lu Yiming and Ming Kai two team veterans, two cores, and the rest of the top orders, junglers and auxiliary newcomers, the kind with a salary of 10,000 yuan a month.
Either just buy one person, choose one of Ming Kai and Lu Yiming, and then buy some cheap medium-level options to form a new team.
"He NND, Yiming and Mingkai, I want it!"
In the face of the salary cap issued by the LPL official, Edzhu scolded and scolded, and at the same time kept Ming Kai and Lu Yiming, the two veterans of the team.
He created EDG for Lu Yiming, and Ming Kai was also the object of Edzhu's admiration, how could he let these two people go?
As for the top laner, jungler and support....
A newcomer is a newcomer, and you can always trust Lu Yiming's vision.
After Riot introduced the salary cap, the EDG team was forced to disband, and Edzhu chose to keep Lu Yiming and Ming Kai, who renewed Lu Yiming with an annual salary of 15 million and Ming Kai with a high annual salary of 12 million.
With the Nakano dual core, the salary cap of the EDG team has been exceeded, and the EDG team can only use newcomers, three newcomers who have never played LPL.
The EDG15 sub fell apart, and other teams began to scramble for the EDG15 sub.
The VG team snatched the top single Zhu Xiaolong at a price of more than 8 million, putting history back on track.
The WE team bought Sima Lao Thief at a price of 10 million and formed a triumvirate combination of Xi Ye, OTTO, and Sima Lao Thief.
The TES team bought Gao Dewei at a price of 11 million and Gao Zhenning at a price of 3 million to form Gao Dewei, Gao Zhenning and Nakano Combination.
The IG team bought Uzi for 11 million and Aya Hirano for 9 million, and they got the world's strongest bottom lane combination, Uzi + Aya Hirano, and Theshy in the top laner.
LGD bought the spicy fragrant pot at a price of 9 million, Gao Dehu at a price of 5 million, and Shenggun Brother at a price of 3 million, forming the three cores of Nakaueno.
And the most unexpected thing is Brother Crystal, Brother Crystal gave up the domestic club and chose to stay in Europe G2, in his words, the LPL division is too rolly, and there are too many people who can't beat him when he goes back, so it's better to stay in Europe and be the king of Europe.
EDG15 fell apart and disintegrated, which made countless LCK fans can't help but revel.
The S5 season is the most promising year for the LCK!