"Jing Hao, LPL has started to carnival, and now your KT is the hope of our LCK."

"Se-hyung, Won-suk, and Hekyu. You have to come on! ”

Back in the backstage, Faker took the lead and put the pressure directly on the KT players who were about to take the stage.

I have to say that language is really an art.

Originally, some players and coaches who wanted to sneer at SKT on the LCK side instantly didn't know what to say to the SKT crowd who lost the game because of Faker's words.

After all, after KZ's small upset loss to the fourth-ranked Heroes team in LPL's hard power, it was a kind of dumping behavior to make SKT, which ranked fourth in LCK's hard power.

SKT won and naturally became a hero.

But after losing, SKT also became the "culprit" that pushed the LCK to the brink in the continental competition.

Although it is reasonable to stand on the "No. 1 seed to win No. 4", it is also true that SKT lost the match, which led to the points of the LCK: LPL region coming to 0:2.

After all, it is not only the wolf warriors in the LPL region who have hatred in the hearts of SKT who has established the Triple Crown dynasty, but also other teams in the LCK region.

SKT is the only one!

Faker is the king alone!

This directly led to the fact that more than 70% of the audience in the entire LCK region are SKT fans, even if SKT did not win the championship last year!

With the rising salaries of League of Legends esports players in recent years, coupled with the intensification of the LPL region's poaching of Korean aid and raising prices, many clubs have to invest more money in order to maintain their competitiveness in the league.

Because the industrialization of e-sports in the Great Han Kingdom was vigorously carried out at the end of the last century, after a long period of hard work and attempts, many old clubs have actually reached breakeven, and even have a lot of profits every year.

But as the popularity of the League of Legends program continues to increase, the cost of signing players for clubs is also increasing.

The original state of stability has been gradually broken.

Although the loss is not a loss, I have always been able to earn 80, and this year I can only earn 50 because of the increase in costs, is it a loss of 30 from the perspective of the club?

Unlike many rich second-generation people in China who invest in e-sports clubs because of their own hobbies, LCK is more about earning Mane!

Now, with SKT still dominating the LCK league, it is difficult for other clubs in the LCK to harvest "fans".

Because, SKT's team uniforms cost 20,000 won, and 30,000 pieces may be sold in a month.

And my KT ancestor doesn't even have a star, even if the game is good this season, but even if he wins the World Championship, does the price of the team uniform dare to exceed 20,000 won?

When pigs fly!

There are three stars on the SKT jersey!

What's even more disgusting is that even if it is only sold for 18,000 won, it is cheaper than SKT, but the quantity sold may not be as much as SKT. Even if SKT didn't make it to the finals, it didn't even make it to the World Championships.

Reality, that's it!

A whale falls, and everything is born.

In the LCK league, SKT is the whale, and other clubs are looking forward to it falling and dividing its resources so that they can scale up and reap more benefits!

Of course, there is also a large reason for the low profit of the club, which is that the prize money in League of Legends events is too small.

Like Dota 2 next door, the prize money of the first International is as high as 1 million dollars!

TI3 went straight to $1.4 million.

The NB team won the championship TI4, and the prize money was as high as 5 million dollars!

And in the years since, it has been improving!

In contrast, the prize money of League of Legends in the World Championship before S5 was only $1 million, and it only rose to $2 million in S6!

In the past few years, it is clear that the popularity and revenue of League of Legends have been rising, but last year, the prize money of the S7 World Championship did not rise but fell, falling to 1.82 million dollars.

As the hottest event in the world at the moment, Riot is really a bit of a pick!

The prize money of this World Championship is not even a fraction of the total sales of a certain skin of the farmer next door!

Therefore, in order to fight for their own interests, all LCK clubs want SKT to die sooner.

In contrast, the LPL is constantly fighting in private, but everyone is losing money, and even EDG, which won the championship last year, is only barely breaking even, so the clubs are still relatively harmonious.

In this intercontinental tournament, the solidarity of the LPL can be seen.

Of course, like the Heroes team, they took the lead and went directly to the dual riding system of Kree and Pig Girl that they planned to use in the playoffs, the most important thing is due to the selfless dedication of Ah Guang, Monkey and coach White Crescent to the LPL.

……

"We didn't play well, but you don't have time to be sad, the next battle should be RNG, right?"

Seeing Faker talking with a needle hidden in his hand, a gun and a stick, Wolf also became angry: "Go ahead, I will cheer you on in the lounge, looking forward to your triumphant return!" ”

“KTRolster——”

"You are the hope of our big LCK!"

"It's the biggest pillar that allowed us to overturn the LPL before the World Championship this season and maintain the royal-level division!"

"Come on!"

"I'm optimistic about you!"

Wolf's whole person was round, and with the tone of his speech, the KT players could only shake their heads helplessly.

They all knew that SKT was holding a grudge against their coach for letting them play second.

"How can you win?"

KT's support player Mata sighed very lightly, and Deft, the pilot on the side, also stood in place for a while after hearing this, silent.

That's right

Although the continental competition is only four days, from the various details of the game, it can be easily found that the LPL region is obviously much more united than the LCK region.

Like RW's upset KZ in the first game.

Looking at the game from a pro's point of view, Deft doesn't think it's just a coincidence.

The various performances of the Xia team in the game can be seen that they are extremely familiar with the playing style of the KZ team!

This is not something that can be studied by studying video alone.

However, as a team that has just purchased LPL seats this season, re-established, and has a first-class end in the LPL, the Xia team has never played against the Zonghuang team!

Why are they so familiar with KZ's style of play and the players' playstyle?

That's exactly what EDG, who played against Team KZ several times in the mid-season this year, told them!

After all

There is no team in the LPL that is more familiar with Team KZ than EDG.

And LCK on this side

KZ They don't know if they deliberately put it on the spurt, or if they deliberately didn't disclose it.

When mentioning the information about the EDG team, several players talked about all the things that everyone can see, and the "key" that is really useful, BDD, Little Peanut, Khan and others don't mention a word!

Of course, this is only Mr. Dai's subjective assumption.

In his heart, he still hopes that it is simply because KZ and the others are affected by the club.

……

"Let's welcome Royal never give up and Team KTRolster!"

After a short 10-minute break, RNG and KT players took to the stage under the sound of the host's aftershocks.

Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, ten people walked to the contestants' seats and began to quickly debug the peripherals.

"KT here is full of antiques!"

"I didn't expect this team to be able to break to the top of the standings this summer"

Looking at the familiar faces that kept appearing on the display screen, Ming Kai sighed a little: "Alpacas have a hand at beating puppies." ”

If Bang is the hardest priest, then Deft must be the severest.

In the two seasons of S5 and S6, Deft and Uzi played 6 big games and 12 small games, and Uzi only won 1 big game and 4 small games.

The win rate can be said to be a bit miserable!

"Indeed. People like Bang are all playing against Uzi in world events, and this Deft directly joins LPL and EDG, which is really not very kind. ”

Spicy Xiangya couldn't help but shake his head as he recalled the not-so-pleasant games he had when he was in RNG.

"But this year's puppy is in unusually good shape, maybe he can do a miracle in the face of Deft?"

"After all, in addition to being stable and being arrested by our EDG, RNG is very stable in fighting other teams."

Before the spicy incense pot finished speaking, Yan Junze couldn't help it when he was pressed to the bench on the side.

"What we EDG!"

"Xiangguo, you are not kind."

"How long have you been in RNG, how long have you been in EDG."

"How can I win a few games, and now we are called EDG!"

"This" for the sharp question of the posture, the spicy incense pot that is not very eloquent suddenly a little difficult.

He scratched his head and looked around, trying to ask for help.

But I suddenly found that in addition to my teammates, there were IG with many good friends, and the Xia team with two former members of EDG.

Your RNG has come to the stage to play the game, and you are so arrogant as a little substitute?

With the advantage of numbers, he instantly hardened:

"If you enter the pig farm for one day, you will be a pig for life!"

"You dare to say that I am not from EDG, do you ask the factory director if he agrees?"

"Ask the thousands of teammates behind me if they agree!"

The spicy incense pot shouted and looked at the factory director very angrily.

It's true that you're LPL003, but my head coach Clearlove7 is LPL001!

"Uh...

"The game is on, let's watch the BP!"

"I'm kidding you, why are you still arrogant."

The gesture spread his hands, but he felt the murderous aura from the person behind the spicy fragrant pot, and immediately took it back and changed it to a posture of holding his hands on his chest.

"Who let buddy win a spring crown and an MSI championship this year?"

"Do you have an MSI champion?"

The spicy incense pot also imitates the posture of holding his hands on his chest, which is very proud.

"Forget it!"

"Watch the game, don't talk to you about what you have or not."

The gesture felt the pain in his heart.

If the IEM and national e-sports championships are not counted, he Liu Zhihao has not won a championship in seven years in his career, which is really quite a failure.

Compared to the spicy fragrant pot, he really can't be arrogant.

"Mata on the other side is also an old thing, and the puppy is not very easy to play in this game."

After seeing the ID of the KT bottom lane duo player, he immediately diverged and said, "This guy is quite enviable, he seems to have played professionally in the same year as me, but he won the OGN championship the next year." ”

"Hey"

"Can you release water in the EDG Summer Finals and give your buddies a championship!"

"Uh-huh!" Hearing the gesture, IG, especially Song Yijin, was not happy, and he immediately shouted: "Why do you think RNG can enter the finals?" ”

"In the playoffs, we play IG, who loses and who wins is not certain!"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

Looking at a serious broiler, he smiled sheepishly.

And this expression, in Song Yijin's eyes, seemed to have become that the other party was laughing at him for being caught crying by the alchemy snake digging dragon when he was laughing at himself in the spring playoffs, and his face suddenly turned red.

"Mata, this guy is a vision king, and it is said that the conductor is also quite spiritual, which is really difficult to deal with."

At this critical moment, the great Yu Wenbo stood up: "He cooperated with Deft, and the RNG bottom lane duo may not be able to play comfortably." ”

"That's the case, it still depends on BP."

Jiang Zhun, who had been silent and didn't speak much, also suddenly spoke: "Uzi shouldn't have any pressure to play Deft now, his state during this period is really good, and the most important thing is to look at the auxiliary position." ”

"Mata, Mafa, and Madlife used to be called the top three supporters of the LCK, right?"

"The hero pool of the old thing is very deep, and I don't know if I can come up with some heroes for Shi Senming's hard support."

"Of course, he doesn't seem to be able to operate well now, I hope Uzi and Shi Senming can catch the opportunity to break through him directly on the line!"

The hard power of KT's five players is not the top group in the LCK at present, but under the command of Mata, this team has exploded with amazing potential in the summer season, and it has passed all the way, whether you are a legendary team, a rising star dark horse, or the champion of the spring game, KT has won them all!

Therefore, long before the continental competition, Jiang Zhun studied this team.

Of the five team members, the one he feared the most was not Semb, Deft, or Pawn, but Mata!

This old thing has too strong a strong ability to control the layout of the field of vision and timing!

The similarity between KT and EDG in the Summer Season is that many games are played under 25 minutes!

EDG relies on Ueno's breakthrough, as well as strong execution ability and relatively advanced version understanding.

KT, on the other hand, relied on Mata's command and arrangement.

This guy plays assist, and he is able to do a third of the economy to buy visions!

With the Green Jungler Knife removed, Team KT Summer will still be able to light up most of the Summoner's Rift!

KT, on the other hand, always relies on poor visibility to make operational difficulties in order to gain an advantage.

"Jace?!"

"This Semb really dares to dig something!"

Just as Jiang Zhun was pondering, he suddenly shouted excitedly.

Looking at the screen, the lineups of both sides have been chosen.

RNG: Knife Girl, Verus, Morgana, Barrel, Ryze

KT: Sword Demon, Jace, Pig Girl, Big Eyes, Shen

"Is Jace on the way?"

"KT's couter position really worked!"

Recalling the order of hero selection, Jiang Zhun easily deduced that KT should be the top single Jace and the middle single sword demon, and the bottom road is cautious + big eyes.

And RNG, this is the top single knife sister and the middle single Ruiz.

"If Yan Junze can play Ruiz, in fact, the single knife girl in the top laner Ruiz will be much easier to play."

"If you are a single knife girl, it will be difficult for Xiaohu to have the right to line in the early stage!"

"You can swing the upper middle on both sides to see how they end up changing."

(End of chapter)