Although there is more than two months off after the end of each year's Worlds and before the start of the next year's Spring Championships.

But these two months seem like a long time, but in fact they are fleeting.

On November 4th, the 2017 League of Legends World Championship ended.

On November 10th, Dark signed a two-year, $7 million contract extension with the G2 team.

Then, after completing some advertising endorsements and advertising videos, Mingrui returned to Huaxia and returned to his parents.

In the next nearly a month, Mingrui's daily activities are to conduct daily game live broadcasts on YouTube in accordance with the contract, and after the live broadcast, he is to accompany his parents or travel.

The vacation time is very comfortable and beautiful, but the only uncomfortable point is that because foreigners are only for the Chinese Lunar New Year, only for their Western Christmas, so Mingrui's return time is set on December 28, that is, three days after Christmas.

So, after determining the time to return to the team, taking the last opportunity of the holiday, Mingrui took his parents on one last trip again.

This time, the target location of Mingrui Tourism is no longer near Pingxiang, but directly to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in the north!

In addition to wanting to visit the legendary Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Eighth Wonder of the World, there is also one of the most important goals, that is, to "appreciate" the 2018 LPL region in advance, whether it is the most promising year for the LPL as they say.

Because, the venue of this year's Demacia Cup, is here!

This year's Demacia Cup will be held from December 20th to 23rd, and there will be eight teams participating: IG, RNG, JDG, RW, EDG, TOP, SNG and SDG.

Originally, Mingrui had "high hopes" for the newly upgraded RNG team, but he never thought that in the case of the German Cup adopting a double-elimination system, the RNG team would be directly eliminated the next day, which made Mingrui can't help but call garbage.

And to Mingrui's surprise, the IG team is really as netizens said, very brave.

Whether it is the top laner Theshy, the jungler Ning, the mid laner Rookie, the bottom laner Jackeylove, or the support Baolan, it can be said that the IG team's four line-to-line are almost never disadvantaged, and everyone's personal strength can be called the top of the LPL.

Especially the top laner Theshy and the bottom lane Jackeylove, when watching the IG team's game, Mingrui has also been comparing and simulating in his heart, if it is his own G2 team's top laner Wunder and bottom lane Perkz in the process of matching with the two of them, can play the advantage they want to see.

And the answer in Mingrui's mind is that the bottom lane should be able to go five or five here, and even Perkz can use his game experience to take some advantage.

But on the road side, if Wunder and Theshy are on the same line, it can only be a five-to-five at most.

So if the G2 team meets the IG team at the Worlds, it may be a problem to get on the road, and you need to find someone to train Wunder when you get back.

The four-day Derby Cup campaign came to an end soon and the results were soon in.

In the end, the IG team successfully won the German Cup championship, the TOP team won the second place, the SN team won the third place, and the EDG team won the third place.

And this result was also a surprise to Mingrui, who thought that Zhuo Ding Knight's SN team would be able to win at least one runner-up even if it couldn't beat the IG team, but he didn't expect the TOP team, a little-known small team, to win the runner-up as soon as it debuted.

It was true that Mingrui couldn't help but exclaim, the three teams of RNG, EDG and WE are worthy of being garbage in the garbage, and in the German Cup where only eight teams participated, they couldn't even get the top three.

Team WE is one of the most rubbish, they didn't even qualify for the German Cup!

What if the LPL team habitually uses the German Cup for training? Garbage is garbage!

After the trip to Xi'an, Mingrui sent the second elder home, and then reluctantly said goodbye, and returned to the European division and the G2 team club non-stop.

It was also on December 28th that Ming Rui officially met all his teammates in the new season for the first time.

"Dark, I'm Wunder, and I'm lucky enough to be my teammate at the FMVP in the finals!"

The top laner Wunder, a very festive-looking big face, is very polite when shaking hands with Dark, after all, he knows very well that in the current G2 team, Dark is a well-deserved big brother!

"Dark, I'm Caps, and when I was in the semifinals of last summer, didn't you ask me if I wanted to be on the G2 team? Now here I am! ”

"And to be honest, I actually kind of regret that I didn't come to G2 sooner, and if I had come sooner, wouldn't I have been a World Champion a long time ago?"

Mid-laner Caps, a very young and delicate little boy, was full of regret when he introduced himself to Dark, and said that he was still too young last year.

"Dark, I'm Perkz, a newcomer to the G2 team, and I hope you can lead me to the S8 World Championship."

Down Perkz, a hippie smile said to Dark, and then managed to get a roll of Dark's eyes.

"Dark, I'm Hylissang, I was going to FNC to join Caps, and as soon as I heard that he was coming to G2, I hurriedly followed, I hope I won't disappoint you big brothers in the next year."

Auxiliary Hylissang, a man with black-framed glasses and a beard on his face, did not shake hands with Dark, but hugged Dark, quite a kind of temperament of Zhang Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"Hello everyone, I'm Dark, and I hope that in the next year, we can help each other and make progress together."

"As for the G2 team's goal in the S8 season, it is very simple, which is to continue to win the 2018 Grand Slam!"

"That is, the EU Spring Champion, the MSI Champion, the Euro-American Champion, the EU Summer Champion, and the S8 World Champion!"

“Let's go G2！”

Mingrui smiled solemnly at the four teammates, and then did not say any more greetings, and under the leadership of the coach, he immediately entered the training and preparation for the new season.

……

The start date of the 2018 EU Spring Season is January 20, 2018, so there are still three weeks to go until the G2 team's first game of the new year.

However, for the LPL region, their spring regular season started 5 days earlier than the EU region, and it officially started on January 15.

Obviously, because of the collective defeat of the LPL region in the S7 World Championship, after the start of the regular season of the LPL Spring Tournament this year, the viewing popularity of the LPL game has decreased significantly compared with the same period last year.

But at the same time, the popularity of the EU Spring Tournament is more than 10 times higher than that of the same period last year!

In other words, even if the game time in the EU region is late at night in China time, there are still many Chinese viewers who are willing to stay up late to watch the EU region, or more accurately, the game of the G2 team!

As for who exactly they are looking at?

The answer is undoubtedly, it is the only Chinese aid player of the G2 team, jungler Dark!

However, the psychological activity of these Chinese viewers when watching the G2 team games is quite polarized.

Some of the Chinese viewers who are champion fans have directly become loyal fans of the G2 team after the G2 team won the S7 World Championship, and I hope that after the G2 team's lineup is newly upgraded, it can still be like last year, and it is best to complete the slaughter of the LPL division for a whole year again!

Another part of the Chinese audience is a real G2 black fan, the reason why they watch the G2 team's game is to see an accident of "seeing him rise up a tall building, seeing his building collapse".

And after watching the entire EU Spring Tournament, both sides were satisfied to varying degrees!

Because although the G2 team once again defended the spring championship in the EU region, the G2 team's journey through the spring tournament was not particularly smooth.

Especially during the Spring Season, the G2 team even lost several big games!

The reason is very simple, that is, the run-in speed of the G2 team in the new season is not particularly fast.

Especially when the G2 team is almost completely rebuilding around Dark, with Dark welcoming four new teammates!

Even Perkz is Dark's new teammate, after all, he, as an "AD player", is really a real newcomer.

Fortunately, Dark is still C enough, and in the process of helping his teammates to run in, he almost dragged the G2 team into the spring playoffs in the EU region with the terrifying strength of one god and four pits.

And to Dark's great relief, after entering the spring playoffs, the run-in of the G2 team's lineup has finally been completed!

In the semi-finals, the G2 team finally regained their terrifying posture as the great European demon and successfully defeated their former teammate Expect's Splyce team with a score of 3-0 to advance to the finals.

In the finals, they once again defeated the FNC team, the only designated opponent in the European region, with a crushing score of 3-0, and once again defended the 2018 EU Spring Championship Championship, and successfully qualified for the 2018 MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational!

As for the LPL region, the whole process of the spring tournament can be described as full of drama.

Because the LPL division canceled the relegation and relegation system in 2018 and changed it to an alliance, it has also made major changes in the competition system.

In the regular season, LPL teams are no longer grouped according to Group AB, but learn that the NBA has enabled the East and West Divisions.

As a result, after nearly 4 months of regular season journey, teams that successfully reached the quarterfinals of the playoffs were born one after another.

They are the IG, RW, RNG, and JDG teams in the Eastern Region, and the EDG, Snake, BLG, and WE teams in the Western Region.

Among them, the most terrifying thing is naturally the IG team, because they actually played an incomparably amazing 18 consecutive victories in the entire LPL Spring Season!

Then, a dramatic scene immediately ensued.

That is the first round of the playoffs on April 12, 2018, the first round of the playoffs eight into six matches, the two teams are S7 top four RNG team, and S7 top 16 WE team!

In just one winter, the two teams changed from "World Championship Teams" to "Playoff Teams", which made Mingrui have to applaud and call "Little Tiger" and "Kanti" simply the mascots of the two teams!

However, there was no suspense about the outcome of the match, and the RNG team easily defeated the WE team to advance to the top six.

On April 13th, the eight-in-six game was won by the BLG team against the JDG team, which also officially ended the first LPL season of toothpaste.

On April 14th, six into four, RNG played against the Snake team, Mingrui thought that the RNG team could not be the opponent of the Snake team with a higher ranking in the regular season anyway, but he never expected that the RNG team would win again and successfully advance to the top four.

On April 15th, Team RW played against Team BLG, and Team RW won and advanced to the semifinals.

A week later, in the semi-finals, the RNG team played against the IG team again, and I thought that this time the RNG team would not be the opponent of the IG team anyway, but what Mingrui didn't expect again was that the RNG team actually won again!

But it wasn't because of how strong the RNG team was, but because Theshy, the starting top laner of the IG team, suddenly injured his hand after the regular season, causing him to be unable to play, so the RNG team had a chance to win the semifinals.

And through this game, Mingrui once again saw how rubbish and disgusting the RNG team and RNG fans are.

Because just before the start of the game, they were constantly taunting Theshy, and even specially made a poster of "Broken Hand Single"!

The other semi-final was between Team RW and Team EDG.

However, it is a pity that the RW team was not able to continue their dark horse posture to the end, unfortunately lost to the EDG team, and once again staged a pig and dog battle in the finals of the LPL Spring Tournament.

But before the pig and dog war, LPL also added a third-place tournament this year, which was played by the RW team and the IG team.

As for the result of the game, it was once again staggering, because the IG team, which dominated the entire LPL for an entire spring season, actually lost to the RW team after losing to the RNG team!

As a result, when the RW team successfully won the third place in the spring, the IG team also successfully won the "honor" of "18 consecutive victories".

Next, it is the much-anticipated competition for the 2018 LPL Spring Finals!

On April 28, the 2018 LPL Spring Finals officially kicked off at the Chengdu Big Cube Performing Arts Center, and the defending champion EDG team met the old rival RNG for the fourth time.

In the end, after 4 rounds of wonderful "pig and dog" competition, the RNG team successfully defeated the EDG team with a score of 3-1 and became the champion of the 2018 LPL Spring Tournament, and also successfully qualified to represent the LPL region in the mid-season championship tournament.

And it is worth mentioning that this spring championship is the first LPL championship of Uzi players in their 6-year career!

"I think it would have been better if this title had come earlier."

"This will not be the last, I will continue to win many, many championships with my teammates in the RNG team in the future!"

In the post-match interview, Uzi, who won one championship in six years, said excitedly, and even said that his eyes were red with excitement when he spoke, and he was almost moved to tears!

Just listening to the audience chanting "Uzi" and chanting "RNG", Mingrui was quite speechless.

Isn't it just a league champion? These RNG fans are so excited for Uzi?

You know, he has three such league champions now!

And there's also a World Championship Trophy that Uzi and all the RNG players may never have a chance to touch in their lifetime, as well as the Finals FMVP Trophy, and the MSI Championship Trophy, as well as the MSI Finals FMVP Trophy!

"As for the next MSI, the RNG team has only one goal, and that is to win the championship!"

"We already said after the end of S7 last year, S8, RNG will definitely take back everything we lost!"

"So, the revenge path that belongs to the RNG team starts with the 2018 MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational!"

And when Uzi was successfully elected as the FMVP of the LPL Spring Finals, he said with a fierce look in front of the camera.

As a result, the audience was boiling again.

Because they all know very well that although Uzi did not name names, the object of revenge he is referring to must be the G2 team, the sworn enemy of the RNG team called Dark!

“RNG！ RNG！ RNG！ ”

Then, the audience chanted the names of the RNG team in unison again, vowing to use their most fanatical volume to help the RNG team win the MSI championship in this LPL region after a three-year absence in the upcoming MSI!

……

"Ridiculous."

"Why do LPL fans always think that as long as their voice is loud enough, the LPL team can successfully win the championship?"

"Especially the fans of this RNG team are even more ridiculous, Uzi just won the first district league championship, how can you listen to their tone, Uzi has become a real world No. 1 adc, and the RNG team has also become a real world No. 1 team?"

"Did they ask our G2 team for their opinion?"

Mingrui couldn't listen to it anymore, and turned off the live broadcast with a sneer, and turned his head to the left for some reason.

"I, I don't know."

"We lost to the RNG team last year."

Then, I heard a voice that was extremely aggrieved and wanted to cry without tears.

As a result, Mingrui immediately realized that he was still not completely accustomed to the person sitting on his left was no longer Perkz, but Caps.

Fortunately, there was Perkz to the left of Caps, so Mingrui lay back and continued to ask.

"Perkz, what do you say?"

"Of course they didn't ask, after all, they didn't dare to ask at all."

Perkz chuckled dismissively.

"In my opinion, these teams and fans in the LPL region have no other specialties at all except to brag about the strength of their teams, after all, they have no chance to show their strength at all."

"So what can you do for them other than blowing?"

"Before we played Team WE last year, the fans of Team WE also blew it before the game, but we directly beat a 3-0 in the finals."

"Since a similar plot is staged again this year, then we naturally have to play the RNG team again 3-0."

"Of course, the premise is that the RNG team can make it to the MSI finals."

"However, I feel that their RNG has a very small chance of reaching the MSI finals, because the strength of this year's MSI team is still very strong."

Perkz continued to chuckle and said that if his remarks were posted online in the form of a scarf, RNG fans would immediately scold Perkz as "Dark No. 2"!

"Huh? This year's MSI teams have all come out? ”

"Who are the teams? When is the time of the competition? ”

Mingrui immediately asked curiously, because he couldn't wait to fast forward time to MSI!

In this way, he can continue to beat the RNG team in the MSI arena immediately after half a year!

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