LPL or don't contact us, we really don't know each other!

After a few days, when Mingrui updated the bib again, but the content was so explosive, countless LPL fans only felt that the faith in their hearts collapsed instantly, and the Taoist heart collapsed instantly!

Because for them, although Dark has indeed won two consecutive championships in the S competition after leaving the LPL region, it really proves that the LPL division two years ago was blind, did not realize the true strength of Dark's players, and made a very big wrong decision.

However, because in the past two years, Dark players have repeatedly provoked, ridiculed, and even insulted the LPL region, resulting in countless LPL fans already hating Dark, thinking that no matter how strong he is, the LPL region will never be able to buy back such a "thorn in the eye".

Moreover, even today, there are still countless LPL fans who firmly believe that even if there is no Dark in the LPL region, they can definitely win the S World Championship one day, because last year's semi-finals and this year's runner-up results are the best proof that LPL has been improving.

But just when LPL fans firmly believed that as long as the LPL team worked hard and trained hard in 2019, they would definitely be able to defeat Dark and defeat the G2 team, with the sudden release of Dark's "we are not familiar" scarf, LPL fans realized that their LPL was actually on fire in their backyard!

In the case that LPL fans still haven't given up, the bosses and managers of the LPL team have taken the lead in giving up their resistance to Dark, and even think about buying Dark back directly from the G2 team, and then go to the world championship of S9!

To put it mildly, isn't this tantamount to admitting a thief as a father and seeking skin with a tiger?!

So, when Mingrui's scarf was released, countless LPL fans blew up on the spot.

"Damn, Lao Tzu still thought that as long as the LPL worked hard next year, he would definitely be able to win the world championship, but he didn't expect to look back and see that his home team had surrendered first! It's disgusting! ”

"The team that appears in these screenshots, one counts as one, and I will be their black fan next year! A bunch of cheap bones, who have been fighting with Dark for two years, and now they are thinking of selling for glory? Grass, why didn't you buy Faker back before you were so cheap? ”

"What LGD, what OMG, what V5 rookie team wants to buy Dark, forget it, I didn't expect the IG team that just won the world runner-up to want to buy Dark back! Why, surrender if you can't fight? I used to have a little bit of a good impression of the IG team, but now it's all gone! ”

"Brothers, don't be in a hurry to scold, let's just say that there is a possibility, these teams actually just sent an invitation email to Dark casually, and in fact, they didn't really want to buy him back to the LPL, they were just making a show and interfering with Dark."

"It's really possible to say that, after all, I don't believe that the owners and managers of the LPL team will be so disgusting that they will risk the world to buy a traitor back!"

"If I were the owner of an LPL team, I would definitely buy Dark, and then press him to death next to the water cooler after buying it! As long as Dark can't play, I think he can be arrogant? As long as there is no Dark, the LPL World Championship can definitely be caught! ”

"Ahem, don't say that, our LPL itself has the strength to win the championship, and there is no need to engage in any conspiracy, besides, I have heard from the grapevine that in order to prevent the G2 team from winning three consecutive championships, Riot is officially preparing to modify the competition format of the 2019 MSI and S tournaments, but I don't know what it is for the time being."

"Anyway, to put it simply, the G2 team is now the villain in the eyes of the professional teams of League of Legends all over the world, and no one wants to see the G2 team win three consecutive championships and become the No. 1 team in history!"

"So look at it, next year's S9 World Championship, even if the world champion is not in our LPL region, it is absolutely impossible to continue to be a G2 team!"

In the comment area of G2.Dark's scarf, as well as in the major super talk forums, countless LPL fans have been discussing because of the "self-humiliating" operation of the major LPL teams.

However, although their discussion was lively, in the end, it did not come up with any effective results, after all, Dark himself had already emphasized that he asked the LPL team not to contact him again, so it was impossible for Dark to join the LPL team, and the most feared thing of LPL fans could not appear.

Moreover, just after Dark released this scarf, due to the pressure of public opinion, several LPL "selling thieves" teams named by him also hurriedly released various statements one after another.

Some teams say that the email Dark received was actually sent by a temporary worker out of the blue, and did not represent the decision of the team itself.

Some teams said that they hadn't actually emailed Dark at all, and that the content in the screenshots of the scarf was all faked by Dark himself.

Some teams even said that Dark's move was actually just to stimulate internal contradictions in the LPL region, so as to undermine the confidence of the LPL team to hit the S9 world championship!

The methods and contents of each team's "debunking rumor" statements are different, but there is one thing that is very consistent.

That is, almost all LPL teams, including the RNG team, EDG team and WE team that were not named, took this opportunity to release their bold statements and solemnly express them.

During the month-long winter transfer period from November 20th to December 16th, they will do their best to recruit and strengthen the team in order to build the strongest team before the arrival of the 2019 professional league.

After a whole year of training, the team players will run in better, and the overall strength will become stronger, and then they will impact the final S9 World Championship!

In a word, in fact, it is still the same sentence, that is, although the LPL region has been blasted by Dark players and the G2 team for two whole years, they still never give up.

And vowed to defeat the G2 team in next year's S9 World Championship and win the first world championship in the LPL region, while preventing the G2 team from winning the World Championship three times in a row, so as to take revenge!

At first, when he saw the LPL teams collectively releasing such bold words, Mingrui's reaction was still disdainful, and he was very contemptuous in his heart, after all, this was the third consecutive year that he had heard the LPL team say similar things.

However, as time passed, Mingrui sensed that something seemed to be wrong.

Because not only the LPL region released harsh words against the G2 team during this winter transfer period, but the LCK region next door to the LPL region also took this opportunity to release harsh words.

It's been two years since they've won a World Championship in the LCK region, so the S9 Worlds will definitely make the G2 team feel the fear of the LCK region again!

I didn't expect the NA region and even the EU region to take this opportunity to release cruel words, saying that they will definitely face and defeat the G2 team in next year's competition and become the S9 world champion.

So much so that for a while, the G2 team seemed to have become the biggest villain in the world, and Dark himself became the villain among villains, the villain king!

And just when Mingrui was wondering why these regions and teams took the wrong medicine at the same time and became so rampant at the same time, an inside message from the G2 team immediately solved the doubts in Mingrui's heart.

That is, the "grapevine" in the previous netizen comment has really become a reality this time!

In the upcoming 2019 League of Legends International Professional Tournament, whether it is the MSI Mid-Season Championship Invitational in the middle of the year or the S9 World Championship at the end of the year, the competition format of both events will be significantly adjusted!

"Hehe, in order to prevent our G2 team from winning three consecutive World Championship and six consecutive International Championship championships, Riot officials are so mad that they directly modify the competition system?"

"If there is no official LPL in this, I don't believe it!"

"Okay, okay, if you can't buy me back to the LPL region, you'll be annoyed and angry, right?"

"First I used rumors to refute the rumors for myself, and now I am asking Riot to officially revise the format of the international competition?"

"LPL doesn't really think that as long as the competition system is modified, they will have a chance to win the MSI championship and the S championship, right?"

"Hehe, there are a lot of ugly people and a lot of garbage!"

"Even if the format of the 2019 competition is changed, I will never let you win any championships!"

Mingrui sneered and said loudly, and then began to officially check the internal information.

To summarize briefly, the 2019 MSI format has become a double-elimination format, while the S9 Worlds format has changed to a Swiss round format.

What is a double-elimination format?

That is, every team that participates in the MSI Mid-Season Invitational will no longer be eliminated if they lose once in the knockout stage like the previous MSI, but will become "two lives", and they need to lose two knockout matches in a row before they are officially out.

For example, if MSI in 2018 adopts a double-elimination format, then after the RNG team is eliminated by the G2 team, they will not go home directly, but will enter the lower bracket and then go to the other losers, once they win again, they are likely to get a second chance to challenge the G2 team and complete the final counterattack.

"A double-elimination format? Interesting. ”

"It's really unlikely that there will be any moisture in the champions produced under this format."

"But in other words, there are people who think that our G2 team's two consecutive MSI championships were won by luck, and that if they get a second chance to play us, they will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory?"

"And it seems that it is not safe to send only one team to participate in MSI in a division, and I am going to send two teams directly next year?"

After briefly understanding the rules of the double-elimination format, Mingrui saw another piece of information about the eligibility of the 2019 MSI participating teams.

That is, in the 2019 MSI, the champion and runner-up of the spring competition in each region can get the opportunity to participate in MSI!

Among them, because the G2 team won the S8 World Championship, the second seed in the EU region can directly advance to the main stage of MSI, and the second seed in other regions needs to start from the play-in stage.

"This rule is good, because in this way, I can beat two LPL teams in one MSI!"

Mingrui smiled softly, although the overall competition intensity of MSI under the new competition system will definitely be much stronger than before, but his favorite thing to do is to give them a fatal blow again when he feels that he is "hopeful" in the LPL division, and once again make the entire LPL division completely desperate!

In addition to the double-elimination MSI, the S9 World Championship, which is about to adopt the Swiss round format, is also a better format for the LPL region and other regions to compete for the world championship.

What is a Swiss Wheel?

To put it simply, all the 16 teams participating in the main stage of the World Championship will not continue to adopt the previous 4x4 group stage group mode, but will participate in the draw from the first day of the World Championship and enter the mode of catching and fighting!

At the same time, in each round of the Swiss round, each team will play against teams with the same record as them until they compete for the best-of-eight teams and then become the traditional quarter-finals.

The knockout format at the start of the quarter-finals is exactly the same as in previous years, there is not much to say, but it is worth mentioning the format that turns the "group stage" into a "Swiss round".

Because the core of his competition system is actually similar to the double-elimination system, they all want to compete for the eight strongest teams in the world through strong confrontation!

And in order not to have an "upset", every time a team is about to win three and advance, or is about to lose three and go out, the final game will change from BO1 to BO3.

For example, if a G2 team with a 0-0 record wins against an RNG team in the first round of the Swiss round, they will need to play the IG team with a 1-0 record in the second round of the Swiss round.

After a 2-0 record, the G2 team will need to continue a B03 battle against a 2-0 SKT team to qualify for the first quarter-final spot.

In other words, as long as the G2 team can continue to be invincible in the S9 Worlds, they only need to play 4 games to become the top 8 team in S9, compared to the previous format of 6 rounds.

Of course, if they are weak enough but just enough to reach the quarterfinals, then they will have a long schedule, and they need to lose two BO1s first, and then win three BO3s in a row with a score of 0-2, so as to advance to the quarterfinals with a best-of-3 score of 3-2.

All in all, whether it's MSI's double-elimination format or the Swiss round format of the S tournament, what Riot wants to do is to minimize the impact of the word "luck" in order to compete for a true world title!

This means that it will be a little more difficult for the G2 team to win the S9 World Championship and complete the unprecedented feat of three consecutive championships in the history of League of Legends.

Why is it just a little bigger?

Because in Mingrui's opinion, the real powerhouse is not afraid of any bells and whistles at all!

Regardless of whether teams from other regions may benefit from these two new formats, next year's MSI Championship and S9 Championship will still belong to G2 teams!

"Come on, brothers, although next year's format is a little more complicated, our G2 team will definitely be able to win the World Championship three times in a row, and then make the dynasty belonging to the G2 team a real legend!"

After thoroughly understanding the new format of the two international competitions in 2019, Mingrui sent a message in the group chat to encourage everyone.

Although the time in Berlin should be around 10 o'clock at night, the teammates immediately responded, saying that they will definitely go all out in the new year's battle, and then create glory together with Dark!

Just as the G2 players took the opportunity to start chatting about what they had seen and heard during the offseason, a transatlantic call from Carlos, the owner of the G2 team, suddenly hit Mingrui's mobile phone.

"Boss, why did you call me all of a sudden? Is this new format boring? ”

Mingrui asked suspiciously, after all, under normal circumstances, Carlos would definitely not call him, at most he would send a message.

"No, no, the format is officially set by Riot, and there are no problems."

"I'm calling you this time to tell you two things."

"The first thing is about the reinforcement of our G2 team, although we won the S8 World Championship, I believe you have already seen that when Wunder faced Theshy in the finals, the gap in strength was still too big."

"Coupled with the fact that you have been offered a sky-high contract by the LPL team in the past two days, I was thinking about whether I should take the initiative to contact this Theshy and see if I can buy him from the IG team."

"In this case, our G2 team will definitely be invincible in the world!"

Carlos, the owner, said matter-of-factly, his tone was light, but he didn't hear the slightest hint of joking.

This made Mingrui suddenly shocked, he never thought that the boss Carlos would have the idea of buying Theshy into the G2 team!

If fans in the LPL region, especially fans of the IG team, know about it, I am afraid that they will be so anxious that they will cry directly, after all, Theshy may be the only chance for the IG team to defeat the G2 team next year!

If this was bought by the G2 team backhanded, wouldn't that be equivalent to being stolen directly?!

"Carlos, how dare you think about it...... I don't think there's much hope, after all, the IG team is not stupid and knows who is the thigh in the team. ”

"Besides, although Theshy is strong, I think that's it, if we meet IG again next year, let Wunder play meat honestly, and we can still properly hammer their IG team."

"But you can try, what if?"

Mingrui chuckled and said to Carlos, but he didn't think he would succeed, especially after he once again mocked the entire LPL region.

"Forget it, in fact, I don't think there's much hope, just casually, but I will continue to work hard to strengthen the top single position."

"The second thing is that you were nominated for the Best Esports Player award at the 2018 TGA Awards, not only you, but our G2 team was also nominated for the Best Esports Team, and in my opinion, we will probably win the award."

"So, you need to prepare your flight ticket to Los Angeles as soon as possible, the awards ceremony will officially start on December 6th, and you should be able to go there on December 5th at the latest, right?"

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(End of chapter)