San Francisco is located in Western California, more than 3,000 kilometers from Chicago in northeastern Illinois.

Oct. 12, 12:47 p.m.

After lunch, Tiger and his party boarded the plane from San Francisco International Airport, and Nofe was sharing team updates with fans before boarding the plane.

From the perspective of Nofe's mobile phone, you can see the backs of the players wearing SKT uniforms from the photos.

That's right, the Tigers and SKT are in the same frame.

They were on the same plane.

The first few teams, such as EDG and RNG, had already departed on a Boeing plane in Dallascar ten minutes earlier.

Everyone chose to meet at the airport on the same day.

Coincidentally...

After Li Jin got on the plane, he found that his position was actually leaning on SKT.

Also sit in a row with buckle horses and stupid chickens!

Nofe filmed the humorous scene on his phone.

Smeb joked, "It's just a hell of a drawing." ”

If Li Jin is really still at SKT, it will be a 'hell drawing' for the Tigers.

"Brother Zhengjun, did you bring the coach's notes?"

"Brought it."

Li Jin found a comfortable position, turned his head sideways and smiled at Kkoma next to him, "Then let's study SKT's next tactics." ”

Kkoma heard the joke and smiled gently as usual.

It seems to have returned to those days when I worked with Li Jin.

Nofe, who was in the next row of seats, was a little surprised when he saw it.

Sejin noticed Nofe's expression and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Hey, Li Jin."

Stupid chicken rushed to speak: "It's immoral to peek at other people's tactics, if you want to see Brother Zhengjun's notes, take out your death note for us first, so it's fair." ”

Li Jin didn't say a word, and took out the small black notebook directly from his pocket.

"Okay."

"I'll suffer a loss, let's see instead."

Looking at the legendary Death Note that was close at hand, the curiosity of the stupid chicken and the buckle horse was instantly ignited.

The plum melon peel in the back row is the most sober.

"Don't fall for him."

"He must have written something messy and worthless."

"How can we show him our tactics!"

That's right!

Li Jin is the most cunning, how can it be so easy to take advantage of him.

The stupid chicken and the buckle horse are vigilant.

Li Jin turned back to the Great Demon King and said, "Sanghyuk, let me tell you the truth, I have a lot of private mobile phone numbers of LCK hosts on it. ”

"For example, Lee Hyun-kyung, for example, Kim Min-me, for example, Eun-jeong..."

"How is that possible? I don't believe it. ”

"Believe it or not?"

Faker was entangled for a second, and poked the buckle horse: "Brother Zhengjun, it's okay to swap, and our tactics are not dead on notes." ”

"Sanghyuk, don't be fooled."

Stupid Chicken deserves to be a champion jungler, and realizes Faker's charm of eating foxes this time.

"He's showing his cunning to the fullest."

"Hey, Li Jin."

Stupid Chicken said without showing weakness: "Why did you choose a seat in our row, are you obsessed with SKT?" If not, switch seats with Pinate, and I'll talk to him about his ambitions. ”

"What is there to talk to Pinat."

Li Jin asked with a smile: "Male, have you practiced Naidri recently?" ”

Hearing this, the buckle horse and the stupid chicken were a little surprised in their hearts.

Damn, how did you guess this thing?

Stupid chicken prevaricated half-truthfully, Li Jin smiled, and chatted with Kuo Ma about what happened in San Francisco.

When not on the field, everyone doesn't have too many taboos, and briefly forgets that each other is a mortal enemy and talks casually.

The more I talked, the more I regretted it.

At the beginning of this summer, SKT made a bad decision.

On the way, they fell asleep like the other passengers on the plane.

Four hours later, the group arrived at O'Hare International Airport.

The ROX and SKT players got off the plane and split into two distinct camps.

Chicago is not only the Windy City, but also one of the most 'free' cities.

There are a lot of Lucian in the wild area, and it's easy to get eaten up when you go out at night.

Nofe and Little Peanut are divided in San Francisco and know the Chicago characteristics, so as soon as you get off the plane, you will feel that the style blowing from Lake Michigan is cold.

Fortunately, in the past two years, Riot's service in the S competition has been more in place.

The Riot staff who were waiting in Chicago picked them up as soon as possible and went straight to the hotel without saying a word.

After settling in, I also specially told me not to walk around at night.

Local gangsters are not polite.

Early the next morning, all teams walked around the Chicago Theater to familiarize themselves with the venue in advance.

For the team that started playing on October 14, the time was even more rushed, and there was not much time for full training.

So much so that on the night of the 13th, the training room arranged by Riot was full, and the teams played training matches with each other.

On October 14,

The S6 quarterfinals started on time.

C9 made a natural first-round appearance as the North American host, but as the third seed, it has the potential to be a dark horse.

SSG is also the No. 3 seed, and everyone is new to the World Championship except for Ann.

C9 looks like a bit of a chance.

But

The race can only be described as brutal.

In the first game, C9's single Oki Sensei's Rambo was hung up by Blighted Ike and hit four times single-killed. The withered battle sat firmly in the position of the S6 single kill king, and used his strong personal strength to make the audience remember him as a newcomer to the World Championship.

Many LPL viewers are a little defensive.

On the other hand, Ike of this season's LPL, except for Looper, who was not burned by Rambo and couldn't take care of himself?

In the second game, C9 took the early lineup, but was steadily developed by SSG's stable lineup to play in the middle and late stages, and C9 lost again.

In the third game, Mr. Oki selected Jace, and Poppy was defeated by the wither, and Poppy, who was criticized by countless commentators, not only did not collapse in the hands of the wither, but instead played an advantage to kill Jace alone!

Swept 3-0, Samsung advanced to the semifinals.

SSG's three games made the LPL team reflect on it, why can't we play the same tactics, and where is the gap?

On October 15,

SKT's match with RNG began.

The mood of the spectators fluctuated violently with the game.

RNG won the first game and excited the entire LPL, what is completely the Korean team, it can also win!

Unexpectedly...

Game4 played for 30 minutes, and the helpless voices of Miller and the doll echoed in the ears of LPL audiences.

"There is no way, this is the gap in strength, this is the competition, the skills are not as good as others..."

"SKT is a very strong team and congratulations to them for reaching the Final Four."

From surprise to despair, to anger, everything came so fast.

SKT let one chase three, RNG sword shatters Chicago.

Zyra the Wind Whisperer, level 2 Olaf plays level 3 Zack, auxiliary counterpoint teaching...

There was a lot of scolding in the forum.

Fans vented their anger.

Helplessly, the victory and defeat have been divided, so I can only take out the ticket, return to the furnace with a broken sword, and point to the next season.

……

On October 16, the Chicago theater was packed.

There were more than 10,000 spectators at the scene, and the atmosphere was hot!

In particular, when the ROX team members and EDG team members appeared, it caused a huge noise.

There were league audiences from all over the world, including EDG fans and ROX fans, and as far as the eye could see, all kinds of cheers were swaggering in the Grand Theater.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Chicago Theatre!"

The lights in the auditorium dimmed, and the roaring DJs sounded.

"Let's invite today's team to appear!"

On the left side of the contestants' passage, the factory director and others followed the sound of ID one by one to enter the stage.

Buckle meat, factory director, junior brother, Mr. Dai, Tian Ye, fat general and Abu (Ah Guang has an urgent matter at home, so he retired early and returned to China).

They stood neatly in a row.

"It doesn't matter if the horse steps on the arrow in the group race, but if you want to win today, Mr. Ming!"

"Rush EDG!"

"Come on, EDG!"

The dense barrage was brushed in the official broadcast TV station of LPL.

Now, no matter which side of the fan is, they can only support EDG.

LPL, only this single seedling remains.

RNG lost to SKT, and all hopes were pinned on EDG!

Soon, the huge background sound filled the hearts of the LPL audience.

"Welcome... ROX Tigers！ ”

……