The LPL has entered the offseason, and the dust has settled in all major competition regions around the world, and the teams that will compete in MSI have been decided.
As the only major event in the offseason, this year's Mid-Season Championship held in Europe has naturally attracted the attention of countless players.
After a week of qualifying, the two teams that advanced to the group stage stood out.
The EVOS team from the VCS Vietnam Division, and the designated Phantom God FW of the LMS.
The EVOS team is a new team. With the disbandment of Saigon Clowns and the loss of core members of GAM, EVOS, which included many of them, became the new king of the VCS division.
After being hollowed out by the LPL, FW was lucky enough to pick up a group of newcomers with outstanding potential. After more than half a year of leveling and running-in, FW returned as the king this season and regained the throne of the LMS division.
In addition, there are representative teams from the four major regions, LCK's SKT, LPL's RNG, LEC's G2 and LCS's TL.
SKT swept KZ in the finals to win the championship, setting a terrifying record of complete victories that season.
Audiences who have watched LCK games this season will more or less feel that other LCK teams are not weak, but they are not in the same dimension as SKT!
RNG defeated IG and V5 successively, which was beyond the expectations of many people, but it seems reasonable after careful consideration.
Uzi has hit a career-high data and is in very hot form. As long as Uzi waits for the three-piece set, RNG will always have a chance to win the game.
G2 played five fierce games with SKT in last year's global finals, which was enough to prove its strength.
After another season of tempering, G2 is already the well-deserved king of Europe, and FNC, the former light of Europe, has fallen again.
As for TL, they can be called the strongest dark horse in the LCS this season. They went from the bottom to the finals and crushed the North American fantasy god TSM where the big brother and Bilson were.
Smile, who was loaned to TL from WE, and the "sunset red" combination of the support god Madlife, actually developed an almost perfect tacit understanding.
In the LCS division, which is generally weak in strength, the duo's bot lane combination can be said to be unbeatable in North America. The senior brother feels miserable!
In addition, TL also has top laner Ohgi Impact, who no longer takes up the foreign aid quota, and jungler Xmithie is also an experienced veteran player. This TL lineup is surprisingly luxurious, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
In Zhuge Liang's past life memory, the championship of this MSI was won by RNG, and Uzi was directly declared a god after the game.
However, the situation has changed now. This SKT team is much better than KZ in the original time and space, and both G2 and TL may become spoilers.
Frankly speaking, Zhuge Liang is not optimistic that RNG can win the championship.
In the entire LPL, V5 and SKT play the most training games, so Zhuge Liang can make a horizontal comparison and measure the strength gap between RNG and SKT.
Unless RNG collectively explodes and prepares some new routines, or SKT eats beef noodles before the game, it will be difficult for RNG to overthrow SKT.
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Zhuge Liang and Su Xiaoluo have finalized all the details and will start the process as soon as the transfer window opens.
The two teams exchanged the top laner with each other on loan, and IG also gave the youth training mid laner E and 1 million in cash.
Zhuge Liang finally chose Jiao Tailang from IG's card pool.
Although Jiao Tailang is a bit open and low, its value on and off the court does not seem to have as much potential as Xiao Leyan and Huanfeng.
But Jiao Tailang's professional attitude is quite upright, and his personality is quite naive, so he is relatively less worried.
In addition, for the sake of reinforcement, Wei Shen's injury problem is actually quite serious. Finding him a substitute can at least give him some rotation and allow him to maintain a relatively good competitive state.
When Wei Shen retires in the future, if Jiao Tailang can play, he can be righted and achieve a seamless connection.
In the jungle position, Xiaotian is a newcomer and needs to accumulate experience in the field. It doesn't make much sense to choose Leyan.
Similarly, the old thief is in his prime, and his cooperation with Xiao Duan is becoming more and more tacit. If Neptune comes, he will most likely be benched.
Therefore, for V5, Jiaotailang is the most cost-effective.
After settling the secret agreement with IG, Zhuge Liang went to Goryeo in person.
On the one hand, Zhuge Liang has to go see Theshy's situation.
Theshy's first stage of surgery has ended, and Zhuge Liang learned from his mother that the results of the surgery were not satisfactory.
In the doctor's words, Theshy will basically be unable to use his right hand in the future. He will even be exempted from military service. It is impossible to continue playing professionally.
In other words, this hand injury is equivalent to a lifelong disability!
For Theshy himself and his family, the doctor's diagnosis was no less than a bolt from the blue.
Seeing Theshy's mother crying and scolding IG's management, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh again at how harmful Su Xiaoluo was.
Korean players have traveled thousands of miles to come to the LPL. Their family and friends are not around, and all they can rely on is the club.
The club should assume corresponding obligations and manage and supervise these Korean aid players. They should neither treat them differently nor blindly accommodate them.
It’s no wonder that Theshy’s mother hates the IG management. It’s just an occupational disease caused by playing e-sports. An accident occurred after drinking during a club team building, and she accidentally disabled her right hand. Who can accept this kind of “work-related injury”?
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Since Zhuge Liang has signed an agreement with IG, he hopes that Theshy can heal his hand injury and return to the professional arena.
It's a pity that Zhuge Liang's system is too "scientific" and there is no magical prop that can directly restore Theshy to its original state.
Thanks to Zhuge Liang's past work experience, he had accumulated some connections with big bosses, including Xinglin Beidou, who has top medical skills.
Theshy's parents were originally in despair, but after listening to Zhuge Liang's advice, they immediately decided to "treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor".
This is all Zhuge Liang can do. If Theshy's hand injury cannot be cured, he will have to admit it.
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After dealing with Theshy's matter, Zhuge Liang still has one more task to do on this trip.
Inside the simple house of only 20 square meters, the lights are dim and the walls are peeling off.
Dormitory beds with bunk beds take up a lot of space, and there are even folded bedding stacked in the corner.
Who would have thought that a championship team would be born in such a difficult dormitory?
At the end of 2015, Coach Micro opened AWE, an amateur e-sports academy, specifically for children who want to play professional games to realize their dreams.
Because of limited funds, he invested all his savings, about 150 million won, into establishing an e-sports club.
The players were training in an Internet cafe, and the owner of a chain of Internet cafes agreed to lend them ten computers to use as a competition practice room.
In order to save money, Micro personally cooks lunch and dinner for the team members every day, and sometimes his parents come over to help.
After more than a year of difficult days, this Internet cafe team successfully entered the LCK secondary league and received sponsorship from a game peripheral company.
This team is Damwon Gaming.
"Coach Wolong, I have long admired your name! Welcome to our DWG club!" Micro received Zhuge Liang with great enthusiasm.
Wolong's fame is no longer limited to the LPL. There is still a group of people in the LCK who regard him as a god.
After all, Wolong is the man who defeated LCK's meritorious coach kkoma and defeated the Triple Crown dynasty SKT!
This chapter has been completed!