Magic City Pudong International Airport.
In early May, neatly dressed teams came from all over the world, and the heads of the Chinese region arranged by the official Litou began to orderly receive the major teams to hotels booked in advance.
The CLG team in the North American competition, the SKT team in the LCK competition, the G2 in the European competition, the SUP in the IMC competition, the FW in the LMS competition, and the LPL local team EDG, the champion team in the spring competition have gathered to prepare to start a battle for the Msi championship in the 2016 season.
Compared with 2015, the rules for the 2016 season have changed slightly.
The 2016 mid-season invitational tournament group stage adopts a double loop BO1 competition system. Each team will face other teams twice respectively, and the top four points will advance to the knockout round.
The dual cycle means more games, and each team has to play 10 games in the group stage.
More opportunities, but also higher intensity.
On May 4, the opening ceremony of the 2016 Msi kicked off at the Oriental Stadium of the Magic City.
This is a very shocking performance, with a strong Chinese style and awesomeness.
Under the four large screens on the scene, drums and BGM sounded on the stage, and the exciting scenes of major teams winning the championship in the spring were presented one by one.
The silver rain, the golden rain, seemed to fall from the screen to the stage.
Erhu and war songs were played at the same time, and teams appeared on the stage.
Riot is really a company that makes music with all its heart, and the audience on site feels very excited when listening to the music.
Finally, EDG made its final appearance, and a beam of light hit the stage, illuminating the direction where EDG is.
Then, a special effect of clouds appeared on the ground of the stage, and a red Chinese dragon was hovering on the screen.
Under the camera, there are seven people in EDG and Abu, and each of them has a serious expression.
Li Zixiu is in the core C position and is very careful in her appearance.
There were more than 20,000 viewers at the scene, and although there were some foreign friends, LPL fans still accounted for the vast majority.
The home court advantage was immediately reflected.
Cheers, applause, and screams all came to the top, and they could be described as deafening!
The 61Es are so strong that they have dominated the entire Oriental Stadium.
At the same time, the BGM on the scene came to the top, and the drummers beat and beat the drums frantically!
Boiling, boiling!
Everyone in EDG was also excited. They felt this home court advantage for the first time.
At the scene, a metallic sound rang:
“Welcome to the 2016 Msi scene!”
The light on the screen brightens and the picture comes outside the venue. That is the shooting before the opening ceremony.
A lot of fans have gathered around the Oriental Stadium.
There were young people holding the sign "Come on China Team", beautiful young women taking photos with Timo, and blond girls looking around curiously.
From the inside out, the entire Oriental Stadium has become a carnival place for league enthusiasts with the opening ceremony!
...
"Hello, everyone, everyone!"
"I'm Changhai."
“I’m Joker.”
"Hello everyone, I'm Xiaoxiao."
Not far from the four European and American commentators' seats, the three LPL commentators greeted everyone with a smile.
Sun Yalong sorted out his headphones and said excitedly:
"It's started. After waiting for so many days, Msi finally started!"
Changmao responded loudly:
"Yes, this is the Oriental Stadium, and today it is full, and I can fully feel the enthusiasm of LPL fans."
"You have watched the opening ceremony just now, it's wonderful, very exciting."
"The passionate music and exciting scenes must be praised by those e-sports workers who work silently!"
Joker still had the same simple smile, and he responded:
"This is Msi's first day. EDG will play in the first round. Their opponent is the SUP team in the IMCI division."
"Everyone may not be familiar with SUP. This is a new team, a team from Turkey. In the finals of the wild card division, they won the HR 3-1 and successfully won the MSI ticket."
"We can always see a new look in the wild card team, and they are constantly getting stronger. Whether SUP can let the world audience see their progress this time is also a major highlight of Msi this time."
"However, their first round opponent is the powerful EDG, which is undoubtedly a huge test for SUP!"
Sun Yalong said with a smile:
"The wild card team is improving every year, but if you want to play this EDG, I think they are much worse."
"However, I heard that SUP's mid laner Naru is very good at Assassin mid laners, especially Yasuo, who is very good at first-hand, is quite eye-catching in the wild card division."
"I wonder if Naru will show us a show in Msi's opening match."
“Yasu?!”
Freakish complexion:
"This is not very good. The opponent is God, XIU. It seems too presumptuous to choose Yasuo in front of him."
"However, it's still possible."
"The players in the wild card division have always had their own tempers."
Three commentators, look at me, let me see you, everyone understands the meaning.
Although his words were tactful, his expression had betrayed everything.
"Okay, the equipment debugging of both players has been completed, enter the Banpick interface!"
“SUP blue square, EDG red square!”
"The first Msi group stage in 2016 officially begins!"
In this game, EDG's top laner was TheShy on duty.
In terms of tactical thinking, it is self-evident.
Both sides won the opponents, SUP, and got rid of Jace, Varus and Leopard Girl.
EDG followed Bad, Ancestor and Kindred.
The Blue SUP first-hand selection of the jungler male gun.
It can be seen that the wild card team is also following the version.
In the EDG contestant seat, Li Zixiu recalled this version.
There is a very important problem with this version, that is, the jungle and jungle resource issues. The male gun Qianjue Leopard Girl has become the darling of the version. The main reason why they can keep playing is that they can quickly clean the jungle.
Only by quickly brushing jungle can you seize more resources, increase your level, and then you can invade jungle areas, etc.
This will be the main theme of the entire mid-season version, and even affect the later S6 Global Finals.
EDG took out Ekega Blind Monk on the first and second floors.
Li Zixiu noticed that after selecting the blind monk, Qi Jiang's mouth was obviously pulled a curve, and even rubbed his hands with excitement.
SUP on the second and third floors, locking in Poppy Galucian.
EDG, the third and fourth floors, select the plane Gabron.
"How do you get the last two hands of SUP?"
"From the previous selection, SUP is still pretty good, and there is not much difference between the wild card and our LPL's understanding of the version."
"Ike on EDG is obviously in the unit, and he has a Counter position left for God, XIU, and SUP, who should have a traditional mage, otherwise it would be too unreasonable."
Joker just finished speaking, before Sun Yalong next to him could speak, SUP started to make trouble.
On the fourth floor, SUP selected Lisangrao.
Everyone understands it, Lisangzhuo is a good choice to resist stress.
However, on the fifth floor of SUP, a slutty swordsman suddenly appeared, and then locked in seconds.
Suddenly, a loud scream came from the studio.
"My God, locked!"
Sun Yalong laughed;
"Naru is really confident. Are you not afraid of being educated?"
"Turkish swordsman, chop the wind and move forward. This is to show off your life in front of God and XIU!"
Changmao smiled and nodded:
"It has been confirmed that Lisangzhuo is on the road, with Bobby assisting and Jianhao walking."
"The wild card team played a swing position."
"What I'm looking forward to now is, what hero will God and XIU take out?"
...
EDG player seat, the factory manager was full of excitement:
"A Xiu, this Naru is too disrespectful. Yasuo has made the first move."
Tian Ye interjected:
"Brother Xiu, why don't you give you a Riven?"
"Sword Girl is OK, too."
“…”
A group of people kept communicating and their mentality was relaxed.
Abu stood behind Li Zixiu:
"A Xiu, what do you want to choose?"
Li Zixiu smiled:
"To be honest, I also want to play a hero with a sword."
Chapter completed!