The spring playoffs ended. In the final, rng defeated edg 3:1 and qualified for this year's s8msi mid-season championship.
This result is actually not unexpected. This year's EDG status is actually quite average, and after winning the top 16 results in S7 last year, EDG fans are also bearish. Anyway, it's not like there is no MSI champion EDG, as early as S5
During that period, EDG had already won the MSI championship, and they defeated SKT, which was still at its peak.
Many people on the Internet believe that SKT in the S5 period was the strongest in the past. Everyone has a different opinion. However, SKT won the global championship in S5. Putting aside the comparison of the next year, SKT was the best in S5 that year.
The strongest team, so this one still has gold content.
What edg lacks is not an MSI championship to prove itself, but an S competition global championship.
Regarding the fact that edg cannot go to msi, edg fans don't care. The first championship of msi is theirs, and the first championship of s is ig's. The fan relationship between the two companies is actually quite good, so they didn't go this time.
msi, after the loss, fans of the two families on the Internet were still comforting each other and cheering each other up.
Jidian is a family. We prepared well at home without going to MSI. Our goal is to set our sights on the S8 Global Finals.
The emperors and miscellaneous people are a little more jumpy, but this is indeed a period of great success for them.
This year rng actually played very average in the regular season. It was far less dominant than ig and won 18 consecutive games. Although Cheng Lu failed to play in the end and overturned, no one can deny ig's complete dominance.
Even if the emperors selectively ignore this point, if Cheng Lu can play, whether rng can win in the final result is still a question mark.
But it’s meaningless to say this now. At most, ig fans will deliberately say something to express their disdain when the emperors get angry. At other times, basically no one will make excuses.
Cheng Lu's attitude has also changed the mentality of fans to a great extent. If you lose, everything is an excuse. The winner is the one who laughs in the end.
But it’s hard to say who will have the last laugh, at least among rng fans, it must be rng that is aiming for s8.
It’s okay to open the champagne in advance. rng struggled all the way through the regular season of the spring split, and finally made it to the playoffs. After completing one wear and four, winning the spring split championship and earning an MSI spot, it was indeed not easy. We cannot deny rng’s strength.
, it’s normal for fans to be happy.
The online Spring Split is over, and everyone is celebrating the New Year.
If the emperors just celebrated normally and didn't deliberately disgust the fans of other teams, the e-sports circle wouldn't be so chaotic now.
The Jidian two have joined together and are currently facing a headwind. They turn a blind eye when they see Huang Za's comments on Tieba or Weibo. It is not advisable to go against the wind. As long as they don't encounter some comments that are too outrageous, they don't bother to pay attention to them.
Currently, most of lpl are fans of these three teams, with slightly smaller numbers of other teams.
When Huang Za went against the wind, he still had to deal damage and messed up the lpl. He started fighting with other teams everywhere. Now when Huang Za comes down the wind, Jidian and Jidian two go against the wind and play in their own circle. No one comes out to fight with Huang Za.
On the contrary, public opinion on the Internet has become a rare peace.
Only the royal miscellaneous people performed on the stage by themselves, and no one in the audience paid any attention to them.
This also resulted in a consistent situation with the outside world during the MSI period. Internally, both Ji and Dian did not speak to each other, and Huang Za couldn't cause any trouble.
If we can keep this situation consistent with the outside world, then lpl will really be more united and harmonious.
Of course, the premise is that rng can always win.
After all, neither Jidian nor the two families would defy nature and expel their nationality like Huang Za did. Some people may argue that Jidian is not an all-Chinese class, but this does not mean that Huang Za said that if you do not support rng, you are not a Chinese.
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Moreover, when edg played against the Japanese team, Huang Za made a classic statement, saying that he did not want the Japanese team to win, but he hoped that edg would lose.
Therefore, it is difficult to truly unite the LPL. Huangza will always give a fatal blow unexpectedly. This time, it is good for RNG to participate in MSI. Everyone is happy if they win, and it doesn’t matter if they lose.
Come to ig and edg.
If we switch to ig or edg, I can't say that everyone will be happy if we win. Some of the emperor's outrageous comments may be like what they have said before, hoping that ig or edg will lose. If it is not Quanhua, it will not be recognized.
To belittle, it actually means it's a bit thankless. If they lose, then the emperors and miscellaneous people may be happy. They can just step on it and just say let rng go and win the championship.
As long as rng can continue to have smooth sailing as it is now, and the Jidian family does not talk, the Internet will remain calm and without quarrels.
During this MSI, Huangza’s tailwind seemed to be consistent with the outside world.
Some fans of other teams are paying attention to the upcoming MSI events, and some are looking for problems for their favorite teams. After the previous ig playoffs, there were some ig fans on the Internet looking for problems for ig's failure. After all,
You can't rely on Cheng Lu alone. As long as Cheng Lu can't play, ig will be gone. This is not a healthy team ecology. No team can only rely on one person to win the game. Such a team will never go far.
If Cheng Lu is not in good condition one day in the future, the problem of this kind of thing happening again must be eliminated in advance.
In other words, fans started to criticize other ig players, and they sprayed when it was time to spray. The shelf life of the championship after S7 won the championship passed the spring game, and it was also over.
ig's 18-game winning streak in the spring split was a surprise to fans. In fact, ig's fans were very tolerant of how ig played in the spring split. The shelf life of the championship is still there, and no fans would say anything even if they played mediocrely.
However, the 18-game winning streak has surprised the fans and at the same time raised the standard in their hearts. After playing so well, fans must hope to get better and better. What they fear most is not disappointment, but a sudden surprise after giving hope.
I was disappointed, so when the result of the 18th consecutive victory came out, many fans couldn't accept it, and they complained about it on the Internet.
However, what has to be done has passed. After the game, the violent spray has subsided and he will not keep chasing me. After the initial attack, the spray is not as fierce as before.
But there are still some voices of encouragement. The past has been wiped out and looking forward, there is only one summer season left. It will be difficult not to beat this year's S8 after the shelf life of the championship has passed.
Fans still hope that ig will do well. In this kind of urging voice, most of them were to clean up Ah Shui. The other four members of ig's championship team are not easy to take the blame. The voices on the Internet are asking Ah Shui, a newcomer, to resist.
, taking the blame every day in Kangba, but since Cheng Lu helped Ah Shui speak up, the direction of public opinion in Kangba, which has become "Cheng Lu Yiba", has changed. As Ah Shui said in his Weibo essay, it is better to give
A little chance, after all, is Cheng Lu's recognized little brother.
There are many more voices of encouragement, and there are still voices of encouragement, but this is enough. Brainless boasting and brainless spraying are not advisable.
Compared with the mindless chatter on the Internet when ig won 18 consecutive victories, and the mindless rants when ig won the championship for 18 consecutive victories, the voice of the outside world is relatively healthy now.
During MSI, in this state, ig players can calm down and prepare for the following summer split. Cheng Lu is also doing some simple training while recovering from injury. Other teams are also fully committed to the next step.
Summer games.
rng had more things to do to participate in msi. After the playoffs, it took about two weeks to prepare before heading to participate in this msi mid-season championship.
The msi game started on May 3rd. This game also attracted the attention of the lpl audience. The attention was second only to the global finals. In terms of the gold content of msi, it is indeed second only to the global finals. S8 spring in each competition area
The team with the best performance in the competition will get a spot to participate in this MSI mid-season championship.
The number of participating teams is smaller than that of the global finals, and many strong contenders for the championship will definitely be missed, so the gold content will be lower.
For example, in LPL this year, only RNG participated in this MSI, and in LCK only KZ participated. However, there are also many strong teams in these two divisions that did not participate. Every year, the strongest team in the playoffs is not necessarily
There are many factors involved in being able to win the global championship.
For example, in the S7 global finals, LPL's No. 1 seed Summer Split champion EDG only won the top 16, while the No. 1 seeds from other divisions also went home together, and LCK's No. 1 seed LZ fell to the quarterfinals and was defeated.
The third seed SSG was eliminated, and the playoff championship doesn't mean much. MSI only selected one team from each major competition area, and it is very likely that another strong contender for the championship was missed.
Even before the quota for the MSI participating teams was determined, foreign netizens were unanimously more optimistic that ig would represent the lpl this year, while the lck side also hoped that skt could participate.
These two teams from last year's global finals were not present. To be honest, in the eyes of many foreign league viewers, this was magnified. This MSI is the least interesting and the least valuable one.
Cheng Lu didn't even come, which made many Cheng Lu fans abroad not even interested in watching this MSI.
When they heard that rng was participating in the lpl this time, many people were not even familiar with this team. They only knew that it was the team that lost to skt in last year's global finals.
Cheng Lu's performance in the global finals amazed all audiences around the world, leading ig to a 3:0 victory over skt, and even completed a winning streak with zero seals in the entire global finals.
In the eyes of foreign audiences, Cheng Lu is the uncrowned king in this MSI.
It doesn't matter even if you don't come to participate in this MSI. According to some good foreign media reports, they originally didn't pay much attention to lpl. However, because Cheng Lu came out last year and attracted a large number of foreign fans, this year's spring of lpl
They added real-time coverage during the game, not only in China, but also in foreign countries where Cheng Lu was involved in the game.
ig's eighteen consecutive victories in the lpl spring split made all foreign audiences completely crazy about ig's terrifying dominance. The news that Cheng Lu was injured and unable to play also made them all sad. Followed closely by ig ten
The eight-game winning streak was interrupted by rng, which made many foreign fans scold rng for being shameless.
In reports by foreign media, rng was even criticized as a villain who steals the fruits of victory when the king is injured.
Cheng Lu can't be seen participating in the MSI competition. This is indeed the case for a large number of Cheng Lu's fans abroad. The harsher the scolding rng, the happier they feel. It doesn't matter whether they watch this competition or not.
Therefore, the level of attention abroad is actually not high, and it is far behind compared to the global finals.
After the game started on May 3, although the first day was only a wild card qualifying match, the number of viewers was much less than before. Riot officials discovered this problem but did not pay too much attention to it. After all, it was only a wild card.
It’s normal for no one to watch the regional play-in rounds, even if there are fewer than before, it doesn’t matter.
As time goes by, the qualifying rounds are completed and the team officially enters the group stage.
The group stage started on May 12, and it was still a Bo1 format. On the first day of the group stage, fnc defeated kz and rng lost to fw in the two games that attracted relatively high attention. These two games were originally supposed to attract attention.
It was relatively high, but in fact the number of viewers was far less than before. At this time, Riot officials realized something was wrong.
Our League of Legends is booming now, why did no one suddenly come to watch the MSI game this year?
As the schedule goes by, this loss is intensifying. Halfway through the group stage, and even approaching the finals, the number of people watching is getting smaller and smaller day by day. The audience feels that this year's MSI is not interesting and they are too lazy to watch.
All this made the person in charge of the Riot Games team smile bitterly. He discovered the source of all this and sighed in his heart that he still underestimated the magic of ig, or that he underestimated the charm of Cheng Lu.
The audience on the lpl side is supported by Quanhua Faith. The number of viewers is less but not completely.
However, League of Legends cannot be entirely supported by the LPL. The key is to look at the whole world.
Foreign League of Legends fans don't like Quanhua's approach, and Cheng Lu doesn't want to watch this MSI game at all.
And Cheng Lu's influence is not limited to League of Legends fans. Putting aside the ig team, Cheng Lu's personal influence is greater than that of ig abroad. Many casual fans do not play the game League of Legends, but simply come to
Look at Cheng Lu.
The content of the game is a bit boring, and many casual fans can't understand it, but they can understand Cheng Lu's wonderful operations. Even if they can't understand how the gorgeous operations are performed, they can still feel the beauty of it.
Passerby fans don't want to get into the intrigue of the game, they just want to see a cute girl killing people on the field.
For example, for the casual fans of the island country, League of Legends is a very weak field in the island country as an e-sports competition. Not many people study it. However, due to the emergence of Cheng Lu last year, a group of fans of Cheng Lu emerged in the island country. Currently,
There is great pressure in society, and everyone is forced to breathe hard. The existence of idols is a kind of spiritual sustenance. They have some dazzling qualities in them that they yearn for and can guide them to move forward. They simply regard Cheng Lu as
I have high ideals and want to see that one continue to shine in the arena around the world.
If you can't see Cheng Lu, you won't be able to understand the operations on the field if you continue to watch them. It will be too boring and boring to play all the time. This will naturally make some passersby abandon this MSI.
The person in charge of the Riot Games team can understand, because he himself is also a fan of Cheng Lu, and he himself feels that this MSI is not interesting, but there is nothing he can do about it.
Even if it is the most failed MSI, it must be carried out as usual.
