Chapter 16 Does Cos Blind Monk have bonuses for playing Blind Monk?
"It seems like we're at the back of the game?"
"Yeah, let's play ahq in the penultimate game."
The schedule of the Asian Tournament group stage is determined based on each team's spring split ranking in their respective divisions. For example, we are the spring split champions of lpl, so their opponents are skt and fw, who are also spring split champions.
And edg is the runner-up, so their opponents are naturally the runners-up in their respective divisions, kt and ahq.
"By the way, Qi-chan, have you studied your opponents in this intercontinental competition?"
No need to guess, only a bitch like Yang Yi can ask such a mean question:
"It just so happens that both SKT and FW are here this time, so the MSI opponents you studied before are not in vain."
Ming Kai turned his head and gave Yang Yi a death stare, and then said:
"The research has been done. We are very familiar with ahq. We often arranged training matches with each other when we went to the global finals."
"Not to mention kt. Their double C's are all our former players. To be honest, we have a lot of confidence in beating both of their teams."
It sounds like Clint's Dirty Dance is full of confidence and will not fail just because this intercontinental competition has little gold content. Yang Yi is even more relieved.
After years of development, "League of Legends" has gradually become the most influential competitive online game in the world with the most players.
In Mouse Channel's live broadcast viewing time rankings, the League of Legends division's data is second only to the "chat" comprehensive chat section. Even if the tough-talking Dao Silin counts their players and viewers in m78 Nebula and Namek, they want to be in
It is impossible to surpass lol in terms of data.
However, there is one thing that has always been a headache for the head of Riot Games’ League of Legends division, and that is that there are too few large-scale official League of Legends events that are officially recognized, influential and valuable.
In addition to the spring and summer games of their respective divisions, as well as the annual All-Star Entertainment Games, Riot Games officially only holds two world-wide competitions within a year, namely the MSI Spring Championship Invitational and the S-Series Global Finals.
It’s just that for the world’s number one competitive online game with hundreds of millions of players and viewers, having only two large-scale competitions a year is really not enough to watch. It can even be said to be a waste of the game’s super popularity.
No game can last forever, so the officials have always wanted to find a time to launch a new large-scale event while the League of Legends game is at its peak, and this idea was finally realized in S7.
As League of Legends becomes more and more popular in various countries and regions, more and more countries are beginning to host their own regional series, and the number of places in the global finals is becoming increasingly insufficient. This year, Riot Games finally launched the third
Official event - Intercontinental Confrontation Series.
Each division sends its four best-ranked teams in the Spring Split to face their old enemies in Summoner's Rift, compete with their main rivals, settle old and new grudges, and compete for the honor of being the strongest division in the region.
When Yang Yi learned about such a new event, he felt that the competition was quite embarrassing, and he always had a feeling that it would be terminated within a few years.
Because the intercontinental competition is held right after the end of MSI and before the start of the summer playoffs in each division, normally most teams would rather spend time preparing for the summer competition, which is related to the World Championship quota, rather than running to participate.
This intercontinental competition has no gold content.
The awkward timing of the event is just one thing. The most important thing is that the prize money given by Riot Games is too small.
According to the official introduction, each team in the championship division of this intercontinental competition will receive $20,000, each team in the runner-up division will receive $10,000, and the prize money for the third-place division will be $5,000.
If you calculate carefully, even if the coach and the club show a selfless spirit and allocate all the bonuses to the five main players, then even the championship team will only receive US$4,000 in bonuses...
Calculated according to the current US dollar exchange rate, that is about more than 28,000 yuan, less than 30,000 yuan.
This is still in the case of winning the championship. If unfortunately, we only get the third place...
Yang Yi really wanted to ask Xiao Ma, did I not recharge your junk game?
Where have all the gold spent by so many players around the world gone?
With such a large amount of prize money, this intercontinental competition is naturally unattractive to many teams, especially those old and strong teams with sponsorships behind them. If they work hard to win the championship with all their cards, it is better to go and pick up the team.
Earn more with contract endorsements.
Of course, Riot Games also understands this truth, so when they promoted this intercontinental competition, they deliberately made a fuss about the so-called sense of honor in the competition region, and the effect was very significant.
Take the Asian competition as an example. The LPL audience has always wanted to see the LPL team officially defeat the LCK division in the game, and the LCK audience also wants their team to defend the honor of the division. The LMS division has not reached the S series for many years.
In the knockout stage, it is said that the officials have already considered banning the LMS division.
The feud between the European Division and the American Division is also a commonplace. The audiences in both divisions want to prove that they are greater than the other. Each division is gearing up for the first intercontinental competition. But in the future, if you think about it, everyone will still be willing to participate, then
But it's hard to say.
"Look, the first game is about to begin."
"Who's hitting whom?"
"omg hits mvp."
"I'll go and let OMG play Xia Luo as soon as I come up. Is mvp so confident?"
"I feel like I don't need to watch this game. OMG will definitely win," Tian Tian said. "I hope kt can also let Xia Luo go when they beat us."
The strength of the Xialuo combination was vividly demonstrated by the edg duo in the summer regular season some time ago.
So far, when the duos of various LPL teams encountered EDG's Xia Luo combination in the bottom lane, they were all killed, including Brother Zuko and Xiao Ming.
Edg's previous six-game winning streak was inseparable from the strength of this combination. When other LPL teams saw this, they immediately asked the team's bottom lane to step up training.
It is worth mentioning that after edg defeated rng 2-0, Yang Yi, who went for a post-match interview again, specifically mentioned Brother Shauzi on the stage, asking him to study hard and practice based on his game videos when he went back.
, try to train Xia as soon as possible.
This time Yang Yi sincerely offered his advice to the other party, just so that he could unite and fight against South Korea during the intercontinental competition. But whether Brother Zuko listened to it or not, that is another matter.
Having said that, the player Sima Laothi is actually not good at laning. His strength lies in teamfight performance in the mid-to-late stage. Even if he gets the strong Xialuo, it is rare to see which team he penetrates in the laning.
road.
However, relying on the unique feather mechanism, Xia's late-stage damage ability is also one of the best among ADs, so the old thief Xia's current record is victory in three games, maintaining a 100% winning rate like Yang Yi.
The result of this game was just as Tianye expected. Although MVP gained some advantages in the early and mid-term due to his operational ability, in the end OMG completed the comeback in 40 minutes by relying on team battles and successfully got a good start for the LPL division.
Although they only won the fourth place in the LCK Spring Split, OMG's performance in this game was enough to make fans happy. Many 59e who have been silent for many years have bubbled up in the forum, saying that the new generation of OMG has inherited the tradition of the older generation of OMG.
, did not disappoint the fans of the All-China Class.
Unfortunately, the competition of another all-Chinese class was a bit disappointing.
The next game was between SSG and RNG. SSG seemed to understand that RNG's tactical focus was on the bottom lane and did not want to directly compete with Uzi, so they chose a functional adc like Hanbing for Chidi, and then selected it for corejj.
Tam, who is extremely protective.
rng's coach Feng Ge felt that something was not good when he saw the opponent's bottom lane combination. He originally wanted to ban the hero Tahm Kench directly, but this time their luck in tossing a coin was really bad, and they were assigned a position that was very unfavorable to BP.
The red side must use the ban position to deal with the non-ban heroes Xayah and Karma.
The result was that King Chi managed to survive the laning phase under the meticulous protection of corejj, and then letme's Qinggangying raised a big daddy Gnar for everyone on the top lane.
Although relying on Teacher Laxiang's unconstrained gank rhythm, rng seemed to be fighting back and forth with ssg for a while, but in the end, in a wave of big dragon groups, cuvee replicated a wave of koro1's Tathagata Palm in the river.
Fourth, he slapped the bath boy who took the initiative to step out of the protection of his teammates directly to the wall and pinned him to death. The leaderless RNG immediately fell into a rout, and in the end could only swallow the bitter fruit of failure.
"This game of Xiangguo is really a pity..." Ming Kai, who has been studying spicy Xiangguo recently, couldn't help but say.
"Indeed, I saw that he had ideas about the top lane and the middle lane several times, but Uzi always sent him signals and asked Xiangguo to go to the bottom lane to protect him in the lane, which wasted a lot of opportunities." Tian Ye also said.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Bath's old problem? He has always been good at kidnapping junglers."
Speaking of this, Yang Yi started to sneer at Ming Kai again:
"Fangzi, look at how good I am. I never restrict your gank routes. I will only ask you not to come to the bottom lane to gain experience. At most, the opponent's bottom lane will not have high HP, so I will ask you to come to the bottom lane to find opportunities to jump over the tower.
Give me an assist."
Mingkai rolled his eyes at him, but he couldn't refute it because it was all the truth.
My ADC is good everywhere, but it just has a mouth.
Seeing the team in their own division lose to lck, the lpl audience naturally felt uncomfortable, but fortunately the next game was omg playing m17.
Originally, the LPL audience looked down on other divisions except LCK. Even the LEC and LCS were talking about Europe and the United States, let alone the LMS division in Bay Province.
OMG, the mvp team that just won the LCK, is feeling hot, and playing m17 is no problem. It should be able to change everyone's mood.
As a result, omg... it overturned.
After winning the mvp, OMG seemed to have spent its entire life fighting against m17 in a back-and-forth manner. Not only did the headcount gap between the two sides not widen, but the economic gap was also controlled within 2,000.
However, the two thousand economic lead is also a lead. OMG still maintains a small advantage at this time, but as m17 crouched in the wild area, and the old thief Sima was defeated, OMG was beaten by the opponent one after another.
After the four team fights, things started to go wrong.
In the follow-up team battle, OMG was defeated by m17 zero for three, one for four, and in the end, the head difference was actually 13:25.
59e, who had just stood up to uncover the coffin, saw this result and immediately shrank back into the dirt and continued to lie down. Other spectators also regarded this game as a humiliating defeat in the LPL division.
General Yang, who has always been straight-tempered, even said bluntly that Omg was beaten like this by Wanwan, and he was afraid that he would lose face.
A certain Ming general and deputy general Tian, who did not want to be named, only thought that he was too young.
As the saying goes, victory or defeat is a common thing in the military. Isn't it just losing to Wanwan? What does this mean? We have even lost to the wild card.
"Okay, let's pack up and get ready to play."
Abu's expression was a little serious:
"You have also seen how omg was overturned. When the time comes, be careful when switching routes and passing through the grass. Don't capsize in the gutter again. Let's get a 1-3 start on the first day of the LPL competition."
"Don't worry, do I still know how much ahq weighs? That jungler on the opposite side of the mountain, I can beat him in the jungle with my eyes closed!" Ming Kai said, patting his chest.
Tian Ye immediately covered his face after hearing this: "Brother g, who has ever achieved g?"
"It's embarrassing, isn't it? G Qiqiang has never achieved it?"
"I said I wanted to prove who is the best jungler in the world, and it turned out that i's Lee Sin was the best in the world. I also studied the opponent who said I wanted to study msi, but after studying it, I felt that the opponent was too strong, so I decided not to go."
Yang Yi retorted with reason.
Tian Tian thought for a while and found that it seemed to be true.
If we follow this logic, Qi Jiang said that he can beat the opponent's jungler with his eyes closed, then when he plays the game with his eyes open later...
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but said: "Ming Kai, when we play a game later, why don't you find a cloth to cover your eyes and act like a cosplay blind monk?"
"What, will there be any bonus when cosplaying blind monk as blind monk?"
"Just kidding, g comes true."
"..."
Ming Kai looked at the field that was completely ruined by Yang Yi, and felt very sad in his heart.
Meiko used to be such a well-behaved child!
Why are you so angry now?
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"Okay, everyone, welcome back. What you are watching now is the first day of the 2017 Asian Tournament group stage. I am the commentator Zeyuan."
"Hello everyone, I am the commentator Xiao Umbrella."
"Hello everyone, I am Shenchao."
LPL obviously has arrangements for commentators and guests. They deliberately let Xiao Umbrella, who has a connection with OMG, and Shenchao, a former professional player from RNG, participate in the commentary, just to sell their feelings.
This plan was very successful at first. The old audience listened to Xiaoshan's explanation and watched the new generation OMG defeat the LCK team mvp. It was difficult not to recall the old OMG who had a three-to-zero NJ White Shield.
The duck-necked dragon said "omg three to zero, I will brag about it forever".
Unfortunately, the results of the next two games were not very good, which prevented the LPL audience from immersing themselves in the feeling of remembering the past glory.
In fact, after watching the first three games, many viewers felt that there was no need to watch the last game. As the saying goes, EDG never disappoints in terms of disappointment.
However, some people felt that there might be some changes after edg changed to a new top laner and adc this year, so they stayed.
So now comes the problem.
If this group of people is disappointed, it means that those in front are not disappointed.
If those people in front are disappointed, it is equivalent to these people not being disappointed.
