Chapter 69: The Expedition Ceremony and the Group of Death
"I'm blanching, Rookie! It's too fierce, I can hold it! It's not this Syndra, IG sent it this time." Yang Yi sighed.
But Xiao Ming expressed a different opinion: "Isn't it Megan's greater contribution to this wave? If it weren't for the Bull Head Q Flash E to control Xia to death, my brother-in-law just hit the IG crystal with two more A's."
"Indeed, Baolan really showed off his support's personal control this time." Tian Tian helped.
After OMG is eliminated, the third team to represent the LPL in the World Championship will be formed between WE and IG. Since the three teams competing in the World Championship will participate in the expedition ceremony together after the bubble game,
Yang Yi and others were watching the battle for the third seed in the LPL with Xiaohu and the others. The two groups also gave pointers to the players on the field from time to time, and they had a great time chatting.
Only Brother Shauzi might be afraid of strangers, so he didn't speak much... Of course, it might also be because Yang Yi's voice was too loud, which made him not want to speak.
The previous battle between WE and IG ended in a 2-2 tie, and they were playing the final decisive game. Now, WE has a huge advantage, with an economic lead of more than 5,000 on the panel.
In the last wave of dragon team battles, WE also won the whole game. At the expense of a jungler, Kandi, they defeated IG in a wave of one for four, and Rookie who survived was also with residual health. After sending out Ben's Braum,
After going to interfere with Syndra's return to the city, WE's double C top laner tried to end the game directly.
There was nothing wrong with this decision, but it was a pity that Rookie happened to be in his prime. The chicken master killed Braum in the jungle first, who dared to come and interfere with his return to the city. After returning to the city, he killed his brother-in-law with two QEs in a row, and then shot again.
The energy tilt took away Xiye, and finally cooperated with the resurrected teammates to deal with 957, forcibly saving IG's life.
But that’s where it ends.
Seeing Xiye's Kassadin rising to level 16, Yang Yi sighed silently in his heart. He was just one step away from the World Championship, and IG's BP was still so confusing.
You know that Kassadin is Xiye’s signature character, but why don’t you know Ban?
Sure enough, although Kassadin failed to cause the IG base to explode instantly when he reached level 16, Xiye relied on his CD of almost one second of void walking to steal the house, leaving the IG on the front battlefield to ignore the head and tail, and ended up alone.
Destroying IG's crystal castle also allowed Dean Song Yijin to fight another hard game.
Looking at Rookie's expression of despair, Yang Yi could only hope that IG could learn a lesson this time and try not to be defeated by Xiye's Kassadin next time he has the chance to play in the bubble game.
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"Xiye's Kassadin is a bit powerful, Xiaohu's Kassadin is not that powerful." Xiao Ming smiled and fired at his teammates.
Xiaohu immediately retorted: "Get out of here, Shi Senming, when did I ever play Kassadin?"
Out of "curiosity", Yang Yi couldn't help but interject: "Oh? Why doesn't Brother Li play Kassadin? Is it because he doesn't like it?"
"It's not because..."
General Tiger accidentally exposed his true thoughts in his heart to the public. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately changed his words:
"...Because the hero Kassadin is too weak in the early stage, I prefer heroes with laning pressure."
Yang Yi also rolled his eyes when he heard this.
Take him down. I also like heroes with laning pressure. Tell me what kind of laning pressure Karma and Malzahar have?
Isn't it because there are people in the team who are playing third lane, and the mid laner playing Kassadin cannot get resources and cannot enjoy Xiye's high treatment? It seems that no one can see it.
RNG's coach Feng Ge, because he has close contact with Rambo every day, keenly heard the danger of this topic, which may cause someone to become red-blooded, so he immediately changed the topic:
"Okay, stop talking about the game, just pack up, change your clothes and get ready to go on stage!"
I don’t know which genius came up with the idea, but he actually made a wave-shaped shroud at the S6 expedition ceremony last year.
The bright red main body of the S6 is out for Conquer, coupled with the visual effect of falling from the sky, it makes people feel that the three teams are not going to compete in the World Championship, but going to a collective funeral, or at least going to someone else's house to have a meal together.
This year, the officials finally learned their lesson and honestly asked the players to change their new outfits under the stage, and then walked to the stage in the order of the first, second, and third seeded teams.
But before going on stage, Clint Dance discovered a bright spot:
"I'm not telling you, why does this Conquest uniform look so much like the RNG uniform?"
Yang Yi took a look at the jacket in his hand. Maybe because the sales of the bright red shroud were not good last year, this year the official changed the base color of Conquest to dark black, and then added [2017 Teama] and the three teams on it in gold.
name.
Well, black and gold, it’s really RNG.
"Isn't this a bit..."
Tianye is also a little overwhelmed. It seems that we are the champions of the LPL Summer Split, right?
According to what Abramovich revealed during the chat, EDG's boss Ed Zhu led the management to have an internal meeting some time ago. He said that he felt that the current white and black team was unlucky and wanted to change it. By the way, he also gave next year's new team uniforms.
The color scheme has already been decided, so let’s use red and black.
Putting aside whether you are superstitious or not, the official color scheme of Conquest has nothing to do with white or red. It is obviously a bit disrespectful to EDG, the summer champion.
It's just that everyone is about to go on stage, and it's obviously too late to make any comments to the officials now. It seems that they can only swallow this sigh of relief.
Yang Yi frowned and simply suggested:
"How about... why don't we zip up the jacket and expose the EDG team uniform underneath?"
Tian Ye's eyes lit up: "Hey, this is a good idea. I think it's feasible!"
"But...it's not good, right?"
Clint pretended to be embarrassed, but the action and sound of zippering could not be concealed from the people around him.
Yang Yi and Tian Tian quietly communicated with Jiang Chenglu and the junior student. Although the two Koreans didn't quite understand what was going on, they unzipped the zipper in the same way, and together the five of them revealed the EDG uniforms.
When the three teams stood together on stage, Tian Ye deliberately separated himself from the RNG players by a small distance.
Although he also knew that this matter must have nothing to do with the RNG players, and it was probably an official insider with low quality, but after all, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
The host Zhu Zhen also noticed this disharmonious scene. The main reason was that EDG, the five people who didn't zip up their zippers, happened to be sandwiched between the two teams of WE and RNG who were obediently dressed to conquer. It was too conspicuous.
However, he could only pretend that he didn't see it and continue to host the show professionally:
"Next, let us once again congratulate EDG, RNG and WE. These three teams shoulder the great trust of all LPL teams and also shoulder the expectations of our LPL viewers. They will launch a sprint to the 2017 League of Legends Global Finals.
Let us bless them together!”
“At the same time, I would like to thank all the viewers who were present and watching the live broadcast today. The carnival event for the sixth anniversary of League of Legends is coming to an end. I also hope that we can leave more unforgettable memories and stories in Summoner’s Rift in the future. Thank you everyone!
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"Let's meet together and see you next year!"
Along with Zhu Zhen's farewell, a Chinese-style sculpture carefully prepared by the LPL division to host the global finals also appeared on the big screen, with six big words written in the middle, "See you in the global finals!"
Of course, the most familiar part is also indispensable - a group of beautiful girls come to the middle to dance an awkward and annoying dance.
When Yang Yi left the stage, he happened to catch a glimpse of Kang Di lingeringly turning back to peek at his dancing sister. He was obviously unable to walk.
When Klin Lawu saw this scene, he came up with a smile and cursed:
"Kangdi, this old pervert...don't get too close to him. This kid loves to play a lot, and he plays in a very fancy way. You can't control him."
He felt that no matter how talented Yang Yi was and how good his gaming skills were, he was essentially just a junior who had not finished high school, so he was afraid that this inexperienced child would learn bad things from Emperor Kang.
Of course, Yang Yi also understood the implication of Klin Lawu's words. In fact, he had heard some rumors about Emperor Kang for a long time, and he had always stayed away from such people.
He is not a model of a moral police officer, and Kandi is not his teammate, and his misdeeds have not been brought to his attention, so naturally Yang Yi is too lazy to call the police.
and...
As the saying goes, food and sex are the same, who is not a sex addict?
Even Tian Ye, the sweet boy who seemed the most harmless, often shared study materials with Yang Yi in private, causing him to say that people should not be judged by their appearance.
Men like to look at female Bodhisattvas, and women also like to look at male saintly monks. This is human nature and there is nothing to blame.
This year's global finals are held in China, which saves each team a lot of things, such as applying for visas, going abroad in advance to adapt to the environment, etc.
Especially for Klin's Dirty Dance, the qualifying and group stages were held in his hometown of Wuhan. If he doesn't perform well, and there are some famous scenes of 4396 or horses stepping on flying arrows, it will be in his hometown.
Embarrassing in front of others.
Therefore, Qijiang attaches great importance to this World Championship. Although the management gave the team a week off after the expedition ceremony, Krillin did not go anywhere this week, nor did he go out with his girlfriend, so he just put it aside
Rank in the base to maintain the feel.
Yang Yi went home, ate some fried rice cooked by his mother, and got together with a group of friends to commemorate the days when they skipped classes and climbed over the wall to go to an Internet cafe.
But how to say...
In the words of Mr. Lu Xun, "There is already a sadly thick barrier between us."
Those who can skip class and hang out in Internet cafes with Yang Yi are naturally not good students from Tsinghua University and Peking University who can rely on them. Most of them are poor students who can't even pass the undergraduate level.
Leaving aside Tianlong people like Kang Jianghao, now that Yang Yi has made a name for himself by playing games, it is not difficult to achieve financial freedom during his career, but what about the rest of them?
I can only hope that everyone can be like what the dictionary says, and that everyone will have a bright and beautiful future.
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"This lottery ceremony will be composed of two parts. First, it will be the draw for the qualifying stage, and then there will be the draw for the group stage that everyone is more looking forward to..."
"For the first time, this global finals will have 24 teams competing in three stages: the qualifying stage, the group stage and the knockout stage. Let's start with the qualifying stage in Wuhan..."
"The four winning teams in the qualifying round will be divided into four groups with the other twelve new teams, and will compete through a double round-robin single-game winning-lose competition system. The top two teams in each group will enter the knockout stage..."
"Nima, is the official lottery starting at this time? I almost fell asleep listening to it."
"You're anxious. I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet."
"This time we added a fancy qualifying round, which made the competition system long and smelly. I really like it."
"What's the point of Riot's qualifying tournament? When it comes to the group stage, it will definitely be teams from each major region, and these teams will definitely qualify for the knockout rounds."
Under the big screen, the EDG players complained one after another.
Originally, everyone gathered together today to watch the lottery ceremony, but they didn't expect that they would be chatting for three minutes at the beginning. After finally waiting for the two guests, the ancient beauty and the broiler, to draw lots, they were drawn into a finalist group that had nothing to do with them.
Who the hell cares about which stinky fish or shrimps WE will be paired with?
Can the third seed of LPL still be defeated by a wild card team?
Oh, I can't say too much. After all, EDG has already set a record of losing to the wild card competition before... so it seems that it is not impossible to lose again in the playoffs.
"There is no way, Riot also wants to make money. If the competition system is lengthened and there are more participating teams, they will gain popularity and ratings," Abu explained patiently:
"In short, this qualifying competition is good for promoting the League of Legends game. There will definitely be more and more players in the future, and there will be more and more viewers. It will do more good than harm to you players."
"As long as you have a sufficient fan base, you can make a living by doing live broadcasts after you retire."
After Yang Yi and others thought about it for a while, they felt that what Abu said made sense.
But with regard to the starting five currently sitting on EDG, who will retire in the future without fans watching?
After waiting for more than ten minutes, AJ and Rookie finally drew out the seed teams for the playoffs. Countless listless spectators also became energetic like the EDG players, knowing that today's highlight was coming.
The group stage draw is divided into two pools, one is for the summer champions EDG, LZ, G2 and FW of the four major regions, and the other pool is for all the other teams.
AJ came up and first took out a ball from the No. 1 seed pool. When he took it apart, he saw that it was EDG, the No. 1 seed in his LPL division. And EDG, like WE who had just qualified for the qualifying round, went directly to the No. 1 spot in Group A.
Bit.
"It's a good sign, brother!" Ming Kai looked happy, feeling that he was really lucky this year.
In the second draw, the LZ team was drawn. Xia Jue relied on Khan's top laner Jayce to defeat SKT with one hand. It was also the biggest headache for other LPL teams, mainly RNG.
When Khan was still in WE, he had never been able to compete with 957. At this time, WE was naturally not very worried about him. Only RNG felt a little weak and was afraid that Helpme would be crushed by the opponent LZ like the Xia Jue matchup.
In the third draw, the number one seed in the European and American divisions was drawn, known as Europe's Optimistic Family G2.
As for the last No. 1 seed, it is Flash Wolves FW, who defeated SKT in the MSI Mid-Season Tournament and the Asian Competition. They are the hope of the entire LMS region.
Then the pressure came to Rookie.
The broiler also knew that he had a heavy responsibility. He spent a long time touching the eight balls in the second pool, and finally picked up a relatively easy one.
As a result, after taking it apart and taking only one look, the broiler immediately closed his eyes again, and then showed a naive and wry smile.
As the note was fully unfolded, all the viewers saw the first opponent that Broiler drew for EDG - none other than triple crown champion SKT.
