At 5:40 pm Eastern European Time on October 9, 2015, the Pullman venue in Paris, France, was brightly lit.
The League of Legends World Championship is being held here, and off the field is the third game of the second round of Group C. The lpl team edg faces the dfm team from Japan's ljl.
The game is coming to an end.
In the Summoner's Rift with endless signals, the dfm duo, who were replenishing troops in the middle, stepped into the river on the left without any vision.
"The bright moon is not here, so open your mouth! I'll throw it big!" Clearlove, the factory director crouching in the grass, decisively threw the exploding wine barrel into the corner.
Boom! Soriyagatong!
Pawn's Yasuo immediately followed up with his ultimate move and slashed with a flying sword. Then Ekko flashed eqa. The explosion of the three instantly evaporated the full-blooded abyss maw Kog'Maw in the air, and then killed the dfm auxiliary Thresh.
After the team battle, DFM's best-developed mid laner Jiao Yuecai teleported and landed belatedly.
"Get the big dragon, revive in fifty seconds, take the big dragon first and then another wave!" The factory director continued to implement his steady command style.
In fact, at such a late stage, after killing the ad and support, and having bare crystals on the top lane, it doesn't make much difference whether you can take the baron or not.
But even so, edg did not dare to let down its vigilance. It is true that lpl overturned too many times in this group stage.
Not to mention LGD, who had zero wins in the first round and then played q, and ig, who surrendered during the holiday with one win in the first round, even they themselves had an embarrassing record of 2-2 due to two consecutive losses to skt before defeating dfm!
What's more, before this wave of 5v4 team battles, they were 3,000 yuan behind the wild card ljl team dfm!
Based on the historical origins of the three East Asian countries, several contestants can fully imagine how ferocious the verbal and written criticism in domestic forums will be when the situation is backward!
"The jungler on the opposite side has some remaining health, so he should go home. The bright moon has not come yet, so clear the troops in the middle lane." Assistant Girl Kou reminded.
Everyone at edg breathed a sigh of relief.
They successfully punished the dragon and led the top line of troops to advance vigorously, advancing all the way to the base.
The lonely bright moon of dfm still cleared the troops in the middle lane without anyone around, and even stopped guarding the highland crystal.
In the passerby ranking, this approach shows that the person has given up resistance and is purely protecting KDA.
finally.
Forty-three minutes and six seconds.
DFM's jungler and top laner died tragically in front of the spring, giving EDG an extra 6,000 damage and two kills.
The blue square crystal shattered suddenly.
Commentator Changmao congratulated, "Congratulations to edg. They defeated the dfm team without any danger and still have their hope of qualifying firmly in their hands!"
The MSI champion, EDG, the favorite to win, defeated the LJL team, which had lost all four group matches before, and it was a matter of course.
But this inconspicuous group match did attract a lot of attention from the audience because of its uniqueness.
Audiences as far away as China stood up and shouted, and the barrage and comments were filled instantly.
"EDG finally won. Now, as long as nothing happens, there is a high probability that they will advance to the knockout round! I hope that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, LGD and IG, who are on the edge of elimination, will be able to survive!"
"It's so dangerous. The female mid laner in the dfm team is very good at operations. She almost overturned edg with her own strength."
"Indeed, even pawn's Yasuo can't suppress her Haoyue. I feel that the laning and operation are at LPL level. The wild card team is getting stronger and stronger!"
"Haha, edg played like this in the group stage. Surely it's not that they are too weak but that the wild cards are too strong?!"
On the other hand, because their team made it to the World Championship for the first time in the island country, the high school students and college students who stayed up all night as cloud viewers reluctantly turned off the live broadcast interface and launched two completely different comments on Twitter and 4ch. The former congratulated EDG in a friendly way, while the latter was a friendly comment from various sources.
Kind of foul language.
Finally, they unanimously expressed their admiration and curiosity for the female players of DFM.
Yes, the most eye-catching thing about this game is that the mid laner of the dfm team is sitting in the seat of a cute and delicate girl.
And this talented female player who just joined dfm less than a year ago and led her team to the main round of the World Championship is our protagonist Tao Xia from time-travel.
Of course, Tao Xia was already her name in her previous life, and her name in this life is Momotani Mika.
Game name mika.
…
On one side of the competition stage, the dfm players took off their headphones.
"Sin Song Hamida..."
"Private Marseille! Private Marseille!"
“xksmhuxisnhixpjs…”
Listening to the familiar yet unfamiliar Peninsular and Islander dialects, Momotani Mika felt very uncomfortable, but it was not entirely because she lost the game.
It was an accident to break into the wild card round with dfm's configuration strength, but to advance to the knockout rounds was like a dream.
She just thought about the past and the final outcome of edg, and she couldn't help but feel sad and then in a trance.
In my distant memory, I should be eating skewers and drinking Coke in my college dormitory. As the only team with a bright future for LPL to advance to the knockout round, edg, I watched this group stage with strong expectations.
She even vividly remembered the post she made on the [Swell] bar after watching the game, influenced by her optimism.
[The situation is not too bad. With two losses, edg can only advance to the second place in the group, while LGD and IG can only advance to the second place in the group after both sending points in the first round.
In other words, there is no civil war in the top eight among LPL teams, and the possibility of civil war in the finals is slim!]
Thinking about it, I was in the period of disillusionment after the idea of LPL being invincible was broken. I still had unrealistic illusions and knew nothing about the lower limits of LPL and EDG...
That three-year dark period...
s5, skt won the championship.
s6, skt won the championship.
s7,ssg won the championship.
lck has made a glorious history in the division, Faker has re-consolidated his status as the devil, and a generation of veteran leader An has won the coveted crown and retired with glory.
In the past three years, the hope of LPL winning the championship always seemed to exist. Every year, capital was injected, signings were made, and the league was in full swing. However, when it came to the World Championship, it was trampled to pieces again and again...
Those three seasons are an eternal pain in the hearts of every old Chinese LPL viewer.
"So, I'm already a Sakura girl, okay! The dark period of lpl is none of my business!" Momotani Mika shook her head, trying to get rid of all the shadows.
Reborn in a parallel world, she possesses the entire seventeen-year memory of her original owner. She has a father who works as a middle-level worker in a chemical industry group in Tokyo, and a mother who inherits the ancestral family business and runs a flower shop.
There is also a cute and sensible sister, an amiable neighbor and classmate, and four Internet-addicted teenagers from the same team.
As for Tao Xia and his family overseas, this person has long been unknown in this parallel world.
So, what does the dark age of LPL have to do with myself being reborn in Tokyo?
Relying on this gifted body to revitalize ljl, secure the position of ljl's first mid laner, and have the opportunity to travel twice a year at public expense, and at the same time make good use of one's excellent appearance and strength to earn the Japanese reputation, it is the most comfortable
A comfortable choice.
Put yourself into the perspective of the indigenous Sakura girl.
Looking at the five high-spirited players on the opposite side, I imagined that this team that had just defeated me would enter the abyss in the eight-to-four game in the near future. As the opponent, I should have been happy to add insult to injury - this is the group
What will happen if you beat me in the competition! Let you laugh happily now, and you will cry in the future!
In the previous life, I could still be disappointed and scolded Edg, "Ming Zi Ba Hua, Kai Zi Ba Hua, Zi Zi Ba Hua, top eight every year."
Or, "Congratulations to the edg team for breaking through in team history and advancing to the top 16!"
There is also a more straightforward one, "Pig Factory, get out of here and retire immediately!"
But she is already a female jk in Tokyo.
lpl, I'm really unfamiliar with it.
uzi, factory director, vgod……
Who are these IDs? Gumi Masai, I am just a talented girl who has only been playing League of Legends for a year. Faker is my idol. I really don’t know these players who have never even won the World Championship.
Before today, she had always thought this way.
Do the same thing.
Live a new life happily, play League of Legends leisurely, and not be sad about gains and losses or victory or defeat. Just like all Fengnan players, purely enjoy the fun of the game.
However, when the World Championship journey was about to end, the news of consecutive losses in the previous round of lpl reached my ears.
Today, I really looked at the youthful girl, the factory director and deft who were at their peak, Pawn who was suffering from back injuries at the end of his career, and amazingj, the Lord of the River with a smile on his face, walking towards me and extending his hand to me.
grip.
The tragic memories in her heart were like a bottomless black hole, trying to swallow her whole.
She found that she could not be indifferent to lpl.
It is impossible to shatter all the memories of youth that are engraved in the bone marrow. Even if you change your identity and become a Sakura girl, it is still difficult to let go of the feelings of the simple Chinese lpl audience who are integrated into the flesh and blood.
After all, if we deny everything before rebirth, we are equivalent to denying the existence of everything that comes from the famous Chinese work Tao Xia.
Since she has denied those, why does she still play League of Legends alone in Tokyo, where the MOBA game environment is cold, and why does she want to join LJL? Wouldn't it be easier to make money by buying games with the memory of three years of rebirth?
In fact, happily accepting her current female identity, finding a rich man and living a shameless married life, posting selfies and watching anime in her free time, is the life that a beautiful girl named Momotani Mika should lead.
Momotani Mika held the hot palm of the last contestant who came over, the director.
She gave the answer in her mind, "Yes, I'm so angry! I'm going to feel bad about LPL losing the S5, S6 and S7 games, even if my ID card says Tokyo..."
Momotani Mika let go of her hand and spoke to the factory director in a Chinese language that she had not spoken for more than a year, "You will suffer a lot if you play against FNC in the top eight. Study them carefully in advance. Be careful with Huni's top laner Riven and AD Kenan.
"
The memory of s5 is too far away, and the reverse Q and golden light are so eye-catching that when looking back on the top eight bo5 game, she only vaguely remembers rekkes' signature Kennen and peak huni's Riven.
But maybe it's just a matter of words, and the result is completely different.
"Ah? You speak Chinese?!" The factory manager heard the clear and unfamiliar words of the beautiful ljl player who is popular all over the world in this world competition, and immediately thought that he had heard wrong.
Momotani Mika smiled and said, "I am your fan, the director, so I taught myself Chinese."
I have wanted to say this to the factory manager for a long time, but unfortunately I failed to beat the "idol" violently, and instead I was beaten violently by the "idol".
The brief exchange between handshakes ended. She stopped explaining the prophetic reminder and left with her mouse and keyboard.
The director was left in a daze, feeling complacent about becoming the idol of a beautiful player, but at the same time feeling puzzling about being wary of FNC's comments.
As well as speeches on the live broadcast interface.
"The Japanese female player seemed to have said something to the factory director just now!"