On October 19, the American Summer Team arrived in New York, and the two semifinals of the four teams will be held at Madison Square Garden in the city center soon.
From the group stage to the semi-finals, traveling to San Francisco, Chicago and then New York, the journey was tiring. Even after her rebirth, Meixia, who was always energetic, felt a little sleepy after getting off the plane.
Everyone rested in the hotel all day.
The next day, the organizer invited all contestants to participate in the semi-finals promotional video shooting.
I thought it would be similar to the promotional video for the quarter-finals and could be completed in two hours on location in the city, but the photographer's enthusiasm for the work was far beyond Miha's expectation.
The four teams set off from the hotel respectively.
Here at Summertime, the five EDG guys first started shooting in Times Square, New York, then took a taxi to the Brooks Bridge, where many famous river jumping scenes are used in Hollywood movies, and finally returned to Madison Square Garden.
From front to back, we started shooting at three o'clock in the afternoon and arrived in front of the venue at five o'clock in the evening. Other teams going to landmark buildings such as the Empire State Building, New York Subway, Grand Central Station, etc. also arrived one after another to meet up.
Finally, there is the gaze of each team in the semi-finals against their old rivals outside the venue.
faker and yue lun.
The factory director and boss An.
However, taking into account Mika’s special identity and the fact that the real soul of h2k should be the local European player Forgiven rather than the Korean player, we added a scene where the star players from the four teams lead the team into the venue.
The problem lies here, when shooting alone on location, because there is no reference of the same level, Mixia's height is easily hidden by the photographer's superb skills.
For example, in a New York square, she and the huge billboard behind her complement each other, and coupled with her already elegant face, she looks like a fashion star when photographed. Another example is when shooting on a bridge, and only the person leaning on the bridge was photographed.
The half-length view on the bridge, with the wind blowing and the long hair fluttering, is also very moving.
But in front of Madison Square Garden, the teammates around her were all a bit taller than her, and her momentum was suddenly three points lower.
In the end, the photographer had to give up the idea and asked four of Mixia's teammates to squat on the ground, while she stood in the middle and leaned against the pillar of the entrance passage to complete the shooting.
The images captured in this way are of course very harmonious, except that the director and Meiko smiled bitterly after taking the photos.
The two of them can already guess the comments when the promotional video is released - it will probably be the same as when MSI went on the expedition, saying that Mika is leading four dogs!
The pre-game interview was filmed in the stadium.
Finally, the whole tossing was over, and the entire promotional video was shot at around six o'clock in the evening.
Everyone had a slightly expensive dinner in the center of New York, a place where land is precious, and then took the car back to the hotel.
The next day, the cut promotional video was released.
Sure enough, after seeing the last shot of edg, the Internet was full of comments mocking the relationship between the team members.
However, compared to the shots of EDG's entire team, or the shots of Sakura girl looking as beautiful as a fairy, e-sports audiences are indeed more interested in the story of the game, even the story of two men.
Faker and Yue Lun looked at each other from a distance among the busy traffic outside Madison Square Garden. This is undoubtedly the most topical scene at the moment!
During the Double Tribulation War, Feihuang became famous in one battle, and Yue Lun ran away with hatred!
Three years later, things have changed. One is struggling for life in Europe, while the other is already on the road to becoming a god.
The same point is that both of them have matured a lot. Faker under the camera has a light beard, while Yue Lun has gained weight.
Did Faker repeat the suppression of the day, or did Yue Lun succeed in revenge?
Although there is a huge gap in strength between the two teams, with the tag of a double calamity war and a war between Europe and South Korea, the popularity of the game is extremely high.
Even Miha is curious about the first half of the competition!
You must know that in the parallel world before her rebirth, h2k lost to ssg in the semi-finals and missed the match with skt. Although Yue Lun entered the world championship again in s8, skt at that time missed the world championship trip.
In the end, until Yue Lun retired and entered the military service, these two former enemies never met for the second time in an official game. They only played a double-jeal solo match at Yue Lun's retirement ceremony. The double-jeal battle was accompanied by a generation of audiences.
Youth ends.
However, in this world, because of her butterfly fanning the wind, the World Championship showdown between Faker and Yue Lun came true.
I really don’t know whether I should say Yue Lun was lucky or unlucky.
But for Mixia, a lively spectator, it is of course extremely happy to see such a topical competition!
We don’t expect h2k to win even one game, even if it’s three games, as long as we can see Faker single-handedly kill Yue Lun or vice versa, it’s definitely worth the price of admission!
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The pre-game promotional video successfully aroused the enthusiasm for the game, and on October 22nd, skt and h2k took the lead in taking the field!
Meixia and her teammates were in the hotel eating weird-tasting fried rice and dumplings from a local Chinese restaurant in New York, and watching the game in the next half.
This bo5 is absolutely cruel to European and American audiences, especially European audiences.
The ambitious skt sent h2k away early with a clean 3-0. Even with lck's rhythm that can hypnotize the audience, the game started at six o'clock and ended at nine o'clock, which was very fast.
European spectators who stayed up late to watch the game at 11 a.m. could even go back to sleep at two o'clock.
However, for viewers like Mei Xia who have already predicted the outcome of the game and just want to see the effect of the show, the whole game is indeed very interesting.
In the first two games, Yue Lun played with the intention of winning the game and brought out Victor and Snake. However, not only did he not take advantage, the team lost the game, but he himself was also single-killed by faker on the way.
In the last game, Yue Lun finally realized the gap between the teams and didn't want to win. He chose his signature hero in LCS, Enchantress, and just wanted a solo kill.
However, in the mid-term, he found an opportunity to challenge faker's Clockwork Demon. W passed qre and lost the most important chain. Seeing that he could not kill him, the second stage of w caught Clockwork R again on the way back!
Then the Enchantress was divided into two by using the passive [Ghost Shadow]. Yue Lun controlled the real Enchantress to the left and the fake Enchantress to the right.
But faker's qw guessed the real enchantress! Then he connected with a and completed the counterattack!
The final exciting mid lane duel brought an end to the bo5 in the first half of the semi-finals.
Three years ago, Faker would be defeated by Yue Lun with a total score of 2-2, and he would be forced to have a double calamity duel to decide life and death.
Three years later, in three games, Yue Lun could no longer touch any of SKT's second towers.
Genius is still climbing the mountain, but the stepping stones are far behind him.
So faced with sjokz's questioning, "After the quarterfinals, many viewers began to think that edg is the more likely team to win this world championship. Some people also said that mika is a more talented player than faker. Have those analyzes and thoughts affected you?
?How are you going to prove yourself in the next finals!"
Faker looked at the audience and replied calmly, "I believe that Mika may be the strongest mid laner at present, and EDG also has the ability to win the championship. But I still believe in my progress. From MSI to the World Championship, I and my
My teammates are moving forward step by step and getting stronger! I am confident that in the finals, we will be stronger than anyone else!"
He feels that if edg reaches the World Championship, mika will be the best stepping stone for him to reach the World Championship again.
