After returning from school to the hotel where the team stayed, the serious training match began that night.
Mingzhe made an appointment with a European team.
After all, the 7.18 version used in this World Championship does not have much game data to refer to, and everyone is still exploring.
Although the 7.18 version is also used in the finals, to be honest, the competition in the finals does not have much reference value.
The few teams that made it out of the playoffs were so far behind the other wild card teams that they simply ignored the version and just won by playing casually.
The remaining games between the wild card teams are purely novices competing against each other, and are also not worthy of reference.
The only thing that is certain at the moment is that the ultimate metamorphosis hero - Kalista will be released in version 7.18.
After the subsequent group stage starts, the hero skateboard shoes should not be able to release a handful.
In the training matches in the past few days before the start of the group stage, omg is planning to experiment with a few heroes that are currently performing well in the pub game.
This is why Mingzhe first made an appointment with a European team to play a training match.
Many players in Europe and North America are good at making money, but they have a lot of clever ideas, and they can often come up with some miraculous tricks.
Play a few training games with them, and you might be able to discover some heroes you haven't noticed before.
In addition, the three LPL teams participating in the S7 Global Finals have been communicating with each other and constantly sharing their new discoveries and understandings of the World Championship version.
After all, this is the local world championship, and all LPL viewers have an unprecedented desire to be able to perform well in this world championship.
Therefore, this time there is unprecedented unity among the several teams in the lpl.
Unlike previous global finals, teams in the same division also guarded against each other.
During this time, Mingzhe had actually been a little worried.
It’s been a few days since version 7.18 was launched, and it’s obvious that the focus of the version is more towards the bottom lane.
An obvious point is that in the passers-by games, including the qualifying matches of the past few days, the frequency of soft assists appearing is getting higher and higher, while the frequency of hard assists appearing is getting lower and lower.
The soft auxiliary plus the strength of the incense burner becomes more and more prominent.
The hero Kalista suddenly became so perverted because of these factors.
Of course Mingzhe doesn't have no confidence in his bottom lane, but he knows very well that OMG's strongest point is top laner Lu Chen.
The changes in the version have actually naturally narrowed the gap between the teams on the road.
Moreover, Xiao Wu is also a support player who is better at hard support. During this period of time, he has been practicing soft support. The specific effect will have to be tested in games.
As for the mid laner, no matter how the version changes, the mid laner's influence on the game situation is naturally there.
...
Time soon came to October 4th. After the training matches in the past few days before the start of the group stage, Mingzhe felt a little relieved.
It seems that the whole team is still online.
The newly trained heroes performed well in the training matches, and the usage level of the old heroes from previous versions has not dropped.
The group stage will officially start tomorrow on the 5th.
As the head coach, it was also the first time for Mingzhe to lead a team to participate in the global finals. Looking at his team members who were also participating in the S-game for the first time, he couldn't help but worry that they would be nervous in tomorrow's game.
So in the evening, Mingzhe did not arrange any training tasks for tonight.
Simply let a few team members make their own arrangements, move around freely, relax, go out for a walk, get some fresh air, etc.
Lu Chen then thought about it, I am familiar with this place. There is no one in the whole team who is more familiar with Jiangcheng than him.
So he volunteered to grab his teammates and went out for a walk.
After going out and walking around for a few times, seeing Lu Chen leading his teammates further and further away, world6 said: "It's such a far distance. Brother Lu, please pay for the taxi back later!"
"OK!"
After another long walk, everyone arrived at a slightly older urban area.
"Damn it, Lu Chen, you're not going to take us to a place that's not suitable for children, are you?" i said with a smile.
The smile is rather vulgar.
"Fuck you, sister, do I look like that kind of crooked person?" Lu Chen rolled his eyes.
"picture!"
The teammates said in unison.
"Aren't you hungry after walking for so long?" Lu Chen said, "I'll take you to eat beef noodles from our Jiangbei Province. It's no worse than Lanzhou beef noodles. I haven't eaten it in a few months, so I'm a little worried about it."
"ah?"
"Good guy, you are really not afraid of death. You came here to eat beef noodles before the game, right?"
"That's right, it's not enough for you to die by yourself, you also have to die with everyone else, right?"
Several teammates started teasing him.
In the League of Legends e-sports circle, the three words "beef noodles" are poisonous.
But in fact, Namera's crotch had nothing to do with beef noodles back then. It was just a joke that became popular among people.
At this time, everyone was just joking, and they didn't really think that eating beef noodles would do anything.
"Let's go and eat. I seem a little hungry." World6, Lu Chen's number one "dogleg", was the first to express his opinion.
Everyone hit it off immediately.
A few minutes later, Lu Chen led the team members into an alley and arrived at a noodle shop.
"Wow, it's a bit fragrant, I guess it should be delicious." Xiao Wu said, while his nose twitched.
Afterwards, several people started eating.
“Really delicious!”
"Yes, you can find delicious food in every corner!"
"Not bad, good bird food!"
All teammates praised him one after another.
As I ate, I couldn't hold back my trouble-making heart anymore.
He stood up, took a photo of the people eating noodles, and posted a message on Weibo——
[The group stage starts tomorrow. Let’s form a team and have beef noodles today. 】
And accompanied by the photo he just took.
As soon as this Weibo post was posted, in less than ten minutes, there were hundreds of replies and a large number of people gathered.
Basically, they are all used as memes below. It is really the "cow head noodle" meme that is so deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Even Miller replied below:
"You're too brave, Mr. Leng. You brought your teammates here to eat this before the game. You won't want to eat this stuff!"
i immediately replied: "I didn't do it, it was Brother Lu who brought everyone here!"
Good guy, I "sold" Brother Lu with a backhand!
...
When they got back to the hotel, it was still early and far from their usual rest time.
Then I came to the training room and prepared to play a few games of ranked games before going to sleep to maintain my hand feel.
After coming over for a while, I suddenly shouted: "Damn it, Lu Chen, I feel so brave after eating beef noodles!"
"ha?"
"I just ranked faker in this game, and I killed him twice. Beef noodles have a miraculous effect!"
Hearing this, Mingzhe smiled knowingly.
He had also seen the Weibo posted by i before.
"It seems that everyone is quite relaxed." Mingzhe thought to himself.
Tomorrow OMG's opponent in the first match is ahq. In the expectations of the LPL audience, the No. 1 seed of the LPL will play the No. 2 seed of the 4V province, and they are guaranteed to win but not lose.
For Mingzhe, who only officially became the head coach this year and is still considered a "novice" coach, he has always felt a lot of pressure.
At this time, the relaxed atmosphere among the players also infected him, making him less anxious about tomorrow's game.
...
On October 5th, the s7 global finals group stage officially started.
There are four teams in each group. After six bo1 games in a double cycle within the group, the top two teams will advance to the quarterfinals.
When ranking the group, if the results are the same, the outcome will be determined first. If the outcome is the same, the ranking will be determined through extra games.
In the six games on the first day of the group stage today, three groups, Group A, Group B, and Group C, will play. Group D will have a bye today and will have no games.
The four teams that previously competed in the qualifying round are in one group.
FNC fell into Group B, and there is no LPL team in this group.
The Turkish team fb in the wild card division fell into group g.
we fell into group d.
After the opening ceremony, the group stage of the S7 Global Finals began.
For the opening match of the main game, the official arrangement was for g to play fb.
From the arrangement of this opening match, the thoughts of our organizers are already obvious.
Even though omg is the No. 1 seed in the lpl division of the global finals, the most popular team in lpl at this time is rng, so rng was arranged to play the first game.
We will play a wild card team in the first game. Of course, we want to ensure that the LPL team wins the opening game and also make the LPL audience happy.
rng played the first game, and omg played the last game today.
On the first match day, both teams are LPL teams.
The game was packed with seats, and the audience came to support the lpl team.
Of course, in addition to our own commentary, commentary seats are also arranged for commentators from several mainstream competition regions such as the European and American Division, the Cold Country Division, etc.
rng The commentators for this opening game are Remember, Su Xiaoyan and Hao Kai.
Hao Kai usually commentates on LCK games. Audiences who often watch LPL may not be familiar with him.
He has the nickname "Oxygen Bottle". This person gets a little out of breath when he talks continuously in a team battle. When the team battle is fierce, his voice will even break, and his voice feels like he is about to expire.
Those who like his explanation style will find his explanations very passionate, while those who don't like his explanations will find his random shouting a bit harsh.
However, as a former professional player, Hao Kai's professionalism in game content is quite good in commentary.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, rng's group stage bo1 match against fb started on time.
In the first game, both sides chose a relatively conventional and stable lineup.
He didn't use any weird killing moves, he just relied on hard power.
However, there is still a big gap between the two teams in terms of hard power. Under such circumstances, rng won the opening game smoothly, without making any mistakes throughout the process.
Although the game lasted nearly forty minutes, from more than ten minutes on, the entire game situation was firmly in the hands of rng.
As the focus of the version shifts more and more towards the bot lane, it is inevitable that the overall length of the game will become longer.
But no matter what, with the mechanism of a health tower, the game will not be like it used to be when lane changes were played.
In the past, when the main focus was on opening the game and changing lanes, the professional League of Legends competition was a long and stinky one.
A typical match is S6, which often starts in forty or fifty minutes.
Now that the three lanes are all aligned, the chances of breaking the game in the early and mid-term are greatly increased.
After the rng game, there will be another game in Group C.
g2 vs. ssg.
The No. 1 seed in the European Division and the No. 3 seed in Hanguo are also regarded as the biggest opponents in the rng group.
All the viewers and commentators thought this would be a powerful dialogue.
The result was that g2 was beaten.
In just 27 minutes, Samsung defeated g2.
For Samsung, the most famous "Bladder Team" in the LCK League, their usual games last for 40 to 50 minutes. The 27-minute game duration is really too short.
Of course, maybe it's because of BP.
In the first game, g2 came up and did a complete job. Instead of choosing the incense burner monster soft assistant who had already dominated the bottom lane, they chose a bull-headed assistant.
I made a jungler, Ivern, and asked Xiao Ju to make the incense burner.
As a result, Xiaoju's jungler was paired with a mid-lane plane, and g2's mid-jungle was completely ruined in the early stage.
Brother Crown () used his rock bird to directly defeat p (perkz), and then roamed the entire field.
The content of this game has little reference value, but it made people aware of a support hero that may be very important in the next game.
Support in professional games is no better than in the passer-by game. Their vision tasks and group starting tasks are very heavy, and they even have to lead the rhythm. This is why hard support has been the mainstream in the past.
But now the bottom lane is full of soft supports who provide milk and shield, which actually subverts the previous gaming habits of many support players.
In this game, the three-star assistant took out the gem, and many people's eyes lit up.
Gem is a tough support, but he has milk, a shield, and the incense burner.
In the eyes of many coaches and players, this hero still has great potential for development.
But at this time, in a hotel in Jiangcheng, the coaches and players of the omg team no longer have the heart to pay attention to this.
Because their ADC, Sima Lao Zei, seems to be in trouble.
Brother Ma started having diarrhea since he got up at noon.
When it came time to prepare to leave for the competition venue, I had already had it five times and everyone was numb.
At this time, Brother Ma was sitting on a chair, his face was pale and his breath was weak.
Lu Chen was a little confused.
It can't be such a coincidence!
Is it really because of eating beef noodles?
But the problem is that Lu Chen and other teammates also ate it, and it’s all nonsense.
Or is this beef noodle thing only for adc players?
The other players and head coach Mingzhe were equally confused.
At this time, the leader of the omg team rushed in from outside, holding a small white bottle in his hand.
"I bought it, I bought it, hurry up!"
With that said, he unscrewed the bottle cap, handed the small bottle to Brother Ma, and poured him a glass of warm water.
It turned out to be antidiarrheal medicine.
Brother Marco held the medicine bottle in his left hand and poured a few pills into his right hand.
My hands were shaking a little, so I shook the pills out of my head!
After taking the antidiarrheal medicine with warm water, Mingzhe asked with concern: "How is it going? Can you still stand it?"
Brother Ma nodded firmly.
There are still a few hours until the OMG game. I will wait for the medicine to take effect and I should be able to withstand it.
Suddenly, Xiao Wu said: "That time when Na Mei Beef Noodles had a big crotch, who did Edg hit?"
"It seems to be ahq?" Lu Chen said cautiously. Although it didn't seem to be his fault, what was the reason for this inexplicable feeling of guilt!
"Who are we playing in this game tonight?" Xiao Wu asked again.
"Ahq!" Several people said in unison.
"I understand, it's the ahq that's poisonous, not the beef noodles!"
