The schedule was fully booked on the first day of the All-Star Game.
From 7:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Beijing time, the event will be played without interruption.
Such a compact schedule was quite satisfying for the spectators.
However, a small number of players feel a lot of pressure. The loss in the 7th World Championship has dealt a huge blow to the self-confidence of the LCK players.
The five members of the Korean team who participated in the All-Star Game this time with a dream of revenge seemed out of place with the participating teams from other regions.
When all teams appeared on the stage one after another, most teams, including players from the LPL representative team, waved to the enthusiastic audience.
Especially when Li Luo appeared on the stage, the audience gave him extremely warm cheers, which made Li Luo have the illusion that he was at his home stadium for a moment.
I have to say that the atmosphere of European and American competitions is indeed very good.
They are happy to share the applause and cheers with their favorite players even though they already know that their team is bad.
The IG team's victory in the Bird's Nest allowed the LPL to break South Korea's four-year monopoly on the world championship.
For North American viewers who have been under the haze of the LCK division for a long time, the LPL division's performance in this World Championship deserves their highest praise.
As the FMVP of the S7 World Finals, Li Luo completely conquered the North American audience with his operation.
To put it bluntly, even those who are indifferent to LPL will find it difficult to feel bad in their hearts when they see Li Luo smiling and waving to them in a sunny manner.
Let’s look at the LCK side.
The five people had cold faces from the moment they stepped on the stage, as if someone owed them a lot of money.
It feels awkward to give them some applause.
In fact, this was not done intentionally by the LCK players.
The root cause is that they are under too much psychological pressure.
In the eyes of others, this is an entertainment competition.
So people will fight very casually.
For the game League of Legends, "casualty" is a double-edged sword.
Sometimes the team will accidentally be caught by the opponent due to randomness, thus putting it at a disadvantage.
Sometimes, randomness becomes the cornerstone of players' confident operations.
After all, there is a saying in Summoner's Rift that confidence is the peak.
This is especially true for players from outside divisions.
This is also the reason why several people in the LCK are under great pressure.
Others can maintain their confidence and dare to fight hard.
where are they?
But you have to walk on thin ice and try to win every game?
Even faker can't keep calm right now.
In the three games of the finals, he didn't take advantage of Rookie at all.
So much so that he has been training extra hard recently.
But after checking Rookie's record, he found that Rookie never stopped either.
Previously, Rookie’s two Korean server accounts were ranked first in Korean server and second in Korean server respectively.
Later, the number one account in the Korean server was banned, but the number one account in the Korean server was still Rookie.
Banning one is a little better, but banning two in a row is too obvious and shameless.
Although... they have long been shameless, but considering that Rookie is Korean after all, it is better not to act too harshly.
However, Rookie's recent alt account scored 900 points in the Korean server. It is simply a complete scoring machine.
This time, can he defeat Rookie?
Faker, who has maintained confidence since his career debut, now has no confidence at all.
Fortunately, they will not meet in the group stage.
There are three group matches, I hope I can win them neatly.
faker prayed in his heart.
…
Countless domestic spectators woke up early for this All-Star Game.
Of course, there are also those who stay up all night long and then have breakfast to continue to maintain their state of cultivation.
Fortunately, in order to take care of the viewers in the LPL division, Riot has arranged the first game of the LPL division at nine o'clock.
Almost everyone who should get up at this time has gotten up.
Those who were supposed to go to work had already clocked in and sat at their respective posts, waiting for opportunities to start fishing.
The big brothers from the North American LCS and Brazil started a fierce confrontation. It took thirty-five minutes for both sides to break out more than fifty kills. In the end, North America succeeded in winning by relying on the better personal abilities of the players.
Got off the game.
At the end of the game, the two teams shook hands and hugged each other, looking happy. Although it was a formal game, its popularity and entertainment made the audience hooked.
What follows is the LCK division versus the European LCS division teams.
After finally watching a good game, a large number of people who stayed up all night fell asleep halfway through the second game.
The European team chose a lineup that was attractive enough, but was held back by LCK's Korean-style operations. It took until the 15th minute for both sides to score their first kill.
The Korean team used a steady and steady game rhythm to finally run EU to death at 37 minutes of game time.
The winning Korean team finally had a smile on their faces, but they soon discovered that very few of the audience cheered for them.
Not to mention the guy who stayed up all night, even the energetic guy at the scene couldn't sleep.
Some viewers in each competition region couldn't hold back and used various methods to enter the Korean forums to start group ridicule.
However, these group ridicules were quickly met with unanimous counterattacks from Korean netizens.
"We, the Korean people, take every game very seriously. Do we need to be criticized for being serious?"
"This Riot All-Star Game is an official regional competition! I hope you can understand the meaning of the word [formal]."
"I think it's very exciting. There are a lot of operational games here. What makes it boring is just that you can't understand the game."
"When facing our LCK team, I suggest you keep your spirits up, so that at least you won't lose ugly."
"Players in the LPL division, just wait and see!"
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With the end of the LCK game, the competition between the LPL and the Brazilian team has officially begun.
It is also the most powerful division. The LPL division is even better than South Korea this year. However, in this game, LPL perfectly combined "rigor" and "fun".
As the Brazilian division eliminated Yinzeril and Destiny Master, and decided that Delavin would go down the lane, Li Luo chose Yasuo in the last counter position to save face.
Li Luo's Yasuo has been used in live broadcasts before. Although it has not been used many times, the audience knows that Li Luo can play this hero.
But being able to play and playing well are completely different things!
When the final lineup of the LPL division was finalized, the audience gave high cheers and praises.
Yasuo's move to the bottom lane is unprecedented.
This is the first time.
Judging from the LPL lineup, at least they won't play as boringly as the LCK.
And on the surface, the choice of Yasuo and Braum in the LPL to go down the lane is very entertaining.
But it wasn't until the two sides actually started fighting that the audience realized that this choice was very important.
In this game, the Brazilian team’s top laner chose the popular version of Ornn.
Although Ornn appeared before the World Championship version, he has only become popular now.
However, throughout the whole game, Ornn didn't even unleash a decent ultimate move.
Whether it's Braum's security door or Yasuo's wind wall, Ornn's ultimate move can be easily confiscated.
The top laner of the Brazilian team thought that he could make a high enough contribution to the team by choosing a functional hero that could start a team.
As a result, the R key was confiscated before the game was even started.
In this game, the LPL team relied on Ning Wang and Zhu Mei's linkage to carry out various line-changing fights from the beginning, forcing the Brazilian team to accumulate enough disadvantages in the early stage.
After that, the two sides turned into a big fight.
As Li landed in front of the highland tower, he launched a wave of EQ flash whirlwind, knocking three people away, followed by a double wind ultimate move within seconds, a set of dazzling operations that amazed countless viewers!
"Hey, Brother Luo, I think Yasuo is just okay in ranked. Why is he so strong in the game?"
"We should also consider the opponent. I feel that although Yasuo can be played in the bottom lane, the rationality of the lineup is also very important. In this Brazilian, Delavin's ultimate move and Ornn's ultimate move were all defeated by Wind Wall and Braum.
The shield was confiscated, and it was indeed defeated by Tian."
"The big brothers in Brazil are very ambitious. When they banned people, they specifically banned protection-oriented heroes like Tahm and Shen. The purpose was to give Draven an advantage in the laning period. It's a pity that they
The one I bumped into was Brother Luo."
"Brothers, I'm leaving first. I'm going to play Yasuo and have some fun."
"Go together, go together!"
Domestic audiences found it very comfortable.
This adds up to a huge number of heads on both sides.
It's just that the gap in strength is too huge, and the LPL is completely a one-sided crushing.
Not to mention, the LPL also showed extremely strong dominance in the subsequent duels, easily ending the group stage with a score of 3-0 and advancing to the semi-finals as the group leader.
In the commentary box.
Wawa and Miller, who were in charge of the first half, had already left the stage. At this time, Guan Zeyuan and Qi Huan, who were in charge of the second half, were explaining.
Seeing Li Luo talking to the host in English in the interview booth, Guan Zeyuan said sincerely: "Brother Luo's spoken language... is a bit outrageous. It makes me feel as if he has really stayed abroad for a long time.
The times are like this, although many words still need translation help, but generally normal communication is no problem at all."
"Who says it's not the case? Some time ago, I thought it was a bit outrageous when I saw Luo Ge's live broadcast communicating with players on the American server in English. Now it seems that I have underestimated Luo Ge."
Qihuan also said with sincere emotion: "After this game is over, today's regional competition will only be the showdown between LCK and GPL."
"Yes, in fact, the audience basically guessed the outcome of this match before it started. It was nothing more than a complete victory in the LCK and LPL divisions, and then the two sides defeated the second place in the opponent's group in the semi-finals, and met in the finals. Here
There is no doubt about it.”
Guan Zeyuan said with a smile.
But just 20 minutes later.
All the smiles on Guan Zeyuan's face disappeared.
Apart from Levi in the jungle position, the GPL Southeast Asian Division players are unfamiliar to the audience, and even Guan Zeyuan, who is the commentator, does not recognize them at all.
The excitement of placing an order?
From the ASC team?
Who is this?
The mid laner's Patriarch... belongs to the BKT team. Guan Zeyuan of this team knows about it, but this player is too unfamiliar.
As for the bottom lane combination, one is from the IMP team and the other is from SVG.
Although Guan Zeyuan did some homework before the competition, the homework he did was very limited. Mainly because it was unnecessary. It wasted too much time and will hardly be used in the future.
But this game refreshed Guan Zeyuan's three views, and also refreshed the audience's understanding.
When the GPL division faced the Korean team's mediocre lineup, they chose a four-guarantee-one system.
The one who is protected is the leopard girl who is jungler Levi.
Levi himself is a very aggressive carnivorous jungler.
Except for being unstable sometimes, his operation is remarkable.
When the GPL lineup was finalized, everyone in the LPL division who was watching understood that this game was really hard to predict.
In particular, Li Luo and Mafa have explained to them in detail the importance of the jungle to this version.
In this version, a weak jungler will definitely suffer when encountering a strong jungler.
For the Korean team, Chief An chose the prince. Although this choice cannot be said to be weak.
But compared to Leopard Girl, she is definitely not on the same level in terms of aggressiveness in the jungle.
Leader An is also a team-oriented jungler. After meeting Levi, a second-generation bandit after Sofm, Leader An was defeated in the early stage of the game.
The initiative fell entirely into Levi's control.
Although online teammates will occasionally give it away.
But Levi always relies on his strong mobility to arrive in time and let the opponent spit out the head.
Over time, Levi's leopard girl became fatter and fatter.
Even though LCK got several good opportunities in the middle and late stages, Levi's Leopard Girl was still looking for a chance to consume her when she was shoving the dragon, and she was completely fucked.
The game lasted 39 minutes, and with Levi Leopard Girl’s three kills, LCK lost the match amid countless cheers at the scene.
GPL Southeast Asia Division qualified by winning all three games in the group stage.
At the end of the game, the five players hugged each other excitedly as if they had won the championship.
The South Korean team ranked second in Group A and qualified.
They will face the LPL division in advance in a three-game format in the semi-finals.
The Korean e-sports forum was as quiet as a library for a while.
But this is destined to be just the calm before the storm.
The anger quickly burned through every corner of the forum like a ignited fire!
"Let's all swim back...forget it, don't come back."
"Can Southeast Asia lose? In the past, I didn't say anything when you lost in the LMS division. This time, I was a little relieved that the LMS was not separated from you. But in the blink of an eye, you recognized another father?"
"I'm so angry. Why should I let the leader An go and beat me like a turtle?"
"The question is, if you don't let Leader An, who should you let go? Does the LCK still have any good junglers?"
"I suggest that you don't need to get too excited. After all, the All-Star Game is just an entertainment game, and the players are not playing seriously."
"Rational analysis, I think our players are controlling points. They deliberately lost this game in order to directly avenge the LPL by qualifying second in the group, and then easily win the championship, so that the LPL will not even have a chance to enter the finals, so we must
