The actual controllers behind the Thorn Birds are the two giant Buddhas, Ed Zhu and the principal, so the treatment and funding during the expedition are naturally quite good.
In order to avoid encountering a series of problems such as network, food, and daily life during the MSI event, the temporary base of the Thorn Birds was already being arranged when the Thorn Birds entered the finals.
Even though there are only a few days of competition in Vietnam, the various measures of the temporary training residence are no less favorable than those of domestic clubs. The whole thing highlights that one is rich and one does not compromise.
The qualifying round will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, and the group stage will be held at the Vietnam National Convention Center in Hanoi.
The itinerary of everyone in the Thorn Birds has been arranged for a long time. Two days before the qualifying round, the club has booked a hotel near the GG venue, the competition venue, so that the players can relax first. After all, everyone in the Thorn Birds has been there since the end of the spring finals.
Fake.
The purpose is to take advantage of this opportunity to arrive in Vietnam early to adapt and put the vacation together.
The players, including Li Luo, are quite satisfied with the club's arrangements.
Most people like novel things.
Normally, everyone is used to staying in Shanghai, and they don’t know where to go after a holiday. Moreover, they will become lazy after staying home for a long time. They don’t even want to leave the house without a girlfriend. In the end, they found out that even though the club had a holiday, they still stayed there.
Play games in the base.
It's different now that I'm in Vietnam, at least everything around me is newer.
After the players of the Thorn Birds arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, they went out for a walk under the guidance of the tour guide hired by the club. It was not until the start of the qualifying rounds in the evening that the players of the Thorn Birds returned as a group.
When Zhu Kai saw the players coming back, he waved a stack of tickets in his hand: "Would you like to go watch the game live? The club will reimburse you."
"I don't want to move, I'm exhausted this afternoon."
Xiangguo collapsed on the gaming chair like a puddle of mud. Those who didn't know thought he had gone to some extraordinary place.
"Young people should behave like young people. Besides, the tickets bought by the club are all infield tickets, which are very expensive. It will be wasted if you don't go to see them."
Zhu Kai chuckled and continued his lobbying.
"How much does one cost?"
Brother Holy Spear is curious.
When Zhu Kai heard this, he stretched out his hand and made a sign of the cross: "One hundred thousand yuan, a full one hundred thousand yuan, we can watch all the games that day."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned for a moment, but after a brief mental circle, even Malphite himself, mlxg, raised his hand with disdain.
They had just gone shopping in the afternoon and had a certain understanding of Vietnam's currency.
What Zhu Kai said was so bluffing, a whole hundred thousand yuan.
In general, 100,000 Vietnamese dong is only equivalent to about 20 yuan of soft girl coins.
At this moment, Xiye clapped his fingers and seemed to think of something: "I seem to have seen before that the front row tickets for the group stage are 200,000 Vietnamese dong. So after all, it only costs more than fifty yuan?"
This low ticket price made all the Thorn Birds players look at each other.
After thinking about it, everyone decided to go and have a look.
The reason why we booked a hotel for two days in Ho Chi Minh City was, on the one hand, to allow the players to take two days off and relax.
On the other hand, it is to feel the atmosphere of the League of Legends competition in Vietnam, and also to observe the level of the qualifying teams.
Three teams will compete in the qualifying round to advance to the group stage.
There are only three teams that do not need to enter the playoffs, the Thorn Birds from the LPL, SKT from the LCK, and G2 from the EU European Division.
In other words, even the champions of this year's North American LCS Spring Split, or the Flash Wolves who were once regulars at the World Championship, will have to compete in the play-ins.
The Thorn Birds' first priority is also these teams that have had great success.
Although the number of participating teams in MSI is small, those who can enter here are all the leaders in their respective divisions.
Although the gold content of the championship in this event is not as good as that of the World Finals, the threshold is higher than that of the World Finals. After all, there can only be one team in one division.
The Thorn Birds team stayed in Ho Chi Minh City for a total of four days.
It was not until the end of the qualifying round that the Thorn Birds went to the temporary base in Hanoi City to start training before the competition.
Generally speaking, the Thorn Birds have plenty of time. The qualifying group stage ends on May 4, the knockout stage of the qualifying stage begins on May 7, and May 10 is the first day of the group stage.
According to the schedule, the Thorn Birds will play in the third small game on the first day of the group stage.
The competing team will be one of the three teams that stand out from the play-in rounds.
Currently, two teams have emerged from the finals, namely Flash Wolves and TL.
Flash Wolf is a stable abuser.
TL is no less generous.
In Li Luo's view, Vietnam's PVB team has a good chance of winning in the knockout round.
The fact was just as Li Luo expected, Vietnam performed brilliantly in the BO5, defeating its opponent 3-0 and advancing to the group stage.
There are no groups in the group stage. Each team will play each other twice, which means each team will play 10 BO1s.
The first match of the group stage of this MSI event was the former dynasty SKT team against G2 from Europe.
Although it was a BO1, this game undoubtedly cheered up all the members of the Thorn Birds team.
If the Thorn Birds were asked to rank the teams they are paying attention to, then the top two are undoubtedly SKT and G2.
In Li Luo's impression, SKT lost to G2 in this BO1 where SKT wanted to prove that they had broken through the trough.
And it also made Ah P shine in the limelight.
But this time, that time.
When they transferred at the beginning of the year, when Bang and Wolf did not go to North America but chose to stay with the team for another year, Li Luo vaguely realized that the adc who once dominated the two-time world finals was in the team.
After two years of silence, he has the ambition to win the championship again.
The trajectory of human destiny is actually very strange.
One decision may lead to a reversal of a person's life.
Li Luo didn't know whether it was because of his appearance that Bang gave up the idea of going to North America, but since Bang dared to make such a choice, Li Luo would undoubtedly look upon him favorably.
Facts have also proved that Bang's status remains quite stable, and SKT's current team can indeed create a good space for Bang to perform.
It is different from Li Luo’s impression of the SKT lineup during the S9 season before the rebirth.
At that time, SKT introduced Teddy, the former captain of the Airplane team, and he and Mata formed a two-man lane partner.
But since S4, mata's performance in world events has been quite controversial.
Teddy also exposed himself as a soft-footed shrimp in the competition during the match against G2 at that time.
Bang is different.
His mentality dictates that Bang's performance will not fluctuate much when facing a big competition.
Moreover, Bang’s experience in world competitions is too stable.
MSI champion?
He has already taken it.
Facing G2 who were mocking G2 on Twitter before the game, SKT was obviously a little angry.
However, it must be mentioned that the G2 team has always maintained their brave style in player selection.
With the top and jungle combination of Jess and Spider, the European team faced the strongest player in the LCK, SKT, and dared to directly pick them.
This attitude of "even if I lose, I have to stand and lose" is extremely popular in League of Legends circles around the world.
SKT chose their favorite lineup in the league, using Faker's mid laner Czar to take over, and clid chose the signature hero Lee Sin, while top laner Khan chose Crocodile, striving to win against the opponent.
The lane phase in turn put pressure on Jayce.
In terms of support, I chose the Bull Head for Wolf, and paired it with Bang's Ezreal to take the bottom lane.
If this lineup was in the LPL division, it would definitely be criticized by countless netizens.
The combination of bull head and Ezreal is too abstract.
Especially when facing Xia Luo.
However, the SKT team's bangzreal once again showed the charm of Ezreal in the LCK division.
Both sides were developing smoothly in the early stage, but when the game time came to 10 minutes, clid's blind monk made a wonderful move around the back, adjusted his angle with a flash of his eyes, and kicked Luo back.
His kick was extremely essential. After adjusting the angle, Xia's trajectory was on the path that Luo would take when he was kicked.
Ap's reaction speed was very fast, and he immediately followed up with his ultimate move, but when he barbed, Ezreal jumped away to avoid it. Although Niutou was charged, Wolf was able to use his ultimate move instantly at the moment he was charged.
Control, follow up with a backhand and dodge forward with a WQ to hit Ahp first, and cooperate with the blind monk to quickly kill Xia.
Caps' Ryze tried to drive to support, but was interrupted by Faker's big move. However, Caps backhanded a set of Tsar, and the jungle spider arrived in time, forcing Faker to flash.
SKT took down Xiaolong with this wave of kills in the bottom lane.
However, the 2-0 head count lasted until 15 minutes before it was broken.
On the road, wunder had a chance to kill alone. After consuming enough of the crocodile's health, wunder attacked under the tower. However, Khan proved to the world that as long as it is not the final, you can trust Khan at other times.
Faced with Jace's Q skill in melee mode, the crocodile flashed in reverse to avoid the damage of the hammer, and then bit Jace with his backhand W.
Jace, who had a W combo, was in hammer form and the Waoe damage affected the crocodile, but the defense tower and the crocodile's control teamed up to complete the counterattack.
After killing Jace alone, Khan's crocodile was suddenly out of control. After killing Jace again with a wave of gank by the blind monk, the Rift Herald hit him again and exploded on the road.
With a huge advantage, the unreasonable Khan pushed the crocodile under the second tower. At this time, an embarrassing situation appeared. The spider came over and cooperated with Jess to catch this meaty, explosive and high crocodile.
Ryze drove over to catch him, but Khan feinted and escaped with two E-links in a row.
Although G2 has successfully counterattacked since then, SKT has always kept G2 at a loss due to its sophisticated operations.
When the game time came to 33 minutes, G2, who had an economic gap of 10,000, tried their best but were beaten two for four by SKT. G2, who was left with only ad defending, was unable to recover and was flattened by SKT. SKT won its first victory.
Everyone looked at Thorn Bird very seriously.
Although there were only twelve kills in the entire game, it was undeniable that from a professional perspective, the quality of this game was very high.
"SKT's operation is as good as ever... no, it should be said that it is better than the previous two years. Clid's blind man still has something to say."
Xiangguo stared at the screen, looking very interested.
When Xiangguo started from the perspective of clid's whimsical thoughts in the bottom lane, Xiangguo was very interested in clid.
Although clid had played in the LPL before and the two sides had played against each other, clid has obviously improved after joining SKT.
"I just don't know if his blind ban rhythm is still that good."
Liu Qingsong said with a smile.
Clid is famous for being blind.
He also didn't quite understand why G2 had so many ban slots for Khan when facing SKT, but was unwilling to allocate one to clid.
"To be honest, this Khan is a bit fierce. I feel like I can't beat him in 1v1. He is very proficient as a crocodile. And when I watched the lck review, I felt that there are many heroes like him who are strong. Captain Jace is his unique skill.
Come on, there are weapons."
Brother Shengqiang shook his head: "It's difficult."
"The bottom lane is actually quite stable. I feel that Bang's condition is much better than last year."
Liu Qingsong also said thoughtfully.
"To be honest, I don't see anything in this."
When it was Xiye's turn to express her opinion, Xiye shrugged.
This is his truth.
From the perspective of a mid-range unit, Xiye felt that the faker's performance could at best give it a passing grade.
On the contrary, caps was flying around trying to set the rhythm for the team, but G2's jungler Jankos was kicked all over the head by the blind man from clid as if he had drunk fake wine.
Of course, one game means nothing.
The players' mistakes are all minor problems. As long as the overall rhythm of the team remains stable, the team's growth curve will be benign.
Xiao Dongbei, who came to Vietnam as a substitute, also expressed his own opinions.
"It doesn't feel... very powerful."
Xiao Dongbei said very straightforwardly.
After everyone finished expressing their opinions, their eyes focused on Li Luo.
This also applies to Zhu Kai.
Li Luo pondered for two seconds, then went to the whiteboard and drew a circle on Faker's profile picture.
Once the circle was drawn, Zhu Kai understood it.
faker.
The undisputed first core of this SKT dynasty.
It can be said that the reason why SKT is SKT is because there is a person named faker in the SKT team.
Even though in theory, the relationship between the club and the players is mutually beneficial, this man is an exception.
Given that South Korea pays enough attention to the e-sports industry, one can imagine the status of faker.
But is Faker's state really excellent?
Every professional player has his downturn.
faker is no exception.
However, if Li Luo is to judge, the real downturn in faker's career is actually S9.
Not only in this game, but also in the LCK league dominated by SKT, it is not difficult to see that Faker is now more and more inclined to play the kind of big core who can protect the team in the later stage, rather than playing the line heroes.
Nor is it to play a rhythmic hero.
This is actually a very unfavorable signal for the players personally.
On the surface, the reason why he chooses a core hero is because he believes in Faker's late-game carry ability.
In fact... is there a possibility that at this moment, including Faker, everyone feels that in this version, apart from ensuring their team-playing ability in the later stage, other aspects... are not that good?
Of course, Faker at this time is far from reaching the team's shortcomings, and his career status has just ushered in its own period of fluctuation.
But don't forget, how much water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest piece of wood.
Li Luo didn't say too much, because it was meaningless to say more at this time.
After all, the butterfly effect has already occurred, and Li Luo cannot guarantee 100% whether Faker is hiding or whether SKT is hiding.
What they have to do is to get over the situation in front of them first.
Flash Wolf.
An old rival.
I'm taking the second subject test the day after tomorrow, and I'm still a little panicked. The driver's license is really torturous.
