Although the Korean media has been hurt countless times, they are still sparing no effort to promote their team in the current Asian competition.
Various promotional videos are being played overwhelmingly on the big screens in major shopping malls and even landmark buildings in Seoul.
The gimmicks are undoubtedly full.
And Korean audiences are also looking forward to it.
Facts have proved that the more people lose, the more they miss the time they once had, and the more they look forward to the future.
The situation here in the country is exactly the opposite.
Media people in the circle also communicate with the players on weekdays.
Whether the players are under a lot of pressure or not, they still know some of the real situation.
In order to relieve the pressure on domestic players, official explanations have come out one after another to express the seriousness of the situation, which can be regarded as an early vaccination for the audience.
However, the effect does not seem to be very obvious.
Faced with the overwhelming praise from Korean media, the irritable old man in China naturally began to circumvent the wall to confront him.
Especially after the recent bans of the four teams participating in the LPL were reported to China, countless netizens began to abuse the Universe Kingdom overwhelmingly.
Koreans have long been accustomed to this, and they seem to be accustomed to using some strange off-field methods in competitive events.
If it weren't for the fact that e-sports is too sensitive and manipulation is too easy to detect, they would even want to make some small moves on the field.
Seven days after the passionate online battle between the two countries, the Asian competition, also known as the intercontinental competition, officially started.
The LMS division and Vietnam division, who had been watching the show for a long time, also began to think about their own little thoughts.
Their goals for participating in this event are different from those of LPL and LCK.
Although soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, as a professional player, it is necessary to recognize the gap.
The current situation in the LMS division actually no longer allows them to stay in the first tier of the five major leagues.
Although North America also participates in the World Championships as experience babies every year, they have money and are not bad.
The LMS competition area really has no money and not enough player resources. I want to hire some foreign aid... but there is a big Buddha like the LPL in front of me.
The vast majority of those in the LCK who are willing to play foreign players are divided among the three major regions: LPL, Europe, and North America.
In the end, the ones left are basically the ones that are not wanted by the three major regions, and then it’s LMS’s turn.
They were helpless about this, but had no choice.
These days, if you have money, you will be rich.
Therefore, the best players that can be bought in the LMS division are only substitutes for the second-tier LCK teams.
Coupled with the loss of local players and the lack of new generation players, the LMS region has naturally become increasingly shabby.
On the contrary, the development in Vietnam has been very good in the past two years.
The LMS competition area is bound to the VCS competition area this time. Two teams from each of the two competition areas will participate in this Asian competition. Therefore, a total of twelve teams will participate in this intercontinental competition.
The points from their two divisions are also calculated together.
It’s just that Riot has almost never considered the possibility that they can win the LPL and LCK divisions and qualify.
To be precise, they themselves have never considered it.
Therefore, for the teams from the two divisions, their goal this time is to try to get a piece of meat from the teams from the two divisions.
Even though they are weak, they can affect the ranking situation of the strong ones!
This is the thinking of the two fringe division teams.
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First day of competition.
During the Intercontinental Championship, the small venue was buzzing with people.
More than 95% of the visitors are fans of Korean teams.
It’s even more exaggerated than the ratio of home games in the World Championships.
Only a few domestic fans arrived to watch, but a considerable number of these domestic fans did not choose to watch the game together as a group. Instead, they dispersed and were introduced to the fan base of the Korean team.
Just kidding, Koreans have been holding this in for a long time. If they really get hit with a stick that they can't afford because of their efforts, it will be a bit more than worth the gain.
In the official LPL live broadcast room, there were also scenes of players from major teams arriving at the scene and heading to the lounge.
In the picture, the players in the LPL division all have indifferent faces.
Even the expressions on the faces of players such as doinb and Shengqiang who like to be funny on weekdays are stagnant.
Seeing this situation, the viewers in the live broadcast room thought of the Korean server environment that was exposed a few days ago, and some people began to understand it one after another.
Today...the LPL division is full of anger!
The schedule below also tells viewers who will be playing today.
The format arrangement of the intercontinental competition seems a bit sloppy.
For example, on the first day, only two teams participated in the three games in the LPL division.
Jingdong team will play two games.
They have to face the No. 1 seed DAL in the Vietnam Division and Griffin in the LCK Division respectively.
As for the other team participating, it is TOP.
Top will face EVS, the second seed in the Vietnam Division.
The EVS team looked a little unhappy after seeing today's schedule.
According to their ideas, they all hope that the brothers' team will go and have a sample first, so as to give them some psychological preparation.
It's good now, they are the ones making the samples.
Because they also have to face DWG in the LCK division.
In contrast, there are three teams competing in the LCK division.
In the opening match, SKT faced off against FW Flash Wolves.
DWG played EVS, and Griffin played against JD.com.
The focus of the first day's battle can already be seen clearly from the schedule.
For the JD team, this is undoubtedly a huge challenge.
The reason why the schedule of this intercontinental competition is arranged in this way is that South Korea also has their own little thoughts.
The upper limit of the JD team is limited, and although the lower limit is relatively high, the tactical system that JD likes to play the most is the Korean-style operation that they are best at in the LCK.
Use Korean operations to deal with Korean operations. South Korea simply shouldn’t be too confident in this regard.
According to LCK's thinking, they must get off to a good start today and dampen the momentum of the LPL division first.
Even if someone is careful about this kind of home game schedule, no one will say anything about it. As long as the convenience is not too much, it will usually not be taken out as a very serious matter and targeted.
criticism.
Besides, to put it another way, what would happen even if they were really criticized.
Anyway, I've already gotten used to it.
The four teams represented by the LPL came to the officially arranged backstage lounge. The lounge didn't look big, it could even be said to be a bit small. Apart from a not-so-large Samsung monitor for them to watch the live broadcast of the event, there were just some chairs.
It already seemed a bit crowded with the players sitting together.
Fortunately, LPL players have already anticipated this. What they need to do first is to see what the strength and status of the teams in the LCK division are like.
The opening battle kicked off amidst the screams and cheers of countless fans present.
SKT faced their old rival, Flash Wolves.
Back in those days, the Flash Wolves were a team that could often take a bite out of SKT.
However, times have changed, and today’s Flash Wolf is no longer what it used to be.
SKT has very steadily come up with a lineup that is relatively popular in the current version.
As the version progresses, the current version actually does not have many changes compared to the beginning of the summer split.
Cats have become a must-choose hero. However, in the professional arena, Yinzeril is usually used to match cats to go down the lane. There are relatively few teams using Wheel Mom. After all, there is a threshold for this thing. Wheel Mom pushes the lane.
Although his ability is good, his hands are not long, and there is no movement. Once he and the cat are targeted in the early stage, it is very likely that he will not be able to capture the line of soldiers.
Yin Zerel is different.
As the son who resists pressure in the previous versions, Yin Zeruil and the cat are simply a perfect match.
With its own flexible characteristics, it is very difficult to put Yin Zairui in jail. Even if he pushes the line under the defense tower and calls for jungle to prepare for overcoming the tower, as long as Yin Zairui can notice it and retreat in advance, it is almost impossible.
It is unlikely to be caught and killed.
And it doesn't matter even if the development of this thing is a little poor in the early stage. In the early small-scale team battles, Yin Zeriel can do some damage as long as there is a shine.
LCK's Yin Zeriel has unique skills all over the place, so the FW team is very careful to press the cat.
This played into the hands of coach Kkoma. The SKT team on the red side directly took out the double rush combination of Sylas and Akali.
This version of Sylas can take on the jungle position.
The appearance of Sylas will definitely make Flash Wolf consider the possibility of his ultimate being stolen when choosing a hero.
If you think too much, the selected lineup will easily appear to be completely different.
In the end, Flash Wolves chose a lineup that was not very strong in the early game, but not very strong in the mid-to-late game. The SKT team managed it for 26 minutes, and the game was lost with a wave of speed.
"It is no longer possible for the Flash Wolves to compete with SKT."
Seeing this, Xiangguo sighed slightly.
At the same time, he was also a little sad.
The most critical core of Flash Wolves was Kasa.
Although Xiangguo has a good relationship with Casa, judging from the results, Casa is indeed the one who pushed him out of RNG's starting lineup.
Compared to him, a gambling monster, RNG's management obviously prefers a version of top student like Casa.
"This year's LMS and VCS regions feel like they are going to have their heads shaved off. I have watched the DWG team's games. On the surface, their team seems to be the core of ad, but in fact the real core is the midfielder. The showmaker and the jungler work well together.
Okay, it’s a bit overwhelming.”
Zoom said while leaning on his chin.
The next game is a showdown between DWG and Vietnam's second seed.
The organizer used this method of continuous competition between its own teams to completely mobilize the enthusiasm of the audience.
As the LPL players discussed in the backstage lounge, the second game also began.
The result is just as zoom said.
Although Vietnam's second-seeded team EVS performed very tenaciously in the process, the commentator even once shouted "Is there a chance this will have a chance?"
But in the eyes of professional players, the reason why the wave came back was simply because the DWG team played too relaxedly.
With the insurmountable strength gap between the two sides, there is no problem for DWG to occasionally wave twice.
"EVS is only their second seed. The first seed should be stronger. You should be careful later."
On the Thorn Bird side, Li Luo suddenly spoke.
JD.com is the most stable team.
But this stability is brought by Redmi, not the players.
This can be seen from the superficial status of several people on JD.com today.
The zoom side of the order seems more relaxed.
Jungler Xiaofu is the complete opposite. He seemed a little excited and nervous when he came to the world stage for the first time. Even though they were only facing teams from the Vietnam Division, Xiaofu did not have the relaxed attitude that a strong LPL team should have.
Toothpaste looks...
Seems a little sleepy?
As for imp, he simply has no energy. During this period of the LPL region's collective training, imp did not have much time to go to the bar to drink. This will also be slightly affected mentally for a person who has made drinking a habit.
Fortunately, the support player's green hair looks relatively normal.
When the four LPL teams trained together this time, Zhu Kai did not become the core coach of the division representatives like Kkoma.
Zhu Kai also knows that his business ability is not the strongest among the four coaches.
However, Li Luo's presence has allowed the four LPL teams to live together in harmony, and everyone is quite convinced of Li Luo.
Therefore, after Li Luo said these words, everyone in the Jingdong team obviously seemed to be a little more energetic.
Seeing this situation, Li Luo withdrew his gaze.
Anyway, on the surface, at least they listened to what they said.
Not long after, it was the battle between JD.com and the No. 1 seed in the Vietnam Division.
Redmi has always been reassuring when facing weak teams.
His BP is still so stable.
Especially when Hongmi selected Zuo Yin for Toothpaste in the middle, Li Luo suddenly understood.
This one is available.
Facts have proved that the JD team’s lack of experience was exposed in the first game of this intercontinental competition.
In the early days, JD.com and the No. 1 seed in the Vietnam Division had a back-and-forth fight.
Except for the toothpaste road, there are casualties on other roads.
Although the situation is like this, the players in the backstage lounge already understand that this one is probably won.
Only eight minutes into the game, the two sides had a head count of 3 to 5. JD.com, a team focused on operations, suddenly started to play at the pace of a fighting team.
This was all forced out.
The Vietnamese division's play style is very chaotic, but extremely aggressive.
Under their frequent aggression, JD.com would initially consider whether to give it up, but as the Vietnamese team stepped on their noses, JD.com couldn't bear it anymore.
Eight minutes of toothpaste holding three heads.
And these three heads also successfully helped Toothpaste directly create his first piece of equipment, Luden, in only about ten minutes of the game.
With Luden, Toothpaste completely turned this game into his own personal show.
There are a lot of famous scenes in this game where the flying star flashes to predict the opponent's position.
The wonderful performance of toothpaste also surprised JD.com fans.
If the only person they didn't think about before the game was who might be able to carry the game, it was probably Toothpaste.
However, today’s toothpastes are surprisingly good.
LPL first battle won!
However, just as he won the first game of the LPL, Griffin's official Twitter commented on the game with a wagging finger emoji.
