Chapter 93 Metaphysical Beef Noodles Debut! Scorned by Lightning Wolves
Chapter 93 Metaphysics Beef Noodles, first show! Contempt from Flash Wolf!
MSI's full name is the Mid-Season Championship, which invites the top teams in each division group to participate in the competition.
If you look at the participating lineup, the gold content of MSI is second only to the S competition.
Teams from the five major regions do not need to enter the playoffs, and the same is naturally true for EDG of the LPL.
Therefore, the moment EDG stepped on the plane, the play-in tournament was over.
After the quotas are determined, the six teams participating in the group stage are: EDG, FW, SKT, G2, GAM, and TSM.
…
The plane landed and the EDG team arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil smoothly.
Different from the traditional architectural style in China, Brazil mostly adopts European architectural style.
Moreover, the colors are bright and the style is unique.
This was the first time for Yezi to come abroad. Along the way, his horizons suddenly opened up and it was a worthwhile trip.
Soon, everyone arrived at the place where the team members trained and rested.
These logistical tasks have been arranged by someone a long time ago. Although it is not as good as the domestic base, it is still more than enough to serve as a temporary base.
"Accommodation, board and lodging are all arranged. If you are not used to local food, you can go to a Chinese restaurant to eat."
At this point, Abu paused and reminded: "Of course, it's better not to eat some things indiscriminately."
Several EDG players smiled knowingly.
Meikou whispered to Yezi: "Do you know what you can't eat?"
Isn't it just beef noodles? I already knew it.
With this thought in his mind, Ye Zi remained calm on the surface: "What?"
Meikou said mysteriously: "You don't know this? It's just beef noodles, don't eat it."
"Why?"
"Your senior, who was once an officially certified Shi Yishe, has now entered the factory just because he ate a bowl of beef noodles."
"Ah? So evil?" Ye Zi pretended to be surprised.
At this time, several other EDG players also advised him not to believe in evil, otherwise Nami would be a lesson to him.
Even Abu came over and said seriously: "You must not eat beef noodles!"
"..."
Ye Zi was speechless, you guys are blatantly promoting feudal superstition, you know.
However, there is indeed a metaphysical theory in the e-sports circle.
The team that eliminates the Rat King will win the championship, the team that eliminates the Factory Director will be defeated, the players who eat beef noodles will have crotches, and the team that takes the strawberry first blood will lose the game...
The last one is Guan Zeyuan’s poisonous milk.
Although Yates is an atheist, he will not try beef noodles just to verify metaphysics.
After dinner, it was already getting late, so Abu did not let the team members train any more.
The MSI schedule is tight, so continuing to train will not have much effect. It is better to take this opportunity to let the players adjust their condition and relax.
That night, Abramovich announced the schedule.
The first game is their game, against FW in the LMS division, which is the Flash Wolves team.
"The Flash Wolves team is not much different from us in terms of strength. We need to pay attention to their midfield players, especially the player named Karsa. He has the same style as the factory director and is a jungler who is extremely good at controlling the map.
Of course, we have an advantage in the bottom lane.
Ye Zimei, it depends on your performance to beat Flash Wolves, are you confident?"
"have."
The two of them replied casually.
In fact, they knew how to fight without Abu's instructions.
Flash Wolves and EDG are old rivals, and everyone is familiar with Flash Wolves.
Although Yates is a newcomer, he knows Flash Wolves better than everyone present.
Even so, Yezi had to admit that the current Flash Wolf was at its peak.
Except for mmd, the other members of the Flash Wolves are not weak, especially their midfielders Karsa and Maple.
At this time, Maple had not yet stretched his hips, and he often performed brilliantly in the World Championships.
Needless to say, Casa is still in hot shape until S12.
As for the Flash Wolves bottom lane... In Yezi's opinion, it is an above-average combination, mainly due to Snake's command which adds a lot to the bottom lane.
This Flash Wolf is called the Anti-Korean Qixia, and they often kill LCK teams in bo1.
Therefore, in the eyes of the outside world, playing Flash Wolves at the beginning is a tough battle.
However, this is measured by EDG's previous strength. Now that EDG has Yezi joining, mouse's strength has also improved.
In this way, Flash Wolf is a bit unsightly.
"Let me talk about the competition system now. The group stage competition system is a double round-robin bo1. The top four teams with points advance to the knockout rounds..."
Abu chattered about the schedule, and the players in the audience fell asleep.
After Abu finished reading, he found that all the team members were almost asleep, and his face turned dark.
"Go to your room and sleep. If you don't win well tomorrow, see how I deal with you."
As soon as the words fell, Yezi and others disappeared quickly.
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The next day.
After a night's rest, everyone was in high spirits and in peak condition.
Abramovich took the team members to the competition venue.
"Come on EDG! Come on EDG!"
"Is this God Z? He's so handsome in person."
"Jarhead...is the factory director!"
Even abroad, there are still EDG fans cheering for EDG.
Among them, many foreign girls kept looking at Ye Zi, with fiery and bold looks in their eyes.
Seeing Ye Zi looking over, some even licking their lips with their tongues, people watching felt angry.
"She must be thirsty." Ye Zi thought.
Enter the venue.
It can be seen that Brazil has put a lot of thought into the layout.
However, this venue is almost the same as Wukesong Stadium, or even slightly inferior, which makes Yezi quite disappointed.
Opening ceremony session.
The music started playing, and gongs and drums were played on the stage.
"What the hell, it's so fancy, let's get started!"
On the barrage, the audience had already become impatient and began to spray.
It seems that the voice of the masses has been heard, and the chaotic session finally ended.
Immediately afterwards, EDG members and Flash Wolves members entered the venue respectively.
The host used a strong voice to introduce the team members.
At the same time, posters of both teams also appeared on the big screen.
"Huh?"
At this time, LPL viewers discovered something was wrong.
Usually, EDG posters ask the factory manager to stand in the C position in the center, but now...
"God Z has come to power?"
"Damn it! EDG is trying to cultivate God Z as its core."
"That's reasonable. EDG's new AD is so fierce."
"In this case... God Z can still broadcast live."
I have to say that the audience's eyes are sharp, and they can infer a lot of things from a small position.
After a series of tedious procedures ended, the players on both sides were finally able to enter the contestants' seats.
During this period, the players from both sides glanced at each other.
Yezi's eyes flashed.
He found that the other party had a fierce aura, and the eyes he looked at them were those that clearly looked at the weak.
Maple even twitched the corner of his mouth as if he was disdainful.
His teammates obviously felt it too, and mouse couldn't help but said: "How dare they look down on us with just a few of them?"
Meikou: "They called me daddy when we beat him."
Factory Director: "Everyone, please be serious and let us speak with our strength."
I originally thought that since they were from the same family, they could just fight each other and be done with it, but after this little episode, everyone became more serious.
"Ye Zi, is it okay?"
"Ha." Ye Zi sneered, and then said calmly: "Be careful, let's see if we can get out of the Linglong Tower in the first round."
"Well……"
The teammates were speechless. Even if Flash Wolves were not considered a top echelon team, they were still in the second echelon. Linglong Tower was too much.
However, when they thought about the looks in the eyes of several Flash Wolf members, they also lost their temper.
On the players' bench, players from both sides began to debug the equipment.
…
His eyes came to the commentary box.
Each division has its own commentary.
On the LPL side, there are three people commentating today, namely rita, hallucinogen and remember.
Remember, it goes without saying that Rita is one of the four golden flowers, the chief vase of the commentator, and has outstanding appearance.
Hallucination is the commentator with the highest understanding of the game among the three, and his own game is also at the master level.
It can be seen that the official has put great effort into this MSI debut and arranged a combination of vase + field control + game analysis.
Remember: "Hello everyone, welcome to the match between EDG and Flash Wolves. I am the commentator for this game."
"I'm Rita."
"I'm hallucinogenic."
After introducing themselves, the three of them started chatting.
Remember: "I heard that the Flash Wolves team has been very strong recently. If we face them, EDG needs to be very energetic."
Rita: "Yes."
Hallucination: "Actually, you don't need to worry too much. I have watched both games. The EDG bottom lane duo is obviously stronger than the opponent's bottom lane duo. EDG happens to be a team with bottom lane as its core.
As long as EDG can take advantage of its bottom lane advantage, it will be easy to win the first game."
Remember: "I hope EDG can get off to a good start and have a wonderful debut."
During the explanation, the equipment of both parties was debugged.
BP starts.
In this round, EDG is on the blue side and Flash Wolves are on the red side.
Hallucination: "The winning rate of the blue side is generally higher than that of the red side. We have the upper hand by choosing the side. Let's see what EDG will ban first."
Syndra.
On the screen, Syndra enters the ban position. This is Maple's hero with the highest winning rate.
Immediately afterwards, Flash Wolf banned the male gunner, Karma.
No problem, both heroes are regular banners.
EDG banned the Enchantress Zyra in their second and third moves, and Flash Wolf banned Lulu in their third move.
At this point, the first round of bans is over.
Remember: "Flash Wolves banned two supports in the first round and wanted to target EDG's bottom lane."
Rita: "EDG is best at expanding its advantage from the bottom lane, and Flash Wolves are very smart."
Hallucination: "I should have studied the EDG team. EDG bottom lane is the team with the most soft supports. Now that Karma Lulu is banned, EDG bottom lane needs to consider selecting players and whether to grab supports first."
However, Hallucination was a miscalculation this time.
As soon as he finished speaking, Calista's figure appeared on the screen.
"coming!"
"Z God's signature skate shoes."
"It's outrageous that Flash Wolves dare to release skateboard shoes. No one in the LPL team dares to release them."
Seeing Calista's appearance, the audience began to send comments and were very excited.
In the LPL, Yezi’s Kalista has a saying.
As long as he gets this hero, he can basically penetrate the opponent.
Therefore, Kalista has become his signature hero.
LPL teams will almost never give him this hero.
Now, Flash Wolf has released Kalista. How can the audience not be excited?
I remember laughing and saying: "Flash Wolf didn't do his homework well. Once Kalista released this hand, I think EDG is 80% stable."
"Flash Wolf is too pretentious."
Within the EDG team, several players were also shocked, thinking that there really are people who don't believe in evil and dare to release Ye Zi's OP hero.
But Yates himself knows that it is not the Flash Wolf uniform, but the difference between the competition regions.
Each region has its own unique style of play, and LMS is the same.
The lineup that may be popular in the LPL is completely ignored in the LMS.
After all, different understandings of the game lead to different results.
At this time, Flash Wolf chooses heroes - grasshopper and blind monk.
EDG's second and third-hand choices - Spider, Crocodile, Flash Wolf. Third-hand choice - Verus.
The two sides went back and forth with little pause.
Remember: "Both sides choose their own people and do not interfere with the other party's selection."
Rita: "Yes, judging from the first three choices, the lineups chosen by both sides are relatively good."
"..."
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone was speechless.
Whatever you call it is better? This is not nonsense.
Hallucination: "Both teams are relatively competitive, but EDG felt that they fell into a trap when they picked Kalista."
Falling into a trap?
Everyone was shocked and didn't understand what hallucination meant.
Hallucination didn't sell it, and explained directly: "Kalista's hands are not long, and she is most afraid of encountering a lineup with strong consumption ability. However, Flash Wolf chose Grasshopper and Verus in the bottom lane. These two heroes have long hands.
Not to mention, the consumption ability is also strong..."
At this point, everyone also understood the meaning of hallucination.
Rita frowned and said, "Did Flash Wolf deliberately not ban Kalista and let EDG grab it first?"
"Probably."
I remember thinking about it for a while, and felt that the hallucinogenic theory was more reasonable.
After all, judging from the previous bans, Flash Wolves definitely have research on EDG.
In this case, how could Flash Wolf not know about Yez Kalista's record?
The reason for not banning is naturally because Flash Wolf is confident in dealing with Kalista.
Upon realizing that BP had been tricked, everyone's hearts suddenly sank.
Sure enough, the World Championship is the World Championship, and the intensity is far from comparable to the domestic league. Even BP has so many dramas.
In the EDG team, Nofe looked ugly.
Now he has also realized that he may have fallen into the opponent's BP rhythm.
"Leaf, can you hold on?"
Flash Wolf is obviously coming for the bottom lane, and Nofe is a little worried that Yates will be tricked.
Yezi looked calm: "It's okay, I, Callista, will kill them as I please."
"..."
Nofe thought Yezi was comforting him, but little did he know that this was what Yezi was thinking.
A hero who was only released once in the S7 World Championship would not be worthy of being called the son of the version if he could be countered so easily.
The first round of BP ends and the second round of BP begins.
The second round is much faster than the first round.
Flash Wolf bans Tahm Kench and Wet Nurse first, while EDG bans Keg and Shen.
Immediately afterwards, Flash Wolves chose the hero-Rambo, and EDG chose the hero-Feng Nu and Yanque.
"Nice!" I remember excitedly saying: "EDG has a very good lineup, and these two choices are really the finishing touch."
Qi Huan couldn't help but echoed: "The top two heroes are faster in pushing the lane in the early stage, and they can easily match the skills of the Rock Sparrow. The Spider has a lot of room to do things."
"Look at what Flash Wolf did in the end. If I guessed correctly, they should also be replenishing support heroes."
After saying that, Flash Wolf’s special position locked Ryze.
As expected, he was a support type of hero... Everyone was impressed.
With Ryze locked up, the lineups of both sides were also determined.
EDG, blue square.
Top order:Crocodile
Jungler: Spider
Mid laner: Rockbird
Bottom lane: Kalista
Assistant: Feng Nu
Flash wolf, red square.
Top order: Rambo
Jungler: Blind Sin
Mid laner: Ryze
Bottom lane: Verus
Assistant: Grasshopper
Players change heroes among each other.
After the countdown ends, the game enters the loading state.
The match between EDG and Flash Wolves finally begins!
