Jack excitedly rushed into the training room carrying two big bags.
Vincent also has the same configuration.
"Try this in n out, I heard it tastes pretty good!" He opened the bag, took out the burgers and distributed them to everyone.
The vg training department is preparing to challenge edg tonight - the latter is still fighting hard in the municipal auditorium and will probably have to wait for a while.
They took advantage of the gap to finish the dinner.
Gu Xing originally didn't plan to eat a burger, and was still looking for other food.
"Why do you want to lose weight?" Imp grabbed a hamburger and stuffed it into his mouth, slumping in the chair with a round belly.
Brother Long also looked at Gu Xing curiously, "He's quite well-proportioned, and a little on the thin side."
"If you are overweight and sit for a long time, your lumbar spine is prone to problems," Gu Xing explained simply, "I don't want to suffer from all kinds of diseases at such a young age."
No matter how long your career lasts, how many more years can you play?
He will have to live a normal life from now on.
Boss Ding Jun waved his hand, "It is better for you to eat normally during this World Championship. If you take in too few calories, it will interfere with your competitive state."
Ding Jun is also well-informed in the e-sports industry.
He has seen some players go on a diet in order to lose weight, and their reaction speed and concentration dropped when they finally played.
In Ding Jun's view, Gu Xing is now vg's big treasure, and his performance in the game must not be affected by off-field factors.
"If you want to stay healthy, just eat normally every day and go for a run after training," he came up with an idea. "Young people have a strong metabolism and will not gain weight easily with a little exercise."
Gu Xing was not the kind of person to be stubborn. When the experienced boss made suggestions, he grabbed a double beef cheeseburger from the package.
The portion is very solid. When you bite into it, the hot and tender beef patty will burst with juice. The juice inside is overflowing and spreads wantonly in your mouth. The melted cheese has a unique flavor.
"It tastes good." Vincent felt that it was worth his money to go to the burger restaurant two kilometers away to buy dinner. "No wonder the local colleagues rated it so highly."
Gu Xing clicked on the webpage, preparing to search for live broadcasts of sports events as a pastime while eating. When he heard his words, he casually asked, "Didn't you study in the United States for several years? Have you never eaten before?"
"I'm at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore..." Vincent saw that everyone was confused and knew that it was difficult for everyone to have a clear idea of the location of this place, so he simply changed his words and said, "The east coast of the United States, away from
Washington is relatively close, and there was no burger like this in that place at that time.”
Gu Xing wanted to answer the call again, but was distracted by the live broadcast.
"What's going on?!" He stared at the screen in surprise, "Edg, are you kidding me?"
Mr. Hou, who was sitting next to Gu Xing, was stuffing French fries into his mouth and turned his head to take a look.
Then he almost stuffed French fries up his nostrils.
All members of the vg training department and Vincent came over to join in the fun.
What is being broadcast live is the match between edg and Brazilian wild card intz.
Before the game, all the viewers in the five major divisions believed that this game was without any suspense.
Even Brazilian netizens think so. Their general comments on social media are that if they survive for 30 minutes, they will be successful!
intz did succeed.
It's just that it's too successful.
At the 30th minute of the game, edg was 7,000 gold behind!
A real disadvantage!
Gu Xing once thought that the Riot staff was too arrogant and put the wrong team logos on the two teams from the viewing angle.
Looking at it again, he suddenly had nothing to say.
EDG's top laner Mouse chose Sword Girl and came out, but was chased and beaten by wild card Nal.
Mingkai played a male gun and worked hard in the jungle, allowing the opposing blind monk to set the pace crazily.
Deft+meiko, a recognized strong laning combination in the bottom lane, didn't take advantage of the data. It was probably because they were caught by the opposing blind monk several times.
Only the mid laner Vampire holds the lead in edg!
"No," Ding Jun, even a layman, noticed something was wrong, "Do we need to choose a vampire in this version?"
Anyway, he watched the vg training matches these days and found that the appearance rate of vampires was almost zero.
Gu Xing frowned and guessed, "Edg probably thinks that vampires can beat Syndra..."
Vampire has been severely weakened from the summer split to now. It is currently a character that can be chosen but is not very strong.
But when facing Syndra, who is very popular in the current version, he does have a place to play.
There are so many skills that can be avoided in the w blood pool, and the recovery ability during the laning phase is very strong, so I am not afraid of consumption.
And after the equipment is formed, it will not be difficult for the vampire to catch Syndra who is alone and kill the opponent alone!
Of course, that's what I said.
Teams like vg like to use mid lane vampires in the summer split, and currently have no plans to choose him in the main game.
In the final analysis, Redmi feels that the version is not suitable!
What is popular nowadays is the poke system.
But the teammates selected by the vampire must be matched with control and entry.
Otherwise, if you drive in alone, unless you have a big advantage that can kill the enemy instantly, it will have no effect at all!
For this reason, VG basically abandoned this hero in this World Championship. They have better choices of mages, so there is no need to worry about this point.
"Let me tell you, the choice of the male gunman is really outrageous," manager Lu Wenjun muttered from the side, "I know it's best that he doesn't go out with vampires."
There is no problem with the male jungler gun in terms of hero strength alone.
When all the popular junglers were attacked before the World Championship version, Graves became one of the few survivors.
At the same time, the jungle area is also very easy to defeat the blind monk, and it has certain advantages in the matchup.
When studying the World Championship version at the Shanghai base, Redmi also said that the male spearman is likely to be the popular jungle hero in this global finals!
However, when I arrived in San Francisco and started training with the 6.18 version for real practice.
Only then did I realize how embarrassing the male gunman is in the current environment.
The hero strength is not low.
It just doesn’t fit into the game ecology of the World Championship.
Graves relies heavily on the front row to provide him with output space. When he combines the passive double resistance of a pure man, he will be invincible in team battles!
But so far in the global finals, the number of tanks in the front row is really pitiful!
In a version where everyone is thousands of miles away from each other playing poke, the male spear has no place to use it and can easily be dragged to death by the opponent!
You can say that.
The middle and jungle of the edg vampire + male gun are all characters that do not conform to the current understanding of the vg version!
Even Gu Xing could imagine the embarrassing situation edg faced in the team battle.
If you don’t want to go to me, neither will I.
All waiting for teammates to sell forward first!
"There is a problem with the formation of edg's lineup," Hongmi took a bite of his burger and narrowed his eyes with satisfaction, "The midfielder with vampire + male gun, once the equipment is formed, it will be in a three-piece set, and most of the previous neutral resources will have to be replaced.
Give it to the other side."
"Then why can you choose four cores?" He couldn't understand the brain circuit of EDG head coach Rapid Star. "If you choose four cores for a lineup that is bound to be at a disadvantage in the early stage, good guys, where can you find supplementary growth?"
As we all know, resources in the canyon are limited.
After breaking away from the brutal growth period in the early stages of the competition, entering the sixth season, professional teams have understood it clearly.
Under a balanced situation, the resources in the canyon can provide 2.5 cores for development.
It's basically double C plus one of the singles or jungler.
When choosing a three-core lineup, you must rely on your personal ability to grab food from the opponent, use up the enemy's resources, and use the excess economy to feed the third team core.
Choose quad core?
Or my brain is not working very well.
Or you just don't treat the opponent as a human being and think it's a bad game. You'll win no matter what lineup you choose, there's no difference!
Hongmi felt a sense of superiority, and the more she spoke, the more enthusiastic she became, "The lineup of edg gives me a very contradictory feeling..."
"They subjectively do not regard the Brazilian wild card as a team of the same level as themselves, and use a four-core lineup to prepare for a crushing game with the ultimate advantage."
"But, I just want to be more stable. Choosing vampires and male guns is of no use in the early stage. It can only delay the mid-field combination in the later stage. I want to wait for intz to make mistakes on his own initiative, and then I can defend and counterattack!"
Gu Xing was convinced.
Counting regions like Brazil, the CIS and Vietnam, which have relatively early starts, the players are not weak in terms of their laning strength.
Most of the time they are lacking in basic concepts, and the operational details including line switching are too rough.
Often you gain a little advantage through fierce attacks in the early stage, but when you leave the laning stage, you lose the lead in the blink of an eye!
Especially in terms of post-processing, there is a huge difference between the wild cards and several competition areas, and there is a huge gap that is difficult to bridge!
From this point of view, it is understandable that edg wants to delay the game. After all, professional players only want to win, and spectatorship is not the first priority.
But as Redmi analyzed, the edg lineup feels very awkward.
I want to have a quick pig-killing game, and I plan to choose a four-core lineup to play a hearty offense, get a good start, boost the team's morale, and reassure the fans.
Halfway through the selection process, I felt terrified, fearing that I would lose to the wild card and be scolded by the domestic audience, so I quickly picked up a guaranteed late-game hero to gain a firm hand.
The result was such a strange and outrageous lineup!
“The choice of intz is much clearer,” said Hongmi, who was very satisfied with Brazil’s wild card lineup. “The midfielder got the powerful hero of Syndra + Lee Sin, and the bottom lane was the Freljord combination of Ice and Braum.
"
"Although Braum, as a protective support, is not very strong in the current version, the control he provides makes intz's early small-scale team battles very threatening. It is very suitable for wild cards to punch to death in the world championship.
The old master’s way of playing…”
Only when he said this did he realize something was wrong, "How on earth did EDG make his BP a mess and at the same time allow INtz to get such a satisfactory lineup?"
"I think this economic disadvantage is acceptable," Gu Xing tried his best to make up for the friendly brothers in the same competition area. "The equipment of the vampire is good. When the factory director's male gun reaches level 13, we can try to take over the group with the equipment."
…”
For the current version of the male gun, level 13 is an exaggerated improvement.
Although it can't keep up with the qualitative change of the captain.
However, each layer of pure men provides 30 points of double resistance. In terms of attributes alone, if you stack 4 layers, you will get 120 armor and magic resistance, which is not inferior to ordinary tanks, so that the male gun has the ability of most jungle heroes.
Unparalleled terrifying mid- to late-stage growth ability!
There is a difference of 7000 economy. If intz makes a mistake, edg may still come back.
Gu Xing just finished speaking.
Intz's shooter Ai Xi suddenly shot r [Magic Crystal Arrow], aiming directly at the male gun in the EDG Sharp Beak Camp!
Ming Kai was obviously panicked.
He took a step back and hid in the grass nearby.
But compared to Crystal Arrow, he ran backwards in a daze.
In the end, not only was he hit by the magic crystal arrow, but the distance was further extended, which extended the stun time!
The intz blind monk flew out of the sky sound wave and hit the factory director.
Although Mingkai immediately dodged to escape after getting rid of his stun, he was slowed down by Braum's Q [Winter's Bite] and his pace was very slow.
The blind monk closed the distance and kicked the male spear into his own formation with a flash of r!
Ming Kai was melted instantly!
Even though the remaining four members of edg tried their best, they still couldn't win the team battle with less and more.
"Ah..." Gu Xing didn't even know if he had given up on EDG, "Isn't the jungler on the other side also a fan of Ming Kai? Why do I feel that the place where the roundhouse kick is happening is so familiar?"
Imp immediately slapped his thigh with joy, and the fleshy texture bounced up and down, "Sing Gu, is this what you call Invincible in the EDG training match? Invincible, please stretch your crotch!"
Intz got the decisive big dragon, which already announced that the balance of victory was completely tilted!
In the follow-up, edg couldn't find any comeback points. Only one vampire in the four-core lineup was developed, and the rest of the players had mediocre equipment. The game completely entered garbage time.
Intz defeated edg again. When advancing to the base, the five players under the camera smiled and flashed their team logos!
This is a new feature launched in last year’s World Championship.
The official has put all the team logos and avatars of the clubs participating in the current S-match on sale in the mall. As long as the player brings the avatar, the corresponding team logo can be manually lit up in the game.
It can also be regarded as adding a different kind of fun to Summoner's Rift during the World Championship.
"Edg Nicole is so awesome," Xiao Duan was dumbfounded, "How dare the Brazilian wild card lose?"
Brother Long began to recall history, "This seems to be the first time lpl has lost to a wild card in the World Championship..."
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a shame to be ravaged by the Brazilian wild card.
Gu Xingze was thinking about more practical issues. He swallowed the burger in his mouth, "Hongmi, can we still have a date with Edg tonight?"
Homme said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Yeah, it's impossible for EDG to start giving up on itself after losing a wild card game, right?"
If there is no way to qualify in the LPL lottery that is recognized as the best before the game, the EDG players and the club will become the target of ridicule among domestic netizens!
Players' careers will also be stained with indelible black spots!
No matter which aspect you consider, edg has reasons to work hard.
Gu Xing took it seriously and showed his best to prepare to fight edg in 50 training games in one night.
Unexpectedly, in the first game, the opponent was crushed to pieces by vg!
Fifteen minutes into the training match, Redmi stopped the game and sent a message to Quick Star to start another set.
vg improved a lot in the second set.
They lasted for 22 minutes, and Dalongkeng was defeated by EDG!
"I'm a good boy..." Gu Shengbin's expression changed, and he no longer looked as proud as when he was laughing at Edg's invincible crotch pull, "What's the matter?"
Imp, who suffered two consecutive defeats, was puzzled.
Gu Xing and other teammates looked at each other.
Xiao Duan poured Fanta into his mouth and couldn't help but laugh at himself, "Now I wonder if we are too weak, not even as good as Brazil's wild card."
Hearing this, Gu Xing comforted him, "It's okay. The Tigers and SKT will only have a 50-50 draw against EDG. After all, LCK's No. 1 and 2 seeds can't beat the wild card!"
The girl from the world laughed and interjected next to her, "At the end of the five major competitions, all the colors have been drawn. This year, the Brazilian team will win the championship. Who is in favor and who is against it?"
Hongmi simply reviewed the game and corrected all the mistakes made by the players.
Then they looked at the BP of the first two training games, frowning and lost in thought.
Recalling the match between edg and intz again, he had a vague guess in his mind.
But based on these two games alone, Hongmi did not dare to make a conclusion, "Let's try a few more games."
vg status has improved somewhat.
The last three games dragged on until the Ancient Dragon team battle failed, but unfortunately they lost. They won a hard-fought game in 44 minutes and 30 seconds, and defeated edg in the last laning period!
Now the originally serious and dull atmosphere in the simple training room finally became lively.
Ding Jun also chatted and laughed, chatting with Gu Xing about the operations in the game just now.
Hongmi let out a long sigh of relief.
"Brother Yufan, brother Yufan, you are really good at being a man in 1984..." There was a hint of ridicule in his tone.
He got up and turned on the official projector, and retrieved all the videos of tonight's five training games.
Hongmi clapped her hands to attract the team members' attention.
He concluded first, "From today on, we will suspend all training matches with edg."
"Ah?!" All the team members were overwhelmed by the news announced by their coach.
"Because it doesn't make any sense," Hongmi picked up the laser pointer and pointed at the curtain, "look carefully at the bp of edg."
The screen shows the hero ban and selection status of edg in the past five games.
From top to bottom, neatly.
Gu Xing thought about it in his mind for a moment, and gradually figured out something was wrong.
Mr. Hou's mind also works very fast, "They seem to be using the old version of the lineup to play training games. At least the main structure is like this, but some characters have been slightly adjusted..."
"That's right!" Hongmi snapped her fingers.
The team members were whispering to each other.
Gu Xingjiu lay back on the chair.
easyhoon's ideas coincided with his.
"Originally, when we played each training game, it didn't feel so obvious," Brother Long also reacted. "After looking at the BP together, I realized that this is really the case!"
"Wairui," Jack said, "You can still play training matches like this. Is there any serious illness?"
Hongmi’s voice was loud, “EDG chose a bunch of powerful heroes from the final version of the 6.15 Summer Split, and treated the World Championship training as a playoff game!”
He explained to the players, "In this way, we can understand why edg is so strong in training matches..."
"Can I choose the lineup for the playoffs now? Of course I can, but the upper and lower limits will change!"
Hongmi said eloquently, "For example, if you take a mid-lane vampire version of a hero during the summer split, the strength of your lineup will be 100 points."
"But when the 6.18 World Championship patch comes online, as the version changes, this lineup only has 75 points," he tried to make everyone understand his description, "but edg has been practicing for a long time and has been using it during this period. Can
Perfect performance to reach the upper limit of 75 points!"
"And we and other teams are trying their best to adapt to the version of the S game, which is a full-scoring lineup."
Hong Mi took a sip of saliva to moisten his throat, "But because of the first glimpse of the door, everyone's hero proficiency and understanding have not been improved to the final form. Even if they get a full score lineup, they can only perform 60 points at first. With the normal training
Over time, we will eventually evolve to reach the upper limit of 100 points..."
"We are just getting started now, and if we want to score, it will be about 60 or 70 points, but EDG comes to the battle with a well-understood and mature lineup, so the intensity is naturally much higher!"
Hongmi glanced at everyone present, "Everyone has not noticed that the overall performance of edg is getting better and better. It is because our version understanding and proficiency are constantly moving forward. edg continues to practice the summer split lineup, which is quite good.
Stay where you are!"
Gu Xing wanted to understand the reason, and suddenly he didn't panic anymore. "The edg coaching staff are really talented. Isn't the training game just for finding answers to the version and slowly getting used to it? I worry about summer game understanding every day, but there is no effect from practice at all."
Goo Shengbin was unceremonious, "The outcome of the training match does not affect the official match, so why do EDG just want to win? Stay in the comfort zone... that's the word, stay in it and don't come out, so that you can show your outstanding talents in the main match."
Strange!"
He learned a lot of new Chinese vocabulary from his good brother Yu Wenbo, and now the context of using it is quite appropriate.
"Ignore them," Hongmi saw through edg's lie about being invincible in training matches. He was upset during the day and now he is relaxed and happy. "The other party has made up its mind to play training matches like this. I guess they won't be able to persuade them to come back. Let's just not make an appointment with edg."
Just fight."
"They lost to intz today, and there are already signs that something is wrong. The BP is too poor, and the strength of the lineup is not high. To reach 75 points, the players have to go all out to perform perfectly. It's a pity that clearlove was in really bad shape in that game.
It’s very sluggish.”
Gu Xing agreed with Hongmi very much.
After the edg game ended, the official broadcast the highlight moments of the first half of the game.
He discovered that Mingkai was not only kicked once but also made many low-level mistakes throughout the game!
The condition is simply too bad to even look at.
"If this continues, edg may not be able to qualify..." Hongmi signaled the players to move freely and start the qualifying match, "Let's not talk about them anymore. You practice heroes first, and I will go to Brother Yufan to settle the score!"
He had five matches with EDG and both saw each other's weaknesses.
There’s no reason why Samsung head coach Edgar didn’t realize it!
The other party also insisted that edg's training matches were particularly fierce, and it was clear that they were trying to dig a hole for themselves!
Hongmi couldn't swallow this breath and had to go to Big Brother for an explanation.
Not long after, he returned to the training room with a smile on his face again.
It's just that Gu Xing always felt that there seemed to be some despicable conspiracy in Hongmi's smile.
After a day of training, I went downstairs and ran around the hotel twice before going back to the room to wash up and rest.
When Gu Xing got up at noon, seeing that there was still an hour before the meeting, he simply looked at his mobile phone in bed.
Yesterday, he asked Hongmi to ask the coach to help him review the first game, which wasted a lot of time and caused him to miss his daily phone call with Shen Guanshan.
When Gu Xing found some free time, his girlfriend went to attend evening classes again, and the two of them happened to miss each other.
This is what long distance love looks like.
However, Shen Guanshan sent several voice messages, congratulating him on easily winning his first World Championship victory.
After listening to his girlfriend's clear voice, Gu Xing ran to the anti-stress bar in excitement to watch the excitement.
He originally wanted to see how his friends in the bar boasted about him.
As a result, it was all edg!
[Brazilian wild cards can lose, piggy, don’t pretend to be dead, hurry up and speak out!]
[Edg is really shameless. The factory director still uses a male gun. Can you understand that hero? He was beaten by the wild card blind monk from the opposite side! 】
[The case has been solved. Intz jungler said that the factory director is his idol. Ming Kai has been beaten up by fans not once or twice. Xiao Gu is a lesson learned from the past. Can it be done by Sister Li?]
[I suggest you swim back to China directly from San Francisco instead of going to Chicago to play in the quarterfinals. Are you worthy?]
The LPL division lost to a wild card in the World Championship for the first time, which was indeed difficult for many domestic netizens to accept.
Moreover, the traffic of the edg team is higher than that of the current vg. After losing the game, it directly caused a riot on the forum. Netizens were all discussing how good edg was, and why they were defeated by the Brazilian wild card in this way.
Gu Xing searched for a long time before he found a post in the nook and cranny that ported the European and American reddit forum.
He thought that there should be some post-match comments about vg's game against g2, so he clicked on it.
as expected.
The netizens there are not only praising tsm, but also belittling the European region.
This humiliating defeat of g2 has become the biggest topic in the European e-sports community these two days.
Kangba Porter also attached a translation by Xin Daya.
[What level is Eu now? You are playing tricks and everything in the jungle. Can he play? He can’t play. He doesn’t have the ability. Do you know? 】
[I was beaten to the tune of 50, Hong Guang, in San Francisco. How can you explain it to me?]
[The jungler was pressured by the opponent by 100 dollars, and the economy difference was 7777. Thanks to g2 for letting me see "The Jungle Difference". If it weren't for them, I really didn't know that the gap between professional players could be so big! 】
[How will g2 qualify now? If they lose to skt today, they will give warmth to c9 tomorrow, and no one will lose next time]
Most of the comments were on Whip Corpse G2, and Gu Xing saw a few replies praising his brutal invasion style.
This made him satisfied.
European and American audiences didn't know me well before, so it's reasonable for the popularity to be low.
Today Gu Xing plans to strike while the iron is hot.
Let’s crush c9 first, so that European and American audiences can have a deeper impression of the ID ‘virtue’!
…
"Welcome to the live broadcast of the second match day of the 2016 Global Finals!"
The commentator's voice was full of enthusiasm, "Hello everyone, I remember!"
His partner is a bland and drowsy hallucination.
"Yesterday, the three groups of acd played six games, and the qualifying situation has begun to take shape..."
The director will give the score status.
There was another match between SKT and C9 in Group A yesterday. In the battle between the two generations of SKT top laners, Duke had a slight advantage, but the bottom lane was completely defeated by Wolf's Karma.
In the end, SKT ended the battle in 33 minutes and won its first victory in the group stage.
In contrast, there are no popular teams in Group C, and the ratings have dropped a lot.
Samsung defeated the Flash Wolves. The bo1 anti-Korean Qixia could not make much trouble in front of the experienced leader An. The three armies bulldozed the FW base in less than 30 minutes!
h2k won the CIS foreign card anx, which can be regarded as regaining some face for Europe on the first match day.
However, anx is very resilient and fought back and forth with his opponents during this period.
If the final handling wasn't too rough and Jankos snatched the baron, the outcome would have been uncertain!
"Today's first game will be played by two teams from Group A. The two teams are c9 from North America and vg from our lpl division!" I remember that I have been working in mainland China for half a year, and I have adapted to various titles very quickly.
"Yes, let's see if vg can get another victory today," Qi Huan said slowly, "If they beat c9, their qualifying situation will be bright!"
Before the two of them could say anything more, they saw the BP picture displayed on the big screen at the scene!
"vg is still on the blue side in this game, they sent Syndra to the ban position first!"
c9 responds without thinking.
"Nidalee has been blocked!" I remember her face burst into laughter, "It seems that Gu's violent beating of g2 in the last game still made c9 quite afraid!"
Gu Xing, who was sitting at the contestants' table, looked distraught.
He knows that Leopard Girl is a supermodel hero in this world championship.
To be honest, even if you don't show any tricks in the game, your opponent on the red side will ban it later.
Hongmi was pacing behind with a black notebook in her arms, "Let's block the policewoman. The opponent is very good at it, so there's no need to make it difficult."
C9 shooter sneaky is also Caitlin's unique skill, and she is quite famous in North America.
Homme doesn't want to give imp a choice in this game - the policewoman is still the main system, which kind of kidnaps the BP, and the error tolerance rate is not high.
After thinking about it, I just pressed it.
"C9's second move was to block Zyra, who had performed well in the previous game... It seems like they want to take Karma?" Hallucination thought for a moment before making a judgment.
Zyra and Karma are currently the two most powerful supports.
Moreover, the former completely beats the latter in terms of skill mechanism and pure laning strength.
Redmi finally blocked the impact of Kennen to prevent the opponent from threatening the vg back row with a character with excellent teamfight bursting and strong opening abilities.
C9 disables ice to prevent imp from using Ashe to constantly provide jungle information to Gu Xing Sheyingling.
"Look at vg's grab..."
A muscular man with a thick beard and a fierce appearance appears in the selection box on the first floor of vg.