Since the tactical needs have been properly arranged, Gu Xing has the leisure to browse the counter bar during the training break before the second round of competition.
The popular post at the top is concise and concise: {The first round of the group stage is over. VG currently ranks second in Group C with 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 loss. EDG in Group B ranks tied for second with 1 win and 2 losses. What do you think?}
Guodian's results in the first round of the group stage were not ideal.
On the last day of the first round of the group stage, EDG faced off against the European e-sports giant FNC.
I don’t know if it really has the power of bloodline restraint. Compared with the S5 World Championship, both teams have replaced most of their players, but FNC can win.
Caps, who has high hopes from the European audience, finally fulfilled his talent and killed everyone in the middle. With Syndra, he suppressed the younger brother while also taking time to radiate the jungle.
It is worth mentioning that Mingkai is in good shape in this year's World Championship. He probably really wants to prove his strength in front of his hometown elders in Wuhan. With the version blessing and top level of competition, he can play platoon with Cuzz with his excavator.
It’s like a ranked match, and you’re at home in the jungle!
However, it is difficult for him to defeat four hands with two fists, and he cannot stand up to the two FNC midfielders and junglers on his own.
After helping the team gain an advantage in the early stage, Guijiaoqi was blocked from all routes, making it difficult to make any further achievements.
In the end, the balance of power between the two sides entered the mid-term, and Guodian began to pull its hips at the speed of light.
After the arrival of coach Nofe this year, he helped EDG clarify its early offensive ideas, but Guodian is like a Pokémon, if you learn a new trick, you will forget the last one.
EDG was able to achieve results in the first place because of its superb operations.
The early attack is now sharper than before, but the mid-to-late stage operations are much worse than before.
FNC seized on the flaw and opened the wound, successfully giving Guodian another defeat!
However, despite this, EDG, which had 1 win and 2 losses in the first round, was still tied for second place.
The root cause is that our third team AHQ crushed FNC and helped Big Brother take revenge!
The result was that SKT came out on top in Group B, leading the way with three consecutive wins. The other three teams had wins and losses with each other, all starting with 1 win and 2 losses.
Gu Xing scrolled through the comments below the post.
[VG should be safe in qualifying for the top spot in the group. Can EDG be able to stand up? I don’t want to see a civil war in the top eight!]
[Guodian is the most powerful among them. If they can’t defeat FNC, they might not even be able to qualify in the group... EDG won’t be eliminated in the top 16 of the factory, right? 】
[Isn’t this great? Mingkai can take the subway home and save money on air tickets]
[If it’s difficult to send something to a different place, why don’t you also send it to your home country? Don’t!]
[Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yeah, yeah, yeah, that's really miserable. In all three games, I had an early advantage, but my teammates were screwed to death and couldn't help at all.]
[Isn’t this deserved? You’ve completely forgotten how Mingkai cheated his teammates last year, right? It’s just retribution! Let you Guijiaoqi experience the feeling of not being able to lead the team]
[I really feel that it is difficult for Guodian to qualify. Mingkai doesn’t know how to play EZ at all. What should we do in the second round of the group stage? 】
Guodian has attracted quite a lot of attention recently, and most of the posts are discussing EDG’s qualification.
Mainly because the performance of the other two teams in the same division was too normal.
Even though VG almost overturned when facing GAM, the painful attack against Samsung made the maggot babies feel relieved and thought it was just an accident.
Although RNG also stumbled and made a difficult comeback to defeat RED, and the team's top star Uzi performed very mediocrely, and was arrested again by the second level, which really created a topic for the black fans.
However, fans’ words are simple and straightforward – just ask if you won!
As for losing to G2... that's not a big deal. Before the game, RNG, the third seed in the LPL, was generally not optimistic that it could defeat the European Galaxy Battleship.
After the game, the day's ridicule was over.
Only Guodian, with one win and two losses, the situation of qualifying is still unclear, leaving a 10,000-yuan economic lead that was overturned by SKT, triggering heated discussions among netizens.
Gu Xing carefully observed public opinion and found that most maggot babies were not optimistic about EDG.
Putting aside the reason of always looking down on Piggy, everyone analyzed it from a rational perspective and felt that it would be difficult for EDG to qualify.
Guijiaoqi really doesn’t know EZ, and he hasn’t practiced it yet!
Someone who was interested pulled out Mingkai's Canyon Top account and found that he had played a game of Xiaohuang Mao since the EZ jungle became popular, and then forgot about it.
This made netizens very dissatisfied.
If you don’t know how to play the powerful EZ jungler, are you going to use your wall-breaking excavator until death?
Although the race knights were tortured to death by Brother Xing using EZ in the first round, they have now reached the stage of "join if you can't beat them". One practice at the top of the canyon is like a page full of little yellow hair!
Look, this is what you call a professional player!
Netizens were dissatisfied with Mingkai's undisciplined temperament.
Even Master An, who also specializes in herbivorous jungle, has played a few EZs now!
No matter whether I can finally practice it or not, at least my attitude is here!
You don’t know how to use powerful heroes in the version, but you still want to qualify in the group?
wishful thinking!
Gu Xing couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the comments and speculations from netizens.
EZ jungler is too deceptive and has deceived quite a few viewers.
Among them are the reasons why he took the initiative to bury himself in the pit, and also the help from teams such as Samsung and Longzhu.
Of course, it is also inseparable from GAM.
A strange combination of circumstances almost overthrew VG, which made EZ jungle's popularity reach its peak!
It must be said that some of Que's viewers have a good understanding of the game and identify the EZ jungler as a pure super soldier at a glance.
Gu Xing often watches videos to study his opponents, and found that they stated in the comment area below the S game replay video that the EZ jungler's gameplay is too tightrope and is not suitable for the professional arena.
But the reply below is extremely true.
[You are really awesome. You can show your understanding in front of professional brothers. Don’t other people’s teams understand better than you? 】
[Brother, you’re here? Oh, yes, it’s not easy to use EZ as a jungler. Then GAM almost overturned VG. SSG directly banned Xiao Huangmao on VG’s blue side. Xiao Peanut used EZ to win the game in Group D.
How to say?】
[If someone is like this, they must be unique and do something special]
[I don’t understand. It is used from the top of the canyon to the high-end games of Korean server and then to the professional arena. E+ shows that the ban rate of Xiao Huang is 16.7%, the selection rate is 41.7%, and the winning rate is 80%. Are there still people who look down on EZ? 】
Gu Xing was stunned when he saw these replies.
It can only be said that the strategy he adopted was very successful.
The herd mentality is human nature.
Many professional players cannot help but follow the crowd, let alone players!
Every day, UP owners look for heroes and equipment solutions used by high-end professional players in the Korean server to make videos, giving ordinary players who have no access to high-level players a new understanding of the version in a timely manner.
To be fair, some routines are not very easy to use, so the players are doing some scientific research and trying them out.
However, some players still enjoy using it in their own segment, and regard professional players' equipment research as a guideline, which proves that many people have no opinions in this regard.
That's okay, Sister Li. After all, playing games is just Tu Yile's pastime. I didn't spend much time studying it. It's reasonable and reasonable to follow the professional brother's understanding.
Now netizens have fallen into a misunderstanding.
I think that with so many professional guys choosing EZ on the field, the hero strength is definitely high enough!
They never imagined that this was actually a thick barrier erected by a group of Chinese and Korean professional teams to exclude teams whose coaching staff were not high enough and whose willpower was not strong enough!
Gu Xing felt happy as he hummed the song. He took a screenshot of the full page of EZ's match record picture of the race knight qualifying posted by Maggot Baby, and the smile in his eyes deepened.
You are the one being fooled!
His phone vibrated, and he looked up to see that it was a video call from his sister.
"Hey, hey, hey?" Gu Xing said out of habit. After seeing Gu Pan's face, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Your eyes are turning white very quickly."
One month after the military training ended, my sister's face was no longer as dark as before, and gradually returned to its original fair and supple state.
Gu Pan rubbed his face proudly, "I told you, this is called natural beauty pinching..."
After exchanging pleasantries, Gu Xing had no time to talk to his sister and instead went to chat with his girlfriend in the camera.
"What are you doing recently?"
Shen Guanshan clapped his fingers and said, "I usually have to read papers, work with Panpan for a while every night, and catch up on some French in my free time..."
Just didn't go to class.
Although she will not be graduating until the end of the semester next year, she has already made the decision in advance to major in probability and statistics. She has completed all the coursework for her junior year, and now she only has time to hang out in class, so she can take time to do her own things.
Many top-ranked students in the same college do the same thing, so it's not unusual.
"Probability statistics?" Gu Xing was surprised after hearing this, "I thought you could learn basic mathematics."
He always thought that Shen Guanshan's mathematical ability was outstanding, and coupled with his socially fearful personality, turning to basic research seemed to be a very good choice.
"No," Shen Guanshan smiled and waved his hand, "I'm still not talented enough... It's not necessarily appropriate to switch to basic mathematics."
Mr. Gu let out a long sigh, with mixed feelings in his heart.
He had admired Shen Guanshan since he was participating in the math competition training at the same school. The knowledge points of the Gaolian League seemed to him obscure and difficult to understand.
At that time, Gu Xing could only feel envious. In his opinion, the achievements of the training team were already extremely rare and outrageous.
However, if we take a longer perspective, Shen Guanshan's choice seems reasonable.
You know, every year, six figures of high school students must participate in the preliminaries of the mathematics competition, and more than half of them are screened out, and the remaining thousands of people enter the semi-finals, that is, the main stage.
After answering one test and two tests, the provincial first, second and third prizes will be awarded. Only a few dozen people from each province can win the provincial first prize. They are considered to be the leaders in the mathematics level of domestic high school students.
A small group of people are then selected to form a provincial team to participate in the annual CMO - the scale is not large, and only a few hundred middle school students across the country can participate.
After entering the camp for seven days and taking exams for two days, gold, silver and bronze awards will be awarded.
Among them, the top 60 players in the gold medal ranking will enter the national training team, and will be guaranteed to receive a recommendation from Qingbei.
The training camp is divided into one and two stages, with 60 entering 15, and 15 advancing to 6.
The last 6 people represented the country and won gold and silver in IMO international competitions.
The difficulty is evident.
If you have to make an analogy with League of Legends, it can be explained in an easy-to-understand way - of course, comparing LOL to mathematics is a leapfrog in leapfrog, it is just an analogy.
The threshold for the high-league preliminaries is gold players. At most, they can be regarded as enthusiasts, and they only need to be qualified to participate.
Entering the semi-finals, he could barely be called a diamond goalkeeper.
Congratulations on getting a place in the provincial team. You have successfully qualified for the top of the canyon and can enter the high-score server (CMO) to compete with other high-level players.
The competition is divided into strong and weak provinces, and the national service is also divided into suburbs and city centers.
A place like the Imperial City of Zhejiang and Shanghai is like Ionia. The king who enters the canyon from Dianyi has a higher gold content and can crush the strongest king in the baron field.
The best players in CMO (Top of the Canyon) have gone through many levels of selection and are finally able to form a team to participate...
Do you think it's a professional league?
wrong!
The IMO gold medal is analogous to the League of Legends project in the history of mathematics, which is the champion of the City Heroes Competition!
What I learned was just the superficial knowledge from middle school, and it was nothing in the field of mathematics.
Just because you get it doesn't mean that you can become a mathematician (professional player) in the future, and if someone doesn't win an IMO gold medal as a mathematician, it doesn't mean that they will be worse than you in the future.
After entering the mathematics circle, they have to compete with professors from dozens of powerful mathematics schools around the world, and only the few mathematicians who stand out can win the Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years.
Winning the Fields Medal means that you are well-known in your field and can be called a success. In analogy to LOL, you are the champion of the S game. Players all recognize it.
However, there is still a long way to go before leaving a name in history. After leaving the field, he will basically not be remembered by the general public.
It is common for a generation not to produce a mathematician who can be remembered by history!
Thinking about it this way, Gu Xing became more open-minded.
Gu Xing's status in mathematics is that of a little transparent player at the top of the canyon, while Shen Guanshan is one of the thousand-point kings who is just a stone's throw away from the TGA quota.
Don’t look at the thousandths, in fact it is still far from the pinnacle of the pearl of mathematics!
It seems to be a good idea to change the track midway and start engaging in applied research instead of basic mathematics.
"Stop talking about math," Gu Pan interrupted with a black line on his head, "I can't understand you here!"
"Gu Yi, I have sent out all the manuscripts. Remember to treat me to dinner later!" she reminded her brother.
"What manuscript?" Shen Guanshan was confused.
"It's just..." Gu Pan turned around and explained.
When Gu Xing came up with the strategy of using EZ jungle to deceive other teams, he didn't just look for peanuts.
He immediately thought of E+.
After more than half a year of development, this website, which originally only provided professional league data analysis, has now become a multi-functional website that integrates discussion groups, press team interviews, event reports and gameplay strategies.
Gu Xing called Gu Pan three days ago and asked her to find some high-scoring junglers at the top of the canyon to write some EZ jungle strategies and publish them.
Gu Pan was very frugal about himself and was not stingy about spending money when he went out. He offered a high price for each manuscript.
Many live broadcast unions have contacted them - E+'s reputation is here, and the contribution fee is high. If the anchors of the union can contribute, it will be a good thing for them to gain both fame and fortune. The traffic they attract may even increase the popularity of the live broadcast room.
.
win!
Gu Pan acted quickly and found the veteran thousand-point jungler Futeha and this year's newly promoted canyon thousand-point king Sally, two wild kings, to write the draft of EZ jungle. By the way, he contacted the Snake team Zuo Wu through connections, and established a matchmaking relationship to find Sofm.
The bandit jungler had nothing to do during the offseason, so he readily agreed when he saw the amount of compensation.
He hasn't signed a big contract yet. It's still the rookie contract he signed with the Snakes in the S6 season. It's tens of thousands of yuan a month. The royalties are quite important to him.
Li Guangwei thought that one day he would return to his hometown and become a rich man, and he would buy a lot of real estate to ensure that he would have enough food and clothing for the rest of his life.
With money as motivation, Sofm compiled the manuscript very quickly, then found a translator to convert it into Chinese and uploaded it to Gu Pan.
So far, E+ has sorted out three EZ jungle strategies in a short period of time and placed them directly at the top of the ‘Gameplay Guide’ section. There has been a wave of push notifications to ensure that every player who clicks in can see them!
Gu Xing’s strategy is to reverse traffic and promote it to thousands of players.
Professional players can influence the direction of players' hero selection, and vice versa!
When players are choosing Yin Zeriel, professional teams must also consider the feasibility of this gameplay!
Gu Xing took a two-pronged approach, starting from both professional players and players, in order to implement the very powerful scam of EZ jungler!
He didn't lie to ordinary players. Xiao Huangmao was very powerful in the passerby ranking match. Gu Xing asked his sister to make some strategy manuscripts, just to ignite the fire again.
She has seen the intrigues in the professional arena, and her deception skills are perfect!
Shen Guanshan felt that if he were a jungler participating in the World Championship this year, he would have been deceived by Gu Xing and become confused!
"That's just how Gu Tiaoyu plays," Gu Pan reassured, "Do you think any other players have ever done such a complicated thing?"
Gu Xing dismissed it, "Tsk, isn't it because those players have neither ability nor connections?"
First of all, you have to come up with the EZ jungle scam, and secondly, you have to have close enough friends.
He started with a small peanut as a professional player. Apart from the tangible benefits, it also had some connections to impress Han Wanghu.
From the perspective of the player community, it is not enough for Gu Xing to rely on Wang Po to sell his own melons and boast, he must have outside help.
As a veteran entrepreneur, my sister’s E+ is the perfect choice!
Putting aside other professional players, can you find enough influential player friends and outside media?
It's difficult.
Gu Xing relies on his accumulated prestige and interpersonal relationships to weave false dreams and deceive others!
"By the way, Gu Xing, when will the quarter-finals be?" Shen Guanshan asked, "I plan to go to Guangzhou to see it live."
Gu Xing pulled up the schedule from his phone.
The quarterfinals will be held at the Guangzhou Stadium from October 19th to 22nd, with a BO5 game every day.
"It should be the 21st or 22nd," Gu Xing replied, "VG's game must be arranged on the weekend."
Riot wants ratings, so the games of VG, the world's top traffic team, will definitely be held on weekends.
"Then leave me a ticket," Shen Guanshan immediately began to search for flight information to book a ticket, "I will fly there on Friday night."
Gu Xing agreed and looked at his sister again, "Gu Mufen, are you coming?"
"I won't go to the top eight. I have something to do," Gu Pan waved his hand and refused, "Let's wait until the top four."
"You have to be careful. If you only take the top eight, you won't get our on-site support!" She put her hands on her hips very proudly.
Gu Xingdu muttered, "It seems like no one cares..."
Having said that, after hanging up the video call, he rushed back to the team training room and continued to devote himself to high-intensity training.
After a three-day break, on October 12, the group stage competition resumed.
On the first day, VG’s Group A took the stage!
There are a minimum of 6 group matches in one day, and each team must complete all the BO1 games that determine its own destiny this year in just a few hours!
The highlight of the first game is TSM vs. VG.
On the commentary desk, newcomer Wang Duoduo is gearing up for his first World Championship performance.
He only officially joined the LPL commentary team this year. Wang Duoduo, who is still relatively junior, has never had the opportunity to commentate on VG’s prime time games.
Thanks to the opportunity to catch up with the local world championship, he was recruited by Shiquan, which was in urgent need of manpower, to be the commentator for the global finals.
In the play-in stage where there is no own competition area, the role is relatively heavy. Even the main game has a one-day commentary schedule, which is really not easy for a newbie.
Zeyuan, who was on the sidelines, was much calmer. While the promotional video was being played before the game, he comforted Wang Duoduo and told him not to be too stressed.
"But this is VG..." Wang Duoduo was still worried.
He could only watch VG games backstage or in the auditorium/live broadcast room, and it was his first time to commentate.
Wang Duoduo focused his eyes on the screen.
In the promotional video, members of Group A's participating teams appear one after another near landmark buildings in Wuhan such as the Yangtze River Bridge, holding team flags and saying harsh words.
"We were defeated miserably by VG in the first round. We were very unwilling to accept this result. We thought it was because we did not obtain enough version information before the game and were successfully attracted by the opponent." The pectoralis major muscles under the slim-fitting short-sleeved uniform of the senior brother are particularly eye-catching.
He said confidently, "When we meet in the second round, TSM is ready and will use its strength to tell the remaining three teams in Group A: I am not targeting anyone, I am saying that everyone here is rubbish!"
Peng Yiliang can always talk trash. As soon as he said this, the audience burst into laughter.
Then when Gu Xing's figure appeared in front of the audience, cheers erupted in the venue.
In the promotional video, at dusk, the young man stands in front of the Yellow Crane Tower with his head held high and his body like a green pine tree.
This thousand-year-old building on the edge of the Yangtze River now shines with red and blue lights, symbolizing the two sides of LOL.
The words "Come on League of Legends S7 LPL" were projected on the ground with lights.
"The first round of the group stage is mainly about finding out the strength of our opponents and adjusting to the version. Three consecutive victories are enough to show the strength gap between us and the enemies in the group," Gu Xing said in a steady and powerful voice, "The second round of the match against VG will undoubtedly be more comfortable.
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"We want to become the first team in LPL history to win all the games and qualify!" He said with a sonorous and passionate voice, full of ambition.
This achievement has only been achieved by the OGN/LCK team before. The Korean operation concept is really ruthless when it comes to abuse, and coupled with the players' good hard power, it rarely overturns.
In contrast, in the past few years, LPL was unstable in terms of division strength and style of play. The best was 7 wins and 1 loss created by Planet Light OMG before the S3 group stage was reformed.
Gu Xing has high expectations for this World Championship. He wants to break all the records that have been sealed for a long time!
After Wang Duoduo watched the documentary, he finally calmed down his agitated thoughts.
"Without further ado, the BP session between VG and TSM has officially begun!"
After figuring out the general direction of the version in the first round of the group stage, everyone no longer let their BPs go wild, but followed a strict pattern.
Gu Xing also discussed with Longzhu to hide the change of strong heroes in the top lane, resulting in a very stable environment.
It's just that an explorer named Yin Zerel is a variable.
After both sides banned three heroes each, TSM was the first to steal the lead, and Redmi used small cannon + caution as usual. At first glance, it didn't seem like it was a loss.
Then TSM directly snatched Xiao Huangmao away!
"EZ is coming!" Wang Duoduo was very excited, "Svenskeren is trying to take revenge for being bullied by Brother Xing using Yin Zerel in the first round!"
The camera showed the race knight, who was kneading his joints and smiling triumphantly, as if he had a chance to win.
The next moment, the screen suddenly cut to the VG player seats.
Gu Xing was sitting on a chair, covering his mouth, his shoulders shaking.
It is not difficult to tell from his facial muscles that he is laughing wildly.
Kuro also had an expression on his face that didn't hold back, and his face turned red.
Song Jinghao stopped pretending and laughed in an inconspicuous manner, as if he had encountered something happy.
Jack's mouth is so crooked that it rivals Dazzling God of the same species.
Even Duan Deliang, who is usually the most low-key and reserved, has the corners of his mouth rising crazily.
The TSM players on the other side of the stage noticed something was wrong with their opponent's state and frequently cast sideways and probing glances.
For some reason, the senior brother felt panicked.
"What's going on?" Zeyuan couldn't help but ask, "VG is smiling so happily?"
Jatt, the English stream commentator, was also confused, "Did Virtue make another Coke joke?"
After that, there was nothing new in the BP session, and VG selected Lulu as the incense burner monster.
Everyone was puzzled.
Little did they know that after entering the second round of BP, Redmi had no idea what to do!
The fourth pick was Syndra, the fifth pick...
"Praying Mantis?!" Wang Duoduo was so excited that his voice broke, "Brother Xing, are you serious!"
"Is it possible that this is the anti-EZ Noble Phantasm that VG developed during the off-season?" Zeyuan made a bold assumption.
"Anyway, Kha'Zix, who we haven't seen for a long time, has returned to everyone's attention on the World Championship stage!" Wang Duoduo said in a high-spirited voice, "Let's see how Brother Xing will deal with Yin Zairiel!"
Since the armor-piercing armor was weakened and the hero itself was slightly changed, Mantis has lost its glory this spring and fell from the altar at the speed of light.
Riot director will give timely information prompts.
After 177 days, Mantis was selected again!
The last usage record in the five major leagues was from VG.Virtue!
TSM is really on tenterhooks right now.
"WTF, doesn't this guy have any tricks up his sleeve?" Bilson gritted his teeth.
The racial knight was also upset, but he still gave his teammates confidence by playing Chicken Blood Tree.
"I'll hit him casually!" His attitude was very crazy.
He just died peacefully.
Two minutes into the game, Svenskeren, who had just wiped out the red BUFF, wanted to use level 2 Yinzeril's strong attack to invade the VG jungle to put pressure on the opponent.
This is also one of Xiao Huangmao's standard strategies. Another way to play is to put pressure on the lane at the beginning of the fast four that Gu Xing showed.
Both options have pros and cons.
As a result, the race knight and Gu Xing, who deliberately chose to open the jungle in the same direction as EZ, came face to face.
Svenskeren felt that I had the advantage, so he decisively used his E skill to close the distance, and started to deal damage to the opponent from a distance of 400 yards.
But Gu Xing saved a skill point, and the moment they met, he clicked E in seconds, and jumped AQ to trigger Isolation and Thunder, instantly lowering the race knight's health bar to 40%!
Then use the passive [Invisible Threat] to slow down the enemy and pursue it!
Svenskeren shook his hands and realized that he was no match for Mantis with a wind rider.
I'm afraid that if the acceleration talent hadn't been triggered yet, this little squishy little guy like me would have died on the spot!
He quickly dodged and retreated, trying to escape quickly.
Gu Xing followed decisively, closed the distance and hit another AQ to take the kill!