Backstage at Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center.
There is still a long time before the competition between VG and SAT begins.
The makeup artist stood behind Gu Xing, holding his chin and turning his head left and right, making sure there were no flaws before signaling for him to leave.
Gu Xing stood up, looked at the mirror in front of him, and fiddled with his hair twice.
Xiao Duan, who was playing with his mobile phone next to him, looked over and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I feel like my hair is a bit long..." Gu Xing smoothed his bangs.
During this time, in order to prepare for the college entrance examination and train hard, I didn't bother to get a haircut.
His hair is already thick, and it feels very uncomfortable when it grows out...
What's more, it's still hot summer weather.
"When is the next vacation? I'll find a shop in the university town to get it cut."
Brother Long's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this, "Don't bother me, I can help you!"
"Ah?" Gu Xing didn't know why.
Xiao Duan suppressed a smile and explained to him, "Brother Long was a barber before he became a professional, and his cooking skills are also very good."
"It's so hidden," Gu Xing was very surprised by this, "Brother Long, you actually have this specialty!"
"It's time to have a meal..." Zhu Xiaolong left the dressing room with his teammates, "It's just a hobby now. What's the saying?"
World6 interjected, "A cook who doesn't know how to cut hair is not a good professional player."
"Ah, yes, that's right," Brother Long nodded and looked at Gu Xing, "I have an electric clipper and a hairbrush in my dormitory. If you don't mind, I can help you get them, saving time and money."
"No problem!" Gu Xing promised, "I can cut it when I get back tonight."
Anyway, he doesn't do any fancy styling, he just trims the length. He trusts Brother Long very much.
After getting along with him for more than half a month, Gu Xing was able to roughly understand Zhu Xiaolong’s character.
He is very loyal, quite steady, down-to-earth and reliable, similar to his playing style in the game.
Since the other person has the confidence to cut his hair, he must have two brushes.
Everyone chatted and laughed, walking through the corridor to their team's lounge.
On the way, I happened to bump into LGD, who was also playing a game today - the Optimistic team was scheduled for the first game at 5 p.m.
When Imp saw his old teammates, his face was filled with joy and he quickly went up to say hello, "Brother, I miss you so much!"
Hirano Aya had a deep relationship with him, so she pulled Gu Shengbin into a corner and muttered.
The rest of the VG players also greeted the LGD players.
After all, we are neighbors. We often visit each other without looking up, and we often have appointments for training matches. We have a good relationship with each other.
The atmosphere in the corridor instantly became cheerful.
LGD's current performance is very average.
After the introduction of mid laner Punished, the team did not make any breakthrough progress, and even declined in the rankings.
It has to be said that Group B, where LGD belongs in this summer split, has become a recognized death group!
The inter-group competition has now entered the second half of the schedule, and all viewers know how terrifying Group B is.
The other five teams in Group A, excluding EDG, were basically pushed to the ground and beaten violently when they encountered the teams in the same position in Group B!
VG, RNG, WE and IM firmly occupy the top four. They are extremely strong and seem to be strong teams that want to qualify for the World Championship.
LGD and Planet Light OMG, which are ranked lower, are not weak either.
But according to the rules of the competition, only the top four in each group can advance to the playoffs.
Even if LGD can win GT, which is third in Group A, but cannot beat the top four in Group B, it will have to fight in the relegation round.
The exchange for Dandy was indeed a good move, but Punished was really disappointing and was even ridiculed by the optimistic family as the King of France.
But the LGD management didn't want Gao Dewei, who was having conflicts with them, to come out to put out the fire.
The team seems to be stuck here, and is getting further and further away from the World Championship.
However, several players were as optimistic as ever, chatting and laughing with everyone in VG.
Dandy also took the initiative to say hello to Gu Xing.
"I've been watching your games," he said with a gentle smile and a slight Chinese accent. "You performed really well."
When Gu Xing came to VG for trial training before, he was still a counter-jungle operator who relied on sudden cold arrows and unconventional gank routes to catch people.
The idea is indeed very good, but the understanding of operational aspects such as troop lines and neutral resources is not very thorough.
But now he is quickly making up for his shortcomings and his strength is improving by leaps and bounds!
Gu Xing felt happy inwardly when facing Dandy's praise, and his outward attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, "But I think I still have a lot to learn, and I still have to keep learning."
This is really not his modesty.
When he originally only played in ranked matches, Gu Xing felt that he could easily touch the ceiling.
It wasn't until he entered the professional arena and received formal training from Redmi that he realized that the ceiling he thought he had was the limit of his horizons.
Break it down and there's a wider space outside.
Just a line-wild linkage is more complicated than all the alliance knowledge I have come across in the past!
The deeper he probes, the more Gu Xing discovers his own shallowness and shortcomings.
There is no end to learning, nothing more than this.
"Accumulate more experience," Dandy said stumblingly in Mandarin. "The position of jungler is different from that of online roles. The older you are, the more... what is that word?"
"The older you get, the more demonic you get, but the older you are, the hotter you are..." Mr. Hou has been paying attention to this place and is now helping to translate.
"That's right," Dandy nodded, "I understand everything."
The jungler does not need to directly line up. The top and middle single lanes are like meat grinders. Whoever fails to line up will have to go to jail under the tower.
The jungler will not have head-on collisions with enemy players most of the time, which requires more ideas and experience.
But this is a confrontational game after all, and operation is essential.
It’s just that the jungle position is relatively less demanding on operations.
Gu Xing followed the topic and tried to get closer, "Then can I come to you often for advice?"
He doesn't want to miss any opportunity to improve himself.
Some time ago, Hongmi’s small class was coming to an end.
Although his coach has a strong ability to guide newcomers, Hongmi was a top laner when he was a player and was not particularly proficient in jungle.
The help Homme can provide him now is based on the understanding and application of tactics, and the knowledge simply related to jungle is not much.
Next, it’s up to Gu Xing to understand it himself.
Former world champion jungler Dandy is a good learning target.
At the S4 Global Finals, Samsung White's Nosuke linkage completely subverted the industry's perception of the professional arena!
At that time, Dandy could be said to be omnipotent, with an extremely keen sense of anti-crouching, extremely ferocious ganking methods, and almost perfect angles for team battles.
Although he did not win the FMVP, Dandy's performance is obvious to all!
This idea is worth studying and studying by Gu Xing.
Dandy was stunned for a moment when he heard his request, and then readily agreed, "No problem, if you encounter something you don't understand, you can come to me at any time."
Nowadays, Dandy is almost exhausted. She just wants to clock in and get paid, and consider her retirement life after retirement.
Gu Xing's studiousness and motivation reminded him of himself who once worked hard for his grades.
Anyway, Gu Xing and I are not from the same era, and besides, the performance of VG and LGD is so different that they cannot compete with each other.
It is useless to teach something.
Dandy is very keen on supporting his juniors. When Gu Xing came to VG for a trial training, he also reminded the opponent to be careful of Eimy's erratic jungle route.
If Gu Xing becomes famous in the future, he will be proud of himself.
Seeing that Dandy agreed, Gu Xing's smile became brighter and brighter, "Come on, you will definitely win this game!"
After a brief exchange, the Optimistic Team players said goodbye to them and headed to the stage with their peripherals in hand.
Today’s first game is between LGD and NB.
After the split between midfield and midfield in the spring and the subsequent one-minute BO5, the status of NB, which was renamed from QG, declined sharply.
Although it's not broken yet, the upper limit is visibly low.
The Rainbow Team QG that dominated the LPL back then can only be described as a flash in the pan, and it is no longer as brave as it once was.
Even so, LGD is still struggling.
Both sides won one game each, and the decisive game lasted 7 minutes. Dandy used his excellent sense of smell to successfully reverse squat in the bottom lane. He played 1 for 3 and controlled the dragon at the same time, establishing an early advantage for the team!
Dandy was on full fire in this game. Taking the lead, he frantically invaded the jungle and made NB jungler Swift numb.
Swift previously served as a jungler for CJ, a long-established Korean e-sports club. After the S4 season, he followed the Samsung Ten players to the LPL.
However, OGN was dominated by the four wild kings back then - Dandy, Kakao, Insec, and Spirit.
Yes, at that time, "Wild King" was still a compliment.
To be fair, the performance of the Swift S4 is not bad.
But under the light of the Four Wild Kings, he is just a nobody.
After joining QG, he has been really prosperous for a year. His operation of heroes such as Leopard Girl and Barrel is superb, and his Chinese skills are also good, attracting many fans.
However, there was a conflict and breakup with Doinb, and his own strength began to decline inexplicably.
Meeting Dandy again at this moment, he finally recalled the fear of being dominated by the four wild kings of OGN.
"Dandy's rhythm is so perfect!" Commentator Qi Huan praised, "LGD relies on the jungle's rhythm driving ability, and it is very likely that it will win this game!"
After 36 minutes of fierce fighting, Ma Run finally showed off his unique skill Rambo, R [Constant Temperature Burn], which burned the four NB players. Unintentionally, he was invisible and stole people from the side, helping the team to achieve group destruction!
"As expected, LGD plans to drive straight in along the middle high ground and bulldoze the VG base in one wave!"
Another commentator, Su Xiaoyan, shouted loudly, "Two to one, LGD won the victory with difficulty, thus firmly holding on to IM who ranked fourth in Group B in the rankings!"
In the backstage lounge, the VG players were also happy for their neighbors and applauded one after another.
Jin Wenhyuk quickly reminded the players, "Stop celebrating for others, we have to prepare to play!"
All the employees in the VG training department are in a very relaxed mood today.
For them, the opponent in this game is not strong.
The SAT scores can no longer be described as ‘less than ideal’.
That's pretty lame.
So far in the summer split, SAT is the only team in the league that has yet to win its first big game.
All 9 BO3 games were defeated, with 2 wins and 18 losses in small games.
Just highlight one outrageous thing.
Compared with IG and GT, they don't even have a dean.
Everyone pulls their hips!
However, according to the theory of relativity, if everyone stretches their hips, it is equivalent to not stretching their hips at all.
They have given up on the regular season and decided to start the game and study their opponents in the relegation match in advance.
The mid laner has a great background and is even more famous than the entire SAT team.
Electric baton.
Quotes about life: Steadiness means arrogance, jumping over the tower means restraint.
When he first entered the professional arena, he was trained by IG as the successor of PDD. From his high-spirited Gogoing with five solo kills in one game, to his current lackluster team at the bottom of the league.
It can only be said that fate plays a trick on people.
A game of Texas Hold'em poker and years of irregular training patterns have worn away the energy of the electric baton.
When Gu Xing came on stage this time, he was greeted with warm cheers from the audience!
This is the first time since I entered the professional arena!
The main reason is that the number of SAT fans is too small, the team's performance is poor, and only VG supporters will come to watch the game.
Amid the roaring cheers from the fans in the audience, Gu Xing put on his headphones with a smile on his face, ready to teach his opponent a lesson.
…
"No, why is this man here again?"
The electric baton looked at its black and white screen, almost stupid.
From his perspective, the rainbow horse on the opposite side was like a ghost, running to the middle and kicking himself at every turn!
SAT's operational ability was originally poor, but it is still at a disadvantage now, and its eye positioning is even more difficult to achieve.
The map was completely dark, and Gu Xing was playing like an elusive character. As long as the SAT online character dared to cross and flash, he would go over and kick with E [Destroying Charge].
"Virtue's rhythm offensive is as fast as ever. SAT banned three junglers in this game, but it still failed to limit his performance!" Qi Huan seemed to be a big fan of Gu Xing, praising him.
There are three SAT junglers, and the one playing in this game is Captain.
This ID is not very famous, but the nickname is quite famous.
Little eye-catching.
He was completely dumbfounded at this moment.
In recent games, the opponents he has encountered are Clearlove, Sofm, Xiang Guo, Kandi and Gu Xing.
One by one of these five junglers, their status is basically at the top of the league.
For Xiao Xingju, it was a nightmare level of difficulty. He was beaten violently at the beginning and still wanted to resist, but now he was numb and allowed the opponent to do whatever they wanted in his wild area.
He felt that he was about to lose confidence in the game.
After the electric baton was resurrected, he continued to develop in the middle lane, still feeling a fire in his heart.
On some levels, he is similar to Jin Gong.
Stun batons have always believed that women and children can make mistakes.
Just playing in the wild won't work.
But Xiao Xingmu was his former teammate in YG, and they were close to each other. It was impossible for him to get angry at the jungler during the game.
Electric Baton can only try to find opportunities based on personal ability.
But the electric baton is a fake defense tower, and the Marquis is a person protected by the real tower.
Easyhoon doesn't show any flaws in the laning. He always stands in the safest position for blood exchanges and doesn't give the electric baton any room to move forward!
SAT's situation can only be described as miserable, with three lanes blooming.
In just 15 minutes, VG expanded its economic lead to 4.3K!
In the current rhythm version that favors operations, it is not easy to achieve such a big advantage through laning.
In the end, Gu Xing used the ghost cavalry with sprint + R [Shadow Impact] to get stuck in the wall from the side shadow and cut into the battlefield, leaving the opponent with no possibility of reacting.
"Virtue's ultimate move scared SAT Nosuke, and the team battle started smoothly!"
It was a completely one-sided crushing force. VG wiped out the opponent with zero for five groups. They didn't even fight the baron. They pushed in from the high ground and ended it in one wave.
Only took 22 minutes!
This game successfully wiped out SAT's last bit of resistance.
The second set completely turned into VG's personal performance show.
Gu Xing stayed on the top lane in this game, torturing the opponent's top laner Acorn to the point of ecstasy.
The electric baton was against Hou Ye's ice girl, and he had no line rights. He could only watch Easyhoon move around first to open up the situation.
"Can you come and help me?" Acorn, one of the ten members of Samsung, pitifully asked his teammates for support.
On the road, three people jumped the tower and jungled. How can I go there if they are not there?
A slander about the electric baton.
However, he still tried hard to provide offline support.
As a result, as soon as he left the middle, Gu Xing's Rek'Sai caught his position, and his E [Dig Tunnel] flashed in conjunction with a set of skills to kill him!
Are you having fun?!
I couldn't bear the electric baton anymore, and I roared in my heart.
In this round, SAT was defeated even more quickly, with only three high ground remaining in 18 minutes.
The bottom lane combination of Imp and Xiao Duan also achieved two lane kills, and now they are facing crazy output.
Squeezing out the opponent's field of vision in the jungle, VG waited until Baron Nash was born and immediately decided to go fishing with the Baron. He crouched at the pass in the jungle and waited for the enemy to take the bait.
Once SAT dares to enter the jungle, they can use their poor vision to intercept and intercept them, and then move on to get the Baron, thus winning the game.
However, after SAT lost the first game, they just wanted to be more stable and team up to develop and eat troops on the high ground. They didn't care what VG did.
VG fished for a minute and found that the fish didn’t want to eat the bait at all!
The fans in the audience burst into good-natured laughter.
Even the voice in the VG team was full of laughter.
The team commander Xiao Duan couldn't save face, so he angrily led his teammates to get Baron Nash. After returning to the city to resupply equipment, he approached the high ground and decisively broke off the team, saving everyone in SAT with their lives!
In the last wave of 1-for-5, the electric baton collapsed on the gaming chair while listening to the team-kill announcement coming from the headphones.
After losing until now, everyone is numb.
…
"How's it going? I'm pretty good at my craft, right?"
Brother Long held the electric clipper and asked Gu Xing to stand up and see the effect.
Gu Xing turned around and looked at himself through the mirror.
"It's very good!" He gave Brother Long a thumbs up and a thumbs up.
Those who could make a living by barbering in Changsha back then were indeed very skilled.
After his hair was shortened, Gu Xing felt refreshed.
"Let me call you Teacher Tony from now on. Your nickname is catchy..."
When he heard what his jungler said, Zhu Xiaolong went up and kicked him, laughing and joking with him.
Gu Xing took a broom to clean up the broken hair on the floor, then rinsed it again before going downstairs to train.
The LPL summer regular season has a total of 10 weeks, and each team has to play 16 BO3 games.
This means sometimes playing two games a week.
For example this week's VG.
After finishing the SAT on Thursday, there will be a focus battle with EDG at 5pm tomorrow, Saturday.
To be honest, this time is not considered prime time.
Most of the key and interesting games will be scheduled by the league at 7pm on weekends to attract the most viewers and popularity.
Judging from the current results, EDG and VG are at the top of the AB group, and the collision of Mars and the Earth deserves such treatment.
It's a pity that the schedule is set before the start of the regular season.
At that time, the league had no idea that VG could undergo such an amazing transformation just by changing their jungler and ADC during the transfer period.
Today, Redmi only arranged a training match for them in the afternoon.
He used the training time in the evening to review the results, focusing on his operational ideas for tomorrow.
EDG's current Korean-style operations are impressive, and their laning capabilities are also very strong.
Top laner Mouse is known to have a weak point, but his overall strength is also ranked first in the league, and the world is currently dominated by tanks and Ekko trolls. It is simply unrealistic for the strong dialogue to rely on the top lane to open the gap.
The junior mid laner has integrated well with the team. Although his strength is not as good as that of Fat General back then, he is still a mid laner from SKT and his personal strength is quite strong.
As for the bottom lane, the camel combination of Deft and Meiko is second to none in the current LPL, and is undoubtedly the only one.
The opponent's impressive record of 10 wins and 0 losses is enough to prove how strong their hard power is.
There are only 12 teams in the LPL, and EDG has won all the teams except VG.
All are won by crushing.
Even RNG, which defeated them in the spring finals, is vulnerable to today's EDG!
A small game record of 20 wins and 1 loss is enough to be said to be terrifying!
Redmi attaches great importance to this regular season game.
His goal for the team this summer is to reach the World Championship.
This battle with EDG can expose VG's potential problems and comprehensive capabilities.
Under the influence of the head coach, the players are also ready to show their strongest strength.
The pre-match meeting lasted until 2:30 in the morning. Gu Xing practiced two more rounds of ranking, and he went to bed when it was already four o'clock.
"Imp, aren't you leaving?" Gu Xing saw that Gu Shengbin was still in the queue, obviously wanting to continue practicing.
"You're not sleepy now, please help me keep the light on, and I can turn it off myself later." Imp waved his hand and said goodbye.
He has been very diligent in the past two weeks and has started another 15 hours of devilish high-intensity training a day.
I don’t know if I was stimulated by Deft’s recent hot performance.
Koo Sungbin and Deft have always had a healthy competitive relationship.
When they were in the Samsung Blue and White team, they had a close relationship, and they both regarded each other as their goal for learning and progress.
Samsung Blue dominates the league, while the White team only shows its power in the World Championships.
In the semi-finals, the white team swept the blue team 3-0, and Imp beat Deft to tears. This also paved the way for the shocking BO5 between LGD and EDG in the following 15 years.
To this day, although the two cannot see each other often, their relationship is not estranged.
Imp, who is now in declining condition, is about to encounter Deft, who is hot in hand, and naturally does not want to lose easily.
Gu Xing returned to the dormitory to wash up, but Ding Ran, who was in the same dormitory, was still awake.
"The forum is now full of people building momentum for tomorrow's competition," Ding Ran said excitedly, "Brother Xing, you are really popular!"
What is it like to see a familiar friend become famous on the Internet?
Ding Ran felt very happy.
Ever since Gu Xing exposed his college entrance examination experience, many netizens have been very curious about his experience before becoming a professional.
Seeing them making random guesses on the forum, Ding Ran felt happy knowing all the answers.
Gu Xing listened to Ding Ran read two posts, smiled and echoed a few sentences, and turned on his mobile phone and found that Shen Guanshan sent him a message yesterday evening.
She seemed to know that just typing could easily lead to embarrassment, so she sent a voice message.
Gu Xing walked into the bathroom, brushed his teeth and clicked on it to listen.
"The next game is very important. Well... I know your mentality has always been very good, so there is no need for me to comfort you," Shen Guanshan said in a low voice, "I just wish you can get what you want tomorrow. I think
Everything you want can be achieved.”
The end of her voice was slightly upturned, with a little joy and expectation.
Gu Xing could imagine what Shen Guanshan looked like when he sent this voice.
There was no way to reply to the message at four o'clock in the morning, so he could only wait until today's game was over.
…
"Welcome to the live broadcast of the 2016 League of Legends Professional League!"
The powerful voice echoed throughout the performing arts center.
The figures of Wawa and Miller appeared in the center of the live broadcast screen.
"The competition has entered the end of the inter-group round robin. Today the two top teams will also face off to expel the strongest!"
The director gave the data of the two teams in the summer games.
"You can see that EDG ranks first in the league in terms of dragon control rate, ward penetration rate, first blood rate and lead rate in the first 15 minutes!"
Miller then changed the subject, "However, VG can also rank second or third in these statistics. After all, with 12 consecutive wins in small games, the momentum is unstoppable."
"To be honest, I think in a matchup of this level, it is difficult to tell who has the advantage between the two teams based on data alone," Wawa added next to him, "VG and EDG have been in hot form recently, winning all the way from the inter-group round-robin.
Now……"
"But today, one of them is destined to end their winning streak!"
Miller talked eloquently and was still building momentum for this matchup, "Especially in the jungle position, the sharp newcomer Virtue will face off against the veteran Clearlove. The confrontation between the two in the jungle is also the top priority of this game."
"Everyone jokingly calls the high-numbered midfielder, and his performance against EDG today will determine whether VG can have the last laugh in this game!"
Wawa also counted the gimmicks on his fingers, "In addition, the two mid laners from SKT, Scout and Hou Ye, who are junior boys, will have their first official confrontation in the arena; Deft and Imp, the ADCs of Samsung's blue and white duo, will also collide again in the bottom lane.
!”
There were no empty seats in the audience.
Although VG has gained a lot of fans recently, it is still far from being able to compete with EDG.
The 2015 MSI and several LPL championships were not for nothing.
Hearing the noise in the audience, Gu Xing took a sip of Coke and waited for Brother Long to pull him into the custom room.
The moment he saw the ID EDGClearlove, he immediately sent a friend request.
At this time, the room chat channel is in full swing.
Mr. Hou was communicating with his younger brother in Chinese, and the other person was typing very fast, but the word order still had some Korean habits, which made Gu Xing look a little awkward.
Fortunately, it does not affect the expression of the meaning and everyone can understand it.
Imp was much more direct and directly asked Deft if he wanted to be beaten to tears again today.
When he said these cruel words, the corners of Gu Shengbin's mouth raised, revealing a smile that looked like a little devil.
Deft on the other side of the player's seat narrowed his eyes, but he has a soft personality and even though he racked his brains, he couldn't speak to Imp.
Gu Xing saw that the factory director had accepted the friend invitation and was typing on the keyboard.
VGVirtue: [Brother Mingkai, do you want to try the blind monk against Rek'Sai in the first game?]
The factory director replied with a question mark.
This is the hero the two of them chose when they met in ranked play.
At that time, Gu Xing's operation and thinking shocked the factory director, so he came up with the idea of inviting him to work as a professional.
EDGClearlove: [The server hasn’t been updated to 6.14 yet, are you sure you want to use it? If you lose the game then, don’t blame me for Reksai’s ruthlessness]
The current strength of the blind monk is not high, but in the 6.14 version that has been updated in the Korean server, W [Golden Bell] will receive an epic enhancement, and it is expected to return to the T1 selection in the game.
The current version used in the competition is still 6.13. If you encounter Rek'Sai in the blind monk jungle, there is a high probability that you will suffer a heavy blow, and almost no players will choose it.
Gu Xing wanted to reply again. The referee in the back saw that they were chatting too happily. After reporting, he decided to start the game, interrupting the happy greetings between the two teams.
There was a crisp sound.
Seeing the BP panel displayed on the screen, the two commentators couldn't help but perked up.
The audience in the audience cheered enthusiastically!