Although Chen Ke is no longer in the country, legends about him are everywhere in the country.
For a while, it made the fans miss it a little bit.
How come this guy seems to have disappeared since his last live broadcast?
We don’t live broadcast or post updates, which makes everyone have no fun.
In fact, Chen Ke doesn't have much time here.
After the European finals, G2 took a brief vacation.
Chen Ke went on vacation with his teammates and had a lot of fun, and didn't touch the computer much for a few days.
Around September 15th, all members of G2 set off.
The World Championship will not start until September 25th, and the first thing to start is the play-in competition.
No. 1 seeds like G2 don’t need to enter the play-ins, and it’s perfectly fine to come back in October.
However, European and American teams have the habit of going to South Korea for training.
Although the Korean Division has not won the championship in the past two years and is at most the third division, this does not affect the fact that the Korean server is still the strongest overall server.
Moreover, South Korea’s Internet speed is among the best in the world.
Chen Ke has always felt that the biggest disadvantage of the European and American divisions is that they are too far away to play in the Korean server.
If their players can play in the Korean server every day, the overall strength of these two divisions will definitely be stronger than it is now.
After landing in South Korea that day, the entire G2 team watched the lottery ceremony at the hotel.
The two guests drawn this year are two well-known junglers in the LPL region, Director and Xiangguo.
The draw for the qualifying round at the beginning was not interesting, and the highlight was still in the group stage.
Chen Ke didn't look carefully, but took a final glance. It was exactly the same as the original time and space grouping, and there were no changes.
G2 is in Group A, placed in the same group as LPL third seed Suning.
The only remaining team is the MCX team from the Wanwan Division.
The final spot in the group is not yet determined, we have to wait until the finals are over.
There is a high probability that there will be a third seed from North America. If I remember correctly, the TL team will be assigned.
This group is not very strong. Only one Suning can watch, and the other two are no different from the ones giving away points.
Therefore, everyone in G2 is laughing happily now, and their mouths are almost bursting with laughter.
It’s not that G2 looks down on the LPL division, on the contrary, it’s their main source of suffering.
It's just that like normal people, their eyes are focused on Taobao and JD.com.
I never imagined that the third seed in the LPL could defeat them.
Once the lottery is over, all major competition areas are similar, and commentators, anchors or retired players will all come out to analyze.
Europe is generally optimistic and feels that the G2 draw is pretty good.
They also think that a G2 player has hope of getting results, so they only need to focus on the G2 draw.
As for the other three teams, two words - just let it happen!
LPL also thinks that the signing is OK. The main TES signing is not bad, and there is a high probability of qualifying first in the group.
JD.com and DWG are assigned to the same group, which is quite uncomfortable.
However, there are few fans on JD.com, and Taobo is an all-China class, so everyone would definitely like to see Taobo win the championship.
The all-Chinese class won the championship locally. The effect is unimaginable.
The two major e-commerce teams like Suning and JD.com are grouped together with two powerful No. 1 seeds.
But it’s not impossible to fight.
Even if you don't get first place in the group, there should be no problem in qualifying second in the group.
After Lao Gan Daddy came out of the qualifying round, according to the principle of avoiding the same division, he could only go to Group C.
Because there are no LPL teams in Group C.
Group C is relatively chaotic, with Gen.G and FNC, as well as North America's No. 1 seed TSM.
Gen.G seems to be relatively stable, and there will definitely be no problem in getting a qualifying spot.
But it’s hard to talk about the two teams in Europe and the United States, especially the No. 1 seed in North America. Everyone knows it.
If Lao Gan Daddy can perform well, qualifying from the group will not be a big problem.
There are four LPL teams in the top eight, and the more you look at it, the greater the possibility.
Anyone who says LPL won’t work this year is just a clown!
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At the end of September, G2 ended its training camp in South Korea and began flying to China.
Flying Magic City in South Korea is relatively fast, it doesn’t take more than two hours.
After two months of absence and coming back, Chen Ke really has a special feeling.
As the host, Chen Ke must entertain everyone and take his teammates out for a hot pot dinner in the evening.
When the entire G2 team goes out, they will definitely be photographed by fans.
Before they finish the hot pot, there are a lot of videos and photos of Chen Ke and the others eating hot pot on the Internet.
There have been no games in the past two days, and the qualifying rounds have just ended and they are waiting for the group stage, so Chen Ke and his G2 teammates quickly became a hot topic of discussion.
"Guigui, eat Haidilao when you come. G2 is really not afraid."
"Could it be that Chen Ke joined G2 just to try his best and eat Haidilao + beef noodles for one meal a day? He was the first to lose G2."
"It's really not like we can just play against G2 and expect G2 to defeat the Korean team."
"No wonder G2 asked him to be a substitute. It turned out that he wanted to have a tour guide when he came to us to participate in the World Championship."
"Wairui, when you say that, it seems possible."
"G2 is really a travel game."
"Otherwise, you think he is of no use. He will not be able to play in a game, and it will be superfluous to watch the water dispenser."
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When everyone was discussing, the focus was still on Chen Ke.
Since Chen Ke resigned, his popularity has not gone away.
Even in the past few days while waiting for the group stage, many domestic e-sports self-media came over to interview G2.
The interview with G2 is incidental, mainly because I want Chen Ke to say a few words.
Everyone already knows the effect of Chen Ke opening his mouth.
Recently, Chen Ke has not been talking on live broadcasts, which is weird.
As long as his interview content can be released, the traffic will be there.
And no matter what hot words Chen Ke said, when they got the traffic, it would be Chen Ke who was scolding them, which was really flattering.
G2 did not reject all of them, but selected one to be interviewed.
When the interview started, G2 people all sat together, just like they were interviewed by the media after the game.
After this editor asked a few questions to other people, he began to focus on Chen Ke.
"I would like to ask player Chen Ke, how did you feel during this time after you left our LPL division and went to Europe?"
Chen Ke organized it and said seriously: "It's not bad, the main thing is that commentators and professional players are two different professions, so the experience must be different."
The editor raised his eyebrows slightly, you are not very aggressive.
I also expected you to say something exciting, for example, just criticize the entire LPL, and this is the result?
The editor continued: "Then what do you think of the Suning team that was assigned to the same group this time?"
I've even mentioned the specific team name to you now, so you can't just bear it, right?
In the end, Chen Ke said calmly: "The Suning team is still relatively strong and is our main competitor in the group. If we take it lightly, I think they are likely to win the first place in the group."
"???"
The editor is stupid.
What's going on with Chen Ke? It's like he's a different person when he comes back this time.
I spent so much time trying to come here to hear your compliments?