Chapter 10: Li’s Triangle Kill!
Most LPL teams have their bases in suburban villas, such as Snake, RNG...
After all, compared to the city center, housing prices in the suburbs are cheaper and the area is large enough, so coaches, analysts and other staff can live together without being too crowded.
However, IG's base is quite special. It is located in a high-end residential area on the bank of the Huangpu River in Jianghai. The average price of the residential area is over 100,000 yuan. The price of the building where they are located is so high that Li Fu has never dared to even think about buying a toilet in his life.
Even Rookie, whose net worth skyrocketed after his success, lamented during a live broadcast: "Our IG base must be quite expensive. If I were to buy a house as big as the base in Gangnam (South Korea), I probably wouldn't be able to rest for a single day in my life."
Boss Wang was very generous and bought a 300-square-meter apartment to use as a training base. However, compared with the club where more than a dozen players and staff live together, it is still a bit crowded.
It is said that the IG management club is currently preparing to improve living conditions, not moving, but buying another floor above the base...
At nine o'clock in the evening, when Li Fu returned to the club, he happened to meet the starting members of IG who were returning to the club after playing the game in Hongqiao Tiandi.
At the elevator door, coach Chris was pressing the button to close the door.
Seeing Li Fu coming in, Chris was stunned for a moment, then pressed the elevator button and forced a smile, "It's Brother Fu, let's go up together."
Chris had spent a brief time with Li Fu when he was ordering takeout at Royal Club before, so they had some friendship, but that was all. Calling him "Brother Fu" was more of a politeness based on age.
The other members of IG just looked up at him, then lowered their eyes and stopped talking.
No one asked where Li Fu had gone.
After all, everyone knows that based on Li Fu's performance in last year's S5 World Championship and his current age, he will definitely leave IG when his contract expires at the end of the spring season.
Still staying at the base.
That was Principal Wang's nostalgia.
I can't bear to drive away an old veteran who is on the decline.
Rookie smiled and nodded at Li Fu. The two were roommates living in the same room.
Speaking of which, this little fat boy has always been very polite, humble and sincere.
Maybe it also has something to do with his experience.
After all, in the "Korean aid boom" of LPL last year, other Korean aids were bought with "high sums of money", but he was the only one who got a buy-one-get-one-free gift.
However, after a year,
Rookie, the mid laner that IG gave away when they bought the jungler, is currently one of the few Korean players in LPL who has not only lived up to his worth, but also made himself crazy "premium".
If he hadn't led IG into the World Championship, Principal Wang, who boasted last year that "If I can't make it to the World Championship in S5, I will go on a live broadcast and eat shit," might have really faced a "difficult choice" in his life.
Eat or not eat,
This is indeed a problem.
Therefore, this year, IG let go of Kakao, who was bought at the beginning, but only kept Rookie, and then replaced the jungler with Ashun, who helped Boss Wang block the atomic bomb in the bottom lane.
The elevator goes up.
There was a moment of silence in the air.
Li Fu originally wanted to ask about the result of the match against EDG this afternoon.
But when he saw the Sima faces of the crowd, he tactfully stopped talking.
Come to think of it, if the future memory of his career that he glimpsed was correct, IG's performance this season was not ideal.
In the end, we almost had to play a relegation match with the LSPL team.
After narrowly qualifying for the playoffs as the last one, IG, which had a poor performance throughout the season, could not improve even after a temporary lineup change with the addition of Tabe. In the end, they lost to Snake 0:3 in the first round of the quarter-finals, ending their entire spring season journey.
A team's defeat never happens overnight.
The 2016 Spring Split journey just started today , and IG is already showing signs of decline.
The feeling it gives...
It doesn't seem like this is a team that can win the game.
…
The elevator leads directly to the base.
The dejected jungler Ah Xun suddenly perked up and shouted to the club's cooking aunt, "I'm starving. Serve the food first."
Hearing this,
Coach Chris couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
But there was nothing he could do.
This guy probably really did block an atomic bomb for Principal Wang.
Last year's World Championship ended in surrender, and although Li Fu took the blame for the public opinion, Chris once thought that he would replace Ashun this year.
I didn't expect that there would be a change this year, and Su Xiaoluo replaced Achuan with the jungler position.
What else can he say?
Do you think the IG club is too humane?
Thinking of this, Chris looked back at Li Fu, who went to the water dispenser to get water as soon as he entered the base, and couldn't help but sigh again in his heart.
He wanted to change IG's lineup and adjust the personnel configuration this season, but Li Fu's age is a big problem.
In fact, there are not many players of this age who are active in the arena. Ma Run, the FMVP of the S5 Finals who was bought by LGD this year, is one of them.
But that's just an exception among exceptions.
Not every professional player is called Ma Run.
The condition of older professional players is declining and their operation is distorted. They should have retired long ago at this age.
Let’s just forget it…
Chris shook his head.
When the contract expires at the end of the spring season, if Li Fu still wants to stay in this circle, he can use his connections to introduce him to behind-the-scenes jobs such as analyst. That would be the most he can do.
He shook his head and thought about IG, which is in a precarious situation right after the start of the spring season, and the initial problems that have emerged in the team.
Chris' heart was covered with a layer of haze again.
IG at least got a ticket to the S game last year,
Save Boss Wang from eating shit.
What if we can’t even make it to the S League this year?
Then his career as a Chinese coach has come to an end. Su Xiaoluo will definitely not keep him...
well!
The coach is so fucking difficult.
…
After dinner,
Everyone came to the training room for training.
IG's training room is in a very good location. You can see the Huangpu River by opening the curtains. It's a pity that the view only belongs to the starting players.
Li Fu was sitting next to the water dispenser in the corner. From his angle, he could only see the bright lights on the other side of the Huangpu River at night, which did not belong to him.
"Brother Fu! Help me get a glass of water."
The jungler Axun brought over a large cup and operated it while speaking without turning his head.
"OK."
Li Fu took the water cup without saying a word and filled it up. He also walked around behind several starting players and offered to help anyone who needed a hand.
At this time, Rookie and others were playing ranked games in the international version of Canyon of Heroes.
It has to be said that the opening of the international version of Canyon of Heroes this year has become a holy place for countless professional players.
Just like a champion in a professional arena.
Everyone wants to be the first.
Of course, the premise is that it does not affect training. For starting professional players, the competition is more important.
However, professional players and high-scoring passers-by from all over the world now gather in the international server of Canyon of Heroes, which greatly improves the quality and strength of the top segments. The ranking of Canyon of Heroes will undoubtedly become the best way for professional players to maintain their feel and condition on a daily basis.
All major LPL clubs have changed their monthly Rank salary assessments one after another. IG's manager, Fudan top student Su Xiaoluo, announced at dinner that the assessment would be changed from the previous Korean server to the Canyon of Heroes international server. Those who could not reach Master 200 points before the end of the month would have their salary deducted.
At that time, he glanced at Li Fu, coughed and added that all personnel were within the scope of assessment.
Obviously, the substitutes also have to be deducted.
In the past, Li Fu might have been worried.
After all, his basic salary at IG was only over 9,000 yuan, and he had to send some back to his parents in his hometown. The daily expenses in a big city like Jianghai were not small, so he was stretched every month.
But now it's different.
What does it mean that the master will have 200 points at the end of the month?
Your goal now is to become the first champion of S6 in a week!
Thinking of this, Li Fu suddenly became full of fighting spirit. He took out the four-dollar bottle of Master Kong iced black tea and put it next to him. Tonight he decided to go all the way and finish all the placement matches first!
Work hard!
Outside the training room, Chris closed the door gently and saw Li Fu take out his signature large bottle of iced black tea again, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
He was once an internet addict.
Anyone who has spent the night in an Internet cafe knows what this four-dollar cup of iced tea means.
Three pieces are face, and four pieces are life.
It's not that I can't afford the small bottle.
It’s just that the big bottle is more cost-effective.
Just one dollar more, but you can get a 500ml bottle of "Pu Luo" version of iced black tea.
It can make you full of firepower,
Enjoy the whole night!
There is nothing much to say. It seems that Li Fu will have to stay up all night again tonight.
But Chris was clear about Li Fu's rank level, and he had seen him play all night before.
Last year, he spent the entire season ranked over 100 points in the Korean server, but when the monthly salary was paid, he would work all night to score several dozen points to secure his performance-based salary, which perfectly fits his "stereotype" of those older guys scattered in major clubs.
Inadvertently, Chris glanced at Li Fu's computer and found that he had opened the Shark Live broadcast.
This year, the entire IG team signed a contract with Shark, and each player has a live broadcast room. However, the starting players do not broadcast live often for the sake of training and confidentiality.
But Li Fu didn't care.
Being able to make a living through live streaming is also a way to succeed.
Chris subconsciously glanced at the title of Li Fu's live broadcast room.
“Who is the best at the top of the canyon? Watch the anchor aiming for the top spot in the canyon!”
???
Chris's mouth twitched suddenly.
Li Fu wants to be... the first in the canyon?
Is this something you consider?
Is this really an appropriate title for an old guy like you?
However, thinking that live streaming these days is all about gimmicks and show effects, Chris shook his head and thought that Li Fu was about to retire and his focus had shifted to live streaming.
I don't comment on this.
But at this moment, the noble lady from Beijing in the training room suddenly screamed like a ghost!
"Oh my god! This blind monk's operation is amazing!"
The jungler next to him, Axun, took off his headphones, slid his gaming chair over to look at his computer, and asked curiously, "What operation made you, a weirdo, so surprised?"
Zizi pointed at the computer page and browsed the top ten popularity rankings of Bilibili and saw that video.
"That's it. It seems to be played by a blind monk named Badman. Tsk tsk... What a cool name. It seems that many professional junglers are trying to challenge this combo in practice mode tonight. Ah Xun, do you want to try it too? I saw that the factory manager was challenging it live."
"What combo?"
"The comment said... it seems to be called something like 'Li's Triangle Kill'?"
“…”
Um?
Next to the water dispenser, Li Fu turned his head after taking a sip of iced black tea.
