Chapter 181 Karsa: Director, I am your fan too!
Boom, boom, boom—
Boom boom boom boom——
In the CB-LOL studio in Sao Paulo, the sound of enthusiastic war drums rang out.
At the edge of the main stage, dancers dressed in traditional Brazilian costumes stood in a line and performed under the interweaving spotlights.
The big screen above played exciting footage from the S5 and S6 MSI finals, as well as documentaries of this year's participating teams winning the championship and the trophy.
As the samba music gradually became more and more exciting, giant flags representing the major competition regions rose from all around the stage.
Regardless of whether they make it to the group stage, they have secured a place in the mid-season championship race.
The camera looks around.
Go to center.
The words 2017, MID-SEASON, INVITATIONAL (League of Legends Mid-Season Championship) appeared on the big screen.
Accompanied by the host's introduction.
The six teams entered the venue one by one along the contestant channel.
The previous champion SKT stood in front, and Faker returned the golden Champion Canyon trophy to the pre-arranged pedestal.
The screen changes.
Transition from a bird's-eye view of the two host cities to the front of the venue.
Representative players from the six teams appeared in front of the camera one by one and expressed their thoughts on participating in the competition.
"Can G2 defeat SKT?"
A Shui is quite looking forward to it.
The EDG members returned to the backstage lounge, waiting for the second round, and watched the live broadcast on the monitor placed on the computer cabinet.
"It's hard to say, let's see how the lineup is selected."
Xing Dao felt there was a chance.
In a BO1 match, it is easy for the weak to defeat the strong.
The reason is that when strong teams are confident and have room for error, they will subconsciously hide their things.
The weaker teams don’t care about anything else. They don’t consider the follow-up or any trump cards and just want to win the game in front of them.
As expected.
When G2 was at a disadvantage in terms of player strength, they first showed Ashe and Zyra to trick SKT into using the substitute combination of Varus and Miss Fortune.
Then use the regular Lee Sin to play jungle, and let Peanut, who is gradually being trained to be a "small brushman", use the male gun who can continuously stack passive armor in the jungle and is not afraid of invasion .
The top laner intended to counter Galio and chose Crocodile.
In the middle lane, it is the matchup between Clockwork Mage and Dark Sovereign Syndra .
Right at the start of the game, G2 used their stronger combat power to gather and invade, catching Faker who was standing guard in the river bush, and Lee Sin got the first blood.
The tempo took off immediately.
In ten minutes, the female gunner was killed once.
At thirteen and a half minutes, he led the mid and top players to force their way across the tower.
It was a great start with a 4-0 score and a blood tower.
However……
Looking at the economy, the lead is only fifteen hundred.
“No more .”
The factory manager shook his head: "There is no real advantage in fighting like this, it is impossible to win."
As expected.
In just seventeen minutes, SKT made up for the economic gap.
Twenty-two minutes later, the score was over 3,000.
With the dual strong control of Galio and Varus, and the burst of Syndra and Graves, even if G2's top laner Crocodile has purchased the Armor of Invigoration, he will still be taken away if he is fixed.
Not to mention other squishy heroes, even the support Miss Fortune's ranged ultimate can't handle it.
What's even more outrageous is that Ashe entered the "scraping" mode and activated the Q skill [Shooter's Focus], and each arrow shot out 16 points of damage...
Although G2 team put up a very determined resistance, relying on Clockwork and Lee Sin to sneak attack the back row to delay time.
But no matter how clever the tactics are, they cannot make up for the lack of development ability.
At 40 minutes, G2, whose members were one big item behind, had no chance of continuing to resist, and could only lose regretfully in the face of SKT's advancement with the Double Dragons.
"Everything is ready, it's time to go on stage."
Abu greeted the team members and reminded them: "Test the peripherals first. Official storage does not mean there will be no problems. If it does not work, you must give us feedback in time."
"Don't be careless during the game. It would be embarrassing to lose to FW."
"Don't worry, manager. Leave it to me. No fool would lose to the provincial team!" After Xing Dao took on all the responsibilities, he suddenly felt a little strange: "Hey, factory brother, why do you look so bad? Do you have a cold?"
“No, no.” The factory director shook his head: “The provincial team is actually quite strong.”
"Only the Flash Wolf is okay, the rest are just rubbish." Xing Dao didn't care at all.
Just finished.
I found that the points added to 7777.
Only then did I realize that things are not that simple.
"Hahahahahaha, that's too much!" Meiko laughed so hard that she fell backwards.
"Oh, have we ever lost to other provincial teams?" Xing Dao only remembered losing to AHQ in the S7 group stage, but not this one, and it probably won't happen again.
"We lost to AHQ once in S4..." Meiko whispered.
"Oh!" Xing Dao suddenly realized.
"The factory guy dealt over a thousand points of damage." Meiko continued.
"Oh!" Xing Dao seemed to have discovered a new world.
"What do you mean by a little over a thousand ? How can it be a little over a thousand?" The factory manager was very dissatisfied: "It's one thousand five hundred and eighty-nine. Look at my lip movements. 1-5-8-9!"
"Oh!" Xing Dao suddenly felt a little puzzled: "Brother Changzi, why do you seem so proud..."
"Go, go, go, go! You guys, you just do nothing but slander me all day long." The factory director waved his hand and said, "Go, go, go, let's go to the stage."
Walk along the contestant channel to the front desk.
Official staff have replaced the EDG team's temporary peripherals, but no other software has been installed, so they can only be tested in custom mode.
"Hello, fellow summoners!"
"Welcome to the 2017 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational, the live broadcast of the second game of the first day of the group stage!"
"I'm Ze Yuan."
"I am a hallucinogen."
"I'm Rita."
The Chinese channel first gave the screen to the three commentators.
In addition to Ze Yuan, who has gradually taken over the title of Poison Milk, and Zhihuan, who is in the King rank, there is also a new face who appears in a key event for the first time.
"The two participating teams are EDG from our LPL region and FW from the LMS region."
Ze Yuan introduced: "FW crushed Türkiye SUP 3-0 in the second round of the play-in match and advanced to the group stage. Their strength should not be underestimated."
"There is a joke." Zhihuan added: "It says that there are two kinds of teams in the LMS region, one is FW, and the other is the other teams."
"Yes, Flash Wolves FW is the undisputed overlord of LMS, and is also known as the anti-Korean hero." Ze Yuan recalled: "In the S5 finals, FW double-killed KOO. In last year's MSI Mid-Season Championship, FW even achieved a double-kill of SKT in the group stage."
"Wow, so strong?" Rita showed her presence.
"They are indeed very strong." Ze Yuan replied casually, and continued the conversation based on the information on the screen: "Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both teams."
"EDG is still the familiar five-man team."
"General in top lane, Zweizhang in jungle, Scout in mid lane, JackeyLove and Meiko both left."
"FW top laner MMD, jungler Karsa, mid laner Maple, bottom lane is Betty and SwordArt."
“Speaking of this, there is a very interesting thing.”
There was a two-second pause.
Ze Yuan kept everyone in suspense before speaking with a smile: "Karsa, a player, once said in an interview, 'FW, never wipe out' and 'I am now the manager of LMS'. He must be a loyal fan of the manager."
