Volume 2 Chapter 83: Opening Ceremony, on stage!
Could it be that Lee Sang Hyuk couldn't get Eun Jung and has now changed his sexual orientation?
Ha people!
Xu Yuan fell into deep thought.
He had no idea that Li Xianghe was the abstract Niu Niu.
So I have no idea how I knew each other.
Naturally, you will feel confused.
Think about it.
It's like you and your rival have an appointment to play a Solo League of Legends game tonight, but before the game, your rival says to you lovingly:
Handsome guy, competition comes second, friendship comes first.
I'm awesome!
Who wouldn’t be afraid of this?
Considering the current level of contempt that LCK has for LPL, the attitude shown by Lee Sang-hyeok is a bit too friendly.
"You two know each other?"
Mingkai spoke with some suspicion.
Xu Yuan immediately became serious.
"Brother, you know me."
"I was born and raised in CN. Every day I'm either training or watching videos. How can I have the time to get to know Lee Sang Hyuk?"
"Whenever I meet him in Rank, I always remember that I am an EDG player and I dare not say a word to him!"
Mingkai nodded, "Yes."
"But it's really strange... I remember when we played against them in the MSI last time, Lee Sang-hyuk didn't talk to us except for shaking hands."
He muttered to himself as he went down to the third floor restaurant with Xu Yuan.
The EDG players live in rooms 401 to 403, while the coaching staff lives on the second floor.
It was a pity that Xu Yuan did not see the contestants he wanted to meet during this meal.
Flash Wolves' Karsa and G2's talented mid laner, Perkz.
Karsa needs no introduction.
Although he comes from the LMS region, his level is surprisingly high.
He was the main contributor to Flash Wolves' occasional victory over the Korean team in the World Championship and became the hero in the fight against Korea.
If he were in a Korean POW camp, he would at least be a battalion commander.
Moreover, this player also joined the LPL's RNG team in the future S8 and performed equally well.
Even after transferring to TES, he is still undoubtedly a top rhythm jungler.
The strength is awesome.
Xu Yuan is still quite curious about Karsa.
Despite the scandal of going abroad to play jungle, S8RNG's dominance in the league stage also depends on him.
The other person he wanted to meet was naturally Perkz.
【A P】
【Returnees】
[Gambler’s Nightmare]
【CJB Theory Prover】
【LCS region is always the god】
All of the above titles belong to him: G2.Perkz!
Born in 1998, Ah P just celebrated his 19th birthday this year, but he is already the undisputed king of Europe.
Since entering the top European league in 2016, G2 has won three consecutive LCS championships.
What is dominance?
This is dominance!
Although it may have something to do with the fact that another talented mid laner, Caps, has not yet fully entered his peak period, he is definitely the number one mid laner in Europe right now.
The real King of Europe.
In 2017, the original LPL champion WE was sent away by G2.
And Perkz definitely deserves credit for this.
After Caps, who was at his peak, joined G2, this player was directly switched to AD, and he played surprisingly well.
His career can definitely be summed up in four words: magnificent!
If North America is Doublelift's backyard, then Europe is undoubtedly Ah P's football field.
He can swim as a dragon however he wants!
Xu Yuan's eyes swept across the field and saw many familiar-looking players.
Like the Flash Wolves’ mid laner Maple Fengtang, who has two particularly obvious bags under his eyes and looks very weak in the kidneys.
The support SwordArt Snake who speaks in a very funny way and laughs loudly.
G2's "capable and famous" ADC, Zven.
TSM's mid laner, who doesn't have a big beard yet, is a pure e-sports young talent, Bjergsen.
These people's IDs were all names that he was familiar with when he was lying in bed.
This is the World Championship!
Compete with top players from different regions for the same goal: the MSI championship.
The competition begins!
There is always someone better than you, and it's hard to win the championship among this group of people.
But since Xu Yuan is standing here, he must think about whether this is his only chance in his life.
After dinner, I brought some food upstairs for other teammates.
Xu Yuan entered his room, washed up, and fell asleep immediately.
He had to adjust to the time difference.
In fact, it is not only EDG players and coaches who came to Brazil from LPL.
In fact, there were eight other commentators who also came to the scene.
They are responsible for the live broadcast commentary.
At this moment, the commentator Wawa was standing there awkwardly.
Time goes back five minutes.
The commentators who had also arrived were discussing what to eat and decided to go downstairs to eat.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they went downstairs, they met the commentator sent from South Korea.
The commentator was not very tall, but surprisingly strong, and he bumped into the baby head-on.
"I'm sorry, are you okay?"
Wawa stood up, spoke in English with a hint of apology, and stretched out her hand to pull him up.
The Korean commentator just glanced at his outstretched hand, got up and brushed off the dust on himself.
He just ignored me and left.
Only the doll was left standing there frozen.
"Who is it?"
Su Xiaoyan was quite dissatisfied.
It was clearly the Korean guy who bumped into us. Human Doll apologized to him, but he ignored her and just walked away!
This quality is really outrageous.
She wanted to chase after him to argue, but was stopped by Miller, who had a gloomy look on his face.
"Forget it, Xiaoyan."
Su Xiaoyan looked around and saw that many of the commentators from other regions were looking over with smiles on their faces, as if they were enjoying a good show.
After getting their meals, several people sat in a corner.
Miller spoke earnestly.
"Don't worry about them. They never looked down on us."
"Why?"
Su Xiaoyan immediately asked back.
"Based on grades."
The doll sighed.
"We couldn't even beat Europe and the US last year. The players performed poorly on the field, and the LPL commentators didn't have the confidence to greet people backstage."
"Not to mention if a conflict breaks out, Riot won't care."
Without strength, you can only be beaten.
Even commentating is integral to the honor of the region.
LPL’s performance in the world championship is so bad that the LPL commentators are also looked down upon.
LPL is a garbage region.
The commentary from that rubbish division is naturally rubbish too.
That's what I mean.
Riot doesn't care about this at all.
Invisible discrimination is inevitable.
Su Xiaoyan clenched her fists, but could only let go helplessly.
“I hope EDG can win.”
She spoke in a pleading tone.
"Who doesn't want EDG to win? Although I support RNG in China, now that EDG has announced that they will go to LPL, I must support EDG. After all, this is an honor for the region."
Miller sighed.
“But it’s hard to win.”
"Let's not talk about SKT. G2 and Flash Wolves in Europe are not weak teams either."
His eyes were somewhat vacant and he ate mechanically.
The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment.
This is just a small episode.
More than a day passed in a flash, and May 11th arrived.
The 2017 Brazil Mid-Season Invitational is about to usher in its opening ceremony!
At this time, Xu Yuan had already arrived at the scene with the team.
Standing at the team entrance of the stadium, he looked refreshed and full of fighting spirit.
The discomfort caused by the time difference has completely disappeared.
Even if the famous LPL adjustment master A Shui came, I guess he can only evaluate him:
The adjustment is good, we are very satisfied.
The scene had completely gone dark.
Several European and American commentators were dressed in formal attire and smiling.
The famous Chinese commentator Maomao looked a little serious.
"Welcome to the opening ceremony. After the countdown ends, we will bring you the 2017 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational, group stage games!"
The blonde commentator sitting at the front spoke very quickly, because the countdown in the center of the venue had already begun.
When he finished speaking, the countdown had already started.
As the countdown reached 5, the audience began to count down in unison.
The exaggerated sound waves, like the waves of the sea, hit Xu Yuan one after another!
Although it is a group stage, the venue for the opening ceremony is not small.
In the dimly lit audience, there were all kinds of graffiti painted with fluorescent paints, people shouting wildly, and everyone counting down in unison.
The kind of restless feeling that is so intense that it makes one's blood boil permeates the entire air.
“Boom!”
As the countdown came to an end, a dull drumbeat sounded.
Then there was a burst of intensive drum beats.
Xu Yuan can only say that it has quite local characteristics. Listening to it reminds people of samba, but it's a bit too plain.
It doesn’t feel as good as 2016…Shanghai.
But it is a pity that RNG failed to win last year's MSI .
As the drum performance came to an end.
On the four huge screens in the middle of the screen, highlights began to appear, starting from the first MSI Mid-Season Invitational in 2015 to the second one last year.
"The first centralized invitational tournament has come to Florida!"
Along with the commentary, Faker appeared with a serious expression on his face.
"Faker has never lost withs Lebron!"
This was the praise the commentator gave him at the time.
Faker's LeBron, also known as LeBron.
Never lost!
But this time, he lost.
In the team battle at the dragon pit in the picture, Faker was seized by EDG and killed instantly.
The passionate commentary sounded again!
"EDG is taking down Faker!"
"EDG from LPL will become the champion of the first MSI Mid-Season Invitational in 2015!"
Mingkai looked up, silently staring at the 2015 EDG team hugging each other tightly in the picture.
He once naively thought that they really had a chance that year, after all, they even beat SKT.
In the end, it was still like a bubble.
Now, things and people have changed.
But when he turned around and saw Xu Yuan, he smiled silently again.
The current EDG is also pretty good.
Next, of course, is the 2016 MSI clip.
I don't know if the punch was intentional or accidental.
Obviously, SKT was the MSI champion of S6, but before showing the footage of SKT winning the championship, it showed a clip of RNG beating SKT in the group stage.
It's just... quite outrageous.
As the 2016 MSI screen ended, the gold-plated words "2017" appeared in the center of the screen.
“Welcome to the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational in Sao Paulo, Brazil!”
It opens with these words.
Above the stadium, team flags began to slowly drop one after another.
EDG from LPL, SKT from LCK, G2 from Europe, TSM from North America, FW Flash Wolves from Taiwan, GAM from Vietnam...
One after another, flags printed with the team's logo were hung at the competition venue.
And it’s not just the teams that make it to the group stage.
Even the flags of other teams eliminated in the qualifying rounds were put up by Riot.
Xu Yuan couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the fist.
Even though Riot is a piece of shit when it comes to balance, they are still pretty good at handling human relationships. They are a master at keeping things in balance.
It was so gentle and spicy that Xu Yuan almost cried to death!
Next, of course, it’s time for the players to appear on stage.
"Just smile and wave later. Don't be nervous. Smile widely and walk slowly to the center of the venue. Do you remember the position from the rehearsal this morning?"
Mingkai gave instructions in a low voice, as patiently as an old father who was afraid that his silly son would run back home because it was raining.
The foolish son Xu Yuan who was warned: ...
"Brother, I'm not a three-year-old child."
He was a little amused.
Ming Kai didn't mind at all, "It's okay , I just reminded you, it's best if you remember it!"
The first team to be introduced is the G2 team from the European region.
The core of the team, A P, was undoubtedly standing at the front, waving his arms to greet the audience.
Xu Yuan was not far away and could clearly see the expression of enjoyment on his face.
Next is TSM from the North American region.
The Brazilian audience is actually very enthusiastic and they cheer when each team comes out.
It's just that they are more enthusiastic about TSM, which is known as the North American cult.
The reason why it is called the North American cult is because TSM is like LGD in LPL. No matter which team appears on the field, there will always be people shouting their team name.
The one walking in the front is naturally the core mid laner, Bjergsen.
Bilson, a handsome young European and American boy wearing glasses and looking youthful, walked down the aisle with a dazzling step.
He seemed very shy.
Next, of course, is GAM.
As a team from the Vietnam region, they were able to make it to the group stage, which shows they have some strength.
…though probably not much.
Some Vietnamese audiences who came to the scene also shouted excitedly.
Being able to enter the finals is an honor in itself for a small region!
Especially in a region like Vietnam which is just starting out.
They feel that this is the most glorious moment for the Vietnam region.
But they were wrong.
At least Xu Yuan knew it very well.
There will be a lot of fermented bean curd in Vietnam in the future!
After GAM in Vietnam, it is naturally EDG.
"The team from LPL, EDG!"
Following the host's introduction, Xu Yuan, who was standing at the front with Scout, took a deep breath and smiled towards the camera.
He waved and walked down the contestant channel.
“Wow~”
The Chinese commentator Maomao couldn't help but sigh.
On the big screen, the boy in the EDG team uniform looked a little immature, but his outstanding and delicate features still made her exclaim in surprise.
In one word, cute.
Not only cute, but also handsome!
Although the cat said nothing, it seemed as if it had said everything.
Xu Yuan walked steadily, his steps steady and appropriate.
It has to be said that he left a very good impression on audiences all over the world.
Especially in South Korea, where there are many people who love appearance.
Many Korean female viewers have started to look up his ID.
I still support SKT, but...
When EDG is not playing against SKT, it should be OK for us Korean female viewers to support EDG.
……Bar?
The last to appear was naturally SKT.
They were the MSI champions last year.
At this moment, he appeared directly from the center of the stage , holding the championship trophy in his hand .
Li Xianghe and his teammates held the trophy and placed it on the trophy stand in the center of the stage.
No drag at all.
“Although it may be lost for a short time, it will come back soon.”
That's what he thought.
The opening ceremony ends here.
The competition is about to begin!
