It’s not the first time for everyone to win the championship, so naturally they are much calmer than the first time.
This time, the FMVP player was given to top laner Smeb, which did not surprise Xu Yuan.
His performance in this BO5 was indeed outstanding, and EDG's single-lane system was built on him.
"Smeb, now that you've won the Finals MVP award, what are your thoughts now?"
The smiling host asked curiously.
“I hope I can win the championship easily.”
Smeb hesitated for a moment.
"Ah? Isn't this already..."
The host was stunned for a moment.
"I'm talking about the S-League."
Smeb reminded calmly.
Instantly, cheers broke out at the scene.
Everybody likes arrogant ones!
The players and coaches held up the Silver Dragon Cup and raised it high.
Silver fireworks also fell from the sky at this time.
Summer season, over!
Next came the departure ceremony, but there is no need to elaborate on this.
After Xu Yuan stepped down from the stage, Meiko skillfully put her arm around his shoulders.
"What do you mean? Do you want to celebrate?"
"Where are we going to celebrate? All I can think about right now is League of Legends."
Xu Yuan spoke seriously.
Li Xianghe nodded approvingly and patted his shoulder.
"Heroes think alike."
Xu Yuan looked surprised. "Is this a word you can master? Lee Sang Hyuk's Chinese is really good."
Li Xianghe showed a smug look on his face and snorted.
“As long as I put my mind to it, there is nothing I can’t do.”
Neither of the two Cs was in the mood to celebrate, so everyone naturally chose to go straight back to the base.
After leaving the finals venue, the fans outside the door suddenly burst into cheers when they saw them.
They are not like LNG, they always go out through the front door.
On the one hand, Lao Zhuza and Yuan Za rarely scolded the contestants and tended to encourage them.
On the other hand, EDG basically never loses a game.
As long as you don’t lose the game, your fans will treat you like a treasure.
If we lose the game there will be many problems, so wouldn’t it be fine if we didn’t lose?
Xu Yuan waved and greeted everyone with a smile, then signed autographs for the fans who could sign as usual, and told them to go back and rest early.
He treats men and women equally, and both men and women are his good fans.
After getting on the bus, Mingkai was still a little amazed.
"Gui Gui, Yuan Zi, aren't your fans a bit exaggerated?"
As the first generation of traffic in LPL, Mingkai is not a person without popularity.
However, neither he nor Uzi can compare to Xu Yuan's current popularity.
Even if added together, there is still some distance to go.
“This is what it means to be handsome.”
Xu Yuan looked quite distressed and sighed.
Mingkai:?
Byd, if you can’t speak, then don’t speak!
What do you mean? What do you mean?
"Am I not handsome, Brother Kai?"
Xu Yuan glanced at him, smiled, and said nothing.
But Mingkai felt that his self-esteem was damaged.
Ignoring the two people fighting behind him, Li Xianghe leaned against the window and turned on his cell phone.
Get on the pressure-resistant backrest skillfully and start enjoying it.
It is worth mentioning that there is no insulting taunting like "Kenwei 4" or "Dafei" in this anti-bar.
Mainly because Lee Sang Hyuk is now a LPL player.
That's okay.
The bottom line of the resistance bar is indeed terribly low, but now EDG's popularity is also terribly high.
The girl on Weibo said she knew how to open the box.
If you slander Lee Sang Hyuk, you might get a call the next day:
"Are you Mr. X from XX City, XX Province?"
I'm super, box!
So now, even if it is maggot-resistant, I dare not play around.
I can only crawl in the dark and say yes.
"EDG 3:0 IG, I send the players and you judge their scores!"
When Li Xianghe saw such a post, he curled his lips and showed a bored expression.
"Dead?"
Click into the post and give him the friendliest blessing without hesitation:
"Giving grades all day long, what a bunch of grade-giving bastards!"
I have to say, it's pretty vulgar.
The Lee Sang Hyuk of the past would never be like this.
But now, as he visits more and more forums, Lee Sang-hyeok has truly figured out how to use the Internet.
The Internet, it needs to vent!
Li Xianghe's quality can only be said to need to be lowered. Letting Xu Yuan come here is probably because he wants to say "I'm going to fucking kill all of you bastards."
Li Xianghe was browsing the forum and was amused by the silly netizens from time to time.
At this time, Xu Yuan had already started chatting with the contestants he knew.
It’s outrageous that the first people to congratulate him after he won the championship were not Puzi and A Shui.
The two sent their blessings quite quickly. Although Ah Shui lost, he was very generous and chose to send his blessings in person.
But the fastest one is...
Ah P!
How fast?
Before the first game was over, Perkz's blessing was sent in the private chat.
Fortunately, Xu Yuan had time to take a look after the game, otherwise he would have missed it.
Because Xu Yuan felt that he was not very familiar with A P.
So I politely expressed my gratitude.
Unexpectedly, the other party replied immediately.
"Oh, man, you look so handsome in your tournament uniform."
After the summer finals, it was the LPL's departure ceremony. This year's S8 departure uniform is really good-looking. It is a hooded windbreaker with a completely different style from the previous ones.
With a height of over 1.8 meters, Xu Yuan perfectly displayed that kind of cold and sharp temperament.
His handsome and cool face is a feast for the eyes of fans.
However, what Ah P said really made Xu Yuan a little uncomfortable.
byd, A P is not a gay, right?
Seeing that Xu Yuan was slow to respond, Ah P seemed to notice that there was something wrong with what he said.
"Haha, don't get me wrong, I have a girlfriend."
Xu Yuan's mouth twitched.
Don't explain. It makes me even more scared.
"Um...thank you?"
That was all he could say in reply.
"Savior, I look forward to playing against you in the World Championship. Watching your game has already made my blood boil."
"By the way, I think we can beat RNG to pieces."
"Please notify RNG, we will send them home."
A P posted a lot of things over there and showed their confidence.
Xu Yuan said nothing, just gave a thumbs up in response.
I guess A-P has already started studying his opponents for the World Championship during the summer season.
After all, there are very few teams in Europe and the United States that can cause them trouble, and they can enter the World Championship with just any team.
Obviously, they have done the most research on RNG.
Because RNG is probably the only team among the three LPL teams that is currently participating in the expedition that has relatively weak top, mid and jungle positions.
And G2 felt that they could break through.
After finishing the chat with A-P, the bus arrived at EDG.
The intense and exciting world competition training camp has quietly begun.
There is less than a month left until the start of the World Championship.
As soon as the training camp started, some problems were exposed .
"I've said it many times, I need a faster pace!"
"Even if we can let it go in the early stages, we must play as strong as we can. Do we have to drag the game to the late stages against a rubbish team?"
"We must fight more compactly! Don't give the opponent any chance if we can beat them!"
kkoma kept emphasizing.
"Rhythm! Rhythm! How many times do I have to emphasize this?"
"Hasn't this been said before? This is an easy question! Why don't you make any arrangements before fighting the dragon? Just start fighting right away? Do you have the advantage?"
"Once you have the vision, you must use it!"
After being scolded again and again, the EDG players quickly returned to their usual .
In the eyes of a coach like kkoma...
Summer finals?
It's nothing more than a game to get the number one seed.
Calling it a championship, is it even one-tenth as good as the S-League crown?
He doesn't care about anything except the S crown.
Even if you get it, it will still be just as strict.
“I’m so tired…”
It was a bit difficult for Xiaotian to experience kkoma’s strength before the World Championship for the first time.
At this moment, he was completely slumped in the gaming chair, holding a bottle of iced black tea in his left hand, his eyes dull.
kkoma is really strict.
His training included but was not limited to route optimization and vision arrangement. Many times, after a team fight started, I would silently stand behind him and watch him fight, and then pull him aside to review the game after the fight.
The pressure on Xiaotian was overwhelming.
However, Xiaotian admitted that this was indeed a great help to him.
At least some problems that he couldn't find before were gradually discovered through kkoma's review.
Is this what a top coach is capable of?
Xiaotian now feels that the coaches he met before were pure insects.
How can I play a good career with a coach like that?
“With great power comes great responsibility!”
Xu Yuan patted his shoulder with a serious look on his face.
"What Peter Parker? Dude's not fucking Spider-Man."
Xiaotian was speechless.
You kid, you are like my Uncle Ben, right?
Boy, that's not funny!
"hehe."
Xu Yuan sneered.
"Be happy, you garlic turtle, this is a treat that only Bengi has the chance to experience. The last person to experience it was Peanut."
"Coach kkoma is strict with you because he has high expectations for you!"
"Why are you complaining here? Are you looking for trouble on purpose? Just tell me whether you want it or not!"
Xiaotian's expression became serious.
What Xu Yuan said is indeed correct.
Not every player can get the guidance from kkoma.
But he always felt that Xu Yuan's words contained some CPU.
Is it an illusion?
As time went by, EDG trained more and more.
From one BO5 training match a day at the beginning, to two or even three games a day later.
Practice early game with teams that are strong in early game, practice team battles with teams that are strong in team battles in the late game, and practice operations with teams with excellent operation rhythm.
kkoma strictly formulates the plan.
At this moment, the fire in his heart was burning fiercely.
SKT!
Although SKT experienced many twists and turns this year, it still made it to the World Championship.
So kkoma wants to kill them.
Kkoma was naturally angry about leaving his original club.
Especially, he left because of infighting among the top management.
This made him even angrier.
What do you think SKT is!?
A bunch of scum like this should be beaten to death!
No one reads the public opinions online anymore.
All were immersed in almost endless training.
Until one day.
"It's over. I'll take a day off today and go to Korea the day after tomorrow."
As kkoma clapped his hands, the players, who had been nervous, finally realized what was happening.
It’s almost time for the World Championship group stage to begin.
As for the qualifying round?
kkoma had no intention of watching it, let alone using it as a reference.
Over the years, the strong heroes and systems in the qualifying rounds have not been of any reference value at all.
The only exception this year is the skateboard shoes.
"I won't say more."
He glanced at the somewhat tired contestants and smiled with satisfaction.
“I’m really happy that everyone persevered.”
This is not kkoma bragging, but the players are really amazing.
Even if you beat your opponent 3-0 in every BO5 training match, you will still have at least nine training matches every day in the later stages.
In addition to this time, the contestants also have to carry out their basic skills training.
Although you don't need to play Rank now, the strength is much higher than Rank.
Training for a minimum of twelve hours a day is no joke.
If EDG's training volume were to become public, it would likely drive other teams to despair.
You guys are already the strongest team right now, why are you training so hard?!
E-sports is the most realistic industry, where the bad ones are bad and the strong ones are strong.
Hard work really does pay off.
"Now is the most critical moment."
"Just like exams, MSI is only a midterm exam."
“We got very good results in the midterm, but because of this, we also shouldered greater expectations.”
kkoma spoke in a deep voice.
“Are you stressed?”
“Actually, I do, because no one knows what the world game meta will be like.”
"But I have enough confidence in you!"
kkoma suddenly smiled.
"No matter what version you are, you will be the strongest."
"We have only one goal, and that is the championship."
"If you can't win the championship, you'll be considered a failure!"
"We have won almost all the games since the start of the summer season."
"I look forward to seeing you win the S8 World Championship with an undefeated record as well."
"Get some rest, kids."
He patted all the contestants on the shoulders seriously.
"The meeting is adjourned!"
Xu Yuan turned around and glanced at his teammates. To be honest, their image was not very good.
Lee Sang-hyuk has a chicken coop on his head, Xiaotian has the classic Yu Yutian look, Smeb has terribly dark circles under his eyes, and Meiko also looks sleepy.
In this state, if they are photographed by unscrupulous marketing accounts when they go out, I guess there will be a report like [EDG's state is worrying and haggard, and it seems that their preparations for the World Championship are very unfavorable! ] soon.
The burden during this period is indeed quite heavy. Even Kkoma now has lost his former elegance. His suit is wrinkled and his hair is very messy.
But in the end I persevered.
It was because Xu Yuan was in high spirits during this period of time due to the passive triggering.
To the point that kkoma even doubted whether he was a normal human being.
"Rush for points?"
He looked at Lee Sang Hyuk and extended an invitation.
"Go."
Li Xianghe nodded in agreement.
Xu Yuan started a live broadcast, and fans who had not seen Xu Yuan for nearly a month were moved to tears.
“It’s finally here!”
"You kid, are you still willing to come?"
"I thought I would see you after the World Championships. How is Yuanzi's training going?"
"Yes, the contract is breached. The World Championship is more important."
Xu Yuan showed a confident smile.
"Everyone, rest assured, the training has come to an end. We will be playing in the World Championship tomorrow, so we will take a break today."
"As for the contract... Don't worry, the contract the platform signed with me is very loose and will not affect training."
"Today I plan to work with Li Xianghe to get points in the Korean server. After all, I haven't played for more than half a month, so the queue time should be much faster now."
While he was talking about some of the situations that could be discussed, he glanced at Lee Sang Hyuk's ID next to him.
Strangely enough, Lee Sang-hyuk has his own EDG.Faker account, but he often forgets the password of his account, which leads to him playing his small account hide on bush more often.
Xu Yuan took a look just to see which number to pull.
However, at this glance, Xu Yuan was stunned.
Because the account that Lee Sang Hyuk logged into...
The ID was the trash bull head that left a deep impression on him.
"I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"I told you at the time, I'm a professional player."
Li Xianghe spoke slowly.
Xu Yuan laughed angrily, "So it's you?"
At that time, the Minotaur did tell Xu Yuan that he was a professional player.
At that time, Xu Yuan thought that he was just bragging. How could such a rubbish Minotaur play professionally?
After all this time...it turns out that byd is the mid laner!
That's okay.
"Why is your bull head so abstract? Did you want to snipe me at that time?"
Xu Yuan asked directly.
The Minotaur was played so rubbishly, especially by Lee Sang Hyuk.
This is not the level that Lee Sang-hyeok should play at all.
Now that he knows he is Lee Sang Hyuk, Xu Yuan is going to torture him even more!
After all, he is one of the top five mid laners in the world, and he is definitely the number one in terms of honors.
Is it reasonable to play Minotaur like shit?
Xu Yuan really doesn't believe that this is not revenge.
Li Xianghe gave him a strange look, "Isn't it normal for me, a mid laner, to be a bit bad at supporting?"
"And my other supports are OK, but you always make me play Minotaur."
Xu Yuan was silent.
That's quite reasonable.
Without further ado, just start pulling!
"Fight hard today. Now I know you are the bull, and I must beat you hard."
Li Xianghe joined the team without hesitation.
Xu Yuan immediately clicked on the ranking.
After a while, he went in immediately!
Because Li Xianghe's account is undoubtedly the best.
The win rate remains at around 67%, but the KDA is not even 3. Winning a game only adds a dozen points at most, but losing a game deducts more than 20 points. Yet now he is at the Grandmaster level in the Korean server.
In the eyes of the system, he is an absolute winner without any effort.
The system really didn't wrongly accuse Li Xianghe. Judging from his performance as a bull head, to say that he won without any effort was because the system was too gentle on him.
A more accurate assessment would be that it is a purely negative effect.
"This time I'll show you my Lulu, my top-notch Lulu!"
Lee Sang-hyuk is ready to go and is very confident.
He wasn't kidding, his proficiency in Lulu was indeed very high, and his level was at least several steps higher than Niu Tou's.
"Okay?"
Xu Yuan didn't object.
Now it's just a matter of relaxing and gaining some points. It doesn't matter if Li Xianghe doesn't play Minotaur. He might even be in a happier mood.
At this time in the Korean club, Teddy's mouth was about to burst with laughter.
"Is it that classic combination again?"
He could see Xu Yuan on the opposite side, and the support was that very outrageous Minotaur ID.
But this time, the bull head turned into Lulu.
[EDG's AD is very strong, but unfortunately he is a masochist]
This is the only impression many Korean ADs have of Xu Yuan.
Their group is already very famous in Korea.
After all, Xu Yuan is the only AD who can stay in the Korean server Grandmaster League every day with such an outrageous Minotaur.
Everyone has the same impression:
EDG's AD is indeed strong, but his brain is indeed not very good.
That Minotaur support is recognized as a waste in the Korean AD circle.
The kind that is completely useless.
As a result, as long as Minotaur comes online, Xu Yuan will definitely pull him.
If this isn't a case of being stupid, then what is?
"Even Minotaur is such a rubbish, how can Lulu, a support that requires so much proficiency, be played well?"
Teddy chuckled and talked to himself.
Although Lulu’s mechanism is simple, this hero really requires proficiency.
The gap between the upper and lower limits is very large.
The rubbish Lulu is at most a mobile shield dog, the kind that doesn’t even have vision.
The powerful Lulu can win all laning matches with a useless AD.
Teddy felt that he had already scored this point.
He is very happy.
There aren't many ADs who can take up Xu Yuan's points.
Now only Deft and Ruler can still be eaten once or twice occasionally.
What? Uzi?
Uzi can’t get Xu Yuan on the Korean server.
It’s not that Uzi can’t score high.
Uzi is injured all over the place now, how can he have the time and energy to score points?
His condition is more maintained by training matches.
It is normal that you cannot rank among the top players in the Korean server like Xu Yuan who has been number one in the Korean server for many years.
Teddy's message was sent out before the laning match began.
【Everyone】Teddyy: Hi, Savior
【Everyone】Teddyy: take your baby to rank again?
Xu Yuan's mouth twitched and he almost laughed out loud.
Teddy is quite aggressive.
What he meant was very simple, "Hello buddy, bringing your baby to play rank again?"
Although it was just a joke, it really humiliated Lee Sang Hyuk.
Although Teddy had no idea that the support was Lee Sang Hyuk.
But Lee Sang Hyuk won't pretend nothing happened.
His face instantly turned dark and his eyes instantly became sharp.
"Teddy?"
"We're going to defeat him!"
These words somewhat hurt Li Xianghe's self-esteem.
He can't bear it!
Xu Yuan smiled without comment and prepared to see how he performed.
Ten minutes later.
In a Korean club.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Teddy's shocked voice suddenly rang out in the originally quiet training room.
"Is this person really the same person as the original person?"
Lulu's proficiency is really outrageous!
Li Xianghe's Lulu almost suffocated him and his assistant.
The blood transfusion was done very well.
【Everyone】Teddyy: lulu is Rot?
Li Xianghe's face turned even darker.
The word Rot generally refers to only one meaning in the gaming world:
Hanging dog.
【Everyone】qwerty1: Teddy, I'm Faker
He had to remind Teddy.
"Hahaha, he actually said he was Sang Hyuk."
Teddy burst out laughing at that time.
【Everyone】Teddyy: ok, you know who I am? im kkoma, nice to meet you, Faker, hahaha
Xu Yuan: ...
Boy, you seem a little naughty.
This time he really couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into laughter.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
Byd, Teddy is so damn funny.
It really made Xu Yuan laugh.
Xu Yuan smiled, and Li Xianghe also smiled.
"Let's talk after the fight."
He spoke lightly, as if nothing had happened.
But Xu Yuan knew that the big one was coming.
After finishing this rank game quickly, Teddy looked at the failure page indifferently.
It’s not shameful to lose to a cheater!
However, just as he was about to start the next game, his friend sent him a message.
"Sang Hyuk wants to ask you if you have changed your number."
"ah?"
Teddy was stunned for a moment.
Why is Xianghe looking for me at this time?
etc……
Just now, the humorous bull head said that he was Lee Sang Hyuk.
Could it be that...
Brother Xianghe probably wants to reward me for my bad teeth!
I saw through the person who pretended to be Brother Xiang He, so he must be praising me a lot, right?
Teddy was cheered up, as if he had reached the peak of his life.
As for the humorous bull head, is he Lee Sang Hyuk?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Do you think my Teddy doesn’t know Xianghe’s ID?
“No!”
He replied immediately.
There was no sound from my friend, and soon a phone call came in.
Teddy quickly saved the number and picked up the phone.
"Ani Asaiyo?"
"Is it contestant Teddy?"
As expected, Li Xianghe's voice came from the other end of the phone.
But Teddy thinks the voice is a bit rough.
Sounds like he's in a bad mood.
He didn't think much about it and answered respectfully.
"Inside!"
Without waiting for Lee Sang-hyuk to say more, Teddy took the credit directly.
"Brother, you know what? I just encountered a very interesting thing. I actually met a liar who pretended to be you."
"He played Minotaur like a primary school student, but Lulu played really well today."
"I said he was cheating, but he said he was you. Hahaha, I was dying of laughter. How could there be such a funny person?"
Teddy smiled.
However, there was silence on the other end of the phone.
Teddy gradually began to realize that something was wrong, and he spoke tentatively.
"Sang Hyuk-hyuk?"
After a long while, Li Xianghe's calm voice came.
"Teddy..."
"Is it possible...that person is really me?"
Teddy: ...
ah?
In the EDG club, Lee Sang-hyuk heard Teddy apologizing all the time and chose to forgive him.
After all, he is not a devil, so ignorance is not a crime.
However, the live broadcast effect of this segment is really explosive.
So soon a bunch of slices appeared on various platforms, even in South Korea.
Whether it was the LPL audience or the LCK audience, they all smiled.
"Oh awesome! There are people who point their fingers at others and scold them. Hahaha!"
"What on earth does Teddy want to do? I'm laughing so hard that my stomach hurts!"
"Li Sang Hyuk fainted, it's bad, I became a substitute!"
"Lee Sang Hyuk: I thought kkoma was sitting behind me. What kind of kkoma are you?"
The recording of the broadcast that Lee Sang Hyuk had booked with Heo Yuan a long time ago was also dug out by the audience who had a strong desire to explore.
"So you've been duo-queuing together for so long. Was that during the S7 Summer Season? It seems Yuanzi just won his first league championship at that time."
"Gui Gui, maybe this is true fate!"
"Is it possible that Lee Sang Hyuk came to EDG just for You Yuanzi?"
"Yuan Za Shou, enjoy the taste!"
Such hilarious news also diluted the serious atmosphere of the World Championship.
It adds some joy to this World Championship.
The days of rest passed quickly.
The next day after the rest, Xu Yuan and his teammates boarded a plane to South Korea.
S8, Incheon World Championship!
We are here!