Chapter 74: The Return of the Demon King
October 12th, the first day of the 2019 Global Finals Group Championship.
According to convention, each team only has one game every day in the first round of the group stage.
However, the LPL audience is lucky. The three teams in their own competition area each had one game on the first day of the group stage, and their opponents were not very strong. If nothing unexpected happens, everyone can comfortably see their team get a good start.
IG's first match is AHQ, the No. 1 seed in the LMS region.
The LPL audience of the AHQ team is very familiar with it. It was once known as EDG's own son and was a great contributor to EDG's quarter-finals.
However, AHQ seemed to have obtained the Alsace template and back-stolen his old father EDG in S7.
Perhaps it was because I added Seven to my ID. S7 was the peak period of Klin Lawu that year, and my performance and performance were not like the wai Kai who was in the quarterfinals every year.
Unfortunately, at the critical moment, Meigu stood up and destroyed Seven's transformation weapon and sent EDG back to her hometown. However, IG's team name is not EDG, so everyone is relieved about IG.
The opponent in FOX's first match is also JTeam, the second seed from the LMS region, a team sponsored by Boss Zhou.
When drawing lots, almost everyone thought that Xiao Fenghuang had gotten a good lottery. The teams in Group B and the teams in the LMS region had not reached the quarterfinals for many years, and the remaining two teams were not popular to win the championship.
The GAM in the Vietnamese competition area is also a team that everyone is familiar with. So far, it has never broken through the group stage. SPY, known as the European and American counterfeits, is considered a new face, but the European and American counterfeits have never been taken seriously by LPL audiences, so naturally they do not take the European Snake seriously.
As for RNG's first opponent, it is CG, the third seed from the LEC region. Although CG showed its strength in the LEC qualifying round and defeated two traditional teams, CLG and TSM, successfully qualifying, it is also a European and American force in the eyes of the audience, so everyone is more optimistic about RNG.
The coaching staff also felt that CG was average, but this game was also the first match in the LPL region. In order to ensure victory, the coaching staff was preparing to start the original team.
On this matter, the head coach Steak and Manager Xu had a disagreement.
Manager Xu's idea was that although Xu Guoyu performed well in the training competition, the king of training competitions in previous global finals had been able to play in the main competition, just like the weaklings like CG, so he was done with it.
When negotiating the conditions, Manager Xu never expected RNG to be assigned to the "Death Group". Except for CG, the third seed of LEC who came from the finalists, the other two teams, SKT and FNC, are not easy to pass opponents.
If Xu Guoyu is arranged to play rashly when fighting with these two teams, the team may stop at the top 16 of the group stage. Manager Xu, who has worked hard to make this matter happen, will definitely be in great trouble.
But Steak knew very well that Xiaohu was obviously not as good as Xu Guoyu in the training match due to injury. After careful consideration, he planned to use the latter as a surprise weapon and arrange for Xu Guoyu to start the game against SKT on the second day.
The two sides were in a stalemate, but they were both wreaking people and they could discuss anything. As the head coach, Steak obviously had to look at people more professionally.
In the original words of steak, it is "Anyway, the probability of Xiaohu winning SKT is very small, so why not let Brother Stick try it."
Anyway, there is a steak that is on the side and takes the blame. Even if there is a problem, the risk will be much smaller. In the end, Manager Xu obeyed the steak's opinion.
Xu Guoyu, who learned the starting list, had no objection. After all, it represents the first game in the LPL region, and making General Tiger starter is also the safest choice.
After his teammates went to prepare for the training match, Xu Guoyu was idle and too lazy to sit alone, so he went to take a look at the promotional video on the first day of the group stage.
The opening was a lightning strike.
"They (G2) won the Spring Festival Championship, won the MSI midseason Championship, and today they won the Summer Championship, and now there is only the World Finals Championship trophy left."
hiss...
I feel like I've seen this script somewhere?
Those who defeat the evil dragon will eventually become evil dragons?
Last year, a team had a similar experience before the World Championship as G2, including the Spring Championship, MSI Championship, Summer Championship, Solo Championship... Oh, this seems different.
But G2 is not a quarterfinal this year?
Xu Guoyu was still thinking about something or not, but when the picture turned around, Rekkles, known as the European high-level academic achievement, appeared on the screen.
"Once the competition starts, all your previous results and theories do not count. In the end, it depends on whether you can withstand the pressure on the stage of the World Championship. I think we (FNC) can become such a team."
That's pretty good. If RNG could understand this last year, it wouldn't have fallen into the quarterfinals.
Of course, this is also good, at least many people have retained their nationality because of this.
After this sentence is finished, there is a collection of Ou Cheng's killings, and a barrage passes by:
[Ou Cheng, who is so serious about dog phobia, deserves to say this?]
Ah this.
If the person who posted this barrage later found out that RNG was sent away by Ou Chengyue this year, what kind of expression would he have at that time?
Xu Guoyu felt excited even when he thought about it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, your champion (IG) is back!" The European and American commentator commented after watching the LPL Bubble Tournament.
Then the broiler appeared in a fluent Xinjiang accent.
"Everyone has very high requirements for us..."
"What we most desire is to win the championship again. There is no other desire except the championship."
"Hiss... Coward, this may be the difference between you and Song Sheng. Why do you feel that anyone can whip the corpse and sell it?"
Xu Guoyu took a breath again and said in his heart.
How did you say that sentence?
How many top scores will be considered successful?
After that, there were a full twenty seconds, all of them were Caps, Ou Cheng and Broiler’s wonderful operations in the competition, and combined with the passionate BGM, it looked much more passionate than Boren.
But Xu Guoyu still feels that something is missing.
Then, the shots that sublimate the entire short film appeared.
BGM chanted just right:
“Ineedsilence,Ineedsilence,shh…”
The man who was called the devil appeared in the camera, raised his index finger and placed it in front of his lips, making a "shhhh" posture.
It seems to be saying:
"Genius, quiet."
Because the Demon King is back.
Faker.
As long as you mention League of Legends and World Championships, this ID will never be missing.
In the 2018 Global Finals, SKT lost the fake game and failed to go to the Global Finals of that year, so some netizens with suspicious elements questioned the value of the championship that year.
Chapter completed!