Alliance: Let you buy the top order, you buy an old man?

Chapter 120 Opening match!
At noon on May 5, Rio Olympic Stadium

At this time, domestic time has come to 2:[-] in the morning!
Countless viewers are either standing in front of the computer screen, or lying in bed holding their mobile phones
The countdown in the center of the screen is coming to an end.

Contrary to the fact that domestic audiences are enjoying the quiet late night, tens of thousands of audiences are shouting in unison in the current competition venues!
three!two!one!

All the stage lights were instantly extinguished, and then a little light was opened in the center. A black woman held drumsticks in both hands, and kept beating the drum with a special rhythm.

After a few beats, the lights were turned on again, and dozens of men joined the drum formation in front of them.

Without any BGM accompaniment, the dull and majestic drumbeat with a brisk rhythm hit the hearts of all the audience wave after wave!

The drum beats faster and faster—

faster and faster!

Standing behind the curtain leading to the front court, Li Mufan felt the blood in his whole body boil with the sound of the drums!

At the moment when the drum beat reached the top, all the stage searchlights came in together with the passionate BGM, bringing the rhythm of the scene to a climax!
At the same time, the Brazilian host's thick and loud voice sounded!

"This is the scene of the 2015 MSI Finals"

The screen of the live broadcast changed suddenly, the '2015MSI' gold label zoomed in from the middle of the screen and then shattered, and then entered the screen of the dragon team battle between EDG and SKT in the fifth round of the final!
The factory manager used the widow to take down Dalong, and then crushed SKT in a team battle!

Faker took off his glasses and covered his face and cried bitterly, while the EDG five members cheered happily!
"EDG is crowned king in the 2015 Mid-Season Championship!"

The screen turns again;
'Welcome to 2016 MSI! ! '

I remember the familiar Taiwanese accent sounded: "We congratulate RNG! They defeated their opponent SKT in the MSI group stage in 16"

But the next screen that was cut out was SKT defeating CLG in the final.

"Congratulations to SKT! They won the championship of this year's MSI, and they also successfully won the grand slam of the fist event!" As the home commentator of the host city of Shanghai, I remember being helpless when announcing the championship.

Then comes 2017!

Although the Brazilian team at home has been eliminated, the fist still cut it into the opening ceremony.

The flags of the six teams in the race were flying, and the smoke and flames of war were flying one after another.

At the end of the promotional video, SKT led by faker collided with EDG led by the factory manager!

Flames blazed in the middle, and the audience in the two competition areas were hooked!
Undoubtedly, the two teams that each won an MSI championship will be the biggest attraction of this year's competition!
However, after watching the promotional video, G2 boss Carlos shouted unfairly on Twitter!

Why do EDG and SKT occupy such a large space, and there are even big posters of the two teams at the end?

The whole is the same as the promotional video of the finals!
Isn't our G2 one of the three teams that can participate in the main match without entering the finals, just like EDG and SKT?

But the funny thing is that there are not many European viewers who speak for him under this miserable tweet.

On the contrary, everyone is still angrily criticizing G2's poor performance of failing to qualify for the 2-8 MSI group stage last year.

Soon the official staff of Riot also came to explain that the last big poster of EDG and SKT was not the active personnel of the two teams, but the lineup of the 15th and 16th MSI championships!

In this way, it makes sense, if you also want a big poster for G2, then fine, go and win a championship!
Carlos made a big oolong, and North American TSM fans took the opportunity to flock over and humiliate him crazily.

Now the European guys have finally united the front, and they spat with North American audiences on Twitter.

"First of all, let us welcome the champion of the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational Tournament and the champion of the 2017 LPL Spring Split - EDG!!"

Li Mufan rubbed his legs that were a little numb, and stepped onto the stage.

The host handed over G2, GAM, TSM, and FW in sequence, and when these five teams were all in formation on the stage, the lights on the stage changed and staggered again.

Then focus to the exact center!
"Finally, let us welcome the champion of the 2015 World Finals! The champion of the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational Tournament! The champion of the 2016 World Finals—SKT!!"

boom!
The moment everyone in SKT showed up, there was an earth-shattering shout and cheer!
Originally, the audience was still puzzled. Players had to stand at the entrance of the aisle in advance, which was directly connected to the auditorium, but the audience couldn't find SKT's position.

Ganqing has already stood on the stage!

The five members of SKT were lined up in an arrow shape, and Faker stood at the peak, holding the MSI championship trophy in both hands, with a solemn expression.

"Handsome! I'll be standing in that position next year!" Li Mufan tsk-tsk in a place where the stage lights couldn't reach.

"The young man doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth." Jack shook his head pretending to be old-fashioned.

After the director used a 360° lens to shoot around faker, the opening ceremony finally came to an end.

"Welcome everyone to Brazil!" The host suddenly raised his voice: "Top teams from six different divisions will fight to the death in the next five days! In the end, only four teams can advance to our mid-season competition. The next round! Who goes and who stays, let us wait and see!"

As the host's words fell, the director quickly switched the big screen and live broadcast to the outdoor promotional video they shot before the game.

"It doesn't need to be so good, as long as it is the same as last year." Faker turned his back to the camera, with the wide sea in front of him.

He turned around and fiddled with his hair, which was blown by the sea breeze twice, and continued: "Some people have been comparing SKT with the previous champion teams, but I want to say that we have won three consecutive world championships!"

"SKT has reached the peak of League of Legends and left all the teams far behind!"

And the factory manager lived up to his title of the king of flirting, he picked his ears at faker beside him: "It's windy on the shore, what are you talking about?"

The factory director turned to the camera and said seriously: "Actually, we have already studied SKT last year, and we had full confidence in defeating them! It's a pity that we couldn't make it. But this year we came to MSI again. To be honest, EDG still maintains the The record of winning the championship in MSI, and I will prove at this MSI, who is the king of MSI!"

The other EDG people next to them were not in the camera, and they were all holding back their laughter.

Faker scratched the back of his head when he saw this scene, with a silly expression on his face, and the domineering aura that had just been erected disappeared instantly.

He thought that this pre-match promotional video only needs to be said by himself, but who knows that the factory director just had a wave of interaction with him.

Faker who doesn't understand Chinese will naturally not know. In fact, although the factory manager is interacting, what he said has nothing to do with what faker just said, because the factory manager can't understand Korean.

Riot provided SKT with a trilingual interpreter, and EDG also brought two members of the translation team, but they were filming at this time, and the two sides had no communication.

Perhaps the staff of Riot's publicity department also thought this shot was interesting, so they released it without editing.

Li Mufan looked at the picture on the big screen above his head, and immediately thought of the scene at the time of filming, this time he finally laughed out loud without any scruples.

At this time, the audience in China was also laughing hard. In order not to disturb their roommates, many people living in the university dormitory could only cover their mouths and twist into a ball on the bed.

[Laugh!The factory director can really run for the king of e-sports talk】

【The director of 6666 didn't really spend all his time researching SKT last year, did he? 】

[He really dares to say that he went to MSI just once and became a record of victory]

[Why didn't Changzi prove who is the number one jungler this time? 】

[Don't, don't, that's a real slap in the face!No matter how thick-skinned the factory is, there is no way to be arrogant in front of Little Peanut, but with Fanhuang, I think I can fight for a team! 】

[I admit that Brother Li is the number one in the league in operation, but the number one in the talk must be our factory! 】

Just when everyone's attention was focused on the eye-catching sarcasm, the on-site staff was already arranging for the teams to leave the arena in an orderly manner, and went to the team lounge at home to wait for their games to start.

EDG and TSM stayed, and the first round of their duel will be the opening match of this group stage!

"Nervous playing LPL, are you not nervous at MSI?" When Li Mufan walked to his seat, he found Jack's expression was natural and his steps were brisk, and he was in a very relaxed state.

"Cut, it's just a scumbag in the play-in competition!" Jack whistled: "Does Brother Fan know about their jungler?"

Li Mufan raised his eyebrows, as long as he was an early player, who didn't know the nickname of TSM jungler svenskeren 'race knight'.

As early as during the S4 game, changing the ID of the Taiwan server to humiliate China, and typing on the public screen to ask the player of the Taiwan server if his ID is good, is simply extremely arrogant!

Immediately, he was reported + banned, and was eliminated together with the team SK.I don't know if it's stupid or arrogant.

"Brother was sending him crazy on Twitter, but I didn't expect to have the opportunity to step on him in front of him today!" Jack rubbed his hands, his eyes were a little fierce.

Li Mufan also became serious, he really needs to be educated about this kind of scum!
As the warring parties in the opening match, the equipment had been placed on the seats and debugged long before the opening ceremony, so with the end of the opening ceremony, the scene quickly entered the next round—the main competition!
As soon as the BP screen appeared, the scene once again set off a wave of cheers!

"Hi everyone, I'm the commentator Miller! The first day of the MSI group stage will be played by me, Zhihuan, and Su Xiaoyan!" Miller appeared on the domestic live broadcast in a formal suit.

This time he rarely partnered with Doll.

In fact, this time because of the tight schedule-six games a day for five match days in the group stage, and there are two EDG games; the second is because the game time is set from 2 am to 8 am domestic time, which is quite Hades.

Under such circumstances, Tengjing can't let the commentators stay up all night every day, and can't let all the second-rate commentators in a certain day's game, so disrupting the combination of several ace commentators and sorting them becomes the only choice for Tengjing.

"For today's opening match, EDG shouldn't be under a lot of pressure. In the TSM team, Bjergsen + wildturtle's double C is a little bit famous." After a brief self-introduction, Su Xiaoyan said according to herself The data collection before the game started the analysis.

After saying this, she suddenly opened her mouth and said in surprise: "Oh! I'm wrong, their jungler is quite famous, but it's all negative news!"

"EDG may be going to kill it in the first game, so let's find out how to play it first!" Shi Huan came to the field of the international game, and did not serve as the home commentator, and his rhetoric suddenly became bold!
"Eh, there's no problem at all. EDG is definitely much stronger than the big North American brothers in terms of hard power. It depends on whether they want to win the opening game steadily, or make a quick decision to show momentum!" Miller As the main control commentator, he needs to restrain himself a lot, and proposed two possible solutions for EDG.

"Okay! The BP on both sides has already started. TSM is on the blue side in the first round, and will be the first to send the enchantress to the ban position!"

The choice of TSM coach parth is completely in the hands of nofe.

"They still choose the same style of play as they did in the qualifying round, and keep Bilson's development in the middle!"

King Pilsen is well-known. Everyone knows that he is a person who is good at playing nuclear heroes, such as Syndra, Ryze, etc., and in the LCS.NA spring split, he even used Czar for three games and five games. Clockwork!
These heroes are usually rare to see in the LPL, and the reason is that their development period is too late, which is not at all compatible with the current game environment that emphasizes mid-field confrontation between the middle and the field.

But the king of law is the king of law, and choosing heroes against the version can still win almost full winning percentage, which is enough to prove his strength!
That being the case, nofe couldn't make him feel better, and sent Syndra to the ban position with a backhand.

TSM then banned Rek'Sai, a hero whose gank rhythm was very fierce in the early stage, which was not in line with their BP idea of ​​choosing a developmental hero in the middle lane, and at the same time gave the factory manager enough respect.

"EDG blocked Kenan with the second hand. This move should be due to the play-in match a few days ago."

We all know that even heroes that seem to be unaffected by meta changes can turn the game upside down.

The environment of the league game on the road is inseparable from three words.

Ecological chain.

Kenan has not updated once in the last six months. However, because the commonly used heroes on the road such as Qinggangying, Titan, Dashu, Shen, etc. have all undergone a round of weakening, the heroes that have not been weakened are actually enhanced in disguise.

But it wasn't enough for him to dominate the game.

Until the MSI finalists, the beast GAM team from Vietnam, the top laner stark once again took out AD Kenan to deal with the opponent's top laner Jess.

The assembling method of dilapidation, hurricane + big ice hammer makes Kenan change from a crispy explosive AP assassin to a half-meat and continuous AD output that can resist and fight!

Paired with armor shoes, Jess saw Kenan with the line in the mid-term. It can be said that as long as there is no tower behind him, he will die if he is hit by A!

Here I have to mention the dilapidated minor revision. (Guide Chapter 78)
Jack said before that after the revision, the attack power of Ruin increases, the attack speed decreases, and the passive damage increases; generally speaking, it is a strengthening for heroes with their own attack speed!
At that time, he only thought of weapons and Juggernaut, but he ignored that Kenan's E skill also has attack speed, which is even higher than the attack speed bonus of Juggernaut and weapons!

So Kenan became the ultimate beneficiary of the top laner position - Kenan originally had many excellent characteristics such as single belt, fast line clearing, and team battles that can supplement output. This made Kenan immediately in the top lane once his strength increased The unit has sprung up!
EDG has tried several times in the training game, and the temporary idea is that the red side must be banned, unless they want to do scientific research in the main game.

Miller continued to recount the BP of the two sides: "TSM banned Qinggangying in the last round of the first round. It seems that they were frightened by Fan Ge's performance in the LPL playoffs. Qinggangying is now in the finals. The ban rate fell below single digits."

EDG then pressed Ryze. This kind of hero who can not only develop and fight in groups, but also roam and grab the edge, fits the role that Bilson plays in TSM now.

"In this way, TSM actually doesn't have any heroes to grab." Miller folded his arms: "The male gun is currently the hero with the highest priority in the jungle, but svenskeren's male gun proficiency is really a bit low!"

After Little Peanut's two performance-level men's gun shows, the male gun has basically become the darling of the jungle in competitions and training games. As long as we follow SKT's thinking, the strength of the male gun will be greatly guaranteed.

But Nan Gun is a hero with a very distinctive style!

Mid-to-long range output, bomb reloading mechanism, and wild core positioning, these three attributes are combined together, and it is doomed that not every jungler can adapt to the hero of the male gun.

And svenskeren is one of them.

He is a player with a wide range of offense. He is good at charging fighters like blind monk and Olaf. The male gun directly hit his attribute blind spot.

In the play-in match, TSM faced GAM's first match, and the TSM coach wanted to use the game as a substitute for training.

You know, although TSM wants to play in the play-in rounds, it only needs to play in the knockout rounds, while GAM has made it step by step from the group stage of the play-in rounds.

In other words, GAM is a lower team than TSM in Riot's rating.

It's no wonder that the TSM coach wants to do scientific research when he is the first to face GAM.

As a result, this male gun almost had an accident!

Such a wild nuclear hero, in the hands of svenskeren, he just played an ugly record of 4-8, while the captain Levi who was facing him used the praying mantis to score 9-1!

Then the TSM coach selected him for three blind monk games in a row to help svenskeren regain his form. In the end, TSM made a two-chasing and three-thrilling advance to the main match.

With this kind of performance, do you expect TSM to take another male gun in the opening game?
It's impossible!
The fact is exactly as Miller expected, TSM not only did not take the male gun, but did not grab any strong hero in the three lanes and the jungler, but first took out a hand to support Lulu!
"Huh?" Nofe wanted to laugh!
It's useless to give you the blue side a chance!

Wait for the next round of EDG to meet TSM again, then Nofe, who is on the blue side, can demonstrate to the opposite side what blue side BP is!

But right now, let’s start with the opening game.

nofe thought for a while, and chose the combination of ice + blind monk.

You can only play as a blind monk. Coincidentally, the director of the blind monk is also a little confident recently. Taking the agency is equivalent to taking four bans!
"TSM got poodle and .EZ two or three times here?" Su Xiaoyan blinked her eyes with a cute expression.

"What does this mean? Why don't you take Verus? And even if you have to take EZ, there is no need to take it in the third hand, right? No team will choose to ban this hero!"

The slightly more knowledgeable audience at the scene was already whispering, discussing TSM's poor draft performance.

"Could there be another possibility, are they scared?" Miller laughed twice: "We have seen the oppressive power of the ice down the road; there are [Magic Crystal Arrows] and the blind monk in the team battle. Round kick, Brother Fan is also good at cutting the back row, so Brother Wild Turtle had to use EZ. This hero is not afraid of being cut anyway, and it can be regarded as his signature!"

"As for why we don't take the heroes of the middle and upper lanes, it's still a word, they don't dare to take it first!"

Facing TSM's conservative BP strategy in the opening game, EDG will dare to take more, and directly take out Jess in the third hand!

There was a round of cheers at the scene, Jess is considered a star hero in the World Series, no matter who dares to show it, he can win the appreciation of the audience!
Parth's expression froze. He didn't expect EDG to be so decisive. In his opinion, a hero like Jess can only be played secondhand. Taking Jess first is too easy to be countered, which is extremely unwise.

In the second round of BP, both sides started targeting bans.

EDG continues to limit Pilsen's hero pool here, you can press all the snake girls and czars, don't mess with these strange things!

As for the clockwork, that's really unnecessary, how much self-confidence do you have to have against Jess's clockwork?
But TSM has some difficulties. Although Li Mufan's hero pool is not very deep, compared to a player like Huni who randomly takes out [-] or [-] top lane heroes in a season, Li Mufan's hero pool of less than [-] is slightly thinner. .

But it is proficient!
There are not many heroes, all of them are unique skills!
After thinking about it, Coach Parth could only choose a titan and a vampire.

In his opinion, these two heroes are the most unacceptable. In Li Mufan's hands, one has an explosive tempo in the early game, and the other dominates the battlefield in the mid-to-late game.

The camera was shown on the player's bench, and the expression of Li Mufan, who had been targeted so much, was an understatement.

For bro?
That's really a misplaced effort!
　This BP is written in a little more detail, because the content of the pre-match analysis has been moved to it, and it will not be analyzed in this way for every game.The main thing is to lay the groundwork for the entire MSI version trend first, otherwise the BP change will appear a bit abrupt.

　　
　
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