Chapter 179 Is SKT the elite? What we are fighting is the elite! (2 and 1)
"We're finally here." After entering the hotel, everyone at EDG was relieved.
·The cycle of the S competition, if we reach the finals, will take more than a month. Everyone has brought a lot of luggage, and their hands are full of big and small bags.
"Let's go to the front desk to register and get the room card." Abu greeted.
Hence, everyone followed Abu to the front desk and met the lady at the front desk.
Su Mo noticed that there were many official Riot staff in the hotel. They all wore work badges, so they were easy to identify. Many of them were white, and they were probably here on business.
While Abu was registering his identity information, Su Mo looked left and right.
The foreign-looking staff next to them recognized them and were discussing in English in a low voice:
"That is the number one seed EDG in the LPL." , but I can see them every year. "
"Yes, I also have the impression that before the game starts every year, some people will say that this team is very good, but every time there is no result, it is very strange."
Su Mo's mouth twitched slightly, a little speechless.
It seems that these staff members have not updated the information in a timely manner, and their understanding of EDG is still stuck in last year.
But that’s right, they are foreigners, and it’s normal to have this understanding.
Just like most domestic viewers don’t pay attention to the European and American competitions, they will only take a look at the situation of the European and American teams that come to the S competition after the S competition starts.
Hence, these staff naturally don’t know what kind of changes have happened to EDG.
At this moment, there was a commotion at the door.
I saw a group of people striding in, quite fast and dusty.
This group of people were wearing casual clothes, and Su Mo recognized one of them, Khan!
This Khan looks a little immature and a little domineering. He does not hide his sharpness, but he really wants to be noticed and seen.
Perhaps this is the impetus of young people.
Since there is Khan, then this is Dragon Ball.
"Hangcao, Dragon Ball Team is here too!" Suddenly, Meiko's eyes widened as she stood next to Su Mo.
· The two staff members who were commenting on EDG just now have noticed the Dragon Ball crowd:
· "Dragon Ball! LCK No. 1 seed!"
· "I heard that Dragon Ball is invincible in the LCK this season? Other teams, including SKT, can only be blasted."
· "Yes, I watched their game. They are really amazing. This year's championship will probably be theirs."
Su Mo was not surprised when he heard this. Longzhu's performance was indeed very good.
Of course, these two people made a fatal mistake, which was to observe statically and one-sidedly.
She thought she understood, but in fact she did not combine the versions. Once the version changes, it may have been right, but it turned out to be wrong.
Soon, many staff members came up to take photos with the Dragon Ball players, and it turned into a fan meeting.
After the Dragon Ball crowd got rid of their fanatical fans, they walked over to EDG and had a face-to-face meeting with the EDG crowd.
In addition to the bottom lane, the current Longzhu team has newcomers in the middle, upper and jungle, and it feels quite competitive. After all, e-sports is all about youth.
"Get it yourselves." Abu's voice came, and the room card was obtained.
So everyone in EDG each took a room card.
Abu turned around and saw everyone in Longzhu. He stepped forward and greeted: "Coach Jin."
loggene This coach Jin is the coach of Dragon Ball .
"Congratulations, you are the No. 1 seed again this year." Coach Jin said.
However, although it was a congratulatory message, everyone in EDG was not happy after hearing it.
Because after EDG got the No. 1 seed before, their results were not good.
Hence, this number one seed sounds a bit like a mockery.
Of course the other party didn't say anything else. I'm not sure if it was really sarcasm, and everyone was embarrassed.
"Then let's go first." Abu led everyone in EDG away, walked to the elevator, got on the elevator and looked for a room.
At this moment, Meiko muttered: "Did you just see that the aura of the five people in Longzhu is so confident?"
Zet agreed: "Yes, it feels like they feel oppressed when they stand over there."
Su Mo scratched his head: "Is it possible that this is your own illusion, and you put pressure on yourself."
· Director: "Xiao Mo is right."
· When we arrived at the fifth floor, the elevator door opened, and Abu greeted: "You guys put all your things back first and tidy them up. If half an hour is enough, we will go out to eat in half an hour."
· So everyone found their rooms with their room cards and began to pack their luggage.
Half an hour later, Su Mo came out of the room and found others waiting in the corridor.
"Everyone is here, let's set off." Abu and everyone in EDG were ready to set off.
However, after arriving on the first floor, everyone from EDG bumped into everyone from RNG who was going through the formalities at the front desk.
Although the two teams set off from the airport together, there were various encounters on the way, which caused EDG to arrive long in advance.
"Coach Firefox, we're going to eat." Abu even said hello specifically.
"Okay."
At this moment, three beautiful figures appeared at the door!
I saw three fashionably dressed women walking through the door. The three of them were talking and laughing, with work IDs hanging around their necks.
These three people are none other than Rita, Yu Shuang, and Luo Xin.
The three of them had no luggage, so it seemed they had not just arrived.
"Brother Mozi!"
"Manager Abu!"
The three of them noticed the EDG group.
"Hello." Abu stepped forward and greeted.
The factory manager walked over with a smile on his face and said, "You..."
Before he could finish his words, the three girls walked up to Su Mo and chirped and asked:
Luo Xin: " Brother Mozi, you just arrived here. I didn’t see you in the morning.”
Rita:” “Brother Mozi, what are you going to do now?”
Yu Shuang: “Come on, Brother Mozi! Get the championship back!”
【Get torture points +10 from the factory director】
【Get torture points +11 from UZI】
"UZI?" Su Mo felt confused. When he looked back, he found UZI staring at him with envy and jealousy on his face.
Su Mo nodded to him and showed a friendly smile.
[Get Uzi's Torment Points +20]
Su Mo:...
At this time, Abu also spoke: "We are going to eat, have you eaten yet? If not, let's go together."
"Really? We can go too?" The three of them were overjoyed and did not want to be polite at all.
Of course.
So the group joined the three beauties and left the hotel together to find a place to eat outside.
It was already evening when he came back from dinner. Abu arranged tasks for everyone. They had to take care of all the daily life matters today. They bought whatever they wanted and started training tomorrow.
In addition to LPL teams, teams from other divisions are also arriving one after another.
Su Mo watched the videos of the competitions in various competition areas on the Internet, and they were quite effective.
The next day, the training match began.
The process was not as smooth as everyone imagined.
In the training room, Abramovich was explaining: "I originally wanted to play a training match with the LCK team, but I didn't expect that they had already arranged a training match for tomorrow and I didn't have time."
Meiko muttered: "After all, they are the strongest division, and other teams will definitely want to play with them, so they can learn more."
Abu nodded: "Yes, so I will find another opponent for you, FNC."
"FNC?" This team name is quite familiar. We come here every year, so we are familiar.
"Get ready first, the training match will start in twenty minutes." Abu warned.
So everyone began to make preparations.
Su Mo suddenly said: "Why don't you let A Guang fight and let him practice more."
Abu asked in return: "What about you?"
“I’m not in a hurry.” In fact, Su Mo didn’t want to fight because it was meaningless to him. If there were tasks and rewards, then he could still think about it. It’s nothing, so what’s the use of fighting?
Twenty minutes later, the training match began.
Su Mo stood behind A Guang and watched the battle.
Seeing Su Mo behind him, A Guang suddenly felt a lot of pressure: "Brother Mo Zi, do you have to stand behind me?"
Su Mo responded: "It's okay, are you still afraid of being seen? Just give it a good fight."
Ten people from both sides were pulled over, and Su Mo saw a few familiar IDs, Rekkles and Caps.
In my impression, FNC’s double C strength is very good.
After BP ends, enter the game screen.
EDG's play style is relatively conservative. It feels like they haven't fully adapted to the new version yet and need to explore new heroes and play styles.
Because I am not familiar with it, I will be more conservative in all aspects.
Just as Su Mo thought, the FNC double C is indeed very strong, whether in laning or group play.
Scout did not take advantage of Caps in the laning phase.
In terms of teamfighting, the two are similar, but Rekkles is better than Zet.
When they hit the road, they have no sense of presence, and the two sides mix with each other.
In the end, EDG unfortunately lost in the first set.
Abu’s face looked a little strange. This was their first training match in this S-match, and they had a bad start.
· Abu asked with concern: "How do you feel? Is it difficult to play?"
· Meiko replied: "I feel that their style is completely different from our competition area, and I am a little uncomfortable with it."
· Scout said: "Their mid laner, Caps, has a very strong personal ability, but I have figured him out. I feel like I can restrain him."
Director: "There's nothing special about their jungler, they're not good at it, and they don't have much ability."
Then Su Mo asked his soul: "Then why did he lose..."
This is indeed a problem. Judging from their description, EDG should be the winner.
Zet took the initiative to take the blame: "My problem, I didn't play this game well."
A Guang also admitted his mistake: "I didn't perform well on the road."
Abu said: "It's okay, everyone played well, keep playing, FNC is not weak. If we can beat them, we will have a chance to challenge the LCK team."
Then the second game started, and then we also lost the second game. This was a narrow defeat, and we almost won.
Two of them were beaten to a score of two to zero.
Su Mo also saw that without him, EDG might not be as strong as FNC now, but the gap is not big.
FNC should have the strength of the top eight, but EDG currently does not have the top eight.
"Let's review it. Let's review it first." Abra led everyone to review it together.
After the review is over, continue the appointment.
This time Abuyo joined the team in the LMS division, AHQ!
"AHQ, you should have an impression. As for the LMS division, I made an appointment with them and the game will start in fifteen minutes." Abramovich greeted.
Su Mo felt a bit outrageous, as he was already training with the LMS team.
But on the other hand, Abu probably wants to help everyone build confidence.
What should I do if I continue to fight FNC and still can’t beat them?
At that time, everyone will feel that they are incompetent. They are experts in civil war and outsiders in foreign wars, let alone fight.
So it is important to build confidence.
After a while, the players on both sides were ready to enter BP.
This time EDG's BP must be more proactive, and only a proactive lineup can seize the opportunity.
If the lineup is too passive, you will not be able to catch the kills given by the opponent.
This time they finally won, although the process was not pretty. In the early stage, they were actually given an advantage by the AHQ jungler, and they relied on teamfights to come back.
This AHQ also gained confidence and immediately started playing the second game.
In the second game, EDG really needed to be more confident, crushing them all the way to win the game.
"We won!" The factory director was a little excited.
Meiko cheered: "Two to zero, win!"
It shows how much pressure they had just now. The greater the pressure just now, the happier they are now that they have won.
Perhaps this is Abramovich's purpose, to first raise the confidence of the players.
"Let's start the review."
After the review was over, it was getting late, so everyone went to have a meal together first, and continued after they came back.
"This time we have assigned you a team from the wild card division, MSF." Abu reminded.
Hearing the word "wild card", the factory director muttered: "Are we going to play against the wild card? It feels like a waste of time and we won't learn anything."
A Guang joked: "Playing against the wild card is like playing against a human machine. It's a complete waste of time."
Su Mo reminded: "Ah Guang, don't be too optimistic, I might have something."
A Guang chuckled and said, "Mozi, don't worry, I won't treat the opponent as a human machine. I'm just kidding, I'll use...eighty percent power for this one, hahaha."
However, after the fight started, everyone in EDG realized that they were wrong.
MSF is not as weak as they imagined, it can even be described as strong!
EDG lost quickly in the first game.
"Ah? Is this a wild card? They are actually wild cards?" A Guang looked at the screen and fell into deep thought.
Abu Ze said: "I told you not to underestimate the enemy so much. The teams that can come to the S game are not weak teams. They must have their own way of winning the game."
Everyone in EDG was ready again, and the second game began.
This time EDG had to be a lot more cautious, and the situation became very anxious and not one-sided.
Although it was not one-sided, EDG still couldn't beat it, and was finally taken away by the opponent 2-0!
"We actually lost again?" Aguang looked at the screen and seemed unable to accept the result.
Su Mo smiled and said: "Ah Guang, you should take a good look at what you were saying before the game started. You were not like you are now."
A Guang scratched his head: "I will. Just pretending a little, I thought we were bound to win, my God, are the wild cards so strong now? Then we are finished?"
A Guang looked at the factory director, who put his right hand on his chin, as if he was thinking.
A Guang looked at the two people on the lower road. The two were discussing something in a low voice.
Finally Aguang looked at Abu.
阿布双手一摊：「看我干什么？打不过就是打不过，虽然咱们阵容比较随意，但足以证明对方实力也很不弱。」
接着阿布看向苏墨：「你之前还说要夺冠，你知道Why don't I let you say it? It's not that we have no ambition, the S competition is so difficult. Su Mo also feels a little pressure. This S competition is indeed a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Not to mention the LPL and LCK, there are also experts in the European and American competitions and the wild card competition.
Abramovich also realized that if Su Mo does not play, whether EDG can reach the quarterfinals will be a problem.
In this case, we cannot let him play during training. If he keeps playing, his teammates may become dependent on him. When Aguang plays, the training effect will be better.
"Keep practicing, there is no other way." Abu greeted.
After speaking, he turned to look at Su Mo, "By the way, Xiao Mo, there is a task for you."
"What's the reward?" Now that Su Mo heard the word "mission", he would subconsciously consider the issue of reward.
"It's not a troublesome thing. You should know that there are promotional videos for S5 and S6 every year. This year's promotional videos for legends in S5 and S6 should also be related to legends. To put it simply, they have to interview one or two legendary players in each division. This year, in our LPL division, you are the one chosen." Abramovich explained.
Hearing this, Su Mo was stunned. He really hadn't thought about this problem.
Abu continued: "What you have to do is to think about what you are going to say in advance. The other party will ask questions, ask you to introduce yourself, briefly introduce how you got into your profession, and tell some meaningful things that happened during it."
Su Mo felt something was wrong after hearing this. He could always say that it was because of his system that he achieved what he has today.
"Do you have to tell the truth?" Su Mo asked.
Abu responded: "You must tell the truth. You can process it a little bit, but it must be based on the facts. Otherwise, you will be in trouble if it is found to be false, and you will be easily influenced by netizens."
"Can you change the factory?" Su Mo asked again.
"No, this is decided by Riot. They think you are the most suitable for their theme, the legend."
"In fact, it's not that complicated. Just talk about the whole process of your hard training, painful growth, overcoming difficulties, and reaching the top. Everyone will understand these things when they see your achievements today." Abu warned.
Su Mo nodded: "Yes, what I have achieved today is all because of my hard work and talent!"
Abu rolled his eyes at him: "You work hard!"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the room.
I saw Abu coming in with a few people, including a host with a microphone, a photographer, and a translator...
"He is Mo, you can start the interview, I won't interrupt."
Abu gave Su Mo a thumbs up before leaving, as if to cheer him up.
"Hello." The tall female host, dressed in fine clothes, came up and shook hands with Su Mo.
Su Mo stood up and greeted: "Hello."
"Your coach should have told you our purpose of coming in advance."
"Well, I know."
"You can relax a little, we will adopt a relaxed and pleasant chat-style interview method, and will ask a lot of questions. You can speak freely, it doesn't matter if you say the wrong thing, we will edit it."
Su Mo nodded.
"If you don't mind, we will start shooting. Please sit back first and we will start over."
"Okay." Su Mo sat back and the photographer adjusted the direction. The host smiled and said hello again: "Hello, contestant Mo."
Su Mo could only cooperate and stood up to shake hands: "Hello."
"Please sit down." The female host motioned for Su Mo to sit down.
Su Mo guessed that they must have filmed them all, and then edited some better-looking clips from them, and paired them with interviews. This is how documentaries are shot.
After Su Mo sat down, the female host sat opposite Su Mo, and the camera focused on Su Mo's face.
"Introduce yourself?" the host asked.
"I'm EDG's top laner, Mo."
"Why did you become a professional player?"
Su Mo replied: "Because of talent."
"How high do you think your talent is? How does it compare with other well-known players? For example, Faker, Players like UZI, eb, and CUZZ."
Su Mo smiled: "I admit that these are very talented players who can achieve greater success in a shorter time than others, but compared with my talent, they may be a little bit behind."
Hearing this, the female host's eyes lit up.
He smelled the smell of "headlines"!
Let’s not talk about other people, let’s just talk about Faker. Some people actually think that they are more talented than Faker?
"Do you think your talent is higher than Faker?" the female host asked.
"Well, that's it." Su Mo thought it was okay to say so.
No matter how talented Faker is, can he have a great system?
So the female host asked for the third time: "Faker player S3 came out and won the S competition. So far, there have been three S competition champions. As long as he can enter the S competition, he can win the championship. With such a dazzling record and achievements, do you still think your talent is higher than him?"
Su Mo was speechless. He just felt that the host was endless, so he simply said: "Okay, then he has the highest talent."
【Get torture points +10 from the host】
The female host shook her head and reached out to touch her long blond hair. She seemed to be dissatisfied with Su Mo's answer.
The colleague next to him chuckled: "It's okay, we can just edit this paragraph out, and we'll ask other questions."
Su Mo:?
The female host continued to ask: "How many hours do you usually train a day? Holidays don't count."
Su Mo asked: "Does it only count training games or RANK training?"
The female host responded: "Both are counted, as long as it is training."
Su Mo replied: "If it is a league, training is four or five hours a day."
Hearing this, the host's expression changed: "Four or five hours? What were you doing during the rest of the time?"
Su Mo said: "Watch the short video."
The female host directly denied it: "This is absolutely Impossible, Contestant Mo, although I just said this was a relaxed interview, you can’t lie or be too outrageous.”
Su Mo spread his hands: “I didn’t lie.”
The host looked unbelieving.
Based on her knowledge of the LPL and LCK, the two top-ranked competition regions, it is normal for professional players to train for ten hours a day. Basically, except for eating, sleeping, going to the toilet and other chores, they spend the rest of the time training.
Su Mo said four or five hours, which is easier than the European and American competitions. That is outrageous.
“Player Mo, if you just want to prove that you are more talented than Faker in this way, then everyone may not believe it!” the female host reminded.
Su Mo scratched his head helplessly: "If you don't believe it, don't believe it, I'm telling the truth."
In fact, Su Mo has said too much, and he can usually train for an average of two hours a day, which is too much...
But EDG just has no one to care about him and let him play.
"Next topic, next." The female host's colleague said with a smile.
The female host could only reorganize the language. Before asking the question, she specifically warned: "Player Mo, please allow me to remind you again that our theme is legend. In addition to talent, those who can become legendary players also have hard work and perseverance. You have to show this."
"OK." Su Mo nodded.
h So the female host continued to ask: "What is the goal of this S competition?"
h Do you think you can win the championship? "
"Because all of us at EDG have become stronger."
The female host asked again: "You should have played training matches with other teams now, right? What was the result? Did it go well?"
Su Mo replied: "It usually goes smoothly."
"Then why are you so confident in EDG?"
"Confidence does not require a reason. Everyone can be confident. It does not require any achievements first. Ordinary people can also be confident."
Su Mo can feel that the host is heating up.
But there is no way, he is telling the truth.
The female host looked at Su Mo with a somewhat complicated look.
Su Mo’s answer is very informal and not suitable for official publicity, but it is definitely very controversial and can attract a lot of attention.
She was not sure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Seeing that nothing "inspirational" could be squeezed out of Su Mo's mouth, the female host said directly:
"Thank you, Mr. Su, for accepting our interview, and our interview ends here."
"You're welcome." Su Mo stood up and shook hands with the female host.
After the two parties said hello, the hostess and others left directly.
As soon as they left, Abu came in with his back: "So fast? It feels like it's only a few minutes, is it going well?"
Su Mo responded: "It feels okay. If it doesn't go well, they won't leave."
"That's true..." Abu nodded, "But I don't really believe that you can survive."
“Am I that kind of person!”
“Yes!”
Abramovich did not dwell on this issue and continued: "You have to perform well in this S competition. If you can really get results and add this wave of publicity, you can take off directly!"
It may even be a side effect, and netizens will catch it and criticize it.
As time passed slowly, the drawing ceremony began.
In the evening, everyone in EDG gathered together to watch the draw ceremony for the group stage.
Abu walked in and scanned the whole place: "Everyone is here."
Su Mo, who had slept for a while, said: "Mingkai is not here, I don't know where he went."
Abu responded: "You guys, can you get some snacks? Mingkai is going to draw lots on site to represent our competition area."
Abu further explained: "The main reason is because we won the summer championship. If it were not for this championship, how could it be Mingkai's turn."
Su Mo nodded and took out his mobile phone. He wanted to check the rhythm of the Internet.
Hence, I opened my scarf and found the official EDG channel.
#Give EDG a good draw, otherwise they will be eliminated in the top 16.
There is no problem for #EDG to enter the quarterfinals.
#Don’t you know? Now EDG can't beat anyone in training matches
#So miserable? No, EDG is the No. 1 seed.
This is the civil war for insiders, and the foreign war for outsiders, don’t you understand?
Edg fans are quite anxious about grouping now.
Afraid of encountering this, afraid of encountering that.
I am afraid of any LCK team, even a team like SSG that is looked down upon by many people.
In the end, we can only see some hope by being in a group with wild cards and European and American Laobi
After all, EDG's historical record in competing with European and American Laobi is pretty good.
「开始了。」
Abu reminds me.
Su Mo looked at the screen. The host appeared and was introducing the rules.
This rule is also quite simple. The four No. 1 seed teams will not meet. They will be divided into four groups in the first round of draws. The subsequent draws are the most critical.
At the same time, teams in the same division will not be drawn together and must be avoided.
After the introduction of the rules, the host asked the guests to come on stage!
There are four guests in total.
"Mingkai is out!" Meiko looked excited.
The director appeared on the screen, and the person walking in front of him was none other than Faker.
This time the official brought the top names from each competition region over to attract popularity.
Faker then took the lead in walking to the middle and went up to draw lots.
He drew the No. 1 pool with four No. 1 seeds.
I saw him reaching in and stirring it twice, then took one out and spread it out in front of the camera.
When the host read out EDG, everyone in EDG was shocked.
Everyone turned around and looked at each other.
Zet was the first to speak: "We are the first one, Faker is so unlucky!"
Aguang said: "We are in Group A, doesn't that mean we will play SKT on the first day?"
Meiko also frowned: "This is a bit difficult. Playing SKT in the first game is a bit stressful. It would be better if we play other teams."
Abu looked at the crowd and reassured: "Although SKT is an elite team , but we are not weak. Don’t let other people’s ambitions destroy your own prestige. Just keep a normal mind.” Su Mo nodded: “Yes, we have to fight sooner or later, isn’t it just SKT? We are fighting the elite!”
Faker continued to draw lots, and soon, the order of the four No. 1 seeds came out.
EDG, LZ, G2, FW.
corresponds to the ABCD group respectively.
Immediately afterwards, the director came on the stage, Faker went down, and the director walked to the lottery machine. He drew the second pool, which mainly contained the second and third seeds from the major area, and the first seed from the small area.
The director also imitated Faker's example, reached in and stirred, then took out one and spread it out.
『SKT!》
EdG everyone took a breath of cold air!
SKT was drawn first, which means that he is in Group A, and EDG is also in Group A!