LOL: This man is too persuasive!

Chapter 158: Don’t laugh when you’re in groups!
WE lost!

A reality like a bolt from the blue hit all WE fans on the head.

Just, lose like this?
It’s okay if we didn’t win the summer championship. Now even the third seed that we are competing for has been snatched away by IG.

Many people were short of breath, but looking at the three-to-one score on the big screen and the crazily celebrating IG crowd on the right side of the venue, they had to admit that this was a fact.

From winning the Spring Split to losing all the World Championship qualifications in the Summer Split playoffs, WE only used three BO5s!

Losing to RNG lost the first and second seeds, and then lost to IG in the third place and bubble games and lost the third seed.

[What the hell, WE management, can’t you be more attentive? How much money can you make selling players every day? 】Fans started complaining directly on Weibo.

Without him, the top laners of LPL summer champion EDG and LPL third seed IG are all players sold from WE this year.

It's not a high-priced transfer, but a youth training substitute sold at a very low price. It may be a normal hard-earned money of hundreds of thousands for the club.

How can you keep your fans rational?

Let’s not talk about EDGNexus. He is now recognized as the number one top laner in the entire LPL. Even when he has won against several Korean top laners in the intercontinental tournament, no one will think that the opponent is inferior before the World Championship. LCK top order.

What kind of team is EDG? The former top laner Daiki Jinchuuriki was the only designated training location, known as the graveyard of top laners.

Ting Quange’s performance in the Summer Split can be described as a super god. From the moment he debuted, he was out of control and his strength improved by leaps and bounds. Even the LPL audience felt that Nexus just missed an opportunity before and there would be more in the World Championship. Big progress.

Then you told me that such a macho LPL number one carry top laner is from EDG?
WE fans want to mail some souvenirs to club boss Pei.

Listen to my advice, brother!

Almost the entire LPL club was coveting this top laner and contacted EDG one after another. At the same time, the two of them just turned around and laughed.

(Sorry, we are really professionally trained, but we can’t help it!...)
If it's just a few, it can be said to be an eyesore.

But now, the same players who sent you out with their own hands will personally send you out of the World Championship three to one in the bubble match. Anyone who sees it will want to die.

It's not that they hate [-], it's because of Brother Leg's age.

but……

But what do you mean by giving away two high-quality top laners at the same time? You don’t want to start a club next year, right?
In the fourth game, jungler Kangdi was obviously out of shape. He was completely suppressed by King Ning in terms of resource control and online ganking, which completely gave people the feeling that his energy had been drained.

On the other hand, IG's execution ability was online. Xihuang, who made many mistakes in the third game, also held his temper in the fourth game. Facing the two heroes with residual health under the tower, they ignored the temptation of 600 yuan and turned around and left.

In the Baron group, TheShy's AP Kennen successfully bypassed the back, and his big move shocked the four WE players, causing tons of damage.

The brother-in-law was killed first.

Classic TP, classic backtracking, WE fans are all numb.

……

"Let us congratulate IG for successfully defeating WE and getting the last ticket to the World Championship!"

"At the same time, I hope WE can cheer up. A year's hard work cannot be completely negated just because of one failure."

Guan Zeyuan's words are very euphemistic. In many cases, the peak period of professional players does not last very long. If he missed the World Championship this time, will he be able to enter next time? Will he still have the chance to touch the peak in his career? Trophies are unknown.

So this is why everyone can remember Senior Brother.

After all, the World Championship may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many people, but not Big Brother.

No one can remember the top [-] unless he is there every year!
Jiang Zhun and the others had been waiting in the audience for a long time. When the host finished the post-match interview and the crybaby burst into tears again, they and RNG walked out of the tunnel together.

"Now, let us invite the first and second seed teams of the 2017 LPL to the scene at the same time."

"Second seed: RNG!!!"

"what!!!"

I have to say, judging from the cheers in the audience, Jiang Zhun knows that his fans still have a long way to go before UZI.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Jiang Zhun's lack of interest, Ming Kai, who was walking aside, asked.

"No, I'm just a little envious of the number of fans that stains have."

"You will have it. If you win the championship, you will have money, flowers, lights and applause - I believe in you."

"Lao Jiang, you are a bit bold. Who doesn't know that I, Zhuge Mingkai, has the largest number of fans in the LPL, and you are actually envious of others?" Mei Kou took advantage of every opportunity, determined to be the man who broke off Ueno's friendship.

Jiang Zhun made serious calculations when he heard Meikou's words, "But didn't Mingkai kick almost all the fans away last year?"

"Get out of here, it's too much!"

Damn it, Ye Ye, you’ve ruined your top laner and I’m here to cause trouble for you.

"The level of trash talk has skyrocketed. It's half as good as mine. There's a successor to LPL trash talk." Ming Kai didn't know why he suddenly thought of strange things.

After putting on the conquest, several people were fighting and making noises. Scout was as quiet as a handsome man, while Zet was very nervous when facing this kind of expedition ceremony for the first time.

"Relax, you are now the champion AD!"

Jiang Zhun's words made zet calm down a lot. Zet calmed down and realized that he was the champion AD. IBOY was still looking at the water dispenser off the court.

Feeling the roar of the mountain and the tsunami for the second time, Jiang Zhun's eyes drifted into the distance, and his ears were filled with the enthusiastic shouts of the LPL audience.

Social interaction has always been a big problem for e-sports players. Even Mingkai, who kept making flirtatious remarks in private, felt a little embarrassed when he got on the court. Although he was not as nervous as Zet, he was still on the same level.

Golden lights shone on the flags with the three clubs and slowly rose in the venue. Compared with the shroud from heaven that was complained about in S6, this year's expedition ceremony was not too much of an underworld ceremony.

Wear your clothes in advance before leaving, and the entire ceremony only takes a few minutes.

Just ...

"How embarrassing!"

A groan reached his ears.

The person standing closest to Jiang Zhun is IG King Ning.

"Indeed, our LPL has always been good at playing awkward games, at least at the level of the top four in the world."

Jiang Zhun wholeheartedly agreed. Could it be that the e-sports Poetry Immortal King Duoduo was the mastermind behind such a poem recitation ceremony?
Who would have known that until s13 in later generations, the aesthetics of the LPL had not made much progress, and there were even signs of regression. Both the appearance ceremony and the league promotional video were instantly turned into scum by the LCK.

Prince Ning was a little strange about the top four mentioned by the other party. Does mentioning the top four in the expedition ceremony have any special meaning?

Oh, does it mean that EDG's goal this year is to break through the top eight even if it succeeds?

Prince Ning looked suddenly enlightened.

After reciting the poem, the host made his daily promise to the audience.

"LPL goes to war again!"

"We will break through the darkness!"

[Le, the guys in Tianye are definitely not listening, right? 】

[(Pick your nose) Will you listen carefully to such an embarrassing and foot-picking expedition ceremony?It’s already the limit for a serious person to not sleep, okay? 】

[What is Prince Ning talking to Brother Zhun? They seem to be suppressing laughter. 】

[Hurry up, hurry up, let’s start the World Championship, I can’t wait any longer. 】

[Please win a championship in the Bird's Nest this year. If you win the championship skin, I will buy the full set of signed editions! 】

After the expedition ceremony, there were interviews with major e-sports media. The three teams were conducted in order of ranking. There were not many questions. They basically asked about how to prepare for the World Championship or their expectations for the results of S7.

"We at IG have made an agreement with EDG to help each other. Before we become opponents in the World Championship, we will do our best to fight for the LPL together."

I thought it was just going through the motions, but IG's coaching staff suddenly made a shocking revelation.

Do you mean EDG and IG are going to play training matches together?
How much price did Boss Wang pay?

No wonder everyone is a little surprised, because judging from the two three-to-zero results, there is a certain gap between EDG's current strength and other LPL teams.

In the audience, Jiang Zhun, who had single-handedly promoted the cooperation between the two teams, had a dull expression. He did not waste any words and just asked IG to replace Xihuang with Jack. After everyone fought for a few games, the EDG coaching staff agreed without hesitation. Accepted Jiang Zhun's joint training request.

With Zhu Yu at the forefront of the intercontinental competition, if LPL wants to achieve breakthrough results, it is best if everyone can cooperate sincerely.Complete IG!
Who can know better than him, a reborn person, how strong IG will be next year.

Although S7's Jack is a little immature, Jack, who has played many games in the private Development League, is remarkable for his cooperation with his teammates. As the target of LCK's revenge, EDG now wants to schedule an LCK training match. It’s no longer possible.

The training match requests sent by SKT are just for the purpose of probing tactics that do not produce any work.

Apart from TSM, there is no other player in the e-sports circle who can really show 100% strength in training matches.

Of course, IG also thinks they have made a profit. The current tactical styles of the two teams can almost be said to be carved from the same mold. They both carry in the middle and jungle and then develop steadily in the bottom lane.

Not to mention the path taken by Nexus can be copied by the extremely talented TheShy.

EDG could agree to prepare for S7 with them, and that was something they were willing to spend no matter how much money they had. Boss Wang waved his hand and took the initiative to bear all the expenses of the EDG players during the training period.

If EDG is willing to accompany them to the group stage, then they will be reimbursed all the way to the quarterfinals. If they are willing to accompany them to the quarterfinals, they will cover the money for EDG as far as they can go.

Going further, Boss Wang won’t talk too much. After all, IG didn’t even qualify in the S5 group stage.

At that time, RNG, the two companies also took the initiative to invite them to join the joint training queue. After all, during the intercontinental competition, everyone worked together to defeat the LCK.

However, RNG's first reaction was to refuse.

"Sorry, our team currently has a lot of problems, so we may have to postpone the training games for a while."

Later, I felt that it was somewhat inappropriate to refuse directly, but Firefox only said that we would discuss it again.

"Negotiate?"

"What a waste of discussion, don't you just think that everyone will become competitors!"

King Ning is not a good-tempered one, okay, it’s okay to look down on our third seed, but when the first seed EDG invites you to a team that has been defeated three to zero, you don’t even want to give it a chance?

After leaving the venue, no one mentioned the invitation to RNG that night, and Jiang Zhun also had some speculations in his mind.

I thought that in my previous life, IG was a sparring partner for three LPL companies and I could do the same in this life. The reason why I am emotionally willing to accept IG's initiative as a sparring partner is because IG is not a direct competitor in the World Championship.

Now EDG has won the LPL championship. This year, after the influx of capital into the LPL, if RNG wants to eat more of the cake, it can only do so if it surpasses EDG in the World Championship.

It would be best if their EDG fell in the quarterfinals, and then the remaining two teams in the LPL would go all the way to the light.

"Pfft, Lao Jiang, why don't you go write novels and work part-time to show your talents." On the way, Mingkai joked after hearing Jiang Zhun's conjecture.

Jiang Zhun said meaningfully: "Who knows?"

……

"Holy shit, Chicken Brother Ning, if you don't come and catch me, I'm going to be overtaken again."

"Oh, Jie Kuo, we are here to help you, but you have to resist the tower and die on your own."

"How can you accuse someone of innocence out of thin air? I was resisting the tower and resisting death. I was clearly escorting you. AD's sacrifice is not called sacrifice."

In the IG club, after the bubble match and the expedition ceremony, the two families simply took a half-day off and recalled the players to play training matches together.

IG has no objection to EDG's suggestion that the playing time of Jack and Xiaoxi should be split [-]-[-]. Although Jack cannot play at this time and the starting AD Xiaoxi's cooperation time is further reduced, they still believe that they have earned it.

You know, under such a high-intensity training volume, Nexus was able to use their free time to lead Mingkai's duo to the first place in the Korean server for one day. This shows how good EDG's Ueno and Jungle are.

When Jack was beating, Xihuang stood behind him obediently and watched. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Xihuang was vaguely acting like TheShy, who was standing around like a henchman at the age of eighteen.

If Jiang Zhun could see this situation in the IG club, I am afraid that Mr. Xihuang has awakened to some secret system that can make him stronger.

Prince Ning is actually the one with the heaviest amount of training. The World Championship version of Prince is barely considered the jungler he is good at, but Zac, the pig-girl excavator, is really like being born in Tai Sui.

"Give me the handle and choose a pig girl!"

"what!!!"

On the other side, the EDG conference room.

The team members are used to it. Whenever there is a problem in a training match or a match, they need to come here to hold a mobilization meeting.

"Tell me what you think after playing the training match with IG!"

nofe follows the program directly.

Everyone has in their hands the results of training with IG over the past few days - a winning rate of 46%.

If outside viewers see that IG basically has a four-level winning rate, they may not be upset. However, the fact is that EDG is the one who wins less and loses more.

"It feels like Jack's joining is like untying a shackles on IG. He can stably perform C in the bottom lane. There is no need to worry about the situation in the later stage. Lao Song is completely liberated."

This is Mingkai's deepest feeling. In the past, it was really not easy to play IG. They would attack both the top and bottom lanes. The middle lane only needed to avoid being destroyed by the midfielder. Then the team's disadvantage would naturally bring down the broiler.

But once AD ​​in the bottom lane was changed, it was as if they had replaced top laner Nexus this year, and their strength had made a qualitative leap.

Meikou couldn't help laughing, "To be honest this year, if Jack were one year older, Xia Jue's opponent and even the outcome would be unknown."

"Xiao Jiang, what about you?"

"I?"

Jiang Zhun listened to all the team members' thoughts, and most of them focused on the fact that IG had made up for the last shortcoming.

Although they didn't show all their cards in the training match, they were still taking it seriously. However, facing Jack, who had extremely good personal skills, Zet's stability was a bit like trying to match the opponent's tricks.

After the AD strength has increased, the frequency of mana-rich auxiliaries roaming the middle has increased a lot.

When the coach asked, Jiang Zhun didn't mince words and said directly: "Like us, IG has always had a good foundation. What's missing is a piece of glue that can run the whole team together."

"When the difference in strength between the midfielder and the jungler is not very big, and the time is extended to 35 minutes, the balance of victory will inevitably fall to the side with stronger AD output ability." They have almost all failed in training matches for the same reason.

In short, zet's ability to withstand pressure is limited. If too many resources are taken away from the bottom lane in the early stage, and it is unable to target the opponent's AD in the mid-term, any disadvantage along the way will naturally be caught by the opponent and punished to death.

"So I suggest that the bottom lane mage combination training must be speeded up."

Zet was very grateful. Even in such a situation, Brother Zhun just asked him to speed up the training of the mage instead of replacing him with IBOY to go to S7.

nofe banged on the table, EDG's current shortcomings were all apparent in the training match with IG.

The field of vision array is not very effective when facing a bunch of reckless people. Sometimes the visual field information will even lead to wrong judgments. The logic of the reckless people's behavior is not in line with normal people's thinking.

In addition, no matter how good Nexus is on the road, this version of the incense burner is the number one artifact in the version after all. They must seize the time to find a way to deal with the incense burner monster.

Female tank!

robot!
"Coach Nofe, that time has come..."

"Practice the tactics and lineups that have been arranged. We will allow you to rest for half a day after watching the draw today." Nofe was thinking, but his assistant reminded him that the S7 draw ceremony was today. In retrospect, he asked the players to sit down and watch together.

Knowing before the game which opponents your team will face is not only good news for the coaching staff, but also a vital help for the players to make mental assumptions.

When I heard that I could have a holiday, Meiquan jumped up immediately.

"Okay, let me see who our opponents in the group stage are!"

"Cough cough!"

Jiang Zhun coughed twice on purpose, drawing everyone's attention away from the laughing Meikou. It wasn't until Meikou stopped laughing that he apologized and said, "I'm sorry, my throat is a little dry today."

"I told you not to call your skills when calling you for rank!"

Jiang Zhun smiled and did not continue to explain.

Damn it, I don’t want to smile and watch the group drawing.

What if this thing only won the championship in S11 with a smile?
After being interrupted, Tian naturally finished his laughter and could not understand the reason why Jiang Zhun interrupted his laughter.

Soon, the lottery ceremony began, and the assistant coach of the coaching staff finally pressed the switch.

　There is one more chapter, please wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)