LOL: This man is too persuasive!

Chapter 198 Farewell to the Cage!

From the beginning of the team's establishment in 2014, the EDG team has reached its peak since its debut.

In the summer split of the first year, I won the LPL Summer Split championship, and then went to S4 as the No. [-] seed. Unfortunately, people only remember the Dark Force's three-[-] victory over NJ White Shield that year, and UZI's second place. A runner-up, and remember the mantra that the stars will never be separated and win the championship.

For EDG, what people remember is the world's No. [-] AD before the game, and the career that was ruined by a bowl of beef noodles after the game.

As for Mantis, who worked hard to help the team reach the decisive game, Mingkai has been selectively forgotten by people. It was EDG's first quarterfinals.

Then in 2015, EDG ushered in the Korean Double C, swept all the teams in the spring split, stepped on the Galaxy Battleship OMG, and beat the defending champion SKT. That year, people once thought that the first LPL championship was coming.

then……

It was another familiar game that pushed Feng Jing himself to the bottom.

The humiliating 6-5 score against FNC in the World Championship completely nailed EDG to the pillar of shame. Compared to S4396, which was not strong enough and was once again beaten to death by ROX in the top eight, people only remember it more. [-] Or a horse stepping on a flying arrow.

No one could have imagined that the bumpy story would not end until S7.

The team members walked back to the aisle arm-in-arm. At the top of the screen was Ming Kai, the pig girl who had a 100% participation rate in the group.

He finally won the MVP again!

……

Double C was invited by the English commentary station for an interview, Mei was on the LCK side, while Jiang Zhun and Ming Kai were facing the host Yu Shuang, who was dressed in cheongsam.

"Director, I think the audience has already shouted for me a lot today about the first question, but now let us ask it formally again."

"How do you feel now that you have broken through to the quarterfinals?"

"I'm very excited. Since I started playing professionally, including when S2 was in WE, I have failed in the quarterfinals four times. Originally, I was preparing to retire this season, thinking that I would never have the chance to stand like this again. Here, thank you, thank you to my teammates for giving me the courage to persist for another year."

"Special thanks to Xiao Jiang. If I hadn't seen his perseverance in his career path again, I might really have stayed in the top eight and been unable to get out of the whirlpool."

There was a slight tremor in his throat when he spoke. The sadness of being scolded as a dream jungler for so many years was a pain that could not be explained to outsiders.

With the same question, Jiang Zhun raised the microphone.

"I am very happy."

"The most glorious day in a person's life is not the day when he or she achieves success, but the day when the challenge to life arises out of lamentation and despair, and the day when one bravely moves toward will. From the bench to today's World Championship stage, Ming Kai Time started to turn when it stopped in 2012, and we EDG came out of the quarterfinals where we stayed for three years, and we have defeated each other."

"Nexus, now everyone says that you and Mingkai are the strongest top junglers in the history of LPL. So, what is your evaluation of this statement and the jungler?"

"For my jungler, that's for sure, at least in my mind."

"People can't defeat time, but people's deeds can stand above time and stay in our hearts. Keep moving forward, the senior brother has persisted for many years and broke through his own top eight. The factory director will always be the wild king in my heart. I must I would like to say thank you, without the full protection of the jungler, I would not be able to find my own direction on the upper unit."

The applause from the audience ranged from sparse to continuous, and everyone paid respect to the e-sports elder mentioned by Jiang Zhun.

"Nexus, the next semi-finals will be a duel between two LPL teams and two LCK teams. Many people on the Internet think that EDG and IG will stop here, just like S6 both stopped in the top eight, for these two Do you want to say something?”

Mingkai raised the microphone again, and his whole body relaxed completely.

"To this day, the LCK's dominance of League of Legends continues, and even in the distant future they will still be leading other divisions in this project, but-"

Jiang Zhun: "This is by no means a reason for us to admit defeat now. Before the crystal explodes, I think we will definitely win."

As he spoke, looking towards the jungler, the young man gave the captain a firm look.

……

[Take it, take it hard, the top Ueno in LPL won’t explain! 】

[Tsk, tsk, brother-in-law is so cool. His firm eyes make my legs weak. 】

[Those upstairs, don’t think about online dating. Brother Renzhun said that he has not been in love for two years. If you want to have online dating, you can go to the factory manager. He has rich experience! 】

[Little Bi Zaizi: Stop hinting, just follow the procedure. 】

……

Edgar turned off the projector, turned around and glanced at the five players, and finally stopped at the withered body of the top laner. "Shengzhen, can you withstand the pressure of Nexus in the finals?"

In the training room, Coach Edgar said something that would shock outsiders.

Before the semi-finals even started, the SSG coach actually concluded that the final would be a civil war between the top and second teams in Group A.

Their own confidence that SSG defeated IG can be said to be the unique confidence of LCK. However, although LZ is the No. [-] seed, they think that their No. [-] seed will lose to EDG.

Before Withering could say anything, Emperor Chi smiled and put his arm around his shoulder, "Oh no, we need Brother Shengzhen to defeat that pervert Nexus!!"

"Park Jae Hyuk, no matter how big or small, put your hands down and don't interrupt the coach."

An Bixin took out a black bat and poked Chichi Emperor who ignored the etiquette of his juniors.

"Okay, okay!"

Emperor Chi put down his hand, and said withering words that he was not sure about: "I, I will try my best!"

Edgar raised his forehead and said, "It's not about trying your best, it's about doing it for sure!"

"The core of the EDG team is in the top lane. They are used to using the advantages of the top, mid and jungle to spread to the bottom lane. As long as we can control the top lane, our mid and jungle will not lose to EDG. We are not ahead in personal strength in the bottom lane. Do you understand the monster who relies on the incense burner?"

"This person is mainly too stable." Crown Dianping in the middle commented.

He very much agreed with the coach's idea that the final must be a battle between EDG and them.

This top laner is very similar to his playing style in S6 last year. He can completely convert every piece of economy he eats into the support, damage and even the motivation needed for the team's rhythm.

And LZ is too proud. Their arrogance and the level of coaching staff in the quarterfinals proved that they have not fully understood the world version of S7.

On the contrary, EDG has been making bold attempts. If they change their opponents in the semi-finals, their Samsung team can also defeat the swollen Dragon Ball in front of them.

It's a pity that last year, when he was at the peak of his personal strength, he could only finish second. This year's Nexus will have the same ending as him.

If it were another team to play against them in the semi-finals, perhaps Crown would not dare to have such thoughts, but it just happened that the opponent was IG.

A weakened version of EDG!

The same top, middle and jungle tactics, the same pressure resistance in the bottom lane, and after many trainings with EDG, whether intentionally or unintentionally, IG is imitating the opponent's tactics.

The only difference is that the current core of the two teams is Nexus in the top lane and Rookie in the middle.

Samsung's ability to go all the way from the bubble competition to today is not dependent on the outstanding personal strength of the players, but the countless excellent analysts and coaches standing behind it.

For IG, they can get more things.

Edgar waved his hand, "We must try our best to understand IG's play style in the semi-finals and find a way to deal with EDG."

"Dragon Ball is too inflated... Of course we have to expect them to play more EDG cards for us. Boys, I said last year that you won the runner-up in the first year, and I will take you to the finals again in the second year. stage to win the championship trophy..."

"Gentlemen, for the sake of glory!"

"come on!"

……

After the interview ended, the five team members returned to the lounge almost at the same time. The staff packed their luggage early and waited for the players to finish.

"Don't be inflated, don't be impatient, hold still!"

"Our quarterfinals are just the beginning!"

Ed Zhu stood guard at the door. After hugging everyone, he said something ridiculous, "You have to enter the finals and get more bonuses."

"Ah, boss, if you say this, I won't feel sleepy anymore!"

"Let's go, let's wait until I win the MVP in the finals."

"Ganggun, Tianye, you are an overloaded pig. Honestly, why don't you win by lying down in the bottom lane? Don't play hard support in the finals. You can give me warmth on the other side."

Abu smiled and pushed everyone to the door, "If you want to say anything, let's talk about it during dinner. As usual, we can take half a day off today."

"Are IG and the others going?"

"No, King Ning seems to have made appointments with friends from other competition regions to practice more!"

"We also made an appointment with IG later, and they felt that they were more aggressive than us during this period."

"Absolutely. I heard that Boss Wang gave each of them 15 yuan in red envelopes when he entered the quarterfinals. Even Jack got..."

"15, doesn't it cost more than 100 W for seven people?" Nexus, who had not yet fully transitioned from his role as a substitute since childhood, just thought it was a lot of money.

"Ahem, we also have the opportunity to reach the semi-finals. If we can break through to the finals, the club will also give out extra bonuses!" "Is there any?" Mei Kou looked suspicious.

Abu nodded, "Really, you didn't even read the terms written into the contract?"

"Hey, I never thought I could break through the top eight before - quack quack!"

Seeing that his top laner was excited about IG's bonus, Ed Zhu immediately panicked and quickly took out his mobile phone to explain: "Xiao Jiang, your MVP bonus was just sent out. You didn't do your own online banking, so you didn't receive the text message reminder."

“Not lower than IG’s!”

It's over, Ed Zhu didn't forget to add.

After hearing the exchanges between the players about IG bonuses, Boss Zhu, who is extremely sensitive to bad signals from the outside world, quickly realized that the information was deliberately released by that bastard from IG.

Want to use your dirty little money to catch my little fragrant pig?
Humph - what a scumbag.

Jiang Zhun said that he was really shocked by the bonus of more than 100 million. Although Boss Zhu had increased his annual salary more than five times before the World Championships, how could such a thing get so much bonus in just one game? Listen, Shocking, I have to say that IG’s “accidental” revelation through Jack’s mouth was effective.

Reaching the finals and tying the LPL's best record will be even more impressive, and winning the LPL's first championship will be even more doubling.

Along the way, Zet and Scout, two Korean double Cs, had slightly red faces and could not calm down for a long time under the influence of money stimulants.

If you win the championship and play professionally for a year, you will truly achieve financial freedom. As long as you don't speculate in stocks or anything like that, you will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of your life.

Jiang Zhun himself felt that he was a little too excited. He quickly turned on his mobile phone and looked through the discussion posts posted by Lezi players on the e-sports forum to distract himself.

During the World Championships, young people basically paid attention to the news in the e-sports circle, whether on Weibo or Kangba.com.

The top eight hot searches for EDG have almost filled up the top five in just half an hour.

Ranked No. [-] "EDG breaks through the quarterfinals!"

Ranked second, "S7 China and South Korea compete against each other!"

There are tens of thousands of posts on Weibo, not to mention Kangba, the base camp where fans gather.

[Now I announce that WE is the biggest loser in this World Championship. Who is in favor and who is against? 】

[The opening was struck by lightning and I couldn’t stop laughing. The top four top laners of Nexus + TheShy and Khan all left the WE bench within a year. 】

[Give him a chance and it will be useless. Now just go cry silently outside the World Championships alone. 】

[Brothers, I said this year, EDG will defeat Longzhu, IG will defeat Samsung, and the LPL duo will reunite in the Bird's Nest, right? 】

[Difficult, at least it is not easy for IG to defeat the current SSG. IG fans don’t scold me when I say it. I was assigned to a weak group, and the [-]-[-] score I got really doesn’t have much reference value. 】

[Yeah, who would have thought that SSG would just send SKT away? The poor devil has four eyes and his old age is unknown. 】

[Let’s go [-]-[-] between EDG and LZ. 】

[LZ defeated SKT [-]-[-] in the LCK finals, SSG defeated SKT [-]-[-], and our EDG beat SSG violently in the group stage, so there’s nothing wrong with EDG being bigger than Longzhu in the first half, right? 】

[The angle is strange, but there is nothing wrong with it! 】

The Tieba posts were all praising EDG and worrying about IG, which made Jiang Zhun tremble with fear.

"Read less posts."

"They are the ones who are bragging. If we lose to LZ, they will be the ones who are the ones who complain the most."

Mingkai has a clear understanding of these fans who only like championships.

Everything the jungler said was true. Jiang Zhun didn't care about those off-site discussions. There were a lot of suggestions from maggot babies in the post forum waiting for him to go through.

There are also some support posts from true fans.

As soon as the results of the semi-finals came out, some players made promotional pictures to support them.

The best posts are pinned to the top of the homepage of Kangba.

The title is also very exciting.

"What are you going to do here?" "Fight the three stars and capture the dragon beads!"

"What if you don't come back?"

"Then it will never come back!"

……

One black and one white, two anime-style characters are walking at a fork in the road, fists colliding with each other.

The white character looks a little thin, while the other anime youth in black looks stronger, with the IG and EDG team logos behind him glowing in gold.

Have a heart!
Jiang Zhun typed on his phone and replied to the post, "Don't worry, I will return in triumph!"

After posting, I shared the post to the Shuaibi group.

Soon the voice belonging to Jack in the group chat was sent, "Oh my God!" "O earth, there is no justice!" "I have tried my best these past half a month. There is hard work without credit, right?"

"Why!"

"Why, I'm not in the support picture!!"

In the support picture, the two people bumping fists are obviously Jiang Zhun and TheShy. In the direction they are going, the team members, including the substitutes, are lined up one by one and waiting in place with smiles.

On the sky of the comic are the team logos of SSG and LZ!

But when Zai Biqun saw this support picture, Jack couldn't find his own character after searching for a long time, so he directly voice bombed it.

"No, I don't care, this must have my name!"

Rookie: "Can we still schedule a training match tomorrow?"

Prince Ning: "Yes, yes, we really have no idea when it comes to beating three stars. Their field of vision iron barrel array is so disgusting. I studied it several times and feel like a hedgehog who has no idea where to start."

TheShy: "Accurately win, help the nesters, enter the finals... I'll treat you to dinner!"

Mingkai: "We will definitely play training matches. We will count on you to help us train after you finish. But after the quarter-finals, Samsung's strength is obviously much stronger than in the group stage. We failed to play against them afterwards. All we can say is I can help you as much as I can with my previous experience.”

"By the way, Jack, please don't go in now. Let's all go to Xiaoxi. Your semi-finals are ahead of us."

Jack: "Okay! ヽ(￣▽￣)!"

Nexus: "Don't even think about running away. We'll still be here after you fight. Win or lose, you have to work overtime to train the bottom lane for me. Pick Draven to death and pressure the bottom lane for me."

zet: "┭┮﹏┭┮!"

……

Just as the audience in the post bar was worried, it is certainly a good thing that the two teams entered the semi-finals without a fight, but there is also the terrifying possibility that both teams will lose to the LCK team in the semi-finals and fail to advance to the finals at home.

pressure!

After dinner that night, all EDG members went to bed early. A bus arranged by Ed Zhu early in the morning took the team members to the airport at the fastest speed in Qiu Mingshan.

After landing on the plane after several hours of flight, the club's old driver who could drift out of corners took everyone back to the base for a meal at the improved base, and then hung out with the IG six-person team.

EDG, from coaches to players, are very concerned about training IG, because this is not only a matter of helping brothers, but also a test of how far SSG has evolved.

In the training match, neither team had any intention of hiding any tactics. Those things will wait until they defeat the LCK team. If they fall to the semi-finals, everything will be empty talk.

This year's top lane heroes are different from the heavy-duty warriors who dominated the game in S5. The top lane choices in S7 are more focused on single lane.

For Samsung, IG's enhancement point is also very simple and crude - try to study the other party's visual field arrangement habits.

There is no way around it. The Samsung S7's average number of wards per minute per game is exaggerated to 3.87, and its ward efficiency has reached a terrifying 43.9%.

IG's weakness happens to be vision.

While training IG, the EDG players also continued to enjoy their personal snacks.

Brother Mediterranean still sends Jiang Zhun one after another specially processed review videos and player data on time every day.

As a conductor, he has to understand many things in his mind. During the training camp of the two teams, a lot of information control was continuously strengthened through mutual exchanges.

Like corejj, who has the highest group participation rate in S7 so far, his group participation rate has reached a terrifying 83.2%. Another worrying statistic is that his auxiliary girl Kou is fifty ranks behind corejj. Less than 74% participation rate.

Of course, this is related to the fact that the girl needs to protect Zet for a long time, but the roaming of the Samsung assistant is a point that the two teams need to focus on.

(End of this chapter)