Chapter 222 MSI, Let’s Go to Brazil!

When the LGD team returned to the hotel, it was almost 10 o'clock in the evening.

This time is just right for a midnight snack.

After putting away their belongings, all the people from the LGD club who came to Nanjing to participate in the finals went out of the hotel for a meal.

They ate and drank until 1 o'clock in the morning, and then they finished their midnight snack and returned to the hotel.

At noon the next day, all the LGD members got up one after another.

Fortunately, Nanjing, the venue of this final, is not far from the Magic City where the club base is located.

So there is no need to buy tickets in advance to restrict the itinerary, so everyone can sleep at ease until noon.

In the afternoon, the team leader called a bus and all the LGD members got on it.

Near the evening, the LGD members had returned to the team base.

That night, the club owner treated the team to a meal to celebrate the team's winning the 2017 LPL Spring Championship.

The relevant personnel of LGD naturally ate, drank and had fun for half the night.

The spring finals were played on April 29th. When Zhou Dian and his teammates completely calmed down, it was already May 1st, and the May Day holiday had begun.

Of course, LGD's players had no holidays at this time.

For e-sports players, there is no concept of legal holidays except for the Spring Festival.

The holidays of professional players are all based on the schedule.

When there are games scheduled, you have to train and play; when the season is over, you will naturally have a holiday.

However, even if LGD's spring season has completely ended, they have no holidays for the time being.

The main reason is that this year's LPL spring season ended a little late, and it was too close to the start time of this year's MSI Mid-Season Championship.

As early as April 29th, the day of the LPL spring finals, this year's MSI qualifiers had already started.

The qualifiers are a new event added by Riot.

Its purpose is naturally to play more games, increase more exposure worldwide, and make more money.

Starting this year, there will be a qualifying round before the main competition of the MSI Mid-Season Championship and the World Finals S.

This MSI, there are six teams participating in the main competition.

Among the five major regions, the spring champions of LPL, LCK and Europe will directly advance to the MSI main competition.

The spring champions of North America and LMS (Taiwan) need to participate in the qualifying round and compete with a bunch of wildcard teams for the remaining three MSI main competition spots.

This year's MSI main competition will start on May 11.

The LGD team plans to leave for Brazil, the venue of this MSI, on May 4.

Departing a week in advance is naturally to better adapt to the local time difference diet and training environment.

Moreover, Brazil is too far away from my country. Even if you take a plane for the whole journey, it will take a day and a night on the road. Of course, you have to leave early.

In other words, after the end of the LPL Spring Season and after the celebration of winning the championship. The time left for LGD players to relax and rest was actually only three days.

During these three days, they also had to spend time applying for visas.

Therefore, the LGD players naturally ignored the call of many LGD fans for more live broadcasts after the game.

In the past few days, the LGD team, basically the most live broadcaster Wei Shen, only broadcast for four or five hours in total.

During the live broadcast, looking at the barrage of "I want to see you play Tiandao" and "What champion skin do you choose this year", Wei Shen just smiled and did not respond.

It seems that this time he has really become mature and no longer arrogant.

Yes, now is different from the past. In the past two years, the LPL region has been abused in various ways on the stage of the World Championship.

Therefore, even the current LPL champion has no capital to swell.

On May 4, LGD boarded the plane to Brazil.

Before boarding, imp continued to bombard deft with messages.

Although there were many messages, they basically meant the same thing.

That is, "I'm going to Brazil to participate in MSI, where are you, Daiput?"

After a whole day, the tired LGD team finally landed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro, referred to as Rio, was the venue for last year's Olympic Games and this year's League of Legends MSI Mid-Season Championship.

The word Rio de Janeiro comes from Portuguese, meaning "January River", and was named after the Portuguese sailed here in January 1505.

Rio is the second largest city in Brazil, with rich natural and cultural landscapes.

But it is also the most dangerous city in Brazil, with gangs rampant and gunfights everywhere. The title of "City of Sin" is well-known.

However, in order to successfully host the Olympic Games last year, the Brazilian government cleared all the gangs of all sizes in Rio, greatly improving the safety factor of Rio.

It has been less than a year since the end of the Rio Olympics, and the security environment in Rio has not deteriorated again. This is also a major reason why Riot dared to hold this year's MSI in Rio.

After LGD arrived at the hotel, they immediately took a nap to adjust to the time difference.

After more than a day, Zhou Dian and his teammates had almost adapted to the living and training environment in Rio.

On May 6, the LGD team went to see Rio's most famous attraction - the Christ Statue, and also visited other famous attractions in Rio.

On May 7, the entire LGD team went to watch the last game of this MSI qualifying tournament.

This game was a BO5, with the two teams facing each other, GAM from the Vietnam region and SUP from the Turkey region.

The winner of this BO5 will get the last spot to advance to the MSI main tournament.

The first two qualifying spots in the qualifying tournament have been taken by TSM and Flash Wolves FW.

These two teams are the spring champions of the mainstream regions after all, and it is no problem for them to play against the teams in the wildcard region.

In the end, GAM defeated SUP with a score of 3 to 1 and got the last spot to advance to the MSI main tournament.

In this game, GAM's jungler Levi was very impressive.

Male Gunner Mantis was C every time!

Of course, the opponent's strength is not strong, but the strength shown by Levi cannot be ignored.

Anyway, after watching the game, Zhou Dian had a feeling: Vietnam is quite capable of producing junglers, with Sofm in front and Levi in ​​the back.

If Levi performs well in this MSI, coupled with the example of Sofm, who is also a Vietnamese jungler. Maybe some LPL teams will consider introducing Levi.

And with GAM's promotion, the six participating teams in the main stage of this MSI are all confirmed.

They are LGD from the LPL region;

SKT, the three-time champion of the S game from the LCK region;

G2 from the European region, which has won three consecutive championships in the EU region;

TSM from the North American region;

Flash Wolves FW from the Taiwan region;

And the last one is GAM from the Vietnam region.

Among them, except for G2, which was established in 2015, the others are veteran teams in their respective regions.

However, since G2 entered the top league of the EU region in the spring of 2016, it has never let the EU region's league championship slip away, and has won three consecutive championships.

This also led to G2 surpassing LGD and being listed as the second favorite to win the championship before the start of this MSI Mid-Season Championship.

After all, the results of the S game in the past two years, the European region is much better than the LPL.

It is normal that people are more optimistic about the three-time champion of the European region, except for the LPL region.

As for the top favorite of this MSI Mid-Season Championship, it is undoubtedly the three-time champion SKT.

In the past two years, SKT has achieved three consecutive championships in the 2015 S game-2016 MSI-2016 S game.

On the stage of the world game, the current SKT is so strong that it is suffocating.

After watching the last game of the MSI qualifying round, the relaxation time before the game is over.

After returning to the hotel, Zhou Dian and his teammates immediately plunged into intensive pre-match preparations.

The schedule for the MSI main stage has been released, and LGD's first group match opponent is Flash Wolves.

For LPL viewers, this Flash Wolves is also a familiar face.

After all, the LMS championship in the past two years has basically been monopolized by Flash Wolves.

So Flash Wolves will participate in every MSI and S game in the past two years.

In addition, this Flash Wolves has overturned SKT in BO1 more than once in the past two years, which is naturally more impressive.

After studying some of Flash Wolves' games in depth, Dgc was happy.

He was full of confidence in the prospects of LGD's first group match.

Because after studying Flash Wolves, Dgc found that this Flash Wolves, whether it is the mid-jungle Maple and Karsa, or the bottom lane duo Betty and SwordArt, are indeed very strong.

But Flash Wolves' top laner MMD seems to be a bit of a noob.

This kind of top laner who is a bit bad, ran into Zhou Dian.

Dgc can't imagine how ruthless that scene is.

Time passes day by day, and it is getting closer and closer to the start of this MSI.

In addition to training, Zhou Dian will check the private message box of his D station account [Top Lane Ancestor].

There are many fans who send him private messages, and the content of the private messages is also all kinds of.

Of course, the most mentioned one is that they want to see Zhou Dian play materials in MSI to make teaching videos.

So, Zhou Dian simply launched a vote to see which player fans want to see the most as an opponent in his materials.

There is no doubt that SKT's top laner Huni has the most votes.

The vote rate even exceeds 80%.

Speaking of which, Huni was favored by SKT and was introduced by SKT after Duke left the team. LPL has made a great contribution to this.

To be specific, most of Huni's worth was earned by playing against LPL teams in the S5 World Finals.

To be more specific, it was earned by playing against IG!

To be more specific, it was played with Zzitai!

The time came to Thursday, May 11.

It was 3 pm local time in Rio, 2 am in China.

The main competition stage of this MSI officially kicked off.

Even though it was two o'clock in the morning on a weekday, the barrage was still very dense in the official live broadcast room of the domestic live broadcast platform.

It was enough to show that there were a lot of viewers watching the live broadcast, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching the game was very high.

After all, SKT played in the first group match today, and LGD played in the second group match.

For domestic audiences, these first two group matches are still very interesting and worth staying up late.

Rio de Janeiro, Olympic Stadium.

This is the venue for the MSI Mid-Season Championship.

As early as half an hour ago, the relevant personnel of the six participating teams had all arrived at this venue.

Before the first group match started, a short opening ceremony was held on the scene.

On the main stage, dozens of dark-skinned locals came up first, and everyone had a drum hanging around their waists.

After coming up, dozens of people began to beat the drums.

Accompanied by the continuous and uninterrupted drumbeats, a short MSI promotional video began to play on the big screen on the scene.

After the trailer was played, the lights and live broadcast cameras were all on the audience seats.

At this time, the players and head coaches of the five teams, LGD, G2, TSM, FW, and GAM, stood in five aisles of the audience seats in five directions.

The host, with a strong Portuguese accent, introduced each team, and the lights would shine on the heads of the people of this team, guiding them to the dim middle area of ​​the stage.

When the five teams walked down from the audience seats and came to the middle area of ​​the stage, the host began to introduce SKT.

After the introduction, a beam of light was projected from the top of the stage, illuminating the center of the stage.

There, stood the players of SKT and SKT's head coach KkOma.

They were different from the other five participating teams. They did not come down from the audience seats, but stood in the middle of the stage.

Among them, Faker stood in the middle of the SKT group and raised the MSI championship trophy with one hand.

When this scene appeared, the barrage in the domestic event live broadcast room immediately became dense.

【Wow, Li Ge is so impressive! 】

【Haha, this trophy seems to be quite heavy. Li Ge has a hard time lifting it with one hand! 】

【What does it mean? Are they giving awards to SKT in advance? 】

【What awards? Li Ge is holding the MSI championship trophy from last year. It’s time to return the trophy from this MSI! 】

【Damn, do we have to return the trophy? 】

【Of course we have to return it. There is only one genuine trophy! The trophies left by the winning team are all replicas! 】

【Fuck, SKT is getting special treatment when they appear, right? 】

【No way, who told them to be SKT! 】

【It has nothing to do with them being SKT. They are the last to appear, just because they are the defending champions, that’s all! 】

【That’s all. You guys are so jealous. If you have the guts, your home team can also be the defending champion. Then your home team can stand in the middle! 】

【Han Za Shut Up. If you can’t speak properly, don’t come and disgust me! 】

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With the appearance of the SKT team and the return of the trophy, the continuous drumbeats at the scene became more and more urgent and entered a climax stage.

Then, the drumbeats stopped abruptly.

The opening ceremony ended, and the 2017 MSI Mid-Season Championship officially began!

In the live broadcast room, the screen also switched from the scene to a short film.

In the short film, the players of the six participating teams expressed their prospects and expectations for this MSI.

After the short film ended, the game scene reappeared in the live broadcast screen.

Of course, the camera at this moment was focused on the LPL commentary seat at the scene.

"Okay, after watching the opening ceremony and the shouts of the players of each team, you will feel their determination and perseverance!"

The first voice that came was Changmao's.

As an old veteran of the LPL, Changmao is always on the commentary seat of the LPL region on the first day of each competition.