Although the Korean media has been hurt countless times, they are still sparing no effort to promote their team in the current Asian competition.
Various promotional videos are being played overwhelmingly on the big screens in major shopping malls and even landmark buildings in Seoul.
The gimmicks are undoubtedly full.
And Korean audiences are also looking forward to it.
Facts have proved that the more people lose, the more they miss the time they once had, and the more they look forward to the future.
The situation here in the country is exactly the opposite.
Media people in the circle also communicate with the players on weekdays.
Whether the players are under a lot of pressure or not, they still know some of the real situation.
In order to relieve the pressure on domestic players, official explanations have come out one after another to express the seriousness of the situation, which can be regarded as an early vaccination for the audience. However, the effect does not seem to be very obvious.
Faced with the overwhelming praise from the Korean media, the irritable old man in China naturally began to climb over the wall to confront him.
Especially after the recent bans of the four teams participating in the LPL were reported to China, countless netizens began to abuse the Universe Kingdom overwhelmingly.
Koreans have long been accustomed to this, and they seem to be accustomed to using some strange off-field methods in competitive events.
If e-sports were not too sensitive and manipulations were too easy to detect, they would even want to make some small moves on the field.
Seven days after the passionate online battle between the two countries, the Asian competition, also known as the intercontinental competition, officially started.
The LMS division and Vietnam division, who had been watching the show for a long time, also began to think about their own little thoughts.
Their goals for participating in this event are different from those of LPL and LCK.
Although soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, as a professional player, it is necessary to recognize the gap.
The current situation in the LMS division actually no longer allows them to stay in the first tier of the five major leagues.
Although North America also participates in the World Championships as experience babies every year, they have money and are not bad.
The LMS competition area really has no money and not enough player resources. I want to hire some foreign aid... but there is a big Buddha like the LPL in front of it.
The vast majority of those in the LCK who are willing to play foreign players are divided among the three major regions: LPL, Europe, and North America.
In the end, those who are left are basically the ones that are not wanted by the three major regions, and then it is LMS's turn.
They were helpless about this, but there was nothing they could do.
These days, if you have money, you will be rich.
Therefore, the best players that can be bought in the LMS division are only substitutes for the second-tier LCK teams.
Coupled with the loss of local players and the lack of new generation players, the LMS region has naturally become increasingly out of touch.
On the contrary, the development in Vietnam has been very good in the past two years.
The LMS division is bound to the VCS division this time. Two teams from each of the two divisions will participate in this Asian competition. Therefore, a total of twelve teams will participate in this intercontinental competition.
The points from their two divisions are also calculated together.
It’s just that Riot has almost never considered the possibility that they can win the LPL and LCK divisions and qualify. To be precise, they themselves have never considered it.
Therefore, for the teams in the two divisions, their goal this time is to try to get a piece of meat from the teams in the two divisions.
Even though they are weak, they can affect the ranking situation of the strong ones!
This is the thinking of the two fringe division teams.
First day of competition.
During the Intercontinental Championship, the small venue was bustling with people.
More than 95% of the visitors are fans of Korean teams.
It’s even more exaggerated than the home ratio in the World Championships.
Only a few domestic fans arrived to watch, but there were quite a few of these domestic fans.
Some people did not choose to watch the game together as a group, but dispersed and were introduced to the fan base of the Korean team.
Just kidding, the Koreans have been holding it in for a long time. If they really get hit with a stick that they can't afford because of their efforts, it will be a bit more than worth the gain.
In the official LPL live broadcast room, there were also scenes of players from major teams arriving at the scene and heading to the lounge.
In the picture, the players in the LPL division all have indifferent faces.
Even the expressions on the faces of players such as doinb and Shengqiang who like to be funny on weekdays are stagnant. Seeing this situation, the viewers in the live broadcast room thought of the Korean server environment that was exposed a few days ago, and some people began to understand it.
Today...the LPL division is full of anger!
The schedule below also tells the audience who is playing today.
The format of the intercontinental competition seems a bit sloppy. For example, on the first day, only two teams participated in the three games in the LPL division.
Jingdong team will play two games.
They have to face the No. 1 seed DAL in the Vietnam Division and Griffin in the LCK Division respectively.
As for the other team participating, it is TOP.
Top will face EVS, the second seed in the Vietnam Division.
The EVS team looked a little unhappy after seeing today's schedule.
According to their ideas, they all hope that the brothers' team will go and have a sample first, so as to give them some psychological preparation.
It's good now, they are the ones making the samples.
Because they also have to face DG in the LCK division.
In contrast, there are three teams competing in the LCK division.
In the opening game, SKT faced F Flash Wolves.
DG played EVS, and Griffin played against JD.com.
The focus of the first day's battle can already be seen clearly from the schedule.
For the JD team, this is undoubtedly a huge challenge.
The reason why the schedule of this intercontinental competition is arranged in this way is that South Korea also has their own little thoughts.
The upper limit of the JD team is limited, and although the lower limit is relatively high, the tactical system that JD likes to play the most is the Korean-style operation that they are best at in the LCK. Use Korean operations to cope with Korean operations. South Korea simply should not be too confident in this regard.
According to LCK's thinking, they must get off to a good start today and dampen the momentum of the LPL division first.
This kind of home game schedule will not be criticized even if you are careful about it. As long as the convenience is not too much, it will usually not be taken as a very serious matter and targeted. criticism.
Besides, to put it another way, what if they are really criticized.
Anyway, I've already gotten used to it.
The four teams represented by the LPL came to the officially arranged backstage lounge. The lounge didn't look big, and it could even be said to be a bit small. Apart from a not-so-large Samsung monitor for them to watch the live broadcast of the event, there were just some chairs.
It already seemed crowded with the players sitting together.
Fortunately, LPL players have already anticipated this. What they need to do first is to see what the strength and status of the teams in the LCK division are like.
The opening battle kicked off amidst the screams and cheers of countless fans at the scene.
SKT faced off against their old rival, the Flash Wolves. Looking back on those days, the Flash Wolves were also a team that could often take a bite out of SKT. However, times have changed, and today’s Flash Wolf is no longer the
then.
SKT has very steadily come up with a lineup that is relatively popular in the current version.
As the version progresses, the current version does not actually have many changes compared to the beginning of the summer split.
Cats have become a must-choose hero. However, in the professional arena, Ezreal is usually used to match cats to go down the lane. There are relatively few teams using Wheel Mom. After all, there is a threshold for this thing. Wheel Mom Push line ability
Although his strength is good, his hands are not long, and there is no displacement. Once he and the cat are targeted in the early stage, it is very likely that he will not be able to capture the line of soldiers.
Ezreal is different.
As the stress-resistant son in the previous version, Ezreal and the cat are simply a perfect match.
With its own flexible characteristics, it is very difficult to put Ezreal in jail. Even if he pushes the line under the defense tower and calls for jungle preparation to cross the tower, as long as Ezreal can notice it and retreat in advance. If you retreat, it is almost impossible to be caught and killed.
And it doesn't matter even if the development of this thing is a little poor in the early stage. In the early small-scale team battles, Ezreal can do some damage as long as there is a shine.
LCK's Ezreal has unique skills all over the place, so Team F cautiously clicked the cat.
This played into coach Kko's wish. The SKT team on the red side directly took out the double rush combination of Silas and Akali.
This version of Sylas can take on the jungle position.
The emergence of Silas will definitely make Flash Wolf consider the stolen ultimate move when choosing a hero. If you think too much, the selected lineup will easily appear different.
In the end, Flash Wolves chose a lineup that was not very strong in the early stage, but not very strong in the mid-to-late stage. The SKT team operated it for 26 minutes, and the game was lost with a wave of speed.
"There is no chance that Flash Wolves can compete with SKT now."
Seeing this, Xiangguo sighed slightly.
At the same time, he was also a little sad.
The most critical core of Flash Wolves before was Kasa. Although Xiangguo has a good relationship with Casa, judging from the results, Casa has indeed removed him from
Core coach for district representatives.
Zhu Kai also knew that his business ability was not the strongest among the four coaches.
However, Li Luo's presence has allowed the four LPL teams to live together in harmony, and everyone is quite convinced of Li Luo.
Therefore, after Li Luo said these words, everyone in the Jingdong team obviously seemed to be a little more energetic.
Seeing this situation, Li Luo withdrew his gaze.
Anyway, on the surface, at least they listened to what they said.
Not long after, it was the battle between JD.com and the No. 1 seed in the Vietnam Division.
Redmi has always been reassuring when playing against weak teams.
His BP is still so stable.
Especially when Hongmi selected Zoe for Toothpaste in the middle, Li Luo suddenly understood.
This one has it.
Facts have proved that the JD team’s lack of experience was exposed in the first game of this intercontinental competition.
In the early days, JD.com and the No. 1 seed in the Vietnam Division had a back-and-forth fight.
Except for the toothpaste road, there are casualties on other roads.
Although the situation is like this, the players in the backstage lounge already understand that this one is probably taken down.
Only eight minutes into the game, the scores were 3 to 5. JD.com, a team focused on operations, suddenly started to play at the pace of a fighting team.
This was all forced out.
The Vietnamese region's play style is chaotic, but extremely aggressive.
Under their frequent aggression, JD.com would initially consider whether to give in, but as the Vietnamese team stepped on their noses, JD.com couldn't bear it anymore.
Eight minutes of toothpaste holding three heads.
And these three heads also successfully helped Toothpaste directly create his first piece of equipment, Luden, in only about ten minutes of the game.
With Luden, Toothpaste completely turned this game into his own personal show.
There are a lot of famous scenes in this game where the flying star flashes to predict the opponent's position.
The wonderful performance of toothpaste also surprised JD.com fans.
If the only thing they didn't think about before the game was who could play, it was probably toothpaste. However, today's toothpaste is surprisingly good. LPL first battle won!
However, just as they won the first game of the LPL, Griffin's official Twitter commented on the game with a wagging finger emoji.
Griffin, get crazy!
