The somewhat simple entrance ceremony ended, and Mixia and her teammates walked to the player seats on the side of the stage under the attention of the camera.
However, even though the entire opening ceremony lasted only five minutes, after a week of planning, and with the title of the peak showdown between two super popular players, Faker and Mika, the excitement for the finals was still high!
The final time is not friendly to audiences in various regions. In North America, it is at 7 o'clock at night, in China, it is 7 o'clock in the morning, and in South Korea, it is 6 o'clock in the morning. What is even more difficult is that European audiences have to stay up until 12 o'clock in the evening to watch the game.
Even so, when the game entered BP, more than five million viewers around the world were watching the game at the same time!
This is far more than the number of viewers of the 2016 World Championship finals before Summer Time Travel!
Among them, the English channel has gathered nearly two million viewers, and the Korean channel has more than one million viewers.
In China, LPL has advanced to the finals again after three years. The total popularity of live broadcast platforms such as Douyu, Zhanqi, and Panda has exceeded 300 million. Of course, since the popularity is displayed by an algorithm, the real number of people is probably more than 2 million. .
And this time the finals were outside of China. The biggest increase in the number of viewers was not North America or South Korea, but the Japanese commentary booth with more than 300,000 viewers from the island country!
The Japanese host station has been moved from the narrow bar backstage where Meixia participated in commentary last year to a formal and spacious e-sports venue. The host is still the duo of eyes and revol, and also invited Meixia's old captain Yutapon.
When they saw Mixia appear on the stage, the three commentators all shouted loudly.
"Mika! The one with the loudest cheers at the scene, the beautiful player with the EDG standard on her face, the most famous e-sports player in the World Championships! E-sports Diaochan Momotani Mika!"
"The e-sports Diao Chan who comes from Tokyo once in three thousand years has now reached the World Championship finals! And beside mika are the e-sports Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Cao Cao and coach Wang Yun!"
"Senior's nicknames for the players of the EDG team are very unique!" Yitapon, the old team leader of Mixia, couldn't hold back his laughter. "I wonder who Mika's opponent SKT is from history?"
"Double champion Faker is naturally the invincible Lu Bu, and skt's fat wolf is the leader of the team. He is Dong Zhuo!" the ljl host enthusiastically played with the role.
Staples Center.
Players put on their headphones and open the League of Legends client.
"I'm super, I'm so nervous!" Top laner mouse rubbed his hands, "How do you feel?"
"I don't feel...not very nervous." The factory director laughed, "It's just a small scene."
But his trembling voice and stiff fingers showed that he was more nervous than mouse.
"If you're nervous, try chewing gum!" Mixia took out a piece of gum from her pocket.
Directors in the group stage can produce all kinds of famous scenes nervously, and it is difficult not to relapse in a big scene like the finals.
Therefore, in order to solve the factory director's mentality problem and learn from the stress-resistant experience of previous teams, she prepared chewing gum to relieve stress in her pocket.
Not only that, these days Meixia has also learned a lot of tricks to relieve players' stress, and she will use them just when the situation is not right!
The factory director took the chewing gum from Mika's small soft hand and put it into his mouth and started chewing it. He felt that the mountain of pressure had subsided for the most part, but he didn't know whether it was the effect of the chewing gum or Mika's nephrite-like palm.
"Director, why are you still eating chewing gum when you are not nervous anymore? I am the one who needs chewing gum to relieve stress!" Mouse quickly asked Mika for it.
Abramovich, who was standing behind, also wanted to eat the chewing gum given by Mika, but he was a coach and had no need to relieve stress, which made people very sour.
Abramovich said seriously, "Ahem, these seven days have not allowed you to adjust your mentality for the finals. Didn't I say before entering the field that as long as everyone performs normally, there is still a great chance of winning!
And I guessed the coin yesterday and chose the blue side for you to start! In this World Championship, the blue side has a huge BP advantage, with a winning rate of over 70%. With such a good start, why should you be nervous? "
"Oh! It means that for winning the game, the coach has 80% of the credit, right?" Mixia saw through the coach's intention to take credit for these words at a glance.
Abu expressed that he was very comfortable with Mika's licking, and then licked Sakura Girl with his backhand, "Haha, the coach's credit is not that much. The victory of the game depends on your players' performance. In the semi-finals, didn't we just rely on Mika's red side to win against Samsung?" Well!"
This little action of edg before the game has also been captured by the finals director.
【I also want to eat mika's chewing gum. 】
[Is this the benefit of playing with female players? I’m so jealous! 】
[Director, spit out the gum and spit it out to me! 】
【Hey Hey hey! Isn’t it disgusting? 】
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The barrage flooded the screen like crazy, and the LPL live broadcast room also moved from the guest seats to the commentary booth at this time.
"Chewing gum is indeed a good thing to relieve stress! Mika's idea of giving chewing gum is very smart!"
"Well, then I hope that in today's game, the edg players can maintain their state in the semi-finals! Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself!"
"Hello everyone, I'm commentator Miller!"
"I'm the commentator doll!"
"I am the guest pdd!"
"Welcome to the finals of the League of Legends 2016 Global Finals!"
The classic Haier brothers, plus the fat younger brother who has a prosperous anchor career.
But when I see pdd, I have to mention the classic incident of being let go by mika.
"I heard that pdd talked a lot about the ranking exchanges with Mika last year during the live broadcast. I heard that you and Mika have a very good relationship in private?"
"Ya'er... When it comes to this, I'm the only one who regrets it! Every time I start a live broadcast, I have to be laughed at by my group of water friends!" pdd said with a fake smile, "Mika was the first to be found in the rankings. Me, she told me that she wanted to come to LPL to play and wanted me to introduce the team to her. As a result, I thought that as a wild card female player, Mika would definitely not be able to find a top team to start, so I introduced her to her. My ym team told her that they could introduce rng as a substitute..."
"Fortunately, I didn't fight YM with you, otherwise I would still be playing LSL now." Wawa said with a smile, which was not a mockery. This was the effect of the program discussed with PDD.
"There is no way. Who would have thought that Mika was so strong at that time? It would be great if a wild card player can join the lspl team! And when I say this, I really have to admire the factory director and coach edg. , you actually dared to directly let mika replace pawn in the starting lineup in the spring game!"
"Indeed, although they say that the factory director has a poor mentality and his performance is declining, the factory director's vision of people is really nothing to say! I was able to reach the finals this year because of Mika's thigh, but Mika's thigh was also attracted by the factory manager's personality charm. !" Miller said.
"The factory director's operation has declined seriously this year, and he is getting older. I'm afraid that no matter whether he wins or loses in this final, the factory director will have to consider retiring next year.
Therefore, I hope that this year, the factory director can fulfill his dream of winning the championship in his most promising year! Miller said with genuine emotion.
"Come on! Director, just like Mika said in the previous interview, you must consider this a unique opportunity in your life!" Watana shouted.
"I hope the factory director can have this awareness!" pdd also nodded.
The barrage atmosphere has also increased.
[Go, go, go! edg! 】
[Director, don’t break your thigh again! 】
[The Valley Holy Bible does say it well! This year is really the closest LPL has come to the Summoner's Trophy! You must win for me! 】
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