Except for the visit by local fan Mayumi on the first day, during the five days from the end of the MSI group stage to the start of the knockout rounds, the entire EDG team lived a two-point-one-line life from the hotel room to the training room.
Not only edg, even among the four teams in the semi-finals is g2, the European team with the lowest training intensity, it has been a high-intensity battle in the past few days.
The four teams were divided into groups in the semi-finals. The first team in the group, edg and g2, were in the top half, while the second team, skt, was in the same group as FW.
So in order to avoid being studied by the same team, the training targets at this time basically chose the team next door. At the same time, because edg and skt regarded each other as their rivals in the finals, the result was that edg only played training matches with FW, and g2 only trains with skt.
Meixia has a high winning rate against FW, and it inevitably reveals a lot of systems prepared for the finals. However, Karsa is destined to be in the LPL in the future. Improving FW's strength is actually a disguised contribution to the LPL.
As for the situation of the training matches between G2 and SKT, we can only learn about them through online news.
For example, Mei Xia saw a tweet from G2 mid laner perkz, claiming that he felt very relaxed and felt that Faker's training matches put no pressure on him at all.
SKT's official Twitter posted pictures of the players training seriously, with the goal of winning the championship.
The players basically stayed behind closed doors, so the most enjoyable part of the past few days was the commentators and hosts of the publicly funded tours in each competition area.
Summer's big Twitter followers are all people related to the competition, and the one who tweets the most is Ocean Horse sjokz, who is both on the beach and in the hotel swimming pool. Fortunately, Summer is a girl who has strong resistance, so she is not dazzled by these dazzling photos. Influence the Taoist mind.
As for the factory director, they don’t even have foreign apps on their phones, so they won’t be affected.
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The time comes on May 20th.
At noon, Miha sent her sister Risa, who was far away in China, a message that she was ready to leave. The other party came back with a smiley face and cheers in Chinese.
She put away her keyboard and mouse and followed her teammates out.
The hotel is quite far from the stadium. I boarded the bus provided by Riot Games. After driving for more than ten minutes, traffic jam started again. Looking out the window, I saw that the road, which was not spacious in the first place, was full of cars and vans. People with face paint painted on their faces kept passing through the traffic.
Fortunately, the modern stadium is visible in the distance, so there is no need to worry about being late for the game.
"It's so crowded! Is this usually like this here in Brazil?" top laner mouse said with emotion.
"It seems that everyone is going to watch the game. I saw a lot of people holding our EDG flags." Mixia has a sharp eye and found many elements of the League of Legends game in the crowd.
With this reminder, everyone noticed that there was a person with bronzed muscles cosplaying Ezreal, an aunt who looked to be in her thirties cosplaying Lux, and someone with benchmark oil paint on their foreheads and holding up G2 and EDG. flag man.
"It seems that they are all heading towards the stadium!" Blank said with little knowledge, "The number of spectators is far more than 50,000."
"I'm super? Is League of Legends so popular in Brazil? It feels like it won't take more than a few decades, but in a year or two, we will really have the opportunity to play at the Maracana Football Stadium!!" The factory director was also surprised.
Coach Abramovich also didn't expect there to be so many people, but he was still able to rely on the information he got from the Riot organizers to forcefully explain.
"Calm down, Brazilians are like this. They may not be good at playing games, but their enthusiasm for watching e-sports competitions is definitely the highest in the world. In the past few years, CS competitions were played here, which was also one of the most popular areas in the world. Are you yelling about this situation today? Riot Games will invite Pele to present the award to the champion next week in the MSI Finals. By then, the popularity will only be even greater. Are you still yelling in the car..."
"I'm super, Pele, the football king!" The factory director was enthusiastic. He was considered an amateur fan, and such amateur fans always have a more fanatical attitude toward football legends than senior fans.
Just like League of Legends e-sports cloud viewers, many will follow the trend and praise Faker or Uzi because they have seen and heard the video articles of marketing accounts.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun in the afternoon, the bus finally slowly drove into the venue.
The Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium, made of steel and concrete, had all the lights turned off and stood silently in front of it. From the outside, it looked like a factory that had stopped working. It was not exquisite but very rough. This was different from the Tokyo that Mixia had seen. Even those exquisite stadiums in China are completely different.
It is a colosseum purely for competition!
Sign autographs to the enthusiastic spectators blocked behind the protective railings, go through the organizer's security check, put on makeup by the team staff, and enter the lounge to wait.
Listening to two clicks, the suspended ceiling surrounding the prototype stand above the head lit up a string of lights, illuminating the stage built by splicing metal plates on the central lawn.
The noisy noises at the scene merged and gathered into a unified cheer, reaching into the sky.
The semifinals were just like a football match. There was no opening dance performance like the first game of the group stage. Meixia was quickly notified by the staff and was ready to play.
A group of people walked through the long and narrow player channel illuminated by side LED lights and arrived at the entrance of the stadium.
Looking up again, this is a completely different experience from the domestic finals and even last year's World Championship.
The three surrounding auditoriums were densely packed with people. Because of the distance and the fact that it was the first time to enter the venue without a rehearsal, the shock of suddenly facing so many viewers was far more shocking than last year's World Championship finals.
"What am I doing??" Mouse couldn't help but sigh, "This football stadium with 50,000 people is so spectacular. I feel like last year's Lakers home stadium at Staples was not as big!"
"Of course. Last year's Staples Center indoor stadium held 20,000 people, but this is an outdoor football field with 50,000 people! Is the size of the basketball court comparable to that of a football field?" Abu said, "Look at it..."
The coach just wanted everyone to learn to manage their emotions like the calm Sakura girl.
But how could Meixia not be excited by this huge venue?
"Wow, it's so big! Senior coach! Senior factory director!" She stepped on the soles of her feet and tried to smell the smell of the grass. "It's great that EDG can win the championship on such a huge stage! It must impress the whole audience. The audience cheered for our victory!”
Well, even Mika was impressed by the venue, and Abramovich had no reason to force the players to stay normal.
Abramovich had no choice but to change his words and said, "Well, learn from Mika. Don't just lament that the venue is big. We have to think about winning the championship from beginning to end!"
At this time, the host on the field made a high-pitched opening announcement in Portuguese.
“Let us welcome both contestants to the stage!!!”
"The one coming up from the left is the g2 team from Europe, and the one coming up from the right is the edg team from China!!!"
Two spotlights point toward the stage.
Both teams are on stage!
Mei Xia glanced at the opposite side, and perkz, who was burning the buns, was still smiling and waving to the audience. She immediately waved her hands to the audience not to be outdone.
Just like a football match, there is no pause in rhythm as both sides finish debugging their respective equipment.
The first game of the MSI mid-season championship semi-finals has officially begun!
(End of chapter)
