Backstage at Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center.
There is still a long time before the game between vg and sat begins.
The makeup artist stood behind Gu Xing, holding his chin and turning his head left and right, making sure there were no flaws before signaling for him to leave.
Gu Xing stood up, looked at the mirror in front of him, and fiddled with his hair twice.
Xiao Duan, who was playing with his cell phone next to him, looked over and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I feel like my hair is a bit long..." Gu Xing smoothed his bangs.
During this period of time, in order to prepare for the college entrance examination and train hard, I didn't bother to get a haircut.
His hair was already thick, and it became very uncomfortable as it grew longer. .
What's more, it's still hot summer weather.
"When is the next vacation? I'll find a shop in the university town to get it cut."
Brother Long's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this, "Don't bother me, I can help you!"
"Ah?" Gu Xing didn't know why.
Xiao Duan suppressed a smile and explained to him, "Brother Long was a barber before he became a professional, and his cooking skills are also very good."
"It's so hidden," Gu Xing was surprised by this, "Brother Long, you actually have this specialty!"
"It's time to have a meal..." Zhu Xiaolong left the dressing room with his teammates, "It's just a hobby for now. What's the saying?"
world6 interjected, "A cook who doesn't know how to cut hair is not a good professional player."
"Ah, yes, that's right," Brother Long nodded and looked at Gu Xing, "I have an electric clipper and a hairbrush in my dormitory. If you don't mind, I can help you get them, saving time and money."
"No problem!" Gu Xing promised, "I can cut it when I get back tonight."
Anyway, he doesn't do any gorgeous styling, he just trims the length. He trusts Brother Long very much.
After getting along with him for more than half a month, Gu Xing was able to roughly understand Zhu Xiaolong's character.
He is very loyal, quite steady, down-to-earth and reliable, similar to his playing style in the game.
Since the other person has the confidence to cut his hair, he must have two brushes.
Everyone was chatting and laughing, and walked through the corridor to their team's lounge.
On the way, I happened to bump into LGD, who was also having a game today - the Optimistic team was scheduled to play its first game at 5 p.m.
When imp saw his old teammates, his face was filled with joy and he quickly went up to say hello, "Brother, I miss you so much!"
Hirano Ling had a deep relationship with him, so she pulled Gu Shengbin into a corner and muttered.
The rest of the vg players also said hello to the lgd players.
After all, we are neighbors. We often visit each other without looking up, and we often have appointments for training matches. We have a good relationship with each other.
The atmosphere in the corridor instantly became cheerful.
LGD's current performance is very average.
After the introduction of mid laner punished, the team did not make any breakthrough progress, and even declined in the rankings.
It has to be said that Group B, where LGD belongs in this summer split, has become a recognized death group!
The inter-group competition has now entered the second half of the schedule, and all viewers know how terrifying Group B is.
The other five teams in Group A, excluding EDG, were basically pushed to the ground and beaten violently when they encountered the teams in the same position in Group B!
vg, rng, we and im firmly occupy the top four. They are extremely strong and seem to be strong teams that want to qualify for the world championship.
The strength of the lower-ranked LGD and Planet Light OMG is not weak either.
But according to the rules of the competition, only the top four in each group can advance to the playoffs.
Even if LGD can beat GT, which is third in Group A, but cannot beat the top four in Group B, it will have to fight in the relegation match.
The exchange for dandy was indeed a good move, but punished was really disappointing, and was even ridiculed by the optimistic family as the King of France.
But the LGD management did not want Gao Dewei, who was in conflict with itself, to come out to put out the fire.
The team seems to be stuck here, drifting further and further away from the World Championship.
However, several players were as optimistic as ever, chatting and laughing with everyone in vg.
Dandy also took the initiative to say hello to Gu Xing.
"I've been watching your games," he said with a gentle smile and a slight Chinese accent. "You performed really well."
When Gu Xing came to vg for trial training before, he was still a counter-jungle operator who relied on sudden cold arrows and unconventional gank routes to catch people.
The idea is indeed very good, but the understanding of operational aspects such as troop lines and neutral resources is not very thorough.
But now he is quickly making up for his shortcomings and his strength is improving by leaps and bounds!
Gu Xing suddenly felt happy when facing dandy's praise, and his outward attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, "But I think I still have a lot to learn, and I still have to keep learning."
This is really not humility on his part.
When he originally only played in ranked matches, Gu Xing felt that he could easily touch the ceiling.
It wasn't until he entered the professional arena and received formal training from Redmi that he realized that the ceiling he thought he had was the limit of his horizons.
Break it down and there's a wider space out there.
Just a line-wild linkage is more complicated than all the alliance knowledge I have come across in the past!
The deeper he probes, the more Gu Xing discovers his own shallowness and shortcomings.
There is no end to learning, nothing more than this.
"Accumulate more experience," dandy said in Mandarin stumblingly, "The position of jungler is different from that of online roles. Being older will make...what is that word called?"
"The older you get, the more demonic you get, but the older you are, the hotter you are..." Mr. Hou has been paying attention here and is helping to translate at this moment.
"Yes, yes," Dandy nodded, "I understand everything."
The jungler does not need to line up directly. The two single lanes in the top and middle are meat grinders. Whoever fails to line up will have to go to jail under the tower.
The jungler will not collide with enemy players head-on most of the time, which requires more ideas and experience.
But this is a confrontational game after all, and operations are essential.
It’s just that the jungle position is relatively less demanding on operations.
Gu Xing followed the topic and tried to get closer, "Then can I come to you often for advice?"
He doesn't want to miss any opportunity to improve himself.
Some time ago, Hongmi’s small class was coming to an end.
Although his own coach has a strong ability to guide newcomers, Hongmi was a top laner when he was a player and was not particularly proficient in jungle.
The help homme can provide him now is based on the understanding and application of tactics, and there is not much knowledge simply related to jungle.
Next, it’s up to Gu Xing to figure it out on his own.
Former world champion jungler Dandy is a good learning target.
In the S4 Global Finals, Samsung White's Nosuke linkage completely subverted the industry's perception of the professional arena!
At that time, dandy was omnipotent, his anti-crouching sense was extremely keen, his gank methods were extremely brutal, and his entry angle in team battles was almost perfect.
Although he didn't win FMVP, Dandy's performance was obvious to all!
This idea is worth studying and studying by Gu Xing.
Dandy was stunned for a moment when he heard his request, and then readily agreed, "No problem, if you encounter something you don't understand, you can come to me at any time."
Nowadays, Dandy is almost exhausted. He just wants to clock in and get his salary, and consider his retirement life after retirement.
Gu Xing's studiousness and motivation reminded him of himself who once worked hard for his grades.
Anyway, Gu Xing and I were not of the same era, and besides, the performance of vg and lgd was so different that they could not compete with each other.
It is useless to teach something.
Dandy is very keen on supporting the younger generation. When Gu Xing came to vg for trial training, he also reminded the other party to be careful of Eimy's erratic jungle route.
If Gu Xing becomes famous in the future, he will be proud of himself.
Seeing Dandy agree, Gu Xing's smile became even brighter, "Come on, you will definitely win this game!"
After a brief exchange, the Optimistic Team players said goodbye to them and headed to the stage with their peripherals in hand.
Today's first game is between LGD and NB.
After the split between midfield and midfield in the spring and the subsequent one-minute bo5, the state of nb, which was renamed from qg, declined sharply.
Although it hasn't reached the point where it's broken, the upper limit is visibly low.
Rainbow Team QG, the all-powerful LPL back then, can only be described as a flash in the pan, and it is no longer as brave as it once was.
Even so, LGD is still struggling.
Both sides won one game each, and 7 minutes into the decisive game, dandy used his excellent sense of smell to successfully reverse squat in the bottom lane, playing 1 for 3 in a wave, and controlled the dragon at the same time, establishing an early advantage for the team!
Dandy was on full fire in this round. Taking the lead, he invaded the jungle wildly and made NB jungler Swift numb.
Swift previously served as a jungler at CJ, a long-established Korean e-sports club. After the S4 season, he followed the Samsung Ten Sons to the LPL.
However, OGN was ruled by four wild kings at that time - dandy, kakao, insec, and spirit.
Yes, the wild king was still a compliment at that time.
To be fair, the performance of Swift S4 is not bad.
But under the light of the four wild kings, he was just a nobody.
After joining QG, he has been really prosperous for a year. His operation of heroes such as Leopard Girl and Barrel is superb, and his Chinese proficiency is also good, attracting many fans.
However, there was a conflict and breakup with doinb, and his own strength began to decline inexplicably.
Meeting Dandy again at this moment, he finally recalled the fear of being dominated by the four wild kings of OGN.
"Dandy's rhythm is so perfect!" Commentator Qi Huan praised, "LGD relies on the jungle's rhythm driving ability, and it is very likely that it will win this game!"
After 36 minutes of fierce fighting, Ma Run finally showed off his unique skill Rambo, r [Constant Temperature Burning], which burned the four nb players. Unintentionally, he was invisible and stole people from the side, helping the team to achieve group destruction!
"As expected, LGD plans to drive straight in along the middle high ground and bulldoze the VG base in one wave!"
Another commentator, Su Xiaoyan, shouted loudly, "Two to one, LGD won with great difficulty, thus firmly holding on to IM who was ranked 4th in Group B in the rankings!"
In the backstage lounge, the vg players were also happy for their neighbors and applauded one after another.
Jin Wenhe quickly reminded the players, "Stop celebrating for others, we have to prepare to play!"
All the employees in the vg training department are in a very relaxed mood today.
For them, the opponent in this game is not strong.
The results of SAT cannot be described as 'less than ideal'.
That's pretty lame.
So far in the summer split, SAT is the only team in the league that has yet to win its first major game.
All 9 bo3 games were lost, with 2 wins and 18 losses in small games.
Just highlight one outrageous thing.
Compared with ig and gt, they don't even have a dean.
Everyone pulls their hips!
However, according to the theory of relativity, if everyone pulls their hips, it is equivalent to not pulling their hips.
They have given up on the regular season and decided to start the game and study their opponents in the relegation match in advance.
The mid laner has a great background, even more famous than the entire sat team.
Electric batons.
Quotes about life: Steadiness means arrogance, jumping over the tower means restraint.
When he first entered the professional arena, he was trained by ig as the successor of pdd. From the high-spirited gogoing with five solo kills in one game, to the lackluster team currently at the bottom of the league.
It can only be said that fate has its way with people.
A game of Texas Hold'em poker and years of irregular training patterns have worn away the energy of the electric baton.
When Gu Xing came on stage this time, he was greeted with warm cheers from the audience!
This is the first time since entering the professional arena!
The main reason is that the number of sat fans is too small, the team's performance is not good, and only vg supporters will come to watch the game.
Amid the roaring cheers from the fans in the audience, Gu Xing put on his headphones with a smile on his face, ready to teach his opponent a lesson.
…
"No, why is this man here again?"
The electric baton looked at its black and white screen, almost stupid.
From his perspective, the rainbow horse on the opposite side looked like a ghost, running to the middle and kicking himself at every turn!
SAT's operational ability was originally poor, but it is still at a disadvantage now, and it is even less able to improve its eye position.
The map was completely dark, and Gu Xing was playing like an elusive character. As long as the character on the sat line dared to cross and flash, he would go over and kick with [Destructive Charge].
"Virtue's rhythm offensive is as fast as ever. Sat banned three junglers this game, but it still failed to limit his performance!" Qi Huan seemed to be a big fan of Gu Xing, praising him.
There are three sat junglers, and the one playing in this game is captain.
This ID is not very famous, but the nickname is quite famous.
Little eye-catching.
He was completely dumbfounded at this moment.
In recent games, the opponents he has encountered are clearlove, sofm, Xiangguo, Kandi and Gu Xing.
Each of these five junglers is basically at the top of the league.
For Xiao Xingjue, it was a nightmare level of difficulty. He was beaten violently at the beginning and still wanted to resist, but now he was numb and allowed the opponent to do whatever they wanted in his wild area.
He felt like he was losing confidence in the game.
After the electric baton was resurrected, he continued to develop in the middle, still holding a fire in his heart.
On some levels, he is similar to Jin Gong.
Stun batons have always believed that women and children can make mistakes.
Only jungle is not enough.
But Xiao Xingju was his former teammate in YG, and they were close to each other. It was impossible for him to get angry at the jungler during the game.
Electric Baton can only try to find opportunities based on personal ability.
But the electric baton is a fake defense tower, and the Marquis is a person protected by the real tower.
easyhoon showed no flaws in the laning, and always stood in the safest position for blood exchanges, leaving no room for the electric baton to move forward!
Sat's situation can only be described as miserable, with three lanes blooming.
In just 15 minutes, vg expanded its economic lead to 4.3k!
In the current rhythm version that favors operations, it is not easy to achieve such a big advantage through laning.
In the end, Gu Xing used the ghost cavalry with sprint + r [Shadow Impact] to block the wall from the side shadow and cut into the battlefield, leaving the opponent with no possibility of reacting.
"Virtue's ultimate move scared Sat Nosuke, and the team battle started smoothly!"
It was a completely one-sided crushing force. VG exchanged zero for five groups to destroy the opponent. He didn't even fight the baron. He pushed in from the high ground and ended it in one wave.
It only took 22 minutes!
This game successfully wiped out sat's last bit of resistance.
The second set completely turned into vg's personal performance show.
Gu Xing stayed on the top lane in this game, torturing the opponent's top laner Acorn to the point of ecstasy.
The electric baton was against Hou Ye's ice girl. He had no line rights and could only watch easyhoon move around first to open up the situation.
"Can you come and help me?" Acorn, one of the ten members of Samsung, pitifully asked his teammates for support.
On the road, three people jumped the tower and jungled. How can I go there if they are not there?
The electric baton slandered.
However, he still tried hard to provide offline support.
As a result, as soon as he left the middle, Gu Xing's Rek'Sai caught his position, e [Dig Tunnel] flashed together, and came up with a set of skills to kill him!
Do you want to play or not? !
I couldn't bear the electric baton anymore, and I roared in my heart.
In this round, sat defeated even more quickly, with only three highlands left in 18 minutes.
The bottom lane combination of imp and Xiao Duan also achieved two laning kills, and now they are facing crazy output.
Squeezing out the opponent's vision in the jungle, VG waited until Baron Nash was born and immediately decided to go fishing with the baron. He crouched at the pass in the jungle and waited for the enemy to take the bait.
Once sat dares to enter the jungle, they will use their poor vision to intercept and intercept him, and then turn to get the baron, and they can win the game properly.
However, after SAT lost the first game, they just wanted to be more stable and team up to develop and eat troops on the high ground, regardless of what vg did.
vg fished for a minute and found that the fish didn’t want to eat the bait at all!
The fans in the audience burst into good-natured laughter.
Even the voice in the vg team was full of laughter.
The team commander, Duan, couldn't save his face, so he angrily led his teammates to get Baron Nash. After returning to the city to resupply equipment, he approached the high ground and decisively broke off the team, saving everyone at Sat with their lives!
In the last wave of 1-for-5, Dannang collapsed on the gaming chair while listening to the team-annihilation broadcast coming from his headphones.
After losing until now, everyone is numb.
…
"How's it going? I'm pretty good at my craft, right?"
Brother Long held the electric clipper and asked Gu Xing to stand up and see the effect.
Gu Xing turned around and looked at himself through the mirror.
"It's good!" He gave Brother Long a thumbs up and a thumbs up.
Those who could make a living by barbering in Changsha back then were indeed very skilled.
After his hair was shortened, Gu Xing felt refreshed.
"Let me call you Teacher Tony from now on. Your nickname is catchy..."
When he heard what his jungler said, Allen Chu went up and kicked him, and started playing with him with a smile.
Gu Xing took a broom to clean up the broken hair on the floor, then rinsed it again before going downstairs to train.
The lpl summer regular season has a total of 10 weeks, and each team has to play 16 bo3 games.
That means sometimes playing two games a week.
Such as this week's vg.
After finishing the SAT on Thursday, there will be a focus battle with EDG at 5pm tomorrow and Saturday.
To be honest, this time is not considered prime time.
Most of the key and interesting games will be scheduled by the league at 7pm on weekends to attract the most viewers and popularity.
Judging from the current results, edg and vg are at the top of the two groups ab. The collision of Mars and the earth deserves such treatment.
It's a pity that the schedule is set before the regular season begins.
At that time, the league had no idea that vg could undergo such an astonishing transformation just by changing their jungler and adc during the transfer period.
Today, Redmi only arranged a training match for them in the afternoon.
He used the evening training time to review, focusing on tomorrow's operational ideas.
edg's current Korean operation is impressive, and its laning ability is also very strong.
The top laner Mouse is known as a weak player, but his overall strength is also ranked first in the league, and currently the world is dominated by tanks and Ekko Trolls. It is simply unrealistic for the strong dialogue to rely on the top lane to open a gap.
The young boy in the middle has integrated well with the team. Although his strength is not as good as that of Fat General back then, he is still a mid laner from SKT and his personal strength is quite strong.
As for the bottom lane, the camel girl combination of deft and meiko is second to none in today's lpl, and is undoubtedly the only one.
The opponent's impressive record of 10 wins and 0 losses is enough to prove how strong their hard power is.
There are only 12 teams in lpl, and edg has won all the teams except vg.
It's all about crushing and winning.
Even rng, who defeated them in the spring finals, is vulnerable to today's edg!
A small-field record of 20 wins and 1 loss is enough to be said to be terrifying!
Redmi attaches great importance to this regular season game.
His goal for the team this summer is to reach the World Championship.
This contest with edg can expose vg's potential problems and comprehensive capabilities.
Under the influence of the head coach, the players are also preparing to show their strongest strength.
The pre-match meeting lasted until 2:30 in the morning. Gu Xing practiced two more rounds of ranking, and then went to bed at four o'clock.
"Imp, aren't you leaving?" Seeing that Gu Shengbin was still in the queue, Gu Xing obviously wanted to continue practicing.
"You're not sleepy yet, please keep the light on for me. I'll just turn it off myself later." Imp waved his hand and said goodbye to him.
He has been very diligent in the past two weeks and has started another 15 hours of devilish high-intensity training a day.
I don’t know if I was stimulated by deft’s recent hot performance.
Koo Sungbin and deft have always had a healthy competitive relationship.
When they were in the Samsung Blue and White team, they had a close relationship, and they both regarded each other as a goal for learning and progress.
Samsung Blue dominates the league, while the White team only shows its power in the World Championships.
In the semi-finals, the white team swept the blue team 3-0, and imp beat deft to tears. This also paved the way for the shocking bo5 between lgd and edg in the following 15 years.
To this day, although the two cannot see each other often, their relationship is not estranged.
Imp, who is now in declining condition, is about to encounter deft, who feels hot, and naturally does not want to lose easily.
Gu Xing returned to the dormitory to wash up, but Ding Ran, who was in the same dormitory, was still awake.
"The forum is now full of people building momentum for tomorrow's game," Ding Ran said excitedly, "Brother Xing, you are really popular!"
What is it like to see a familiar friend become famous on the Internet?
Ding Ran felt very happy.
Since Gu Xing exposed his college entrance examination experience, many netizens have been very curious about his experience before becoming a professional.
Seeing them making random guesses on the forum, Ding Ran felt happy knowing all the answers.
Gu Xing listened to Ding Ran read two posts, smiled and echoed a few sentences, and turned on his phone and found that Shen Guanshan sent him a message yesterday evening.
She seemed to know that just typing could easily lead to embarrassment, so she sent a voice message.
Gu Xing walked into the bathroom, brushed his teeth and clicked on it to listen.
"The next game is very important, um... I know your mentality has always been good, so there is no need for me to comfort you," Shen Guanshan said in a low voice, "I just wish you can get what you want tomorrow. Everything you want can be achieved.”
The end of her voice was slightly upturned, with a little joy and expectation.
Gu Xing could imagine what Shen Guanshan looked like when he sent this voice.
There was no way to reply to the message at four o'clock in the morning. He could only wait until today's game was over.
…
"Welcome to the live broadcast of the 2016 League of Legends Professional League!"
The powerful voice echoed throughout the performing arts center.
The figures of Wawa and Miller appeared in the center of the live broadcast screen.
"The competition has entered the end of the inter-group round-robin competition. Today, the two top teams will also face off to drive out the strongest one!"
The director gave the data of the two teams in the summer game.
"You can see that EDG ranks first in the league in terms of dragon control rate, ward penetration rate, first blood rate, and lead rate in the first 15 minutes!"
Miller then changed the subject, "However, vg can also rank second or third in these statistics. After all, with 12 consecutive victories in small games, the momentum is unstoppable."
"To be honest, I think in a matchup of this level, it is difficult to tell who has the advantage between the two teams based on data alone," Wawa added next to him, "vg and edg have been in hot form recently, winning all the way from the inter-group round robin to Now……"
"But today, one of them is destined to end their winning streak!"
Miller talked eloquently and was still building momentum for this matchup, "Especially in the jungle position, the sharp newcomer Virtue will face off against the old and strong Clearlove. The confrontation between the two in the jungle is also the top priority of this game."
"Everyone jokingly calls the high-numbered midfielder. His performance against edg today will determine whether vg can have the last laugh in this game!"
Wawa also counted the gimmicks on his fingers, "In addition, the two mid laners from SKT, Scout and Hou Ye, who are junior high school students, will have their first official confrontation in the arena; Deft and Imp, the adcs of Samsung's blue and white duo will also collide again in the bottom lane. !”
There were no empty seats in the audience.
Although vg has gained a lot of fans recently, it is still far from able to compete with edg.
The 2015 MSI and several LPL championships were not for nothing.
Hearing the noise in the audience, Gu Xing took a sip of Coke and waited for Brother Long to pull him into the custom room.
The moment he saw the ID edgclearlove, he immediately sent a friend request.
At this time, the room chat channel is in full swing.
Mr. Hou was communicating with his younger brother in Chinese, and the other person was typing very fast, but the word order still had some Korean habits, which made Gu Xing look a little awkward.
Fortunately, it does not affect the meaning and everyone can understand it.
Imp was much more direct and directly asked deft if he wanted to be beaten and cried again today.
When he said these cruel words, the corners of Gu Shengbin's mouth raised, revealing a smile that looked like a little devil.
Deft on the other side of the player's seat narrowed his eyes, but he had a soft personality, and even though he racked his brains, he couldn't speak imp.
Gu Xing saw that the factory director had accepted the invitation as a friend and was typing on the keyboard.
vgvirtue: [Brother Mingkai, do you want to try the blind monk against Rek'Sai in the first game? 】
The factory director replied with a question mark.
This is the hero the two of them chose when they met in ranked play.
At that time, Gu Xing's operation and thinking shocked the factory director, and he came up with the idea of inviting him to work as a professional.
edgclearlove: [The server has not been updated to 6.14 yet, are you sure you want to use it? If you lose the game then, don’t blame me Reksai for being ruthless]
The current strength of the blind monk is not high, but in the 6.14 version that has been updated in the Korean server, w [Golden Bell] will receive an epic enhancement, and it is expected to return to the t1 selection in the game.
The current version used in the competition is still 6.13. If you encounter Rek'Sai in the blind monk jungle, there is a high probability that you will suffer a heavy blow, and almost no players will choose it.
Gu Xing wanted to reply again. The referee behind him saw that they were chatting too happily. After reporting, he decided to start the game, interrupting the pleasant greetings between the two teams.
There was a crisp sound.
Seeing the BP panel displayed on the screen, the two commentators couldn't help but perked up.
The audience in the audience cheered enthusiastically!
