After about 12 hours of flight, the EDG team successfully arrived in Berlin.
After landing, I took the commercial vehicle arranged by Riot Games and went to the hotel I had booked in advance.
The hotel is located near the LEC studios, also known as the European League.
Of course, it is not called LEC yet, but European LCS. The name will not be officially changed until next year.
The venues for the qualifying rounds and group stages this time will be the usual venues of the European League.
Generally speaking, no matter where it is held, the finals and group stages are held in small venues.
It's enough to accommodate hundreds or thousands of people. It's impossible to get it into a big stadium just for the group stage.
Normally, large stadiums have to contact the time in advance. The group stage and the qualifying round together take too long. It is impossible for a large stadium to give you so many days, even if it pays for it.
After arriving at the hotel, you can meet some players from other competition regions.
The teams participating in the competition this time all stayed in this hotel. Unfortunately, Su Can didn't see any acquaintances.
Normally, two people share a room in the hotel. The specific arrangement is up to the team.
Su Can was still in the same room as Haro at the base.
After entering the room and looking around, Su Can felt that the hotel overall felt quite average.
In addition to living, a larger room is also provided as a training room.
Everyone was suffering from jet lag in the past two days.
It's not that difficult, it's quite simple for Su Can.
The time difference between Berlin and China is not that long, only 6 hours. Generally, a time difference of more than 12 hours is more uncomfortable.
Moreover, since they are e-sports players, their schedules are different from those of normal people, so the jet lag is okay.
Except for a few people who may have some physical problems, everyone quickly got into training.
For EDG, there is a more embarrassing problem, and that is the training match.
Su Can is still the same as before, not playing in training matches at all.
There may have been some objections to him before, but after winning the domestic championship, no one said anything about it.
People are so fierce, why should they train?
As long as you can compete well and cooperate well with your teammates, why should I force you to train?
In the final analysis, the purpose of training is to improve strength, so Su Can skipped this process directly.
But now it is different from China. MSI and S games are still only allowed to bring one substitute.
For a team like EDG that rotates both top and jungle, it's a bit embarrassing. They have to make a choice.
Of course, this decision process is not difficult. The substitute must be the jungler, and there is no need for the top laner.
Haro, the jungler, was originally a key training target, and it was impossible for the factory director not to take him with him.
And changing the jungle position seems to be more helpful.
The experience of the factory director and Haro's operation are completely complementary.
But as for Ray, except that he speaks Korean better than Su Can, he seems to be better than Su Can in other aspects.
There is absolutely no need to abandon the jungle and take him with you.
Besides, his nationality is also a disadvantage. He is not allowed to play the top lane position. At least there is only one Korean in the team, so he can be gentle when others attack him.
But Ray still came along as a substitute for promotion.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to let Jin go on the bench, but the management also took into account that Su Can had more accidents.
There's no telling if he'll have a big surgery one day.
This time I will be in Europe for about ten days, so there is no guarantee that something will happen.
When the time comes, there will be no one on the road, so it would be safer to take Ray along.
Fortunately, Ray came with him, and EDG can still gather people for the training game for the time being.
The other teams were a little surprised. They felt that there was no substitute for the top laner this time. What do you mean by not coming to OhYes to play a training match with us?
However, the teams we met in the past two days are all of average strength, and EDG has always been very competitive in training matches, which has been an old tradition for so many years.
Even if it wasn't Su Can, the training matches were very strong, but he couldn't perform at the level of the training matches in normal matches.
The opponents were beaten badly, and they were too embarrassed to give opinions.
Some teams are even reflecting on themselves. They still think they are not good enough. EDG doesn’t even want to play OhYes.
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The teammates are all training hard. In addition to training matches, they are also starting daily European server rankings.
Su Can was more relaxed, paddling around every day and doing communication work.
Generally speaking, in this kind of world competition, players from all major competition regions rarely meet each other, and they also communicate in private.
Do something like changing team uniforms to express friendship.
Su Can really wanted to have a chat with Brother Khan and have a meal, but it was a pity that the KZ team hadn't come yet.
They came relatively late, maybe this is the confidence of the first division.
That night, Su Can was taken by Jin Xingyu to communicate with the North American champion TL.
For the players in this team, the two that Su Can had some impression of were Teacher Omu and Senior Brother.
Last year’s champion support hasn’t joined yet.
When Su Can arrived at their training room, he discovered that the team, which was said to be from North America, was actually made up of five yellow people, and even the coach was from Korea.
When Su Can came here, she felt very relaxed.
If he hadn't known in advance that this was a League of Legends team, Su Can would have thought he was in the wrong place.
At this time, many people in the training room were playing chicken.
The popularity of games is on the one hand, but North America indeed loves FPS-type games more.
There are only two of them playing ranked in the European server.
Su Can was not surprised at all, because this was their working environment.
It's almost done after the training match. After training, you can play whatever you want.
And their training intensity is incomparable to LPL and LCK.
Otherwise, going to North America is just for retirement. I have less to do and more money to be comfortable.
You see, they feel that they are not enterprising. People also think that the players of your Asian team are seriously depleted.
In Su Can's impression, the senior brother seems to be very enthusiastic about LOL, and the game turned out to be very exciting.
After a friendly exchange of team uniforms with Mr. Omu and a group photo session, Su Can asked Jin Xingyu to go back first while he stayed to have an in-depth exchange with the TL people.
It's not their training time anyway, so Su Can, an outsider, won't have much influence here.
Within half an hour, Su Can used his broken English and superb chicken-eating skills to mingle with the TL team members.
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After the team exchange ceremony was completed, the operations of both teams became busy.
I'll edit the picture a little and send it out to fans to see what's going on.
In addition to tweeting, the TL team also opened a Weibo account in China.
Then he also posted nine photos on Weibo, and the photos were in their lounge.
When EDG posted the photos, they knew a little bit about covering them up. From so many photos, they specially selected a few photos that couldn't tell what TL was doing in the training room.
Unexpectedly, they didn't pay attention to it at all, or they didn't even think about this detail.
In the photos sent out, it was accidentally exposed that someone was playing chicken.
Domestic fans saw it and started laughing.
Before S8, domestic fans actually looked down upon European and American teams at all.
"It's so funny that European and American guys are so good at playing other games."
"Now do you know why they eat it?"
"They should be encouraged to play hard. By then the game will be a mess and they will not pose a threat to us."
"I get such a high salary, but I don't think about making progress all day long."
"That's not right. Why is there someone wearing an EDG uniform sitting in front of the computer during their training?"
"Damn it, why are you eating chicken with OhYes?"
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