Chapter 623 First Battle: Upper Class Team

October 3, the day when the group stage officially started.

Shanghai, Jing'an District, Xinyefang SMT Cloud Innovation Space.

As the host of this group stage to semi-finals, this is a very professional e-sports venue, covering an area of ​​3,500 square meters, with 5 studios and 5 director rooms and other professional e-sports function rooms.

This was also the home of the Overwatch Shanghai Dragons.

There is a game played by KT today. The entire KT team has arrived at the venue in advance and is waiting in the lounge.

As the game is approaching, the Chinese version of the group stage promotional video was released.

Because it is for LPL audiences, the promotional video mainly tells the history of LPL from pursuer to leader, and expresses the determination to defend LPL's dominance for three consecutive championships.

Then there is the video of the five members of FPX returning the trophy in advance.

Due to the epidemic, the previous on-site return of the trophy was changed to a short video.

The good thing is that the FPX players don't have to be publicly executed. After all, they didn't qualify for the World Championship, and going to return the trophy is simply a murder.

The bad thing is that it is said that the five FPX players took three hours to record the short 30-second video of returning the trophy, and suffered a lot.

After the short video of returning the trophy was played, it was the brief opening ceremony of the group stage.

I have to say that the special effects of the opening ceremony of this group stage were well done, and they were good at playing awkward.

A performer ascended to the sky in a neon light curtain, and after a thunderous dance, he arrived at the slowly rising arena above the clouds.

At this time, the players of the opening game were already sitting on the competition seats on both sides of the arena. The floor and walls of the entire studio were extremely realistic screens. The two sides seemed to be separated by a cliff, and around the arena was the abyss displayed by special effects.

In addition to the awkward dance, even the KT people in the lounge thought that the stage special effects were absolutely amazing.

Ai Mi Ng: "Too cool! This special effect is so cool."

Ku Ro: "What a pity! If we could invite KDA to perform, I could see the little fox."

Tu Si N: "I wonder what it's like to watch it live?"

Lin Cheng's angle is the trickiest: "Do you see the cliffs on both sides? Whoever makes a mistake, we'll push him down."

Teammate: "..."

In fact, the play-in round has been played here for several days, but there is no opening ceremony for the play-in round, and there are no deliberately displayed special effects. Before, Lin Cheng just thought the stage looked good, and today the special effects are all on, which will be much cooler.

According to past practice, the host team will appear in the opening game. As the No. 1 seed of LPL this year, Top Esports was arranged to play the first game against FLY, the second seed of North America.

This game is actually quite interesting. The most radical AD of LPL is against the most radical AD of North America, which is full of gimmicks.

Ye Gui Ge is also a living fossil player at the level of a senior brother. He debuted in S1, and it has been six years since he last participated in the S game.

Although he was once called the worst AD in North America, everyone recognizes Wild Turtle's bravery.

LPL audiences are used to seeing Ah Shui die suddenly when he uses E to move forward with E, but when it comes to the originator of sudden death, Mr. Dai is far behind Wild Turtle.

When Wild Turtle was young, he used flash to get close to the face. He used Corki to ride on the face of the opposite AP mage, and used Tristana to sit on the faces of four people on the opposite side... These are the impressions that Wild Turtle left on the audience.

The flashes of the two ancient ADs in North America have their own jokes. Big Brother never uses flash, while Wild Turtle always uses flash forward. The common point is that they both like to die suddenly.

The result of the opening game was not unexpected. Top Esports easily defeated FLY, the second seed in North America, and created a massacre.

However, the protagonists of this game were not the ADs of both teams. Top Esports' top and jungle had a huge advantage in the early stage, and 369 was like a god of war in front of SOLO.

A few days ago, KT and FLY played a practice match. At that time, Lin Cheng managed to get through three games and made SOLO confident. Facing 369, who was beaten by Lin Cheng before, SOLO said on Twitter before the game that he could fight Lin Cheng on equal terms in the practice match, so he would definitely not be afraid of 369.

That's why SOLO's Volibear tried to kill him alone after more than 3 minutes, but was killed by 369's Shen, and then was caught by Kaa twice, and FLY's top lane was directly blown through.

I can only say that Lin Cheng, the world's number one top laner, has caused a lot of harm to others and made SOLO brothers a little inflated.

This game just ended. G2 jungler Jankos, who had no game tasks and was watching the game in the hotel today, sent a tweet: I thought that LGD had lost a few games in the qualifying round, and some people had unrealistic fantasies about LPL.

A P: It is recommended that Riot modify the rules to allow surrender in games where the gap in strength is too large.

G2 official: The gap is too big! Is LPL okay or LCS not okay? Maybe it's both.

In this game, the gap between the two teams is really too big. The English commentator of LPL praised: 369 is really a monster.

Lin Cheng's loyal lackey, LCK's English commentator Vals immediately jumped out to make fun of him: That's because he hasn't met Cheng yet! Wait for 3g, and you will find that he is like a baby.

Then KT's official also said something saucy, replying to FNC's comment praising TES: It's just so-so.

Let’s not talk about the online mockery war. The two games that followed were played by teams that made it out of the play-in round.

As a result, UOL and PSG, who performed well in the play-in round, were beaten by DWG and RGE respectively, and they had no power to fight back.

So the question is... What is the level of Lao Gandie?

Why did PSG and UOL, who beat Lao Gandie in the play-in round, be vulnerable in the group stage?

While LPL audiences were discussing and mocking Lao Gandie, the focus of the first game day came, KT vs. JD.com.

KT, who dominated the LCK for a whole year, met JD.com, who competed with Topsports for the LPL championship for a whole year. It can be said that it attracted the attention of LOL audiences around the world.

Lin Cheng and his teammates have already sat in the game seat.

The special effects on the floor and wall screens at the scene were not as shocking as those in the broadcast, and the idiots looked at them for a few more times and lost interest.

Kuro: "How is it? First of all, are you nervous about playing in the world game?"

Lin Cheng: "There's nothing to be nervous about. It feels almost the same as an online game."

Bono: "That's right! There's no audience, no need to be nervous."

Lin Cheng: "Then why are you shaking?"

"I'm not shaking, don't frame me."

"You're just shaking, haha! Kim Ki-Bum is panicking."

"I'm not."

"You're just..."

"I'm not!!!"

A roar pierced through the eardrum, and Lin Cheng quickly took off his headphones and rubbed his ears.

"If you don't have it, then why are you yelling so loudly?"

Kuro was also rubbing his ears, "Lin Cheng, are you crazy? Why do you have to provoke him?"

Lin Cheng: "I'm afraid everyone will be nervous, so I want to calm down."

Kuro: "You idiot! I seem to be a little panicked when you do this to me."

Lin Cheng: "Don't panic! Stay calm and don't give up! I'll carry!"