Alliance: My Qinggang Shadow made my alma mater famous

Chapter 253 [MSI unveils! 】

"Don't be surprised, I had two years of work experience in Huaxia before," Hansen said, looking at Su Chen behind Xiao Ma, "Are you a player of Jiangke University?"

Su Chen nodded: "Hello."

Hansen looked a little excited: "We finally met. To tell you the truth, this MSI, the player I most want to meet is you. Your performance in the fifth game of the LPL Spring Finals is what I have seen in recent years. Best game ever."

"I can't do it alone." Su Chen smiled slightly.

After exchanging pleasantries, everyone followed Hansen into the commercial vehicle that came to pick up the plane.

Through the car window, Su Chen looked at the landscape of the streets of Berlin.

Every time he passed an iconic building, Hansen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, would turn his head and introduce to the YM players enthusiastically.

"The one in front is the local landmark, the Brandenburg Gate." Hansen pointed out the window.

Outside a square, stands a statue of four bronze horses of the goddess, which is the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. This building was designed in 1788 and has a history of more than 200 years. It is also a symbol and symbol of the reunification of Germany after the war. symbol.

Hearing what Hansen said, everyone took out their mobile phones and took pictures regardless of whether they understood or not.

After walking around the street for more than an hour, Hansen finally delivered YM to the hotel that YM booked in advance for this MSI trip.

"I have to say that among the MSI participating teams this time, you are the most prestigious team," Hansen shrugged, "Other clubs are hotels arranged by the event organizer where they live, but only your club, It is a hotel arranged by myself."

"And half a month in advance, the rooms and facilities have been prepared. It is said that the clubs in the LPL division spend a lot of money. This time I have gained a lot of insight."

When the pony heard this, he immediately straightened his back a lot.

This trip abroad, thanks to Mr. Pei's management and money to open the way, saved a lot of trouble.

"Then everyone, take a good rest these two days. I'm staying in a hotel near the LCS studio. If you have any questions, you can contact me at any time." After finishing his work, Hansen took his leave first.

Everyone followed the hotel waiter, put away their luggage, and after filling their stomachs in the high-end cafeteria, they held their first club meeting after landing in Berlin.

In the spacious room, there are professional-looking e-sports facilities.

Xiaotian, Zuo Shou, and Zhang Xiaowen sat around the big screen, and Meng Ma stood in the center, playing the materials he had prepared for the past few days.

"This time MSI is using version 8.9. Generally speaking, there are three major changes in this new version. One is the weakening of the mage in the middle lane, the other is the fine-tuning of the four sisters in the top lane, and the third is the two major changes in the wild area. resource enhancement."

After all, Meng Ma pulled out a few pictures.

In version 8.9, the designer's first move is to adjust the equipment that the mid-lane clearing mage heroes rely on.

Doran's Ring no longer provides mana recovery for killing minions, and a series of equipment that can help mages continue online, such as lost chapters and tears of the goddess, have been weakened a lot.

Second, for the top four sisters, the basic attributes and skill damage of Qinggangying and Jianji, who bear the brunt, have been lowered, the cooling time of Daomei's E skill has been increased, and the disarm state of her ultimate move has been removed.

Third, in terms of the two major resources in the wild area, the canyon vanguard has been strengthened, the basic damage and defense have risen to a higher level than before, and there will be opportunities to collide with more defensive towers.

Baron Nash (big dragon) has increased blood volume and reduced damage, which also makes the situation of the big dragon more complicated.

In addition, there are some small repairs for individual heroes, such as the fine-tuning of Kai'Sa, the daughter of the void, so that her priority will drop and so on.

"It seems that the MSI version is not very beneficial to us," Xiaotian muttered, "Does this designer have a grudge against us?"

It doesn't matter if the mana of the mage in the middle lane is cut by a knife, and the laning ability of the top lane that YM relies on the most has also been collectively weakened, which really hurts the foundation of the team.

"You can't say that," Su Chen shook his head, "A team that can withstand the test of the version is a truly strong team, and we can only find ways to adapt."

"That's true." Meng Ma nodded.

Everyone chatted for a few hours around the MSI version, and basically figured out the situation.

Under the MSI version, the roaming ability of the middle lane will be weakened. For the left hand who is not good at supporting, this may not be a bad thing.

And since the priority of the canyon vanguard has been raised again, the rhythm of the team in the early stage is also very critical.

At twelve o'clock in the noon, Xiao Ma got a bunch of Chinese-style lunch from nowhere, and brought in the club staff in large and small bags.

"Brother Ma, I'm still thinking about eating KFC for lunch." Xiaotian gnawed on a chicken leg contentedly.

After flying to Berlin, everyone thought that they would have to eat western food for half a month, but they didn't expect Xiao Ma to arrange the food so well.

After lunch, YM's plan is to let the players take a break first. At five o'clock, YM made appointments with domestic RNG and WE to play training games respectively.

Meng Ma's original plan was to find Samsung or G2 to make an appointment for a training match, but the attitude of the latter two was relatively indifferent, and declined on the grounds of conflicting team schedules.

So for the time being, YM can only ask the teams in the LPL competition area to help warm up.

After lunch, YM players returned to the room one after another.

Su Chen didn't go back immediately, but continued to chat with Meng Ma about some details of version 8.9.

An unexpected visitor interrupted their conversation.

A young man wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a blue jacket appeared at the door of the room.

"Sorry, I just heard from Hansen that YM has arrived, so I came here to pay a visit this afternoon." He said shyly with a bay accent.

Isn't this a war horse?

Su Chen recognized the young man in front of him at a glance.

Coach Warhorse, now the head coach of the legendary team Flash Wolves in the LMS division, in the original time and space, he will join FPX in 2019 and win the S championship that year.

"You are... the coach of the war horse." Meng Ma also recognized the person coming, and turned his head to introduce Su Chen.

Before YM flew to Berlin, Zhanma contacted YM in advance, saying that they should have a good communication after landing.

The LMS division and the LPL are also old acquaintances. Last year, Lightning Wolves' director Kasa also joined the LPL's RNG team as a jungler this year.

"This is the player from Jiang Ke University." Zhanma looked at Su Chen and shook his hand very politely, "Hello, hello, our whole team has watched a lot of your videos."

"You should be one of the most watched players at this year's MSI. Several other clubs are also discussing the LPL Spring Finals every day."

Su Chen smiled: "What you said is a bit exaggerated."

Zhanma also chuckled: "It's not an exaggeration at all. I won the league championship in the first season of entering the LPL. It's hard not to be noticed for such an achievement."

"I remember you guys are going to play in the final of the play-in competition tonight." Meng Ma said.

"Yes, we are all ready. After the meeting in the morning, I came here directly. I also want to hear what you think about this MSI version?" War Horse said sincerely.

This year's MSI is divided into three stages: play-in stage, group stage, and knockout stage.

Teams from the four major regions, including Samsung, G2, TSM, and YM, automatically get places in the group stage.

The remaining twelve teams will jointly compete for the places in the two group stages.

Tonight is the last day of play-ins.

The last two places will be born soon.

However, according to the past practice, there is no problem for the Lightning Wolves to qualify, after all, the gap in strength is still too large.

After chatting for an hour or two, Zhan Ma left and said that after tomorrow, he hoped to make an appointment with YM for a training match. It seemed that he was very confident about advancing to the group stage.

……

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the entire YM team gathered in the training room.

In the first game, YM made an appointment with the RNG team.

Before the fight started, the contestants on both sides also joined the voice room, chatting and spanking inside.

In today's training match, Uzi finally returned to the AD position. After resting for the entire spring playoffs, his hand injury has fully recovered.

"How about Lao Su, how do you feel about playing in an international competition for the first time?" Uzi said with a smile.

"It's okay. After playing a few more games, you'll get used to it. Have your hands recovered yet?" Su Chen put on the earphones.

"It's fine, the doctor said that as long as I don't do things like soloing with the trash can, the injury will not recur," Uzi said excitedly, "I can't wait now, I want to be the king in the summer competition come back."

"It's a pity that you weren't here in the spring split." Su Chen recalled.

In 2018, the original MSI trip was actually participated by RNG led by Uzi. In this competition, RNG defeated KZ, which has the Ueno combination of Peanut and Khan, [-]-[-] in the final.

In this parallel time and space, after the appearance of his X-factor, the history of LPL has also moved in an unpredictable direction.

"I heard that IG is also adjusting. Coach Jin is going to change the starting rotation of the top laner. It is probably stimulated by YM's championship." Uzi chatted about the gossip he heard recently, "This time we are real There's big news..."

"In this case, The Shy should be replaced as the starter." Su Chen nodded.

From this point of view, the competition in the summer split will be more intense than the spring split.

"Not to mention anything else, MSI strives to come back with a championship, let's have a passionate collision on the field in the summer split." Uzi laughed.

"It's too gay." Su Chen also smiled.

After chatting for a while, the equipment was finally debugged.

Training has also officially started.

……

At eight o'clock in the evening, the entire YM team gathered in the hotel room to watch the final of the knockout round.

GMB from the Fighting Nation LCL Division, against FW (Lightning Wolves) from LMS.

The night before, EVS in the Vietnam division defeated the SUP team in the Turkey division and got a place in the group stage.

Today, the remaining quota was born between Flash Wolves and GMB.

However, just like the ease shown by the war horse during the day.

The strength gap between the two teams is also quite different. The Flash Wolves basically crushed GMB all the way.

Maple in the middle lane took out the LPL's unique hero Zoe, who played brilliantly in the audience, and Betty in the AD position also played very well, and his EZ was very smart.

There was basically no suspense in the game, and the Flash Wolves won the last place in the group stage.

So far, the group stage on May 5 will also be contested among teams such as Samsung, G11, TSM, YM, Flash Wolves, and EVS.

After watching the game, Xiao Ma walked into the room and told everyone that he had found a Chinese restaurant nearby and had already booked a place, so he brought the whole team over to have a feast.

"Brother Ma is awesome!" Everyone cheered.

Due to the low temperature in Berlin at night, everyone put on a jacket over their team uniforms. They rushed out of the hotel in such a swarm, which attracted the attention of local residents on the street.

……

5 month 11 day.

The opening day of the MSI group stage.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Hansen came to YM's hotel on time. The unveiling ceremony will officially start at five o'clock. Before that, the contestants need to familiarize themselves with the venue, put on makeup, and familiarize themselves with the process.

This year's MSI, the finalists and the group stage are arranged in the LCS studio, while the knockout stage is arranged at the Zenith Stadium in Paris, France.

Arriving at the venue, YM's group also followed Hansen into the studio.

In general, this year's MSI venue is much more spacious than last year's in Brazil.

Because it is the host, elements of the European competition can be seen everywhere around the venue.

The photos of the legendary FNC and this year's spring champion G2 players are placed in eye-catching positions, and the walls are also covered with various graffiti-style murals.

It's kind of like an art exhibition.

In addition, the on-site exhibition area also presents some commemorative items.

In 2011, the first S game championship trophy was engraved with the team name of FNC and the names of the five champions at that time.

In 2013, the first LCK champion in the S game, the blue and white team uniform of mid laner Faker...

In 2015, the photo of the factory manager of the first MSI champion EDG jungler...

Looking at the past, it is all history.

"Here, Jiang Keda player, you must take a look." Hansen stopped, pointed to a glass cabinet and said with a smile.

Su Chen looked over, and there was a black keyboard sealed inside. The model should be Corsair K95. Although it was well preserved, it was obviously old.

On the stickers outside the closet, words such as "2015" and "Marin" were written.

"This is the keyboard used by Marin in the S competition in 2015. He was also the FMVP of the global finals that year."

"Perhaps in the near future, we will also set up a special counter for you in this area." Hansen gave Su Chen a meaningful look, making him wonder if he was joking or serious.

As soon as these words came out, the YM contestants were all surprised, but Su Chen just nodded calmly and didn't pick up the topic.

After everyone finished their visit, they also entered the dressing room and accepted the staff's manipulations.

Five p.m.

The opening ceremony of the group stage also officially began.

In the middle of the noisy arena, a countdown wrapped in a golden circle appeared on the big screen.

Immediately afterwards, a pair of fists appeared on the screen. Under the countdown of the numbers, they kept hitting the screen, causing slight cracks.

The European audience at the scene counted the numbers very cooperatively.

After the countdown ended, a promotional video played on the screen.

At the beginning of the film, I first reviewed the historical fragments from the establishment of MSI in 2015 to the present. In the first MSI, EDG defeated SKT led by the big devil Faker, and then SKT's Lianzhuang in 2016 and 2017 until this year.

At the end of the review, G2's mid laner Perkz jumped out first.

"For a long time, the European division has always been considered to be the third world after the LCK and LPL, but this year we want to break all this and rewrite the history of international competitions." He said with great confidence.

His words also attracted wild cheers from the European audience.

Then came Samsung's jungler Ahn Zhangmen.

"In the past two years, LCK has won all the awards in international competitions, and this year we will continue to maintain this tradition."

After the representatives of the three teams TSM, Flash Wolves, and EVS finished speaking.

The last one to appear was the representative player of YM from the LPL division, Su Chen.

"Although it is the first time to participate in an international competition, our goal is the same as in China, that is to be the champion!" He said word by word.

Without exception, these remarks elicited boos.

In fact, except for G2, other teams are treated this way.

After all, the home game, the audience is still very real.

After the promotional video is played, the host takes the stage, and the opening game is about to start!

(End of this chapter)