LoL: I really didn’t mess up!

Because his sleep schedule had not been adjusted yet, Chen Dongqing struggled to fall asleep at three o'clock in the morning, Rio time. However, in order to ensure that the jet lag could be reversed quickly, he woke up directly at nine o'clock in the morning.

Chen Dongqing woke up the incense pot in his roommate as agreed, and then the two of them washed up and ran to the restaurant downstairs to take a look.

Coincidentally, as soon as I arrived downstairs, I met KT's neat five-person team.

ROX went to the jungle, EDG double C, and then there was Mata, who had never been to the LPL because of Chen Dongqing's rebirth.

"Hey! Hello!" Deft and Pawn, two people who can speak Chinese, immediately started waving hello as soon as they saw Chen Dongqing.

Little Peanut also smiled and said hello after seeing Chen Dongqing.

Because of his experiences last year, Xiaohuahua had a very fond impression of Chen Dongqing.

Chen Dongqing also went up and said hello with a smile. The two teams went to the restaurant to prepare a breakfast together, and then sat at the same table and ate with relish.

Breakfast in Brazil is nothing more than bread and milk. Chen Dongqing can only reluctantly accept this kind of breakfast. At least it can fill his stomach.

After everyone finished breakfast, Xiaohuatiao came up and winked at Chen Dongqing, asking for an appointment for a training match.

Chen Dongqing also readily agreed.

It would be the best thing to have KT as our opponent in training matches.

If you are playing training matches with other teams, you might as well create your own custom training routines.

To put it bluntly, this MSI, QG and KT will only regard each other as competitors.

As for Europe, North America, and Vietnam, I'm really not familiar with them. I'm just running with them.

This year MSI has added a play-in tournament setting, instead of the six major regions playing directly into the group stage.

Instead, the three regions with the best comprehensive results from last year's MSI and World Championships, namely LPL, LCK, and Europe, will directly enter the group stage, while the remaining three seats will be determined by the play-in rounds.

The playoffs are composed of a total of ten teams from Wanwan, North America, Vietnam, and seven other wild card regions.

Just the day before QG arrived in Brazil, the winners of the qualifying rounds had already been determined. In the end, three teams, TSM from North America, Wanwan FW, and GAM from Vietnam, successfully advanced to the group stage.

I can only say that this qualifying round was a lonely one

After eating, Chen Dongqing returned to the training room to sit and adjust the equipment. Not long after, the other teammates also sat over. Chen Dongqing explained to Coach Cui about KT's appointment for a training match.

Of course Coach Cui readily accepted it.

Next today, QG entered the busy training process.

It has to be said that as the defending champion team, QG is the shining star of this MSI.

This caused the other five teams to be overwhelmed and want to play training games with QG.

Even the Brazilian team RED, which was eliminated in the qualifying round, has the idea of ​​​​playing a training match with QG.

Coach Cui has never fought in such a rich battle. He is picky and chooses the strongest team to play every time. Basically it is either KT or G2. He often plays G2 in the afternoon and then plays KT in the evening. What about Vietnam? What about Wanwan? You can only think about it when you really have nothing to do.

In fact, on the surface, MSI's 7.8 version has not changed much. For QG who won the regional championship in version 7.7, this version seems to have nothing worth studying.

But in fact, the cup is far from as simple as it appears. With the research of each team, various black technologies will appear. It is very likely that by the end of the cup, the BP will be completely different from the early stage.

Take last year's S competition as an example. During the wild card finals, Karma's support was still wreaking havoc in the bottom lane, but in the group stage, Zyra emerged again and competed with Karma.

Zyra's dominance was broken by the female spearman again in the semi-finals, and they were defeated one by one.

But when you were in the early stages of the S game, you would never have thought that there would be a weird matchup like a female gun auxiliary versus Zyra's auxiliary!

This year’s MSI, who knows what black technology will appear.

Therefore, we still need to play more training matches and discover more.

Time flies by quickly, and May 13th arrives in a blink of an eye.

Brazil is actually in a similar time zone to the United States, so this is not friendly to domestic audiences. It is early in the morning in China.

Everyone in QG took the bus and arrived at the Rio Olympic Stadium.

The extraordinary nature of this venue can be seen from its name. As a former Olympic venue, this place can seat up to 60,000 people!

To be honest, this is the first time for everyone in QG to compete in such a big venue, and even the backstage lounge is a lot bigger.

Shi Senming sat on the chair, slightly uneasy, "Fuck, there are so many people, I'm a little nervous."

"What are you nervous about MSI?" Chen Dongqing said with a smile: "According to my experience, the intensity of MSI's group stage is not as strong as that of LPL. You can just play with peace of mind."

Xiangguo said from the side: "But there are indeed a lot of spectators today. I took a look when I entered the venue and saw that the 60,000 seats were almost full!"

"Can all 60,000 seats be filled?" Shi Senming was quite surprised, and then became even more nervous.

"Brazil is like this." Linko smiled: "Their enthusiasm for the game is beyond your imagination."

As a big football country, Brazilians love to watch all kinds of games. Now MSI is held here. Although their team did not even advance to the group stage, this does not delay them from coming to watch the game.

At the same time, there are fans from other divisions who come with the home team, so a venue of 60,000 people is nothing.

"Where is this?" Linko said with a smile on the side: "When we reach the S finals at the end of the year, we will be playing in the Bird's Nest! Then I will let you feel the value of 100,000 spectators!"

At this time, the staff came and knocked on the door of the lounge, signaling everyone in QG to get ready to go on stage.

At exactly two o'clock in the morning domestic time, the lights in the venue suddenly went dark, and a ten-second countdown began to appear on the big screen.

The entire audience instantly burst into warm applause, and the applause reached a peak when the countdown reached 1!

A beam of light suddenly lit up on the big stage, and a Brazilian woman appeared under the beam.

There was a war drum hanging on her waist, and two drumsticks in her hands beat continuously and rhythmically along with the background music. The Brazilian audience applauded one after another.

Immediately afterwards, the female drummer stopped waving her arms, and the lights in the venue turned to blue, spinning rapidly in the center of the venue, and then the countless lights that were combined suddenly dispersed and were distributed around the stage!

Under every light, there stood a Brazilian man with a war drum hanging from his waist.

Immediately afterwards, countless drum beats sounded in an orderly manner, like a strong wind and rain, full of excitement!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

The applause of the Brazilian audience off the field became louder and louder, and the atmosphere of the game was extremely intense for a while!

It is true that if you are not a Brazilian, you may not be able to understand this simple drum music, but this section does not need outsiders to understand, it is for your own people, and the enthusiasm of the Brazilian audience will help the organizers ignite this venue!

When the drum beat reached its final stage, the water drop screen suddenly lit up and started playing the MSI promotional video!

The first thing that catches the eye is "2015".

Then there is a piece of history.

In the 2015 Mid-Season Championship, EDG and SKT met at the top and launched the final battle.

In the end, EDG defeated SKT 3-2 and won the first MSI championship trophy in history.

The camera turned and switched to the picture of KT winning the championship. The double Cs of Pawn and Deft appeared in the picture. The two looked directly at the camera, seeming to want to defend their MSI championship.

And then, the screen changed again, and the Chinese commentary that I remembered was suddenly inserted.

"Welcome to the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational, this is Shanghai! Let us congratulate QG for defeating SKT three to one and winning the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational!"

QG people are lifting the trophy in the picture. This is their first championship in the world arena!

The scene suddenly changed, and there was another scene. This was the scene of QG holding the cup in Nanjing a few days ago.

This time it was the voice of a baby: "Next, QG will represent our LPL and continue to compete in the Brazilian MSI as the defending champion. I hope they can continue to successfully defend the title!"

Immediately afterwards, there were scenes of the other four teams holding the cup.

Those who can come to this stage are all champions of each major competition area. They all have their own honors, and they all want to make this honor go further!

Unconsciously, six flags slowly fell from the top of the venue and appeared in the audience's field of vision.

The host appeared on the stage, holding a microphone and shouting loudly: "First of all, let us welcome the champion of the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational, the champion of the 2016 Global Finals, and the champion of the 2017 LPL Spring Split, QiaoGu!"

The banging sound of the support sticks was endless, and the tens of thousands of spectators in the audience burst into loud shouts at the same time. This was a huge volume that Chen Dongqing had never experienced before!

For the Brazilian audience off the field, all the teams are from outside the division, so who they will support depends purely on which team has won more championships.

For viewers in the Brazilian Division, in addition to the teams in their own division, they only know two teams from outside the division.

One is SKT and the other is QG.

But now that SKT has not been able to come here, QG is the absolute popularity king!

Chen Dongqing, who was holding the trophy, was poked by the incense pot at the back. He immediately stepped forward and slowly walked down to the stage from the auditorium corridor next to him.

In the process of leaving the stage, the host introduced the QG members one by one.

"First of all, QG top order! illlllllllllex!"

It is said that Brazilians can play tongue. This is not a lie. The host specially changed the pronunciation rhythm of Chen Dongqing's ID in order to add the skill of tongue playing. The feeling of playing the tongue and lengthening the sound is like Ronaldo on the green field. A hat trick was scored on the field!

The camera also gave Chen Dongqing a close-up.

The handsome man wearing a white spring uniform was holding the MSI championship trophy. He slowly walked to the center of the stage and placed the trophy on the pedestal.

QG has nominally owned this trophy for a year. Now that the trophy is back on the stage, major competition areas will once again start chasing it!

From this moment on, the cheers from the audience exploded!

Chen Dongqing enjoyed this feeling very much and waved happily towards the camera.

Immediately afterwards, the host read out the IDs of "mlxg", "GodV", "Uzi", and "Ming" in sequence.

Immediately afterwards, the host waved his right hand and said, "Next, the spring champion from LCK, KT Rolster!"

Compared with QG's terrifying momentum, KT's side is obviously much smaller, and their voice is not even as loud as "TSM".

Maybe it’s because the team name TSM is easy to pronounce, and it’s very impressive when pronounced in unison, or maybe it’s because the North American cult is too powerful.

Anyway, this team can enjoy home court treatment in places other than Europe.

Big Brother and Bilson, the North American fantasy gods, stood in the center of the stage and waved vigorously towards the audience.

Then came G2, GAM, and FW.

Members of the six teams each occupy a corner of the stage, with the championship trophy in the center.

"Okay, welcome to Brazil!" the host spoke in Portuguese that Chen Dongqing could not understand, "The 12-day championship battle officially begins now!"

The rules of the MSI group stage are still the same as before, with a double round-robin format in the same group.

Six teams, six games per day, which means each team plays two games per day for a total of five days.

At the end of the five-day schedule, the top four will advance to the knockout rounds, and the bottom two will go home.

Because there is no host this time, the order of the games is also randomized.

The first thing that started was the war between Europe and the United States.

Brazil is closer to the time zone of Europe and the United States, so European and American games are closer.

The remaining four teams left the field, while G2 and TSM remained on the field.

In the classic G2 matchup against TSM, the organizers of this MSI presented a feast to the audience right from the start!

For the Brazilian audience outside the stadium, they obviously support TSM more.

With so many years of experience in supporting S races, this team is quite famous in other competition regions.

And it goes without saying how exciting this game is.

There's always some programmatic impact when these two teams meet.

The first 40 minutes of the game were uneventful. TSM firmly controlled the rhythm of the game with a head ratio of 16-6 and an economic advantage of 10,000.

But inexplicably, at 43 minutes, everyone in TSM returned collectively to resupply, and G2 decisively seized the opportunity and directly attacked Baron!

Forty minutes are already in the late stage, and the dragon is as if it is made of paper, and is killed by G2's concentrated fire in an instant!

TSM jungler Svenkeren also wanted to flash into the dragon pit to grab the dragon, but instead he risked his life in it!

Immediately afterwards, the game unfolded in a strange direction.

Relying on the Baron BUFF, G2 pushed TSM's two outer towers in succession, narrowing the economic gap to 7K.

OK, you have the Baron BUFF, so I understand.

But after the Baron BUFF disappeared, G2 was still extremely brave, and even destroyed TSM's middle and lower highlands one after another.

This wave is obviously a little weird.

In terms of lineup, there is obviously no difference between the two sides. TSM is obviously ahead by 7,000, but they are pushed two ways!

Immediately afterwards, in the 49th minute of the Ancient Dragon Regiment, G2 had an idea and decided to let their Uenosuke go to the front to stall for time. The double C led the super line of soldiers in the middle and went directly to steal the house!

Everyone in TSM was immediately like ants on a hot pot. Although they had captured the ancient dragon, they obviously did not dare to stay longer and quickly returned to the city to protect it.

One incisor tower and two incisor towers.

TSM only had one exposed crystal left, but fortunately, TSM's top laner TP landed on the highland tower at this time, and this was a Rambo with extremely superior equipment.

Put down his ultimate move, flash close to him, and rely on Rambo's terrifying damage to defeat Ah P's Syndra almost instantly.

At this time, everyone in TSM had also walked home and successfully dealt with Zven's Lucian.

Crystal only has one-third of its health left!

At this time, G2 Uenosuke and three others rushed forward. They had only one target, and that was the crystal with low health!

Just when everyone thought TSM was going to lose the game, a miracle happened.

G2's Uenosuke and the three others are stupid, and the speed of demolishing the tower is too slow. Even if the crystal only has one third of its health left, they have to work extremely hard to demolish it.

The hearts of everyone in TSM were beating fast, but in the end they still tried their best to protect the crystal.

The final display showed that Crystal still had 404 blood left.

After holding the crystal to the limit, everyone in TSM pushed forward and stunned G2.

The game that should have been won long ago turned out to be so ups and downs. You can’t even tell whether TSM was too weak or G2 played too well.

However, if the program is effective enough, that is enough.

After this appetizer, after a short break, the second game started quickly.

This time it’s Vietnam GAM versus Wanwan FW.

The popularity of these two teams is not very high, so I thought they would just be a side dish this time.

But in this game, something unexpected happened.

GAM top laner Stark took out a Kennen top laner in this game.

This choice immediately attracted the attention of all major teams.

Because the hero Kennen is actually very average in this version, far from the dominance of Tianlei like in the S6 World Championship.

Because of the horrific scenes of Smeb and Chen Dongqing, the two B-Kenan, in the S game, the designer felt that this was too cool.

So in the early days of S7, Kennen experienced a round of weakening.

The current mechanism of Kennen's ultimate move is that the initial damage is very low, but will gradually increase with the multiple hits of lightning.

Obviously, this cut was quite heavy.

Because Kennen is a hero who knows everything, and what he pursues is the instant burst of R flashing W.

If you go further, you will either be killed and weak, or the opponent will have flashed away. After all, professional players are not fools, and the next few hits with high damage will not shock anyone at all!

This version of Kennen's appearance rate is not high, and he is a hero who can only play with unique skills.

When 957 defeated Kenan in the LPL Spring Finals, they were knocked into muggles by Chen Dongqing's wine barrel, let alone a Vietnamese team?

But this time, the Vietnamese team really taught a lesson to audiences around the world.

Their Kennan didn't take the ordinary path at all.

Stark adopts the style of the broken ice hammer, and his main focus is to be invincible with one hand!

In this game, Wanwan top laner Mimi Dan also wanted to imitate Chen Dongqing's play style in the LPL finals and use an AP barrel to fight Kennen.

But this time, the AP barrel is not easy to use.

The core idea of ​​AP Stone Man and AP Wine Barrel against Kennen is to bully Kennen for his lack of recovery. Use passive shields or blood recovery to exchange Kennen's health for no damage. After a few waves, Kennen has to go home.

But this time.

Kennen's return to the city is a vampire scepter, and the consumption of wine barrels directly becomes a joke.

When Kenan made a defeat, the wine barrel directly became RBQ, allowing Kennan to shit on his head!

This is the case in the professional arena. Even in the same version, strong heroes may change at any time, but there is a lack of development.

Gragas and Kennen, these two heroes were recently changed, one in 7.3 and the other in 7.1, but these two have become strong top laners in the current 7.8 version.

Backstage at this time, Chen Dongqing couldn't help but feel scared when he saw Kenan chasing the wine barrel on the field.

Fortunately, it was not me who played in this game.

If he confidently took out a wine barrel and beat Kenan, and then was countered, wouldn't his face in this world be completely lost?

Thank you, Mimi Egg.

With the advantage in the top lane, GAM is also quite sensible. Captain Levi put pressure on the top half many times, leaving Karsa's jungle area full of holes!

Karsa had no choice but to come to the lower half to seek opportunities.

But another rearrangement of GAM appeared.

Their AD in this round is Bomberman.

This team has so many clever ideas.

Bomberman saw only bombs but no one, and his invincible tower defense ability made it impossible for Karsa to break the tower. Eventually, he collapsed on the road and the game was over.

This system is astounding to everyone in QG!

Banbazi's hands were continuously recording on the keyboard, recording the details of the game, and then said to Chen Dongqing: "Kenan's top laner, you have to pay attention to it."

Chen Dongqing looked at the picture and it evoked some memories.

Only then did he vaguely recall that in 2017, there was indeed a wave of AD-player Kennan.

Kennen of this style has almost no natural enemies in the lane, and his single-player ability in the late stage is quite strong, making him a favorite in professional leagues.

However, because the LPL was only the top four in MSI this year, and in the later stages of MSI, the hero Kenan was ban, Chen Dongqing did not recall it for a while.

Immediately afterwards, the game ended and it was KT's turn to play. Their opponent was TSM who played in the first game.

And in BP, Smeb actually also took out a hand of Kennen, and it was also an AD play!

There's obviously something fishy going on now.

GAM and KT actually took out the AD Kennen top laner that had never been seen before in the game.

But QG seems like an outsider and has never heard of this gameplay.

"Okay, these two teams teamed up to hide it from us, right?" Linko saw this situation from behind, and laughed and cursed: "Trick us?"

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it possible that we rarely play training matches with GAM, so even if they want to disclose it, they have no way to disclose it?"

GAM was the first team to come up with AD Kennen. According to the rules, they must have been the first to come up with this gameplay. KT was just a learner.

Opponents can also learn the small routines in training matches, but they can only take them after the developers have used them in the game. This is considered a rule among professional teams.

Banbazi's face changed, and after thinking for a moment, he felt that this was really the case.

QG is so popular recently, they rarely play games against Vietnam

At this time, the third game on the screen has ended.

KT easily won the game with its three-way advantage.

It was QG's turn to play immediately. Their first opponent was GAM who took out AD Kenan for the first time.

QG has a very heavy schedule today, with one game against Vietnam GAM and one game against KT.

On the first day of the group stage, it is necessary to maximize the excitement, so Europe, the United States, China and South Korea must have it.

"What about this Kennen?" Xiangguo said in the voice: "This laning is too powerful, I feel like the regular top laner can't play!"

Kennen himself is the choice to restrain Sword Queen. If he plays AD Kennen and continues to strengthen the lane, QG's opponents will no longer need to be afraid of Sword Queen, which will have a great impact on the BP situation.

"It's okay." Chen Dongqing said with a relaxed expression: "AD Kenan, as long as you have the skills."

See you tomorrow, brothers