LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

The expedition ceremony had just ended, and the management of the three teams discussed it and planned to have a meal together to cultivate relationships and avoid any disagreements in the future.

At this time, no one cared about EDG who had just lost. As losers, they could not enjoy the glory and could only leave the game alone.

Lin Ran left the stage to report his itinerary to his girlfriend, then followed his teammates towards the exit.

Xiaoyao approached and wanted to borrow Lin Ran's mobile phone to use, planning to go surfing on e-sports forums to relieve his boredom.

At the beginning of the summer split, the team's performance was ups and downs. The trolls on the Internet attacked too quickly. The garlic bastard has a typical physique with high attack and low defense. The yin and yang aura is extremely lethal, but he can break his defense by reading netizen comments in the middle of the night. Guo Hao Waiting for someone to uninstall all the e-sports forum software on his phone.

Throughout the summer season, when Guo Hao was conducting a routine internal inspection of team members' mobile phones to see if there were spinach violation records in accordance with league regulations, he glanced at the Garlic King Ba app and uninstalled it when he found Tieba Hupu Weibo.

Only by getting rid of all the public opinion environment around him can people like Xiaoyao calm down and train and compete. Otherwise, the outside world will have too much influence on him.

Lin Ran felt relieved when he thought that the last two days on the forum were all about bubbling matches and no one was joining Xiaotian's group.

The two of them were leaning against each other, their heads touching each other, and they were watching the mobile phone forum together.

Jack unzipped the Conquest zipper and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his palms, "You two look just like that... ogre magician in the Dota."

He also pinched his throat and pretended to imitate the lines of the ogre magician, "Are we okay? Of course!"

No one paid any attention to him, and the rhythm on the forum was much more interesting than Jack's cold jokes.

[EDG missed the global finals for the first time, and hard-core analysis posted the biggest insider in the team! 】

[Reddit transfer post: Hot discussion on the Internet about EDG’s loss of S7 qualifications]

[Hoo ho ho what is the reward for this world? I thought back then I would have left tonight when everything was broken, and now I am being squeezed out of the World Championship by my old club. I really want to die laughing]

When 60e starts a team, there are piggies who haven't pretended to be dead since the home team lost the game.

[What are you laughing at? Is WE so beautiful without having to enter the finals? Don't be unable to qualify in the final group stage, that would be interesting. 】

This year’s World Championship, in order to give more opportunities to the wild card division, Riot Games has specially added a qualifying round, mixing the third seeds from the five major divisions with the other 8 wild card and LMS division teams, and finally competing for four main draw spots. .

There are four No. 3 seed teams in the five major regions. There is one region that naturally does not require its own participating teams to go through the playoffs.

According to Riot regulations, the divisions to which the winners of major world championships in recent years belong have this privilege.

YM, who won the S6 Global Finals and the S7 Mid-Season Championship, secured this spot for the LPL.

This allows WE, the third seed in LPL, to directly enter the group stage.

[Dian Baozu at least has an MSI championship, what does WE have? Top 8 of the S tournament and IPL champion, right? 】

Lin Ran and Xiaotian almost laughed out loud when they saw the other teams fighting online.

Kandi, who was not far in front of him, was still bragging to Xiye, "I'm telling you, no one in the LPL is better than me in terms of punishment! At that time, I got out of the dragon pit, and boy, I have all the moves of the five EDG players under my control. !”

"When the weak retreated and fought, I didn't immediately hand over punishment. I didn't even need to look at the health of the dragon. I knew it must be higher than the punishment's 640. I deliberately waited for the factory manager on the other side to panic before I took action..."

Kandi's voice echoed in the empty exit tunnel.

Lin Ran also nodded secretly.

In terms of fighting (P) and punishing (C), Kandi is the well-deserved number one in the LPL, and there is no point in refusing to accept it.

The group of people walked out of Wukesong Stadium. There were many spectators gathered outside in the evening. They were holding gifts of support for the three teams competing in the S7 Global Finals.

When they saw a group of players and club staff walking into their sight, they burst into cheers and screams.

Fans were waiting outside the stadium, and a group of players couldn't just turn a blind eye and leave. They simply left a quarter of an hour to deal with it.

"It's so late and you're still not leaving?" Lin Ran asked, rarely seeing a familiar audience member, taking the marker in his hand.

"On the day of the finals, I had something to do and left the venue early," the boy smiled shyly, "I just wanted to see you during the ceremony today."

"Actually, there are a lot of meetings, so there's no need to stay here." Lin Ran signed his name on the YM team uniform handed to him by a fan with a marker pen.

"If you have anything to say, you have to say it now..." The fan took over the team uniform, worked up his emotions for a while, and said in a deep voice: "We will see you in Beijing in two months. The Bird's Nest is waiting for you."

"See you in Beijing." Lin Ran nodded in response. Even if he saw his girlfriend abandoning him and running to take a photo with Liu Qingsong, it did not erase the feeling in his heart.

A quarter of an hour later, under the leadership of WECEO Xiaoshou, the buses of the three teams drove out of Wukesong Stadium and headed for the dinner venue.

By the time they left the Tongguo Shabu Shabu Shop after eating and drinking, it was already early morning.

The three teams will rest in Beijing for one night, and then return to their respective clubs in Shanghai the next day.

Despite the intensive preparations for the playoffs, from the players to the coaching staff, everyone put in a lot of effort, but Lin Ran and others had no time to rest at all.

Guo Hao previously postponed sponsor activities as much as possible until after the end of the season in order not to disturb the normal training of the summer season. Now that he has won the summer season, commercial activities are coming one after another, and there is no room for YM players to rest.

Meetings, advertising videos, magazine cover shoots, Tengjing documentary recording...

As a very popular member of the team, Jack would sometimes return to the base until early in the morning after a trip. He would fall asleep with his head on the pillow and get up early in the morning to run activities again.

Lin Ran, whose reputation and honor were even better than Jack's, was even more unstoppable.

Such an intensive schedule is not only overwhelming for the team members, but also for the fans.

After the bubbling match, the most concerned thing in the e-sports forum is the status of the three teams competing against S7. The schedule of the YM team members was revealed, causing an uproar in the forum.

[Good guy, you don’t train and just do activities every day. Do you really think of yourself as an entertainment star? 】

[For seven days from September 4th to September 10th, YM's starting five played 77 Korean server ranking games together. On average, one person ranked less than twice a day. Distillation, with this attitude, he still wants to win the championship. ? See you at the Bird's Nest? I don’t even know if I can break out of the Wuhan group stage! 】

[What about the other two teams? 】

[RNG is not much better. The players’ rankings do not exceed 5 games a day, and Uzi’s points have dropped to one]

[Looking at it this way, WE is still better. It has the advantage of being poor. It doesn’t have many advertisers. It trains normally most of the time. It is estimated that the results in this world championship will be good]

[Are players not allowed to rest for two days after playing the summer split? 】

[It would be nice if you rest normally. Shooting commercials and doing activities every day is also called rest? 】

Public opinion on the Internet was overwhelming, and the comments at the bottom of the advertiser's Weibo posted by the YM Club were all urging players to train.

In fact, this is not the first time this has happened. Before facing WE in the spring split this year, YM was criticized by fans for continuously filming sponsor advertisements.

At that time, the rhythm was quickly suppressed. First, because YM swept WE and proved its status with records; second, because no matter how serious it was at the time, it was only an internal LPL game, and the attention was limited.

But the critical moment when this kind of public opinion shock occurred was in early September, one month before the World Championships. This time YM could not immediately prove in the game that his condition had not declined.

The audience is very interested in this World Championship held in China. They all want to see the LPL team win the Summoner's Trophy at home.

YM, which defeated the strong enemy LCK three times last year and won the championship, naturally has high hopes for them. Many people are always paying attention to the club and player dynamics. The anchors of OB professional player rankings took the opportunity to become famous, and the players are even more popular. is the center of attention.

A combination of various factors has resulted in unprecedented pressure from public opinion.

Lin Ran had just returned to the base after finishing shooting the BMW commercial. Before he could wash up, he started the live broadcast at the instruction of Guo Hao.

The number of viewers was so huge that within 5 minutes of the broadcast, the popularity of the live broadcast surpassed that of the former boss PDD and ranked first on the Shark Fighting platform.

He adjusted the camera slightly, then took a look at the barrage to prepare his answer to the controversy in recent days.

"Are you tired from the past two days?" Lin Ran glanced at the barrage and smiled, "Don't ask questions like this, right? Look at the dark circles under my eyes..."

He was close to the camera, allowing the audience to see the details of his cheeks. The faint dark circles around his eyes seemed to be evolving towards Kandi.

The comments were noisy, with some insulting the club's management, while others felt it was understandable for the players to accept advertisements.

Lin Ran watched the rhythm of the barrage flying across the sky, and he composed words and sentences in his mind before speaking, "I think it is a double-edged sword for e-sports players to accept activities according to the club's arrangements."

"I can understand your thoughts. Even my initial thoughts were similar to yours. Events and shootings will definitely affect the competitive status of e-sports players. There is no doubt about it." He flicked the mouse and clicked on the Korean server client. waiting for update.

"But think about this issue from the club's perspective..." Before Lin Ran could finish his words, Su Cheng handed over a plate with steamed dumplings, pan-fried pancakes, and a dish of vinegar from outside the camera.

Lin Ran, who had not eaten dinner, was feeling hungry. He thanked him and took the food and continued, "Let me give you a rough calculation. A club like YM that only does League of Legends projects has to provide the wages of dozens of employees, plus players and The annual cost of land rent is a minimum of 50 million, and it is normal for it to approach 100 million."

"It doesn't seem like much, but everyone should know that although the e-sports industry has a lot of traffic now, its monetization ability is very poor." He picked up the fried fish with chopsticks, dipped it in vinegar, and put it in his mouth. He waited until he swallowed the food in his mouth before speaking. "If we just rely on the player peripherals produced and sold by the club and the fixed subsidies issued by the league, it would be a good achievement to get back two or three of the 100 million spent."

When his cell phone rang, Lin Ran took the time to take a look and found that it was a message from Zhuo Ding, claiming that he had prepared a surprise tomorrow.

Lin Ran replied with three periods as ellipses.

"If you want to recover losses as much as possible, you have to make money from endorsements. This will also be good for the club. Investors can gain traffic and advertising effects..." Lin Ran explained everything he could say to the audience, "These contents There are general regulations when the players sign the contract, and we all know it well."

After he made it clear to a small group of the audience why the club wanted to accept advertising, he continued the topic.

"I know that it's not that most viewers can't accept advertising shoots, but they think it's too much and too intensive."

Lin Ran paused for a moment and cleaned up the fried food on the plate, "Actually, the content of the activities is not as much as expected. During the summer split, our club did not accept any commercial endorsements, so we compressed them all into this week. Brother Hao has already Try to answer as few advertisements as possible, and there is no need for you to send private messages on Weibo to scold him..."

"There weren't many shooting activities, but we were still busy for a week, mainly because the work efficiency was relatively low." Lin Ran opened the skylight for the xiaolongbao on the plate, and he did not pass the blame to the sponsors and sponsors. , "Mainly because the contestants have not experienced systematic shooting training before, and the results of one or two shots do not meet the requirements, so it can only take a long time."

This time, the YM management headed by Guo Hao and the main sponsors are not offended, and the audience can understand - e-sports players are not real entertainment stars, so the slow speed of advertising is normal.

"We must go to the Bird's Nest," Lin Ran said at last. "We will fly to Wuhan tomorrow to prepare for training. Then we will not have time to live broadcast. Everyone, please watch and cherish it."

The star player's voice was still effective, and the previously violent barrage rhythm was instantly cleared.

The Korean server has been updated. Lin Ran has started the single queue mode and is waiting to match his opponents. The barrage now raises all kinds of strange questions.

"Can a 19-year-old Canyon Master play professionally with 100 points..." He was thinking about how to answer this question while retelling the barrage question.

Jack, who was sitting next to him, felt relieved when he heard the score, "100 points for a 19-year-old master? Brother, I would like to advise you to quit as soon as possible and do something else."

"I think back then we all had to have thousands of points in the national server's big and small sizes to be able to make a living." Jack's answer to the question was false, and he wanted to show off, "I remember it was at the end of the S5 and S6 seasons. At the beginning, the gold content of the national server king was much stronger than it is now..."

"Dopa, Brother Ran, I remember there were Guanhe, White Card, and White Windmill. That guy Shi Senming and Gao Zhenning were also in the top ten. Back then, it was called a competition among the heroes..." At this point, Jack had to tell them about S6. The glorious story of the king of national service.

He moved the pulley of the gaming chair, his posture was like a stick pushing a wheelchair, and squeezed in next to Lin Ran to watch the barrage, "Oh, yes, there is also a dazzling go... dazzling god!"

Jack was still talking about the gold content of the S6 national server king, and Lin Ran simply spent time beside him without saying a word.

Tonight's Korean server ranking time was extremely long, and Lin Ran understood the reason after thinking about it for a while.

Most of the Korean server champions are composed of professional players from LPL and LCK. The two major competition regions of China and South Korea have entered the offseason. Most ordinary players choose to rest after a year of high-pressure work, and rarely play in qualifying matches; while participating in S7 The three LCK and three LPL teams will all arrive in Wuhan tomorrow. Many players decided to rest and relax tonight.

This resulted in Lin Ran being unable to queue anyone up now.

He couldn't sit there all the time and use the queuing time to make up for the duration of the live broadcast. Lin Ran prided himself on being very conscientious and doing live broadcasts properly to the audience.

"You all have a District 1 account, right?" He took a different approach, "Let's have a water buddy competition."

"Put the District 1 ID on the public screen, and I'll randomly pull people..." Lin Ran boarded the District 1 account that he hadn't used for a long time and started copying and pasting the barrages.

The audience in the live broadcast room immediately became excited after the gimmick of water friends competition came up. They were so excited that they thought they had got the opportunity to compete with Lin Ran on the same stage.

But what they never expected was that Lin Ran pulled ten water friends in at once, while he sat in the spectator seat.

"Are you ready? Just deduct 1 and I'll start the game," Lin Ran said seriously, "If you have a coach, just type BP."

A barrage asked: [We are playing a game, so what do you do? 】

"I'm... no, I'll explain it to you." Lin Ran said matter-of-factly.

【? ? ? 】

[Create a new routine for mixed live broadcast duration? 】

[Don’t do it, other professional players will steal our lessons later. We still have a live broadcast to watch? 】

[That's right, Brotherhood. Back then, Shark Fighting and King Li were sleeping live. That was really a long time. Now at least he can still interact with the barrage. 】

The water friendly competition officially started. Lin Ran pretended to cough twice and adjusted his tone to prepare for explanation.

…

"This player named 'jzh Yasuo 0 bar 10 fuck me', Uzi Yasuo is not good, and your Yasuo is not good either?" Lin Ran shouted, Yasuo's EQ flash on the screen failed, and the flash hit The opponent's face was killed by the 200-blood blind monk's QRQ combo.

[Hahaha, I’m full and have to cook three more bowls of rice! 】

[What a genius. Is Yasuo about the same level as Lin Ran? 】

[I didn’t expect that even Yasuo could be said to be proud of Jane]

"'Qingwo Steel Gate will shadow'. As expected, the ID shows that Camille is a proficient player with extremely skillful operations. He decided to one-on-two and challenge the opponent's bottom duo!" Lin Ran saw the wonderful operation and gave it to them. To cheer, the theme song "Ignite" from last year's World Championship was played, and the heart-stirring electronic sound echoed in the live broadcast room.

"Qinggangying uses the slowing effect of W [tactical sweep] to pull the opponent, and AQ uses three-phase acceleration to pull it into the grass to avoid sight..."

After a while, Lin Ran stood up.

"Qinggangying's perfect E flash and E kick stunned two people. A followed up and used real damage to kill the mouse in seconds. Luo, who was knocked unconscious, couldn't even use his ultimate move!"

【What a handsome Camille! 】

[My dear, are you on fire? 】

[Isn’t this better than the newly launched Boruto Legend? 】

"Qinggang Shadow teleports to the upper half to lead his teammates to capture this crucial dragon. The blue side has widened the economic gap to 1W, and the red side has Luo, but there is no clockwork!"

From God's perspective, a team battle broke out between the red and blue teams in the middle. Qinggangying stood up again, cut sideways into the single-second mouse, and then followed his teammates to successfully kill the opponents one by one.

"No more, no more miracles!" Lin Ran raised his arms and shouted, "The red side's main crystal was bulldozed, and the blue side won the championship!"

…

Early morning on September 12th.

"I put your ID card in my wallet. Remember to take it out when you get to the airport." Su Cheng helped Lin Ran zip up the suitcase. "I put the wristband in the smallest pocket. If you practice too much, Remember to put it on."

"I wrapped the slippers in a paper bag and put them on the top shelf. You can see them as soon as you open the suitcase." The girl picked up her mobile phone. "I sent you all the other precautions."

"Drink less ice water and eat less ice cream at night. The weather has turned cold recently. When you leave the hotel, put on an extra sweater outside..." Su Cheng warned.

Lin Ran carried the suitcase with one hand and hugged his girlfriend with the other as he walked downstairs to the club.

Su Cheng will not be able to arrive in Wuhan until the evening of September 30. After the National Day holiday, she can take personal leave until the end of the quarterfinals on October 22.

Then she could fly back to Shanghai to wait for the semifinals to start. In the end, the finals at the Bird's Nest on November 4 happened to be on a weekend, so it couldn't hinder her.

Of course, this is an ideal situation. If YM fails to enter the Bird's Nest, there is no need for Su Cheng to take leave.

"College life is really good," Lin Ran sighed. "You can actually take a month's vacation, both inside and outside."

Su Cheng heard that this person was talking about herself, so she pinched Lin Ran with her ears slightly tipsy.

"My sophomore year has just started, and the course pressure is not that intense. I can take time off to keep up with the progress." Su Cheng defended.

The two of them arrived relatively early. When Jack went downstairs, he met Su Cheng and was severely beaten by her with her unforgettable martial arts fists in retaliation for the roast duck after the summer finals.

"Let's go Chengzi, see you in Wuhan!" BMW cars full of YM club personnel drove out of the base one by one.

"See you in Wuhan!" Su Cheng waved her fair and slender arms to say goodbye to them.

Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

The three teams that went to S7 successfully gathered and reunited. In addition, there were two other mysterious teams.

"Okay, are you all here?" Lin Ran went up and punched King Ning lightly.

"They're all here," Milk Skin Gao Zhenning said cheerfully, "If we hold an S game on our territory, we IG are not allowed to get involved?"

TheShy, Ning, Rookie, West, Baolan and substitute Kid were all present. They found players they knew well and chatted in twos and threes.

TheShy looked at Lin Ran with his bared teeth and a weird smile. The usually docile cock was being led by Jack to talk dirty.

"I was in the grass during that wave..."

Baolan seemed to have skipped breakfast and was still pestering the child Youshen to make noodles for him.

It looks like the atmosphere of life is extremely rich.

Another mysterious team is a motley crew.

TOP top laner zoom, SNG top laner Lang Xing, LGD jungler eimy, SNG jungler H4cker, TOP mid laner knight, JDG mid laner doinb, OMG striker Sima Laothi, EDG striker iboy, EDG assist meiko, LGD assist Hirano Aya.

There are two players in each position, a total of 10 players. Taken alone, they are considered to be very powerful players in the LPL.

"Zhuo Ding, is this the surprise you were talking about?" Lin Ran remembered the WeChat message sent by Huang Jinzuo last night.

Zhuo Ding scratched the back of his head subconsciously, "I didn't know about this at the beginning, but yesterday afternoon the team suddenly found me and Zoom and said they were going to form an S7 sparring team."

The sparring team, as the name suggests, is a sparring team, playing roles such as imaginary enemies to test tactics and improve abilities for the team members participating in the main competition.

Lin Ran had heard someone talk about this before. He thought it would be good to find a few players to come over, but he didn't expect that the LPL would actually make a big move.

The number of players in the sparring group has almost caught up with the three competing teams.

"How's it going?" Bobby arrived belatedly. He looked in a good mood with a smile on his face, "I learned this from the experience in the intercontinental competition."

"We are all teams from the LPL division. Our goal in this global finals is the same - to keep the Summoner's Trophy in the LPL!"

"The higher the level of the sparring team, the higher the quality of your training, and the team's performance will naturally be guaranteed!"

"You should have home field advantage at home. You are not alone. I will do my best to help wherever needed!"

Bobby spoke loudly and forcefully. This time he was no longer as cautious as when he went to the United States last year.

His team has won the global finals and mid-season championships in a row, and defeated LCK twice head-on. Bobby is now full of confidence.

"Everyone, gather in the middle. Let's take a photo before we go!"

At Bobby's call, dozens of contestants lined up in two rows.

"Three two one..." Cameraman Ichimura pressed the shutter button.

"We must win!" everyone shouted outside the empty airport.

Half an hour later, everyone boarded the plane one after another. The destination was Wuhan Tianhe International Airport!

Attached is the list of the actual S7 sparring team:

All IG members: TheShy, Ning, Kid, Rookie, Jackeylove, West, Baolan

Top order: Wolf Xing, Cuttlefish.

Jungler: H4cker, Wild King eimy

Mid laner: doinb, FPXBing (Tsar’s third consecutive ****)

Bottom lane: Lin Weixiang, Sima Old Thief

Assistant: Liu Qingsong, Hirano Aya

Coach: White Crescent

In the future, there will be 8 S competition champions among this group of people, which can be regarded as the strongest sparring group in recent years.

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