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October 3rd is the day when the group stage officially begins.

SH City, JA District, Xinyefang SMT Cloud Innovation Space.

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

This was also the home stadium of the Overwatch Shanghai Dragons.

There is a game for KT today. The entire KT team has arrived at the venue early and is waiting in the lounge.

As the start of the game approaches, Chinese Exile released a promotional video for the group stage.

Because it is aimed at the LPL audience, the promotional video mainly tells the history of the LPL from chaser to leader, and expresses the determination to defend the dominance of the LPL for three consecutive championships.

Then there is the pre-recorded video of the five FPX members returning the trophy.

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

The good thing is that the FPX players don't have to be publicly executed. After all, they have not been shortlisted for the World Championship. Going to return the trophy is simply murderous.

The downside is that it is said that the 30-second trophy return video took five people from FPX to record for three hours, and they suffered a lot.

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

I have to say that the special effects in the opening game of the group stage were well done, but they were very awkward.

A performer climbed into the sky amid a neon light curtain, and after a dance of lightning and thunder, he arrived at the arena that slowly rose above the clouds.

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

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

Aiming: "It's so cool! The special effects are so cool."

Kuro: "What a pity! It would be great if real KDA could be invited to perform, so I could see the little fox."

Tusin: “I don’t know how it feels to watch it live?”

Lin Cheng's angle was the most tricky: "Did you see the cliffs on both sides? If anyone cheats, we will push them down."

Teammates: "······"

In fact, the finals have been played here for several days, but there was no opening ceremony in the finals, and there were no deliberately displayed special effects. Before, Lin Cheng just thought the stage looked good, but today it is much cooler with all the special effects turned on.

According to past practice, the host team will appear in the opening game. As the No. 1 seed in this year's LPL, Taobo is scheduled to play the first game against North America's No. 2 seed FLY.

This game is actually quite interesting. The most aggressive AD in LPL faced off against the most aggressive AD in North America. It was full of gimmicks.

Brother Yegui is also a senior-level living fossil player. He made his debut in S1. 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 Yegui's bravery.

The LPL audience is already used to the sudden death of Ah Shui playing EZ and then handing E, but when it comes to the originator of sudden death, Mr. Dai is even inferior to Brother Yegui.

When Ye Gui Ge was young, he used flash to stick to his face. He used a plane to fly W and ride on the face of the AP mage on the opposite side, and the small cannon W sat on the faces of the four people on the opposite side... These are what Ye Gui Ge gave to the audience. The impression left behind.

The flashes of the two ancient North American ADs are similar. The elder brother never flashes to the death, and the wild turtle brother always flashes forward. The common point is that both of them like to die suddenly.

The result of the opening game was not unexpected. Taobao easily defeated North America's second seed FLY and caused a massacre.

However, the protagonist of this game is not the ADs of both sides. Taobo's jungler played a huge advantage in the early stage, and 369 looked like a god of war in front of SOLO.

KT and FLY played a training match a few days ago. Lin Cheng played three hard games at that time, which made SOLO confident. Facing 369, who had been beaten by Lin Cheng, SOLO bluntly stated on Twitter before the game that he could compete with Lin Cheng in the training match. If it is 50-50, then you will definitely not be afraid of 369.

That's exactly what happened. SOLO's Xiong tried to kill alone in more than 3 minutes, but was counter-killed by 369's Qinggangying. Then he was caught by Karsa twice, and FLY's top lane was directly penetrated.

It can only be said that Lin Cheng, the world's number one top laner, has done a lot of harm to the big brothers of SOLO and has become a bit inflated.

Just after the game ended, G2 jungler Jankos, who had no game duties and was watching the game in the hotel today, posted a tweet: I thought that after LGD lost a few games in the playoffs, some people had unrealistic fantasies about the LPL. .

Ah P: I suggest Riot Games change the rules to allow two sides with too big a strength gap to surrender.

G2 official: The gap is too big! Is it OK for the LPL or not the LCS? Maybe a little bit of both.

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

Lin Cheng's loyal lackey, LCK's English commentator Valses, immediately jumped out to cause trouble: That's because he hasn't met Cheng yet! When 369 meets Cheng, you will find that he is like a baby.

Then KT's official also made a rare statement, replying to FNC's comment praising TES: That's all.

Let’s not talk about the taunting war on the Internet, but what followed were two games in which teams from the qualifying rounds competed.

As a result, UOL and PSG, who performed well in the qualifying rounds, were beaten violently by DWG and RGE respectively, and were unable to fight back throughout the whole process.

So here comes the question... What level is Lao Gan Daddy?

Why were PSG and UOL, who beat the old godfather so hard in the qualifying round, so vulnerable in the group stage?

While the LPL audience was discussing and mocking Lao Gan Daddy, the focus of the first game day came, between KT and JD.com.

KT, which has dominated the LCK for a whole year, met JD.com, which competed with Taobao for the LPL championship all year long. It can be said that it attracted the attention of global LOL audiences.

Lin Cheng has already sat in the game seats with his teammates.

Watching the special effects on the floor and wall screens live was not as shocking as the broadcast, and the fools would lose interest after just a second glance.

Kuro: "How is it? Are you nervous about playing in the World Championship for the first time?"

Lin Cheng: "There's nothing to be nervous about. It feels just like an online game."

Bono: "That's right! There's not even an audience, so there's 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 don't."

"You are·····"

"I don't!!!"

A roar pierced his eardrums, and Lin Cheng quickly took off his headphones and rubbed his ears.

"No, there is none. Why are you yelling so loudly?"

Kuro was also rubbing his ears, "Lin Cheng, are you out of your mind? Why do you have to provoke him?"

Lin Cheng: "I'm not afraid that everyone will be nervous. I need to calm down my anger."

Kuro: "You idiot! I feel a little panicked when you do this."

Lin Cheng: "Don't panic! Hold still and don't send me away! I'll carry!"