Author: Mu Yuesichen

When Chen Mo saw all kinds of speculation about him on the Internet, he was completely confused.

I originally thought it was outrageous to have multiple substitute top laners in my team just because I slept a few more hours, but I didn't expect that the outrageous things were much more than that.

"Am I mortally wounded?"

"Retiring soon?"

"Abandoned by EDG?"

Seeing various speculative posts on the forum, Chen Mo was very confused about what contemporary netizens had in their heads.

Not only him, but Abramovich is also confused now. No one could have imagined that just because of a substitute, he could cause such a big stir on the Internet.

However, this just proves that EDG is now the real traffic team. The good results of last year's championship and the outstanding performance in the Spring Split have allowed them to gain many new fans in a short period of time.

There was no other way, Chen Mo could only explain on Weibo.

He is in good health and has not had any problems. Changing the substitute is a normal decision for the club, and EDG has no plans to give up.

But even so, some netizens still don't believe it.

Chen Mo had no choice but to let them go. Anyway, as time went by, netizens' interest faded and they would eventually return to the normal track. Everyone just had fun surfing the Internet.

After a few days of short rest, the official schedule for this MSI was announced.

There are three stages in the competition: play-in, group stage, and knockout.

A total of 14 teams participated in this MSI, and EDG from the LPL division, KZ from the LCK division, FNC from the EU division, and TL from the NA division will directly qualify for the group stage, and the other ten teams will compete for two teams in the qualifying round.

A place in the group stage.

Some people may think this is unfair to the teams in the playoffs, but now the strength gap between the divisions is too big, and the strength gap between the teams is huge. If a team like EDG is placed in the playoffs, the game will not be enjoyable.

In fact, even in the playoffs, the strength gap between the teams is still very large. The main research target of the EDG analyst team is also on the other four teams that directly advanced to the group stage.

The competition starts on May 3rd. There are many LPL teams, and the spring season ends relatively late. Compared with other teams, EDG does not have much time to adjust. This is why fans saw Chen Mo's injury spread on the Internet.

The reaction to the news will be so great.

If something really goes wrong, there will be no time to react.

The group stage competition venue was held at the LCS studio in Berlin, Germany, and the knockout stage was held at the Zenith Arena at Parc Villette in Paris, France. In other words, this MSI is FNC’s home court.

Time was tight, so soon after the Spring Split ended, Manager Abramovich went around looking for other MSI teams to arrange training matches.

At the beginning of the training match, we played pretty well. However, as the game approached, everyone gradually began to restrain themselves. While they wanted to find out what other teams were doing, they also wanted to hide things themselves.

The sharp-eyed training matches were not very effective, so Abramovich simply found a domestic team to play training matches. Fortunately, EDG is very popular in the LPL. Players from many teams will deliberately find time to play training matches with EDG even if they are on vacation.

The content of the training is very simple:

The version adapted to MSI is like the very powerful TPEZ Double Goddess Tears. If this kind of thing cannot be used on the field, it will not only lack a strong point, but also cause the team to waste ban positions on BP.

There is also the training for Jiejie and substitute jungler Xiaoxiang.

When he first entered the competition field, he was faced with a big competition, and Xiaoxiang needed time to adapt to the rhythm of the competition.

Jiejie wants to train some strong jungle heroes to make the team's tactics more diverse.

In this tense atmosphere, time soon came to May.

Everyone from EDG took a plane to Berlin.

The hotel venue next to the group stage venue where the players and the behind-the-scenes team stayed had been decorated with League of Legends-themed promotional posters in advance, and there were also many vivid graffiti on the walls, which seemed incompatible with the serious city of Berlin.

It was already evening when we arrived at the hotel, and everyone was a little tired from the long flight. Abramovich did not arrange a training match, but let everyone rest separately.

"The official ranking for us is actually behind KZ."

After debugging his computer, iboy browsed through the consultations on the forum out of boredom.

European countries are not like China, which has rich nightlife at night. There is nothing outside at this time. Even if you want to go shopping, you are worried about being unsafe, so you can only play with your mobile phone in the hotel.

"If you think about it this way, there are 14 teams, and we are ranked second. We are ranked very high and have room for improvement. How great."

The junior student said with a smile.

Chen Mo shrugged: "Everyone knows the rankings of the teams before the official competition. Even Guan Zeyuan can't beat them."

Before the start of a global event, officials will ask professionals in the e-sports industry to rank the teams participating in the competition, and finally draw a comprehensive ranking as a prediction for the competition.

But according to Chen Mo's memory, whether it is the global finals or the mid-season invitational tournament, the team officially predicted to be ranked No. 1 has never won the championship, so this event has also been dubbed "official poisonous milk" by netizens.

In the eyes of LPL viewers, EDG is very strong. After all, they just won the regular season and won the spring split.

However, professionals in other regions cannot just feel this. EDG did penetrate the LPL from beginning to end, but in their view, this is mainly because the strength of the entire LPL region is not that strong.

In comparison, they prefer the KZ team that dominates the LCK division, so they rank EDG behind KZ.

"They said that Brother Mo needs to be tied to a jungler to stay strong in the top lane, Jiejie's performance is unstable, Brother Rucan's performance is mediocre, and he doesn't have any carry ability..."

iboy read out the evaluation of EDG from the outer division.

Chen Mo quickly realized something was wrong: "You piece of shit, where is the bottom lane?"

"hey-hey."

iboy smiled and shrugged: "They said the bottom lane is the breakthrough."

In fact, it’s not surprising that professionals from other regions made such comments. Jiejie spends most of his time on the field ganking, and there seems to be nothing wrong with Chen Mo’s explanation that he needs to be bound to the jungle.

As for Jiejie's unstable performance, it is more understandable. During the period when he first entered the LPL division, his performance was indeed mediocre.

As for the youngster who doesn't have the ability to carry, that's the truth. His overall data in the Spring Split is not very good. He only won two MVPs, various kill data, and KDA etc. are also mediocre.

But if you carefully study EDG's games, you will find that it is entirely because Chen Mo won too many MVPs, and because Chen Mo can always play a huge advantage in the early stages of the road, the games often end very early, so that Scout simply cannot

There is no room for performance, and all kinds of data will naturally perform mediocrely.

It is also true that the bottom lane is the breakthrough point.

The jungler and mid laner focus on the top lane, while most teams in the LPL like to play around the bottom lane. Naturally, iboy's performance on the court is always inferior to the opponent's ADC.

…

Everyone rested in the hotel for a few days. During this period, they communicated with several other teams that advanced in advance. However, everyone was very reserved and had to hide things that should be hidden in the training game.

Seeing this attitude, Abramovich simply refused to let Chen Mo play in the training match and let Xiao Xiang play instead.

Don’t you like to hide things? Let’s hide them together.

In this atmosphere, the qualifying rounds began soon, and at this time promotional videos of the major teams also began to circulate on the Internet.

Before coming to Germany, EDG had already shot a promotional video in China, and everyone was pretty good at it. They just did some cool poses, and then said some cool words.

This happens to be what Chen Mo is best at.

"When we come to the European competition this time, my teammates and I don't want to go back empty-handed. The box with the trophy is ready. The next thing we need to do is win the game and put the trophy in the box."

“I don’t think other teams will hinder us from winning the championship. As we said at the beginning of the spring split, our goal in this MSI is not only to win the championship, but to continue our unbeaten record and eventually bring the championship trophy to us.

go home."

…

When this short video was first released, it caused quite a stir in several other competition regions.

It's just that Chen Mo was too arrogant and didn't take the teams from other divisions seriously at all.

Win the championship completely.

If you express this kind of goal, no one will be convinced.

But the promotional videos for other regions are also very interesting, such as FNC.

"As long as you look at the game records between us and EDG, you will find that we won much more games."

"In comparison, our bottom lane is stronger, the mid laner's carry ability is stronger, and the jungle performance is more stable. We don't need to carry the jungler on his back when playing top singles."

"I don't think EDG will be an obstacle to our MSI this time. We all think that the championship will be won between us and KZ. EDG can buy a ticket home in advance. Of course... if you are willing to travel in Europe, you can

Ask me to reimburse you."

…

The FNC player's declaration was equally offensive.

First, I mentioned Ancestor Glory. Before Chen Mo joined, FNC did win more in the games between EDG and FNC.

Later, they mocked EDG based on the professional's evaluation. The declaration before the game was like this. No matter whether the opponent is strong or not, at least they cannot lose in terms of momentum.

“FNC is so awesome!”

After watching their promotional video, iboy felt a little unhappy.

No matter which angle he looked at, he really couldn't imagine how FNC dared to say such a thing.

Coach Nofe shook his head slightly: "Don't underestimate them. FNC's player configuration is still very luxurious. Caps and Ou Cheng's double C are very strong, and jungler Broxah is very experienced. But what worries me the most is their support."

"Hylissang is a player whose playing style is very strange and unpredictable. His performance in the EU region is very impressive."

"Pfft——"
To be continued...