Two days later, SKT ended its trip to Jeju Island and returned to Seoul for its final preparations.

On October 2, the finalists officially began. The SKT team took time at the training base and watched the first game of the finalists, CG vs. UOL in the CIS Division.

It has to be said that the technical level of the teams that were shortlisted is indeed limited. Even the strong players in the shortlisted team such as CG, the third seed of North America and UOL, which was once affiliated with LCS, are outrageous in Li Xu's opinion. Although there are occasional highlights, many players have poor basic skills and various mistakes are endless, which makes it hard to describe.

It's really a better match. CG lost to UOL in an upset way. Li Xu didn't know where Huni came from. He said he wanted to beat him up.

He was no longer interested in watching the subsequent games and devoted himself to the game.

Generally speaking, the No. 1 and 2 seeds in major competition areas that participate in the S competition every year will inevitably arrive at the competition site and teams in other competition areas in advance for training to understand the styles and styles of other competition areas, so as not to encounter any defense in the world competition.

The same is true this year. Many teams set out to Europe early, but SKT still chose to stay at the training base for training, and even the team was still broadcasting live when the finalists started.

The outside world is full of doubts about SKT's approach. It is now S9. The championship every year comes from the competition area with the deepest understanding of the version. SKT does not go to Europe to exchange experience with teams in other competition areas, and works behind closed doors at home. Do you want to win the championship?

Last year, RNG also played training matches with FW, but the two brothers fell to the group stage and the other fell to the quarterfinals, which already explained the problem.

Of course, although many people outside are urging, the entire SKT team still does their own way.

You are just typing, but the air ticket is here.

In fact, training matches help the team enrich their tactics and improve their competitive state, but when playing training matches with direct competitors, there are no disadvantages at all.

Everything in the training match includes playing styles, tactics, and choosing heroes are commercial secrets. Playing in the training match can strengthen the players' status. At the same time, sensitive information such as tactics is at risk of leaking to the opponent.

Therefore, most teams deliberately hide tactics when playing training matches, and teams that are too straightforward will generally suffer losses.

For example, the former straightforward brother TSM made a heavy blow in the training match and found that SKT was easy to play. However, when the official game was hit by SKT who showed his real skills, he realized that he had been fooled.

Another example happened to the LCK team. Before the S7 World Championship, Longzhu played many training matches with SSG, and they maintained a basically complete record of winning the training match.

However, after the group stage, Longzhu, the favorite to win the championship, was happily sent away by SSG with a backhand with a 3:0.

Longzhu's jungler Cuzz was clearly arranged by the leader of the old Bian, from the way to the route of the jungle to GANK, it was obvious that the leader An had figured out Cuzz in the training match, and at the critical moment, Cuzz was in a trick.

I was timid in the training match, and I was waiting for the heavy blows in the game.

However, the reason why SKT did not choose to go to Europe in advance to communicate with others is not because it was because it was afraid of revealing its tactics to its opponents. After all, SKT's tactics are not complicated, but the opponent just couldn't stand it. First of all, there were not many top-laners who could withstand Li Xu's pressure on the first line.

The reason why SKT doesn't go to Europe to play training games in advance is that if the opponent is too good, the strong team obviously won't take out the real thing before the competition.

After all, SKT is now the most powerful contender for the championship in the outside world, and teams that are interested in the championship are all ready to target SKT.

Therefore, instead of hiding the secrets and having fun with your opponents, it is better to play in-team training matches at the training base.

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On the evening of October 7, Seoul University.

Li Xu and Lin Yuqing walked slowly on the green path of the campus side by side. They each held an ice cream in their hands and ate leisurely. The dim light next to them made their figures stretched out.

Li Xu used a spoon to dig ice cream into his mouth, while muttering his mouth:

"Lin Yuqing, I will set off with my teammates tomorrow. If you have any questions, call me. You have to have a good meal alone, and you are not allowed to just give in..."

Lin Yuqing was a little funny: "I didn't come here alone before? And I'll go there a few days later anyway. Why do you look like you're leaving for a long time?"

Li Xu smiled, his lips covered with cream: "Are we going to be half of the earth temporarily after tomorrow? It seems that we should speak like this."

"You're right."

Lin Yuqing gave him a blank look and gently pulled him, "Wait."

"What's wrong?"

Lin Yuqing stood in front of him and carefully wiped his clothes with a tissue. "How old are you? Why are you eating like a child? Just forget it if you eat it on your mouth, but you've eaten it on your collar."

Li Xu looked at Lin Yuqing's serious appearance and couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her cheek quickly. The white cream was stained with her delicate face.

"Hey! Your mouth is not clean." Lin Yuqing wiped his face with a little complaint.

But she didn't expect that just now she wiped off the cream from her face, and Li Xu suddenly kissed the other cheek, pasted the cream on it, then turned around and ran away.

"Haha! I won't wipe it."

Lin Yuqing looked at Li Xu who was running a few steps away with amused and helplessly. While wiping his cheeks, he waved the ice cream in his hand, "Li Xu, I can't finish it, please help me eat the rest."

"Okay, I just don't think it's enough."

Li Xu walked over and took the ice cream box from her hand. Lin Yuqing immediately hugged his waist, "Let's see where you are running?"

Now Li Xu found something wrong. He held two ice creams in both hands, and now he didn't dare to move, for fear of pasting the cream of the ice cream on Lin Yuqing.

Lin Yuqing smiled and scratched Li Xu's waist. Li Xu twisted his waist stiffly and turned around:

"Oh! OK OK, Lin Yuqing, why are you so naive?"

Getting used to Li Xu's shamelessness, Lin Yuqing no longer teased him and took care of his somewhat messy clothes.

"Li Xu."

"Um."

"Come on, I will be rewarded if I can win the championship this time."

Li Xu was very interested, "Really? What is the reward?"

Lin Yuqing blinked: "You guess?"

Li Xu's eyes rolled, he smiled, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Do you want to wear good-looking clothes for me?"

"Ah! Why are you so vulgar?" Lin Yuqing twisted his waist angrily.

Li Xu held the ice cream in both hands and shouted for justice: "How can this be vulgar?"

"You know it yourself."

"I don't know."

"You're still pretending to be garlic?"
Chapter completed!