Chapter 433 Autumn Trip to Busan

"KTX is about to arrive at Platform 4 of Busan Station."

KTX is the high-speed rail of Dahan Mingguo.

Group A's group match ended yesterday, and EDG bought KTX tickets from Gwangju to Osong and then to Busan overnight.

Dahan Mingguo's high-speed rail was opened in 2004, so even the first-class carriages are far less comfortable than first-class seats in China.

Because it is necessary to transfer from the KTX Hunan Line to the Gyeongjeon Line, the original two-and-a-half-hour journey actually took nearly three hours.

"It took almost three hours to travel less than 200 kilometers." Spicy Hotpot carried his suitcase, pressed down his cap and complained, "Why not take a bus directly!"

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it

Twisting his neck, Spicy Hotpot's spine made a crisp sound.

Obviously, the KTX gave him a bad riding experience, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Please be considerate."

"Their high-speed rail was built in the last century, and even the latest line is already fourteen years old."

"In this era of technological explosion, the version is updated too fast."

Abu was in a good mood because EDG qualified with the first place in the group and six consecutive wins!

"Just treat it as an experience of the local culture!"

"The next world championship will be held in the Great Cold Underworld. I don't know when it will be."

"That's right." Mala Xiangguo shook his head.

He was born in 1996 and is 22 years old this year.

Referring to the retirement time of other game e-sports players, Mala Xiangguo knows that he may have to bid farewell to the arena in two years at most.

Two years

The dimension is too short. It is obvious that Riot cannot hold the S9 and S10 world championships in the Great Cold Underworld.

"How is everyone's autumn?"

"Next week is the perfect time to enjoy the autumn leaves."

"You can see that the red leaves have dotted the entire city."

"The blue sea and red leaves make Busan unique."

"The temperature is neither too high nor too low."

"It's a good day for a stroll."

Jiang Zhun's attention was not on the conversation between Mala Xiangguo and Abu.

After taking off his headphones, his eyes naturally looked at the large advertising screen above the LED screen of the schedule meter in front of him.

At this moment, the billboard was not playing ads, but a female host was promoting Busan.

As she said, now is indeed a good season for tourism.

With the League of Legends World Championship being held in Dahan Mingguo, it is now difficult to get a ticket for flights to this place.

Just when taking the high-speed rail, Jiang Zhun and others even met many international students and domestic special forces college students.

"Skip a class on Friday afternoon and take a leave on Monday morning. Isn't it easy to go abroad in four days?"

This is the original words of an EDG college fan.

Yes, as long as you get a visa in advance, it's OK.

Not to mention, some countries are still visa-free.

"To be honest, these plastic surgery faces look really good with their glowing skin." The factory manager stood beside Jiang Zhun at some point, and followed Jiang Zhun's gaze to focus on the female host.

"What is she talking about?"

"Uh, autumn is here."

Although Jiang Zhun knows Korean, he hasn't used it for a long time. He can only understand the general meaning of the female host's words, but it is still difficult to repeat them verbatim.

Faced with Jiang Zhun's concise summary, the factory manager was also stunned for a moment.

Then he recalled the fiery red leaf forest in the video screen and the average temperature of 24 degrees in the next week displayed on the side, and he came back to his senses. Jiang Zhun was not sentimental, but translated the female host's words to him.

"Now that you mention it, the temperature has dropped very quickly these days. It's a bit chilly in the morning and evening. It's hard to bear without a coat."

The factory manager shrugged his shoulders subconsciously, and then said something inexplicably:

"Autumn is here, Xiaohu should be withering, according to the rules, Cuvee should be standing up, right?"

"According to metaphysics, it is indeed the case." Jiang Zhun couldn't help but smile.

"The second round of confrontation between RNG and Samsung should have begun."

The factory manager slapped his head and quickly turned on the mobile phone live broadcast.

Generally speaking, during the world game, each team must move to various cities according to the unified arrangement of Riot.

However, due to the change in the group stage schedule this year, Riot allows each qualifying team to go to Busan in advance at their own expense.

Of course, if the team does not want to pay for it, they can wait until the D group stage is over and take the bus arranged by Riot.

Winning the championship last year, EDG got a big bite of blood.

In addition, EDG is not like the WE team that needs to eat after the game. The wealthy Ed Zhu reluctantly spent the price of a glass of wine to let the club's training team find a training base in Busan in advance.

In this way, EDG can train with peace of mind after the group stage, and the time has a lot of advantages compared to the BCD group team.

Moreover, since the knockout and semi-finals are all held in Busan, EDG rents the training ground for half a month!

Now go to Busan in advance, cooperate with Riot's photographer to shoot the materials needed for the knockout promotional video, and then you can prepare for the game wholeheartedly.

"Why is it different from what I imagined?" After entering the live broadcast room of the League of Legends World Championship, the factory manager was a little disappointed.

The game between RNG and Samsung has entered the end.

This is a complete crushing.

It only took RNG 26 minutes to bulldoze Samsung's three-way high ground.

"A big dragon directly gets 6,100 yuan of economy?"

"This is really an exaggeration."

"Samsung doesn't even want to defend the defense tower."

"It's a shame that I still expect it to wither and falter."

The factory owner was disappointed.

And Jiang Zhinan asked with a smile: "How is Xiaohu's record?"

"4-0-7, pretty good."

"It's really strange. Autumn has already arrived."

The factory director continued to play tricks.

Jiang Zhenli continued: "It's normal, the hostess just said that next week is the best time to see the red leaves in autumn."

"Let's go to the knockout rounds and see Xiaohu's performance."

"If he can still hold up in the knockout rounds, I can only say that this fall will be a bit abnormal."

Walking out of the high-speed rail station, EDG's training team had already arranged for vehicles to be waiting.

Abu is very satisfied with this.

With many years of team leadership experience, he knows that sometimes the quality of logistics can directly affect the team's performance.

While other teams were still suffering from the torture of the group stage, EDG was able to comfortably review the game in the training base while discussing and studying the next knockout rounds.

Even though the draw results for the knockout round have not yet come out, as long as they are well prepared, there should be no need to worry based on EDG's overall strength.

"Aren't we going to cooperate with our fists to collect materials tomorrow?"

"After everyone goes to the base to study the group matches of Group B today, we will take a half-day vacation."

"There will be no more days off after that."

"Everyone can play whatever they want. Busan is close to the sea and the scenery is pretty good."

"The only thing to note is don't eat anything outside."

"If any of you were hospitalized because of eating a bowl of beef noodles, and this affected the team's performance, I would really get mad."

Abu was talking and laughing, and the others couldn't help but shake their heads after hearing this.

Obviously, no one in EDG is under much psychological pressure.

…

Two days later, the second round of the group stage in Group D was completed, and the group stage was completely over.

The qualifying teams for each group are determined:

Group A: First EDG team, second C9 team

Group B: No. 1 RNG team, No. 2 Samsung team

Group C: First team KT, second team G2

Group D: First FNC team, second IG team

After the RNG club learned that the EDG club had rented a training base at its own expense, it was not willing to compare the differences. It also rented a house for special training next to the hotel arranged by Busan Riot.

But what worries everyone is that there are some problems with the house's network.

Every time between 7:00 and 12:00 in the evening, network fluctuations will become very large.

This directly affects the players' Rank.

Fortunately, after Group D came to Busan, RNG could take over the hotel floor with its fist after joining.

Otherwise, if this situation continues for a while, I'm sure Uzi will go crazy.

After all, this is related to the results of the World Championship!

It is no longer just as simple as the LPL league.

The last game of Group D is the showdown between Afs and FNC.

If FNC wins the game, they will qualify with the same name.

If Afs wins the game, the records of the three teams IG, FNC, and AFs will be exactly the same, and Group D will play a playoff.

Fortunately, FNC did not perform abnormally in the game, and defeated AFS relatively easily, confirming the top spot in the group.

The AFS team is also the first team to be eliminated from the host LCK division.

This is quite unexpected.

After all, the performance of the KT team and AFs team in the summer playoffs can be said to be a discontinuous one.

Compared with these two teams, the Samsung team should be the team that was eliminated.

But the reality is so cruel. The AFS team, which is stronger than the Samsung team, can only go home in the top 16 due to the lottery grouping.

"Luck is also part of strength!"

"Draw C9 or G2, don't punish IG for us!"

Everyone in RNG did not feel sorry for the AFS team being eliminated. All their attention was focused on Bang at the moment.

Yes, he was the guest at the knockout draw.

Uzi did not show much concern for this old opponent who had defeated him more than once in the World Championship, but focused all his attention on the small ball in his hand.

Because this small ball determines the team RNG will face in the knockout round.

Although in the league this year, except for the RNG team that lost to the IG team in the first show of the spring split, the rest, whether it was Bo3 or Bo5, defeated the IG team.

However, no one in RNG who watched the lottery ceremony wanted to draw this IG team.

It's not that they don't want to meet the teams in the LPL division, but the strength shown by the IG team is the strongest among the second-place qualifying teams.

In addition, whether it was the spring playoffs or the summer playoffs, the RNG team always played BO5 with the IG team, and finally won the game with a 3:2 record.

Therefore, RNG does not want its knockout opponent to be IG.

"C9!"

"C9!"

"G2!"

"G2!"

Seeing Bang unscrewing the ball in his hand on the screen, and then taking out the note with the team logo printed on it, covering it with his hand and taking a look in advance, everyone in RNG couldn't help but become nervous.

In the entire room, apart from the sound of the air conditioner blowing air, the only sounds were the players whispering softly from the two European and American teams.

The barrage in the LPL official live broadcast room is also constantly refreshing:

[Hey, let Samsung escape by chance. If they don't meet in the group stage, there will be no avoidance principle in the same group. In this way, according to the order of the draw just now, our RNG opponent will be Samsung]

[What the hell, how come there are only two Great Cold Underworld teams this year, and Europe and the United States can enter three teams? ! 】

[It made me laugh. The first and second seeds in the North American division all packed up and left, but C9, the third seed, persisted. 】

[Hey, I know that EDG, RNG, and IG can all enter the knockout rounds. This year is the year when our LPL has the best chance of winning the championship! 】

[EDG and RNG are already in the two halves and will not meet before the finals. Whether the IG team will fight a civil war is no longer important. 】

[Haha, you guys are a bit funny. I watched the group stage matches and IG did not perform worse than RNG, right? 】

【Not worse than RNG? So why does RNG6-0 qualify first in the group, but your IG can only qualify second in the group? 】

[Draw C9 or G2, so RNG can enter the semi-finals again! 】

【……】

In the anticipation of countless people, RNG's opponent in the knockout round was finally announced.

Bang slowly presented the note in his hand in front of the camera.

I saw an old goat's target appear.

"G2!!"

"RNG's opponent in the knockout round will be the third seed G2 from the European Division!"

The on-site commentators, Guan Zeyuan and Anhui Liu, were the fastest. They knew the result of the draw immediately and couldn't help but roar.

For them, as long as RNG doesn't draw IG, it's a good draw.

"Stable!" Guan Zeyuan shouted.

At the same time, the room where the RNG people were sitting fell into a brief silence.

Xiaohu's reaction speed was very fast. After seeing the G2 logo, he danced for the first time. At the same time, Casa sitting next to him also had a subtle smile on his lips.

However, the two of them didn't make much noise.

While raising his hands, Xiaohu observed that Uzi, who was drinking fruit tea, did not move at all.

After hesitating for half a second, he quietly put his hands on his legs.

But the next moment, Uzi twisted the chair under him and clapped happily.

Seeing this, Xiaohu's smile immediately bloomed.

Casa couldn't help but celebrate with Shi Senming, Zhizi and others.

"The top four are here!"

Coach Heart is equally happy.

Of course, everyone in RNG did not celebrate for too long. They quickly returned their attention to the TV in front of them.

Because the final team that IG and EDG will battle has not yet been determined!

"The opponent KT will face is"

Bang picked up another ball.

The stick audience at the scene all clasped their hands and silently prayed that it would not be the Samsung team.

After all, AFS was eliminated in the group stage.

If the knockout rounds lead to another civil war in the LCK division, then this year's top four LCK will only have one lone seed left.

The probability of winning the championship is too low!