Catch My Little Traitor [Esports]

The gears of fate are sometimes so wonderful.

For example, Tang Xu actually met on the stage of the group stage of the global finals with the Venezuelan team that he thought he would never see each other again.

Moreover, it was actually the first game.

The first game of all competitions in the global finals, the opening game.

LSG, currently ranked No. [-] in the world, played against the wild card team SCE.

It's hard not to suspect that the competition group is really watching the excitement and it's not a big deal.

After all, as long as you do a little research, you will know that the team that jugX played for last year and almost retired there is SCE.

"The car shouldn't overturn, right?" Lu Jing was suddenly a little worried.

Because according to his understanding of Tang Xu, Tang Xu has two forms under heavy pressure.

One is to lift weights lightly and play out of the table, and the other is to be overwhelmed and completely collapsed.

If it comes to the past related to the experience three years ago, Lu Jing really doesn't know which way Tang Xu will go.

And the group stage is a BO1 format. Although it is a round-robin match, every two teams will meet twice.But if you lose the first set of the opening match, you will lose this round, and you will be very ashamed and get sprayed on your head.

"No." Tang Xu showed an unusual calmness.

The venues for the global finals will be switched across the country. The group stage will be in Osaka, the knockout stage will be in Hokkaido, and the final will of course be back in Tokyo.

The competition venue is located at the foot of the mountain. It was originally a theater, and its shape looks very classical from a distance.

There is a hot spring hotel on the mountain. Because there are not many rooms, the entire venue is booked by the LPL. The spare rooms are used for daily training and meetings.

This year's LPL is extremely united, neither regards the other as an opponent, and even handed over their respective coaches to form a joint coaching staff.

They shared the information of each other's opponents in the group stage, and organized high-intensity round-robin training matches. Other teams in the LPL that failed to participate in the finals also actively participated in the training matches.

Compared with LSG's relaxed and happy grouping, BH is unlucky. They are in the same group as South Korea's top team UV, and there is also the No. [-] seed in the LMS division in the group. They may have to fight hard to qualify.

Qpop's grouping is average. The No. [-] seed in their group is the LCS TEG team, which is the old team that played against LSG at MSI, but the other two opponents are not very competitive, and it should be stable to qualify.

During the interval between training games, soaking in hot springs and eating authentic Japanese food, although I was nervous, I felt quite comfortable.

The only bad thing is that in order to prevent the players from eating bad stomachs, the coaching staff resolutely forbids them to eat raw food.Ah Jian looked at Peony Shrimp eagerly for countless times, but was stared back mercilessly by Zhang Xiao.

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Three days passed in a flash. As the most valuable and attention-getting event of the year for "League of Legends", the global finals grandly opened at the Asuka Theater in Osaka.

Japanese local audiences are not very enthusiastic about e-sports, but audiences from all over the world, especially the Asian division, still filled the competition venues.

At the opening ceremony, all the teams showed up separately, and the popularity of the teams could be felt from the size of the cheers.

LSG, BH, UV in South Korea, and TEG in Europe are basically the biggest favorites to win the championship.

After the debut, the game started and the promotional video was played.

The promotional video for the global finals will no longer be shot together like LPL, because there is no language barrier and there is no so-called "communication", that is, both sides do a wave of interviews, and then add subtitles. LSG has never seen what the promotional video of itself and SCE looks like before.

LSG first appeared on the four-sided screen. Tang Xu said: "I have stayed in SCE before, and I was not very satisfied with the game. I hope I can prove myself to my old club this time."

Even viewers who didn't know that Tang Xu had been in SCE would immediately understand after reading this sentence that this is the team Tang Xu had been in in overseas leagues before.

Then the camera cut to the SCE team.The captain was the bearded man at the lottery ceremony. He said, "jugX? I don't think he's very good."

Other teammates also said: "With jugX, we couldn't enter the World Championship. Without him, we met in the World Championship. Isn't this the best proof?"

Finally, the team's new jungler made a "yeah" gesture to the screen: "I can't wait for jugX to taste my strength."

The audience was in an uproar, and this video of the SCE team was full of provocation.I don't know how LSG will respond.

In the Chinese live broadcast room, Ban Yue’s expression was not very good, but his self-cultivation as a top commentator made him smile and said: "The members of the Venezuelan team are really...well, I dare to say. I don’t know what they will be in the game. What level."

The barrage shouted angrily [God X educated him! 】【LSG come on! 】

In fact, when the promotional video was played, all LSG members were discussing tactics and wearing sound-proof headphones, they didn't hear much.

But Tang Xu glanced at the screen a little, just in time to see the familiar bearded man laughing at him in a slightly mocking tone.

Game start.

As soon as this set came up, SCE's ban/pick made people feel very strange.

First hand, they banned spiders, then mantises, then Olaf.

"Three junglers." Lu Jing said, "I can't help my hero at all, but only for you?"

"Should we choose the jungler first?" Zhang Xiao asked, "It's very likely that the opponent will be a 5-ban jungler."

"No need, 5-ban jungler is not a very smart B/P strategy." Tang Xu said, "Since we go first, we will directly take the Enchantress for Xiaojing first, and then take the strong heroes from other lanes."

"Then what should you do if you have no heroes?" Zhang Xiao was a little worried.

"I can play jungle with at least 35 heroes." Tang Xu said, "And I also want to see what kind of medicine they sell in this gourd."

So LSG single-handedly selected Enchantress.

Then SCE chose Male Sword and Centaur.

Both are heroes who run map support quickly and have strong early combat effectiveness.But not strong in the game.

LSG chose the bottom lane combination, Aphelios and Bron.

SCE chose another male gun.

"What the hell?" Atta muttered, "Men's gun and centaur, SCE is playing wild with both."

"They just want to snatch away all the heroes of God X." A Dun said, "Injury one hundred enemies and eight thousand, why bother."

"And they won't be able to grab it all." Zhang Xiao said, "It doesn't matter, they dance as they please, we will B/P as usual."

After the three hero selections, there are two bans. Sure enough, SCE still bans the jungler, and the two positions are given to Ike and Leopard Girl.

After that, SCE took the hero first, and they took the blind monk.

"Take another jungler?" Ah Jian was shocked, "How do they split up? The man immediately singled out, the blind monk played the jungler, and the male gun went down the road?"

"Never mind them, they can't win with this lineup," Lu Jing said.

"I can see it. They chose this lineup and ran the map with all members. They decided to ban all the strong junglers. Then the game can be lost, and God X must die." A Dun said.

SCE's intentions are so obvious that anyone can see it.They were just planning to catch Tang Xu's wild area without thinking. When the time came, LSG would win, which was expected.

But if Tang Xu was killed 0-5 or 0-8 by them, it would be a very embarrassing record.

SCE has never been hostile to LSG, they are simply targeting Tang Xu.

Even if Tang Xu did nothing wrong.

"Then what do you choose?" Lu Jing asked, "There are not many strong junglers out there, why don't you take an excavator? You can have a fight with them."

"No need." Tang Xu said, "Atanaon, let's have a solid lineup and win steadily. My words..."

Tang Xu locked a snowman knight.

"They target me and I just fight them?" Tang Xu laughed when locking on the hero, "Idiots fight with idiots, okay?"

Lu Jing:.

If it wasn't for worrying about the camera, Lu Jing would have laughed out loud.

Tang Xu is holding a snowman in his hand, which is a bit coquettish.

How should I put it, the Snowman is indeed a wonderful hero.

It is useless in team fights except for its ultimate move, and it is not strong in fighting, but in the wild, the snowman is like a fish in water.

Because Snowman's Q skill is to kill wild monsters and restore blood, which is equivalent to an enhanced version of punishment.

The snowman's W skill is to push the snowball. The scene is probably similar to the dung beetle pushing the ball. During the 10-second snowball push, the snowman will run faster and faster until its snowball hits something. And the snowman is immune to deceleration during the whole process.

SCE chose a lot of heroes who are very flexible in the jungle and have strong combat effectiveness, probably for the purpose of chasing and intercepting Tang Xu.

But the hero Snowman, after taking a bite of the soldier, he returned a lot of blood, and no one could catch up with the snowball.

Although the SCE lineup has long legs and deceleration, all members have no hard control.

Lu Jing had almost imagined the scene where Tang Xu was pushing a snowball and running happily in front, and the SCE team members chasing him like dogs.

"Convinced." Zhang Xiao said.

At the beginning of the game, according to the usual practice, the bot lane team should help the jungler to open the field, but Tang Xu calmly said that you go, I will do it myself.

The bottom team went online fearfully, still in a panic. Sure enough, when Tang Xu hit the buff to half of his health, three strong men on the opposite side suddenly jumped on his face. Obviously they had been squatting and waiting for Tang Xu to be killed by wild monsters. The moment he hit the residual blood, he wanted to give him a blow.

Lu Jing has been cutting the screen, seeing this posture, ready to go to support.

But seeing Tang Xu unhurriedly dodging Thresh's hook with a dodge, Q in the air plus punishment, he ate the buff in one bite, upgraded to level two, learned the w skill in seconds, and immediately started pushing the ball when he landed.

With the initial movement speed of all members around 340, the snowman's movement speed soared to 430+. The three SCE tried to chase a few steps, but they couldn't catch up at all, so they had to give up and watched the little snowman from under their noses. Slip away, leaving only a trail of car exhaust.

Later, Tang Xu fought a lot of psychological warfare. Because of the existence of the Q skill, Snowman cleared the wild very quickly. He simply lived in the opposite wild area and frantically stole the opposite wild monster.

And also a meat outfit, plus five-speed shoes.

The opponent came to catch him in a panic, and he pushed the ball and ran away after eating the wild monster.

What's even more exaggerated is that this person also issued a blue jungle knife, punishing the opponent's hero to slow down the opponent, and ordered the two runes of swiftness and water walking, which increased his own movement speed and further increased his running speed in the river.

Originally, the top laner selected by SCE was one of the fastest running heroes in the whole canyon. Tang Xu was found to be hunting river crabs, and he chased him with the E skill horseshoe. Immediately come to block.

Tang Xu unhurriedly gnawed the river crab in one bite, pushed up his beloved little snowball, and punished the people and horses, who couldn't run instantly.

With the blessing of five-speed shoes + river crab acceleration buff + runes, Tang Xu's movement speed reached 770+.

Because the opposing mid laner was not online all the time, Lu Jing, who could only be bored with single-player, was paddling to replenish his pawns, when he suddenly saw a dung beetle, oh no, a little snowman pushing a snowball whized past him.

Then a half-tired centaur rushed over angrily, followed by the male knife and the blind monk who were thrown far away.

Lu Jing was dumbfounded and almost laughed.

Tang Xu ran from the upper half of the area to the lower half of the area, and went into the opposite lower half of the wild area to secretly beat a toad before returning home.

When he went out, he bought a crown, which is also a prop to increase the speed.

Then Tang Xu happily pushed the snowball and started to parkour.

Singing while pushing: "Push, push, my pride and indulgence~~"

All members of LSG: "..."

Everyone was having fun throughout the game, Tang Xu, other LSG players, the coaching staff, the commentators, the audience... except for the five SCE players who wanted to hold Tang Xu down and beat him up.

They spent too much time targeting Tang Xu, and their own strength was insufficient, and their level and experience dropped severely.

LSG pushed them flat with little effort.

Although Tang Xu's participation rate was very low, stealing wild monsters everywhere made him very economical. When he came out to settle the settlement, the snowman was even the highest level.

"If the canyon counts wechat steps, I guess I'm one digit more than you all." Tang Xu said.

"I took a sneak peek just now, and the bearded guy's face turned green." A Dun whispered.

Tang Xu's hand is more murderous than pressing someone's hammer. Choosing a snowman to make the whole audience happy, that means he didn't pay attention to you.

The point is that SCE was really beaten by the snowman and was helpless.

"Too vicious." Zhang Xiao commented.

"Huh?" Lu Jing raised her eyebrows.

"Refer to myself." Zhang Xiao said immediately.

As soon as the hero microphone came out after the game, Tang Xu was on the hot search again.

Some people made the phrase "Push, push, my pride and indulgence" he sang into a text and embedded it in the moving picture of the little snowman running, and various funny pictures of small animals in various chasing scenes were also used for jokes.

In the second round-robin match, SCE didn't dare to play like this again, but they were no longer LSG's opponents in a serious fight.

In the end, LSG had a complete victory record and easily qualified first in the group. After the following European and North American teams tore each other's hair, the North American team successfully qualified.

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After the group stage is over, it is the knockout stage.

There is still a lottery for the knockout round, but this time the lottery is not for choosing an opponent, but for choosing which group you will face.

For example, if Group A draws to Group B, then the first in Group A will play against the second in Group B, and the first in Group B will play against the second in Group A.

Each group went first to draw lots. Lu Jing didn't think about anything during the draw, anyway, no matter which team they were not afraid of.

Lu Jing took out the ball from the box, opened it, and inside was the letter "B".

Oh, Group B.Lu Jing raised her head to see who her opponent was.

"Fuck, Group B." Zhang Xiao shouted from the audience.

"It's bad, the last thing I want to play is group B." Tang Xu frowned slightly.

"Why?" A Dun was taken aback, "Is group B the UV and BH group?"

If this is the case, LSG will definitely face UV and BH in the semi-finals, which is too difficult.

"No, I'm not afraid of UV and BH." Tang Xu sighed, "But Group B... I'm a bit stuck."

Can't do it?A Dun was even more confused.

The teams in Group B fell into the upper half of Group A on the display screen, and the result of the match was formed automatically. At this moment, A Dun also sighed, as if he suddenly understood Tang Xu's words.

In the first round of the quarterfinals, LSG's opponent was actually Qpop again.