IEM8 is, after all, an officially hand-picked World Series.
While nowhere near as much attention as the MSI Mid-Season All-Stars and S-Series that would later become MSI's mid-season tournaments, at least it was a real World Series, a chance to earn glory for your club and your region.
Therefore, including the champion WE of the Shanghai branch, the two domestic teams are now preparing for the IEM8 World Finals in 13 days.
It's just that this week's LPL will still be played normally, and it won't be until next week when all of them are in Poland that the LPL will be suspended for a week, like the leagues in other regions......
But this doesn't have much impact, anyway, for IG, the opponent in the first round of the final game is just a PE at the bottom of the league rankings.
At that time, it is estimated that Chen Mu will not have to exert any force, just choose a doomsday Amumu or something, and IG can defeat PE with hard power, so that they can maintain a complete victory in the first round.
In comparison, WE is a little bit of a bitterness.
Because they still have to fight OMG on Sunday, and OMG has just defeated EDG, which can be described as a rainbow of momentum, plus WE must study IEM8's opponent in advance......
The balance of victory in this matchup is more in favor of OMG.
Really.
In Saturday's game, IG sacrificed the Yasuo monkey system and won PE lightly.
WE was defeated by OMG, and basically there was no upset.
And after this week, the first round of the LPL Spring Tournament has all come to an end.
The standings of the standings have not changed much, IG is firmly in first place, OMG occupies second place, and EDG can only settle for third place.
But because WE and IG will go to Poland next Tuesday, the audience in the circle is not very concerned about the current standings.
Just like Chen Mu said, no matter how well the civil war is fought, it can't be considered an honor, and e-sports has to go to the competition area and win glory for the country in order to reflect her charm!
Therefore, the focus of discussion among domestic audiences this weekend is almost exclusively WE and IG.
EDG and OMG were put aside for the time being.
Abu and the factory director, who noticed these changes in public opinion, also shook their heads secretly, feeling that they would have to participate in the World Championships no matter what......
This is the fastest and most effective way for a team to attract fans!
OMG's statelessness and elixir are still in serious training and solo rank.
This time, they did not qualify, last year's Shanghai sub-station, the big nose of the return to the light with a fox frontal defeat them, but also gave WE the opportunity to go to Poland this year.
But they are not thinking about IEM8.
They want to go to the All-Stars, they want to be on top of the world again with SKT in Paris.
So they will work harder and be more strict with themselves......
As long as IG makes a slight mistake in the league after returning to China, they can catch up and forcibly snatch the top spot in the league from the hands of Brother Hang-up!
…… 12 o'clock in the evening, IG base building, training room on the third floor.
The lights are still on, and everyone is still staring at the computer.
It can be clearly seen that they are playing training matches in Hanbok with agents......
The opponent is still SKT's S team, the Korean team that was highly praised by Chen Mu in this version.
I remember that when I first played a training match with Team S, I didn't necessarily win two bo3s in almost two days.
At that time, PDD and Xiaoxiao, as long as they could defeat Team S once in two days, they could be happy for a long time, and even more excited than winning by a big score in the LPL.
It can also be seen how terrifying Team S was for IG two weeks ago.
And now, after a week of hard training in retreat, IG's overall strength can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds.
Especially for the understanding of this version, Chen Mudare patted his chest and assured that they are the first in China, even if it is EDG and OMG, they may not be able to defeat them even one in BO5!
Of course, there is an improvement brought by playing a training match with the Korean team, but more importantly, it is because the two veterans PDD and Xiaoxiao firmly remember what Chen Mu said to him that day. …… Yes.
A week ago, after losing to Team S in BO3, Xiaoxiao said at the time that Koreans were all monsters.
Obviously, their IG is already one position ahead of other teams in China, but they still can't beat Team S, which may only be ranked fourth on the OGN side!
PDD also expressed some decadent opinions, saying that maybe the upper limit of their group of people is like this, this year's S4 is still the consecutive championship of South Korea's OGN, and LPL has no possibility of competing for the championship with others at all......
After saying this, Xiaoxiao didn't refute it.
Although he claims to be a lifelong anti-Korean fighter who will never stop.
But resisting South Korea does not mean that he is inflated, nor does it mean that he will feel that he can abuse South Korea in private, just like the stunned youth.
Through the training match with Team S, Xiaoxiao can definitely clearly realize that there is a huge gap between LPL and OGN at present, and the gap is so big that even IG, which is unbeatable in LPL, is not the fourth-ranked opponent......
So Xiaoxiao and PDD were a little discouraged, and even brought up the old things again, thinking that if they just retire, they wouldn't be able to win a world championship anyway......
Originally, this could be regarded as a big truth, but who would have thought that Chen Mu, who has always had a good temper, would be unprecedentedly angry after hearing this.
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He told Xiaoxiao and PDD at the time that if they retired now, they would definitely regret it countless times in the dead of night in the future.
And now that LOL is developing by leaps and bounds, once they retire, it means that there is no turning back from the bow, and it will be difficult for them to return to the professional arena!
Think about the days when you had to fight hard even if you only had 2,000 a month of instant noodles, and then think about the days when you have a monthly salary of tens of thousands a month, but you don't even dare to beat South Korea after the training match......
They are now retiring simply, but they don't have a world champion in hand, do they plan to be the same as Douyu's five or five open, and always talk about the runner-up who was 3-0, not ashamed, but proud?
Listening to Chen Mu's heartfelt words, and then looking at the rare seriousness on Chen Mu's face, he lowered his head and chose to be silent with a smile.
Even PDD, who has never been in a positive shape and has always liked to joke, sighed softly at this time.
That night, Xiaoxiao and PDD didn't talk to Chen Mu again.
But at noon the next day, it was Xiaoxiao and PDD who took the initiative to find Chen Mu and asked him to come to the training room to play five rows......
This scene was both in Chen Mu's imagination and unexpected.
Because in the past, Xiaoxiao and PDD would never be so eager, they were always the last two to come to the training room every day......
But today, listening to the gesture, early in the morning, Xiaoxiao PDD is in that double row of rank, and the heroes selected are also the so-called version of the strong, not those rank heroes who are randomly selected by their own preferences on weekdays!
…… Since then, IG's performance has skyrocketed when he played a training match with Team S.
Not to mention that it can absolutely abuse the S team, at least it can play a five-five or even four-six open with the S team.
SKT's head coach over there, kkOma, couldn't help but praise IG, saying that IG had changed teams directly in the past two days!
Team leader Su Xiaoluo was also in a good mood after learning about their progress in the training match, and boldly made a military order, saying that IG would definitely win honor for the competition region and the country if he went to Poland!