The tournament will take place from March 14th to March 16th.
Therefore, on March 11th, IG and WE planned to depart from Pudong Airport and stay in Poland for a day or two, so as not to suddenly start the competition.
After all, Poland is in Europe, and there is a seven-hour time difference between Beijing and Beijing, so if the time difference between these players who have never been to Europe is not reversed and affects their performance, then the game will be over.
And before leaving, the most noteworthy thing is the phone call from Ah Xiu to Chen Mu.
She was very happy to tell Chen Mu that this time, for the cultivation and development of excellent commentary, the official made an exception to let her and D Niang, who was also commenting on LSPL, have the opportunity to explain the IEM8 session!
Although it has not yet been determined which games to commentate, it is conceivable that as long as IG can win all the way to the finals, there will definitely be a chance to personally explain Chen Mu's game!
Feeling the happiness and joy of Ah Xiu on the other end of the phone, Chen Mu also felt a warm current in his heart.
This little girl, at the beginning, said that her greatest wish was to be able to sit in the commentary seat and witness her own killing in the World Championship......
Now it seems that this day is coming early?
However, after Chen Mu hung up the phone with Ah Xiu, he still looked firmly into the distance, and at the same time clenched his fists tightly.
He is going, not to mention for the sake of those lovely fans in China and tens of millions of Chinese players, just for the sake of Ah Xiu, who cares about the people around him, he must also play well, and he can't let the honor of the world champion fall aside again!
…… Because WE and IG are on the same trip, the two teams are on the same plane, so the players from both sides chatted casually during the trip.
Chen Mu and PDD sat together, but to his right was a smile and a strawberry.
Smile has a nickname for facial paralysis, which describes that he is always unsmiling on the field, and it is difficult to have any rich facial fluctuations.
Although smiling people in private are also great, after all, his personality at this time is not as cheerful and sassy as Strawberry and PDD.
Therefore, Chen Mu was mostly chatting with the berry god on this trip.
Chen Mu looked at the strawberries and smiled, he was very optimistic about the IEM8 expedition this time, and he always wanted to find an opportunity to make them wary of the black technology of those European and American teams.
But on the one hand, he is a newcomer who has just played professionally, and he is in the IG team, so it is not good to rely on the old to sell the old and force suggestions; On the other hand, he doesn't have any experience in foreign warfare except for Singapore, and suddenly inexplicably said that GMB and C9 and the like have black technology moves, so that WE must be careful, isn't that too funny?
There is no way, Chen Mu in the hope that all LPL teams can have good results in the World Championship, and he revealed some news to Strawberry.
As for whether WE will listen to it, it is not up to Chen Mu to control it. …… Katowice, Poland, is a very beautiful city, especially in March, which can definitely be described as the grass grows and the sunshine flies.
But that's not the point.
It is clear that the entire IG team, including the awakened PDD and Xiaoxiao, has little interest in visiting Katowice.
Time is pressing, they want to log in to the European server as soon as possible to maintain their hand, and adjust their work and rest as soon as possible.
Otherwise, according to what Chen Mu said, it would be too difficult for them to break out of the death team this time......
After all, whether it is FNC or KTB, it is one of the best world-class teams in this era!
Yes.
A few days before the race, the specific schedule was announced.
In terms of the competition format, the most brutal and fair group stage double-elimination format was adopted.
This double-elimination system, popularly explained, is that if you have the strength to keep winning, then you can easily qualify from the group until the championship; And even if you lose a game negligently, it still doesn't have much impact, and there is a loser's bracket that can bring you back.
But if you lose two games in a row, then it is just and fair that you are eliminated......
You can't always say that every time you fail, you are careless, and you blame luck?
Therefore, the double-elimination format convinced all the participating teams and did not have any opinions.
But this time IEM8 is still not very friendly to IG.
Because of his grouping, IG, FNC and KTB, three teams with the ability to win the championship, are in the same group!
Although IG did not face KTB in the first round and did not fall into the lower bracket in the first round, FNC is still an extremely difficult opponent......
It's definitely tougher than the MLN that KTB wants to play, more than one grade!
Look again at IG's compatriots WE.
Even if they have strong teams like TPA and C9 in that group.
But in fact, there is no problem with the KTB Korean team's unique gear, and TPA and C9 are not as good as FNC, which has won crazy streaks in Europe, for the time being, so the chances of WE reaching the finals are still much higher than IG.
However, the competition is imminent, and IG will not have much time to blame this randomly assigned format.
They had already stayed at the hotel, and at night, they followed Su Xiaoluo and the local tour guide and translator to an Internet café in the city center, intending to continue to practice.
As the commander-in-chief of the team and the head of BP, Chen Mu still watches FNC's recent games on his mobile phone......
Speaking of FNC, I have to say that S4's FNC, in fact, is not inferior to the so-called Korean team in terms of card size and fame.
Although during the S5 period, FNC killed all sides in the finals and gave EDG a 4-0 strong entry into the top four, but at that time, FNC had already gone the most important soul Xpeke, and the main carry was also relying on the Korean aid huni on the top laner.
So in comparison, S4's FNC has Xpeke in charge, and there is a well-known top laner soaz.
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It's really about having a card and having strength.
At least Chen Mu is still very modest to think that Ou Chen and Huang Xing will definitely be bigger than their IG.
Xpeke, one of the three great kings of Europe, is not afraid of posture online.
In addition, Europe and the United States have always been black technology big moves, and the tactics of various team battles are superb, so the difficulty of the first battle of IEM8 this time is definitely more difficult than the life-and-death battle with EDG or OMG for IG.
Otherwise, IG would not have been able to prepare so hard now, you must know that even when they went to IEM8 Singapore, they did not seize all the time and race against time to train like this time!
…… The domestic LPL was suspended for a week this week.
Naturally, the eyes of all players in the circle will be on IG and WE in Poland......
Expect these two teams to surprise rather than scare them.
Originally, most domestic players still thought that IG and WE would easily break into the knockout round.
After all, the four words of Europe and the United States have always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in LPL.
But in the two days when the war is imminent, the big guys in the circle, including Miller Doll and the owner of the back pot bar and the night rain and the wind, have expressed their worries and apprehensions on the post bar or Weibo......
So this made many players can't help but start to break out in their hearts, thinking that LPL is likely to capsize in the gutter this time!