The early morning light shines through the glass and onto the wooden floor of the room.

Su Chen opened her hazy sleepy eyes, took out her mobile phone from behind the pillow, and found that it was already nine o'clock.

An hour later than his usual schedule.

Touching the soft bed under her body, she had an inexplicable desire to stay in bed. Su Chen also found it a bit funny.

He hadn't slept in the dormitory in the Asian Games Village for a few days, and he really didn't think the bed in the base dormitory was so comfortable.

Even if your hands are spread out, they won't go beyond the bed, and your feet don't need to be cushioned by a stool.

I really don’t know how I spent those days...

After washing up, Su Chen first went to the fitness area of ​​the base to do aerobics for half an hour. Then, after taking a hot shower, he took a standard breakfast of soy milk from the kitchen that the cooking aunt would buy every day.

Fried dough sticks.

It was quiet in the ym base in the morning, and no one else came or went except Su Chen.

People like him who rarely stay up late and insist on getting up at eight in the morning are considered an anomaly in the e-sports circle.

Arriving in the training room, Su Chen turned on his computer and ate breakfast while watching the game videos of other regular season teams.

This is what he mainly does when he is alone in private.

With [Virtual Battlefield] around, Su Chen doesn't need to spend time practicing heroes in real life.

Without teammates, if he is not broadcasting, there is no need for him to play ranked.

Studying the video allows Su Chen to better read the game and make the most correct decisions on the spot.

After watching about two or three games, a living person finally appeared in the silent YM base.

"Morning, Brother Chen." Xiaotian came to the living room wearing slippers and yawning, holding an unopened bean paste bun in his hand.

"It's rare to see you get up so early." Su Chen smiled.

"Playing in the Asian Games messed up my biological clock. I woke up naturally after nine o'clock." Xiaotian scratched one of his curly hairs.

After the celebration banquet at the base last night, Xiao Ma took Xiao Tian to a barber shop in Shanghai to get a haircut.

It is said that it cost nearly two thousand oceans.

But judging from Su Chen's aesthetics, the garlic tortoise is really not suitable for Korean textured perm, a cool hairstyle.

However, Xiaotian felt very satisfied and looked in the mirror and said that he looked much more handsome.

"Are you watching the video again?" Xiaotian glanced at Su Chen's computer and said with a smile, "Brother Chen, if you don't play professionally in the future, I think you can become a coach. I won't watch this."

At around eleven o'clock, everyone in the ym team got up at the base.

Left hand, Zhang Xiaowen... The players walked out of the room one by one, and Meng Ma also came to the base with the coaching staff.

After lunch, everyone came to the conference room and started the first meeting since Su Chen and Xiaotian returned to the team.

"There are currently only two games left in the summer regular season, but it will not affect the overall ranking. I have also planned the summer playoff schedule in advance." Mengma turned on the projector and showed the summer game he made.

Playoff path map.

Like the Spring Split, this year's Summer Playoffs will still be a bubble knockout format.

The top eight teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences are qualified to participate in the playoffs, starting with the third- and fourth-place teams competing in different groups and working their way up.

The current rankings of the two major divisions are as follows:

Top four in the Eastern Conference: ym, edg, rw, snake

Top four in the West: rng,we,ig,sng

"This time the situation is different from the spring game. Because we are No. 1 in the Eastern Conference, we can directly advance to the conference finals without having to fight all the way up from the quarterfinals." Mengma held the infrared light in his hand and clicked back and forth on the ppt.

With.

"Doesn't that mean we only have to play two rounds in the playoffs? The conference finals and the finals?" Zuo Zuo asked.

"This is much more comfortable. I'll hit two less B05s." Xiaotian also nodded frequently.

I think back to the Spring Split five months ago. YM, which had just entered the LPL at that time, also stumbled all the way to the playoffs. When everyone was not optimistic about it, they went through four in the playoffs and finally won the championship.

But today's ym is no longer the same.

"It's not necessarily a good thing," Su Chen said, "We haven't practiced together for more than half a month. Just looking at the training games alone doesn't necessarily mean how well we can adjust. On the contrary, it's those who can support themselves by fighting in the playoffs.

The team can maintain a good competitive state."

"That's right," Meng Ma nodded, "so we can't let down our guard. You have to know that we haven't locked in the tickets for the World Championship yet, so there is a possibility of overturning."

"No way, we haven't entered the World Championship yet? I thought we had already entered." Zhang Xiaowen looked confused.

"I remember there were three tickets, one for the winner of the summer split, one for the second place in the spring and summer total points, and the remaining one is for the bubble competition." He said cautiously.

"Yes," Meng Ma pointed to the schedule map, "If we win the regional finals, we will lock in a ticket for S8. Even if we don't win the summer championship, we can still be ranked as the second seed based on the total points.

Out of line."

"But if we lose in the conference finals, and at the same time encounter and lose to any team from edg/rng/we in the third place game, then we will be forced to play the bubble game with the remaining three teams

Go grab a ticket."

"But the probability of this is very small. There shouldn't be any team that wins the MSI championship and still plays in the bubble game." pdd on the side interjected.

"One thing to say, it's true." Everyone agreed.

"Yes, so we don't have to worry too much, just prepare well during this period." Meng Ma paused after speaking, and then smiled, "Brothers, this is our first year in the LPL, and we can enter the World Championship.

If so, this is another record.”

"Without further ado, my red envelope is ready. I got the tickets, which cost 20,000 yuan per person!" pdd waved his hand and said proudly.

When he thought that his club would soon be able to enter the World Championship, pdd felt so happy that he was going to heaven.

"The World Championship... I thought it was far away at first, but I didn't expect that I would actually have the chance to go there." His left hand also showed a yearning look.

"Indeed, I dreamed some time ago that I was playing in the LSPL finals. This is such a big step." Xiaotian couldn't help but express emotion.

Last winter, the biggest dream he and Lefty had was just to become a starting player for an LPL club.

And now, they are about to enter the World Championship.

That is the final destination of the League of Legends professional arena, the road to the top of the world, and the dream destination of all players.

Now, the door is in front of them.

Similarly, Su Chen was not in a calm mood at the moment, and the latter was already nervous and sweating on his face.

Among the players in the conference room, only Zhang Xiaowen has a relatively peaceful mentality. For him, as long as he follows Su Chen, he will play wherever he plays, there is no difference.

"The World Championship is just around the corner, let's cheer together!" Su Chen stood up, clapped his hands, and everyone in the room gathered around and shouted the slogan together.

"young

Miracle, come on!"

…

In the past few days after returning to China, the interest in the Asian Games has gradually dropped.

The attention of the LPL audience is gradually focused on the summer playoffs.

Due to the rules of qualifying for the World Championship, rankings in the Summer Split are much more important than in the Spring Split.

Before the playoffs even started, many people had already started arguing online.

In the "Confrontation Bar" of the E-Sports Louvre, discussion posts about the eight playoff teams are updated every day.

[Reasonable discussion, has ym already entered the World Championships this year? 】

[Brother Zaozi’s latest remarks are that he wants to attack Jiang÷ in Wukesong]

[Isn’t it the same for everyone who goes to the World Championship? It’s just a stable filial piety link for Father Han every year]

[Let me make a prediction about the three teams in this year’s World Championship, ym, rng, and ig. Do you think my prediction is correct? 】

[Pure passerby, what are you talking about, ig is a bad team that has come to compete in the World Championships? Let’s clear up the operations first and then talk about how to kill edg]

Pure passers-by from all sides rationally discussed the competition for tickets to the World Championship, making the excitement of the summer playoffs gradually permeate the air.

The LPL officials made a timely move and announced the best lineup for the summer regular season on September 4, the day before the official start of the playoffs.

The best lineup: top laner jkd, jungler Tian, ​​mid laner Xiye, bottom laner Uzi and Xiao Ming.

The most controversial one is naturally Xiaotian in the jungle position, and the key immortals in the comment area also focused on this point.

"Casa, Xiangguo, Xiaohuatiao, and Ning Wang, the statistics of any one of them are comparable to the sky. Why can he be so good?"

"It's just a bonus to ym's performance. What else can Xiaotian do besides catching and helping with counter-crouching?"

"Oh my God, I haven't received my approval for a while!"

"You guys have to complain about Jiang Ke Da's third team in the Spring Split. Now you guys have to complain about YM's top and jungle double team. It's really free..."

Although the left hand played in the third team, Xiaotian had already accumulated a wave of negative fans because the Asian Games squeezed out other veteran LPL junglers, so he attracted a lot of firepower for the left hand.

In the face of doubts from the outside world, Xiaotian, who has always been quiet, also posted a Weibo message that night.
To be continued...