In the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, the entire rng team was going through the registration procedures.

"Hi, brothers, long time no see!" Uzi, wearing a Hawaiian-style floral shirt and a pair of Nike slippers, greeted Su Chen and others who were walking towards him with a smile.

Behind him are Xiaohu, Xiaoming, Xiangguo and other RNG team members.

"If you come here one day later, it will be Golden Week. I remember the air tickets seemed to have doubled." Su Chen said with a smile.

"I can't help it. I have been participating in the sponsor's activities these past few days, and we rushed here today in a hurry." Uzi complained.

"There's really nothing we can do about it." Su Chen could also understand Uzi's resentment.

rng is considered to be one of the most successful teams in the LPL in the past two years. It has many more commercial activities than other clubs in the league. After all, e-sports cannot be used to generate electricity for love, and it still requires Qiami.

As the players who are the main targets of the contract, they naturally have to cooperate wholeheartedly.

Su Chen felt very fortunate about this.

YM actually became famous after winning the MSI, and countless big-name sponsors came to the door with their checkbooks.

But YM signed commercial contracts with Tengda, and there were not many parts that required the players to perform in person. It was a type of contract that had more money but less trouble.

Su Chen had already received all the endorsement fees after playing in the summer finals, and what he did specifically was authorize his own image rights.

In addition, several simple endorsement advertisements were filmed at the base.

It basically takes no trouble.

"The hotel arranged for this year's group stage feels good. I see there is a beach behind it, which is much better than the previous World Championships." Xiao Ming looked around.

"It just looks okay from the outside, but in fact the internal facilities are a bit awkward." Xiaotian immediately complained.

"Indeed, I almost had a heatstroke this morning." The left hand behind him also echoed.

"I saw the official tweet from fnc. It seems that all the air conditioners on the floors where the players live are broken. Are they being repaired now?" Hart said with a smile.

Su Chen took out his mobile phone and logged into Twitter using scientific Internet methods. Sure enough, he saw the updates posted by some of the participating teams in the group stage.

fnc: "On the first morning after arriving in Busan, there were some bugs in the caps player's room."

In the accompanying picture, Caps is sitting shirtless in front of the open refrigerator in the room, closing his eyes in a meditative posture, and accepting the cold air coming out of the refrigerator to cool down.

tsm forwarded this news: "It seems that you are not able to adapt to Busan's environment. Why not go back to Europe as soon as possible and enjoy the Mediterranean climate."

Before the group stage even started, Europe and North America had a classic exchange of words, which immediately heated up the atmosphere of the World Championship.

Even g2, who was still in the finals, jumped in and spoke confidently: "This is why we came to Busan a week late."

Compared with the usual live-action style in Europe and the United States, the East Asian division seems a lot more reserved.

The official tweets of ym and rng were just forwarded.

On lck's side, Samsung Geng showed the host's attitude and gave a warm reminder that the temperature in Busan has been high in recent days. I hope everyone can pay more attention.

kt introduced some of Busan’s attractions and delicacies, and suggested other teams to visit them.

Although their attitude was relatively friendly, they did not directly call out the organizer for the poor hotel arrangements. The pictures also showed the beautiful scenery of Busan, showing that the time has passed peacefully.

However, some netizens who were up to no good soon exposed it.

The lck team is currently not heading to Busan, but is staying at the base headquarters to prepare for the game. They did not stay at the hotel in Feiyuntai District like other teams in the group stage.

After all, it is a local battle, and it does have geographical convenience. There is no need to come in advance to prepare for the battle.

But this also made people from other teams feel a little uncomfortable.

"It's okay. When the Korean team is eliminated, it will be pretty quick to go home. You don't even need to book a plane ticket. You can get home in just a few steps." Someone mocked.

After rng completed the check-in procedure, he and ym had lunch at a nearby restaurant.

The coaching staff had to prepare the training room, so they did not participate.

Only 12 players and 2 translators went out together.

In the restaurant, after the group finished ordering, they chatted happily.

"You guys feel comfortable this year. Group A feels like you can qualify even with your eyes closed. It's not like our Group D, where the MSI Brawl is coming." Xiaotian pretended to be sour and teased Shi Senming.

"There is nothing we can do. Who allowed you to beat us in the summer split? Now you must be punished by God." Shi Senming said with a smile.

"Is that so?" Xiaohu suddenly realized.

People at the two tables suddenly laughed.

Only Uzi clenched his fists and his face gradually turned red.

"It still depends on how the qualifying rounds go. It would be really fun if g2 were also assigned to Group D," Casa laughed. "It shouldn't be that miserable."

"Whether you come or not doesn't affect the overall situation," Su Chen shrugged indifferently, "It seems that we have beaten these three teams in the MSI. It's just a second battle."

"That's right, I was still thinking that if I didn't finish the group stage, I would send Samsung home." Xiaotian agreed.

rngWhen everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

"It would be good to qualify in the group stage. Samsung can make it to the quarterfinals no matter what. After all, it was the world champion last year and the runner-up of this year's MSI. How can it be in the top 16?" Uzi shook his head repeatedly, "Don't look down on lck too much.

Okay."

"We will see the results in the group stage then." Su Chen smiled confidently and did not explain.

When talking about the playoffs, everyone also mentioned the situation on the third seed IG.

ig arrived in Seoul three days ago to prepare for the National Day qualifying round.

According to pdd, ig has been under closed management these days and has to play nearly 15 hours of training matches every day, so it is very full.

"We just arrived in Busan today and made an appointment with ig for a training match in the evening. I feel like they are quite active," Uzi said.

Su Chen nodded, but didn't ask ig why he didn't ask ym for a training match.

The relationship between the clubs is on the one hand. Meng Ma also mentioned that the playing styles of ym and ig are relatively similar. Even if the two teams play training games, they can't practice any BP routines. They just have three lines fighting brainlessly.

On the contrary, the style of the operation team like rng is somewhat similar to that of lck, and IG can learn a lot from it.

Knowing ig's attitude towards the qualifying rounds, Su Chen also knew that they should be guaranteed to qualify.

Originally, the qualifying rounds were not difficult for the third seeds from the four major regions.

Among the 12 qualifying teams, except Hong Kong team g-rex, who may advance to the second round with the second pick.

Unless the boss makes his own bet on c9 and g2, it is impossible to fall into the second round of the elimination stage as the second pick in the group.

As long as ig doesn't collide with c9 and g2, how can b05 in the elimination stage lose to teams like Japan, Türkiye, and Oceania?

Therefore, the so-called ig finalist adventure that is ridiculed on the Internet is just purely a matter of fun.

…

After lunch, everyone returned to the hotel.

In the lobby on the first floor, many fans who had read the news on Twitter immediately gathered around.

"Onyuni, that's jkd!" A Korean girl in fashionable dress excitedly held her companion's hand and ran to Su Chen, looking at him nervously and shyly.

Then he said in jerky Chinese:

"I... am your... disciple..."

"I understand, thank you." Su Chen replied in Korean with a smile. Then, with the girl's surprised eyes, he signed his team uniform and handed it to her.

The young lady whose wish came true cheered and celebrated with her companions, with little stars almost popping out of her eyes.

"Oppa is so handsome!"

The enthusiasm of the female fans also caused Xiaotian Zuozuo and others to switch to the pickled fish mode again. It seems that most of them are Korean and Chinese fans. How can such a good thing happen?

But Su Chen just felt bored, and after casually dealing with the fans, he took the elevator upstairs.

In the training room, Meng Ma led the coaching staff to arrange everything properly. After adjusting the curtain, he turned on the projector and explained the changes to the World Championship version.

"The 8.19 version has been updated in the Korean server today. You can log in to your Korean server account later to check." Meng Ma pressed the control switch and started playing the file produced by him and the coaching staff.

Consistent with Riot's style over the years, Riot will officially weaken the teams with the most outstanding performance in the second half of the year to a certain extent in the S8 World Championship version.

The designer's machete struck ym on the head again.

In the 8.19 version, Akali's w [Xia Formation] has canceled the mechanism to avoid defense tower damage, the energy consumption of q [Cold Shadow] in the early stage has increased, and the cooldown time of the ultimate move "Dazzling Death" has increased.

Under the new version, Akali can still appear, but her suppression in the top lane has been severely reduced, and the possibility of swinging in the middle and top lane has been reduced.

At the same time, heroes such as Sword Girl, Sword Girl, Qinggangying, and Crocodile were once again weakened to varying degrees.

The son of version Urgot has been strengthened again, the damage of q [Corrosive Charge] has been increased, and the basic armor has also been increased again.

Urgot, who was originally a jack-of-all-trades in the top lane, has now truly become a non-ban option in S8.

As long as you get this hero, you can greatly narrow the gap between the two top laners.

Such a change naturally triggered a lot of complaints, but the designer's reply was also fucked up.

[We are trying our best to avoid the deformed version of the warrior hero dominating the top lane in the S5 era. At the same time, we hope that all three lanes will have the ability to carry during the game. ]

In addition to trying to reduce the laning gap in the top lane through hero changes.

Rhythm junglers, Lee Sin, Rock Bird, including the aforementioned swing position Qinggang Shadow have all been weakened.
To be continued...