Watching the SKT players leave the lobby in the elevator, Gu Xing was about to leave when someone grabbed his shoulder.

"What's going on?" Song Jinghao asked in a low voice, "What did Li Sang Hyuk tell you?"

He was far away just now and couldn't really hear the communication between his jungler and Faker.

Gu Xing briefly conveyed Li Sang Hyuk's intention to Song Jinghao, "Faker wants to meet VG as soon as possible and plans to avenge last year's World Championship."

Smeb snorted coldly when he heard this, "I haven't settled the score with them yet, Lee Sang Hyuk is still beating them up, right? It's best to meet in the semi-finals, I want to beat SKT hard!"

He has had a long-standing feud with the barbecue stall on the playing field.

S5LCK Spring Split Finals, S5 Global Finals Finals, S6LCK Spring Split Finals...

In just over two years, the Tigers lost against SKT in three heavyweight finals!

ROX could have achieved perfect dominance of the LCK division in the first two years, but it came to nothing just because of the existence of SKT!

Song Jinghao was naturally unwilling.

He joined VG because he valued Gu Xing's outstanding performance against SKT. He wanted to smash the barbecue stall before his peak period was over, but he wanted revenge!

"There will definitely be a chance this year," Gu Xing said with relief, "no one can stop us."

Smeb muttered angrily, "SKT Nicole needs to be angry. If she is eliminated before she meets us, it will be too boring..."

The two of them left the hotel behind the LPL troops and met the Guodian members who returned happily with their bags on their backs.

"Wuhu!"

Liu Qingsong was the most excited. He went up and punched Ming Kai hard in the chest, "Finally, the top eight are hot. It's not easy, brother!"

Gui Jiao Qi looked relaxed and relieved, but also a little bitter.

I feel relaxed because I finally made it to the knockout rounds and lived up to the expectations of my hometown folks and fans.

If the local competition was to advance to the top 16, he could not imagine what kind of public opinion frenzy it would trigger!

Suffering is due to helplessness.

When did EDG have to worry about reaching the top eight of the World Championship?

Isn’t this the standard configuration of Guodian?

Now we are walking on thin ice, fighting until the last moment to win the qualifying spot in a dangerous and dangerous way!

Gui Jiao Qi felt deeply powerless.

Jin Yibo said with a happy face, "Why don't you quickly say thank you to Brother Xing?"

If FNC hadn't tricked FNC into playing jungler Xiao Huangmao, EDG might not have been able to qualify!

The selection of Yin Zerrell forced FNC to change from the double C system they are best at to the jungle axis, which gave Guodian an opportunity.

EDG members looked at Gu Xing with expressions of gratitude.

"It's okay, it's okay," Gu Xing waved his hand, "It's just a little effort. I've been working hard for a long time not just for you. The knockout round is the goal."

It can only be said that Xiao Huangmao’s jungle scam is extremely effective.

Judging from the results of the second round of the group stage in the past two days, the trap created by Gu Xing really confused many teams.

It is estimated that each team's originally small share of training matches has been divided into a bunch, and there is not enough energy to discover the secrets of the top lane environment change.

It has to be said that the World Championship is the event where a single version evolves most frequently.

Like the regular season of the league, there will be at most one or two iterations around the version.

First, due to insufficient training time, the version will be changed in just two weeks, and the coaching team will not dig in depth. Otherwise, they will spend time and energy searching for the real version answer, and they will have to change to the next version before they have time to produce results.

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Second, there are not enough strong teams in the competition area, and their styles are relatively single.

LCK, for example, started out as an operator. Except for the outliers like Longzhu, everyone's tactical ideas are very similar. It is difficult to quickly create advanced understandings when they collide with each other.

The World Championship is different.

Even without the playoffs, the total duration of the competition is about one month, not to mention that many teams will arrive at the host venue in advance for training.

Practicing a single version for a long time will inevitably lead to the evolution of each team's understanding!

Moreover, there are so many competition regions participating in the World Championship, and various styles are constantly mixed together in training and competition, which can easily give birth to new ideas!

Compared with the mid-season tournament, which is also an international event, the World Championship involves more teams and lasts longer. It is not unreasonable to say that it is the most valuable event in the LOL field throughout the year!

The test is not only the players' operations on the field, but also closely related to the hero pool, the coaching staff's version development and other factors.

The EZ jungler has deceived many teams, which is equivalent to forcing other teams to use traps to make useless efforts. It has reduced the number of teams participating in version development during the world competition, making it impossible for them to quickly iterate the environment, thus allowing VG to maintain its leading position!

"Lao Gu, how do you get such a brain?" Jack touched Gu Xing's head affectionately, "You just come up with some weird and weird ideas."

Gu Xing said modestly, "No, no, I'm just taking advantage of the situation to add fuel to the flames."

"I found that version poison always exists in the World Championship every year. Several heroes who were prosperous in the first half will be eliminated and thrown into the sewer in the later stage of the knockout due to the evolution of version understanding..."

"Isn't that what last year's excavator was like?" He spread his hands, "It's just that no one used it to set traps."

This was agreed by Ming Kai.

On the eve of the S6 World Championship, Reksai was once considered a strong choice by major teams.

In the group stage at that time, Rek'Sai played a total of 15 games, with a BP rate of 54% and a winning rate of 47%. In terms of popularity, it was even better than the current EZ!

Gu Xing also used it in the group stage match against SKT.

However, as soon as the S6 knockout rounds arrived, each team's understanding of the version changed. They realized that Rek'Sai was just a useless embroidered pillow. After that, the excavator only played 3 times in the 7 BO5s, and they were all in the eighth.

A strong match, only a small victory!

In his opinion, Rek'Sai and Yinzeriel played very similar roles in the two World Championships.

It is really useful in the group stage, but in the knockout stage it will stretch your hips and be abandoned like worn shoes!

Gu Xing was mainly responsible for lighting the fire.

Jin Yibo looked relaxed, "Just wait for RNG's game tomorrow. Qualifying should not be a big problem..."

Before the second round of the group stage, he was most worried about Guodian.

Now that EDG has successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, the pressure on Jin Yibo's shoulders has been drastically reduced.

RNG went 2-1 in the first round, so there’s no way they can’t even make it to the knockout rounds, right?

"It's best to try to win the first place," Gu Xing said his wish, "I don't want the top eight to have a civil war."

This is exactly the opposite of Gui Jiao Qi's wish.

Ming Kai quite hopes for a civil war.

He knows that the evolution trend of the top lane version in the knockout rounds will inevitably be the long-handed single-band top laner.

But my own top laner doesn’t know how to use it, and it’s impossible to practice it in a short time, so I’m at a natural disadvantage.

Moreover, it can be seen from the group stage that EDG's state is very average. The early offensive system that Nofe has worked hard to establish throughout the season has almost no use in this incense burner version that emphasizes slow operation!

Mingkai believes that if nothing unexpected happens, EDG will end up in the quarterfinals again this year.

Then the most honorable ending is to fall in the civil war.

It is better to lose to a brother team from the same division than to lose to an opponent from outside the division and be embarrassed!

Guijiaoqi is very familiar with this. In the quarterfinals of the S4 World Championship, they lost to the Royal Family and sent RYL to the semifinals.

If it weren't for the rumor that Nami ruined her career by eating beef noodles in the group stage, no one would have cared about the performance of EDG, the league's double champion that year, in the S4 World Championship.

In the end, they received an IOU from the Royal Club, so that some arrogant piggies and cheating boys clamored that if EDG could reach the finals, they could win the Summoner's Trophy - in fact, it would be considered a success if they were not blocked by Samsung in the finals that year!

Anyway, if you are not strong enough to win the championship and have no hope of winning, it would be the best ending to suffer a civil war in the division and send your brothers to advance to the Que family.

In this way, Mingkai also needs RNG to win first place in Group C, so the probability of civil war will increase to 2/3!

Gui Jia Qi raised his head and looked at the window of the room where the RNG training room was located in the Peninsula United Investment Hotel. The lights there were brightly lit, and the members of the royal family were obviously still training hard inside and watching the video review.

"Uzi, please do something!" He gave his old rival the most sincere blessing.

At this moment, an inarticulate and broken Chinese sentence suddenly came from the side.

"You're not counting on Uzi, are you? He's really not good, he's just a basket..."

Gu Xing didn't even need to look back, he could identify the person just by the sound of his voice and his habit of speaking.

"Young, isn't this poof!"

He was very surprised. He grabbed Gu Chengbin and pinched his increasingly fat cheeks to show his closeness.

Imp is still short and stocky, and he is fatter than when he first arrived in Wuhan three weeks ago.

Behind him were Perkz, who was of similar size, and Jankos, who was tall. The three of them stood together like two potato mines, standing in front of them like a tall nut.

"It's not interesting to ignore you," Gu Chengbin complained, "I don't even want to take the initiative to find you."

"Ai, aren't you too busy lately..." Gu Xing felt quite guilty when he mentioned it like this.

VG and G2 are not on the same floor of the hotel, are in different teams on the field, and the game times are basically staggered. They rarely meet even during filming.
To be continued...