On the 8th of October, the entire SKT team arrived at Incheon International Airport, preparing to fly to Berlin for the upcoming group stage.
Due to a change in the rules of the tournament, each team was allowed to bring two substitutes. SKT had a total of seven players, including the five from the regular season, Haru, and Effort.
According to tradition, the Korean eSports Association would conduct a simple interview with the participating teams at the airport before the international competition. The interviews were conducted individually in batches, and the person interviewing Li Jiu was a young man with a mustache.
Li Jiu looked to the side with slight resentment. 'Why is it a guy interviewing me, but Miss Zhihyun interviewing Guapi?'
Li Jiu was not surprised that Kim Zhihyun was interviewing him. Kim Zhihyun was a host under Kespa, the Korean eSports Association.
Unlike Kim Zhihyun, although Kim Minna was also in charge of LCK's interviews, she was a member of the Korean Fist branch. Strictly speaking, the two of them served different audiences.
Seeing that Li Jiu had turned to look to the side, the host had to remind him.
"Contestant Li Jiu, say hello to everyone."
Li Jiu looked at the camera. "Hello everyone, I'm King Li Jiu of SKTT1."
"You're finally leaving. How are you feeling?"
Li Jiu replied politely, "I'm very excited. This is the first time in my career that I've entered an international competition. I hope to have a good start."
"Are you very excited? You don't look like it. "
"Don't look like it?"
Li Jiu was stunned for a moment, then forced a smile. "Do I look like it now?"
'I'll do my best to match your performance.'
"Contestant Li Jiu, you've always been very confident in yourself. Which team do you think is very strong in this international competition? Which team do you need to be wary of? Is there anyone worth paying attention to? "
"Strong team?"
Li Jiu: "I think team CG is very strong. They easily won first place in the preliminary round. I'm most wary of team CG's Huni because he said that he was going to crush me. I've never experienced being crushed before, so I'm a little worried."
Li Jiu was just being sarcastic. CG had stumbled in the qualifiers, and in the end, they had to go through extra rounds to get first place. They had avoided the other seeded teams, and it was not easy at all.
As for Huni, Teddy's original words to Li Xu after watching him enter the group stage were, "Don't worry, Huni is a noob. You can beat him up with one hand."
Li Jiu did not talk about the strong teams in the same group, FNC and RNG. Instead, he paid attention to a team that had entered the qualifiers. He did not try to hide his sarcasm at all. When the interview was released, he would probably be ridiculed again.
"Do you have anything you want to say to your teammates and coaches during this global finals?"
The host's original intention was for Li Jiu to cheer for the whole team and express their determination to go into battle, but Li Jiu obviously misunderstood. He pretended to think for a while and then said to the camera,
"I don't have anything to say. If you can't beat them, just don't send them. Wait for me, Caryy. Coach, do your BP and don't give Brother Li any Yasuo. His Yasuo is not much better than mine."
Haru, who did not accept the interview, snickered and wrote it down. He would secretly tell Brother Xianghe that Li Jiu was talking bad about him behind his back again.
How dare he compare his Yasuo? If this was not an insult, then what was?
"Coach Kim Jong Un said that he will get married this year. How much will you give him as a wedding gift?"
Li Jiu: "Although I've only been with him for a year, we are really like friends who have been together for a long time. I will give him a lot of gifts."
Before he finished speaking, he saw that Brother Li had finished the interview and was sneaking over to eavesdrop on his interview. Li Jiu paused and said, "I think that players like Brother Li, who have been with Coach for a long time, will give him some very expensive wedding gifts."
Gua Pi panicked when she heard such bad news. She quickly turned her head and pretended not to hear.
"The day before yesterday, you had a live broadcast at the base. You sang a very beautiful Chinese song. Many fans are talking about your voice. They all suspect that you lip-synched, but your voice is very similar. Can you sing a few lines of it live?"
"A cappella? Forget it. "
Li Jiu was not embarrassed at all. "If I sing a cappella now, it proves that I was lip-synching."
That's right. I've laid my cards on the table. So what if I lip-synched?
Seeing that Li Jiu was not giving him face, the host changed the topic and asked him to say hello to the European audience. Li Jiu greeted him with a simple sentence in German and French that he had learned in advance.
After the short interview, the mustached host turned to interview Haru. Li Jiu saw that Kim Zhixian was interviewing Teddy on the other side, so he sneaked behind Teddy to eavesdrop.
Kim Zhixian saw Li Jiu's actions and ignored him. After all, it was not a formal interview. It was fine as long as he did not steal the show.
Kim Zhixian: "This time, who do you want to share a room with when you go to Europe?"
Teddy: "I want to share a room with a teammate who likes to be clean. That way, the room will be cleaner, such as Taemin and Xianghao."
Kim Zhixian immediately asked, "Do you mean that the other teammates are dirty?"
Teddy was a little flustered. "Ah … that's not what I meant. Let's stop here then."
Kim Zhixian did not pursue the matter. He changed the topic and continued.
Teddy was very well-behaved when he was interviewed. He was not as jumpy as Li Jiu. Li Jiu secretly complained that it was boring.
After all the interviews were over, all the members wearing sweaters with the T1 logo on their chests gathered together and shouted in front of the camera.
"Berlin, let's do it! SKT, let's do it! "
After the filming was over, Li Jiu saw Kim Zhixian sitting on a chair in the departure lounge playing with his phone. He leaned over and asked softly, "Where's Miss Minna?"
"That's all you want to ask? I'm here to send you off with good intentions, and you're asking about Minna? "Kim Zhixian looked up and rolled his eyes.
Li Jiu was amused. "You're here to send me off?"
"No, of course I'm here to work."
Li Jiu: "…"
Kim Zhixian looked up and glanced at him. "Minna still has work at the weather station. She asked me to send you off."
"Oh."
Coach Kim Jong Xun called out, "Li Jiu, hurry up and get ready to leave."
"Miss Zhixian, I'll be leaving first."
"Hey! Li Jiu. "
Kim Zhixian called out to Li Jiu.
"Hmm?"
"You have to win back the championship in the international competition. Otherwise, you'll be the most miserable one in SKT this time."
If SKT were to fail in the international tournament, Jin Zhixian could not imagine how badly Li Jiu would be scolded.
Li Jiu waved his hand confidently. "Don't worry! Wait for my triumphant return. "
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