Lin Feng guessed that Ah Zeng had probably gone downstairs for breakfast. He got out of bed and walked into the bathroom to wash up.
While brushing his teeth, a certain someone held a toothbrush in one hand and skillfully scrolled through the Internet with his phone in the other. He opened a Weibo account and saw the news about the official League of Legends homepage.
It was about the teams and clubs from the LPL region and other major regions of the world that had arrived in Manchester yesterday. Soon, the first round of the world finals would officially begin. The next two days would be the final adjustment before the competition. The teams from the major regions might also conduct some exchanges and training in private against each other.
At the end of the news, the official homepage did not forget to add a sentence:
"Good luck, LPL!"
Then, in the comments section below, the homepage of various LPL teams and clubs, as well as well-known commentators, hosts, streamers, and even retired professional players, all left messages of encouragement and support for their own LPL region teams.
Just this one Weibo post alone had tens of thousands of retweets and comments, as well as an uncountable number of likes.
Lin Feng smiled, feeling a little gratified.
The Chinese esports had been getting better and better over the years.
Moreover, the passion of the players was getting stronger and stronger, especially for the biggest event of the year, the S Series League. Their desire and anticipation could not be described in words.
"Veteran God and KG, rookie dark horse Quick Water. This is really the best year for the S Series League in the LPL region!"
In the comments section, there was such a popular comment that was pushed to the top.
It was just an ordinary smurf without a verified account, but it represented the common thoughts and aspirations of countless players.
After closing Weibo, Lin Feng opened Tieba and entered the official League of Legends discussion forum. He could also see all kinds of posts enthusiastically discussing the finals.
The posts in Tieba were also quite trendy. Most of the posts this morning revolved around the possible exchange competition that would take place in the next two days.
Most of the players were enthusiastically guessing and analyzing the various situations of this exchange competition.
Although compared to the official group matches, a private exchange competition between teams was nothing, in reality, it still carried a lot of weight.
This was because it represented the preliminary confrontation between the teams of the major regions of the world finals.
It was the first time they fought and probed each other.
Of course, each team would undoubtedly hide their true trump cards at the bottom of their chests and would not easily show them to others. Even if they won the mock competition, it did not mean that they would be able to crush all their opponents in the group stage smoothly. But at least they would be able to learn the freshest first-hand information about their opponents in the other divisions from this preliminary competition.
At the very least, they could confirm the opponent's overall condition. At the same time, they could continue to help their own team in the process of training and fighting.
And come to think of it.
Even if the victory in the mock competition was meaningless, if you could defeat your opponents consecutively in the exchange training, it would definitely boost your team's morale.
Similarly, if the opponent kept losing to you during this exchange training, then when the real finals began and both sides met on the stage, it might also leave a psychological scar on the opponent.
Actually, these were all very small details, as if they were insignificant.
But in eSports, the details also affected the outcome.
For any team or club that desired to win the FIFA World Championship Trophy, it was worth going all out to prepare even if it was just to win one more point of victory for their team in the upcoming finals.
… …
Lin Feng used his finger to swipe the screen a few more times. On the Tieba page, he saw a popular post. The title was quite interesting.
"Prediction! Mock Competition Strength Rankings! "
In the past, before the finals of every World Championship, teams from each division would also conduct mock competitions against each other. The results and results would not be officially announced, but they would not be deliberately hidden either.
Naturally, there would always be various gaming and esports media that would investigate and interview to obtain information. Then they would report on various public platforms.
At the same time, this was also a topic of great interest to the majority of the local players. After all, the finals were too nerve-wracking, and they didn't have the time to let their imaginations run wild. However, if it was just a private sparring match, then everyone would be in the mood to participate in the gossip.
Lin Feng also clicked on the post with great interest.
What he saw was the original poster with the ID "Pondering Life". There was no lengthy explanation, and in a concise and comprehensive manner, he directly predicted the results of the famous and strong teams in each division and made an intuitive TOP 10 ranking.
Tenth from the bottom was Team Thunderclap from the LMS division.
They were also the only team from the LMS division other than Team Assassin that had represented their region in the S6 finals.
They were not very strong, but they were a veteran team. In the previous S4 and S5 seasons, they had also made it to the World Championship, but they always fell in the group stages. However, this team had a special characteristic, and that was that their performance in mock competitions was often better than in official competitions. Being ranked tenth was an objective.
Ninth was Team Cog from the North American division.
Although this team had the veteran Seven King top laner, Seven, their overall strength was lacking in bottom lane and jungler. In the past few finals, whether or not they made it to the quarterfinals was completely dependent on luck.
As they continued to move up the rankings, they were basically the first and second seeded teams of the various competition zones. Their strengths were all within the top eight, and the only difference was that there was a slight difference in the order of their rankings.
Lin Feng was also surprised to see the figures of three LPL teams in the top eight.
Quick Water was ranked eighth, one place higher than Team Cog. It was clear that the original poster of "Pondering Life" was giving Quick Water a lot of face.
KG was ranked fourth.
On the other hand, Team God was surprisingly placed in first place.
Even Season and SSK from North America were only second and third place respectively.
However, as he scrolled down the thread, he noticed that the other replies didn't seem to have much of an opinion on the ranking. It wasn't that they were brainlessly supporting their own team's strongest team, but rather that Team God had always placed first or second in any of the past mock competitions.
It made sense because the sparring match was usually a 'best-of-one' match. There wouldn't be a 'best-of-three' or 'best-of-five' match. Team God was quite strong in this sort of 'best-of-one' match. Even against strong opponents like SSK and Season, Team God was able to emerge victorious.
However, this situation didn't really make people happy.
Lin Feng shook his head.
After all, it was just a sparring match, a best-of-a-kind match.
This kind of strength or ability could at most help Team God advance in the group stages, but when it came to the top eight, top four, and even the finals … the best-of-a-kind matches would lose the strong competitiveness of the best-of-a-kind matches.
In this regard, the European team Legend, who was predicted to be ranked fifth in the mock competition, was probably much stronger and more stable than Team God.
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