The Chinese server's S6 Spring Season had come to an end. Team God had won the Spring Season and secured a spot in the MSI Mid-Season Invitational in May.
While chatting with Lin Feng over the phone, Shi Hang, one of Team Rapidwater's current mid laners, grumbled.
"Damn, I didn't expect God to snatch our spot in the end."
"Winning the Spring Season Invitational isn't a big deal."
"But I've been eyeing the MSI Mid-Season Invitational for a long time now."
"Just a little bit more."
"If Rapidwater had won the games in the middle of the Spring Season Invitational, we would've won the Spring Season Invitational and the MSI spot."
This wasn't just empty talk.
Indeed, in this season's LPL Spring Competition, the top three teams on the leaderboard — Team God, Team KG, and Team Rapid Water — were very close in terms of points. There were only four wins between first and third place.
Lin Feng burst into laughter.
"If you're complaining like that, then Fatty's King is even more depressed."
"Their King team is only one win away from being pushed into second place by the God team."
Shi Hang choked for a moment, then rolled his eyes.
"Damn, that's not the same thing."
"Even though King didn't get a spot in the MSI, Round God got it as an individual!"
Speaking of this, it was necessary to mention the rules of this year's MSI Mid-Season Invitational Tournament. This year's MSI Invitational Tournament would not only involve the six teams from the five major divisions and one wild card division competing in the 3,000 people "Wind and Cloud" eSports Hall in Shanghai. At the same time, the organizers had specially arranged an exhibition match.
This Exhibition Competition was split into two groups. Celebrity pro players from each of the major regions were invited to participate in each group.
Tian Tian and Morning Star had been selected from the national server.
The other regions had also invited top players from the Seven Kings and even the Four Emperors to participate in the exhibition match.
"Oh, right."
With Shi Hang's reminder, Lin Feng suddenly remembered, "What is it?
"Fatty seemed to have mentioned it to me before."
Shi Hang sighed. "That's why I said Round God can participate in the MSI. It's sad that a rising star like me can't participate in this kind of competition."
Lin Feng asked curiously, "Eh, are you going to watch the tournament?"
Shi Hang gritted his teeth. "Go! Of course he was going! When the time comes, I'll sit in the front row and stare at those guys. Why can they go on stage but I can't! I'll stare them to death! "
Lin Feng thought for a moment, then bluntly added:
"Those who can participate in the exhibition matches are probably better than you."
Shi Hang almost choked to death.
"F * ck! Can't you say something nice to me at a time like this?! "
But when these words came from Lin Feng's mouth, even if Shi Hang didn't want to, he had to admit that it was true.
"Damn it, I'm also at a bottleneck —"
Speaking of this matter, the core ace of Team Rapid Water sighed emotionally.
As a veteran player who entered League of Legends at the same time as Lin Feng, he was also one of the oldest professional players in the country. Back then, Shi Hang was one of the strongest professional mid laners in the country. Now that he had returned to the professional circle, his strength had quickly recovered. Now, he was second only to Morning Star among the top eight teams in the LPL.
But —
It still wasn't enough.
Although Shi Hang could now calmly accept the title of "the second mid laner in the national server", this title only had some weight in the national server.
In the world's top competitions, there was still a certain gap between him and the group of people standing at the top of the pyramid.
This could be easily seen from Nightingale's Dark Battle Ranking List.
The current national server …
Compared to the top powerhouses of North America, Europe, and South Korea, the gap between the top powerhouses was still a little big.
"I feel like I've hit a bottleneck since the middle of the Spring Season.
"No matter how much I train, I'm just a breath away from making it to the next level."
Shi Hang complained to Lin Feng.
Lin Feng nodded in agreement. "Yes, I've had the same feeling before. I was also stuck for a long time. It was only after Nightingale's battle that I was able to recover a little bit." "That's right, I've had the same feeling before.
Shi Hang couldn't help but roll his eyes on the other end of the phone.
"You think you can compare your bottleneck to mine? Even if you hit a bottleneck, haven't you already broken through the threshold of the Seven Kings? "
"I'm still running around like a headless chicken on the edge of the threshold!"
But Shi Hang really couldn't be bothered to compare himself to Lin Feng.
There was a clear gap in strength between the two of them back in the day. At that time, Shi Hang might have been one of the top players in the country, but Lin Feng was already at the top of the pyramid. He was practically at the level of one of the Four Emperors. Even if he was still recovering, breaking through bottlenecks was still a lot easier than Shi Hang.
"Come to think of it, MSI should have invited you to the exhibition match!"
Knowing that he wasn't good enough, Shi Hang began to use Lin Feng as a tool to ridicule him.
"Isn't Fist Entertainment going to invite the best players in the world?
"You should have revealed your identity as Maple.
"You're going to scare a lot of people every minute."
Shi Hang was just complaining that he couldn't get on the stage, so he started to grumble and grumble.
Of course, Lin Feng ignored his complaints. "You're going anyway, right? When we get to MSI, we can sit together. Oh, right. Sis Xue is going to help DouYu TV organize a guest interview or something. If they can't find anyone, why don't you come and help out as a guest?"
Shi Hang glared at him.
"Hey, what do you mean by 'make do'?"
"With my identity, why would I need to make do?!"
"But let me get this straight. I'm not doing anything that doesn't benefit me."
Lin Feng thought for a moment.
"Just a meal?"
Shi Hang happily slapped his hand on the table.
"Deal!"
… …
Su Xue was very interested in the upcoming MSI Mid-Season Invitational.
After all, she was going to be a guest interview at MSI as a representative of DouYu TV. This was her first official offline live broadcast since she came to DouYu TV from Huya. Given her personality, of course, she wanted to complete this job beautifully.
In the beginning, she was quite confident about such an interview, because DouYu TV's super administrator had told her that they would also have a super administrator accompany her to do the interview. She did not need to worry about a lot of the on-site liaison work, because the super administrator and other DouYu TV staff would help her settle it.
But in the past two days, she received yet another piece of news from the administrator. This time, Su Xue began to panic.
It turned out that DouYu TV wasn't the only one doing the interview. Huya, Longzhu, Panda-Tv, and other competitors would also be sending their own streamers to do the interview.
This kind of thing was quite normal.
But the problem was …
At that time, there would only be a few heavyweight guests at MSI, and it was impossible for them to accept interviews from every live broadcast platform one by one. At most, they would choose one or two platforms to be interviewed.
That was why there was a competitive relationship.
If some of the important guests, or even the MSI contestants, were to be interviewed by reporters from other live streaming platforms, then DouYu TV might only be able to watch from the sidelines.
And when it came to guest interviews …
It wasn't just about luck and character. More importantly, it was about the strength of each platform's network and …
The host's personal ability.
Or rather, charisma.
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