Chapter 228-First Opponent, the Top King

At ten o'clock in the evening, the delegation returned to the hotel and prepared to rest.

As soon as he sat down, Abu brought good news.

Someone asked them to play a training match, and took the initiative to invite them to play the training match.

The opponent is the Swedish team.

The Swedish team is not weak, and many players in the European region are from Sweden.

The most famous ones are Rekkles and Ou Cheng.

Secondly, there is Hjaranan, the ADC player of G8 who eliminated RNG in the S2 season.

There is also a jungler named Malice. He is the only foreign player introduced to South Korea, but he was banned because he insulted passers-by and professional players in the Korean server.

However, this level is not enough to satisfy the Dream Team.

Yuan Shen didn't even need to take action. The substitute team led by Flando alone beat the Swedish team 3-0.

The three lanes were very fierce and several solo kills were made before the jungler came.

Even the strongest Rekkles was easily defeated by Uzi.

"There's no point in fighting like this."

Looking at the big score of 21:3 on the screen, Yuan Shen shook his head.

Is this worth training?

Except for Ou Cheng, the level of others is not enough to be ranked as a starter in LPL, and it is even a bit difficult for them to play in LSPL, let alone play against these top-level players in LPL.

If you have this skill, it would be more interesting to train yourself.

However, this also means that they cannot adjust their tactics and can only discover their shortcomings in the main competition. It will probably be difficult to improve at that time.

In addition to internal training, Yuan Shen and others also played Rank on the Brazilian server to maintain their feel.

The level of players on the Brazilian server is average. Yuan Shen estimates that they are not even at the level of Ionia. For him, a Rank master, gaining points is as easy as drinking water.

However, the players are very enthusiastic.

Just like when domestic netizens revealed the national IDs of the major professional players during the MSI, the players who came to participate in the competition, such as Yuan Shen, were also revealed by local Brazilian fans.
Many Brazilian players want to get close to this former world No. 1 top laner who emerged last year and is still continuing his legend.

Yuan Shen's live broadcast was very popular on the local live broadcast platform, comparable to the top anchors here. He performed many monster operations in the Rank game, and in just three days, he had a terrifying 92% win rate and reached the Brazilian King's rank, which shocked the Brazilian audience.

Although the account sent to Yuan Shen was a super account with a very high hidden score, his speed of gaining points was too fast.

Looking at other players, Jack also made it to the Brazilian King tier with Xiao Ming with an 86% win rate.

"Oh my god, is this the strength of Chinese lol? Too strong!"

"It's worthy of being the world's number one division now!"

"I heard that the reason they are so good is because they train nineteen hours a day!"

"Oh! You only sleep five hours a day? You're too hardworking!"

The Brazilian people are bragging about all kinds of things. If Yuan Shen knew about this, he would definitely be ashamed.

Nineteen hours is too much. When they are at their limit, they can only work seventeen hours a day, which already includes the time for eating, bathing and going to the toilet. If they add another hour, they will really die!
The Brazilian people know that this is impossible even if they use their leg hairs to think about it.

In fact, this is the same as those domestic public accounts that promote foreign countries.

People always exaggerate things they don't understand and are easily led by others.

For example, many domestic public accounts advocate that Europeans and Americans are of high quality and will not litter everywhere, so there are no sanitation workers on their roads and no need to sweep garbage.

But in fact, it is because in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, labor costs are too high. Unless the dirtiness is unbearable, capitalists are reluctant to hire people to clean it up.

Anyone who has traveled to New York and Los Angeles knows that even in developed city centers there is a lot of garbage.

What else? Japanese toilets are so clean that you can drink from them, mixed bathing is everywhere, and there are too many beautiful women in Ukraine, just waiting for a Chinese to save them. These are all nonsense.

Unfortunately, rumors stop at the wise. It takes only one mouth to spread a rumor, but it takes a lot of effort to refute it. Until now, there are still many people who firmly believe in these rumors.

As the opening day approaches, the format of the LOL exhibition match was soon announced online.

There are many countries that abstained, but there are also countries that are hoping for the best, or...

No e-sports club wants to give up this opportunity to make an international debut. This Olympics, like the S-League, is divided into group matches and knockout matches.

In the group stage, there were more than fifty national teams participating, which was a very large number, but their strength was very polarized.

There is even a team whose five members were all platinum-level players. It is just like what the netizens said, I can do it too.

The group stage is a single round-robin system. Each team will play a BO2 match.

Win, add three points.

If the game is tied, add one point.

If you lose, you get no points.

After all the group matches are over, the eight teams with the highest points will advance.

The schedule is very tight, with more than a hundred games to be played in half a month. After hearing the news, many professional players complained bitterly.

The Chinese Dream Team's first group match opponent is...

"It's them! Interesting." Yuan Shen showed an interested expression.

"What a coincidence!"

Mingkai said with a grin.

"We can't lose to this team, and we dare not lose." Jack shrugged and Xiao Ming also agreed.

Wei Shen and Tian Ye looked at each other in bewilderment. The two 2D otakus were just watching anime together, but they didn't expect that their opponent would be the anime superpower.
The two looked at each other, suddenly emitting sand sculpture energy, and started punching each other inexplicably excitedly.

"Ola Ola Ola!"

"Wood big wood big wood big!"

That’s right, their first opponent is the Japanese team.

……

Japan.

When talking about this island country across the sea, all Chinese people will have mixed feelings. So when the gaming influencers on Weibo broke the news that the Chinese team would play against the Japanese team in the first day of the opening match, it immediately caused a huge response, and the audience's expectations and interest were instantly aroused to the highest peak, and it directly became the number one hot search list of the day.

This popularity directly confused some female celebrities in the entertainment industry who wanted to hype up divorce and cheating gossip, especially a singer in leather pants who wanted to be number one on the hot search list.

"Surprised, this game has a Japanese server?"

"The village above just got connected to the internet? The Japanese server was opened after the S game last year. Many anchors have gone there to kill people, but their skills are not high.

"Japanese server voice pack, I'm gonna fucking shoot it!!!"

"That's called the Chinese server zone 2, not the Japanese server. There are nine Chinese people in one game, so I can't even pick up an Sakura girl.

"Sakura girl playing PC game? You are dreaming.

"Just waiting for the fancy beating of the Japan team (laughs)."

The Japanese service level is not high.

In fact, the strength of Japanese game geeks is well known internationally, with many well-known masters. Japan is also one of the few developed countries in Asia, so Riot should have entered the Japanese market earlier.

However, the field of e-sports, or in other words, online games on PC, is a relatively unpopular thing in Japan, and there is a rather exaggerated and frustrating example.

A Chinese student studying abroad wanted to play CS in Japan, but when he used Google there, he couldn't find the game.

Yes, very few of them play online games. Game geeks over there basically only play console games and handheld games.

There are many reasons, such as the exclusion from the local video game industry. Without the leading companies in the gaming industry to act as agents, online games cannot be promoted and developed.

For example, the prevalence of arcade culture and various historical reasons led to the fact that even League of Legends, a global phenomenon-level PC game, only established a Japanese server last year.

The popularity of the Japanese version of League of Legends is not very high, but it still surpasses other online games in Japan.

To be on the safe side, the coaching team headed by Abu collected some information about the team.

Surprisingly...

"Not weak in strength." Abu said in surprise.

"The ranks are all quite high, the lowest is Korean server Diamond II, and the highest is Korean server Master." Mingkai was also surprised.
"The server was just launched last year, and they have already reached the Korean server master level in just half a year. They have made it to the semi-finals in the wildcard division of the spring season. Are their gaming talents so high?"

"No, no, no." Yuan Shen understood this somewhat and said with a smile:
"Before the Japanese server was launched, quite a few Japanese otakus went to play on the Korean server. These professional players have been playing for more than half a year, and should have been playing for more than two or three years.

"I remember that when the server was first launched, there seemed to be an ACG voice actor who was also revealed to be a Korean server master. I think his name was Hanae Natsuki..."

Upon hearing this, Wei Shen and Tian Ye’s eyes lit up.

"Kaneki is actually a Korean master?"

"Kaneki? Who is that? Sounds so familiar..." Xiang Guo asked

"It's the anime that was very popular some time ago, Tokyo Ghoul, where the male protagonist Kaneki Ken is voiced by this Hanae Natsuki!" Tian Ye introduced it in detail. In his words, this is called preaching, which is to attract people to join the pit and become like-minded otakus.

It has to be said that LOL has become a global phenomenon because of its high quality.
Even in Japan, where PC games are not well accepted, it has attracted a lot of attention. In recent years, the popularity of its events has become a hot topic in countries around the world. It is said that even many football stars want to establish an e-sports club focusing on LOL and enter the e-sports circle.

“It’s not weak, but that’s all.”

Yuan Shen made a summary, and others deeply agreed.

The Japanese team is not weak, that is compared to other wildcard teams and other representative teams. Once compared with the teams from the five major regions, there is no comparison at all, not to mention that this is a dream team where every position is top in LPL and even the world...

To be honest, that team of all platinum players really made them happy.

To put it bluntly, even if they were given one hand, they might not be able to defeat the opponent.

Think it's exaggerated?
After Zzitai retired in S9, he bullied the weak in the national server platinum game. For the sake of show effect, he performed a one-handed sword princess and directly killed a group battle.
Maybe many people cannot accept this, but in fact, the gap between the upper limit and the lower limit of this game is really huge. Some people are destined to be born for e-sports, while some people are only suitable for leisure, entertainment and health preservation.

Match day is approaching.

It’s a shame that e-sports events were never broadcast on television.

Firstly, there are too many participating teams and it is difficult to arrange the time. Unlike swimming and running, where many teams can compete at the same time, it takes up too much time and there is no way to guarantee the arrangements for other events.

Secondly, we have to consider public opinion, especially some parents who regard video games as a scourge. If they see that even TV channels are broadcasting video games, they will probably go crazy.

Therefore, you can only watch it through live broadcast on the Internet.

Being able to live broadcast on the Internet is the greatest effort of the young generation of e-sports people.
This broadcast can be watched on live streaming platforms such as Douyu, Huya, and Panda. The popularity is very high. Before the broadcast began, it had already risen to the top of each platform.

At this time, many viewers asked a question out of curiosity.

Where can I watch Japanese stream commentary?
After getting tired of the domestic commentary style, it is inevitable to want to try something new, especially Japanese commentary.

Netizens who have watched Japanese comics will understand that when the Japanese comment on competitive events, their tone is particularly childish. They especially like to give players nicknames and are very jumpy. That kind of exaggerated language has become a national characteristic.

Even the commentary of competitive events in real life is just as childish.

Under the guidance of the veteran driver, many domestic netizens did not mind the trouble of using a VPN, climbing over the wall to access the mouse platform, and clicking into the Japanese live broadcast room.

On the screen, there are also familiar Japanese comments.

Three commentators, two men and one woman, came into view.

The female commentator was dressed very vividly, in an OL outfit, coupled with transparent, shiny, and high-quality black stockings, which made domestic netizens unable to help but type a line of words in the live broadcast room.

Tens of thousands of people clicked send at the same time.

In an instant, the Japanese words on the screen were driven out and swallowed up by the uniform barrage of comments from the Chinese people.

"GKD..."

"Welcome everyone to watch the exhibition event of this Olympics. I am the commentator, Arina Hashimoto!"

Hashimoto Yuina made an exciting opening statement, and the other two commentators also introduced themselves. He continued: "For the first time, the Olympics has introduced e-sports events to compete for the world's strongest! Thanks to this, our team finally has the opportunity to compete with world-class teams!"

"Hi!"

Hashimoto Arina responded and nodded seriously.

"Especially this time, our opponents are from the LPL region, which won the world championship last year and the MSI championship again this year. Simply using ordinary world-class is not enough to describe their strength! Even among all the world-class teams, they are probably the strongest."

Another commentator wearing glasses also said: "Yes, this team is the best in the world!"

"First, let's take a look at the members of this team."

As Hashimoto Arina said this, the player data of the Chinese team and their respective photos immediately appeared on the screen.

The first photo was of Yuan Shen winning FMVP in the global finals last year.

(End of this chapter)