May 19th.

France, Paris, Arc de Triomphe International Hotel.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

In the huge restaurant, a group of Chinese people wearing black team uniforms with the three-masted sailing team emblem printed on their backs were gathered around the table, eating a breakfast that was completely different from the diners next to them.

The blond foreigners at the next table were munching on bread and drinking coffee, and quietly discussed the origins of this group of people.

Zhang Xiaowen was holding half of a fried dough stick in one hand, holding the straw of soy milk in his mouth, and holding his cell phone in the other hand, constantly scrolling through the photo album, which contained some photos around Paris.

After the lottery ceremony was completed in Berlin, the four promoted teams took the same plane and flew directly from Berlin Airport to Paris.

The day after it landed, Riot Games officials arranged to shoot a promotional video for the knockout rounds.

The filming locations were chosen in relatively well-known areas of Paris such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Seine River.

It can be regarded as taking advantage of this MSI event to once again showcase the local customs and customs of Paris.

"Hey, perkz asked you to take a photo yesterday, why did you ignore him?" Xiaotian on the side came over and put the soup dumpling on Zhang Xiaowen's plate into his mouth.

"What? Does this Ma Lou want to take a photo with me? I saw him smiling and thought he was here to mock me again." Zhang Xiaowen looked confused.

"It's okay, he just knew that you couldn't understand English, so he came to tease you on purpose." Su Chen said calmly.

"No wonder he kept chatting with me yesterday. Mr. Que is here to disgust people, right?" Zhang Xiaowen angrily stuffed the remaining half of the fried dough stick into his mouth.

Su Chen put down the coffee saucer and rubbed his temples.

After he finished shooting the promotional video yesterday, he and Meng Ma studied the BP together until twelve o'clock in the evening.

As a result, before I could even close my eyes, I received several more phone calls from China, all of which were also greetings from people in the industry.

I didn't sleep until after one o'clock in the morning.

Looking at the dense red dots on WeChat, Director, Letme, Uzi, Ah Shui, 957, all are information about LPL players.

Su Chen couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Two days after the group stage schedule ends.

The ym players have actually calmed down and just think of continuing to play a new round of the series.

On the contrary, the domestic reaction was much more intense.

After all, a record of nine wins and one loss is indeed outstanding.

If they hadn't lost the last game against Flash Wolves, then ym might have won the group stage and qualified.

You know, although edg also won the group stage in 2015, the group stage that year was a B01 single round-robin and only played a total of eight games.

What's more, the EDG team back then, with its Galaxy Battleship configuration of fat general in the middle, jungle director, and AD alpaca, was much better on paper than this year's YM team.

That year, edg also defeated Lee Sang-hyeok and his skt, who were in the ascendant, and won the first MSI championship.

However, no one expected that this would also be the last afterglow of the LPL division in international competitions.

Half a year later in the S5 Global Finals, edg was cleanly taken away by fnc 3-0 in the quarterfinals.

The night the Galacticos crashed into the Wembley Arena in England.

The lpl's championship dream was shattered.

Since then, there have been three years of dark years ruled by lck.

Fortunately, YM finally reached the MSI semi-finals this year.

Although the resumes of the players are far less brilliant than the overall runner-up Edg who had 18 consecutive wins in the regular season.

However, it's a good thing to qualify, and ym's condition in the group stage is also very good.

More importantly, neither Faker nor SKT will be present at this year's MSI.

Although Samsung is also very strong, it is still different from the invincible feeling of SKT.

This also gave the audience a little hope.

If you can't keep it together, ym will be a dark horse all the way and become an MSI champion?

After breakfast, Meng Ma also briefly arranged the plan for today.

"Okay, after everyone has breakfast, we will take a break in the morning and play a few rounds of rank to keep up our game. We will have another meeting at noon to go over some key points."

"The opening ceremony of the competition will start at six o'clock in the afternoon in Paris. Everyone can rest and relax in the afternoon. We will just leave for the venue at five o'clock."

"Everyone, just relax and play as if it's the regular season." Xiao Ma also specifically emphasized.

After breakfast.

The whole ym team also returned to the private room of the hotel.

In a large presidential suite, all the furniture had been cleared away, and a row of computers were neatly placed inside. The configuration was no different from that at the YM base.

Su Chen walked to his seat and couldn't help but sigh when he saw the familiar objects on the table.

Logically speaking, a five-star hotel is unlikely to accept renovations to the interior of the room.

However, it is said that everything became simpler after Mr. Pei offered the other party an irresistible price.

Even the waiter in the lobby, who was wearing a suit and leather shoes, held his head high and looked very unruly, immediately became amiable and approachable after meeting ym and his group.

The winner of the MSI group stage is worth around $500,000.

Converted into RMB, that's more than three million.

Su Chen did some rough calculations, and after deducting all kinds of expenses during the ten days he came to Berlin, there didn't seem to be much left.

This is still on the premise of winning the championship.

If you are the runner-up, the prize money will be only half.

No matter how you think about it, it may be a losing business.

But later, Xiao Ma also said that if YM can win the MSI championship this time, he should get a lot of commercial endorsement contracts after returning to China.

It is said that pdd has not been idle these days and has made appointments with many big brands in China.

Each deal is an endorsement contract worth tens of millions.

It all depends on what grade ym can get in the end.

Only then did Su Chen realize. No wonder Mr. Pei was so willing to spend money.

It turned out that what we were looking at was the longer-term benefits.

Perhaps only with such careful consideration can one stand in his position.

After turning on the computer, Su Chen logged into his European server account and started lol ranking.

Because it is an official account from Riot Games, the rank is directly up to the strongest king.

Su Chen watched the video while patiently waiting for the qualifying time.

Soon, a successful matching prompt popped up.

After entering the room, the IDs of five players also popped up in the chat room.

"ym bovy joined the room".

Seeing this prompt, Su Chen turned his head and glanced behind him. Sure enough, the same bp screen was displayed on bovy's computer.

"We're lined up together." bovy also took off his headphones and responded.

Originally, he was going to queue up with Zhang Xiaowen, but after breakfast, Zhang Xiaowen went to the toilet to squat, and when he didn't come back, bovy opened the queue on his own.

"There are a little few people in this European server. We are the first ones in line." Xiaotian, who was still waiting, simply ran behind bovy and watched.

During the ban period, the other three teammates also recognized Su Chen's ID and greeted him cordially in the chat room.

Such words as "g2 will crush ym tonight", "p will beat his left hand to tears", "3:0 will take you away", Su Chen was also a little funny.

Nowadays, Europe is the home ground of g2. Basically, the players in the European server also support g2.

However, even though he said it harshly.

You still have to eat it.

The auxiliary player on the first floor took the initiative to help Su Chen get the Qinggang Shadow and expressed his hope to watch it live.

Su Chen also replied OK.

The selections on both sides alternate back and forth.

Soon, it was bovy's turn on the fourth floor to select people.

As usual, when he was about to take an ez, Su Chen suddenly said.

"Why don't you try a game of Kai'Sa?"

Bovy, who was about to lock the hero, was stunned for a moment.

"Ka'Sa... I'm not playing well." He said frankly.

"It's okay, this is ranking and not a competition. What's more, if you don't play, if we face each other in the next game, you won't know how to deal with it, right?" Su Chen said.
To be continued...