Feng Can stayed with Cheng Sunian in his hometown for two days.
They didn't go out to play these two days, they were idle at home, they dug out all the books and toys that Cheng Sunian had read when they were young, and gave Feng Can to play with them.
As soon as the vacation was over, the two returned to the base.
The next priority is to prepare for the World Championship. The EOH World Championship is an annual e-sports event. More than a dozen competition areas around the world participate. EPL has three places to participate. The annual champion and runner-up are eligible to directly enter the main competition. To qualify for the main match.
In other words, the domestic teams going to Los Angeles to play the World Championship this year are SP and WSND, and who the other team is depends on the result of the competition between CQ and KI.
Cheng Sunian sent a blessing message to Chen Le, and Chen Le replied, "There is a lot of pressure, I hope to meet you in Los Angeles." He is rarely so serious, which made Cheng Su Nian very emotional. This is the way of playing professionally. Everyone is under pressure. No team is easy.
In the last week of May, the Champions League was also over.
The opponents in the final are WSND and CQ. In fact, CQ is very strong this year, but the father team is even stronger. On the day of the final, the whole SP team watched the live broadcast. Zuo Zhengyi was in excellent condition, as if he was on the hook. In a BO5 match, they beat CQ to a cruel 3: 0, won the championship in high spirits, the CQ mid laner was beaten and cried, and wiped tears on the spot in the live broadcast.
It may be because of the terrible loss in this game, CQ's mentality is a bit broken, or it may be because there is not enough time to prepare for the game, and there is no time to prepare more content. A few days later, when CQ competed with KI for the World Championship ticket, the state was not ideal , was beaten again by KI.
Chen Le got his wish and entered the World Championship. So far, the three EPL quotas for going abroad have been confirmed.
—SP, WSND, KI.
Now that we have entered the World Championship, everyone hopes to achieve good results, but judging by objective strength, KI is considered a pass if he enters the quarterfinals, and it is of course better to go further.
But SP and WSND, one is the EPL champion and the other is the Champions Cup champion. If they only stop at the quarterfinals in Los Angeles, they will be ashamed to return to China. But it is also very difficult for them to enter the semi-finals or even the finals.
The level of the 16 teams in the group stage of the World Championship is uneven. The biggest opponent of the EPL is from the Korean division, followed by the European and American divisions.
From the perspective of public opinion, if you can enter the semi-finals, you don't need to apologize when you return to your country. Being able to enter the finals is considered a very good result.
But no professional team plays the game with all their strength to avoid being scolded. Everyone's goal is to be the champion. This is true for SP and WSND.
At the beginning of June, SP began special training before the game.
During this period, Cheng Sunian and Feng Can didn't even have time to talk about love, they started training every day when they got up, and practiced until they went to bed. They can only hug each other to sleep at night, but they are too tired and have no energy to say or do anything.
One month of special training, departure in July, to Los Angeles.
The three domestic teams set off on the same day. On that day, a large number of fans went to the airport to see them off. The media played the headline "EPL going to the World Championship", advocating the strength of the Chinese EPL competition this year.
I have to say that compared with the weakness of the previous two years, this year is really strong.
This is the strongest year for SP in recent years, and WSND's strong performance this season has injected another confidence into EPL. I don't know where it started the rhythm first. Kings stand side by side", some people brag, fans will inevitably quarrel.
In fact, since SP lost to WSND in the knockout round of the Champions Cup, the fans of both sides have been very angry.
The SP said that the Champions League is accidental, very watery, and not as high in gold content as the EPL.
WSND said that this year's EPL championship is the worst year, and SP is our defeat, so why win the championship
The two sides insisted on their own opinions, tore into a ball, and tore from China to Los Angeles.
On the day when the results of the group draw of the World Championship were announced, the two sides still did not cease fire. They all said that the teams in the opponent's group were all rookies, and they were guaranteed to qualify, while our group was full of powerful players. The vitality is badly hurt, it's not as easy as you, you are the sons of the organizer.
— The reality is that both SP and WSND have good groupings.
As in previous years, the group stage is a relatively easy stage.
After several BO1 games, both SP and WSND entered the knockout round as the top of the group, and KI also advanced smoothly.
In addition to the three domestic teams, the remaining five are NKG, RE, and F6 in the Korean division, HN in the European division, and UT in the North American division.
These teams are all well-known, and they can be regarded as the old opponents of the EPL team in international competitions.
Especially the F6 team, the domestic e-sports circle is very familiar with it. Jin Zhixiu transferred to EPL from F6. He was the core ADC of F6 last season.
The core was dug out, and the situation of F6 can be imagined, but they only languished for a while at the beginning of the season, and quickly recovered their form, re-entering the World Championship.
In the knockout stage of the World Championship, the first opponent SP encountered was them.
"F6 is not easy to play, but at least playing F6 is better than playing RE." The whole SP team stayed in a hotel in Los Angeles. After coming for so long, the jet lag finally adjusted.
After dinner, the whole team had a meeting. Li Xiuming said, "RE is the league champion in the Korean division. I don't want to meet them too early."
"It doesn't matter." Cheng Suinian said, "Since you are here for the championship, it doesn't matter if you fight early or late."
He sat in a chair, lowered his head slightly when he spoke, and carefully looked at the information on the computer screen. In fact, he was in good spirits, but compared to last month, he seemed to be a little thinner, and Feng Can felt his hands hurt when he hugged him.
The night before playing F6, Feng Can couldn't sleep a little bit, he quietly said to Cheng Sunian: "Captain, when we return to China, I will feed you fat, you should eat more."
Cheng Sunian laughed, and said solemnly: "Why are you talking nonsense? Do you know that you can't mention 'returning to China' during the world championship, and you will lose the game. This is metaphysics, understand?"
"real or fake?"
"real."
"..."
Feng Can was taken aback by Cheng Sunian's current metaphysics, and hurriedly made amends: "I didn't mention us, I meant let F6 go back to China!"
Cheng Sunian couldn't help laughing for a long time, turned his head slightly, and kissed him.
The next day, Feng Can fulfilled his promise and personally sent F6 back to China.
In this game, he put in 200% effort. In this version where AD cannot carry, he abruptly played with the momentum of ADC Carry. The commentators at home and abroad howled, and some SP fans live broadcasted all kinds of Howls in different languages were edited into a collection, which was both burning and funny, and it became a hot search because of it.
The SP knockout round was a great victory, and on the other side, WSND faced off against the UT team from North America. It is not difficult to play against North America in the EPL, and WSND is indeed very strong. After several rounds of fighting, there was no surprise and they advanced smoothly.
What is more uncomfortable is KI. KI's opponent in this round is the Korean league champion RE team. There is no accident in this game-KI was eliminated.
In fact, this is the expected script. According to the lottery rules of the EOH World Championship, the stronger the team's performance this season, the better the luck of the lottery. It is difficult for the team to enter the World Championship to change their fate against the sky.
But it is undeniable that the reference results in the lottery are all determined by the teams themselves in their own leagues, and strength determines everything.
On the day Chen Le returned to China, Cheng Su Nian went to the airport to see him off.
It was just a farewell, not much to say, Cheng Sunian was not a talkative person, he patted Chen Le on the shoulder, Chen Le lit a cigarette for him, and said "It's okay, come back next year".
How much bitterness is hidden in a sentence, only those who have experienced it can understand.
But other than that, there really isn't much else to say.
Due to the limited promotion of the event, although it is a global competition, there are only a few strong competition areas. There is not much suspense in the early selection of the World Championship. In the later stage, teams with insufficient strength are eliminated one after another. The meeting between strong teams is the most difficult period.
After the quarterfinals, SP, WSND, RE, and the European team HN will advance.
As soon as the list of the top four is released, the next two four-to-two games will be a battle of life and death.
For domestic e-sports, it is gratifying that there are two domestic teams in this year's top four, which is gratifying. Even more fortunately, SP and WSND were not drawn together, that is to say, they did not need to eliminate their compatriots by themselves.
But unfortunately, if they draw together, at least one will be guaranteed to advance. Now they are playing against the Korean team and the European team respectively. The ideal situation is to advance together.
In response to this situation, the domestic e-sports circle, which has always been bloody and bloody, has rarely begun to unanimously speak out. The SP fans and WSND fans who have been torn apart for a long time finally reconciled. They prayed for the victory of the Chinese team, and it is best for both of them to advance to the finals.
Perhaps this year is indeed a great year for the EPL. In the dark, the strong will be strong. This dream scenario that was unimaginable in previous years has actually come true in this year's World Championship—
In the BO5 knockout round, the WSND and HN teams played four games and reached the final 3:1.
SP was more twists and turns. They lost to the RE team in the first two games. When they fell behind 0:2, no matter whether they were optimistic or not, almost all the audience thought that SP was going to be cold, but SP started to comeback from the third game. The SP-style seamless combo that became famous in China went to the world, and won rounds after rounds with strong team battles. In the end, two chased three, beat the Korean champion with one hand, and joined forces with WSND victoriously. (end of this chapter)