LOL: You don’t want to be broadcast live on the entire network, right.?

In the next few days, TES will be on vacation. They will rest for a few days and also go through the procedures for going abroad. The group stage will be in Southeast Asia.

A few days passed quickly, and the TES members gathered at the airport and set off together.

After several hours of flying, everyone finally arrived at their destination.

After getting off the plane, find a place to eat something and experience the local customs and culture.

Now, whenever Chen Yi Qiu goes to a place he has never been to to play a game, he will walk around and take a look, just like traveling.

After eating something, everyone went to the hotel to check in.

Go to the front desk to check in first, then go up with the room card.

The environment of this hotel is pretty good. Chen Yi Qiu found his room, opened the door with the room card, and packed his luggage after entering.

Chen Yi Qiu was tidying up when his cell phone suddenly rang.

I came over to take a look, and sure enough, it was the message from the SKT group.

Bang: "I came to find you guys, you should be here by now."

Before departure, Chen Yi Qiu sent the departure time and arrival time to the group, which was Wolf's request.

Reaper: "We are here, at the hotel."

Bang: "I'll be there in the evening."

Wolf: "And me, come pick us up at the airport. I'm so scared, I've never been here before."

Of course Chen Yi Qiu couldn't go to pick him up, so he just took a taxi and came over.

Besides, he is not the host, and it is his first time here and he is not familiar with the place.

Wolf: "Have you seen Griffin? Are you scared of them?"

Reaper: "No, it depends on your luck."

Peanut: "GRF? They are just a bunch of kids. I am their senior, so they should take the initiative to say hello when they see me."

Soon, it was night time and Bang and Wolf came over by car.

After arriving at the hotel, they called Chen Yi Qiu directly and asked him to go out and accompany them to the night market.

Chen Yi Qiu thought that there was nothing else to do tonight, so he called his teammates and coach to go shopping together.

When they arrived outside the hotel, Chen Yi Qiu took the lead and saw Wolf and Bang at a glance. The size of the two men was quite eye-catching.

"Brother Yi Qiu!" Wolf ran towards him wildly, and Chen Yi Qiu was frightened and dodged quickly.

So Wolf hugged Peanut.

Peanut wanted to push Wolf away: "Li Zaiwan, you've got the wrong person!"

Who knew that Wolf's eyes would roll and he would say with a sly grin, "Hahaha, you didn't expect that, Wo is here to catch you!"

"Ah? Let go!" Xiaohua was anxious.

Chen Yiqiu went over to greet Bang: "Bae Junzhi, long time no see."

"Brother Yiqiu, long time no see."

The two shook hands and hugged each other, and then Faker came over to say hello.

"Come, let me take a photo with the two world champions." Bang took out his cell phone.

So the three of them took a photo together.

Chen Yiqiu asked: "Why are you here?"

Bang replied: "Because our team didn't win the championship, we had an early holiday and had nothing to do, so I wanted to come here to join in the fun."

Chen Yiqiu nodded: "It seems that the competition in the North American region is quite intense."

Bang smiled and said, "It's not that the competition is too much. For people like us who go there for retirement, our own strength will decline quickly, so..."

Chen Yi Qiu introduced the other members of TES to Bang. In fact, except Meiko, they all knew each other, but they rarely met, and it would be awkward if he didn't introduce them to each other.

"Let's go to the night market." Led by Wolf, everyone set off.

The night market economy here is also quite developed, with a lot of delicious food, especially seafood, many of which are raw and marinated.

Hongmi reminded: "I suggest you not to eat raw food. It's better to be safe than sorry. It will be bad if it affects your performance in the game."

Everyone nodded. Although everyone wanted to try it, they chose to give up.

Wolf suddenly started to act weird. He bought some raw marinated crabs and showed them off to Peanut:

"Mm, delicious! It melts in the throat, horizontal lines, this feeling, wow! It's so refreshing!"

Peanut rolled his eyes and said, "Lee Jae-wan, have you never eaten good food? Are you so excited about eating crabs?"

"Hmm! It's so delicious. Raw marinated crabs are the best. They have a natural flavor!" Wolf continued to tease.

Peanut clenched his fists and stopped talking because he didn't want his saliva to flow out.

"Bae Jun-sik, try it, it's delicious." Wolf shared it with Bang and demonstrated it to Peanut.

Fortunately, everyone quickly found a seafood stall that sold all kinds of fried and boiled seafood. In short, they were cooked and there would generally be no problems.

Xiaohua rushed in first and placed orders frantically, wishing to try all the varieties.

Everyone had no choice but to go in together and sit with Xiao Huasheng.

"Order so much? Then we don't need to order anymore." Chen Yi Qiu muttered.

At this moment, three strange men suddenly came over, and one of them said in broken English:
"You are Reaper? TES, Reaper?"

Chen Yiqiu responded: "Yes, hello."

"Really Reaper, I'm your fan, we're all your fans!"

The three men had dark skin and were obviously locals. They were dressed simply and looked to be in their twenties.

One of them took out his cell phone and asked tentatively, "Take a photo? Is that okay?"

"No problem." Chen Yi Qiu nodded.

So Chen Yi Qiu took a photo with the three of them.

The three of them cheered as if they had won the lottery.

Chen Yi Qiu exchanged a few words with Chen Yi Qiu and then left. The main reason was that their English was not very good, and they could not speak Chinese at all, so they could not make the conversation clear.

After Chen Yiqiu sat down, Wolf said enviously: "Wow, you have fans here, you are so popular."

Chen Yiqiu responded: "In fact, as far as I know, I have quite a few fans here, and they actually watch the LPL games."

“Really? They actually watch LPL?” Wolf felt a little curious.

Chen Yiqiu continued, "Look, there are a lot of people watching. Of course, I also read what is said online. This is what they say."

After a while, the waiters started serving the food and everyone started eating.

After having supper, we needed to go out for a walk and didn’t return to the hotel until late at night.

As a result, they ran into a group of people in the hotel lobby.

They seemed to have just arrived here, carrying bags. They were all young people, and it was obvious that they were a professional team. One of them was tall, about 1.9 meters tall, handsome, and a little immature.

There was also a boy wearing glasses following behind. Although he looked young, he was very steady, mature, and had a good temperament.

GRF's mid and jungle, Chovy and Tarzan.

In addition to the two of them, other GRF players were also there, including coaches and logistics staff.

"GRF!" Wolf suddenly exclaimed.

Chovy glanced over here, and the others also looked over and whispered, as if they didn't know whether to come over and say hello or not.

However, Wolf had already run over and greeted everyone from GRF.

After all, Wolf is a senior, and everyone in GRF respects Wolf very much.

"Let's go over and take a look." Chen Yiqiu led his teammates over. When they got closer, Chovy took the initiative to greet them:
"Reaper-senpai."

Chen Yiqiu responded: "Chovy, did you just arrive?"

"Yes, we just got here." Chovy nodded.

The two shook hands.

Chovy greeted Faker next to him again: "Faker senior."

He seemed quite polite and Chen Yi Qiu had a good impression of him.

After the two teams greeted each other, they parted ways. After all, the other party had just arrived, and they couldn't let them stand and wait.

After the GRF players left, Wolf smiled and said, "How is it, do you feel the pressure? This is our strongest force in LCK right now."

Peanut asked back: "You guys in LCK? Are you still in LCK? You're not in LCK anymore, so what about you guys in LCK?"

Wolf was unhappy now: "Although I am not in LCK, my heart is with LCK!"

After hearing this, Peanut said, "I've been waiting for you to say this. I'm going to tell your current team about this!"

Wolf smiled: "Don't worry, my current team has no chance of playing in the World Championship. They won't meet any LCK teams."

"Ah? Hahaha." Little Peanut laughed miserably.

Finally, Wolf and Bang checked in together and chose to stay in a hotel with everyone from TES.

The next few days will be the qualifying stage. TES naturally does not need to play in the qualifying round. Every day they will train, watch games, and eat delicious food.

Soon, the qualifying round ended.

The teams for the finals have been determined.

There are six teams in total, G2, GRF, TES, TL, FW, and PVB.

Now FW has been included in the wildcard zone, so they need to play in the play-in round.

The level of their team, at least in the past few seasons, is not inferior to that of other wildcard teams.

Of course, it’s hard to say what will happen in the future; we might be assimilated at any time.

After the teams were determined, the schedule was released.

In the opening game, G2 faced TES.

This was something Chen Yi Qiu had not expected. He originally thought that they would be arranged to play against GRF.

After all, LCK is the second division, and now GRF is their spring season champion.

But think about it, if we look at it on a global scale, G2's popularity is definitely higher than GRF.

GRF is a new team that came up from the secondary league and its popularity is not very high now.

As for TES, there is no need to say anything. Now whenever there is a TES game, TES will definitely take the lead.

With only one day left, the TES team made some preparations, and then the opening game began!

At the game site, TES got off the bus and bumped into G2 who were about to enter the game site.
The G2 players deliberately waited at the door for TES to arrive.

As Chen Yiqiu approached, Caps became excited: "Reaper! Faker! Hello."

Chen Yi Qiu and Faker stepped forward to say hello.

Caps and Faker have a mutual admiration for each other and it seems like they like each other very much.

G2 top laner Wunder looked at Chen Yi Qiu warily, as if he was worried that Chen Yi Qiu would do something out of line.

This is a bit confusing, let it be.

"Reaper!" a voice came.

Chen Yi Qiu looked over and it was Perkz!

Esports comedian!
In terms of performance, Perkzj is definitely better than Xiaohu.

"Hello, Perkz." Chen Yi Qiu greeted.

"You know what? Reaper, you are my idol. Your performance in the spring season was amazing, really amazing!" Perkz shook hands with Chen Yi Qiu excitedly.

Chen Yi Qiu didn't know what he was up to, but he felt something was not right.

However, the current G2 can definitely be called the strongest G2 in history!

If Chen Yi Qiu remembered correctly, G2 should have won the MSI championship this year, and it did so by eliminating T1.

Unfortunately, after T1 lost Faker, it is impossible for them to come to MSI.

Similarly, with the presence of TES, it is not easy for G2 to win the championship.

The two teams walked inside together, then went their separate ways to their respective lounges.

Entering the lounge, Chen Yiqiu put down his things, and Peanut came over and said:

"What do you think of G2? It's pointless to watch their league games. They just keep killing each other in the league."

Chen Yiqiu responded: "The strongest G2 in history, stronger than ever before."

Hearing this, Peanut was stunned.

He didn't seem to understand how strong it was.

After all, the previous G2 was basically at the level of the quarterfinals of the S game, which is the highest level.

So, if it is stronger than this, it depends on how much stronger it is.

After all, there are differences among the top eight. The top eight are a range of strength, and the upper and lower limits are quite different.

Chen Yiqiu responded: "Let me put it this way. If it weren't for us, G2 would have a good chance of winning the MSI championship this time."

Xiaohuasheng exclaimed: "Brother Yiqiu means that they can beat GRF?"

Chen Yiqiu responded: "Maybe in terms of individual ability, GRF is a little stronger than G2, but GRF has no experience after all. Unlike G2, various routines emerge in an endless stream, so the possibility of GRF losing to G2 is not small."

Everyone else looked at it and seemed to think that Chen Yi Qiu's statement was a bit novel.

It is rare to hear people say that the LCK league champion will lose to a team like G2.

Chen Yiqiu continued: "In short, G2 is not a team that can be underestimated, especially in the knockout stage. In the group stage, their playing style may be relatively ordinary, and then they will be in a relaxed state, but in the knockout stage, they will definitely be serious and use their carefully prepared routines."

Hongmi agreed: "G2 is a team that does have a lot of tactics. They like to research and study, and they often make a splash."

Peanut nodded: "It seems that we still need to prepare seriously, otherwise we might fail."

Chen Yiqiu took out his phone and saw that, as expected, netizens were most concerned about GRF:

[Let GRF and TES play a BO5 first to see who is better and who will be the champion. ]

[I think there is nothing wrong with this. The other teams are all here to compete for the third place.]

[Yes, this saves time. I don’t need to watch the following games.]

[You guys underestimated other teams. I think G2 is pretty strong this year.]

There are also a small number of people who seem to have watched G2's games in the league and think that G2 is quite strong.

However, these voices were quickly drowned out, as most people were still concerned about LCK and LPL.

On the other side, at the LPL division commentary booth at the game site, Wawa and Miller were ready.

Wawa explained: "The opening match of the 2019 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational will take place soon. The two teams competing are the spring champions from the LPL region, TES, and the spring champions from the LEC region, G2!"

Miller has already started laughing: "G2 can be considered an old friend of ours. They are frequent participants in the S and MSI tournaments. We can often see them, but so far, they have only been runners-up and have not yet achieved results to prove themselves."

"We are facing TES again in the opening match this time. I can only wish them good luck."

Players from both sides began to appear on the stage, starting with G2.

There were not many people cheering for G2 at the scene.

However, when it was TES' turn, the audience became excited:
"Taobo! Taobo! Taobo!" (End of this chapter)