The director seemed to have a script in his hand. He read the script and said:
"Let's start with Top 10. Let's take a group photo. Everyone should stand in the middle."
Everyone in TES walked to the center of the stage together, and an action director came up to arrange everyone's positions and postures.
"Yishen, you stand in the middle."
Lu Yi was arranged to stand in the middle.
"Keep your head high and chest out, and look down a little with your glasses, like looking down on someone. Yes, that's it."
"Then relax your expression..."
After Lu Yi adjusted his standing posture, the action director arranged the standing postures for the others, standing on Lu Yi's left and right, like the moon surrounded by stars.
After this photo shoot, there was the next group. A Shui was placed in the middle, while Lu Yi was behind everyone, with his back to them and turned sideways, revealing only a quarter of his face, highlighting the ID on his back, GodYi!
The action director continued to arrange the standing postures and shot several sets of materials.
"Okay, now it's EDG's turn."
The director shouted.
So the TES team walked over to the side and stood there, only to see Meiko with an envious look on his face: "Wenbo, that's great, how does it feel to be in the center position?"
Ah Shui responded: "It feels okay, nothing special."
EDG doesn't seem to have an absolute core, and the positions are relatively evenly distributed. FOFO's status may be slightly higher, but he doesn't have an absolute core position like Lu Yi and A Shui in TES.
After EDG finished shooting, they stood aside and waited.
The director shouted with a megaphone, "Now it's time for trash talk. Let's go one position at a time. First up is the top position, A-Le and Shan Ji."
So Ale and Shanji walked out from their respective teams and came to the center of the stage. There were two chairs in the middle of the stage, and each of them sat on one facing each other.
The director continued, "Let Shan Ji go first. The main thing is to simply evaluate the other party. Of course, the evaluation should be more spicy. It is not for you to praise the other party. Remember this."
“After the evaluation, I will look forward to this final and express my determination.”
The photographer pointed the camera at the pheasant, and the director shouted, "It's time to start. Get ready, set, go!"
Shan Ji said: "I think Ale is a very good top laner. He has outstanding strengths. He plays warrior very well and can often get solo kills."
Shan Ji changed the subject: "If it was a solo match, I'd be optimistic about A-Le, but this is a competition, A-Le's shortcomings are too obvious, it's easy for him to give up, so I probably don't need to do anything in this final, I just need to play my part well, A-Le will give up."
Hearing this, everyone in TES sneered.
Xiaotian teased, "You know what, what Shanji said actually makes sense. Ah Le is indeed easily overwhelmed."
Lu Yi responded: "Indeed, but we can't wait for the other side to give up. The other side is not a fool. This is just trash talk, just say it casually."
Ale began to respond: "To be honest, as a top laner, I sympathize with Shan Ji very much. Every time Top Esports wins a game, everyone will say that Top Esports won, but Shan Ji didn't win. This is unfair."
"So in this final, I will let everyone see that Top Esports lost and Shan Ji also lost, so it's fair."
Meiko muttered, "Ale is pretty confident, I have to say."
Ah Shui said: "Before the decision was made, they were all very confident. They kept silent when they were beaten."
Shan Ji responded: "I'm sorry, we will win, and I will win too."
Ah Le retorted: "Believe me, you don't have this ability."
The two men were arguing with each other, neither of them was willing to give in, and they glared at each other, looking like they were about to fight.
The director shouted, "Okay, let's stop here for now. It's very good. Everyone is very dedicated in the performance."
Lu Yi laughed and said, "It doesn't feel like a performance, it feels like true feelings are revealed. If no one was watching, we would probably fight."
"The next ones are the jungler position, Xiaotian and Jiejie." the director arranged.
So Xiaotian and Jiejie walked to the center of the stage and sat down facing each other.
"Xiaotian, come first." The director called.
Xiaotian said: "Jiejie is a difficult player to evaluate, because I can't remember any performances he has had. It seems that he has no shortcomings, nor any advantages."
"In this final, I will show what a champion jungler should be like, and let Jiejie recognize the gap."
Meiko cheered: "Nice! That's the way to say it, go for it!"
Ah Shui echoed: "See the strength of the champion team!"
Jiejie responded: "Gao Tiandi is a jungler I admire very much. I admire his luck. He can always be paired with such powerful teammates. I play games with him as a jungler. I also sympathize with Yishen and Doinb in the past. They are obviously mid laners, but they often have to do the work of junglers."
"In this final, I will teach Xiaotian what a qualified jungler needs to do."
As soon as these words were spoken, EDG's morale soared!
Some people even started to applaud, thinking that Jiejie spoke very well.
On the TES side, A Shui muttered: "You know what, this Jiejie has a very venomous mouth. Xiaotian said he wanted to teach him how to play as a champion jungler, but he demoted Xiaotian to a failing jungler."
The director continued, "Both sides performed very well. Next up is the mid laner, Yishen and FOFO."
Lu Yi and FOFO walked to the center of the stage and sat down facing each other.
At this time, everyone on EDG and TES quieted down. This is the key link!
Although FOFO's position in EDG is not as unique as Lu Yi's in TES, he is also the core.
On the one hand, the mid position is very important and it is easy to become the core. On the other hand, his personal strength is indeed very strong.
After the two of them sat down, Lu Yi spoke first: "I don't have a very deep impression of FOFO. It's actually quite difficult to evaluate him. I think after FOFO wins an S-League championship, maybe I can give an evaluation."
Everyone in TES was in an uproar!
Shan Ji muttered, "You're saying that the other party is not qualified to be evaluated! I think that makes sense. Not everyone is qualified to be evaluated by Yi Shen. You must at least have won the S-League championship!"
Xiaotian nodded: "This condition is not too harsh for Yi Shen, it's normal."
Lu Yi continued: "I don't think there is much to say about this final. We went on stage, received the welcome, won the game, and received the award. For us, it was as easy as breathing."
Ah Shui exclaimed: "Fuck, this is too pretentious."
Meiko said: "I don't think it's pretentious, it's just describing the facts."
Xiaotian gave a thumbs up: "Yishen is indeed an expert in yin and yang, and he is far ahead in this aspect."
The director called out, "Now it's FOFO's turn."
FOFO began to respond: "Yishen is very strong, no one should doubt this, he is really good at playing this game, I have learned a lot from him, but I think as long as he is a player, there will definitely be flaws."
Seeing that FOFO didn't elaborate, the director reminded him: "Now you should elaborate on where the flaw is."
FOFO continued: "If there is a flaw...if there is a flaw..."
An embarrassing thing happened. Although FOFO said that Lu Yi had a flaw, he still couldn't tell what the flaw was. Xiaotian couldn't hold it in any longer: "This is too funny. Originally, I asked him to say something harsh, but now he is just bragging, praising Yi Shen to the sky, and I can't even think of what the flaw is."
At this moment, FOFO seemed to have thought of something and said:
"I think Yishen's biggest problem is that he always wants to take charge and solve all problems. If he can't win in the top lane, he will switch lanes to the top lane. This approach will limit the growth of his teammates and ultimately lead to a decline in overall competitiveness."
After these words were spoken, the atmosphere became silent!
Although it sounds like it makes sense, it's hard to tell whether it's a compliment or criticism. It feels like it's praising Lu Yi, and Shan Ji is the one being criticized.
Shan Ji also noticed this problem. He muttered, "No, buddy, do you have to include me before you can talk? I'm the top laner and you're the mid laner. We are totally unrelated."
Meiko said: "It's hard to say. If you can't win in the top lane, you might have to fight FOFO. From this point of view, it seems that there is no problem for him to take you along."
Seeing that FOFO could only do this much despite his efforts, the director said, "Okay, let's change the ADC."
So Lu Yi and FOFO got up and left, and were replaced by A Shui and Leava.
This time it was A Shui who spoke first: "I think Leave is a player who is very good at finding the damage output position in teamfights. In fact, most of the time, you can't even feel his presence, so no one will want to cut him, so it's hard for him to die."
After these words were spoken, everyone in TES couldn't hold it anymore.
Meiko laughed and said, "Wenbo wants to say that he is always targeted, but the opponent won't. The opponent won't be targeted because his output is too low. He is targeted because his output is high."
Xiaotian joked: "I think most of the time it is Yishen who is targeted, and Wenbo is just using exaggeration."
A Shui continued: "In this final, I want Leave to see how a truly successful ADC will be targeted."
Leave responded: "Although Jackeylove did have some skills, I feel that he was targeted purely because he died too easily."
"If I'm a support or a jungler responsible for initiating a team fight, I will also choose someone who is easy to kill. It has nothing to do with the damage. To be honest, because of Yishen's existence, most of Top Esports' opponents focus their energy on Yishen."
"But it doesn't matter, Wenbo. In this final, I will teach you how to be a successful ADC and deal damage in team battles without dying."
Ah Shui smiled: "I hope you can still be so confident after the fight."
Leave responded: "I think so too."
The two of them refused to give in to each other and it looked like sparks were about to fly.
Next, it’s the assistant’s turn.
The director called out, "Finally, it's the assistant. You two can start."
So Meiko and Hang walked over and sat down.
The atmosphere became ambiguous.
After all, the two had exchanged teams before, and the process went quite smoothly. It should be said that the relationship between the two is not bad, and is even very good.
Meiko spoke first: "Hang is a good support player. He helped Top Esports win the championship and made great contributions. I hope we can perform well in this final and have a wonderful game."
Hearing this, everyone in TES was stunned.
Ah Shui complained: "This is not right, this is not trash talking, this is cheering for the other party."
Xiaotian muttered, "I feel like this is Meiko's personality. It's just like that. There's nothing I can do about it."
Shan Ji laughed: "It's really hard for you to ask Meiko to provoke the other side, since he usually has such a good personality."
Hang responded: "I am very happy to see Meiko can keep winning games in Top Esports, and TES is constantly breaking through and running-in very well. I hope that in this final, we can bring a visual feast to the audience.
After these two people finished speaking, both TES and EDG fell silent.
With great effort, the atmosphere was livened up through the efforts of the first few people, and the confrontation was at its peak.
Now that these two people said this, the situation is completely different.
The director waved his hand and said, "Okay, that's it. We'll just shoot some more footage and it will be almost there."
It can be seen that the director is also helpless.
After all, we are not professional actors, so we can’t set the standards too high and just let it go.
So the action director began to arrange for TES and EDG to continue shooting materials, with the mid and jungle together, the mid, top and jungle together, and also the duo, saying something harsh, pretending to be cool, and posing in a handsome way.
It was afternoon and all the shooting tasks were completed.
TES and EDG walked out of the battlefield together.
Meiko called out, "Hang, are we going to eat now?"
Hang responded: "Yes, I invite you, let's go together."
So the TES members followed Hang and left. They took two taxis and headed straight to the hotel.
In the car, Hang and Meiko sandwiched A Shui in the middle, while Lu Yi sat in the passenger seat.
Lu Yi teased, "Ah Shui, how do you feel? Being sandwiched between your ex and your current boyfriend."
Ah Shui responded: "What the hell are you talking about? We are just colleagues."
Lu Yi smiled: "I didn't say anything else, just former colleagues and current colleagues, what did you think of it?"
Hang and Meiko were chatting with each other through one person, and they began to discuss how to play as supports in this version and which supports are more useful.
This is their own business, and Lu Yi can't say anything. It is not uncommon for players to communicate and learn from each other.
When Xiaohu switched from mid lane to top lane, he consulted many "seniors" for advice.
After arriving at the hotel, everyone went straight to the box and sat down anywhere.
Everyone started ordering food, and Shan Ji even confirmed it: "Hang, you said before that the club will reimburse us, does that mean we can eat as much as we want? No matter how much it costs?"
Hang nodded: "Well, I talked to the boss, he thinks it's okay, you guys helped us get a place in the finals, it's only right for him to treat us to a meal, eat whatever you want."
Shan Ji cheered and said, "Then I will go on a killing spree. The cost of living here is really high. I usually can't bear to come here for dinner."
Meiko said, "Don't go too far. If you spend 100,000 or 80,000 yuan on a meal, I think it will have a bad impact."
Everyone started ordering food and then waited.
Lu Yi took out his phone and looked at it. The whole network was now discussing the final between EDG and TES, with all kinds of previews and analyses, and they were all very well-informed.
After a while, the waiter brought all the dishes and everyone started eating.
After finishing their meal and chatting for a while, the TES members said goodbye to Hang.
Meiko also said: "Hang, next time we meet, we will be rivals, come on!"
Hang responded: "Come on!"
Ah Shui muttered, "You two have such a good relationship, I think you can have a fight in the bottom lane."
...(End of chapter)