After arriving at the destination, the TES team went straight to the hotel to check in.

There were quite a few staff members in this hotel, and when the TES team entered, they immediately attracted attention.

"That seems to be TES, the LPL team and the champion of last year's S League."

"God Yi! God Yi!"

"Yishen! It's really him. Let's go over and say hello!"

"..."

Suddenly, several staff members with work badges came over and greeted them:
"Hello, Yishen, I'm your fan."

"We are all your fans, can we take a photo together?"

Lu Yi nodded after hearing this: "Of course."

So Lu Yi took a photo with the staff.

One of them suddenly said:
"Yishen, good luck in the competition! I believe in you! You will definitely win the championship."

Lu Yi nodded: "Thank you."

Everyone in TES looked at him with envy. Shan Ji teased, "Yishen, if I were you, I would wake up laughing in my dreams. Why are you so popular?"

Meiko complained: "Shan Ji, you must be crazy about picking up girls."

Ah Shui saw through it at a glance: "If those people were not here to look for Yi Shen, but Shan Ji, Shan Ji would definitely have come to the room number."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't hold it anymore.

Shan Ji quickly explained: "You are completely tarnishing my innocence. Am I that kind of person?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Just then, the factory manager came over and said, "Very active, Topbo."

"Master Yi." The factory director shook hands with Lu Yi.

Zhan Ma came over and greeted, "Hello, Coach Mingkai."

"Coach Zhanma, the thing we talked about before about forming a group..."

"Oh, I forgot. I'll do it now."

Zhan Ma looked at everyone from TES and EDG and said, "Please everyone join the group so that we can communicate more easily."

Zhanma set up a group for 2023MSI, and everyone from TES and EDG scanned the QR code to join.

At this moment, the factory manager found Meiko hiding behind Lu Yi: "Tian Ye, don't hide from me, I see you."

Meiko saw that she couldn't hide anymore, so she had to stand up and said, "What are you doing, Mingkai? What do you want to do?"

"You've won the championship, now you feel good, Tian Ye." The factory manager said playfully.

Meiko said: "No, if you want to win the championship, you can also apply to join Top Esports, maybe you will have a chance."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people from EDG and TES looked over, and Zhan Ma became extremely nervous.

When Meiko saw that she was in trouble, she quickly said, "I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Don't take it seriously."

Lu Yi looked at Hang and said, "Hang, you didn't even come over to say hello to us. We seem to be strangers now."

Hang greeted him with a smile: "Yishen, I'm just worried that you don't recognize me. I'm sorry."

Hang strode over and greeted everyone in TES.

Shan Ji patted his butt and said, "Hang, you're doing pretty well. You're even the runner-up in the spring season."

Shan Ji's words immediately confused Hang. Shouldn't he have won the championship? How could he be so happy to be the runner-up now?

Shan Ji was stunned, as if he had thought of something: "Oh, I remember, you used to be from Topbo."

Everyone almost fell down. Did he forget for a long time that Hang was an old teammate?

Hang immediately gave a flying kick: "I'll kick you to death, you ungrateful wolf!"

After completing the formalities, Lu Yi received the room card from Zhanma, and the two teams prepared to go up.

Just then, there was a commotion at the door.

Lu Yi looked back and saw two groups of people coming in. They were refusing to give way to each other and walked side by side, leaving a passage in the middle and keeping their distance.

On the left, the leader is a young man wearing glasses. He is relatively relaxed and has a strong aura.

"Faker!"

Lu Yi recognized it at a glance.

Following behind Faker are the T1 members.

Lu Yi took a quick look and saw Zeus, Oner, Gumayusi, and Keria.

On the right, the leader is a tall young man with a serious expression and a very powerful aura.

Chovy!

GEN's starting mid laner, the strongest mid laner in LCK.

Of course, many people now think that he is the strongest mid laner in LCK, stronger than Faker.

After all, we swept the finals, so the results are here.

Following behind Chovy are the GEN members, Doran, Peanut, Peyz, and Delight.

"Hey, T1 and GEN are here." The factory manager said playfully.

Lu Yi asked, "How is it, factory, do you think you can handle it?"

The factory manager laughed: "Isn't this your job? Our EDG studio is responsible for dealing with European and American losers."

Lu Yi asked back: "You don't want the championship anymore?"

The factory manager shook his head and said, "I do want to, but we don't have to play against the LCK teams. What if there is a civil war in the LCK? We can beat a European or American team and advance to the finals. Then you can beat the LCK team and we can advance to the finals together."

The factory manager really dared to think so. Lu Yi didn’t know how to comment on it.

Entering the elevator and heading upstairs, Lu Yi found his room, opened the door with the room card, and then went into his room to pack his luggage.

At the same time, there is news in the 2023MSI group.

Zhan Ma: "Everyone from Topbo, let's eat something together when you are ready. Come to room 616. The door is open. An hour should be enough."

So Lu Yi rested in the room for a while. When the time was almost up, he left his room, quickly found room 616, strode in, and found that the war horse and pheasant were already there, and there were more than a dozen different lunch boxes on the table.

Zhan Ma greeted, "Yishen, have something to eat. These are local specialties. I just bought them."

"You call this gourmet food?" Lu Yi looked at the messy food on the table and found it difficult to associate these things with gourmet food.

But there really isn't anything delicious here, so we'll just have to make do with it.

After Lu Yi sat down, he ate something casually. Then, someone else came in and joined this unpleasant meal.

After a while, all the TES members arrived and chatted while eating.

Zhan Ma arranged the tasks: "We will start training soon. By the way, the play-in round will start tomorrow. T1 will play in the play-in round. If you have time, you can watch how they play."

Everyone nodded.

Zhan Ma continued, "Also, the competition system this time is quite special. I won't introduce the qualifying round. In the main competition, there are eight teams in total. First, there are group matches, divided into the winner group and the loser group."

"BO5, the loser goes to the loser group, the winner goes to the winner group, the winner group continues to play, and the loser in each stage can go to the loser group below to get a chance, that's basically it."

"The competition system is quite complicated. Of course, if you keep winning, it will be very simple. It is no different from the previous competition system."

Shan Ji scratched his head after hearing this: "I feel sick, why make it so complicated?" Zhan Ma said: "The main purpose is to reduce the randomness and increase the gold content, that's what they say."

Shan Ji complained: "It's better to play BO7, isn't it less accidental?"

Xiaotian couldn't hold it in any longer: "Why don't you say BO9? Aren't you afraid of being exhausted?"

Meiko joked: "Chicken is quite comfortable in the top lane, he is relatively relaxed, so it's okay to play two more games."

Lu Yi suggested: "Since Shan Ji feels that going on the road is too easy, we should give him more opportunities to practice in the future."

"Use it or lose it, right? If you have the ability but never use it, it will go to waste. If you keep using it, you will make progress."

Everyone agreed.

Shan Ji was anxious: "I was wrong, brother. I was just pretending. It's tiring to be on the road. That's all I can do."

Warhorse interrupted, "Okay, stop playing around. After we finish eating, we'll start the training match. We haven't trained in a long time."

After eating, Lu Yi sat down and resumed training.

There are several computers in this room, which are specially used for training.

The next day, the qualifying round began. Everyone thought that this time's qualifying round would be the same as the previous ones, quiet, no one would know about it, and there would be no heat, mainly to give the wildcard teams a sense of participation.

However, this time the qualifying round was very hot. After the first day, there were many memes on the Internet.

The most popular one among them is the "God King"!
G2's top laner Broken Blade has earned the title of "God King".

Because he took out Noxus and Garen successively in the game, used the God-King skin, and got various solo kills.

Of course, his performance is only one aspect, and more importantly, it is because he dares to use this "unpopular" hero in this version.

This refers to the upsets in professional competitions, not in casual games.

It is precisely because these two heroes are very popular in casual games but no one plays them in professional competitions that Broken Blade is very precious and has captured the hearts of a large number of Garen and Noxus players.

It's time for dinner again, and everyone in TES continues to chat.

Meiko said, "Did you watch today's game? That God King? He was pretty handsome."

Shan Ji became excited: "Yeah, he used Garen to fight against Master Yi, and got many solo kills. It seems that Garen is really good against Master Yi."

Lu Yi looked at Shan Ji and said, "Would you like to learn this? Since it is so useful, you should learn it."

Ah Shui expressed his support: "Yes, others can be the God King, why can't you?"

Shan Ji quickly refused: "Forget it, I haven't played it much before."

Ah Shui began to paint a rosy picture for Shan Ji: "Shan Ji, think about it this way, this Broken Blade can use reputation to gain such high popularity, is it because he is powerful?"

"No, his performance with Noxus is just average because he dares to play and operate. It doesn't matter if he doesn't operate well, the audience likes to watch it. So you don't need to play very well, the most important thing is to dare to use it."

Shan Ji was still a little worried: "If it's taken out and held back, won't it be the end of us?"

Ah Shui continued to talk him into believing: "If you think like that, what if you succeed? Wouldn't you be able to take off? How many chances like this will you have in your life?"

Shanji's eyes slowly changed from hesitation to determination, and under A Shui's constant instigation, it finally turned into fanaticism!

"Okay, I'll practice hard these few days, and then I'll be the real one." Shan Ji replied.

Zhan Ma was stunned. He glanced at Lu Yi, and seeing that Lu Yi didn't say anything, he didn't say anything either.

The next few days will be the play-in rounds, and there is no doubt that T1 will be invincible in the play-in rounds.

Soon, the final of the qualifying round ended.

Entering the win-lose group stage, the eight teams entering this stage are: TES, EDG, GEN, T1, G2, MAD, C9, and GG.

At this time, everyone in TES was gathered together to watch the draw ceremony.

This draw ceremony is mainly to determine the winners and losers of the first round of the group stage.

The guests come on stage, the host introduces the rules, and then the drawing of lots begins.

Everyone in TES cheered up. They were the No. 1 seed, so they could only play against the No. 2 seeds from other regions or teams from the wildcard regions. The first round would not be too difficult.

Of course, there are also some "thorns" among the second seeds, such as G2.

Although G2 has changed its players again and again, their "water ghost" characteristics still exist.

The so-called water ghost characteristic is that in international competitions, they almost always pull down a strong team and become "CJB".

There are many victims, including top teams such as RNG and T1.

In addition to troublemakers like G2, there are also powerhouses like T1 in the second seed pool.

I think all teams don't want to be drawn to T1.
Soon, the four number one seeds were drawn.

Determine the order, then start drawing the others.

The first confirmed BO5 is MAD vs. T1!

Meiko laughed: "Hahaha, T1 is gone! We won't meet T1 in the first round!"

Shan Ji said: "It's boring. I thought I could play against a strong team sooner, but it seems I have to fight some small fish first."

Xiaotian exclaimed, "Fuck, are you a pheasant? Is this something a pheasant should say? Oh my god."

Ah Shui saw through it immediately: "He is just pretending. If he really draws T1, she won't even have time to cry."

At this moment, the second BO5 was confirmed, TES against G2!

Meiko cheered, "We are going to fight the God King! Here we go! The God King is coming!"

Lu Yi looked at Shan Ji and said, "We won't ban Noxus and Garen. You grab one and he takes one. Then we'll see who is stronger."

Shan Ji hesitated and changed his words: "Okay, come on, who's afraid of who? Why would I be afraid of a European and American bastard like him?"

Everyone was looking forward to it. Garen was laning against Noxus in the top lane. What kind of flash laning was this? Normally, you can't see it in the game, but this time it seems that we have a chance to see it.

After a moment, all four BO5s were confirmed.

MAD vs. T1.

TES vs. G2
C9 vs. EDG.

GEN vs. GG.

Ah Shui complained: "GEN and EDG seem to have gotten a bargain. One is GG and the other is C9. The two easiest to deal with were taken away by them."

Meiko analyzed: "I feel that C9 is definitely harder to play against than MAD, but the difference is not that big. They really got the upper hand."

At this time, there is news in the 2023MSI group.

EDG, Hang: "Ahahaha, I heard you drew the Water Ghost, be careful to be dragged down by the Water Ghost."

TES, Jackeylove: "Don't be afraid, the water ghost leader is here, we will definitely win."

Lu Yi looked at A Shui. He didn't expect that A Shui would actually call himself the leader of water ghosts. Now the nickname given to him by black fans is water ghost.

Zhan Ma greeted, "Now that the groups have been determined, it's a good thing that we can start T1. It's not that we can't win, but there's no need to expose our full strength so early."

"Our opponent is G2. Although they are not as strong as us, we cannot let our guard down. They have many tactics, so we must be prepared."

The TES players started training, mainly to familiarize themselves with G2's style of play.

MSI is different from the S League. The schedule is very tight and there is no rest room time in the China League One.

The draw here has just ended, and the game will start the day after tomorrow, and TES will be the first to play.

There is no way, because they were drawn to G2. G2 is the host, so they will be arranged first in the schedule. This is an unspoken rule.

...(End of chapter)