Yuan Shen smiled: "You should eat first, it's okay to talk about these things later."

King Ning said, "Old Song, will you dare to get sick again in the future? Do you feel that you have missed out on a hundred million?"

Rookie responded: "One hundred million? More than one hundred million, it is priceless! Time cannot be reversed."

Hearing this, Prince Ning became excited: "Well, if you give me 100 million, I can miss it, really, if not once, twice, three times?"

Baolan complained: "Ning Mazi, can you show some pursuit? All you care about is money, money, money."

King Ning retorted: "Oh, you don't like money, right? Okay, give me your money, will you? You definitely won't give it to me. You say no, but you are more honest than anyone else in your heart!"

After finishing their meal with Rookie, the IG team chatted with him for a while and then left.

After returning to the training base, Yuan Shen started live streaming and received a wave of blessings and gifts.

Yuan Shen noticed that some people in the barrage were talking about the MSI match against KZ.

It seems that for Yuan Shen, the pressure won't be that great.

Because KZ is made up of veterans, of course, they won't give a shit if they have a question now, Rascal, he's still in his growth stage, at least not a concern for now.

In the next few days, IG was on vacation and everyone went out to find places to play.

Let’s put the MSI matter aside. The happy time was short-lived. After a few days of vacation, the IG team set off and boarded a plane straight to Europe.

This MSI schedule is longer and more formal, with qualifying rounds, group matches and knockout rounds.

The competition system is similar to that of the S game, except that there are fewer teams.

There are a lot of teams in the play-in round, eight teams from each wildcard region!

Yuan Shen had never heard of many of them.

After arriving at the destination, the IG members took a car and went straight to the hotel.

After entering the hotel, go to the front desk to complete the formalities.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yuan Shen looked around.

This hotel doesn't look very good. There are a few people from Riot Games in the lobby, and no one knows what they are doing.

Suddenly, a blonde girl rushed over and said in surprise:

"Excuse me, are you Yuanshen? I'm your fan!"

Yuan Shen responded: "Hello."

"Finally I get to meet you in person, you're so handsome!"

Yuan Shen suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Can we take a photo?" The girl had already taken out her cell phone, so Yuan Shen took a photo with her.

“Good luck at this MSI!”

Yuan Shen noticed that the girl had a Riot Games ID card on her chest, so she was probably a staff member.

Just then, another group of people walked in from the door.

Yuan Shen looked over and found that he looked quite familiar.

FW!

Flash Wolf.

Leading the way is Maple.

Although the others have been replaced, FW's mid laner Maple is still there.

I feel like he should be the big brother in the team now, after all, he has seniority.

Ever since Karsa left FW, it feels like their threat has decreased a lot.

In the past, FW could still cause some trouble to some strong teams, but now they are basically just a nobody.

The FW members also noticed IG. Their first reaction was to stop, chatter for a while, and then choose to sit on a sofa nearby.

It seems like they don’t want to have too much interaction with IG, and don’t even want to come up and say hello.

Yuan Shen didn't care. He was told something unfamiliar but it saved him a lot of trouble.

"Let's go upstairs, each with a room card." Fu Manduo distributed room cards to everyone.

After Yuan Shen took it, he followed Fu Manduo to the elevator entrance.

The elevator came down from above, the door opened, and the IG members were about to go in when suddenly a few young people walked out.

One of them seemed to recognize Yuan Shen: "Yuanshen! It's IG, I'm your fan IG!"

Yuan Shen didn't know the other team at all, and guessed that it should also be a professional team, and a wildcard team at that.

If it was a team from a major competition area, Yuan Shen would always see one or two familiar faces, but he didn't recognize anyone in this team.

"Can we take a picture together? Please!"

The other party's attitude was quite good, so everyone on IG took a photo with them.

The IG team got on the elevator and headed upstairs.

Prince Ning muttered, "So many people know us? How troublesome."

Baolan complained: "You say that, but your body is honest. You were the most proactive and happy one in the photo just now. Do you think I didn't see it?"

Prince Ning retorted: "I'm being polite, understand? Since you all said you want to take a photo with them, you can't show your displeasure to others."

Everyone went to the fifth floor and began to look for their own rooms.

Fu Manduo said, "In an hour, we will go eat something together. Everyone should make arrangements first."

After finding the room, Yuan Shen used the room card to open the door, took his luggage in, and started packing.

Then I just lay down on the bed and started looking at my phone.

Everyone is discussing MSI now. The play-in rounds have already started, but there is nothing interesting to watch.

It mainly revolves around the main competition, the clash between KZ and IG.

Although these KZ players were losers last year.

However, they were very dominant in the spring season.

So some fans are also worried, what if IG fails?

Plus the version has also changed
After a while, the time was almost up, and Fu Manduo also sent a message in the group, asking everyone to go out.

So Yuan Shen opened the door and came to the corridor, and other people came out one after another.

However, just when the IG members were preparing to set off.

Suddenly I heard a familiar voice, and saw a few young people carrying boxes and bags walking towards the elevator.

The leader is none other than Khan!

Besides him there are Pernut, BDD, Pray, GorillA and Rascal.

Rascal follows Khan like a little brother and looks honest.

As the saying goes, first be a grandson and then be a grandfather, and now Rascal is in the stage of being a grandson.

The KZ players were originally talking and laughing, but when they saw the IG players, they immediately stopped smiling and could no longer laugh.

I don’t know if I was thinking about some unpleasant things.

The two groups just passed each other like this.

Prince Ning muttered, "Why aren't you smiling? Do they have something against us?"

Baolan urged, "Why don't you go up and ask them if it's true?"

Ning Wang really went there, and Rookie quickly stopped him: "Forget it, stop joking."

Although he knew that King Ning was joking, some players couldn't just make jokes casually, in case the other party took it seriously.

As everyone continued to walk towards the elevator, Ning Wang muttered, "I heard that they were very dominant in the spring split and beat all the other LCK teams. Is that true?"

Rookie responded: "We just need to focus on our own performance. As long as we can play well, we can win against anyone."

When they got outside the hotel, everyone found a place to eat.

There's nothing good here, they're all pretty much the same.

The next day, the qualifying round ended and two wildcard teams entered the main competition, EVS and FW.

Yuan Shen even checked EVS and found out that it was Yuenan's team. The group stage of the main competition was simple and rough.

There are six teams in total, without any grouping, and each of the six teams plays two games with the other teams.

This means that every team needs to at least fight in the market.

Why at least? Because there is a possibility that the points are equal, then you have to cut in line.

This time the official arranged for IG to play in the qualifying round, and the opponent is naturally the host, FNC!

Not only that, the official also made an unexpected arrangement for the last game on the same day, arranging IG and KZ to play against each other!
The first game is between IG and the host, and the last game is between IG and the spring season champion of the second division LCK.

Both games are quite attractive, one attracts locals and the other attracts players from all over the world.

After the schedule came out, IG started training. Of course, now they are just trying to regain their touch, as they have already practiced everything else during the spring season.

Nothing happened overnight, and the MSI group stage began!

The IG team went straight to the competition venue.

There is a group stage opening ceremony today, which requires the participation of six teams.

Of course, because there are matches every day, six teams have to play, so they will all come.

Arriving at the backstage lounge of the competition venue, the IG team faced FNC again in the corridor.

The FNC members were also quite enthusiastic.

Leading the way is Caps!

Caps has matured a lot compared to last year.

When he saw Yuan Shen, he took the initiative to greet him:
"Contestant Yuanshen!"

Then there is their ADC Rekkles. At last year's S game, he had communicated with Yuan Shen several times and the two are quite familiar with each other.

"Hi, Yuanshen, nice to see you again." Rekkles came over and greeted.

"Hello."

Rekkles continued: "Don't let us lose too badly in our opening game later."

Yuan Shen smiled: "We may not win yet, you are too modest."

Rekkles responded: “Really? I’ve already started imagining how we’re going to celebrate if we beat IG.”

After chatting with everyone from FNC, the entire IG team entered the lounge.

Ning Wang said, "Master Yuan, the whole circle is your fan now. There are fans everywhere, and people will entertain you wherever you go."

Yuan Shen responded: "It's not that exaggerated. The people I recruited from LCK would definitely not act like this when they saw me."

Ning Wang said: "Indeed, except for LCK, the teams in other regions seem to respect you very much."

Baolan complained: "If you can win three consecutive championships and three consecutive MVPs, they will respect you."

Everyone put down the things they were given and began to wait.

Yuan Shen suddenly said, "Can Prince Ning go up? That should be no problem."

Fu Manduo looked over and asked: "Why do you want Prince Ning to go up?"

Yuan Shen responded: "Let King Ning play more games and learn more, especially in world competitions like this one."

Prince Ning seemed quite interested.

Fu Manduo continued, "Forget it. This is the opening match. They want us to play the opening match to use our popularity to attract traffic. If you don't play, I think the organizer will have an opinion."

Yuan Shen thought about it and decided to forget it.

After a moment, Fu Manduo called out:
"It's almost time, let's get ready to go up."

So the IG team left the lounge together and came to the corridor. Now the other teams outside were ready and prepared to go on stage.

As the spring season champion of the first division, IG naturally stands at the forefront and becomes a benchmark.

At the competition venue, the audience seats were almost full and everyone was waiting for the competition to begin.

At the LPL broadcast booth, Wawa, Miller and Rita are ready.

Wawa explained: "What is about to take place is the group stage of the 2018 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational. There will be a simple entrance ceremony before the game begins, and the six teams participating in the group stage will appear one by one."

Miller continued: "The LPL spring season champion, the three-time champion team IG is among them."

In the background, other teams came over, and KZ could only stand next to IG and become a supporting role.

There is no way. For the past three years, LCK has been living under the rule of LPL, or to be more precise, under the rule of IG.

At the invitation of the staff, all the IG members came on stage together.

Walk out of the passage and head straight for the stage.

The audience was very excited:
"IG! IG! IG!"

As the IG members appeared on stage, the atmosphere reached its climax.

Yuan Shen saw many Chinese faces, probably international students.

After everyone came on stage, they walked to the center of the stage and accepted the welcome from the audience.

The host began to welcome KZ from the LCK region.

The entire KZK team also came up. There were not many people cheering for KZ at the scene, after all, this is Europe.

The host continued to welcome other teams, and after all six teams arrived, he began playing the promotional video for this MSI.

After the promotional video was over, the other four teams went down, leaving IG and FNC on the stage.

Of course, Ning Wang, who was a substitute, also went down.

Ten people from both sides stood facing each other in the middle of the stage, with Yuan Shen facing off against zuo-wiedaye's Broxah.

Yuan Shen is not very familiar with this person, but it doesn’t matter, as long as he plays his own game well.

The two sides shook hands and then turned and walked towards their respective seats.

Yuan Shen sat down on the chair, put on headphones, adjusted the equipment slightly, and everything was normal.

So, the game begins!

Enter the BP stage.

IG is on the red side and FNC is on the blue side.

Fu Manduo greeted, "There are no changes to the current version, we will follow the BP and play style of the spring season."

FNC on the blue side got the vampire on the first floor.

Wawa commented: "Vampire? FNC is very confident. In this version, Vampire can play in the middle or top lane. He is a swing hero. No matter which lane he plays, he is relatively strong."

IG got Karma and EZ on the first and second floors.

Miller analyzed: "Now EZ has become very strong because of the existence of Kleptomancy, and the appearance rate in the ADC position is very high."

"This hero can carry the game and withstand pressure. It feels very suitable for IG. I think it's okay to choose it."

FNC got Kaisa and Troll on the second and third floors.

Miller commented: "Oh! Kaisa, this hero was released in March. At least few teams have tried it in the playoffs. His play is still under development. FNC directly used it to deal with IG. It seems very brave."

Rita continued: "I think IG should be careful, maybe they are really well prepared."

The director gave a close-up of the IG players. Although the opponent directly used this new hero, IG's reaction was very cold, as if they thought there was nothing wrong.

IG got the Captain on the third floor and entered the second round of BP.

IG banned Ornn and Sion.

FNC banned Kha'Zix, Lee Sin and Kindred.

IG locked Tam on the fourth floor.

Wawa commented: "Tam? This is Tam's support, right? That means Karma should be the mid laner. I didn't expect this. IG's BP is very flexible."

FNC got Shen and Rakan on the fourth and fifth floors.

Miller analyzed: "IGBAN killed two mixed top laners, but the opponent directly used Shen. He has a bad temper. It depends on whether he is really capable."

"From the current FNC lineup, their lineup is pretty good both in laning and teamfighting. Now it depends on Yuan Shen's choice."

At this time, Yuan Shen Wulou was the only one left who had not made a choice. The director gave him a close-up, and he also made a quick choice. (End of this chapter)