Intel Extreme Masters Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is the first global e-sports elite tournament. In 2006, Intel Germany and ESL jointly founded IEM Extreme Masters, and began to implement a global event based in Europe.
As of 2014, the IEM event has been held for eight consecutive years. In 2011, League of Legends entered the IEM competition for the first time, and produced three champions: myR team, ME team, and CJ team.
The fourth champion will be decided among eight teams including EDG, FNC, C9, TPA, KTB, GMB, MIL, and C**.
Among the eight teams, two are from the European region, two are from the Korean region, one is from North America, one is from the LPL region, one is from the Southeast Asia region, and one is from the wildcard region.
"What are you looking at? You look so absorbed in it! Are you looking at something unhealthy?"
Guozai slapped Wang Hao on the back, scaring him, and then he leaned over to look at Wang Hao's computer screen.
"Get lost, Dad. I'm checking the news about Xiao Min and the others. It looks like the competition will start tonight. I'll pay attention."
Take the famous sports media ESPN for example. In their ranking, EDG only ranked seventh among the eight teams, only slightly better than the MIL team from the wildcard zone.
At this time, Zhang Yu interrupted and explained, "This kind of cup competition will not last too long. It is usually short, so naturally there is not that much time to adapt."
The title of the news clearly stated the result, which was very satisfactory. EDG successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
Not long after arriving at the venue, EDG mid laner U exhaled nervously to relieve his stress.
It would soon be their team's turn to play, Ruoyan quickly comforted their mid laner.
"Okay, I'll take you to eat Polish dumplings tonight. I heard the flavor is very unique and should suit our taste."
"Hurry and take a look at what the game is like?"
In the end, there was only one team participating in the LPL competition, and that was the EDG team that was eager to prove itself.
As soon as Ruoyan shouted, everyone walked towards the competition stage.
"Oh, that's it. Forget it. I'm going back to my room to sleep. I'll come back tomorrow to see how Xiao Min performs. Haha, this time he told me that he will perform well and won't embarrass himself."
Nami cheered.
"How long do we have to wait? When can we watch the game?"
Moreover, the EDG team has only been established for a short time, unlike IG and ME which have a long history. Moreover, the new season of LPL competition has just begun, and there is no reference for the internal results of the league.
"Great! Hooray!"
"Don't be nervous, it's just a game, just treat it like an LPL match."
"Oh, if I had known I should have eaten that bowl of beef noodles before leaving. It was you who urged me to do so that I didn't get to eat anything. There's nothing to eat in Poland. I'm going to vomit from eating bread and sausages every day."
Therefore, Nami has been feeling resentful and has been complaining to Abu these days.
There were two Ziggs in the mid lane, one Kog'Maw and one Twitch in the bottom lane, two late-game big ADs, which was very similar to the second game between LG.G and OMG.
"But we have to play well in today's game. If we don't, we won't get to eat."
At this time, in Katowice, Poland, at the iem competition venue.
"Really? That's really fast."
Guozai asked with some confusion.
As the world champion of the previous S-League, the organizers of the IEM event also invited the LG.S team to participate.
It was already past two in the morning and Wang Hao yawned.
When Wang Hao heard the news, he quickened his pace and walked to the computer while biting a fried dough stick.
Abu looked embarrassed and said helplessly.
Although EDG wants to prove itself, from Zhang Yu's observation, other teams and foreign e-sports media do not seem to be very optimistic about the EDG team.
“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”
Zhang Yu and others found these two games very interesting, because they saw a little bit of LG.G-style game strategy from EDG's playing style.
As an unofficial competition, the resources are naturally insufficient, and we can only wait for the media to send back the video before we can watch it.
Seeing this, the rest of the LG.S members also dispersed, some to rest, some to rank, and some to eat.
The slightly worse one might be Nami in the AD position, but he is also the top AD in LPL and is widely recognized.
"Haozi, come and take a look. The situation and video of EDG's first round match yesterday have been released."
Although the LG team won back the honor of the first division for the LPL last year, it is not the LG team that will compete this time.
Due to Abu's frequent urging, Nami ordered beef noodles at the airport but was unable to eat it, and the food has not been to her liking during her stay in Poland these few days.
Jungler Ruoyan and support Juanmao are both from the old ME team. They participated in a series of world competitions such as s2, iem, ipl5, and won world championships. Naturally, they are not stage-shy.
"Let's go, get on the court, play like EDG, play like LPL, and let those who look down on us see what we, the seventh place, are really like."
Therefore, although EDG has a number of relatively well-known players, it has been ignored by many media because the team name is not familiar.
"It should be going on right now, but the game isn't being broadcast live, so I guess the video won't be uploaded until tomorrow morning."
Zhang Yu shouted when he saw Wang Hao staggering down from upstairs.
After all, although EDG is a new team, although not all the players in the team are battle-hardened, they can all be regarded as players who have seen big scenes.
Wang Hao returned angrily.
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Compared with his teammates, U is indeed a little immature, no wonder he is a little nervous.
"Oh, really? IEM has already started? Didn't EDG leave two days ago? I thought they still needed some time to adapt."
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Although some people were nervous, except for the mid laner U, the mentality of everyone else in EDG was quite stable.
Zhang Yu then projected his screen onto the big screen so that everyone could watch it together.
Wang Hao said with a smile.
"Haha, I'm actually quite curious about what it's like in Poland. If you guys hadn't rejected the invitation, I would really like to go and take a look."
Xiao Min, the top laner, although he has not been in the profession for a long time, has already won the S-League championship, so he is naturally not afraid now.
However, Zhang Yu finally declined the invitation after considering the value of the competition and the cost-effectiveness of the investment.
Shanghai, the Magic City, 8 o'clock in the morning, LG club base.
"EDG won both group matches and successfully advanced to the knockout stage."
But the only difference is that LG.G's top laner usually chooses tanky characters like Dragon Lady and Mundo, while EDG chooses early and mid-game top laners like Crocodile and Rumble more often.
In these two games, in the first game against FNC, they had the advantage in the top lane and the other lanes were balanced. When it came to the team battle stage, they won the game naturally and FNC had basically no power to resist.
In the second game, they played against ktb. The mid and jungle of the ktb team were the powerful mid and jungle of insect and ryu, so their offensive momentum was much more fierce.
EDG's mid and jungle were once in a considerable disadvantage, but with the support of Rambo's ultimate in the top lane, they maintained a balance in several team fights, and through several slightly rough resource exchanges, they turned the disadvantage around.
In the end, with the three-piece set of Rat's ultimate piercing skill, EDG won the winner's group and finally advanced to the semi-finals.