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Perkz continued: "Mozi is definitely the most legendary player I have ever seen. His hero pool, his operation, his awareness, wow! Unparalleled."

"If G2 can have both Mozi and Faker, we will be invincible and win three consecutive championships... No, ten consecutive championships! We G2 will win ten consecutive S championships!"

Su Mo said, "But I feel like you may not be able to pay me. I'm very expensive."

Perkz quickly said, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible. Don't worry, Mozi. As long as you come to G2, I am willing to not ask for salary!"

Su Mo didn't quite believe it: "Really? Have you thought it through?"

So Perkz changed his tone: "It may not be a good idea to not have any at all, how about half? I'll give you the other half of the salary."

Everyone laughed, Perkz is really a funny guy.

Rita asked: "Does player Wunder know what you said?" Will he have any objection?

"Wunder? Who is Wunder?" Perkz looked innocent.

Rita reminded: "Your team's current top laner."

"Oh, it's him. Wunder... he will definitely like it. He just needs to be a substitute. Who would refuse to win the championship without doing anything? Right?" Perkz didn't consider his teammates' feelings at all.

Of course, his teammates are probably used to it.

After all, Perkz has been doing this for a long time.

Rita continued: "Brother Mozi, player Faker, did you bring new uniforms? Can we exchange uniforms?"

Generally, these well-known players will bring a few extra uniforms, and exchanging or giving uniforms away is a common occurrence.

Su Mo and Faker nodded to indicate that they had taken it, and stood up to get it.

Perkz quickly followed and said, "And me, I want to exchange team uniforms too!"

Soon, the three returned to the room again with two more team uniforms in their hands.

First sign on it with a signature pen, then give it to each other and take a photo together.

Su Mo already has Faker and Perkz signed jerseys in his hands.

Rita greeted them: "Thank you all for accepting our interview. I hope you can get ideal results in MSI."

"This short interview ends here. Goodbye."

After the interview, Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief. Perkz had disrupted the show and turned it into a comedy.

Perkz was very happy, feeling that he was the one who made a profit.

Su Mo returned to his room, put away his two team uniforms, and then went to the training room.

At this time, teammates and Abu were eating, and Su Mo joined them. After eating and drinking, they started training.

The qualifying round has already begun, or to be exact, it has started for a few days and is now coming to an end.

After the qualifying round, the group stage will be a melee.

There are six teams in the group stage, and they play two rounds against each other.

This means that in the group stage, each team will play ten BO1s.
Finally, the top four teams will advance to the knockout round based on their results.

The schedule was announced as soon as possible, and the opening match was between EDG and T1!

After two days of rest, the R group stage began.

At the MSI competition site, in the backstage lounge, the EDG players are waiting for the game to begin.

Abu walked up to Su Mo and asked, "Do we really want to play like this? What if we can't beat him?"

Su Mo comforted them, "It's okay, they can do it, they have to believe in their teammates."

Su Mo didn't plan to play, so Abu was a little worried.

Since Su Mo said so, Abu stopped talking nonsense.

To put it another way, this is the group stage, and as long as the top four can advance, it is not a big deal even if they lose to T1.

Su Mo took out his cell phone and took a look. The interview video that Rita had uploaded previously had been viewed over 20 million times!
The comments below were fierce:
"Is Mozi too confident? Faker has made a comeback."

"That's enough, the king is back, I will kill any god that stands in my way, and I will kill any Buddha that stands in my way!"

"No one can stop Brother Mozi's triple grand slam!"

"Do you know what a triple grand slam is? It's a record that can never be broken."

A moment later, the time was almost up and Abramovich took the field with the starting five.

Top laner Ray, jungler Jiejie, mid laner Scout, ADCIboy, support Meiko.

Su Mo stayed in the lounge to watch the game.

When the players came on the court, T1 looked quite confident, and of course EDG too.

The factory manager muttered, "Can you win, Xiao Mo?"

Su Mo shook his head: "It's very difficult."

The factory manager asked, "Then why did you let them go?"

Su Mo asked back: "Then you won't go?"

The factory manager was suddenly speechless.

Entering the BP stage, Jiejie got his favorite Jarvan IV, while Clid chose his signature Lee Sin.

In the mid lane, Scout's Sylas faced Faker's Ryze.

The factory manager saw this and asked, "Silas? You've mastered it so quickly? That shouldn't be the case."

Su Mo smiled: "What do you think? Scout's talent is there."

Entering the game screen, you need to withstand pressure in the early laning phase against Sylas before reaching level 3.

Faker's Ryze used the W skill at level 1, causing quite a bit of damage.

After reaching level three, Sylas finally had a little initiative, but Clid's Lee Sin came immediately and cooperated with Ryze to get the first blood.

Abu felt something was wrong: "This guy found a good angle to gank, just in time to avoid the field of vision."

The factory manager agreed: "He has a strong ability to set the pace in the early game. In most of the current games, T1 has an advantage in the early game, mainly because of this jungler."

It was similar to what the factory manager said. After Clid got the rhythm right, he started snowballing like crazy.

Moreover, Faker plays Ryze, and after reaching level 6, his ability to set the pace is quite strong.

T1's mid and jungle began to roam around like crazy, setting the pace and catching EDG in both the top and bottom lanes.

In less than thirty minutes, T1 won the game.

Abu was furious: "What the hell is this? It feels like sleepwalking. I'm so pissed!"

Soon, all the EDG members came back, and no one dared to speak.

Abu began to lecture him: "Don't give him any chances. I told you to hold steady in the early game and not give him any chances. Why do you keep giving him any chances?"

"The jungler on the opposite side has no rhythm after the laning phase. We just need to reduce our mistakes, but we can't do that."

Jiejie took the blame: "It's my problem."

Abu's tone softened a lot: "But this is your first time fighting him, I don't blame you, we will review it later."

EDG has another game today, so everyone did not leave and chose to stay and watch the game.

Jiejie sat next to Su Mo and asked, "How do you feel?"

Jiejie sighed: "There are too many mistakes, otherwise..."

The factory manager came over and said, "It's okay. His play is not that great. Just take a good look at it when you review the game."

Jiejie nodded repeatedly.

Su Mo said, "Factory, how about you go up and give Jiejie a sample next time? I think you seem quite confident."

The factory manager was stunned when he heard this. Wasn't this a trap for him? What if he lost?
But now it seems that I can't refuse, otherwise it would be too cowardly. So the factory manager responded: "Okay, I'll do it next time."

Su Mo smiled: "Okay, then I'll look forward to your performance."

The other teams' games were still going on. After observing three games, Su Mo came to a basic conclusion that there were only three teams that had the potential to compete for the championship this time: EDG, T1, and G2.
The other teams are just not good enough and have no chance of winning the championship.

EDG's second game is about to begin today, this time against TL, the number one seed in the North American division.

EDG continued to use the previous lineup. Maybe because of the loss to T1, Jiejie was very annoyed. In this game against TL, Jiejie went berserk and pinned TL to the ground.

Jiejie went crazy as a jungler and achieved super god status!
It is not easy to become a god in the jungle position.

The factory manager laughed: "Hahaha, Xiaojie seems very angry."

Abu said: "So losing a game is not necessarily a bad thing, it may also inspire the fighting spirit of the players."

The factory manager muttered, "So you were still angry just now?"

Abu explained: "It's okay to lose one game, but we can't keep losing. I got angry just to prevent them from losing the game with a clear conscience."

After the second game, EDG's game for the day ended. Everyone went back to eat something and then review the game.

The group stage lasts for five days, with two games per day.

In the next four days, EDG continued to fight, and finally, on the fifth day of the group stage, they met T1 again!

In the lounge, Abu was admonishing: "We have one less win than T1 now. If we can win this time, we can tie the game and enter the tiebreaker, and we can still compete for the first place."

"So, Mingkai, this game depends on you. Perform well."

The factory manager said before that he wanted to make a sample for Jiejie, and now the opportunity has come.

Of course, it was mainly because Su Mo forced him to go up, otherwise he would appear too cowardly.

It's almost time, the players come on stage.

Su Mo looked at Jiejie: ​​"Look at how the factory fights? Do you think the factory can win?"

Jiejie hesitated: "There should be... a chance."

Su Mo smiled: "As expected, you don't have confidence in the factory either."

Jiejie quickly explained: "It's not that I don't have confidence in the factory manager, but T1's overall strength is indeed a little stronger."

When the game entered the BP stage, the factory manager took out his favorite Rek'Sai. This hero is very strong in the current version and is also the one that the factory manager likes to play.

Abu analyzed: "This version of the jungle is quite friendly to Mingkai, these are all heroes he likes to play."

Entering the game screen, the factory manager had a good rhythm in the early stage. He took two shots before level 6, successfully got a kill once and used flash once. This was definitely a good performance.

However, the economic gap could not be widened, and T1 held on to EDG tightly.

The two teams continued to fight until 1 minutes, and T turned the tables through its strong teamfighting ability.

Jiejie commented: "This is the style of play that T1 likes now. They also do this in LCK. GRF is the first in the regular season, but in the playoffs, T1 specializes in defensive counterattacks."

"With this style of play, we managed to defeat GRF."

Su Mo nodded: "T1's teamfight ability is quite good, everyone's cooperation is good."

Soon, the factory manager came back with his team members, looking frustrated.

"Hahaha, what's going on in the factory? Did he become autistic because of being beaten?" Su Mo laughed at him immediately.

"Don't mention it." The factory manager didn't seem to want to comment further.

Su Mo smiled and said, "It's okay, the factory. We just lost a group match. We will win it back in the knockout round."

The factory manager joked, "I did it on purpose. I just didn't want to cut in line."

Meiko laughed: "You can actually say that, it's amazing."

At this moment, Faker's voice came: "Player Mo said before that EDG will definitely win the MSI championship this time, but I don't think so. This time the MSI championship will definitely belong to us T1."

At this time, Faker was being interviewed and the questions asked by the host were quite tricky.

The factory manager looked at Su Mo and said, "Xiao Mo, I'm just shouting to you. You can't be a coward anymore. Fight like a man!"

Su Mo smiled and said, "I'm fine. I won't play. Let's talk about it when we play against T1."

"Someone seems to think that such a simple provocation can work."

After the group stage ends today, we enter the knockout stage.

EDG lost to SKT twice in the group stage, which also caused a lot of discussion online:

"Is EDG still okay? They can't really beat T1, right?"

"Brother Mozi hasn't even come up yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

"When will Brother Mozi come on stage? Give T1 a lesson."

"Now Faker has made a comeback, and I feel that there is hope for the revival of LCK."

"Impossible! As long as EDG and Mozi are here, LCK will never be able to turn things around!"

After two days of rest, the knockout round begins!

First up is EDG vs. TL!

Take it down easily!
Then it's T1 vs. G2.

The EDG members gathered together to watch the game, and Meiko brought over a lot of snacks.

Everyone ate and watched.

At this time, players from both sides came on the court. T1 looked quite confident, of course, G2 was beyond words.

Suddenly, Su Mo's phone rang. He took it out and saw that it was Perkz who sent him a message: "Great God of the League of Legends, may G2 win today's game."

Su Mo smiled. God of Alliance? What kind of title is that?
Su Mo felt he couldn't bear it.

Abu urged, "Watch carefully. Although G2 will definitely not be able to beat T1, they should be able to do something."

Players from both teams came on the court. On the G2 side, Perkz was always so happy and smiling.

In comparison, Caps is much more restrained.

On the T1 side, the five players also looked quite confident.

In the first BP phase, G2 picked Ryze in the middle lane and faced Faker's Neeko.

The factory manager analyzed: "Neeko doesn't seem to be popular now. Her appearance rate in the mid lane is not even in the top ten."

Su Mo explained: "Neeko is a very comprehensive hero, but it puts a lot of pressure on the user's abilities. In a team fight, you just need to use your ultimate and flash. If you don't get the timing right, you'll be in trouble."

"Moreover, Neeko's sustained output ability is not good. She is just a tool. If we want to win the game, we still have to rely on the performance of our teammates."

T1's rhythm was pretty good in the early stages. Faker did not fall behind in the mid lane, and his roaming support helped the bottom lane gain an advantage.

T1 has always maintained the lead, but it can't make the final decision!
Abu analyzed: "You know what, G2 is pretty smart. Now that teamfights are difficult, they are pushing the troops like crazy."

"Neeko's sidelaning ability is far inferior to Ryze's. G2 can hold them back."

At 1 minutes, Casp's Ryze was caught while pushing the lane. After killing him, T wanted to go for the Baron.

However, at this moment, Faker made a positioning error and was ambushed and killed by the opponent.

What was originally T1's advantage has now become G2's advantage.

The director gave a close-up of Faker, and Faker's hands were shaking!

Meiko exclaimed: "There's so much pressure! Look at Faker's expression, there's really a lot of pressure!"

Scout said: "The LCK is under a lot of pressure this season, after all, it has been a long time since we won the championship."

In the end, T1 didn't hold on and lost the game after G2 took down the Baron. (End of this chapter)