You've only been playing for half a year, and you've already reached the finals?

Chapter 329 Go to war!

September 6th, the last day of the qualifying rounds.

Since the send-off ceremony was held after today's competition, all three teams that had already qualified for the World Championship came to the venue and sat in three neat rows.

After competing for more than two years, Ming Jing had become quite familiar with these players, and the group chattered about the results.

"Is there even a question? JD.com is definitely going to win!" JackeyLove said nonchalantly. "JD.com can beat us, they must have the strength!"

"really."

The RNG members nodded in agreement, and Shi Senming, always eager for drama, laughed and said, "Let's not let Doinb make it to Worlds, he's causing too much trouble."

"Indeed!" This time everyone nodded.

This time, both sides fought with great passion, exchanging blows back and forth.

In the first game, JDG relied on Kanavi's perfect performance to suppress their opponents and successfully win.

But Tarzan was not to be outdone. As a fellow jungler, he quickly won the second game, taking a big advantage into the late game and, with Light's consistent team fight performance, leveled the score.

The two sides then traded blows, displaying a very close level of competition, and the match went all the way to the final decisive game.

In the final decisive game, the situation became even more thrilling, with both sides fighting fiercely. Every time LNG created an advantage, JDG would immediately fight back, keeping the economic gap close until the 40-minute mark.

"But the problem now is that LNG is even stronger in the later stages!"

Wang Duoduo's commentary rang out, "Whether it's Jax, Monkey King, or the dual-carry Ryze and Sivir, they are all heroes with very high late-game strength. JD Gaming can't delay any longer!"

As if hearing Wang Duoduo's shout, the players in the arena quickly changed their minds.

However, the variable comes from the LNG players.

The key to the seventh dragon's soul team, Ah Le, with his weapon, charged in alone, waving an electric fan, before his teammates could catch up!

Most importantly, the weapon is a very difficult hero to kill. It was not killed immediately, but survived for a long time while shaking its electric fan, giving LNG the illusion that it could be saved.

As a result, the weapon did not escape in the end, but instead caused Tarzan and Doinb to be caught in the crossfire.

JDG seized the opportunity, securing both the Water Dragon Soul and Baron Nashor, thus sealing their victory!

In the commentary booth, Wang Duoduo immediately exclaimed, "Congratulations to JD.com! They defeated Li-Ning 3-2 and secured their spot in the S12 World Championship!"

On stage, all five members of JDG took off their headphones and stood up, excitedly giving each other a big fist bump!
JDG players don't actually have the same strong desire to win the championship as other teams, after all, they've already been to the top once.

But for their relatively inexpensive, somewhat shabby roster, just making it to the World Championship would be enough!

This is a success if they make it to the World Championship.

I'll treat this as a trip to the US combined with some shopping; I'll take it one step at a time.

Ming Jing looked at his old teammates on the stage and nodded.

All I can say is, getting in is good enough.

Mingjing stood up and followed the main group backstage to prepare for the departure ceremony.

As soon as I reached the backstage entrance, I saw LNG players carrying backpacks and preparing to leave.

Missing out on the World Championship is obviously not a pleasant feeling.

Doinb, in particular, found this ending completely unacceptable.

With LNG's roster remaining largely unchanged, his arrival prevented LNG from making it to the World Championship. Does this mean he's inferior to iCon?

But since things had come to this, he had nothing to say and could only leave with a gloomy face, carrying his backpack.

As soon as he turned around, he ran into Ming Jing, who had a grin on his face.

Ming Jing chuckled and nodded at Doinb.

Doinb's face darkened further, and he hurriedly left the scene with his head down.

Behind Doinb, Ming Jingcai encountered his former JDG teammates.

"Awesome, Pian-ge." Ming Jing and Kanavi lightly bumped fists. "Great fight today!"

The match between JDG and LNG can be simply described as a clash between Tarzan and Kanavi's jungle carry roles.

Kanavi won in the end once again.

"Not bad, not bad." The person watching the video also had a smile on their face. "Making it to the World Championship is a success."

"work hard together."

Mingjing and the JDG team members walked into the locker room together, took this year's uniform from the staff, and put it on.

This year's uniforms are still not particularly attractive; they're mostly just black and red color blocking, dragons, and the like.

But in any case, it's better than last year's abstract expedition with a caterpillar on its back that was supposedly a dragon.

Mingjing put on his clothes, quickly tidied himself up in front of the mirror, and then followed the rest of the group to wait backstage.

On stage, the host, Liu Hang, had already given a grand warm-up speech. After a lengthy opening speech, he finally invited the contestants to the stage.

"Let's welcome the four teams representing the LPL region to the stage for the 2022 World Championship!"

All four teams had rehearsed and knew it was time to go on stage. The 25 players, including the starters and substitutes, immediately stepped forward and stood in four rows in the pre-designated positions before the lights were turned on.

At this moment, Liu Hang also shouted: "First and foremost, the 2021 World Championship winner, LPL's number one seed, EDG!"

The lights suddenly came on and shone on the EDG players.

The audience below the stage erupted in thunderous applause.

Nowadays, almost 99% of LPL viewers are EDG supporters, or at least they don't think EDG is going to fail.

Their dominance even far surpassed that of RNG before the S8 World Championship.

There's no way around it; with Ming Jing on the team, EDG's achievements are simply too outstanding, and you have no reason to be pessimistic about the team.

Because of the conflict with Faker in the middle of this season, countless people in the LPL now only hope that Mingjing can win this damn three-peat and be officially crowned GOAT!

Bathed in the brilliant light of the spotlight, Ming Jing appeared somewhat divine. He smiled and waved, then stood firmly in the center of the room.

Next up are the other seeded teams.

TS
RNG
JDG
Only after all four teams were illuminated by the lights did Liu Hang continue shouting:

"Summoners here and watching on screen, let's all send our best wishes to the players and hope they deliver outstanding performances to defend their home turf and the honor of their defending region!"

"LPL, good luck! Summoners, see you at the S12 World Championship!"

The live music started playing, confetti rained down from the sky, dry ice sprayed from the ground, and the camera slowly zoomed out as tens of thousands of spectators cheered.

The departure ceremony has now concluded.

October, the month that belongs to League of Legends every year, is about to begin!

After the departure ceremony, the four teams naturally disbanded.

The guys from JD.com were in high spirits because of the good news, and they insisted on dragging Mingjing to the club to have some fun and have dinner together that night.

EDG's return flight is tomorrow, so Mingjing isn't opposed to it; in fact, he was thinking the same thing.

The JDG club still uses the same villa as before, and Ming Jing still remembers which room he used to live in.

However, after Ming Jing sat down in the club's training room, Hong Mi finally revealed her true intentions and started playing the emotional card with Ming Jing.

"You mean you want to increase the frequency of training matches with us?" Ming Jing raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Sure, no problem, I can make that decision."

Hearing Ming Jing's cheerful agreement, Hongmi smiled and nodded.

Generally speaking, it's very difficult for a fourth-seeded team like JDG to get scrimmages with top teams.

Especially for a team like EDG, scrim slots are extremely competitive. Being able to schedule a scrim with EDG is clearly good news for JDG.

Playing against skilled opponents will make you stronger.

"However," Mingjing chuckled, "if we keep playing practice matches against each other, can Brother Gao handle it?"

Constantly going head-to-head with Mingjing can be mentally exhausting.

The toothpaste chuckled upon hearing this: "Why don't you just add some water?"

"That won't do!" Zoom said righteously from the side. "We definitely have to go all out for scrims to have any meaning. The mid laners at this year's World Championship are all incredibly strong, so we have to give Yaga some intensity. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing for him to get completely crushed."

“Absolutely.” Ming Jing nodded as well.

The toothpaste rolled its eyes at this.

However, Zoom was right.

During last year's World Championship, due to the fierce competition in the mid lane, many people said that last year's World Championship was a stage for mid laners to perform.

This year, the situation is clearly even worse!
In the LPL, Yagao may have fallen a bit, but he is still a champion mid laner. Above Yagao are Xiaohu, ZuoShou, and MingJing.

LCK is even more frightening, with Chovy, Faker, Showmaker, and Scout standing in a row.

Just looking at these eight IDs is enough to scare those mid laners in Europe and America to tears.

As the champion mid-laner, Toothpaste really needs to work hard to stay focused.

If JD Gaming's mid-lane performance suffers a gap this year, it will affect the prestige of their S10 championship.

The happy time passed quickly. After enjoying a dinner prepared by the chef at JDG, Mingjing took a taxi back to the hotel alone.

On the morning of the second day alone, EDG boarded the plane on time and flew directly to Shanghai.

"Today is September 7th. Our first match is on October 8th, so there's still a month to go."

Abu was explaining the schedule, "But there's no time off this time, brothers. Take a good week off, catch up, and then prepare for the training matches! It's just over a month left, so hang in there."

With only a one-month break followed by three weeks of training, the pressure of this training match is actually quite high.

After all, training days are actually more tiring than match days, since EDG matches are always fast-paced, and even in a BO5, they usually only play three games.

Training days are different; they consist of ranked matches and scrims, at least ten games in total.

However, the EDG players could certainly tolerate it.

For the championship, it's all worth it.

Mingjing even felt that this week's holiday was unnecessary.

What can you do during a week's holiday? Even going back to my hometown of Wuhan feels too short. All I can do is stay at the training base for ranked training.
Mingjing, a young man with boundless energy, simply started a live stream to climb the ranks.

Mingjing has always been a legend in the live streaming world. Although he rarely streams, every time he does, he basically drains the majority of the traffic in the League of Legends section.

Other streamers can earn so much money, they should be thankful that Mingjing is a lazy dog.

This time is of course no exception.

Even though there was no prior notice for this live stream, the sheer number of viewers and the viral spread of the live stream caused its popularity to instantly climb to the top of the entire site!
At this moment, the live stream chat was filled with comments.

[Why is it suddenly starting to air again?]

[Stop the unfounded criticism. Fei Shen always broadcasts his championship wins a few days later, and his long-time fans have been waiting for it.]

[That's true. And every time Fei Shen starts streaming, he works like crazy, finishing a month's worth of content in just a few days, then he can just enjoy watching for the next few days.]

[And this time, we really have to go live! The champion skins are out, so we have to promote them on stream, right?]

You know what I mean.

[Are we going to easily reach the top of Hanbok again?]

Ming Jing looked at the comments and was somewhat surprised.

So you all know so much?
"We'll be broadcasting until the early hours tonight, so let's buy whatever we need, like instant noodles, and get ready for a midnight snack, guys."

Ming Jing said cheerfully, "I'll be streaming every day for the next few days, so you can see me every day, right? I'm going to aim for number one on the Korean server."

At this moment, the barrage was filled with question marks and disbelief. Ming Jing looked at the barrage rhythm that he had personally set up, and happily opened the Korean server client to enter ranked mode.

Although Mingjing reached the top of the Korean server rankings this year, his current ranking is not actually that high, and he has dropped quite a bit.

The main problem is that in the Korean server, once you reach the top ranks, the ranked time increases significantly, with the number one player's ranked time starting at twenty minutes. Mingjing simply doesn't have that kind of patience.

In addition, this playoffs started from the first round, with six best-of-five series played in half a month, making the schedule quite intensive, so Mingjing had even less time to climb the ranks.

Moreover, Ming Jing really wasn't interested in ranked matches. These low-quality games didn't serve as much training, and he only played them during breaks to maintain his skills.

Since there are no practice matches this week, Mingjing should try to climb back to the top.

As expected, Ming Jing began working like crazy over the next few days.

Every day, I dawdle for a while after getting up, have lunch, and then start broadcasting, continuing until the early hours of the morning, with live streaming sessions starting at ten hours!

Moreover, during the more than ten hours of live streaming, Ming Jing's popularity remained at the top of the entire site!

This caused a lot of trouble for other streamers on the same platform.

How are we supposed to make money if you broadcast for so long?
The most upset person must be Doinb, the top streamer on Douyu. He was already annoyed that he didn't make it to the World Championship, and he was hoping to make a living through streaming. But his popularity was stolen by Mingjing, and he couldn't earn any money.

Ming Jing would naturally ignore these platform competitions, because none of them could compete with him.

He continued to focus solely on scoring points.

This climb to the top was still going very smoothly. In just over a week, Mingjing's ranking climbed all the way up from the thirties to the top spot.

This speed at which he scored points was something even Ming Jing himself hadn't anticipated.

Is it really that easy to get to the top of the Korean server now?

Seeing that the ranked game time was getting longer again, he got tired of climbing the ranks and simply started playing ranked games with his EDG teammates.

With the update to the World Championship version, the championship skins have also been officially released.

The skin design fits the style of EDG Silver Dragon Knight very well. It doesn't look as flashy as JDG's skin last year, but it's definitely not bad either.

However, with the World Championship approaching, LPL didn't have time to launch the championship skin event, but that didn't stop EDG from playing a team match to promote the event.

Coincidentally, Doinb, who is on the same platform, is also playing ranked games with others.

Doinb plays ranked games with retired players like Xiangguo, Smlz, and Yuyanjia, which is a major highlight of his streams.

In contrast, Mingjing's team is EDG, the champion team.
The difference is obvious
The two sides shouldn't have met, since Mingjing's team was newly formed and the players' agility levels weren't high.

However, as Mingjing's team continued their winning streak for several days, the opponents they were matched with became increasingly formidable. Soon, on the last day before the team was to close out, they finally encountered Doinb's high-scoring team.

The result is self-evident.

Doinb's toy car was smashed to pieces, completely unable to fight back.

If it weren't for the comments reminding him, Mingjing wouldn't have known that this was Doinb's team, and he didn't feel the intensity at all.

After this match, Doinb's live stream was filled with controversy again, with countless trolls making the chat a mess!

Doinb hadn't been making any money from streaming these past few days, and now he's been humiliated like this. In a fit of anger, he simply stopped streaming and took a break until the World Championship starts.

But just as he took leave, EDG's holiday ended, and Mingjing also announced a hiatus from broadcasting to return to training.

This really put Doinb in a difficult position.

Damn it, you asked for leave too early!
(End of this chapter)