Chapter 43: The Demacia Cup! (Seeking Recommendations)

  At dinner time, the LCD team members were sitting around the table eating hastily.

  The dishes on the table were very rich, although they were all just home-cooked dishes, but the dishes were not simple at all. There was a fragrant farmhouse stir-fry meat, a sweet and sour sugar vinegar ribs, and Chen Cheng's favorite dish, braised eggplant in sauce. In total, there were six dishes and two soups, as well as orange juice and nutrient express drinks.

  It's a regular club, just in terms of food alone, it's not something those internet cafe teams can compare to. Chen Cheng had heard about the living conditions of those third-rate teams before, they didn't even have stable logistics personnel, every day was instant noodles and fast food, and they didn't even have their own training base, team members could only train in noisy internet cafes every day.

  This is the current development situation of the domestic e-sports circle, with a very obvious pyramid hierarchy. Except for a few powerful teams that can pull in investment and sponsorship to gain a stable training environment, most professional teams are still living a difficult life.

  Compared with others, LCD club is already a fat man among thin men!

  After dinner, just as the team members were all leaning lazily back in their chairs, a man with a mature appearance wearing a deep blue T-shirt and glasses appeared before Chen Cheng and the others! This was their leader Liu Bing, who together with Coach Bai Yueyue formed a perfect combination of literary and military talents. He was mainly responsible for taking care of the team members' daily lives and arranging their competition schedules. He was a man of his word and had a quick temper.

  "What's wrong, Liu Ge? Isn't the summer tournament still several days away?" Seeing Liu Bing's energetic appearance, Pi Ye and other old team members immediately understood that under normal circumstances, Liu Bing's arrival meant that the competition schedule was approaching.

  Hino Aya guessed it right, there is indeed a match!

  "It's not the LPL league, but it's also a very familiar cup, the Demacia Cup. It was held once last year, and this is the second one. You should all have heard of it!" Liu Bing said, pulling out a printed notice from his schedule. "Notice: The 2nd Demacia Cup League of Legends Professional Championship, hosted by Tencent Games and featuring top domestic professional teams, will officially start on June 9th. This time, the Demacia Cup will invite 8 LPL teams, 16 LSPL teams, and 4 non-league system professional teams to compete for the championship..."

  Liu Bing read on, paying attention to the performance of each team member. Except for Taobao Fist that guy who didn't know why he was in a sour mood all day like a pickled eggplant, the other team members were all listening to him seriously.

  "It was this tournament, I remember last year we participated and only made it to the top 8 where we encountered ONG who was on a roll at that time, and then got eliminated with a score of 2-0!" Hifumi recalled, after several major roster changes, he is the only old member in the team who has played in the first Demacia Cup.

  After several consecutive major changes, the current LCD team is no longer a third-rate team that anyone can bully!

  "It's already the 9th today, when is our team's match?" Chen Cheng asked. He had been with the LCD club for more than half a month and had played many practice matches, but this was his first time facing an official match, and he couldn't help feeling eager to try it out.

  Professional players, no matter how they perform in peacetime, can only prove their worth on the battlefield!

  "10th, which is tomorrow!" Liu Bing said. "The time seems to be a bit rushed, but don't worry, this cup uses a knockout system, and before entering the top 8 competition, all matches will be held online, so we still have plenty of time to respond to tomorrow's match!"

  So-called online games refer to competitions held within virtual local area networks, that is, remote competitions through the network. In simple terms, two teams can compete remotely through servers and platforms without being in the same location, as opposed to offline games!

  That is to say, Chen Cheng and others don't need to go out, they can compete with other teams in the base!

  In the current domestic competition, except for LPL and LSPL, which are both offline matches, all other events are mostly online matches in the early stages to save time and effort. Only in the later stages of the finals will they be decided through offline matches!

  After all, offline competitions require a lot of money and effort, and for many organizers, the venue alone is a huge problem. Online competitions are more convenient and efficient!

  Just as everyone was discussing tomorrow's match, White Moon suddenly slapped his forehead and remembered something: "Right, I almost forgot to remind you all that the national server competition client was updated to the latest version yesterday, so be sure to take note!"

  As everyone has been training on the Korean server recently and rarely plays on the Chinese server, White Moonlight thinks it's necessary to remind you.

  "Latest version? The one on the Bloom's shelf?" Pino Akane's eyes lit up instantly. As a professional assistant player, he naturally understood how powerful this new hero was in a match!

  Not only him, but Chen Cheng also played a few games with the new hero that just came out in the Korean server recently. Needless to say, he is absolutely the strongest support right now! Not only does he have a lot of health, he can block skills and his ultimate is a crowd control, especially his passive is overpowered, stacking 4 times can trigger a 1.75 second stun, paired with Obama's bottom lane combo is simply a BUG-level existence!

  "Yes, but you can't just focus on Blom, the changes in this version are unprecedented, not only have many heroes been weakened or strengthened, but also includes adjustments to accessories and small dragons, let's have a meeting later to prepare for tomorrow's match!" White Moon said seriously.

  It is often said that one generation has its own version, and one generation has its own gods. In low-end games, this concept may not be obvious enough, but in formal competitions, there are too many examples of this!

  All team members nodded in unison. Although they had all experienced these changes in the Korean server, they hadn't systematically dealt with and recognized them, so it was still necessary to hold a small meeting for everyone to discuss tactics.

  "By the way, I almost forgot to tell you that tomorrow's match will be live broadcast on the TJA platform, and at that time, countless players will watch this match online. Please take it seriously! Team leader Liu Bing cheered for the team members. "At the same time, this is also the first official match of our LCD team in the past two months. I hope you can use your strength to crush your opponents tomorrow and win the match with ease, paving the way for the summer tournament a few days later. Can you do it?"

  "Alright!" The restaurant was suddenly filled with the team members' high morale voices.

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  P.S. The second update I promised, it's finally here after struggling to write 2000 words until now at 2am. Can only post it first to keep my reputation, please don't mind, thank you~~~