Chapter 114 The battle for the top list [big chapter](1/2)
CAG, also known as Changan E-sports Club.
The club was founded in Anxi in 1999 and is one of the earliest e-sports clubs in China.
This club was not very famous at first, until 2005, when team member Li Hua won the WCG world championship.
This is the first world champion in the history of Chinese e-sports.
But this is not the true pinnacle of Changan Esports Club.
In 2007, Changan Esports player Zero won the world championship of StarCraft as a god on WCG.
The identity used to win the championship was the gods, so since then, fans in the e-sports circle called him Zero God.
In short, he is also the originator of various gods in the e-sports circle since then.
Since the founding of WCG in the Millennium, South Korea has never failed in StarCraft, and they have dominated from 2000 to 2007.
But in this year, Zero God broke the myth of undefeated in the Korean interstellar world.
Although after 2007, South Korea once again held the interstellar championship firmly in its hands.
But no matter what, this year, the interstellar champion belongs to China.
From the beginning of the WCG of the Millennium to the end of the WCG in 2011, South Korea won 10 championships.
And the only time I lost was to lose to the Chinese player, 0 from CAG.
Li Hua, Zero God, is the only two superstars in the prehistoric period of China's e-sports.
They all come from this e-sports club called Chang'an.
In 2003, e-sports officially became China's 99th sports event, but the China E-sports Alliance, abbreviated as (ACE), was only truly established in 2012, and it was ten years later than the KeSpa in South Korea.
KeSpa is the abbreviation of the Korean Professional E-sports Association. It is an organization established in Korea to manage e-sports, responsible for more than 20 e-sports, including (StarCraft), (StarCraft 2), (DOTA2), (League of Legends) and other games.
It may be said that some people don’t understand KeSpa, but some people must have heard of the two TV stations owned by KeSPA.
They are OGN and MBC respectively.
Even though the Korean League of Legends Professional League has been changed from OGN to LCK, South Korea will hold KeSpa Cup every year.
The corresponding (ACE) to South Korea's KeSpa is the China E-sports Alliance.
As the hottest e-sports professional league in China today, LPL is a member of (ACE).
The league secretary-general of this league is Li Hua, the current boss of Changan E-sports Club.
The current Changan Esports Club is managed by Li Hua and Zero God.
The original boss sold the team to them as early as 2009.
In those years, the domestic e-sports industry was severely suppressed, and there was no new hot game and it was suitable for professional games. Many e-sports teams were forced to disband in those years. If Li Hua and Zero God had not taken over Chang'an, Chang'an would have also disbanded in 2009.
So when LOL was in the domestic beta, many e-sports clubs in China noticed the professional prospects of this game, so e-sports clubs such as CAG were also impatient to establish LOL branches as soon as possible.
At that time, the national server had not even officially launched, but there were already matches about League of Legends on WCG.
In the two years when the LOL Professional League was just starting, CAG was undoubtedly the hottest team at that time.
At the same time, CAG is also the best team in those years.
But since the establishment of LPL in 2013 and a large number of capitalists have seen the prospects of LPL settle in one after another, CAG, a club with several former professional players, has gradually declined due to insufficient capital and cannot attract celebrity players.
In this case, non-capital e-sports clubs in the league are difficult to survive in the LPL.
If the funds are not enough, it will be difficult for the team to achieve results. If the team does not have results, it will fall to the LSPL.
Therefore, many team owners packed up the club and sold the club to those capital bosses.
And CAG is the only non-capital e-sports team in the league that has persisted.
Facts have proved that Li Hua and his friends' persistence is meaningful. With the surge in LPL traffic in the past two years and capital has entered the second time, many businesses that cannot participate in LPL with teams have participated in the way of team cooperation. For example, this year's CAG, more than a dozen companies have sponsored it.
Because of this, Changan, which has improved funds this year, directly played all five starters and two substitutes at the beginning of this year.
CAG, from team members to team leaders to coaches, has implemented bottom-to-top reforms.
This year's League of Legends branch is also managed by Li Hua himself.
Li Hua handed over all other branches to Zero God, and he will personally manage and lead this team this year.
This year, there is only one goal for CAG, to score S10!
Since S3, CAG has never been exposed to the floor of the LPL finals again, so Li Hua knew that CAG wanted to enter the World Championship, this year was the only opportunity, because after this year, if the World Championship is not in China, CAG will no longer have so many big brands to sponsor.
The reason why those sponsors spent so much money to sponsor CAG this year is that CAG can enter the World Championship this year and can appear on the S10 stage with their brand. In terms of contestants management and people's vision, CAG is professional.
The reason why it was buried in the past few years was because there was not enough funds.
CAG, who re-grouped after enough funds, did not perform well in this spring season, but it barely entered the playoffs, but this is much better than when he couldn't even enter the playoffs in previous years.
However, in this summer, CAG, who successfully completed the game, has never lost a single defeat so far.
In the current points ranking, CAG has surpassed Blue Ocean and TE and ranked first.
Just yesterday, CAG easily crushed TE with a record of 2-0.
If CAG can defeat the blue ocean again today, CAG in the summer season will become a strong contender in the World Championship.
Many people say that CAG has always been a pseudo-strong team, but after defeating TE and Blue Ocean one after another, is this still a pseudo-strong team?
In the summer season, many teams began to show their fangs after a season of the spring season.
CAG is the first one.
Su Yu and the others arrived at Anxi at 4:30, and after that, they rushed to CAG's home court.
Because this game is also a battle for the top points in the summer season, the official temporarily asked the players on both sides to shoot an advertisement.
The so-called advertising is just a few words that are inserted in the pre-match game.
These words are often filmed more and then interspersed according to the situation in the field.
After all, the situation on the court was unexpected. Maybe it was finished in two games, and maybe three games were necessary.
Blue Ocean and CAG are both undefeated. The reason why they rank second now is because they play one game less than CAG.
This game determines who can temporarily rank first. If Blue Ocean wins CAG, then Blue Ocean will become the real number one.
Because as long as Blue Ocean wins CAG, the score will be widened with CAG and TE.
In addition to the following games, Blue Ocean is not facing strong opponents, and Blue Ocean can maintain the first place for at least half a month.
Temporary first is also an honor.
For Blue Ocean, which has been with people for the past few years, they still hope to defeat CAG in this key game.
For this reason, when the competition was about to begin at 7 o'clock, Xu Qing also rushed over from Shangling.
When Xu Qing personally supervised the battle in the Blue Ocean backstage, Li Hua also appeared in the CAG backstage.
In the first battle for the first place, whoever wins will ensure that he can firmly sit at the top of the list in the next half month.
Moreover, for both teams, as long as they win the other side, they will undoubtedly be more confident in the subsequent playoffs.
Both teams have never entered the World Championship, but this summer season started so well, so they naturally want to continue to extend this good start. Even if they can't keep the first place, winning one more game will definitely be more beneficial for the subsequent playoffs.
At 7:00 pm on June 22, the first BP of Blue Ocean against Chang'an officially began.
The first game Changan is in the blue square, and the blue sea is in the red square.
Changan is a team that focuses on the middle and upper jungle. Li Hua also knows that these versions of the middle and upper jungle are the positions that determine the direction of the team, so when transferring, they basically spent money on the middle and upper jungle. Obviously, judging from the results of these summer games, Li Hua's selection is very good.
The three positions of Changan Nakamoto have been well-done in the summer season, and even TE's Ukamoto is tortured by them.
Among these three positions, Changan's mid laner savior is undoubtedly the key.
Nakamoto is the key to these versions, and Nakamoto is the most critical point among them.
Savior is the absolute core of this new CAG.
This person is called Chang'an's second jungler, which means that this person is an extremely good at wandering player.
Whether it is up and down or in the jungle area, as long as he finds an opportunity, he will find an opportunity to support him.
Savior turned out to be SKA's substitute mid laner, that is, Xiushan's substitute, and SKA's discovery and training to replace Xiushan.
This person is only 17 years old this year and has been in SKA for three years as a trainee.
Savior became the first in the Korean server at the age of 14. At that time, people from both China and South Korea sent him an invitation. In the end, this person entered SKA as a trainee. The reason why he went to SKA was because his idol Xiushan was in this team.
After the savior reached 17 years old and was able to enter the competition stage, Li Hua used a lot of money to rent SKA for a year.
Because Xiushan is here, Savior cannot start at SKA. In addition, Changan has a lot of loan fees, and he can go directly to the LPL to practice for one year when he goes to CAG. SKA finally agreed to this decision. So Savior represented CAG on the LPL stage at the beginning of this year.
This person not only supports hard, but also plays extremely well in singles. When he first came to CAG, he became famous for his singles and suppression. Although CAG is not very high in the spring season, Savior singles in all LPL mid lanes this year. He is also the singles and regular season MVP in this spring season. Basically, CAG won the games he C.
But League of Legends is not a one-person game, it is useless just a one-person C.
The CAG at the beginning was not good.
In the second half of the spring season, in order to win, Savior began to change his style, and he began to go from playing singles to mainly wandering.
Moreover, because of its superb technology and strong operation, it can often connect the three positions of up and down with its own strength to bring them all together.
To be continued...