Mingkai, if you're this cowardly, you should just go home and raise pigs.

This is the first Rift Rivals tournament organized by Riot Games, with participating regions including LPL, LCK, and LMS.

Each region's top 4 teams from the Spring Split will represent their region in the competition.

In the LPL, the teams are EDG, WE, RNG, and OMG!

LCK consists of SKT, KT, SSG, and MVP!

The LMS top four are FW, AHQ, JT, and M17!

After defeating RNG on July 2nd, EDG assembled its main force at noon on July 3rd and headed to the airport.

Apart from RNG, who arrived late, the players from WE and OMG were already waiting for them at the airport.

WE are all familiar faces, and RNG also just finished their match yesterday.

The OMG team's top laner is Xiyang, jungler is Jiekou, mid laner is Lengshao, ADC is SMLZ, and support is Xiaowu.

Since everyone was a professional player, they quickly became acquainted after chatting for a few minutes.

After exchanging greetings, everyone boarded the plane together and headed to the provincial island.

Shanghai is not far from the island, and we arrived at the island smoothly in the afternoon.

After getting off the plane, everyone took a bus arranged by the event organizers to the hotel to rest.

Not only are the LPL teams staying here, but the teams from all four LCK teams are also staying at the same hotel.

After EDG put down their belongings, the group went to the hotel lobby.

Mingkai, Meiko, and the others had already arranged to meet Deft and Fatty in the hotel lobby to catch up.

Pawn and Deft, the former Korean duo from EDG, returned to the LCK and formed a super team with Smeb, the world's best top laner comparable to Uzi, Cj8, along with Mata and Score.

Their KT team lost to SKT in the LCK Spring Finals, so they failed to make it to MSI.

This time, we've arrived at the Intercontinental Championship.

After waiting in the lobby for a while, Pawn and Deft finally appeared from the elevator.

Hello!

"Hi!"

Mingkai and Meiko were the first to go up to them; they had a very good relationship with the former EDG Korean duo.

However, the two sides did not communicate in Chinese, but in broken English, and even Abu did so.

After exchanging brief pleasantries, everyone headed to the hotel's dining area together.

For such large-scale events, the organizing committee will arrange a dining area with food that caters to the tastes of different countries.

Everyone else was enthusiastically chatting with the former EDG Korean duo, but Zhou Hanyang didn't seem to care much and just played on his phone by himself.

Abu noticed Zhou Hanyang's unusual behavior immediately and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

"No!" Zhou Hanyang shook his head with a smile: "I just didn't expect... that they were actually communicating in English."

"..." Abu was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. He really hadn't expected Zhou Hanyang to be concerned about this. After a long while, he asked, "Can't we communicate in English?"

"Absolutely not!" Zhou Hanyang said decisively. "To put it nicely, they are arrogant; to put it bluntly, they never thought about winning the LPL championship."

"Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?" Abu frowned slightly.

“Remember why I told you about bringing Iboy? Esports is all about every second counts.” Zhou Hanyang looked directly at Abu: “Even if they don’t speak fluently, at least they shouldn’t have any trouble understanding, right?”

"..." Upon hearing Zhou Hanyang's words, Abu showed a thoughtful expression.

"Let me put it this way... never mind! I can even bet with you!" Zhou Hanyang said confidently.

"The team needs at least one Korean player who is fluent in Chinese, or even another Korean player who can understand Chinese without any problems, in order to have a chance of winning the championship. Otherwise, you can forget about winning the championship!"

Which of the three teams that won the championship in later generations didn't have Korean players who were fluent in Chinese?

In some respects, these Korean players speak Chinese even more clearly and fluently than some of the top domestic mid-laners, such as Cj8.

Doinb is the founder of the Mayan culture, which is not mentioned here.

Rookie, not to mention, sprayed the White Crescent away from TES during a match.

In the conference room, in front of everyone, he sprayed white crescent-shaped spray in Chinese for a full ten minutes or so, and Guo Hao couldn't stop him.

Scout has been quite fluent in Chinese since Season 8.

Viper, who has only been in the LPL for a year, is already able to command his teammates in Chinese during team fights.

Gong Zige also speaks fluent Chinese.

TheShy has the worst Chinese.

Even after TheShy retired, a single Old Man Cup gave him a "sudden enlightenment," leading him to start streaming in Chinese.

This is enough to show that TheShy already has a strong foundation in Chinese; otherwise, it would be impossible for him to learn Chinese in just the time it takes to play in the Old Man Cup.

Learning Chinese is arguably a fundamental requirement for South Korean players to win the championship.

Deft and Pawn, the Korean duo, played for EDG for two years and still couldn't understand Chinese.

It's understandable that they didn't achieve much.

“Then in our team…” Abu looked at Scout and Zet, his gaze settling on them.

"Did you see me speak anything other than Chinese with them?" Zhou Hanyang said seriously, "No! I always speak Chinese. If they don't understand, I just fill in."

“No wonder…” Abu nodded slightly: “I was wondering why Li Ruican’s Chinese has improved so much lately? But you and Mingkai are both from Wujiang City, how come you taught Li Ruican to speak with such a strong Xinjiang accent?”

"Then I don't know about that." Zhou Hanyang immediately spread his hands, making the classic bear-like shrug.

After finishing their meal, both parties went back to rest.

The players are mostly playing ranked games to maintain their skills.

Today is July 3rd, and the competition will officially start on July 6th, so the time left for everyone is actually very limited.

The coaching staffs of the four LPL teams have begun to share their understanding of the current version of the game!

However, there were significant differences in the interpretations of the four teams' coaching staffs regarding the version of the game.

Their disagreements were so unresolved that they had to call Zhou Hanyang over.

Faced with inquiries from the four coaching teams, Zhou Hanyang, who was initially confused, quickly understood what was going on.

The reason why there are such big differences in the LPL coaching staff's understanding of the version is mainly due to him.

Simply put, under Nofe's subtle guidance, EDG's coach has developed a far superior understanding of the game's meta compared to others.

Redmi, on the other hand, is barely keeping up with EDG's understanding of the game's meta.

RNG's Feng Ge and OMG's coach Ming Zhe are still using the old LPL methods.

To give a simple example, their mid laner even brings a healing item when playing matches.

This version of healing is indeed very strong, but in lane-swapping configurations, healing isn't even worthy of carrying the shoes of teleportation.

If you can't win in the mid lane, you can call for help from the jungler and support, but if you don't have Teleport in the late game, you're helpless.

This shows that OMG coach Mingzhe and RNG coach Fengge simply didn't understand the fundamental logic of operations.

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