Chapter 275: Korean list and the pressed list! Paying to train soldiers?
The next morning, Ye Bo's itinerary changed unexpectedly, and he detoured to Hangzhou first.
He Youjun and Ming Kai and others picked him up, and then took Ye Bo to the training location of the "Asian Games Village."
As the only confirmed starter, and also the candidate recommended by both V5 and EDG teams to serve as {League of Legends Project - Captain}, Ye Bo would participate in today's "internal meeting" in advance.
And this was also Ye Bo's first glimpse of the "Asian Games Village," the future training location.
There were still three or four months until the main tournament in September, and the training camps for many projects had not yet started, so the Asian Games Village was not very lively.
Ye Bo was very curious all the way, occasionally seeing some familiar athlete faces often seen on TV; this wall-breaking experience was very novel.
And because of this, he didn't seem to notice that Ming Kai and He Youjun next to him were a bit nervous.
Arriving at the {League of Legends} project partition, the person in charge of the General Administration of Sport and a group of coaching staff had already arrived.
He Youjun skillfully introduced Ye Bo to the other party: "Leader, this is the captain recommended by all our coaching staff; he is the core of our V5 team!"
Ming Kai was not as skillful as him, but he also immediately followed: "He is also the core of our EDG's championship last year; in terms of professionalism, you can completely trust him."
This person in charge from the General Administration of Sport was also the one who decided on Ye Bo on-site after watching the MSI match before.
Being able to make such a move clearly meant he could understand the game, and was very likely even a "fan" conquered by Ye Bo's performance on the field; at this moment, the look in his eyes when greeting Ye Bo was full of appreciation.
Ye Bo was participating in such a formal meeting for the first time, and actually didn't know why he had to come over today...
But there were still some gains.
Compared to the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, this Asian Games was hosted by China, and it was the first time it was a medal event in the main tournament, which had major historical significance.
Compared to the last time, the biggest difference was the three words "Host"!
Being the host meant that the "operable space" was extremely large.
For example, the selection of the tournament version, the definition of rules such as substitute regulations, and even the order of the draw for opponents...
Just like the selection of the tournament version, Zhu Kai loudly expressed his suggestion: "The tournament version should be the version of our MSI; after all, our regional players won the championship! Very familiar!"
The Asian Games main tournament would not start until September 24th, and the normal end time of the Summer Split was August 5th.
MSI was a match in May, and it still used the version from April!
According to conventional logic, it would certainly not choose a tournament version from half a year ago to play.
But this was what was called the "Home Court Advantage"!
This really wasn't any "black curtain"; all countries' home games would come with this natural advantage, which was a defaulted thing, and traditional sports projects had long been common.
And if you must say the disadvantage of hosting at home — that was "Only allowed to win, not allowed to lose!"
After all.
No matter whether you have fine-tuned it or not, everyone will default to you having an advantage at home, even if you don't.
If you still can't win this, then it's a dead dish that can't be washed!
It's even the kind that will be nailed to the pillar of shame!
And the topics discussed today, besides the finalization of the roster, were also the quota for the head coach and the schedule arrangement for the LPL Summer Split.
It's just this "Roster."
It was also a "Cake Cutting Conference."
The top-ranked teams each showed their magical powers; after all, even just entering the candidate list could get a "national flag suit" for a group photo, and a line could be added to the resume that they had entered the Asian Games training list.
In the end, even if it was just being a substitute, it was a great honor!
A classic case was Meiko.
In 2018, Jakarta Meiko was with the team as Ming's substitute, and actually only appeared in two matches throughout the whole process, with a record of one win and one loss — the opponent in the winning game was the Kazakhstan representative team with 0 wins and all losses.
But this didn't affect him becoming a "Grand Slam" candidate at all!
So even for the confirmed mid lane candidate, the competition for the substitute position was also incomparably fierce.
And on the big screen in the conference room, the candidates for each position were also being displayed.
Top: Flandre, 369, Bin, Ale, Breathe
Jungle: Barrier, Xun, Tian, Wei, Weiwei
Mid: (Ye△), Knight, Yagao, Xiaohu, Angel
ADC: JackeyLove, Elk, Gala, Light, Uzi
Support: Meiko, Missing, ON, Crisp, Ming
This list could absolutely be said to have gathered all the top players in the LPL at the moment — although there were many IDs among them that only deserved the word "roadside" in the eyes of the audience.
But it was undeniable that this was the best batch of candidates in the league at present.
Ye Bo leaned over and whispered curiously to Ming Kai: "Factory Manager, Ah Uzi are all on the candidate list, it hasn't been officially announced yet."
"We officially announced Uzi joining the team last night, and it wasn't suppressed by the news from LCK," Ming Kai asked with some confusion: "Didn't you brush up on the news last night?"
"Uh, a bit busy last night~"
Ye Bo woke up and saw the news, so he hurriedly booked the nearest flight, and even found time to stay in the pot on the way, and hadn't had time to brush his phone until now.
After the other party said this, he curiously took out his phone under the table.
Opening Hupu, he really saw a pinned hot news headline with an explosive number of comments: "How to evaluate the Korean representative team officially announcing the 2023 Asian Games participation roster?"
Ye Bo hadn't had time to wonder why the LCK side announced the roster so early.
Seeing the content of the news, he finally knew why everyone's expressions were a bit "strange" when they came in.
【Korean Representative Team Expedition List】
Top: Zeus
Jungle: Kanavi
Mid: Chovy, (Substitute: Faker)
ADC: Ruler, (Substitute: Deft)
Support: BeryL
Head Coach: Kkoma, Coaching Staff: Daeny, Homme, Kim
Even Ye Bo's eyes widened after seeing this list.
BeryL was selected, Deft went back to participate in the selection, he naturally knew all these.
But he never expected.
Kanavi and Ruler, these two players in the LPL, were actually able to kill their way out from the incomparably fierce LCK side and become the final starters!
Not to mention the jungle position; behind that were Canyon, Peanut, Oner, and last year's runner-up P-little-general...
Not to mention the AD position, let alone Gumayusi who performed okay at MSI, at least there was also Viper who specifically returned to LCK for the Asian Games quota — as a result, he didn't even get a substitute quota!
It was completely outrageous!
And Faker actually became Chovy's substitute...
The comment section was still very lively until now.
【Serious? Selected 4 in LPL??】
【Husband is purely a clown now; if I had known I could choose someone in an outside league, I wouldn't have come back! My EDG three championships!!!】
【Viper definitely wants to give Da Chao a knife; I came back and fought hard to C, but you madly filial three games and harmed me to go home, and in the end you went to the Asian Games and I didn't!?】
【KR's person in charge is purely born; can't you see it? It's simply to disgust us! Anyway, determining Ruler as a substitute is deliberately choosing a V5 one, not hesitating to disgust your own players to disgust you! It's just to dismantle the team!】
【It's broken, brothers; four of the MSI champion and runner-up are all here! Is the advantage really not with me now?】
Except for the selection that was completely beyond everyone's expectations.
Some people also noticed another key point below.
【No one noticed how scary the coaching staff on the opposite side is? Daeny and Homme were all called back; this opening is already half lost!】
【It's broken, looking at our coaching staff IDs that can be formed: Zhu Kai, BSYY, Maokai, Warhorse, Sask】
【Don't be afraid! As long as the Asian Games don't provide food during the match, then these domestic coaches of ours are absolutely invincible! I just want to ask those Korean coaches, do they know how to use the expansion scroll? Do they know what takeout is the best to eat!】
【It's a pity that this brother upstairs just hit the point; the Asian Games don't allow takeout, so the only role of domestic coaches is gone! Completely finished!】
【It's okay, our region still has an off-field coach; I can only say believe first】
The comments below were still discussing that actually "domestic coaches" still had capable people.
For example, Tabe.
It's just a pity that Tabe needed to serve as the head coach of {China Hong Kong Representative Team} — not to mention even if he really came, Tabe probably wouldn't be able to compete with the three championship coaches Zhu Kai, Maokai, and Warhorse, so he didn't come to participate at all.
Coach Abu showed a troubled expression and muttered: "I didn't expect the LCK side to move so fast; we haven't even determined the candidate list, and they actually made a decision and announced it directly, without giving us time to communicate with the players..."
But in fact, everyone thought about it carefully, and it was completely reasonable.
The LCK region was beaten so miserably at MSI, and was even the second-to-last region to go home in its entirety, following North America.
It was "wiped out" in the true sense!
Even if the players from GEN, T1, or HLE perform extremely well in the upcoming LCK Summer Split, so what?
Rather than believing in league performance, it's better to believe in the results of this MSI tournament!
Simply make a decision directly.
Call back all the players who can be transferred from the two championship teams to help!
The person in charge of the General Administration of Sport stated the key point of this meeting: "I believe everyone also knows that the Korean side is coming aggressively this time for the Asian Games."
"This arrangement must not be lost... but judging from the current situation, I'm afraid half of our LPL's strongest combat power has gone back, right?"
"So, I think the list everyone submitted last time might need to be assessed again."
"Anyway, since the opponent's list is out, our list doesn't need to be in a hurry." ===== CHAPTER 276 =====
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