Chapter 275: The South Korean Roster and the Pressed List! Reverse-Subsidized Training?

The next morning, Ye Bo's itinerary changed unexpectedly, and he diverted to Hangzhou first.

He Youjun, Ming Kai, and others met him at the airport, then brought Ye Bo along to the training site at the "Asian Games Village."

As the only confirmed starter, and the candidate recommended by both the V5 and EDG teams to serve as the {League of Legends Project - Team Captain}, Ye Bo was invited to participate in today's "internal meeting" in advance.

And this was Ye Bo's first glimpse of the "Asian Games Village," the future training site.

With three or four months left until the main tournament in September, training for many events had not yet begun, so the Asian Games Village was not very lively.

Ye Bo was curious the whole way, occasionally seeing familiar faces of athletes he often saw on television; this experience of breaking the fourth wall was very novel.

Because of this, he seemed not to notice that Ming Kai and He Youjun beside him were both somewhat nervous.

Arriving at the {League of Legends} project zone, the person in charge from the General Administration of Sport and the entire coaching staff had already arrived.

He Youjun skillfully introduced Ye Bo to them: "Leader, this is the captain unanimously recommended by our entire coaching staff; he is the core of our V5 team!"

Ming Kai was not as smooth as him, but he immediately followed up: "He is also the core of our EDG team that won the championship last year. You can completely trust his professionalism."

This person in charge from the General Administration of Sport was also the one who decided on Ye Bo on the spot after watching the MSI tournament.

Being able to make such a move clearly meant he understood the game, and he might even be 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.

It was Ye Bo's first time attending such a formal meeting, and he actually didn't know why he had to come along today.

However, 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 held great historical significance.

Compared to last time, the biggest difference was the three words: "The Host"!

Being the host meant there was a huge "room for maneuver."

For example, the selection of the game version, the definition of rules such as substitute regulations, and even the order and rotation of the draw for opponents.

Just like the selection of the tournament version, Zhu Kai loudly voiced his suggestion: "Let's choose the version from our MSI for the tournament version. After all, our region's players won the championship! We are very familiar with it!"

The Asian Games main tournament would not start until September 24th, while the normal end date for the Summer Split was August 5th.

MSI was a tournament in May, and it used the version from April!

According to conventional logic, one would certainly not choose a game version from half a year ago to play.

But this is what is called "home-field advantage"!

This really doesn't count as "shady dealings"; all countries' home-field matches come with this natural advantage. It is an accepted fact, and it has long been common in traditional sports.

And if one must mention the disadvantage of hosting at home—that is: "Victory is the only option, defeat is not allowed!"

After all.

Regardless of whether you have made micro-adjustments or not, everyone will assume that you have an advantage at home, even if you don't.

If you still can't win under these conditions, then you are a hopeless failure!

You might even be nailed to the pillar of shame!

The topics discussed today, besides finalizing the main roster, also included the head coach quota and the schedule for the LPL Summer Split.

But this "main roster" was...

Also a "cake-cutting meeting."

The top-ranked teams all showed their prowess; after all, even just getting on the candidate list meant one could get a {national team uniform} for a group photo, and one could add a line to their resume about having been on the Asian Games training list.

In the end, even if one only became a substitute, that was still a great honor!

A classic case was Meiko.

In the 2018 Jakarta Games, Meiko accompanied the team as Ming's substitute, and in fact, he only appeared in two matches throughout the whole tournament, with a record of one win and one loss—the opponent in the victory was the Kazakhstan representative team, which had zero wins and all losses.

But this did not affect him becoming a "Grand Slam" candidate at all!

So even for the already decided mid-laner position, the competition for the substitute spot was equally fierce.

And on the large screen in the conference room, the candidates for each position were being displayed.

Top: Flandre, 369, Bin, Ale, Breathe

Jungle: Jiejie, Xun, Tian, Wei, Weiwei

Mid: (Ye Bo), 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—even though many of the IDs on it only deserved the label of "roadside" in the eyes of the audience.

But it cannot be denied 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, even Uzi is on the candidate list? I thought it hadn't been officially announced yet."

"We officially announced Uzi's entry into the team last night; it was even suppressed on the trending list by news from the LCK," Ming Kai asked with slight confusion: "Didn't you see the news last night?"

"Uh, I was a bit busy last night~"

Ye Bo had booked the earliest flight as soon as he woke up and saw the news; he had even taken time to stay in the pot on the way and hadn't had time to check his phone until now.

After being told this, he curiously took out his phone under the table.

Opening Hupu, he indeed saw a pinned trending news headline with an explosive number of comments: "How to evaluate the LCK representative team's official announcement of their 2023 Asian Games roster?"

Ye Bo hadn't even had time to wonder why the LCK had announced their roster so early.

Seeing the content of the news, he finally understood why everyone's expressions were a bit "strange" when he walked in.

【South Korean Representative Team Roster】

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 when he saw this roster.

He naturally knew that Beryl was selected and Deft went back to participate in the selection.

But he never expected.

That Kanavi and Ruler, these two players in the LPL, could actually break out from the fiercely competitive LCK and become the final starters!

Not to mention the jungle position; behind them were Canyon, Peanut, Oner, and last year's runner-up, the young player P.

Not to mention the ADC position, where Gumayusi performed well at MSI; at the very least, there was also Viper, who specifically returned to the LCK for the Asian Games spot—yet he didn't even get a substitute spot!

It was completely outrageous!

And Faker actually became Chovy's substitute.

The comment section was still very lively even now.

【Are you serious? You chose 4 people who are in the LPL??】

【My husband is a total clown now. If I knew I could still be chosen while in an outside region, I wouldn't have come back! My EDG triple crown!!!】

【Viper definitely wants to stab Chovy. I came back and carried like crazy, only for you to throw three games and cause me to go home, and in the end, you went to the Asian Games and I didn't!?】

【The person in charge of the KR team is a total jerk. Can't you see it? It's purely to disgust us! Anyway, since they decided on Ruler as a substitute, they deliberately chose a V5 player. They'd rather disgust their own players just to disgust you! They just want to break up the team!】

【It's over, brothers. Four of the MSI champion and runner-up players are there! Is the advantage really not with us now?】

Besides the selection that completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

Some people also noticed another key point below.

【Has no one noticed how scary the opposing coaching staff is? Daeny and Homme were both called back. We've already lost half the game at the start!】

【It's over. Looking at the IDs of the coaching staff we can assemble: Zhu Kai, BSYY, Maokai, WarHorse, Sask.】

【Don't be afraid! As long as the Asian Games don't provide food during the tournament, our domestic coaches are absolutely invincible! I'd like to ask those Korean coaches, do they know how to use the Inflation Divine Scroll? Do they know which takeout is the best?】

【Unfortunately, the guy above just hit the nail on the head. The Asian Games don't allow takeout, so the only use for domestic coaches is gone! We are completely finished!】

【It's okay, our region still has an off-site coach. I can only say, believe for now.】

The comments below were still discussing that, in fact, there were still capable people among the "domestic coaches."

For example, Tabe.

It's just a pity that Tabe needed to serve as the head coach of the {China Hong Kong Representative Team}—not to mention that even if he really came, Tabe would likely not be able to compete with the three championship coaches Zhu Kai, Maokai, and WarHorse, so he simply didn't come to participate at all.

Mike Abu muttered with a troubled look: "I didn't expect the LCK to move so fast. We haven't even finalized the candidate list, and they have already made the final decision and announced it, without even giving us time to communicate with the players."

But in fact, when everyone thought about it carefully, it was completely reasonable.

The LCK region was beaten so miserably at MSI, and it was the second-to-last region to go home, right after North America.

It was a "total annihilation" in the true sense!

Even if the players from Gen. , T1, or HLE performed extremely well in the upcoming LCK Summer Split, so what?

Rather than believing in league performance, it is better to believe in the results of the MSI tournament!

So they simply made the final decision.

They called back all the players who could be drawn from the two championship teams to help!

The person in charge from the General Administration of Sport stated the key point of this meeting: "I believe everyone knows that the South Korean side is coming aggressively for this Asian Games."

"We absolutely cannot lose this time. However, looking at the current situation, I'm afraid half of our LPL's strongest combat power has already gone back, right?"

"So, I think the list everyone submitted last time might need to be re-evaluated."

"Anyway, since the opposing list is out, we don't need to be in a hurry with our list."