"Road to Glory" Issue IV: The Story of FPX.Crisp: The Fire Tempered into Real Gold

Some players like to change ID very much. One of them is Liu Qingsong, an auxiliary player of the FPX team. He initially debuted with anime idiot Kuroko, to Lqs named after the team, to Pinus after playing in the LPL league, and now Crisp . Of course, if you include his earlier ID, it is a story that needs to be told in detail. Pinus means pine tree. The ancients said, "The only green pine is here today" may be the origin of Crisp's name. In the minds of modern people, pine trees often have the meaning of upright and fortitude and soaring.

What's interesting is that Crisp's entire gaming career is also very commensurate with his real name, and his loose vibe lies in his tenacity. Compared with Meiko's debut, which is the pinnacle, Ming's young adult, and Baolan's first challenge, Crisp's name appears to be very ordinary in LPL history. Among the members of the FPX team, the first thing everyone will think of is Doinb, followed by Lwx. As for who the supporting players are, they probably don't remember until the end. In a recent interview, Crisp said that he is more strict with himself. Once he has identified the goal, he must do it, and never give up if he can't!

恒阳帅哥艾迪西

Although Crisp won the first LPL championship this year, in fact he has already worked hard in the domestic League of Legends e-sports circle. After several years, the first time I heard the name Liu Qingsong was in 2014, when Ba Ge, Dong Xiaosa and others were still on the YY live broadcast platform. In the years when the domestic e-sports circle began to be hot, it was actually a good time to sell cakes and power leveling. Older generations of LPL audiences had heard Dong Xiaosa’s name, and at that time he had a good thigh name called "Hengyang No. "One Edison", there is another name is "Chitanda", at that time Crisp had already dominated the national service high segment.

Although he followed Dong Xiaosa on the list, Crisp still has the dream of a professional player. He was born in August 1998 and he was not yet 16 years old. The YY platform established the YSL League, and Crisp joined the Bounty JQK team to help the team win the second season of YSL and the YSL Classic Championship. He mainly played in the auxiliary position. In the LPL spring game that year, the OMG team threw an olive branch to him and invited Crisp to join the team as a substitute ADC player. Yes, when Crisp first debuted in the LPL league, he played the ADC position, and his partner was Norcia.

However, 2014 was a year when the dark forces gradually grew. Crisp was still relatively young at the time, and it was impossible to grab the starting position from the umbrella king. Although he had already reported his name during the LPL Spring Split, But I have been in the second team of OMG, and I usually follow the people on the YY platform. In September 2014, Crisp, who was 16 years old, officially went to the base of OMG Second Team to pursue his dream. After all, the treatment of JQK team was much better than that of OMG Second Team, and Crisp was in ADC and support position. They all played well, and they had great potential at the time.

However, my friend Bage believes that Crisp has no chance to compete for OMG’s starting opportunity. He suggested that Crisp start looking for a new club. At that time, Korean players have already come to China. Can get good results. After Dong Xiaosa made his first pot of gold in the League of Legends, he decided to mess with a team himself. Therefore, in July 2015, he established the TCS team-Greedy. The initial members included Lz and Hx. , Fenfen, Lwx, Crisp. After joining the new team, Crisp changed his ID from Kuroko to Lqs.

hastily greedy

But the TCS team is not the stage where Crisp is soaring. This team is also considered a weird team in the history of domestic e-sports. , Dong Xiaosa gave the players accommodation and treatment comparable to LPL teams, and wanted to hit an LPL quota. However, the comfortable environment and lack of management made the TCS team members very lazy. In the first round of city competition, The team failed miserably in the provincial competition and became a joke for many fans. After half a year, the TCS team made a comeback from Ningbo to Shanghai, and finally entered the LSPL league as the TGA champion, one step closer to the team's goal.

However, in the 2016 LSPL summer game, the TCS team had a very poor record, and eventually lost to the OMD team in the LSPL relegation match and lost the LSPL league spot. At that time, the impetuousness and contradictions within the team could not be reconciled. Dong Xiaosa published a long post on Weibo to spray the team members. To this day, we can still find specific long posts on the Internet. Dong Xiaosa especially talked about Lwx spending too much time on his girlfriend and Crisp all night. Watching Riman, even the relegation match can be fined 2 bans for being late. Whether this kind of Weibo statement is true or not is a matter of opinion, but Crisp really likes anime, as can be seen from his ID names Kuroko and Chitanda at the time.

And after the classic line was said on the Fenfen live broadcast, "I get a salary of 10,000 a month, why can I help you get millions of LPL places", Dong Xiaosa and the players have no turning back. In August, the TCS team disbanded and the players went their separate ways. At that time, the reputation of the TCS players was not good, and Dong Xiaosa stood on the moral high ground. At the end of the year, Lwx and Crisp joined the NB team and changed their name to Pinus. Looking back on the days of the TCS team, Crisp also said that he lacked a clear understanding of his career. In the same year, the NB team had a very poor record. The team relied on the performance of V and Swift to relegate. The club decided to use double rotation in non-jungle positions.

Therefore, in the 2017 LPL Spring Split, Lwx/Crisp had to compete with another combination Happy/Mor for the starting position, and Crisp played 9 times in that season and only won 2 games from the WE team. Including a 66-minute fierce battle, the record can be said to be very bleak. According to the controlled variable method, the NB team decided to use the bottom lane combination of Lwx and Mor, and Crisp sat on the bench for a long time. Team NB advanced to the playoffs with the fourth in the group, but Crisp did not get any chance to play. Team NB defeated Team IG, but lost to Team EDG in the second round.

style change seeking breakthrough

Crisp's hero pool at the time was dominated by soft auxiliary heroes, and there was no outstanding performance on the field, but sitting on the bench His personal skills have improved significantly in the past days. The reason why Crisp is sitting on the bench in the spring game is also because some mentality exploded, especially the disadvantaged game will lose its head. In the LPL Summer Split, Crisp gradually got the chance to start and formed an ace down road partner with his old teammate Lwx. Since Happy has half-transformed to eat chickens, the NB team found a death announcement as a substitute ADC, and Liu Qingsong officially changed his ID name to Crisp. Although Crisp only used 5 auxiliary heroes in that season, he also began to frequently use rookie heroes like Luo and Thresh, and his style of play became more aggressive.

But compared to the head team at the time, there is still a big gap in the popularity of the NB team, and the performance of Baolan and Meiko that season was even brighter. The NB team won the third place in Group B and entered the playoffs again. At that time, the core of the team was the Korean-aided middle-field combination. The occasional sudden death of Lwx was more attractive than Crisp's growth. In the playoffs, Crisp finally secured his starting support position. The NB team defeated the SS team in the first round, but lost to the WE team in the second round, and the team could not make a bigger breakthrough.

In the incense burner version of the summer game, Lwx loves to use Kegmore, Crisp played a lot of Lulu, and in the last game against the WE team, his Alistar had some good The team started, but the team's defeat soon buried everything. As the end of the year approaches, the LPL League has ushered in the alliance phase. The NB team failed to keep the league seat. FunPlus announced that they have acquired a league seat and established a new FPX team. Lwx and Crisp, the bottom lane combination, once again joined hands in a new team, but this oneThe team basically has no star players, and the level of attention in the league is very low.

GimGoon is one of the Korean aids who came to LPL earlier, but has been playing for a weaker team before, and he became the core of the tactics at the beginning of the team. While Pepper’s performance was more nerve-racking, Bing’s condition declined too fast, and the tactical core of the FPX team gradually became the bottom lane, relying on Pepper and Crisp to initiate team battles to create harvest opportunities for GimGoon and Lwx. In the game against the JDG team, Crisp's unsealed cheats Alista's play attracted people's attention. He became a reliable starter for the team and helped the FPX team get rid of the bottom of the league.

Four years of chasing dreams to get what they want

As Bing's performance after the year was too poor, the team recruited veteran Cool as a firefighter, but they still Unable to make the playoffs, fifth in the group stage can be said to be quite regrettable. In the LPL spring game last year, Crisp only won one MVP, that is, the first game of FPX against TOP. During the bot lane combination, Crisp's Bron became a signature hero. That season's FPX team relied heavily on Lwx's personal performance. Therefore, Crisp rarely did too much roaming and spent most of his time with his old partner.

With the arrival of the summer season, the FPX team adjusted the lineup again and recruited Alex and Xinyi as junglers. The overall performance of the team was better than that of the spring game. This time it successfully advanced into the playoffs. However, what awaited them was a round of playoffs, and the vigorous JDG team completed their revenge. Therefore, Crisp's second year in the LPL league and the third year of his career, he still had a very flat life, and was forgotten by most of the LPL audience. His sense of existence is just Lwx's bottom road partner. However, he has made great progress in his hero pool, has a very high participation rate, and has begun to frequently use the heroes of the open group.

This is also the normal life of many League of Legends professional players. They will always encounter many difficulties and setbacks. It is a very difficult thing to persist until the day of success. Compared with the often poor mentality in 2017, Crisp is much better in 2018. He rarely makes fatal mistakes and can try to help Lwx survive the battle. The club finally strengthened its lineup in 2019, introducing a new midfield combination of Doinb and Tian, ​​with its own system and experienced Doinb, helping Crisp quickly complete another transition in his career. The

FPX team made great progress in this year's LPL Spring Split, securing the first place in the league with a record of 13-2 to advance to the semifinals, but they regrettably lost to the JDG team in the semifinals. But this record is quite good for Crisp. The results of the spring season finals have ensured their promotion points and have the opportunity to compete for the seed spots in this year's LPL division. In an interview after winning the summer championship, Crisp said that when he first set foot on the professional arena, he was eager to be on the international stage, and this dream took four years to come true.

华茂春松之时

Crisp's biggest change in the S9 season is that he has learned to abandon his twin brother Lwx, and he has become a full LPL bottom lane. Combine the support players with the lowest intimacy. The tacit understanding of the bottom lane of the partner for many years has allowed Lwx to learn to develop safely and strive for more fighting opportunities for his teammates. Crisp will actively look for roaming opportunities before and during the game, and form the FPX team’s signature wild and middle auxiliary linkage with Doinb and Tian. . And these aspects of performance are often not simply reflected in the data. In this year's spring and summer regular seasons, Crisp did not get a MVP, only the third place.

Even in the selection list of the best team at the end of the LPL summer regular season, Crisp was only listed in the second team. The FPX team once again won the first place in the regular season, locked in the LPL playoffs semifinals, this time they surpassed themselves, defeated B in the semifinalsThe LG team defeated the RNG team 3-1 in the final. The team won the first LPL championship trophy, which is also the first championship trophy in team history. The FPX team became the eighth LPL champion team, and Crisp even won the FMVP in the finals. An auxiliary player who made unknown contributions in the team became the protagonist under the spotlight.

And this MVP deserves its name. In the past year, we have often praised Ming for his amazing growth, but in the LPL Summer Finals, Crisp has basically suppressed Ming’s performance, whether in laning or swimming. Walking and teamfighting. Crisp in front of the camera is always a little bit shy and shy. Time has finally honed him into an excellent team backing. The so-called growth is not only about the appearance of maturity, technical exquisiteness, but also a change of mind. Since he stepped onto the LPL stage, there have been basically no negative reports. On the one hand, the team record is not ideal, on the other hand, he is also low-key.

After the FPX team began to strengthen the team culture construction, we also saw more and more team tidbits and realized a real Crisp. He may be Liu Qingsong who GimGoon yells when he disagrees, or Lwx's ridiculed teammate with low intelligence, or a small assistant who mumbles in the live broadcast, or the big boy who likes to show his singing voice in the fan group. After winning the LPL finals, people remember not only his brilliant smile, but also the invincible opening of the team Alista and the reliable patron saint Tam.

Conclusion

The other members of the FPX team also started the live broadcast in July of this year. Compared with other teammates’ live broadcasts, Crisp was even more screaming. Focus more on the game, explain the situation of the game and your own operations quietly, even if you are inferior, you will just say "It's a pity" and then type "mine". The former "Hengyang No. 1 Edison" has become a "Hengyang handsome guy", with a bit less vigorous. Looking back, Crisp is already the No. 015 player in the LPL League, and some of Letme and Mlxg who are behind him have retired. It can be said to be quite sentimental.

Earlier this week, Riot’s player contract library was updated. Both Lwx and Crisp’s contracts have been renewed to November 2021. This also shows the club’s trust in them and decided to continue to cultivate this To the veteran. Unknowingly, the partner of Brow Monster and Chitanda has been working together for more than four years, and it may be called the LPL league or even the oldest bot team in the world. For Crisp, this trip to Europe is the best opportunity of his career. I hope that he can play the best as he said before going out.