There are very few die-hard fans such as Ze Yuan who support SSG, and most people are more optimistic about Longzhu advancing to the finals.
Spring split champion, MSI runner-up...
It can be regarded as the team with the best overall performance in the LCK division this year.
Although foreign wars are more demanding, the civil wars are stronger!
Not to mention that Longzhu’s record against SSG has been overwhelmingly superior since the team was founded.
Logically speaking, it is impossible to lose!
What is Samsung?
The only contributor to the top 16 teams in the history of the OGN division, he was captured by Vietnam during the foreign war and has been labeled as a national shame by LCK netizens!
Before the game, if I had told others that this team could make it all the way to the finals, no one would believe it except Ze Yuan. It would just make people laugh.
But the incredible fact happened right before our eyes.
The third seed from LCK made it all the way to the final stage!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible..." Smeb began to doubt life, "How could Jiang Zi lose so miserably?"
Due to their good personal relationship and the fact that they belong to different half regions and will not meet in the finals, VG has played several training games with Longzhu, and it can be regarded as the opponent with the most games among non-LPL teams in Rio.
In training matches, Longzhu was able to win 40% of the games from VG by relying on its strong early attack, which is quite impressive!
Song Jinghao once thought that Dragon Ball, whose upper and lower lines were very adaptable to the version environment, could cause a lot of trouble for VG.
Who would have thought that they couldn't even take down a small game from Samsung!
Hongmi frowned and quickly called Jin Wenhe to ask him to help contact E boss Xie Tunan, hoping to get more information and data about Samsung to verify his inner guess.
Gu Xing was still immersed in the shock of the dark horse's upset and couldn't help himself. When he was flipping through his mobile phone, all the maggot babies were also confused.
[Good boy, Samsung Li Zai Gan God Demon? Kill RNG first and then win Dragon Ball. It doesn’t make sense! 】
[The second team in history to advance to the S finals as the third seed, is Samsung really a stable upset? 】
[The first team was SKT from S3? There is a saying that it couldn’t be considered the third seed. At that time, SKT was in the Summer Championship. Faker had just finished two games in a game and felt incredibly hot. Before the game, he was the favorite to win the championship.
SSG is different]
[Is Samsung the LCK version of EDG? It never disappoints in terms of disappointment. You think it will shine in the S3 World Championship, and SSO will make the top 16; you think it will be kicked out this time.
As a result, he made it all the way to the finals, which is simply outrageous!】
[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu:How did you die so miserably?
"Good guy, Samsung's official recommendation response is very fast..." Jack, who is usually the best at surfing the Internet, muttered.
Gu Xing leaned over and took a look.
VG’s official Twitter once released a picture of the ‘God of Death’ Gu Xing knocking on doors with a sickle in hand, and circled the two clubs Longzhu and Samsung at the end.
SSG’s official tweet responded as soon as it successfully advanced to the finals.
The same picture of the god of death knocking on the door, but this time the protagonist is replaced by the leader An.
Along the way, the door with the RNG and Dragon Ball team logos was open and stained with blood. It was obvious that they had been poisoned. An Bixin was heading towards the door where VG was.
Different from Gu Xing's sunny look, Chief An usually has a bit of a fierce expression - otherwise, he wouldn't have been pictured swinging a baseball bat without any sense of violation, but now his face is pictured on the God of Death's head.
They actually look very well matched, as if they are messengers coming to harvest lives.
"Lao Gu, you don't look very good," Jack commented, "Look at An Bixin, this is the team leader. Your smiling face doesn't look offensive at all."
"You know a hammer," Kuro retorted habitually with raised eyebrows and raised eyebrows, "How do you say a spicy word in Chinese...it's called a smiling tiger!"
"In anime, the kind of people who smile until they squint and look kind are the best, okay?"
Li Zhixun echoed from the side, "It makes sense, someone with a fierce face like Chanrong is called Se Li Nei Yin."
Even though An Bixin is very senior, he is of little use in front of Easyhoon. Both of them were born in 1992 and entered the OGN League in the same batch. According to the saying there, they are called "relatives". There is no need to use honorifics, and the relationship is much better.
, it’s no big deal to arrange a few sentences behind it.
Kuro gave a thumbs up, "Brother Zhixun must be educated..."
Gu Xing chatted with them for a while, then got up and wanted to go to the water bar downstairs to buy some drinks to quench his thirst.
As soon as I went out, I saw a group of young people wearing black team uniforms walking towards me with their heads down.
It's the Dragon Ball team members.
They were so proud and confident five hours ago, but now they are so decadent and lost.
Throughout the World Championship, Longzhu, like VG, had 9 wins and 0 losses before the arrival of the semi-finals.
He has never lost even a small game and is definitely the favorite to win the championship!
On the other hand, Samsung scored 3/3 in the group stage, 3/2 in the quarter-finals, and had a total of 6 wins and 5 losses in small rounds with a winning rate of over 50%. It doesn’t look like a strong team no matter how you think about it!
Therefore, it seems reasonable for the Dragon Ball members to start thinking about the finals before the game.
As a result, he lost three games in a row and was directly pushed to the ground by Samsung!
Few people can accept this gap.
Nowadays, the members of Dragon Ball are all devastated and seem to have no confidence at all.
Little Peanut is no longer as high-spirited as before, with a sad look on his face.
When he looked up and saw Gu Xing, he raised his lips and forced a smile, "Xing Guo... you must work hard in the finals."
Jin Jingzhu, whose face was even more fierce than that of Leader An, now had a gloomy face. When he saw Little Peanut talking to Gu Xing, he let out a light sneer through his nose and walked straight back to his room.
"What's going on?" Gu Xing looked at his leaving figure, confused, "I didn't offend him, did I?"
"Don't worry about him," the Rat King said angrily, "Jin Jingzhu is so virtuous."
Gu Xing remained silent.
Judging from Pray's appearance, it doesn't look like a joke.
Would a normal player call their coach this?
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Gu Xing didn't want to get involved, lest he cause trouble.
However, Little Peanut seemed to want to use him as a trash can for negative emotions and pulled Gu Xing to the window at the end of the corridor to pour out his bitterness.
"Samsung is a really disgusting team," Peanut reminded Gu Xing, "Their play style is very weird. Nicole must be careful, otherwise it will be very easy to be ambushed..."
Little Peanut doesn’t have such a strong sense of honor in the competition area. On the contrary, he quite likes the LPL and has a close relationship with the VG players. He gave his friend a kind words first.
"Isn't it the real eye?" Gu Xing already knew it in his heart.
When Samsung faced RNG, it had already invested heavily in real eyes for defense. Gu Xing did not need data to support it. He could see the strategy adopted by SSG just by observing with the naked eye.
"Yes," Little Peanut said helplessly, "But do you know exactly how Samsung uses real eyes to deploy defense?"
"I was busy some time ago. Besides, VG and Samsung are not in the same half area, so I haven't studied it carefully..." Gu Xing explained briefly. Seeing that Peanut's expression was not right, an outrageous guess suddenly appeared in his mind, "
Is it possible that you don’t understand it either?”
"Isn't that right," Xiaohuahua began to confide, "there was a conflict within the team and the coach stopped working!"
After listening to Peanut's detailed explanation, Gu Xing finally understood the cause and effect.
Longzhu's internal conflicts stem from the failure of the first two international competitions.
Mid-season was fine. Even if we lost to VG, we were still runner-up, and our results were barely passable.
Intercontinental competition is a nightmare.
As the No. 1 seed in the LCK and the top horse in the division, Longzhu didn’t win a single game!
Since then, the Dragon Ball players' dissatisfaction with coach Kim Jung-soo finally reached its peak.
I don't understand the version research, and I just lead the team into a pit. The level is just that, but I am very conceited all day long, never willing to delegate power to the players, and making a big fuss in the team.
Despite the fact that many Korean coaches in the LCK have a lot of power, Kim Jing-soo’s gameplay seems to be ordinary and not worth mentioning.
But don’t forget where Dragon Ball Shimo came from.
ROX!
The team members and the coach usually treat each other as brothers, it is easy to discuss anything, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious.
Naturally, the former members of the Tigers would not be able to accept the sudden arrival of a coach like Kim Jing-soo!
It's not that the three of them can't accept a stricter coaching style.
But you have to be capable and prestigious!
Your ability, Kim Jing-soo, is just that, why do you boss around the team every day?
In terms of qualifications, is Pray not better than you?
When the three of them combined, they really eliminated Jin Jingzhu after the intercontinental competition.
The remaining two brothers, Shang and Zhong, are both newcomers to the LCK and have no opinions at all. They only listen to the words of the big brother in the team.
The whole team was united and quickly turned Jin Jingzhu into a head coach with a name but no real power. On-the-spot BP decisions were all made by Longzhu players.
This is also the reason why the Rat King was able to make the final decision when Gu Xing negotiated to work together to hide the change in the top lane environment.
After getting rid of Jin Jingzhu's control, LZ went smoothly and had an extremely high winning rate.
Even if Xia Jue didn't win against SKT, it would still be the runner-up. In the first half of the S7 World Championship, they had 9 consecutive victories, and the situation was great!
As a result, things started to go wrong after the quarterfinals started.
The Dragon Ball players all saw that Samsung began to evolve its tactics after entering the knockout rounds, and frantically purchased real eyes.
However, as Xiaohuahua said, Longzhu still doesn’t know the specific strategy of SSG, let alone formulate a response strategy!
Because at the critical moment, Kim Jing-soo took action.
Do you have the ability to ignore me?
Then everyone, stop playing!
During this period of time, Jin Jingzhu was silent during the review, and he would not express any opinions on SSG.
Longzhu quickly ran into trouble.
As mentioned before, the cup competition that implements a single version is different from the league. The latter version changes every two weeks, so as long as you can do it without asking for a deep understanding, you can cope with it.
The former is different, emphasizing the depth of studying the version.
Everyone is studying the same version, and whoever has a more advanced understanding will have an advantage!
Therefore, this is a great test of the coaching staff’s skills. For teams with stronger players, understanding the version does not mean leading the field, as long as they can follow up in time, it will be considered a success!
But Kim Jing-soo’s arrogance was almost useless!
From the top eight to the top four, in just one week, there is not much preparation time left for Longzhu.
How can players study Samsung's real-eye tactics alone?
Most of them are father-in-laws, and it would be difficult to learn SPSS in one week, let alone draw conclusions and come up with countermeasures based on data analysis!
The coach started to show off, and not only did Dragon Ball’s version understanding almost stagnate, but even the targeted analysis of its opponent Samsung was not done well!
How can I fight against SSG if I just hope that I can improvise?
"You guys were still able to play well in the dominant game. After the big dragon was robbed in the first game, everything went wrong..." Little Peanut sighed, "It's all my fault. If the Baron hadn't been robbed, say
It’s completely different if the situation is uncertain.”
The Dragon Ball players didn't realize at first how big the hidden trouble the coach was causing. Before the game, they even made lies to Gu Xing, saying they agreed to see each other in the finals.
They think that since SSG was defeated in the early stage, winning the game is not a natural thing?
But after Dalong was snatched away by God An Bixin, the situation facing Dragon Ball took a turn for the worse.
The densely packed real eyes make it extremely difficult for them to even attack!
After losing the first game, Longzhu realized what the problem was.
If you don't have a clear understanding of real-eye tactics, if your team's offensive is blocked, you can only shoot the baron to try to speed up.
However, Longzhu is not good at this style of play. As soon as it touches the Baron players, the IQ of the team will drop by 50 points!
The gameplay is similar to walking a tightrope. If you make one mistake, Samsung will seize the opportunity to counterattack!
The team had no confidence without tactical reserves, and would start to panic as soon as it failed to hold on. After this negative emotion contagion spread, it was reasonable for Longzhu to lose.
Little Peanut regretted it endlessly.
If he was given a chance to do it again, he would never touch the big dragon in the first game!
Gu Xing was speechless.
He did not expect that the conflict between the coaches and players in the Longzhu team would intensify to such a serious level.
So much so that we would rather sacrifice the results of a whole year's efforts of all the staff to get angry!
But this isn't the first time this has happened.
Similar incidents occurred in Assassin Star, WE and OMG back then, but some conflicts came from among the players, and some came from between the coaches and players.
There were times when conflicts within the VG team broke out. During the S5 period, Redmi brought Mata and Death Announcement, and the duo was unable to do anything. As a result, both of them left the team at the end of the season.
Looking to the future, there will be many similar things.
Maybe some teams will start to have internal strife in the group stage of the World Championship in the future, and they will be promoted to the top 16!
"When the season is over, just relax and travel," Gu Xing comforted Little Peanut, "Don't think too much about it yet."
Peanut sighed again.
It has been two years since his career began to rise, and he has finished in the top four every time.
To be fair, this result is quite good for other players. After all, some people will never have the chance to enter the global finals in their lives.
But Little Peanut was not satisfied.
He always feels that he is just one breath away and still has room for improvement.
It's just that even though Han Wanghu has thousands of thoughts in his heart, his 2017 season is over.
"I heard that there are a lot of interesting things in your imperial capital," Little Peanut suddenly thought, "How about I go with you for a couple of walks, and by the way, I can watch the finals!"
"That's right, the Imperial City is so much fun..." Gu Xing responded and took him to the water bar downstairs to order a drink to relieve his boredom.
The next day, members of the training department of VG and SSG took flights to prepare for the last stop of this world championship.
The Pudong Airport was crowded with people, and Gu Xing was chatting and laughing with his teammates, and the atmosphere was relaxed.
The Samsung members on the side were all red-eyed.
VG is not fighting as a team.
The LPL sparring team is all in place!
A total of 15 people practice with VG, and they can create various shapes according to the enemy's play system. This will undoubtedly make VG have a very fulfilling week and always maintain a good competitive state!
From this point of view alone, I don’t know how it is better than SSG!
Samsung doesn’t even have any brothers in the same division!
Dragon Ball? Stop making trouble, he was eliminated by you, and his relationship is not particularly strong, how can he have the nerve to invite LZ to be his sparring partner?
As for SKT…
After the barbecue stall lost in the semi-finals, he went to Hainan for vacation. He said he had never experienced tropical scenery in his home country and wanted to take some time to rest and relax before his visa expired.
Fellow domestic LCK teams took a vacation early because they did not advance to the World Championship, and no one was willing to sacrifice their precious leisure time to act as SSG's sandbags.
Now Samsung seems to be alone, with no helpers around.
"Hey," Cuvee's round face puffed up, "The host country really has an advantage. We can also find a sparring group next year..."
According to rumors revealed by Riot employees, there is a high probability that the World Championship will be held in South Korea next year.
Cuvee was filled with admiration when he thought of this.
When the time comes, I have to recruit a group of good friends to be my sparring partners, and try to make my opponent sick to death!
Gu Xingze is facing the same situation as before. When the crowd gathers, it will attract the attention of more people in the airport.
Then the fans rushed in like a raging wave, mixed with the shouts and screams of supporters.
"Brother Xing, go ahead, go ahead, get another S crown and I will flatter you for the rest of your life!"
"Be ruthless to the tulle SSG and try to make Master An a dutiful son!"
"We must win. The Dota has been shipped this year, so the alliance needs to be on guard!"
"Ten years of VG fans came here uninvited. Jack, please don't give me a gift in the finals. I'm sure you'll get me!"
Yu Wenbo's face turned dark.
Gu Xing hurriedly signed his ID in the book handed to him by the fans, took a few photos, and then ran to a secluded corner under the protection of Shiquan employees.
Different from the past, after winning the semi-finals, Gu Xing was trending on Weibo for two days. Coupled with Tencent's efforts, his already terrifying popularity soared into the sky again!
There are quite a few travelers around who can recognize him!
Gu Xing was afraid of disrupting the order of the airport, so he quickly found a quiet place to hide and relax.
After checking in and boarding the plane, he breathed a sigh of relief, found his seat and started browsing on his phone.
Riot Games is already warming up to the finals, with the schedule preview at the top of its official website, along with various interesting data.
{VG, which is one step away from the Grand Slam of the year, vs. SSG, which has never won any championship this year, who can be better?}
{No matter who wins the championship, it will write a new record in the history of League of Legends e-sports. The closest to the annual grand slam was SKT in 2015. It was only one small game away from MSI to win all BO5s that season.
Now VG is expected to launch a challenge; and Samsung is currently the strongest dark horse. It has become the finals team with the lowest winning rate in the group stages of the previous World Championships - only 50%. After winning the championship, it will have the oldest champion jungler in history.
new record!}
Leader An is the same age as Easyhoon. The 25-year-old guy has not yet broken gold coins, but he has made it to the finals. He can also be called a living fossil of the OGN era.
When Gu Xing saw this, he knew that there was a new record that was bound to be broken.
The youngest champion ADC.
Ruler is very young. He was born at the end of 1998 and is currently less than 19 years old. If he wins the championship, he will become a younger champion shooter than S4Imp.
The same is true for Jack, he looks like an underage young lady, a proper child laborer!
{It is also worth mentioning that after the finals, a double S championship club will be born to keep pace with SKT!}
SSG is not RNG. They have never played Seiji Reincarnation. Even if the two teams are merged into one, the quota and seats have not changed. They can legitimately inherit Samsung White's world championship.
Gu Xing browsed the various interesting data compiled by Fist to amuse himself, but it was not a fun experience at all.
The number of comments below is quite amazing.
Logically speaking, Twitter is not the main battlefield for domestic netizens, but VG has a large number of fans and can even suppress LCK supporters.
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[Sweeping across Dragon Ball is not called a championship, right? I guess even VG can’t do it! 】
[Winning a Dragon Ball makes me crazy. I don’t know who was double-killed in the group stage]
[Hot knowledge: Virtue is said to be better than Faker. In fact, SSG is more restrained. None of the Samsung players have even won a small game so far! 】
[Some people can really embody the ambitions of others and destroy their own prestige. They will give in without even fighting. Otherwise, they might as well just award the championship trophy to VG! 】
[I agree, quoting the trash talk Virtue said - SSG went to the finals venue just to give the Summoner trophy to VG]
The two factions were fighting fiercely, and Gu Xing relied on translation software to watch it with gusto.
Most of the people who support VG are European and American guys. Their stance is relatively neutral. After watching the international competition for a year, they are impressed by the strong hard power displayed by VG, which is always unfavorable, and believe that VG will win the finals.
In addition, some fans of barbecue stalls are also supporting VG.
Gu Xing was puzzled at first and felt very confused by their behavior.
It dawned on me after reading two comments.
BBQ stall fans just can't stand Samsung.
Anyway, a club with double S crown will be born, why can’t it be VG?
If Samsung wins the S championship, SKT's popularity in the LCK region in recent years will definitely be cut in half!
You know, this is not a civil war against your own brothers.
It is a foreign war against VG, the favorite to win the championship this year, and the division enemy VG who has defeated countless LCK teams!
If Samsung can really win, the popularity of An and others will instantly rise, impacting SKT's domestic dominance!
Fans of barbecue stalls naturally do not want to see similar scenes.
Those who support SSG are the majority of LCK netizens, who also engage in unifying external battles. Most outsiders hope that Samsung can regain its original image in this division.
What surprised Gu Xing was that there was another force supporting the SSG.
Vietnam.
[Come on, Samsung brothers, if you can win against VG, GAM can’t say it’s too much to say that you are the actual runner-up, right?]
[That is, GAM tied with Samsung 1:1. As long as SSG wins the championship, we will be the runner-up in terms of hard power!]
【SSG Huai Ting! Love comes from Vietnam】
[But it seems good for VG to win the championship. Anyway, we were originally in Group A, so we were just the third runner-up]
Gu Xing was dumbfounded by the bizarre logic of Vietnamese netizens.
He took screenshots of a few interesting comments and saved them in the gallery, glanced at the thin clouds outside the window, put on his headphones and took off his eye mask out of boredom, and huddled in a chair with his eyes closed to meditate.
"The Last Battle" was playing in the earphones, and the familiar prelude of machine gun fire echoed in his ears, making Gu Xing feel extremely at peace.
Everything is going on step by step and in an orderly manner.
After landing, I picked up my luggage, took a group photo outside the airport, and then boarded the bus to the National Convention Center Hotel where I was staying.
It is right next to the Olympic Park. When you open the curtains in the hotel room, you can see the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube not far away. The scenery is unparalleled.
On the evening of the day they arrived in the Imperial Capital, Hongmi summoned all the players in the team for a meeting in the temporary training room they had set up.
"Samsung was a team we met in last year's quarterfinals and this year's group stage. As said on the Internet, VG did not lose a single game to the opponent," Hongmi warned the players first, "but we must not take it lightly.
, Samsung’s current staffing has not changed, but the style of play is completely different from before!”
"In terms of macro strategy, SSG is still playing the iron turtle game, delaying until later stages, but the specific implementation strategy has changed." He pointed at the projector screen with a laser pointer, "I think everyone has understood it more or less.
The core is the True Sight Guard."
"E has sorted out more in-depth data today, let their person in charge explain it first..." Li Zhixun opened a WeChat video call and connected with Xie Tunan.
This graduate student from Peking University School of Information Technology has graduated this year. He still dresses in the style of a technical geek and does not look like a boss in the traditional sense.
He waved a little nervously to say hello to the members of the training department, and after a brief greeting, he went straight to the point.
"Everyone knows that Samsung relies on real eyes to deploy defense, but they have no idea about the detailed data," Xie Tunan pushed up his glasses, "Starting from the knockout rounds, their playing style changed suddenly, with a total of 225 in the five rounds of the quarterfinals.
The average number of real eyes is 45 per game; the total number of 3 rounds in the semi-finals is 144, with an average of 48 real eyes per game."
Horrifying data came out from Xie Tunan's mouth one after another.
"This is all superficial information. What we did yesterday was to process the real eye data in a more refined manner..."
He opened a slide with remote control. Everyone in the training room took a closer look and took a breath of cold air.
