The top 8 teams that achieved excellent results in the regular season were shortlisted for the playoffs and were divided into two groups.
Group a: edg, omg, ig, sn
Group b: rng,we, nb,ss
The competition system is a bo5 elimination system within the group, with the last ranked players challenging each other in turn. The only winner from the last two groups will advance to the finals to compete for the playoff championship.
On the first day, the 8-to-6 match will be played between ig and sn in group a, and nb and ss in group b. The winner will advance to the next round.
It is worth mentioning that the results of the regular season are also closely related to the playoffs. As long as you play well in the regular season and rank high, the playoffs will be easier as you don't have to play more games.
According to the rules of this playoffs, because of their high rankings in the regular season, ig and nb already had a small victory in the first round of the playoffs in the 8-to-6 game, and they won it before the game even started.
A small lead is a bit of an advantage.
However, ig's fans didn't feel much better because of this. In their opinion, ig's regular season results should never be like this.
To fall into this situation is entirely due to one's own doing.
Under Mafa's crazy substitution operation, ig needs to start playing first in the playoffs.
The more games you play, the greater the uncertainty, and you might be eliminated.
For example, EDG, which has the best regular season results in Group A, is now guaranteed to be in the semi-finals. If you win one BO5, you will enter the finals, and if you win two BO5s, you will be the champion.
And ig now needs to climb up from the bottom.
The degree of difficulty can be imagined.
It is not impossible to win the championship by defeating three players in the playoffs, but if you have the strength, there is absolutely no need to play like this.
If you can perform well in the regular season, just perform well. There is no point in hiding things.
Because when the playoffs come and we play so many more games, we have to use what we have hidden away.
This is completely unnecessary.
For ig fans, they are very confused and the only reasonable guess is.
ig felt that the game was very boring and wanted to make it more difficult.
Some fans actually guessed this right.
Mafa really wants to play more.
In his opinion, with Ning and Duke playing, ig is completely strong enough to win tickets to the S game.
If it doesn't work, Cheng Lu will come to the rescue.
These are the foundation of Mafa, so it is very stable.
Mafa also knows what the fans want to see. It is best for ig to win consecutive summer and regular season games all the way to the playoffs, so that the fans will be comfortable watching.
But it's not necessary.
On the premise of ensuring that they can enter the S competition, MAFA wants to keep a low profile as much as possible.
Even if you play a few more games, it doesn't matter. From Mafa's point of view, this is just a practice, and it will be of great benefit to the players.
At present, no one can understand the details of the ig team clearly, only ig's own people know best.
Of course, this also includes the major teams that have played training matches with ig these days. They also know very well how terrifying ig is at the moment. The game can no longer be played within less than ten minutes of a training match being online.
Other teams can only lament ig's low profile. This is definitely the deepest hidden boss in LPL.
However, in the eyes of other viewers, ig only played well in the early part of the regular season and then fell behind later on. They have almost forgotten everything they should have forgotten. Who will remember what happened before.
What the public really values is EDG, RNG, and WE, the three top teams in the LPL, and they also performed very well in the regular season.
This has achieved what mafa wanted.
Anyway, he has been scolded since the beginning of the regular season, so Mafa doesn't care anymore. According to his opinion, ig still hasn't changed at all.
In the first round of the playoffs in the 8-to-6 match, ig, with a small advantage over sn, ended the game 2:0 and defeated sn to advance to the next round.
There is nothing to say about this game. There is indeed a gap in strength between the two teams. Even if ig gives sn a hand, sn may not be able to win this bo5.
Although there were no substitutions, the fans were naturally happy to win the game.
nb in group b also defeated ss 2:0 and joined hands with ig to enter the top six.
In the subsequent 6-to-4 match, ig faced off against omg, and the personnel remained unchanged.
In the first game, ig came up with the combination of skateboard shoes and Kennen in the bottom lane. n played very well. In the bottom lane, he faced smlz's Xiaopao and five's Luo, and had an advantage online.
Ning gave up on the top lane and went to the bottom lane for ganks many times. ig originally had the advantage in the bottom lane, but this time it opened up the situation even more. In 18 minutes of game time, Skateboards was already 5-0-2, and ig took advantage of the canyon.
The Pioneer advanced in the middle and directly pushed to the high ground in the middle of OMG. The final wave ended with Rookie Lucian's four kills.
In the second game, Leng Shao performed at the dean level and carried the whole game with an 8-0-4 aircraft, leading omg to regain the game.
In the third game, rookie chose Snake Girl, and he was beaten very fiercely this time. In the early stage, he completed a solo kill of Leng Shao Yanque online, and in the mid-term, he frequently wandered around to drive the rhythm, and on OMG's side because of the lineup
The problem is, only the prince, the hero, can start the team. N Thresh played equally well. He kept an eye on the prince. In the last wave of OMG Highland on the ig road, he directly used the hook to hook the second company of eq.
The prince was about to force a group start halfway through, but in the end, ig's side directly pushed omg's base crystal.
In the fourth game, Ning Wang still mainly plays the bottom lane. The jungle prince went to the bottom lane many times to gank, leaving smlz's big mouth unable to do anything. He died one after another in the early stage. n's fire man also performed very well, 6-3-10
In each wave of team battles, KDA played a huge amount of AOE. KDA was second only to Rookie's 6-0-10 aircraft in the middle. In the end, he won the baron and broke OMG's three-way high ground. After that, he played a wave of 0 for 5 and ended it.
Contest.
ig defeated omg 3:1 and is close to the semi-finals.
Cheng Lu who was in the backstage lounge was not too surprised, but when she looked at Mafa who was sitting on the other side watching the game, she sighed that Mafa could hold his composure.
Cheng Lu knew in her heart that ig could not lose the match against omg.
According to her memory, s7's ig finally made it to the bubbling round, and were finally able to compete with us for the third seed in the LPL.
Moreover, this game was still full of bo5, and the last one was stolen by Xiye Kassadin.
It can be seen that the strength of ig is actually similar to that of we. If we want to rank, ig just missed the previous three teams to enter the S competition.
But that was the previous ig, and the current ig is different with her.
Therefore, Cheng Lu has been quite calm these days, and she can play at any time if there is an accident.
And the other side.
Mafa was relieved when he saw that ig won this game.
So far, everything is going smoothly according to his plan, and winning this game means that ig has qualified to compete for the third seed.
This is good news for him, as he has indeed been under a lot of pressure these days.
Although he was very confident that nothing would go wrong, he couldn't ignore the external voices, and now he finally relaxed a lot.
online.
After this game, the fans who had been hanging on their hearts were relieved. Anyway, IG can now compete in the bubble game to compete for the third seed. Even if they lose in the next game, it will be okay.
There are also a lot fewer people trolling the ig club now.
During the period when Cheng Lu did not play, most of the audience also discovered a key point.
Even without Cheng Lu, this ig is actually quite strong.
There have never been so many people paying attention to the ig team before. Cheng Lu's joining has indeed brought a lot of traffic to ig, which has directly raised ig's attention to a higher level.
Without Cheng Lu's participation, s7's ig would never be as famous as it is now.
Therefore, most people had previously focused on Cheng Lu and ignored the other teammates.
But now it seems that several other players are also very good.
The new ig fans who came because of Cheng Lu naturally have a deeper recognition of other players.
For the old fans of ig, they are all familiar with the old players. The main thing they pay attention to is Ning, a new player. This time, the two newcomers who came into ig surprised them very much.
This discovery certainly makes some fans look forward to the next game even more.
However, after advancing to second place in four games in the playoffs, against edg, ig's operation shattered the audience's expectations again.
The two teams played a full bo5 game, and in the last round they were evenly matched. However, due to a mistake on ig's side, edg found an opportunity and leveled the base.
edg defeated ig 3:2. It was a difficult win, but they finally advanced to the finals.
What some ig fans cannot accept is that ig still did not replace Cheng Lu in this game.
Although ig has already firmly entered the bubble competition, it can obviously continue to advance upwards.
From the perspective of those who think Cheng Lu is stronger, it must be better to substitute the top laner.
Now that this game is over, ig feels very strange, as if they deliberately wanted to send edg into the finals and went to play the bubble game on their own.
This is outrageous.
No one thought it would be like this before the game.
The key player, ig, was also playing hard, and even played a full bo5, and almost lost in the end, but they just didn't make substitutions.
So this is hardly an Oscar night.
Many people didn't understand why Cheng Lu didn't play in this game. However, Cheng Lu actually had her own ideas. She felt that the third seed was better.
Anyway, after this fight, many gambling dogs have begun to bet on Cheng Lu all her life.
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In another 4-to-2 game, rng played against we, also playing full bo5. rng defeated we 3:2 and successfully advanced to join edg in the playoff finals.
The current domestic audience and strength of these two teams, edg and rng, are definitely the top in the country.
If you consider the current thoughts of most viewers, this result is basically the same as what they expected before.
The first and second seeds of s7lpl were decided between the two teams edg and rng.
Some people had predicted this before the playoffs even started.
But it’s not clear who is older and who is younger.
Anyway, in the days before the game.
Fans from both sides were very lively.
The current fans of these two teams are basically the two largest fan groups in the country.
But fans of these two teams are not the only ones arguing on the Internet.
Because ig lost to edg, rng fans have been holding on to it these days. They do have something to say. Anyway, they should just ignore ig and Cheng Lu.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The fans of edg started to help the fans of ig to attack rng, and now the two sides have indeed become friendly forces.
rng fans definitely don’t want to see this happen.
You must know that they also had allies before, still 60e, but after rng defeated we in the semi-finals, the fans of both sides had already fallen out.
RNG now has no friendly forces. Facing the fans of EDG and IG, it is difficult for them to defeat four opponents with just one fist, so they can only find other ways.
It didn't take long.
Suddenly there was a backlash on the Internet that started to spread a lot of rumors that ig would let edg enter the finals.
All of a sudden, the fans of edg were not happy, and they directly turned against the fans of ig.
There was even a quarrel.
Anyway, these days before the game, the Internet is quite chaotic, and fans from various companies are joining the group.
Don't underestimate this kind of fans. Some of them have been fans for a long time, and some have become fans.
The forest is so big that there are really everyone there.
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And the day came when the finals of the playoffs started.
It is also the most lively.
Although there has been a lot of noise on the Internet in the past few days.
But one thing is undeniable.
The audience basically thought that this was a close match and it would be very exciting.
But after the game started, it became very magical.
edg's condition didn't seem to be very good, and he was easily defeated by rng in the first two games.
The fans of rng were about to open the champagne when they saw this. Being the first to win two games in a row in this kind of finals, needless to say, they started posting barrages to mock edg.
But just when they were happy, something went wrong.
After losing two games in a row, edg actually managed to win three games in a row, and in the finals, they finished two games behind three.
For starch, this is definitely a wonderful game, but for rng fans, this is definitely a nightmare.
The fans of edg in the live broadcast room were very happy at this time, but when they thought about the way edg was ridiculed when he lost two games in a row, they immediately started to complain.
So, fans from both sides started again.
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At this point, edg's No. 1 seed position and RNG's No. 2 seed position have been determined.
Next is the selection of the third seed.
After the No. 1 seed and No. 2 seed have been established, the next bubble game is undoubtedly the most anticipated game for all viewers.
The third seed will be selected from the three teams ig, omg, and we.
They are all very strong teams. There is still a question mark over who can represent the lpl in the next S-game.
The first game will be held between the two teams ig and omg. The winner will face we, and the loser will be eliminated directly.
The final winner will be the third seed of the LPL.
Only one of the three teams can advance. There is no doubt that the competition in this bubble game will be even more intense than the playoff finals.
No matter which team it is, it must show its full strength.
Once you lose, you will really have no chance at all, and you will say goodbye to this year's S competition.
And before the game starts.
There is a piece of news that makes all ig fans excited.
finally come.
On ig's official account, the roster of players for the next game against omg was announced in advance.
There is even another familiar hot search on Weibo because of this big list.
Cheng Lu is here!
It’s not unfamiliar, netizens have seen it many times.
If I said it before every game before, it would be a lie. These four words have always been ridiculed by netizens.
But this time the bubble competition is indeed real.
After being silent for nearly a month, theshy once again appeared on the list as the starting top laner to face omg!
And there is another name on the list that surprises fans.
Prior to this, the jungler Kid, who had been playing with Cheng Lu, did not start.
