"Brothers, you must be fully prepared for today's game and win c9 steadily, do you understand?"
At noon the next day, on the bus heading to Wuhan Sports Center, Abramovich was doing his final pre-game mobilization:
"As long as we win this game, our chances of qualifying will be very impressive, and we will have to compete with SKT for first place in the group."
In the history of the global finals, there are many teams that got off to a 2-1 start in the first round of the group stage, but failed to win a game in the second round and were eventually eliminated;
There are also teams that started 1-2 in the first round, but broke through in the second round, and finally squeezed into the knockout round by luck.
Although there are such examples, the probability of the two events happening is obviously very different. For the audience and commentators, they definitely still hope to see the team in their own division finish the first round with a record of 2-1.
Therefore, the management, coaching staff and loyal piggies all hope that edg can firmly win today's opponent c9. There are even some particularly professional fans who privately message edg players and official blogs on Weibo, asking them to teach them.
How to do bp.
"I know, I know, I have to say it several times every year, don't you bother me..." Tian Tian responded, and even hit him as he spoke.
Under the leadership of Yang Yi, the master of training, EDG has the longest training time among LPL teams. Now that it has entered the World Championship, it is even more afraid of slacking off in training.
Their canyon multiplayer game last night lasted until four in the morning. No wonder Tianye's sleepiness has not completely disappeared. Fortunately, today's edg game is still scheduled for the last game.
Coincidentally, the schedule of the first round of this year's group stage is very favorable for edg.
According to the competition format of the previous global finals, the group stage lasts for eight days in total. The first four days are the first round. Each team can only have one game at most every day. The three games are played over three days, and each group has a bye day.
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The second round is more exciting. Three games are played in one day. Whether a team can qualify basically depends on the state of the day.
The schedule for the first round of edg's group stage is divided into the first three days, and the opponents are ahq, c9 and skt in order from weak to strong.
This means that edg can first build confidence in the weakest opponent, adjust its own state to the best, and then challenge the recognized big devil SKT.
And even if they lose to SKT in the third game, EDG can adjust their status again through the bye on the fourth day.
This is not over yet, because according to the gossip revealed by Abramovich, if after the first round of the group stage, edg's condition is still particularly bad, then edg can exert a little "local advantage" and let the official place the second place in the group stage
The order of rounds is slightly "optimized".
For example, in previous years, the order of the second round of the group stage was based on the alphabetical order of the four groups abcd. However, this year the official can open a backdoor for edg and change the position of a and d.
This is, Chinese e-sports!
After Yang Yi heard these inside information, he was stunned.
In fact, he should have thought of it a long time ago. As the saying goes, there is no false name under the reputation. Isn't it true that EDG has been called the Prince Team, the Franchise Team, and Chinese E-Sports for so long?
However, this is an emergency plan that is only used in the worst-case scenario. For example, edg started with 0-3 in the first round and was beaten violently by lck, BayWan, and Europe and the United States. It must take a certain amount of time.
Make adjustments.
Now that edg has defeated ahq with a crushing force in the first game, it seems that winning c9 should not be a problem, so this assumption no longer exists.
After entering the lounge, everyone in EDG discussed today's tactics while observing the teams currently playing on the field, studying the opponents to be eliminated in advance.
Watching WE beat MSF, the second seed of European LCS, to the point of being unable to fight back, Tian Ye said with great interest:
"We did a good job at this game. We were ahead by 5,000 gold in 20 minutes."
Today there are still two games in the LPL division. One is the finale between Group A edg and c9, and the other is group d WE against msf.
Abu's face was solemn, "We also had a training match with this rabbit team. To be honest, they played pretty well. I didn't expect that they would be beaten like this by us."
"Isn't that normal? The Rabbitohs' top, middle and junglers can only be said to be average, and only the bottom duo's level is considered to be relatively outstanding." Yang Yirui commented.
MSF's bottom lane duo is indeed excellent, especially the two-dimensional adc whose ID is [hans sama]. After playing against him, Yang Yi felt that this player is a first-tier adc even in the lpl.
It's a pity that LPL's first-line ADs also have strengths and weaknesses.
Judging from this game, we are not only better than the Rabbits in the top, middle and jungle, but also meet the brother-in-law at his peak in the bottom lane. Redmi's BP is also perfect. It is strange that msf can win.
Moreover, edg can only compete with we in training matches now. If this msf can beat we, then he and Klin Dirty Dance will no longer have to think about the semi-finals and finals this year, and they will win honestly.
One of the top eight goes home.
Mingkai nodded when he heard this, "Based on the previous training matches, Group D is probably about tsm and msf competing for the second qualifying spot. It's a bit difficult for them to beat WE, but it should be easy to beat Flash Wolves.
There is no chance of playing TSM, after all, TSM is the king of classic training matches."
He guessed why Abu looked solemn. He was probably worried about what he would do if he met us in the knockout round, but it was still a little early to consider this issue now.
After we easily won msf, the three teams representing lpl in the world championship all got a good start.
The next two games were a bit lackluster. The old European powerhouse FNC played North America's second seed IMMT, and the lck's first seed lz played the Vietnamese big brother gam. These are the kind of games where you can guess the outcome of the game without having to watch it.
The vast majority of the audience only cares about the matches of the LPL team, followed by the LCK team, and the proportion of women in this category of audience is quite large.
As for the teams whose names they have never even heard of, the little fairies naturally don't bother to pay attention to them, and the male audience doesn't care much. For normal League of Legends players, if they have the time, they might as well start a ranked game or a big brawl by themselves.
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Yang Yi thought the same way when he didn't play professionally for the past two years, so he didn't want to waste time watching it. He turned on his phone and started surfing the Internet. He also went to the anti-pressure bar to rate WE players.
Unexpectedly, half an hour later, he looked up on a whim and found that IMT was already dismantling FNC's crystal.
Yang Yi was stunned. Although he liked imt more among the two teams, because this team has the same name as a song by the band Fall Out Boy, both called Li Mochou... Oh, they are immortals, but Yang Yi really didn't expect imt to be like this.
Can crush fnc.
In previous years' competition between the European and American divisions, the European division has always been better, but now FNC has been beaten. Is it possible that this year is really the most promising year for North America?
As if to confirm Yang Yi's thoughts, the penultimate game of tsm against Flash Wolves was once again won by the North American Division.
Although the two teams were evenly matched in the early stage, it was difficult to separate them, but in the end tsm was superior and proved that he was not just the king of training matches this year. The senior brother even made wild remarks in the post-game interview, claiming that he would be the same in the following games.
Don't lose a game and qualify first in the group.
Yang Yi always feels that if we want to make a list of e-sports comedians, then this guy should have a place in the top three of the list.
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"No, I'm still very sleepy. Don't spray me if I don't feel well later."
"Are you sleepy or not? I played fifty training matches last night, and I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't get a good rest," Klin Lawu said while holding the earphones with one hand and turning his face to the field:
"Didn't you hear what Feike said? If you lose, you lose. Don't make so many excuses."
"Wait a minute, I have something to say," Yang Yi immediately jumped out and corrected when he heard someone misused the famous saying:
"The original words of this paragraph are 'everything is an excuse when you lose', and this paragraph is not said by Teacher Da Fei, but by the coach who dunked the horse, okay?"
He knows things like this much better than Ming Kai. He really can resist pressure as a buddy, right? Did level 13 come out by signing in?
Besides, when faker loses a game, he has a lot of excuses, and his words are tougher than those of Daji and Daden-sensei put together.
"Don't care who said it, that's what it means anyway... the BP has started, please be serious."
Ming Kai was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect that the famous saying that had been circulated for so long was not from Faker, and then he changed the subject abruptly. However, he did not question Yang Yi's words. After all, Yang Yi considered himself an edg when it came to surfing the Internet.
Second, no one dares to recognize the first.
In this round, edg came to the red side, and the first thing they had to deal with was the fixed ban position of Kalista.
"As for Xia Luo, how about we take one on each side?" Nofe asked.
"I think it's okay." "No problem." Yang Yi and Ye Tian replied.
Nofe nodded, "Okay, then you can continue Feng Nuxia in the bottom lane, and directly penetrate the opponent in the lane."
Since the LPL summer regular season passed halfway, major teams have seen the power of Xia Luo combination in the hands of the EDG duo. No team will be stupid enough to continue to release the Phoenix Legend, so Yang Yi and Tian Tian have specially practiced some combinations with Xia Luo.
Among the auxiliary routines, Feng Nuxia is the one they think has the best effect and the highest proficiency.
In Edg's opinion, if both Xia Luo and Xia Luo are outside, c9 will most likely grab Luo, a support with both team-starting and incense burner monster attributes, and then release Xia Luo to them.
But the result was beyond nofe's expectation. After banning everyone in the first three moves, c9 actually snatched Xia directly, so edg had no choice but to use tricks and help Tianye lock Luo.
Yang Yi frowned, "Then there will be no way to create a strong combination in the bottom lane. Luo, the auxiliary single, is too weak in laning."
"There's no other way. You can't put Xia Luo on the opposite side, right? No matter how bad c9 is, you can't play like this," Tian Tian said helplessly, "Why don't we just go to the middle and jungle for this one, and let's just keep growing in the bottom lane."
"It's not impossible..." Nofe thought for a moment, then asked Scout again: "Then will you continue to play Lucian in this game?"
The junior boy nodded readily: "I have no problem, you can play three Lucian games with me."
"Wait a minute," Yang Yi instinctively felt something was wrong, "Aren't we on the red side this time? There is no need for the mid laner to be so anxious to play, leaving the last counter position to Rui Can."
"Then Lucian is gone."
"Pull him down. Look at other teams. Besides us, there is no one else playing mid laner Lucian."
Nofe heard the same thing. In this game, c9 was on the blue side and had plenty of ban positions. However, in the end, he only banned Pig Girl, Varus and Rambo without even looking at the middle lane.
If c9 is really afraid of mid laner Lucian, they can ban Lucian in the first round of BP.
There are only two possible reasons why the opponent did not do this. One is that c9 trusts the personal strength of their mid laner Jensen, and the other is that they have a way to deal with mid laner Lucian.
Jensen is a famous French king in North America and the core of the c9 team. His personal ability is undoubtedly undoubted. Scout may not necessarily be able to take advantage of him.
So he followed Yang Yi's idea and locked up Luo Xiaopao's bottom duo with his first two hands.
As expected, c9 had no intention of grabbing Lucian, but instead took Shen Lulu.
"Xia, Shen and Lulu," on the commentary table, I remember seeing c9's first three BPs and couldn't help but say:
"It looks like c9 is going to play four guarantees and one?"
"Then it's understandable that Rambo is banned. Rambo is a hero that is easier to defeat Shen in the lane, and Shen can't put pressure on Rambo in the laning. If theshy gets Rambo, he can always be comfortable.
The development continues." Hallucination said.
Hallucination is considered a veteran commentator in LPL, and he was once named the strongest king. He has the highest game rank among the commentators. However, his popularity among the audience is inversely proportional to his rank.
On the one hand, it's because his commentary style is relatively bland and sounds drowsy; on the other hand, his emotional intelligence is very low and he often speaks out about players' mistakes, which makes fans of many teams very dissatisfied with him.
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"EDG has added some help from Prince. Even though Pig Girl was banned, the factory director still chose his signature hero."
"Entering the second round of bans, c9 chose to ban the shy Jace and Gnar, which should be a single-band lineup to prevent the edg hand; and edg banned Zach and Lee Sin, these two hands are very smart, and then
Coupled with the wine barrel that was banned earlier, there is no particularly good version of c9 jungler to choose from." Qi Huan praised.
"Then the fourth move should be the top order, because c9 has already taken Shen, so the counter position in this move is probably reserved for the scout in the middle." I remember analyzing.
Just as he expected, EDG soon showed a very familiar profile picture on the fourth floor.
"Troll? It feels like Troll is really capable. Not only can he use his ultimate move to inhale Shen during a group fight, turning Shen into a squishy skin instantly with tank equipment, but this hero can demolish towers very quickly.
With a good single-band ability, maybe c9 didn’t expect that there was a troll in theshy’s hero pool. Banjis and Gnar’s previous intentions were mostly in vain.” Qi Huan said with a smile.
And this is the scariest thing about EDG right now. The mere five ban positions cannot limit their three C-position hero pools at all!
