Before departure, Abu sent a form to the EDG internal WeChat group.
[Jixing: Take a look at it. This is the schedule for the second round of Group A today. Please note which game our game is.]
Yang Yi took a closer look and saw that the first game was their EDG match, and their opponent was their old acquaintance AHQ.
The following matches are: C9vsSKT, AHQvsC9, EDGvsC9, SKTvsAHQ, and the finale, SKT vs. EDG.
Tian Tian was immediately speechless: "Why is it the finale of the game between us and SKT again?"
"There's no way, the officials know exactly what the audience wants to see," Klin said with a shrug.
Obviously, the Chinese officials deliberately put the focus of Group A in the prime time period of 8 or 9 o'clock for the sake of popularity and ratings, and Riot Games headquarters generally would not object, because after all, it is also beneficial to them if the game becomes more popular.
The disadvantages outweigh the disadvantages, and this arrangement is not uncommon.
For example, in the Icelandic MSI mid-season a few years later, the MAD team in the Spring Championship of the LEC division successfully entered the MSI semi-finals. In order to gain more popularity and ratings for the match between MAD and DK, Riot Games officials changed the game that was originally supposed to be played.
The game that was held on the next working day was moved to the previous day's rest day.
For MAD, such adjustments can be considered pros and cons. After all, if the game is more exciting, they will gain more popularity, but their opponent DK has suffered a complete disaster, not only missing a day of rest and adjustment.
time, and will also expose your own tactics and routines in advance, giving your opponents in the final an extra day to prepare and respond.
We don’t know whether this exchange will have an impact on the final result of the game, and how much impact it will have, but it is assumed that it will not be lower than the 5mm delay of the following year.
But the only thing that is certain is that if it was Mr. Da Fei who came over with his iron mouth, then this matter probably would not have gone unnoticed. That is to say, Xiu Shen and his teammates had a big pattern and thought that they lost the game because their skills were inferior.
People, there is no official theory because of this.
Therefore, e-sports has never been able to be compared with traditional sports competitions. It is not just because of the changing version. It requires a lot of efforts in all aspects...
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During the three days off, in addition to daily practice, the sixteen teams also had to cooperate with Riot officials to shoot a promotional video for the second round of the group stage.
Obviously, that post-match interview also allowed Riot to see Yang Yi's "distinctiveness", so when they asked EDG to film a film, they specifically expressed their favor for him, but unfortunately, Abramovich declined in the end.
It's not that he thinks Yang Yi will bring a negative reputation to EDG - after all, EDG has nothing to be ashamed of. Based on their performance in the global finals in the past few years, it's unlikely that many viewers will really think highly of them.
During the interview, I said a few words that "Clin Dirty Dancing" is my idol.
Abu mainly felt that this was just the group stage, and Yang Yi's talent and language talent should blossom on a higher-level stage, so he finally assigned Ming Kai to handle this interview.
Riot can only nod in agreement. Although the effect of the show is definitely not as good as Yang Yi's, Klin Dirty Dance is a legendary veteran who has been active in the professional arena since S3, so this choice is not satisfactory.
At least it is very consistent with the theme song of this year's global finals, "The Legend Will Never Die", which is also the main theme.
So the EDG part was a little boring. Mingkai said something like "I have always disappointed fans in the past, but I will go all out this year without any regrets" in the promotional video, implying that he would retire if he didn't play well today.
Harvested a wave of piglets’ tears.
The SKT part is more interesting.
"I admit that we underestimated EDG before, whether it was about BP or some specific parts of the game. This is why we lost to them in the first round."
Faker looks serious in the video, and the three stars on the SKT logo on his chest seem to be brighter:
"In the second round of the group stage, we will show the level that SKT should have, not lose a single game in today's three games, and regain the first place in the group!"
Look at what they said, four words, domineering and revealing!
Klin Dirty Dance, as well as veteran Ximen Yeshuo and European and American Dharma King Jian Huang, who appeared later, were directly relegated to supporting roles.
I guess AHQ and C9 are feeling quite uncomfortable after watching this promotional video, because Faker only mentioned EDG in his words, and did not pay attention to the other two teams in Group A at all.
In fact, it's normal. After all, the two brothers are now 1-2 and 0-3. The probability of qualifying for AHQ, which is already 0-3, is infinitely close to zero. If they were in SKT's position, they would probably look down on the two fish who are basically going to be eliminated.
Fat team.
Especially for AHQ, the LMS division now has no other requirements for AHQ. They don't expect anything like promotion and qualifying. They just want to see them get their first win in the group stage.
AHQ is also very desperate. Are EDG and SKT opponents that they can defeat?
Either the official arrangement of EDG's schedule was too deliberate. They first played a 0-3 AHQ and then put the focus battle with SKT in the last game. This was obviously to help EDG gain popularity.
Looking at the qualifying form of each group, it is difficult to tell the three groups of BCD. There is only one group A. You don’t need to look at it to know that EDG and SKT will qualify together. It just depends on who is the first in that group, and the official understands it very well.
It kept the suspense till the end and also ensured the ratings of the entire game.
EDG has gained popularity, and the official has gained viewers and ratings. It can be said to be a win-win situation.
Sure enough, in the first game, EDG crushed and defeated AHQ without any suspense, making AHQ one step closer to their first victory.
However, after EDG changed to a more suitable version of the four-guarantee-one lineup, the speed of winning the game obviously slowed down. In the end, it took them a full thirty-seven minutes to push away the opponent's base, which was considered a win against the province.
The team showed mercy.
But regardless of whether the base exploded in 40 minutes or 30 minutes, the final result of the game was still lost. After losing to C9 in 45 minutes of the third fierce battle, the audience in the LMS division was finally disappointed with AHQ, and they all left comments on the underworld forum.
Complain.
[AHQ played really badly. It’s okay if EDG and SKT can’t beat them. They can’t even beat European and American players. It’s really rubbish.]
[The same goes for Flash Wolves. I can accept not being able to beat WE, but what if we lose to TSM? Are they really EDG in the LMS division? 】
[Stop insulting EDG. EDG can crush even SKT. Why should Flash Piercing Wolf touch China? 】
[There is also HKA, which can’t even qualify for the playoffs. The LMS division should simply be disbanded.]
[Before, everyone was seriously discussing whether AHQ could get its first win today. It turns out that the clown is actually ourselves, and AHQ’s first win won’t be today!]
Because AHQ's opponent in the last round of the group stage was SKT, no one thought that AHQ, which was already 0-5, could score the last point from SKT and leave Wuhan with dignity.
Yang Yi thought so at first, until he saw the draft of AHQ playing SKT in the fifth game.
When the blue side's AHQ took the lead and asked Ximen Ye to bring out his signature murloc, Faker instantly locked an unexpected character-Kassadin in the red side's counter position.
Kassadin is actually a hero that is relatively counter-minimalist. There doesn’t seem to be any big problem with Faker choosing Kassadin as his back-up player. Could anyone say that the big devil Faker can’t play Kassadin?
It's just that SKT should have had a better choice at that time, and Faker locked Kassadin instantly just to respond to the long-distance shouting between him and Ximen Ye before the game.
At that time, Faker said that as long as Ximen Ye dared to choose Xiaoyu, then he would dare to choose Kassadin.
Just because in the knockout round of the S5 Global Finals, Ximen Ye said that he had used his signature fishman to kill Faker's Kassadin twice, and it was also a solo kill over the tower.
Although SKT finally won the game with the outstanding performance of top laner Marin, Faker was obviously still unconvinced. This time the two teams met again in the global finals, and he immediately wanted to prove himself.
In the first round against AHQ, Faker directly locked down Ximen's signature little fish man. In the team battle, he went in and out seven times, beating AHQ violently.
Now that Ximen Ye said he had taken the little fishman, he naturally would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and immediately asked Wolf to help lock down Kassadin.
After all, Ximen Ye said he should retire at the age he said. If he didn't take advantage of today to save face, he might not be able to meet this person in the future.
But as proud as Faker was, he never imagined that this little fish-man would bring him even more humiliating memories.
In the first ten minutes, AHQ's wild boar girl found an opportunity in the middle. She used her passive and ultimate skills to cooperate with the little murloc to catch Kassadin, and helped the little murloc get first blood.
Fifteen minutes later, the top, middle and junglers of the two sides collided in the upper half of the red side. In the end, this small-scale team battle ended in a one-for-one situation. SKT's top laner replaced AHQ's jungler, and the mid laners on both sides each got a kill.
At seventeen and a half minutes, the little Peanut who got lost in the wild area was caught again by the AHQ midfielder. The little murloc added another head to his body and started killing him.
At twenty-six minutes, Faker's Kassadin was duel with Ximen's little murloc under his second tower. In the end, the little murloc relied on Shen's ultimate move to successfully jump over the tower and kill Kassadin. At this time, the heads of AHQ and SKT
The ratio has reached 6:1, and the economic gap has also reached about 3,000 yuan.
At this point, even the most optimistic LCK fans knew that SKT had a big problem. In the subsequent wave of dragon team battles, Wolf's Lulu was killed by AHQ due to careless positioning, without the support of the Incense Burner monster.
SKT was directly beaten to a wave of zero for three, and AHQ took advantage of the situation to win the Baron, widening the economic gap to 7,000.
Although Faker later found an opportunity to kill the low-health Murloc, SKT's decline was already very obvious. Finally, at the 37th minute, AHQ opened the Ancient Dragon and forced SKT to join the team fight. Faker's Kassadin and Huni's Prince
They entered the field forcefully and wanted to kill Little AN's Big Mouth, but under the protection of the incense burner monster Feng Nu, the two people's entry was not a threat to Big Mouth at all. Instead, Big Mouth was knocked to the ground with a few backhands by Big Mouth.
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SKT, which lost its two top and mid-level generals, was chased by AHQ all the way to the crystal. The remaining three players were unable to stop the AHQ army from advancing, and the final game was fixed at 37 minutes and 31 seconds.
Witnessed by League of Legends players from all over the world, AHQ, which had already been determined to miss the knockout rounds, defeated its opponent SKT, which was considered impossible to defeat, in the final match of the group stage.
AHQ’s first win is today!
As SKT lost this game, the battle for the top spot in Group A also came to an early conclusion. EDG, who were gearing up to decide the outcome with SKT, suddenly locked in the first place in the group!
"Isn't this okay too?"
Tian Ye was dumbfounded as he obviously didn't expect that SKT would overturn 0-5 against AHQ, and he couldn't help but express a kind of sincere joy on his face.
Most of the players around me also had the same expression. It’s not that they were afraid of SKT, it was just that it was an unexpected surprise to be able to take first place in the group.
In the words of Brother Monkey - why did you fall down before I even exerted any force?
The expression on Yang Yi's face was a bit unbearable. Although he thought that AHQ might win, the thought in his mind and the actual realization were two different things. Mainly, Faker's arrogant promotional video really made Yang Yi think about it.
He even wants to go to SKT and give Faker a face right now.
However, the happy time is always short-lived. Soon Abu cleared his throat and reminded everyone:
"Ahem... Well, please pay attention to the expression on your face. Don't laugh too early. We still have a game to play."
"You have also seen today's promotional video. Faker said in the video that he just underestimated us and did not try his best."
"Even though we have secured the first place in the group, if we lose to SKT in the final game, the outside world will definitely think that SKT is just too arrogant and can beat us EDG seriously..."
After all, Abu is very experienced. With just a few words, he pulled everyone out of the joy of winning.
Mainly, what Faker said was a bit pretentious, and he also said that he wanted to "not lose a game and get first in the group". Do you think you are the boss?
But speaking of it, the reason why Faker’s promotional video was so wildly shot may have something to do with Yang Yi’s previous post-game interview.
But at that time, Yang Yi also fought back against the arrogant Korean host. It is said that the public is right when he talks about public affairs, and the mother-in-law is right when she talks about mother-in-law. It is no longer clear who is the right and wrong between the two.
If that's the case, then let's get to the bottom of it.
The official staff had already come to urge the EDG players and coaches to come on stage. Abramovich gave everyone a few words of encouragement at the end, sent them out of the lounge door, and then sat back on the chair closest to the TV.
After turning back to confirm that there were no staff or cameras around him, he stretched out on the chair and smiled a very proud smile.
We are first in the group!
In the past four years, since the establishment of the EDG team in 2014, Abramovich has participated in four global finals. This is the first time that EDG has advanced to the knockout rounds as the first in the group. In a sense, it can be said that they
It has broken through the history of the team.
Although it is only a small improvement, it may be a good omen for EDG.
The only thing that makes Abramovich feel a little regretful is that he did not lead the team to advance as a coach.
Maybe this is what is lost and reaped, Abu sighed quietly.
I just don’t know if he will have the opportunity to be a coach again in the future and lead the team to win another championship?
