At one o'clock in the afternoon on May 6, Mei Xia and her teammates braved the dazzling late spring sunshine and arrived at the Oriental Stadium.
This is the third match day of msi, and edg will take the stage for the first time to face their last opponent in the first round, the Flash Wolves fw from Baodao.
The civil war battle between the lpl and lms teams, for Chinese audiences in the mainland and Baodao Province, is second only to the China-South Korea war.
Therefore, even though the game was not scheduled in prime time, many college students and office workers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait who had no classes in the afternoon still opened the official live broadcast room unanimously.
The Tombstone forum on Baodao next door is filled with discussions about the competition.
"My wolf even defeated SKT yesterday. I feel like I have a good chance of defeating EDG today."
"People in Mainland China say that EDG is an expert in civil war and an outsider in external warfare. Now facing me, Wolf, he must be an outsider! Brother Ka, hurry up and let the factory director see the real strength of a top-level meat jungler!"
"Although I can't bear to see my wife Mika-chan lose the game, this is LMS's counterattack against the mainland. I can only bear the pain and watch Mika-chan get beaten to death by Maple."
"Actually, I secretly feel that it's not impossible to let edg win. After all, mid laner Mika is a cute Sakura girl."
"You above, the guy who rebelled for beauty, are so unworthy. I call myself LPL on the Internet, and I am a fan of the factory director."
"We have to defeat EDG to let Mika know how Muggle the LPL is. Then it will be easy to invite her to LMS to play."
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Although there are many fans of Mika who attach great importance to color and justice, the vast majority of Baodao viewers support the fw team, and are always incredibly confident in the local team!
And compared to that.
Due to the huge flag set by mika before the mid-season cup, edg's consistent performance in foreign competitions, and the record of the lpl team losing to the lms team in the group stage many times, the Chinese forum has always been worried about edg.
The two commentators, Wawa and Miller, had a similar sense of unreality as the previous director about the four-game winning streak they easily defeated SKT.
"Miller, I remember that our LPL team has never had such a smooth group stage before. I still hope that EDG can reach the knockout stage step by step! Don't let down your guard!"
"Yes, it should be so. Even if edg won the Mid-Season Cup last year, they lost to skt in the first game of the group stage... But edg has an experienced director here, which should reassure us."
"Well, the most important thing is to hold Mika with the rope and don't let her get on top. Since the factory is Mika's idol, I think this kind of thing should be easy to do."
While the two commentators were chatting, the on-field BP started.
Blue square FW forbidden enchantress, bull head and male gun.
To show enough respect for the enchantress Mika, the ban on male guns makes it obvious at a glance that she is the leopard girl who wants to steal Kindred and challenge the factory director.
The red side edg bans Ekko, Sivir and Kindred.
Abramovich didn't pay any attention to maple. He banned the opponents' commonly used heroes in the top and bottom lanes, and then banned Kindred, leaving only Leopard Girl, who is the t1 jungler, but had a win rate of less than 50 in the two days of the group stage.
fw immediately grabbed the big tree and handed the leopard girl's problem to the factory director.
And if the factory director chooses the AP hero Leopard Girl, then the heroes available for selection in the middle and upper edg will be further reduced.
On the edg voice channel, Abu said with a smile, "Hey, then it's the card girl, Mika, no problem!"
Cards have always been Mika's shortcoming, but if we win today's game, EDG will add a lineup combination that confuses the opponent. If we lose, there is no need to ask Mika to eat Haidilao to bear the mysterious power, a win-win situation!
"No problem." Mixia nodded.
Although she couldn't exert her full strength with the card that mainly focused on operations and roaming, it was more than enough to defeat the fw of lck operations.
Then, to the surprise of Doll Miller and many spectators on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, EDG locked the card and Leopard Girl.
Of course, with the foreshadowing of Mika's opening battle with Dragon King, everyone was surprised but accepted it quickly.
Wawa said, "EDG has completely started practicing the lineup after winning four consecutive games in the group stage!"
Since Mike is not crazy in S6 yet, Miller, who generally believes that Mika will not participate in command, analyzed, "One thing is that Mika Dragon King can roam around, and the cards should not be that bad, and EDG is mainly directed by the factory director.
As long as mika follows the operation, the lower limit will not be too low."
Wawa suddenly laughed when he saw the barrage, "Haha, four guarantees and one, it's back to the factory director's most familiar routine!"
Then FW locked Thresh and Lucian.
edg chooses Blomboby again.
As for the last two selections of fw, as players they definitely don't have the blind confidence of the black and white forum users.
But when it comes to LPL teams, the level of seriousness is also very high. At this time, the team is having a heated discussion about the choice of midfielder.
Karsa said to the coaching staff seriously, "Just take the spider, that's fine!"
Maple said, "Spider Tribulation will definitely be enough for Mika to eat a pot."
Spider Tribulation is a trick that the two of them studied to deal with Mika Dragon King. Now that Mika has chosen the card, she can naturally continue to use it.
Coach Char Siu was more hesitant than the player, "Are you sure? Think about it! Zed's ter effect on cards should not be as good as Dragon King. Would our normal Tsar Spider be more suitable? It will be more powerful in the later stage, so there is no need to bet all on the early stage.
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Karsa explained to Char Siu, "Let's just talk about Spider and Zed. Zed practiced before the game. They obviously have four guarantees and one big mouth or rat. The Tsar Spider probably won't be of much use in the later stage."
Barbecued Pork was really afraid of Mika, so he made up his mind, "Okay, let's take a gamble on Spider Robbery. It's just a group match anyway, so you don't have to be too stressed."
On the live broadcast interface, FW showed the Czar Queen for two seconds, and finally modified it to the Spider Queen Elise and the Shadow Stream Lord Jie!
For the last choice in edg, deft locked in Twitch, the source of the plague.
The lineups of both sides have been determined.
Blue square fw, top laner Big Tree, jungle spider, mid laner Zed, adc Lucian and auxiliary Thresh.
Red side edg, top laner Poppy, jungle leopard girl, mid laner card, adc mouse and auxiliary Braum.
The game enters the loading phase.
The commentator doll began to analyze the possible situation, "This game depends on the factory director. In the early stage, counter-crouching will prevent Mika from being bombed by the spider zodiac, and in the middle stage, you can take Mika to roam."
Miller said, "The lineup is indeed familiar to edg. If we play well, we won't lose."
But Mika wasn't willing to win as surely as the commentators wanted.
On the voice channel, she, who has been misunderstood by viewers and commentators as having no operational command capabilities, is fully commanding the team to conduct a first-level invasion.
There are card yellow cards, Bronn Q and three rings, leopard female double form, and rat's explosive poison. It can be called a first-level team's luxurious lineup.
If this doesn't invade Leopard Girl's wild area, it will be a waste of resources.
Entering Summoner's Rift, Meixia quickly bought a corruption potion and went out, then controlled the mouse to constantly signal areas where FW might make eyes.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
It seems that everyone made a mistake about the reason for asking for leave yesterday. I initially said that I was asking for leave to watch the BLG game, but then I got into a fight because of Uzi, so I deleted the second request for leave that I sent.